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ALMA: The Most Powerful Observatory for Studying Our Universe
507 views / 0 likes - addedLocated in Chile's Atacama desert, 16,570 ft above sea level, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is the world's most powerful observatory for studying the universe. Learn more: http://pops.ci/r7rohI -- Video by/Producer: Francis Agyapong, Jr
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This Swiss Hotel is Inside an Observatory
415 views / 0 likes - addedAt Switzerlands Kulmhotel Gornergrat, guests sleep among the mountains and under the stars. The establishment is home to an observatory that has drawn astronomers from around the world. The lack of light pollution and dry air create the optimal conditions
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory: Year 7 Ultra HD (4k)
576 views / 1 likes - addedThe Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has now captured nearly seven years worth of ultra-high resolution solar footage. This time lapse shows that full run from two of SDO's instruments. The large orange sun is visible light captured by HMI. The smaller go
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Why this observatory fires lasers at satellites
183 views / 0 likes - addedNERC's Space Geodesy Facility, hidden away in the English countryside, fires lasers at satellites. Because it turns out that knowing a satellite's position exactly is really, really difficult. More about the Facility: http://sgf.rgo.ac.uk/Thanks to Jay Di
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This space telescope can see black holes using the smoothest mirrors ever created
299 views / 0 likes - addedThe Chandra X-Ray Observatory was the heaviest payload to be carried into space by a shuttle. It's been looking at supernovas, black holes and spiral galaxies for two decades. Observatory director Belinda Wilkes gives you a tour of Chandra's universe.
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Shadows On Other Worlds
335 views / 0 likes - addedJoin the astronomers at the Royal Observatory Greenwich as they go on an adventure to discover what shadows look like on other worlds.For School Groups: https://rmg.co.uk/plan-your-visit/schools/royal-observatory #ROGschools #ROGAstronomers #Universe #Ast
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Where does Space begin?
270 views / 0 likes - addedHave you ever wondered how far away space is; how far are the different things you see above your head? Join the Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they ascend up through the different layers of the Earths atmosphere to reveal what we would see at
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Newton's Laws of Motion
599 views / 0 likes - addedJoin our Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they go on an epic journey to find out how Newton's Laws of Motion work in space. Buckle your seatbelts, you are in for an adventure.For School Groups: https://rmg.co.uk/plan-your-visit/schools/royal-obs
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The Story of Stars
806 views / 0 likes - addedHave you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered about the stars? What makes them so special? Why are some even different colours? Join the Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they explore the science behind the different types of stars in our
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Are there aliens?
321 views / 0 likes - addedLife began on the Earth around 3.5 billion years ago. Could life have evolved on other planets and if so, where are they? Astronomers at the Royal Observatory Greenwich explain how we might detect them in this video.For School Groups: https://rmg.co.uk/pl
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Collisions and Explosions in the Universe
1,078 views / 0 likes - addedOn the smallest to the largest scales, collisions and explosions happen all over our Universe. Join the Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they uncover some of the most explosive events in space.For School Groups: https://www.rmg.co.uk/schools-com
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Exploring Moons
304 views / 0 likes - addedOur Moon is just one of many moons in the solar system. Join Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they explore some of the different properties and characteristics of a few weird and interesting moons orbiting around the other planets.For School Gro
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What is Light?
895 views / 0 likes - addedOur Universe is a vast and very interesting place and light plays a big part in us being able to understand more about it. To find out how join the Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they explore more.For School Groups: https://rmg.co.uk/plan-your
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Black Hole Seen For The First Time. Black hole breakthrough: Event Horizon Telescope's landmark imag
2,015 views / 10 likes - addedOn April 10, 2019, the international Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration revealed humanity's first glimpse of a black hole. Learn more: https://insidetheperimeter.ca/black-hole-breakthrough-astronomers-release-landmark-image Download free posters
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How did the Solar System form?
942 views / 0 likes - addedWe know about the planets, moons and space rocks that make up our Solar System. But where did it all come from? Join the Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they set out to discover how our Solar System formed.For School Groups: https://www.rmg.co.
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Seeing The Invisible
299 views / 0 likes - addedImagine what it would be like to have super powers and see the invisible, sounds pretty fun doesn't it? Join the Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they explore the science behind some seemingly invisible and sneaky forces in space.For School Grou
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How will the Universe end?
228 views / 0 likes - addedOur Universe began 13.8 billion years ago and it has been expanding ever since. Is it destined to expand forever or will it suffer a more crushing end? Astronomers at the Royal Observatory Greenwich explain the fate of the Universe in this video.For Schoo
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What Is Gravity?
311 views / 0 likes - addedFrom Newtons longstanding ideas to Einsteins revolutionary theories, Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers explain how our understanding of gravity has changed from looking at how gravity affects us in our daily lives and how it governs what we observe
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Mission to Mars
313 views / 0 likes - addedMars is the most explored world other than the Earth, but weve not sent anyone there yet. Join Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they explore the challenges astronauts would encounter on their long journey to Mars and what it might be like to liv
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The Origin of the Elements
314 views / 0 likes - addedThe Universe we see today is made from particles arranged in a wide variety of elements, but where did it all come from? Join Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they explain how the very first elementary particles came to be and have since gone on
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Stars and the H-R Diagram
744 views / 0 likes - addedStars are like humans they have similarities and differences with each other but all have a finite lifetime. Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers explain how stars can be categorised and their evolution studied by tracking their movement across a very
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Jupiter looks like a 'jack-o-lantern' in high-res infrared views from the ground
328 views / 0 likes - addedThe international Gemini Observatory observed Jupiter in infrared light for a weather study of the gas giant that included the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA Juno mission. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, ESA/Hubble, NASA/JPL-Ca
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How big is the Universe?
271 views / 0 likes - addedROG astronomer Liz shows us the expanding nature of the Universe and how this affects the light reaching us from distant galaxies, some of which will remain forever hidden from our view.For School Groups: https://rmg.co.uk/plan-your-visit/schools/royal-ob
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What's inside a black hole?
294 views / 0 likes - addedROG astronomer Rad explains where black holes come from, how we know they're there and the strange effects they have on surrounding matter. We also find out what would happen if ROG astronomer Liz approached one!For School Groups: https://rmg.co.uk/plan-y
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Mesmerising video of our boiling sun in ultra HD
700 views / 0 likes - addedAn observatory in Hawaii says it has snapped the highest resolution images ever taken of our sun, capable of seeing details as small as 18 miles across. The when the photos are played in succession the result is a hypnotizing loop plasma bubbles, each the
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Life on Venus?
359 views / 1 likes - addedWhile Mars may be the planet that springs to mind when there are discussions of possible alien life in our Solar System, a publication on the discovery of a rare gas (phosphine) in Venus atmosphere may mean that there is more than one planet that possesse
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How The Arecibo Telescope Could Help Save The World
608 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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The James Webb Space Telescope just revealed our universe anew--the view is absolutely stunning
111 views / 1 likes - addedDecades of work, $10 billion in spending and nearly 14 billion years of cosmic history have brought us to this moment: the first science from the largest and most powerful observatory ever built.
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Tour of South Pole Station
693 views / 0 likes - addedLocated in one of the coldest places on earth where it gets near -127 F, Kate Miller on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory 2016 Expedition takes you on a 20-minute walking tour of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station where they have very comfortable living
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360 Video: Site of the world's largest solar telescope
587 views / 0 likes - addedThe National Solar Observatory on Maui in Hawaii is set to open in 2018. Learn more: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/how-world-s-largest-solar-telescope-rose-maui-while-nearby-protests-derailed-larger
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'Radio loud' quasar's light traveled 13 billion years to Earth
247 views / 0 likes - addedThe Very Large Telescope in Chile has detected the "most distant source of radio emission" yet, quasar P172+18, according the European Southern Observatory (ESO). -- Full Story: https://www.space.com/most-distant-radio-loud-quasar-jetsCredit: ESO
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How to Make Galaxy Goo
343 views / 0 likes - addedFind out how to make your own Galaxy Goo in Astronomy at Home.Galaxies are huge collections of stars, dust and gas, gravitationally bound together in space. Stars shine different colours depending on their temperature. Hot, young stars are blue and older,
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How to make NebulArt
283 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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This 3.2 Gigapixel Camera Will Record a Timelapse of the Universe
253 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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Experimental Stanford artist explores science, art and improvisation
691 views / 0 likes - addedPamela Davis Kivelson, experimental artist and lecturer in Stanford’s Design Program, has long been interested in the intersection of science, music, art and improvisation. Her latest foray into the busy intersection is a participatory performance piece i
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The Best Stargazing is at the Northern Tip of India
530 views / 0 likes - addedFor some of the best stargazing in the world, many make the trek to Ladakh at the northern tip of India. The region is home to the Indian Astronomical Observatory, specifically situated for its unique geology. Located on cold, remote desert land, the area
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Why Don’t We Have a Photo of a Black Hole Yet?
678 views / 2 likes - addedWondering where the Event Horizon Telescope is at with the world's first photo of a black hole? So are we. We headed back to MIT Haystack Observatory to find out. Read More: Event Horizon Telescope https://eventhorizontelescope.org/ MIT Haystack Observato
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Tokyo Tower
714 views / 1 likes - addedTokyo tower is an observatory tower and radio and TV broadcast antenna located in the Shiba-koen district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan. At 333 metres or 1,092 feet, it is the second-tallest structure in Japan surpassed by the Tokyo Skytree which was completed
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We'll Soon See Back to the Beginning of Time. James Webb Space Telescope's Big Reveal is Hours Away.
135 views / 0 likes - addedDecades of work, $10 billion in spending and nearly 14 billion years of cosmic history have brought us to this moment. The first science from the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most powerful observatory ever built. What questions will it answ
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Planet may be forming in a 'twist' observed by Very Large Telescope
322 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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The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope
193 views / 0 likes - addedGet the CuriosityStream x Nebula bundle deal for just 11.59 until December 24th https://curiositystream.com/realengineering New streaming platform: https://watchnebula.com/ Vlog channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMet4qY3027v8KjpaDtDx-g Patreon: ht
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This Could Be the End of Urban Astronomy (360 Video)
501 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
511 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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Why this black hole photo is such a big deal
484 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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Watch: This telescope could 'see' inside alien worlds for the first time
298 views / 0 likes - addedCredit: Chuck Carter/Caltech/KISSA telescope array in France looks for radio signals whipped up by the magnetic dynamos of exoplanets. Just what could it mean for our understanding of far-off worlds?Another observatory, the Owens Valley Long Wavelength Ar
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How to Explore Otherwordly Oceans
507 views / 0 likes - addedAs NASA continues exploring other worlds across the solar system, tools deep ocean biologists use to study communities of bacteria on the sea floor could come in handy. This short film dives into a new observatory called ABISS, which can transmit video an
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Inside the Search for Planet Nine I NOVA I PBS
392 views / 0 likes - addedFollow two astronomers, Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin, as theyre on the hunt for Planet Nine a hypothesized ninth planet at the edge of our solar system.PRODUCTION CREDITSProduced and Directed by: Caitlin Saks and Terri RandallCamera: Dave ArabiaDigit
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High Mass Stars: Crash Course Astronomy #31
964 views / 1 likes - addedMassive stars fuse heavier elements in their cores than lower mass stars. This leads to the creation of heavier elements up to iron. Iron robs critical energy from the core, causing it to collapse. The shock wave, together with a huge swarm of neutrinos,
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Astronomers see baby planet being born for first time
233 views / 0 likes - addedFor the first ever time, Astronomers have been able to observe a baby planet being born. Scientists at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope spotted the baby planet on a gas and dust cloud near the star AB Aurigae, located 520 lig
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We Just Discovered How the Milky Ways Twin Was Destroyed
459 views / 0 likes - addedThe Milky Way doesn't just have one twin, it has multiple, and each one of them can tell us more about how our galaxy has lived and how it might be destroyed. How Scientists Found the Universes First Type of Molecule - https://youtu.be/lxepnATltvURead Mor
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Time-Lapse: 7 Amazing Views Of Earth From Space
901 views / 2 likes - addedFrom a million miles away—literally—a camera and telescope called EPIC has captured a year’s worth of snapshots of the fully lit Earth and recorded some extraordinary moments, including an eclipse and two lunar transits. The camera is part of the Deep Spa
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The Evidence for Planet Nines Existence I NOVA I PBS
428 views / 0 likes - addedTwo astronomers argue that the farthest objects in the Kuiper Belt are being pushed and pulled by the gravity of Planet Nine, a giant planet orbiting over 10 times farther from the Sun than Neptune. If they find it, itll be the first real expansion of the
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Which Came First - The Rain Or The Rainforest?
898 views / 5 likes - addedThis video sponsored by our Subbable supporter Cookie Blast: Cookie Blast at App Store - http://appstore.com/cookieblast Cookie Blast Facebook - http://facebook.com/cookieblastapp And thanks to Subbable supporter Steve Moyers for helping make MinuteEarth
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Watch The Sun Erupt In A Symphony Of Solar Storms
792 views / 2 likes - addedNASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite uses specialized ultraviolet cameras to capture stunning images of the sun's solar storms. Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► http://wrd.cm/15fP7B7 CONNECT WITH WIRED Web: http://wired.com Twitter:
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Webb Space Telescope Separation from Ariane 5
1,697 views / 1 likes - addedThis real-time video shows the separation of the James Webb Space Telescope from the Ariane 5 launch vehicle and the subsequent solar array deployment. Webb’s launch on an ESA-provided Ariane 5 rocket was performed by @arianespace on behalf of ESA f
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Need a Lift? Try a Pulley!
1,128 views / 1 likes - addedJessi and Squeaks just got a new telescope, and they can't wait to check out the night sky! But there's just one problem: it's too heavy to bring up the stairs into the observatory! Join them as they learn about a simple machine that can help them solve t
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View The Total Eclipse LIVE From Madras, Oregon! | Great American Eclipse
532 views / 2 likes - addedWatch live as a total eclipse of the sun passes over the continental United States for the first time in 99 years! More: https://www.sciencechannel.com/eclipse/ The path of totality will pass over 14 states – from Oregon in the west to South Carolina in t
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Let's Explore Space!
641 views / 1 likes - addedIt's a big day for Jessi and Squeaks because they've finally finished their brand new observatory! Join them as they try out their new telescope and take a look back at a compilation of everything we've learned about space so far! ---------- Love SciShow
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What You Can't See on Jupiter With Your Natural Eyes
142 views / 0 likes - addedHow viewing Jupiter in infrared and ultraviolet can uncover its secrets.Click on the link https://thld.co/geologie_astrum1121 and take Geologie's free skincare quiz to save up to 50% off on your first purchase.Astrum merch now available! Apparel: https://
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SOFIA Discovers Water on a Sunlit Surface of the Moon
374 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 The Moon Affects Our Lives On Earth | Space on Earth | BBC Earth
551 views / 1 likes - addedOur Moon is far more than just a lump of rock floating through space. @hashemalghaili visits the Royal Observatory in London to find out about our lunar neighbour.Subscribe: http://bit.ly/BBCEarthSub #TheMoon #Space #UniverseWatch more: Planet Earth http:
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A Picture of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
151 views / 0 likes - addedThis is an image of the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Visit https://www.kiwico.com/veritasium30 to get 30% off your first month of any crate! Image of Sgr A* from EHT collaboration Event Horizon Telescope
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Making Artificial Earthquakes with a Four-Tonne Steel Ball
704 views / 2 likes - addedIn Göttingen, Germany, there's a four-tonne steel ball that can be raised up a 14-metre tower -- and then dropped in less than two seconds, crashing back to earth. It makes tiny, artificial earthquakes: here's why. Thanks to all the team at Wiechert'
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The day we nearly took a Selfie of the Solar System
401 views / 0 likes - addedDear World, This is a short video I wanted to do for a long time. A re-enactment of the day the pale blue dot picture has been taken. Only a few images have been released, and they are quite dusty, which doesn´t do it justice. It was quite hard to m
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TWL #5: Timekeeping On Mars
604 views / 0 likes - addedMars...the Final Frontier. Or wait, isn't that space? Or Alaska? Anyways, time systems work on Mars in a somewhat similar but still unique way to timekeeping on earth. This video has a little bit of history, a little bit of astrology, a little bit of horo
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Why is the Sun Yellow? | Big Question | Newsround
149 views / 0 likes - added#Newsround #TheSun #Sun #Space #BigQuestionHere's a Big Question from Year 6 from Hamstel Junior School.They want to know why the Sun is yellow.Eadie Weston from Jodrell Bank observatory answers this one.Welcome to the official BBC Newsround YouTube chann
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How Do We Find Dark Matter?
640 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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NASAs Future Telescopes Will Float at the Edge of Space
236 views / 0 likes - addedNASA wants a new type of space telescope. A team of scientists and engineers at NASA are developing ways to send ultra cold and ultra large balloon telescopes to the edge of space, which could open up a brand new way of seeing the cosmos.Subscribe to Seek
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Happy Halloween 2022 From NASA!
176 views / 0 likes - addedIt might be Halloween, but we have plenty of "Easter Eggs" from this video to share. The building’s mural might say Galaxy of Horrors, but it is also a galaxy of wonders. Here, you can learn about all the images painted on the building: The Sun as s
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Why Don't Fish Freeze in Antarctica? I Antarctic Extremes
285 views / 0 likes - addedUnder the ice in Antarctica is a world few people ever get to see.Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsterra?suBizarre creaturesancient sponges, gigantic jellyfish, sea spiders, ribbon worms, and notothenioid fishes that manage not to freezemake their
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Infrared astronomy - with Matthew Bothwell
129 views / 0 likes - addedWhy does the universe look the way it does? The answer could lie in the massive, dusty, and star-producing galaxies that existed billions of years ago, and are invisible to the naked eye.Watch Matthew Bothwell's full lecture on 'The Invisible Universe': h
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Why We Are Losing the Night Sky
388 views / 1 likes - addedCheck out America From Scratch: https://youtu.be/LVuEJ15J19sSUBSCRIBE so you dont miss a video! http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub More info and sources below It never gets dark anymore. Not REALLY dark, anyway. Not like it used to. Light pollution is not only makin
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NASA | Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In Ultra-HD (4K)
882 views / 0 likes - addedIt’s always shining, always ablaze with light and energy. In the ubiquity of solar output, Earth swims in an endless tide of particles. Every time half of the Earth faces the Sun, we experience the brightness of daytime, the Sun’s energy and light driving
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The Golden Record Decoded (360 Video)
784 views / 1 likes - addedNOTE: This is a 360/VR video but you do not a VR viewer to experience the 360 viewpoint- just click around the video! In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2 to explore and document our solar system and the interstellar space beyond. The craft will drift f
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How highways make traffic worse
375 views / 0 likes - addedExpanding highways doesn't do what you think it does.Subscribe and turn on notifications ( ) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjOBig, expensive highway expansion projects are the source of a lot US transportation funding but they aren't a si
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The Milky Way as You’ve Never Seen It Before – AMNH SciCafe
369 views / 0 likes - addedFly through the galaxy with Museum astrophysicist Jackie Faherty, who takes us on a dazzling tour of new research and data visualizations made possible by recently released data from the Gaia space telescope. In April 2018, the European Space Agency’s Gai
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Atomic Oxygen Found On Mars! What Does It Mean?
819 views / 0 likes - addedWhen an oxygen atom exists as itself, chemists call it atomic oxygen. But why should we be so excited to find this in Mars' atmosphere? Are There Aliens On Mars?? - http://bit.ly/1tuZtcG Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read
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Will The Universe Expand Forever? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
595 views / 0 likes - addedWill the Universe continue to expand outward or will it succumb to gravity and collapse upon itself? Find out in this episode of Space Time. Help us win a Webby Award by voting here: https://pv.webbyawards.com/2016/online-film-video/video-channels-and-net
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The Oort Cloud: Crash Course Astronomy #22
695 views / 0 likes - addedNow that we’re done with the planets, asteroid belt, and comets, we’re heading to the outskirts of the solar system. Out past Neptune are vast reservoirs of icy bodies that can become comets if they get poked into the inner solar system. The Kuiper Belt i
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How Long Is One Second, Really?
723 views / 1 likes - addedDo we really know how long a second is? The science behind how time is actually measured may prove you wrong. Who Came Up With Days, Hours, Minutes and Seconds? - http://bit.ly/1Q8xt8J Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read Mo
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The largest telescope that will ever be built*
84 views / 0 likes - addedThe asterisk is important. AD: NordVPN's best deal is here: https://nordvpn.com/tomscott - with a 30-day money-back guarantee. More on the ELT: @ESOobservatory https://eso.org The Extremely Large Telescope, in Paranal, Chile, is probably going to be the l
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Most Dangerous Place On Earth!
295 views / 1 likes - addedWe react to the most dangerous places in the world, from zip lining over a volcano to the deepest hole in the ocean. These are places you don't want to go to!CHECK OUT THESE CHANNELS OR ELSE!National Geographic UKhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDwsPczaBC
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We Found Gravitational Waves...AGAIN!!!
876 views / 0 likes - addedAdvanced LIGO detectors have identified a second gravitational wave event occurring from the merger of two black holes. Gravitational Waves Discovered! Here's What You Need To Know - http://bit.ly/24PgHwC Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bi
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Can We Mathematically Prove Aliens Exist?
977 views / 2 likes - addedWhat is our probability of finding aliens and how close are we to encountering them?? The answer lies somewhere in these 2 equations. Could Life On Earth Have Come From A Comet? - http://bit.ly/2aXZC0a Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.l
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A Tenth Planet Could Be Warping Our Outer Solar System
1,070 views / 2 likes - addedScientists have just found warping in the Kuiper Belt that suggests there might be a tenth planet. How The Mysterious Planet 9 Is Tilting Our Solar System - https://youtu.be/Yo0Bz-8ZeR8 Proof We Landed on the Moon is in the Topography - https://youtu.be/f
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Sounds of the Sun
545 views / 0 likes - addedData from ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has captured the dynamic movement of the Sun’s atmosphere for over 20 years. Today, we can hear the Sun’s movement — all of its waves, loops and eruptions — with ou
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We’re Going to Detect More Gravitational Waves Than Ever Before, Here’s How
359 views / 0 likes - addedOnce this $35 million upgrade is in place, LIGO will start using something called quantum "squeezed light." So, what does that mean exactly? LIGO's Gravitational Wave Discovery Is Still In Question, But Why? - https://youtu.be/aQ1entvy7vI Read More: Gravi
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The Awesome Bug That Lives on Frozen Volcanos
360 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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Nebulae: Crash Course Astronomy #36
598 views / 2 likes - addedAstronomers study a lot of gorgeous things, but nebulae might be the most breathtakingly beautiful of them all. Nebulae are clouds of gas and dust in space. They can glow on their own or reflect light from nearby stars. When they glow it’s usually predomi
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Mercury: Crash Course Astronomy #13
1,284 views / 9 likes - addedMercury is the closest planet to the sun. It has no atmosphere and is, as such, covered in craters. It's also incredibly hot but, surprisingly, has water ice hiding beneath its surface. -- Table of Contents Closest Planet to the Sun 0:03 Rotation Locked t
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How Do Greenhouse Gases Actually Work?
734 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to Kurz Gesagt for illustrating this video! http://www.youtube.com/kurzgesagt And for composing the music!: https://soundcloud.com/epicmountain/minute-earth Thanks also to our Patreon patrons: - AshrafDude - Nasser Hamed Alminji - Jeff Straathof -
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The Coriolis Effect Test: two hemispheres, one sink
574 views / 0 likes - addedThe Coriolis Effect Test: two hemispheres, one sink Disproven! The Coriolis Effect does not make the water drain out a sink anti-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern. Have you taken the same sink to both hemispheres? If so: s
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Can You Solve This Astronomical Riddle?
116 views / 0 likes - addedIn this video we look at one of the greatest astronomy riddles in history. A special thank you to Dr. Christian Sasse for all your help with this video, as well as the people of Siding Spring Observatory who made my time there so pleasant. If you'd like t
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Why Does This U.S. Town Ban WiFi And Cell Phones?
633 views / 0 likes - addedImagine living where Wi-Fi and cell-phones are banned. This Virginian town, is a gem for space science and safe haven for many. How Close Are We To Giving The Entire World Internet? - https://youtu.be/vNn0hwhRMyw Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - h
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Japans Next Neutrino Hunter Could Revolutionize Particle Physics
306 views / 0 likes - addedJapan approved construction for the worlds next largest neutrino detector. So what can we expect from it? Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.comJapan
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The invisible universe, from supernova to black holes with Matthew Bothwell
139 views / 0 likes - addedHow different does the invisible Universe look from the home we thought we knew? What does the cosmos have in store for us beyond the phenomena we can see, from black holes to supernovas?Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/t8VUHQneRtcMatthew's book 'The Invis
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How Close Are We to Launching the James Webb Space Telescope?
504 views / 1 likes - addedThe James Webb Space Telescope will allow us to see further into space than ever before, and its discoveries are expected to revolutionize astronomy. So, how close are we to finally launching it? How Close Are We? Season 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Could humanity's return to the moon spark a new age of lunar telescopes?
378 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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This Is Not What Space Looks Like
560 views / 1 likes - addedAmazing images of the far reaches of the universe are everywhere, but are they accurate? What does space really look like? Yes, Apollo Flew Through the Van Allen Belts Going to the Moon - https://youtu.be/bLtgS2_qxJk Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here
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Scientists Just Discovered 300,000 New Hidden Galaxies
430 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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There Are Gravity Pulses Hiding in the Universes Most MASSIVE Stars
370 views / 0 likes - addedBlue supergiant stars some of the hottest, biggest young stars in the universe, and their molten cores can reveal more about the formation of everything.How Scientists Found the Universes First Type of Molecule - https://youtu.be/lxepnATltvURead More: Blu
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How Antarcticas Cutest Baby Seals Grow Up I Antarctic Extremes
336 views / 0 likes - addedPenguin lovers, take note: Baby Weddell seals might actually be cutest animals in all of Antarctica (and were talking a continent the size of the United States and Mexico combined). Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/c/pbsterra?sub_confirmation=1 And for m
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The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong
1,630 views / 3 likes - addedHow an SAT question became a mathematical paradox. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.I invented Snatoms, a molecule modeling kit where the atoms sn
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This Massive Super Earth Is Almost As Old As the Universe
261 views / 0 likes - addedIn the ever-growing hunt for exoplanets, astronomers have recently discovered that one of the oldest stars in the Milky Way actually hosts a hot, rocky Super-Earth... when it shouldnt. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements
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The Sun: Crash Course Astronomy #10
797 views / 2 likes - addedPhil takes us for a closer (eye safe!) look at the two-octillion ton star that rules our solar system. We look at the sun's core, plasma, magnetic fields, sunspots, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and what all of that means for our planet. This epis
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Distances: Crash Course Astronomy #25
647 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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What The Color Of A Star Reveals About Its Composition
241 views / 0 likes - addedPeople have noticed this range of colors in the stars throughout history and its actually a pretty good indicator of a stars temperature, chemical composition and life stage. In this episode, we explore why stars sometimes change color and how to spot an
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This Massive Black Hole Is Blasting a Jet at 99% the Speed of Light
401 views / 0 likes - addedJets of particles appear to be streaming from the center of the supermassive black hole M87* faster than the speed of light. But how could that be the case??! Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPl
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Why It's Impossible To Win a Nuclear War
131 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out the recipients of the 2022 Future of Life Award at https://futureoflife.org/future-of-life-award/Nuclear war is a terrifying existential threat, but we shouldn't only fear the blasts because the ensuing smoke is the real killer.LEARN MORE*******
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Scientists Just Detected Two Supermassive Black Holes on a Collision Course
549 views / 0 likes - addedScientists just discovered two supermassive black holes, each with a mass of more than 800 million suns. And they're on a collision course with each other. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlayl
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The Moon: Astronomy #12
957 views / 1 likes - addedJoin Phil for a tour of our capital-M Moon, from surface features, inside to the core, and back in time to theories about its formation. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace: http://www.squarespace.com/crashcourse -- Table of Contents Many Millio
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Was The Big Bang Just A Black Hole?
586 views / 1 likes - addedFraser "Asks a Spaceman" Dr. Paul Matt Sutter - why do we call the Big Bang a singularity, when we also call black holes singularities? Click here for Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb9ivmAi6rM Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday
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Uranus & Neptune: Crash Course Astronomy #19
2,245 views / 13 likes - addedToday we’re rounding out our planetary tour with ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Both have small rocky cores, thick mantles of ammonia, water, and methane, and atmospheres that make them look greenish and blue. Uranus has a truly weird rotation and relativ
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What Is The Dwarf Planet Ceres?
817 views / 2 likes - addedDon’t know what the dwarf planet Ceres is, and at this point you’re too afraid to ask? BrainStuff will give you the deets on this otherworldly object. Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com: http://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/astronomy-terms/asteroid.ht
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How Do Night Vision Goggles Work? (There's 3 types)
95 views / 1 likes - addedWe visited the US Navy to test the best night vision goggles in the world. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.If youre looking for a molecular model
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What Are Alien Megastructures?
646 views / 0 likes - addedDid scientists find a giant alien structure around KIC 8462852? Probably not, but if they did, what would these structures look like? Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow us on Twitter:
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Gravitational Astronomy? How Detecting Gravitational Waves Changes Everything
625 views / 0 likes - addedWe’ve now had multiple detections of gravitational waves, opening up a whole new field: gravitational astronomy. We talk about the detections made so far, and how we can see the Universe in a whole new way. Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universeto
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Exploring Antarcticas Glaciers (with a PlayStation Controller) | Antarctic Extremes
259 views / 0 likes - addedBeneath Antarcticas glaciers, a 12-foot-long robot named Icefin explores places neither boats nor divers can reach. Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsterra?su...Icefin is testing technologies designed for exploring Jupiters icy moon Europa. But befo
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Can Stars Be Cold?
677 views / 0 likes - addedStars are hot, we know that, everyone knows that. But are there “cold stars”? It all depends on what you mean by the word “cold” and the word “star”. Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow
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7 Things We Don't Know About The Ocean
697 views / 2 likes - addedThe ocean covers 70% of the planet, but humans still don’t know very much about it. In this episode, Hank discusses seven mysterious ocean topics. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sc
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Deadly Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections - We Must Prepare
60 views / 0 likes - addedThe sun ejects particles all the time in random directions, generating all kinds of space weather. Occasionally, Earth is caught in its sights. When a coronal mass ejection's magnetic field is misaligned to Earth's, a dangerous geomagnetic storm can occur
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What Is The Best Shape For A Farm?
92 views / 0 likes - addedThis video was made in partnership with Gates Ventures.The shape of a farm can tell you a surprising amount about the land it's on and the people that use it.LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
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Deep Time: Crash Course Astronomy #45
727 views / 0 likes - addedAs we approach the end of Crash Course Astronomy, it’s time now to acknowledge that our Universe’s days are numbered. Stars will die out after a few trillion years, protons will decay and matter will dissolve after a thousand trillion trillion trillion ye
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Why Are They All In Antarctica?
113 views / 0 likes - addedDownload the Tab For A Cause browser extension at https://tab.gladly.io/trees/minuteearth2/Meteorite hunters dont search for meteorites in the places most frequently peppered by them they go to Antarctica instead, because thats where they are easiest to f
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Journey to the Edge of the Universe [4K]
205 views / 1 likes - addedEver wonder what it would be like to fly all the way to the edge of space? Well in this video, we'll be doing just that. Using beautiful images snapped by the Hubble and Webb telescopes, we will embark on a tour of our universe- venturing deep into the da
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Galaxies, Part 2: Crash Course Astronomy #39
664 views / 0 likes - addedActive galaxies pour out lots of energy, due to their central supermassive black holes gobbling down matter. Galaxies tend not to be loners, but instead exist in smaller groups and larger clusters. Our Milky Way is part of the Local Group, and will one da
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A Decade of Sun
211 views / 0 likes - addedAs of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around the Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing
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