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What Can Giant Telescopes Reveal About Our Universe?
322 views / 0 likes - addedMost of what we know about space has been observed through telescopes. Trace takes a deeper look at one of the biggest telescopes in the U.S. the Discovery Channel Telescope. Don't miss Telescope, premiering Feb. 20 at 9/8c on Discovery! Sign Up For The T
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Telescopes: Crash Course Astronomy #6
436 views / 0 likes - addedToday Phil explains how telescopes work and offers up some astronomical shopping advice. -- How Telescopes Work 1:07 Refractors vs Reflectors 2:50 Technology and the Light Spectrum 7:45 -- PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Follow P
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Why Do We Put Telescopes In Space?
321 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to the Space Telescope Science Institute for supporting this video! http://webbtelescope.org/ And as always, thanks to Patreon supporters! MinutePhysics is on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitt
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Hubble in a bubble: Scallop eyes act like tiny telescopes
317 views / 0 likes - addedTiled, curved mirrors help improve peripheral vision in dim light Read more: http://scim.ag/2j519GN
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Could humanity's return to the moon spark a new age of lunar telescopes?
127 views / 0 likes - addedNearly 50 years after NASA put a small telescope on the Moon, astronomers are dusting off plans for new lunar observatoriesRead more: https://scim.ag/2M0WhBVCreditseditorMeagan Cantwellsupervising producersSarah CrespiDaniel Clery story byDaniel Cleryphot
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Skylight: More Than Meets the Eye
282 views / 0 likes - addedThe sky is awash in light, but there’s much more beyond the visible that we cannot sense with our eyes. What do we see when we use telescopes to peer into the invisible? #astronomy #space #visiblelight #wavelength #infrared #MilkyWay #Andromeda #stars #CM
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Global telescope may finally see the event horizon of our galaxy's black hole
413 views / 0 likes - addedNext month, researchers will link telescopes around the world in an attempt to image the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Learn more: http://scim.ag/2lwLQoR
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Total Solar Eclipse 2017 | 360 View | Exploratorium
295 views / 0 likes - addedA 360 degree view of totality from the Exploratorium's Live Webcast production site in Casper, Wyoming on August 21, 2017. Embedded within the video, under the sun, is the view from our telescopes.
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Earth-Size Telescope Will Make Black Holes Say "Cheese!"
338 views / 0 likes - addedNobel laureate Robert Wilson discusses how a network of telescopes might illumine a black hole, after the 92nd Street Y’s Bang! Bang! event. For more black hole coverage, check out Scientific American's Dark Star Diaries: https://blogs.scientificamerican.
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We FINALLY Know What a Black Hole Looks Like
193 views / 0 likes - addedThe Event Horizon Telescope project has been working relentlessly to composite the first black hole photo the world has seen and it will change how we look at physics moving forward. Thumbnail Credit (Background Image): Hotaka Shiokawa / EHT How Close Are
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This Invisible Light Shows Us What Our Eyes Can't See
424 views / 0 likes - addedInfrared light is all around us even though we cannot see it. Find out how this invisible radiation impacts our everyday lives. Everything Scientists Could Learn By Looking At Your Skull - https://youtu.be/PtG9uB5C7Sk Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Her
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Planet may be forming in a 'twist' observed by Very Large Telescope
87 views / 0 likes - addedThe European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope has been used to observe the star AB Aurigae. A detailed look using the telescopes SPHERE instrument has revealed "a twist that marks the site where a planet may be forming," according to ESO.
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Why this black hole photo is such a big deal
236 views / 0 likes - addedWhat it took to collect these 54-million-year-old photons from a supermassive black hole. Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-lab This is an updated version of a video we published in 2016 about the Event Horizon Telescope, an international col
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Evidence for relativity effects in stars orbiting supermassive black hole
318 views / 0 likes - addedThis artist's impression shows the orbits of three of the closest known stars to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way (marked with a red cross). Analysis of data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and other telescopes hint that the orbi
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This Space Suburb Could Hold Secrets About the Origin of the Solar System
339 views / 1 likes - addedThere’s a rocky superhighway in the outskirts of our solar system, and it might be home to the ominous Planet 9. Everything You Need To Know About the Earth's Terminator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpREvI5atzU&t=34s Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/s
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I Visited the First Gravitational Wave Detector! LIGO | STELLAR
117 views / 0 likes - addedThank you to Draper and its Hack the Moon initiative for supporting PBS Digital Studios | Learn more at https://wehackthemoon.comWeve been waiting to verify the existence of Gravitational Waves for over 100 years and I actually got to go to LIGO to see ex
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The Race To See The Black Hole At The Center Of Our Galaxy
351 views / 1 likes - addedWe've never observed a black hole directly, but with a wild collection of telescopes, these astronomers are determined to be the first. What Can Giant Telescopes Reveal About Our Universe? - http://bit.ly/1P8wM9F Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - h
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Amazing Piece Of Metal (speculum)
407 views / 0 likes - addedThis small disc of metal - made from speculum - is an important part of history. The metal is an alloy of tin and copper with some arsenic thrown in. Discussed by Professor Martyn Poliakoff at the Royal Society, in London. It is the primary mirror from Si
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How The Arecibo Telescope Could Help Save The World
363 views / 0 likes - addedThe radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico can do something that most radio telescopes can't: it can transmit. And that's useful for something other than sending messages to the stars: it might just help save the world one day. More abo
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Jupiter's Invisible Planetary Rings, Explained
305 views / 0 likes - addedDid you know Jupiter has planetary rings? Unlike Saturn's rings which reflect sunlight, Jupiter's rings are made of moon dust. They're practically invisible. They were first discovered in 1979 by the Voyager 2 and can only be seen from the strongest of te
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NASAs Exoplanet Hunter Is Getting Us One Step Closer To Another Earth, Heres How
137 views / 0 likes - addedNASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered 21 planets outside our solar system during its first year in space. How does TESS categorize a planet? Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/Ele
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This Exoplanet Suddenly Disappeared From Space, Where Did It Go?
44 views / 0 likes - addedA planet discovered by Hubble suddenly vanished. So where did it go, and what does its disappearance mean for the study of planetary systems? Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our
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Scientists Just Discovered 300,000 New Hidden Galaxies
151 views / 0 likes - addedHave you ever gazed out at the night sky and been fascinated by a bright band of stars? Thats the Milky Way - the galaxy where our sun hangs out. And the sun is not the only star in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the universe.
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SOFIA Discovers Water on a Sunlit Surface of the Moon
141 views / 0 likes - addedScientists using NASAs telescope on an airplane, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, discovered water on a sunlit surface of the Moon for the first time. SOFIA is a modified Boeing 747SP aircraft that allows astronomers to study the sola
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How We Know Black Holes Exist
295 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Space Telescope Science Institute for supporting this video. Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ Th
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How Do We Know There’s A Planet 9?
299 views / 0 likes - addedAre you having trouble keeping track of all the planets in the Solar System? Good news! Astronomers have found evidence that there’s another huge planet far out in the Solar System. Textbooks will need to be rewritten again. You’re welcome. Support us at:
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Distances: Crash Course Astronomy #25
357 views / 2 likes - addedHow do astronomers make sense out of the vastness of space? How do they study things so far away? Today Phil talks about distances, going back to early astronomy. Ancient Greeks were able to find the size of the Earth, and from that the distance to and th
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Why Do Galaxies Rotate?
94 views / 0 likes - addedIf you believe the worlds leading physicists, the vast majority of matter in the universe is hiding in plain sight. For nearly a century, evidence has mounted that the gravitational pull necessary to keep clusters of galaxies intact, as well as stars with
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How Much Dark Matter Exists in the Universe?
109 views / 0 likes - addedIf you believe the worlds leading physicists, the vast majority of matter in the universe is hiding in plain sight. For nearly a century, evidence has mounted that the gravitational pull necessary to keep clusters of galaxies intact, as well as stars with
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Searching for WIMP Dark Matter
110 views / 0 likes - addedIf you believe the worlds leading physicists, the vast majority of matter in the universe is hiding in plain sight. For nearly a century, evidence has mounted that the gravitational pull necessary to keep clusters of galaxies intact, as well as stars with
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The ‘alien megastructure’ star is acting weird again
290 views / 1 likes - addedTabby's Star — officially known as KIC 8462852 — is acting weird, again. Recent reports indicate it has started to dim in brightness. That's what Tabby's star does — it dims. Astronomers were ready for the event — they have pointed telescopes from around
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Why Every Picture Of A Black Hole Is An Illustration
425 views / 0 likes - addedScientists are pretty sure black holes are real. Soon they'll know for sure. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO The biggest problem with trying to detect a black hole is that even the supermassive ones are relatively tiny. "The largest one in
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What are years... and the galactic supermassive black hole!
239 views / 0 likes - addedIt's leap year time... so what are years, anyway? And what do they have to do with the supermassive black hole in the core of the milky way? Mr. Grey, of course: http://www.youtube.com/cgpgrey Thanks to the UCLA Galactic Center: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/
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Scientists think they've finally solved the mystery of the 'alien megastructure' star
385 views / 0 likes - addedThe mystery of the "alien megastructure" star may finally be settled. In 2015, a rumor spread about the star KIC 8462852. It was proposed that the star might harbor an alien race. The rumor stemmed from the star's unusually unstable brightness. One explan
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How Astronomers Took The First Ever Image Of A Black Hole
238 views / 0 likes - addedThe Event Horizon Telescope has become the first ever to take an image of a supermassive black hole. The black hole is located 55 million light-years away in the Messier 87 galaxy. Following is a transcript of the video:What you are seeing is the first ev
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How Do We Find Dark Matter?
418 views / 0 likes - addedPhysicists are on the hunt for dark matter, but how do they detect it? Read More: NASA Finds Direct Proof of Dark Matter http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/releases/2006/06-096.html “Dark matter and normal matter have been wrenched apart by th
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How to make NebulArt
70 views / 0 likes - addedFind out how to make your own NebulArt in Astronomy at Home.Nebulae are regions of gas and dust in space where stars form. They emit light in many different wavelengths but humans can only see a small portion of this light - visible light. Thankfully, we
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Planetary Ring Formation is Still a Mystery, Here’s Why
235 views / 0 likes - addedMany of our favorite planets have rings, but how did they get there? These are the competing theories trying to solve this space mystery. Jupiter’s Iconic Red Spot is Shrinking, What Could Happen Next? | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW-YrNaxJFU Read Mo
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First Images of Black Holes!
156 views / 0 likes - addedThe Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration observed the supermassive black holes at the center of M87 and our Milky Way galaxy (SgrA*) finding the dark central shadow in accordance with General Relativity, further demonstrating the power of this 100 year-o
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Fly Through a Nebula 163,000 Light Years Away (Celebrating 30 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope)
87 views / 0 likes - addedWere on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmartSUBSCRIBE so you dont miss a video! http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub More info and sources below Celebrate the Hubble Space Telescopes 30th Birthday with us: https://hubblesite.org/hubble-
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Starship SN8 Flight: The Mini Documentary
44 views / 0 likes - addedOn December 9, SpaceX successfully launched Starship SN8 on its first-ever high-altitude test flight to 12.5 km (41,000 ft). We and the crowds at South Padre Island lost our minds. We also made lots of new friends, especially Gene and Rachel of Spadre.com
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Monitoring Human Impact on Earth with Landsat 8
87 views / 0 likes - addedTune in and join the conversation during the premiere of "Eyes in the Skies: Bringing the Universe Down to Earth" on Friday, December 20th at 8pm EST.For the last half century we have slipped the surly bonds of earth with landers, rovers and spacecraft th
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TIL: That's No Moon. It's Aliens. (Maybe.) | Today I Learned
353 views / 0 likes - addedUPDATE: 11/6/2015 The SETI Institute reports that after observing the star with its Allen Telescope Array for more than two weeks, it has found no clear evidence for a signal in either narrowband transmissions, which might be used as a hailing signal for
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Planet X Discovered?? + Challenge Winners! | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
346 views / 1 likes - addedWill there be 9 planets again? Get your own Space Time t-shirt at http://bit.ly/1QlzoBi Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: facebook.com/pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/pbsspacetime Some
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How Well Find the Aliens in Our Solar System! | STELLAR
134 views / 0 likes - addedThank you to Draper and its Hack the Moon initiative for supporting PBS Digital Studios | Learn more at https://wehackthemoon.com. I got to visit two awesome upcoming NASA missions searching for life in our solar system! The Mars 2020 rover mission target
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This 3.2 Gigapixel Camera Will Record a Timelapse of the Universe
52 views / 0 likes - addedThe Vera C. Rubin Observatory will use the world's largest digital camera to capture the far reaches of the universe, and in the process, hope to tackle some of the most fundamental questions in science today. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribes
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What If We Do Find Aliens?
425 views / 0 likes - addedWe've been so busy wondering how we'll find aliens that we never stopped to consider what we'll do if we actually encounter them. How does an alien discovery get communicated to the media? Who's responsible to craft a response? References: http://www.seti
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Seeing a Black Hole with a Planet-Sized Telescope | STELLAR
143 views / 0 likes - addedThank you to Draper and its Hack the Moon initiative for supporting PBS Digital Studios | Learn more at https://wehackthemoon.comIt took about a century for black holes to go from impossible, to theoretical, to real. And it was just this year, in 2019, wh
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Is This Why We Haven't Found Alien Civilizations? | STELLAR
134 views / 0 likes - addedThank you to Draper and its Hack the Moon initiative for supporting PBS Digital Studios | Learn more at https://wehackthemoon.comPhysics Girl explores how Well Find the Aliens in Our Solar System!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfqpYDVhXd8&t=1sLooking up
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An Interstellar Asteroid Just Flew Past Earth, Here’s What You Need to Know
256 views / 1 likes - addedIn October, astronomers observed an interstellar asteroid for the first time. We talked to one of the first to study it, and here’s everything they’ve learned in the months since. What’s Happening in Space? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XDS_aTVBrE&li
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How We’re Mapping All Matter In The Universe
282 views / 0 likes - addedOnly 5% of everything in the universe is what we know as matter-- or atoms-- but scientists had no idea where to find all of it. Did a recent fast radio burst change that? Where Are Mysterious Radio Waves In Space Coming From? ►►►►http://bit.ly/1UOmh0E Si
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The Brachistochrone
467 views / 0 likes - addedBRAIN CANDY LIVE TICKETS: http://www.braincandylive.com/tickets Links to sources and to learn more below! MY TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce MY INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/electricpants THE CURIOSITY BOX: https://www.curiositybox.com/ S
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NASA'S NICER Does the Space Station Twist
277 views / 0 likes - addedThis time-lapse video, obtained June 8, 2018, shows the precise choreography of NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) as it studies pulsars and other X-ray sources from its perch aboard the International Space Station. NICER observes a
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The Awesome Bug That Lives on Frozen Volcanos
161 views / 0 likes - addedIn the frozen mini volcanoes on Mauna Kea there lives a scavenger-predator that prefers its meals delivered.Thank you to Dr. Jesse Eiben for information on Wekiu bug ecology and evolution.Hosted by: Hank GreenSciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called Sci
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Black Holes And Gravitational Waves Might Help Us Find Dark Matter
323 views / 1 likes - addedEvidence has shown that almost 85% of the matter in the universe is unaccounted for, but scientists now think they might have a way to fix that. Gravitational Waves Discovered! Here's What You Need To Know - https://youtu.be/72AQsQ2v5cA Edge Of Space: See
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‘Winking’ Star May Be Devouring Wrecked Planets
229 views / 0 likes - addedAstronomers studying the star RZ Piscium have found evidence suggesting its strange, unpredictable dimming episodes may be caused by vast orbiting clouds of gas and dust, the remains of one or more destroyed planets. Young stars are often prodigious X-ray
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How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole
185 views / 0 likes - addedWe are about to see the first image of a black hole, the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way galaxy or maybe the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87. But what is that image really showing us? This is an awesome pape
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NASA's Plan To Give Our Moon Its Own Moon
682 views / 1 likes - addedNASA is planning on taking a piece of an asteroid and redirecting it into the moon's orbit, but how is that even possible? Scientists Invented The Best Tractor Beam Ever! - https://youtu.be/gR7VIFmMv24 Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.l
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This Could Be the End of Urban Astronomy (360 Video)
275 views / 0 likes - addedCity lights are blinding our view of space, and its forcing urban astronomers to rethink the way they make observations. To make matters worse, a change in the type of lights being used could be the end of some observatories. Plunging Down an Ice Track at
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HIRMES: SOFIA's latest high-resolution Mid-infrared Spectrometer
273 views / 0 likes - addedA team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is developing a new, third-generation facility science instrument for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA. The High Resolution Mid-InfrarEd Spectrometer (HIRMES
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Scientists Are About to Prove a Mirror Universe Exists
164 views / 1 likes - addedThe theory of multiple or parallel universes is one that blurs the line between scientific reality and science fiction. Its a pretty huge topic of debate in the scientific community, with big names on both sides. If you believe that multiple universes exi
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How Much Does the Universe Weigh?
57 views / 0 likes - addedHow much does the universe weigh? As it turns out, this question does not have an easy answer. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.com Two different ap
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How Many Stars Are There?
480 views / 2 likes - addedCounting stars from the shore of the cosmic ocean… Subscribe: http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub Twitter: @okaytobesmart ↓ More info and sources below ↓ LIKE THE SHIRT I'M WEARING? It's glow in the dark! You can get it here (along with space undies and other good st
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A Mysterious Object Punched a Hole in the Milky Way, Scientists Are Confused
183 views / 0 likes - addedSpace is full of mysteries that have remained unsolved for centuries. But recently, the cosmos has baffled the world with a new, scary abnormality. Apparently, something is tearing holes in the Milky Way, the galaxy that contains our Solar System! What if
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Scientists Just Fit Our Universe in a BoxWait What
106 views / 0 likes - addedScientists just released one of the most advanced simulations of our universe to date, and it fits into a box.How Scientists Are Hunting for the Universes First Stars - https://youtu.be/opHYp2kfj7U Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch
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Hubble Spotted New Evidence That Dark Matter Is "Cold"
87 views / 0 likes - addedWe don't know what dark matter is, because we can't detect it. But new observations from Hubble could illuminate dark matter's true identityand the role it plays in the fate of our universe. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more El
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Scientists Just Witnessed the Birth of a Heavy Element in Space
68 views / 0 likes - addedThe heaviest elements in our universe were just seen created in the heart of a kilonova after two neutron stars collided. Subscribe to Seeker!http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylistThe three lightest elements in t
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Did Scientists REALLY Find Signs of Life on Venus?
18 views / 1 likes - addedGenerally considered inhabitable, new observations suggest that Venus could in fact be harboring life. Where? In its clouds. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at http://sh
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Are There Storms On The Moon?
494 views / 0 likes - addedWe’re always concerned about the weather here on Earth, but what about the Moon? Is there any weather up there that astronauts will have to worry about? Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Fol
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This Dead Star Is Twisting Spacetime
64 views / 0 likes - addedA pulsar has just confirmed another piece of the general relativity puzzle Einstein predicted, and its the first real detection of an effect known as frame dragging. And its kind of a big deal. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more
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This Gamma-Ray Burst Was the Most Powerful Energy Event Ever Recorded
108 views / 0 likes - addedThis cataclysmic event just generated the brightest light in the known universe - and we detected it using MAGIC. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.c
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