NASA's Mega Hubble - The Roman Space Telescope
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- čas přidán 29. 11. 2020
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What do you do when the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) makes you an offer you can't refuse?. Well in the case of NASA you update an existing design to create a Hubble on steroids that can cover the same amount of sky as one hundred Hubble's, drastically cutting down the time survey the sky and also more accurately look for Neptune sized planets around nearby stars and gather evidence to hopefully find out what dark energy really is, this is NASA upcoming Roman space telescope.
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These ultra smoothness comparisons always blow my mind: 6 mm height discrepancies on a planet-sized mirror?!
Yes. It is crazy how accurate optical mirrors can get. 1nm is 10 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom. What is even more interesting is that people can hand grind mirrors down to almost that accuracy. It just takes a lot of time and testing and amateur telescope makers can get less than 20nm of error. It is more expected that NASA would accomplish such amazing accuracy with the millions or billions of dollars they invest and access to the world's best experts.
I literally said "what the f***" when he mentioned that.
I guess it's a lot easier to smoothen a 4 meter mirror to the nanometre compared to a planet sized surface ;)
You could get it quite quickly also by thinking in order of magnitude: 1 nm is 10^-9 m, the mirror diameter is in the order of 1 m, and earth diameter is in the order of 10^7; than you set a proportion:
mirror imperfection : mirror diameter = "earth imperfection" : earth diameter so 10^-9m : 1m = x : 10^7
Than you solve for x = (10^-9 * 10^7)/1 = 0,01 m which is 10 mm. It's a good approximation considering we only used powers of 10
@@XMarkxyz My mind is blown...Thank you Sir.
When the NRO puts something out on their front walk with a "Free" sign taped to it, it's a good day for NASA.
It means the NRO have far greater instruments in their hand. FAR BETTER THAN NASA COULD EVER DREAM.
NASA should have refused to take them. The development of the repurposed satellites was so problematic NRO cancelled the program mid-development, gave the unfinished telescopes away for free, and ran back to Lockheed to start from scratch.
Congrats, that’s the stupidest comment on this video, and believe me there’s a lot of competition.
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@@Creabsley Sadly no, if science only gets to use the scraps the despicable (nro/alphabet soup agency) spooks throw out. Imagine all that tax money and resources actually used for something good.
James Webb... scheduled to launch in 2021... sure... :) I hope so. Can't wait for it to get up there.
you do know is not for public use right?
also even if they launch next year, it will take at least a couple more years to calibrate; and another year minimum before it can produce any images.
I hope so. However, I also hope that they get rid of Hubble very soon. It's an outdated piece of junk.
@@m.3257 Just like your mom.
@@princeedmunddukeofedinburg A very intelligent answer. Unfortunately, prenatal screening wasn't very advanced when you were born. I hope your trisomy 21 can be fixed by modern science soon 😂
@@dexraikkonen7 Nonsense. It will be producing imagery within a few months of reaching L2; commissioning will be complete six months after launch. Kindly read the deployment and commissioning plan documents at www.jwst.nasa.gov amongst others
Hubble is legend... There should be a hubble national holiday ।
Getting another 20 years out of Hubble would be remarkable.
It was deployed in 1990.
That's already over 30 years ago today.
I was going to make a 'double-hubble' joke but *I'm getting too fucking old*
@@NuclearTopSpot youre never too old to make good bad jokes
Especially if it could be done for a"mere" billion
I hope they take Hubble down very soon. Either push it into the sun or let it burn in earth's atmosphere. It's much too old.
@@NuclearTopSpot , lol, good one!
How many more galaxies have you got?
Universe : Yes.
4 Trillion
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Dear Universe: What is beyond of what we can see of you.
Dear Humans: Everything you could possibly conceive and even more.
Thanks for the idea Mr. Coleman
@@sokolum czcams.com/video/buqtdpuZxvk/video.html this guy says a hundred billion though :P
More than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, probably.
@@theyarehere8919 Or, nothing. Thats why its called the universe, it contains literally everything there is, so everything that exists, has to be part of the universe.
If telescopes of this caliber are languishing on shelves, imagine what they're actually using
Time to pay elon a couple million bucks and visit one :)
Trump published photos from it. You can go check his twitter of the Iran space center.
@@andrewcharlton4053 Scott Manley had analysed the photo from the tweet and concluded the photo had been taken by a 1.3 m mirror from analysing the photo resolution which is the size of The Hubble telescopes
So the photo was taken by an obsolete spy camera that is older than Hubble.
nothing much better, because they still have to send it to space in an old rocket. Starship will allow better spy sattelites.
@@mohdafnanazmi1674, at the time they put Hubble up they put up 10 spy satellites of the exactly same make and model. All 11 units were focused fr the Earth’s surface, this is why Hubble was nearsighted and needed modification.
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Underrated? The channel has almost 1 million subs.
@@8Junio76 ..and should have at least 10
I wouldn't say he's underrated, it's just that in the age of fake and alternative facts you either are science-based and know him for years or you believe science is all BS and then you probably don't know any science-based YT-er at all.
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You'd just have to distinguish words like "gavver" from "gather" ;)
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When the NRO gives you two satellites it doesn't need anymore, you know they've got something far better in place -- probably something capable of counting the blackheads on a greasy teenager's face.
Forget about that. Those things could probably see the smudges on your phone
A teenagers face lolz - a galaxy in itself 🌟
@Robert Dillahunstville Sport Model Frisbee Thrower Well I was...many years ago....
@@randomuser5443 forget about that, ...it's your phone. The camera and sensors and transmitter in your phone.
@@BeKindToBirds Everyone's phone
Wonderful video adeptly and professionally presented. Well done! Keep 'em comin'! 😁
Thank you kindly!
@@CuriousDroid do you think elon will built his own space teleskop? the privat sector is usually far faster and better at building things than the state.
James 25 years? 14 years behind? 20 times the cost? WTF
Hmm. If these are the NRO's "hand-me-downs", sort of makes you wonder how capable whatever they launched a few weeks ago is...
Ah, yes. The ULA launched something into space for the NRO very recently...
Better not to think about it...
They can probably see what time it is on the watch on your wrist.
Yes in the 80's they put dye in the dope and could see whoever illuminated from space. Just like cigarette smokers. They can look into the pores of your skin from low earth Orbit... also no Man or Woman has ever set foot on the moon sorry Stanley Kubrick filmed it. He had the CGI. It gave him free rein in his productions... The moon buggy lol how and where is it now lol
@@peterparker9286 that’s some crazy shit didn’t know they could see that from space
@@peterparker9286 I don't know what you are on about, if it's sarcasm, a joke or whatever, but it was amusing to read regardless.
Don't usually comment but, no click bait key concepts laid out and just facts, THANK YOU
I have a copy of the deep field on my wall, i gaze upon it every day.
The abyss also gazes into you
Is it of high resolution? Where did you get it?
A few years of wait and the deep field from James webb will make it look like you had fog on you glasses all these years!
@@RonaldMcPaul I bow to your obviously superior intellect.
@@RonaldMcPaul I bow to your obviously superior intellect.
The conversation would have been like - Hey Nasa, we have two super high-end space telescopes just lying around in our storage gathering dust, and ohh its far better than anything you have got. If you want, you can take it for free.
More the CIA walking in, saying that, and nasa becoming a pool of pleasure
Can you plug where you get your shirts. I’m growing to want them
Gives you a sense of the difference between the defense budget and the NASA budget.
@@HermanVonPetri The 2019 US Department of Defense budget was $686.1 billion, while the 2019 NASA budget was $21.5 billion - i.e. the budget for NASA was 3.1% that of the DoD. The entire Federal budget for 2019 was $4.4 trillion, which means 0.49% of the Federal budget went to NASA.
@@juanjones8789 I know ! I was wondering if he ever wore a shirt twice.... he’s like vana white.
Fascinating as always Paul. Thank you for all your hard work!
We have been looking at the universe through a keyhole, and that was marvelous.Nice to see wartech hammered into a plowshare. Thanks, spooks.
Nanometers and light years, micro meets macro. This is why I love physics, great video
"First used in 1976" oh my actual eff what the hell must they have now and what could they see if pointed outward every so often
Not enough children to bomb in space. 🙄
@@Natibe_ Talk to Israel... Overwhelming majority of US citizens don't want anything to do with that.
@@blackhawks81H Talk to them and ask why palestine keeps trying to blow up their children?
Most well made/presented documentary, more like this please, thanks!
I wish the original Hubble could go on forever. It was such an inspiration for so many people. The thought of looking up in the sky and knowing the Hubble is gone.
This channel is one of my favourite.
The favourite
@@lukebrad5555 Thank you. I do like when someone corrects my broken english. Best regards.
It’s fitting that your shirt is Hubble’s imaging of Pluto. Nice touch 👍
At least I think lol
I'm glad your channel have grown! Love your videos
Nicely done. Good graphics, excellent comparisons and well delivered, sir.
Tape 2 Hubble’s together and boom, Mega Hubble.
Hubble space binoculars
Make the second one another roman and it's like 200 hubbles. Map any galaxy in a few hours
@@nousername8162 Someone needs to fund that, Cosmic Space Binoculars....
I love the sound of that
To make good binocular images, you'd want the two scopes to be spaced far apart. For really distant stuff, you'd want them to be on opposite sides of the solar system, just for starters.
Dual-core Hubble, nice. Can we oveclock it too?
This makes me so excited for what we're going to learn in the next 25 years
You'll know about that in another 75 years. Better stay healthy :)
I am from future this what gonna happened
-2034 earth missed close by 100 km komet but detected live on komet
-2047 nervegear become reality
2051 robot have his right as living being
2072 human send multipying drone to every planet on solar system'
2090 the last human death and begining race of super human
2120 mars colony find remnant of metalik dragon like on their cave
2150 super Ai created a ship that can go more than speed of light
2201 the sun become Dyson sphere and every planet on solar system' colonize
2203 we created simulated reality and all of intelegen being go inside them
2300 catgirl
@@memesfromdeepspace1075 So basically what you are saying is the degradation of grammar and general laguage skill is going to continue and accelerate.
@@benbaselet2026 What a burn, he should put some ice on that.
@@memesfromdeepspace1075 no front but your comment gave me a stroke
Dig that shirt Paul. I love me some telescope stuff! Thanks for the new video.
Thanks for yet another informative, well researched and thoroughly engaging video Paul. Incredible to think that these machines can capture images from the other side of the universe at a higher resolution than we can see your shirt from the same planet!
$10 billion for the JWST... $0 for cable maintenance at arecibo... 🤷♂️
the arecibo telescope isn't nasa right?
@@williamhutton1752 it on Puerto Rico .but still 0 for maintenance you know its from 70s and that still around with all thing hapen on earth like climate disaster and other thing is prety good i gonna say .
Hurricanes are bad, m'kay?
Good point. However, it seems that Arecibo will not need maintenance $ any longer. Just demolition budget. ---sad----
@@williamhutton1752 NASA funded it for a long time but didn't actually run it
your videos ease my heartbreak ❤️
Wtf
This is an awesomely presented researched doco. Well Done CD!
It's good that you're presenting these videos. Keep it going!
I was born to early. I'm going to miss a lot.
Unless you planned to live for billions of years you are going to be missing a lot. But just compare yourself to someone born a hundred to a hundred thousand years ago and.. oh boy. You are so amazingly priviledged it's hard to even understand.
@@benbaselet2026 I was actually thinking about that, even 2000 years ago in the past humanity didn't know much about how the world functioned, so the only answer was of some sort God, but we all know God's are man-made. Future generations will have the answers to many of the things we don't know now, but the more we learn the more questions we shall be trying to answer.
we get to watch curious droid videos so it's not so bad
@@benbaselet2026 Think the poster is referencing the saying, paraphrasing here, "born to late to explore and discover the world, and born to early to explore the galaxy."
I was born too late . Missed the Roman Empire.
Great video Paul, well researched and presented as always. My only question would be whether all humans truly look to the skies in wonder any more. These days it feels like most people only care when their favourite soap opera/reality show is on TV, and what time their Big Mac will be delivered. But thankfully there are still plenty of us who dream a little bigger than that!
Lies again? Inspector General NASA
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Astonishing, brilliantly done, thank. you, Paul!
The James Webb should be named the roman. It was around this time it was due for launch
Nah. James Webb will be launched after the third version of Hubble and this video is about the second one.
Accurate
@@pahom2 Webb is due in October this year
The Roman will not be in a synchronous orbit "around the Earth" it will be in orbit around the Sun in sync with the earth.
Whilst in perpendicular orbit around L2.
@@peterbarratt8699 nope, in orbit in L2
@@cockneyse The Roman Space Telescope will orbit the L2 Earth-Sun point 750,000 miles beyond Earth’s Moon in a quasi-halo orbit.
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/nasa-renames-wfirst-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope/
Dude, I love this stuff. Its like mini documentaries. Subbed
Simply Awesome! Thanks for this info. Well done (as usual). :)
'Coronagraph'
Demonetized, lol.
I'm so excited to see this come to fruition. There's lots of space left to explore, and seeing this entire process finally materialize should really have everyone excited.
Thanks for this very documented video ! Good job !
Looking forward to seeing some of the images sent back. This will be awesome and worth waiting for.
I sure hope the second NRO sat goes to mars because that would be awesome :O
"Dark energy" means "our maths don't work out."
Ya .5b to 10b and it's a 1 million miles away pointing even deeper into the abyss and it's going to film Mars infrared hmmm.
Same with dark matter. "dark matter" means "our models completely failed in the 70s and we have not recovered even a bit".
suspicious 0bservers, check them out. They are regularly making predictions and claims that are published months or years later
@@RandyRandersonthefamous Yes the future is written by the money. Hmm welcome to life.
@Train 2noplace The road to no where leads to me its a joke... Ya this dark energy, dark matter, dark hole, blackhole, bullcrap is just what it is pseudoscience demons in my opinion. I was just looking at Bees in something else and its funny you mention them. Bees we need we are connected to them somehow... obv. Resonance 7.83 same as man/woman. I dont want to shock you but also in my opinion the globe isnt traveling 66,600mph through space on a 23.5 axis its horse do do. Its a simulation fricken matrix period. Always some cataclysmic event of propaganda...
Fantastic! Professional presentation! Keep up the great work. 😊👍👍
I look forward to these videos so much! Always interesting, Always amazing!!!!
The Webb telescope launch is like betting $10 billion at the casino.
Let's not think about that shall we xD
Shit
I wouldn't worry about Ariane 5, it's a great reliable rocket
Let's have a bet. Which launches first? Star Citizen or the James Webb?
@@Czeckie it is probably not Ariane 5 that people are worried about ...
youre a national treasure mate, keep up the good work
Awesome news, great update video.. Thanks!
As always: Brilliant work, thank you for your efforts Sir . . .
I look forward to its launch in 2037.
With a total budget of $3.2 Trillion 👍🏻
@@Mr.Deleterious And then cancelled because it's RACIST somehow.
The size of the universe is so mind boggling. It makes me weep to be trapped on this spec of dust....
Yeah, but parts of this spec are pretty nice
Smaller than a spec :(. Haha
It makes me realize how we are insignificant and nothing
Take comfort from the fact that u can actually live here with too much technology!
@@kevinragsdale6256 size isn't everything, no Alien ever wrote Hamlet 😛
What an awesome time we life in, to see all those advances...Nice Video. Keep it up!
Great video. Really great graphics as well. I learnt a lot.
I would be curious if Hubble could extend its life , in addition to James web , and with the Roman telescope we could cross link the same way we link multiple ground based, to give a truly cross link view of the galaxy in a way never thought of before , but also offer early warning to rouge small meteors that still pose a small but significant risk
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"My God! It's full of stars!"
Loved the video. Keep up the great work. Simply amazing.
Always well done, thank you!!
Now that we have proven that we can automatically attach a new engine/thruster to a spent satellite, there is ZERO reason to let Hubble die.
Hubble is one of the greatest invention of humanity until now and it ok to feel emotionally attached to it. He was the goodest boy. But imagine the scientifical progress if we will rather focus on new telescopes that are 100times better that Hubble instead of spending ressources saving it
@@B0bSim0n if saving it only means raising its orbit then it is cheap to do it compared to launching new space telescopes
@@B0bSim0n Hubbles only point of failure is it's loss of attitude and altitude thrusters.
If not for those systems failing, scientists would still fight for access to Hubble for years to come.
Thanks to Northrop Grumman's new MEV-1 program, we can now send a small auxiliary engine, and autonomously attach to Hubble with minimal cost.
Sounds like a scientific bargain to me!
@@lollakasfamilianimi3246 Things like computers and imaging sensors fail because of radiation damage, and the aiming gyros wear out so even with a higher orbit it would stop working eventually. It's telling that the NRO who have operated many more space telescopes than NASA never bothered trying to make them repairable because doing so increases their already considerable cost and it was more practical and cost effective to launch a replacement which has the advantage of all new technology. NASA made Hubble repairable because they wanted a flagship mission for the Space Shuttle and manned spaceflight in general. The NRO were offered the services of the Shuttle and turned them down because it was more trouble than it was worth.
@@B0bSim0n Um... you clearly didnt understand the point that theres NOTHING like hubble in development. Nothing that can image the ultraviolet. Luckily for us hubble folk, 99% of the astronomers who use it have been hoping for a servicing flight using one of spacex's rockets ;)
Thanks, America's spies! You're alright!
Wow! That's a little understated that shirt mate 😃
Great informative video as always. 👏👏
Amazingly clear presentation-- that is the only way to put so much highly technical material into a single video. Visuals are always the best approach with (almost) any introduction, and your graphic images are superb.
And, yes, we are considering a Brilliant subscription, if only to support you.
What is your own background? Media? Science? Both?
Looks like the Roman will not be “serviceable”. Hope they get it right the first time. ;-)
This makes me think that there might be a civilisation somewhere that have just discovered the Milky Way.
north korea already launched a counter strike against them.
@@viasevenvai how
Wym 🤔
Subscribed ! Finally this science explained so I can understand !
I like your videos. I have to rewind every so often to listen harder. That’s how interesting they are to me.
NASA: We need a new telescope
NRO: Hold my beer
So we're finally catching up to the level of satellite telescopes the Romans had?
Veni, Vidi, Veci!
@@brianbullivant4753 where did u win ?
@@ziuzz4168 Space, the final frontier.
"Are you not entertained?"
This telescope will cost more than the Roman Empire's entire military budget.
Great content. These scales are incredible. Thx a lot
Thanks Mr Droid, excellent source of information as ever.
"What's the budget?......Double it and add a 0!"......
And square that
Have you ever heard of James Webb telescope? WELL, CERTAINLY NASA HAS NOT
Shout out to patreon "Arnold J. Rimmer, BSc, SSc" 🤣🤣🤣
whats SSc? Secondary school certificate? 😅
@@bezahltersystemtroll5055 Bronze Swimming Certificate, Silver Swimming Certificate
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thanks for such a detailed video. With the way you explain everything in such detail, I could only wish for documentation with your voice
Great episode! I had no idea this space telescope project existed until now, and I like to stay well informed about anything going on above the atmosphere lol.
11:50 NASA engineers, wear masks and gloves before it become a mainstream.
Please do a video on nuclear underground testing. Your nuke vids get a ton of views and no one really knows how it’s done and what data can be pulled from one
Thanks for your great videos!
Excellent presentation !
"Corona" graph , that's not enough of corona??
Can you plug where you get your shirts. I’m growing to want them
Search through his older videos. He mentions where to get them.
He buys them at trader joe's.
I noted in March 2019: Made by Madcap England available from Atomretro.com
Awesome viewpoints ;)
Awesome family friendly video and channel!
When it launches, does its name change to “The Roman Candle?”
The rocket, perhaps, but not the payload.
My wife thinks you sound like the Geico Gecko.
Hahahaha
I cant unhear it now
Sweet shirt! The telescope is amazingly detailed!
I am so used to documentaries narrated by english accents, with the great David Attenborough for so many years, I don't want them any other way. Curious droid and Mega projects keep me tuned and interested the whole time.
"But what have the Romans ever done for us?"
CENTURION: What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'?
@@MarkTheMorose Says 'Romans go 'ome'.
The James Webb is my favorite urban legend.
James Webb will probably happen on the 30th of February!
@@najack7176 I'll be back in March to say told ya so
Love your videos curious droid ❤️.
Such a fascinating video, Paul. Thanks for creating and sharing with us.
Everything space related is extremely costly and then goes wildly over budget and way past time goals.... until an Elon appears and kicks away all the artificial and lucrative inefficiencies hehe.
Makes a 300m lens using a thin film glass sheet inflated with Perfluorobutane and a micro sat fitted with a nikon d3400 that maintains orbit in the focal point of the blow up lens.
Or silver line one side and fill it with hydrogen at micro pressures to keep its shape but minimise the refraction, thus a poor mans mirror scope but also so large it works better than a super flat 2m mirror.
@@shanewilson3653 Thanks! Using space as an advantage. Very good! I mean mechanical advantage.
This just got released, right now, and already one downvote?!
CZcams downvote bots and algorithms.
Or a flat earther
Thanks for an other great episode, take care.
Great channel subscribed!