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Here's Why Zodiac Constellations Are Still Used in Astronomy
352 views / 1 likes - addedTo understand astronomy, astrology might actually not be a bad place to start... Although scientists certainly havent proven that being an Aries makes you more impatient or a Libra means youre wise, the constellations in the zodiac have unlocked hidden se
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Constellations: Connect The Dots In The Sky!
1,363 views / 4 likes - addedFor a long time, people have seen pictures among the stars -- just like connect the dots! Learn all about constellations, including someone of the easiest ones to spot, and what some people thought they looked like. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help s
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What Can Giant Telescopes Reveal About Our Universe?
524 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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Let's Look at Constellations! | How We Study Space | SciShow Kids
220 views / 0 likes - addedTeachers and parents: scroll down to check out the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for this episode!Today, Jessi and Sam the Bat take a look at constellations. Humans have been looking up at the sky for a long time and seeing all kinds of picture
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The Zodiac Constellations: Crash Course Kids #37.1
911 views / 2 likes - addedWe've talked about constellations; groups of stars in the night sky that we assign names to. But there are a certain group of special constellations called The Zodiac that Sabrina is going to chat about. Gemini, Sagittarius, Scorpio? You've heard of them
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Super Stars (Constellations): Crash Course Kids #31.1
1,288 views / 0 likes - addedSo, you know about stars. But what if those stars formed a super group like The Avengers? Well, then you have a Constellation! In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina chats about stars, constellations, and how humans have used constellations to tell
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Telescopes: Crash Course Astronomy #6
676 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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NASAs Future Telescopes Will Float at the Edge of Space
242 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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Telescopes in Space! | How We Study Space | SciShow Kids
122 views / 0 likes - addedTeachers and parents: scroll down to check out the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for this episode!Anthony and Squeaks find out how you can put telescopes in different places to help you see further away and get better pictures of things in spac
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Why Do We Put Telescopes In Space?
491 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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Crystal Constellations
492 views / 0 likes - addedThe Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair has teamed up with TV science presenter Greg Foot to keep kids entertained for all twelve days of Christmas. You can see all of the experiments at http://www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/selec... The Big Bang
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How To Find The Summer Constellations (360)
331 views / 0 likes - addedImpress your friends by navigating the night sky. Ursa Major: 1:31, Ursa Minor: 2:20, Cassiopeia: 3:05, Leo: 3:29, Cygnus, Lyra & Aquila: 3:45, Scorpius & Sagittarius: 4:36 Links & Info PRINTABLE GUIDE: https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2018/06/25/NPR_Star
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What Constellations Mean to Different Cultures | Fate & Fabled
460 views / 0 likes - addedThe stars have guided and entertained us for thousands of years. Here we explore some of the messages people have seen in the stars through the millennia and look forward to how we might relate to the stars in the future.Hosted by Dr. Moiya McTier & Dr. E
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Hubble in a bubble: Scallop eyes act like tiny telescopes
570 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?
381 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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The Big Dipper Through Time
528 views / 0 likes - addedStars aren’t still--they move through space. Our Sun and the seven stars that form the Big Dipper in the constellation Ursa Major all orbit the center of the Milky Way at different speeds. So why do today’s constellations closely resemble thos
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Skylight: More Than Meets the Eye
519 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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Create Constellation Flash Cards - #sciencegoals
781 views / 1 likes - addedJessi has a special guest today who is an expert on the night sky! Join Jessi and Sam the Bat to learn all about constellations, and to test your star knowledge by making flash cards! Constellation Charts for Viewers: Constellation Maps by Latitude: http:
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What Your Horoscope Sign Really Means
488 views / 1 likes - addedOver the course of one year, the sun moves between Earth and different 13 constellations. The Babylonians determined that only 12 constellations could find in a calendar year, so they left off the thirteenth sign, Ophiuchus. Recently NASA re-acknowledged
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COSMIC SELFIE: The Black Hole in the middle of our galaxy looks like this...
151 views / 0 likes - addedIt took more than 300 researchers and 8 telescopes to capture an image of our galaxy's black hole.
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What's inside a Fidget Cube?
1,472 views / 0 likes - addedWe CUT OPEN a Fidget Cube! VERY interesting to see inside! Buy this Fidget Cube here: http://amzn.to/2oqMAyC Anxiety, Stress, restlessness, OCD, ADHD there are SO MANY people that could benefit from using this Fidget Cube. Even kids and toddlers have been
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A Guide To Navigating the Stars Without a Smartphone
259 views / 0 likes - addedWhat happens when youre lost and you dont have your phone or any recognizable landmarks to give you directions? Well, you look up at the stars. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.com Catch up on Constel
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Global telescope may finally see the event horizon of our galaxy's black hole
692 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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What The Color Of A Star Reveals About Its Composition
245 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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How Space-Time Works When You Look At The Stars
306 views / 0 likes - addedWe're used to looking at everything around us unfolding in real time. But when we look at the stars, were actually looking at the past. We arent seeing the stars, or really anything in the universe, as they currently are. Were seeing things as they were.
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Total Solar Eclipse 2017 | 360 View | Exploratorium
843 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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The Rare Celestial Phenomena That Can Only Be Seen Before Nightfall
211 views / 0 likes - addedMost people think of astronomy as a nighttime activity, but if you hate staying up late, youre in luck! As it turns out, theres a whole lot of fascinating celestial objects and phenomena that can only be observed in the bright light of day. Subscribe to S
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This Is the Largest Map of Our Universe Ever Created
270 views / 0 likes - addedScientists have mapped the largest amount of the night sky ever and you can explore it on the internet. The giant 2D map is a prerequisite for a 3D mapping project using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI. Check out the map here: legacysurv
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Earth-Size Telescope Will Make Black Holes Say "Cheese!"
700 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
451 views / 1 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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From Sundials to Atomic Clocks: How the Universe Shapes Our Understanding of Time
235 views / 0 likes - addedClocks: In a world of booked calendars and packed schedules, its hard to imagine life without them. But as it turns out, weve been telling time long before their invention. For millennia, people have used the stars to understand and organize the movement
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This Invisible Light Shows Us What Our Eyes Can't See
679 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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Betelgeuse Is Destined to Explode as a SupernovaBut When?
268 views / 0 likes - addedLong considered one of the brightest stars in the night sky, Betelgeuse has begun to dramatically fade then brighten again for reasons we cant quite pin down. And its caused some people to wonder if it's about to explode. Catch up on Constellations! https
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Planet may be forming in a 'twist' observed by Very Large Telescope
330 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
493 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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I took a ride on a moving radio telescope
121 views / 0 likes - addedThe Parkes Radio Telescope, part of CSIRO, is one of the most famous telescopes in the world: and it's got a unique way of getting equipment up and down from the central section. More about the Telescope: https://www.csiro.au/en/about/facilities-collectio
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This Space Suburb Could Hold Secrets About the Origin of the Solar System
636 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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Evidence for relativity effects in stars orbiting supermassive black hole
568 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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I Visited the First Gravitational Wave Detector! LIGO | STELLAR
338 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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Zooming in on the heart of the Milky Way
141 views / 0 likes - addedThis zoom video sequence starts with a broad view of the Milky Way. We then dive into the dusty central region to take a much closer look. There lurks a 4-million solar mass black hole, surrounded by a swarm of stars orbiting rapidly. We first see the sta
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Jupiter's Invisible Planetary Rings, Explained
648 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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The Race To See The Black Hole At The Center Of Our Galaxy
638 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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Skylight: How Does Our Solar System Move Around the Milky Way?
561 views / 0 likes - addedThe planets orbit the Sun in a fairly flat plane. How does that plane relate to the orientation of the Milky Way? If we could see the Sun moving among our night sky constellations, which direction would it be heading? Watch this video to learn how our sol
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How The Arecibo Telescope Could Help Save The World
613 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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NASAs Exoplanet Hunter Is Getting Us One Step Closer To Another Earth, Here's How
396 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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Amazing Piece Of Metal (speculum)
672 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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Space Compilation: Crash Course Kids
1,009 views / 0 likes - addedMaybe you'd like to just hear about one topic for a while. We understand. Thus, we've created our Compilation Series. In this video, we look at some of our videos about Space. Sabrina talks to us about the Sun, stars, the universe, and how constellations
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What Are Stars?
1,910 views / 4 likes - addedFind out what makes stars what they are, and take a tour of some of the most extreme stars in space! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome
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This Exoplanet Suddenly Disappeared From Space, Where Did It Go?
285 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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First Ever View of Black Hole. Zooming in to the Heart of Messier 87
294 views / 0 likes - addedThe Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to capture images of a black hole. In coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT
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$10 vs. $1000 recorder! | Team Recorder
185 views / 0 likes - addedPutting $10 and a $1000 recorder through their paces! What's the difference, and is the price difference worth it? Maybe I'll b convinced to give up my concert instrument for a blue plastic one /// INSTRUMENTS In this video I play on: - blue transparent Y
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Why Do Galaxies Rotate?
282 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?
377 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
332 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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SOFIA Discovers Water on a Sunlit Surface of the Moon
378 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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Comparing a 6-hour regular telescope exposure to the James Webb Space Telescope
489 views / 0 likes - addedThe recent JWST guide camera's test image looks really similar to Hubble's deep fields, which are my favorite. I decided to take a long exposure to the same target to see what my telescope can see and compare it to JWST's image. I found one really faint g
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How We Know Black Holes Exist
525 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?
544 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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The ‘alien megastructure’ star is acting weird again
611 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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What are years... and the galactic supermassive black hole!
469 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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The Ecliptic: Crash Course Kids #37.2
551 views / 0 likes - addedSo, what is the Ecliptic? Well, it has to do with the Zodiac constellations and our sun and how they move in relation to one another. It's kind of cool! In this episode, Sabrina chats about this imaginary line called the Ecliptic and its cycle in the sky.
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Scientists Just Discovered 300,000 New Hidden Galaxies
441 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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How Astronomers Took The First Ever Image Of A Black Hole
617 views / 1 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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Scientists think they've finally solved the mystery of the 'alien megastructure' star
685 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 to make NebulArt
291 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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How Do We Find Dark Matter?
648 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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Why Every Picture Of A Black Hole Is An Illustration
728 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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Cycles in the Sky: Crash Course Astronomy #3
634 views / 0 likes - addedThis week we build on our naked eye observations from last week and take a look at the cyclical phenomena that we can see at work in the universe. -- Table of Contents: Naked Eye Observations 0:28.4 Constellations 3:09.7 The Color of Stars 2:44.5 View of
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Distances: Crash Course Astronomy #25
652 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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Can One Mathematical Model Explain All Patterns In Nature?
723 views / 0 likes - addedAll patterns in nature might be describable using this mathematical theory. How did Alan Turing influence how we see the natural world? Who Was Ada Lovelace, The World's First Computer Nerd? - http://bit.ly/290mnkb Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here -
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Planetary Ring Formation is Still a Mystery, Here’s Why
1,149 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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Monitoring Human Impact on Earth with Landsat 8
294 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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Fly Through a Nebula 163,000 Light Years Away (Celebrating 30 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope)
383 views / 1 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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How Do Computers Remember?
249 views / 0 likes - addedExploring some of the basics of computer memory: latches, flip flops, and registers!The simulation tool is now available to download:https://sebastian.itch.io/digital-logic-simSource code for the simulator can be found here:https://github.com/SebLague/Dig
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Starship SN8 Flight: The Mini Documentary
303 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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This 3.2 Gigapixel Camera Will Record a Timelapse of the Universe
257 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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First Images of Black Holes!
395 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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Planet X Discovered?? + Challenge Winners! | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
576 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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Naked Eye Observations: Crash Course Astronomy #2
673 views / 0 likes - addedToday on Crash Course Astronomy, Phil invites you to head outside and take a look at all the incredible things you can see with your naked eye. -- Table of Contents: Naked Eye Observations 0:28.4 Constellations 3:09.7 The Color of Stars 2:44.5 View of the
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What Will the James Webb Space Telescope See Out There?
167 views / 0 likes - addedWhat is the most complex space telescope ever built all about? Join Museum astrophysicist Jackie Faherty and Director of Astrovisualization Carter Emmart for this special look at the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Expected to launch in late December,
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TIL: That's No Moon. It's Aliens. (Maybe.) | Today I Learned
586 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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How Well Find the Aliens in Our Solar System! | STELLAR
397 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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What If We Do Find Aliens?
647 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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What we found when we went looking for another Earth
136 views / 0 likes - addedIn the last few years, scientists have discovered thousands of exoplanets - and a lot of them are surprisingly weird.Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjOWatch part 2, How to find a planet you can't see, he
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The biggest mistakes in mapmaking history - Kayla Wolf
194 views / 0 likes - addedTravel through the history of mapmaking and discover what big mistakes cartographers made about the worlds geography.--For thousands of years, people made both functional maps and what are known as cosmographies, illustrating the earth and its position in
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Seeing a Black Hole with a Planet-Sized Telescope | STELLAR
450 views / 1 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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Carl Sagan Christmas Lecture 1 - The Earth as a Planet
142 views / 0 likes - addedIn his first Christmas Lecture, American astronomer and cosmologist Carl Sagan explores planet Earth and the place, scale and geometry of the 'pale blue dot' in the Solar System. Sagan provides a unique insight into the history of our knowledge of the thi
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Is This Why We Haven't Found Alien Civilizations? | STELLAR
384 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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How We’re Mapping All Matter In The Universe
494 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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An Interstellar Asteroid Just Flew Past Earth, Here’s What You Need to Know
498 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 Much Does the Universe Weigh?
421 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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Black Holes And Gravitational Waves Might Help Us Find Dark Matter
652 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
484 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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NASA'S NICER Does the Space Station Twist
538 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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NASA's Plan To Give Our Moon Its Own Moon
1,075 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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How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole
474 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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The Brachistochrone
746 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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This Could Be the End of Urban Astronomy (360 Video)
503 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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What Do Astronauts Do?
760 views / 2 likes - addedYou may have dreamed of being an astronaut, or maybe that’s what you want to be when you grow up! But how do astronauts become astronauts, and what do they do when they’re in space? Join Jessi and Squeaks to learn what it takes to be an out-of-this-world
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HIRMES: SOFIA's latest high-resolution Mid-infrared Spectrometer
515 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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The Awesome Bug That Lives on Frozen Volcanos
364 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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There May Be 300 Million Earths in Our Galaxy Waiting to Be Found
227 views / 0 likes - addedHow many Earths could there really be in our galaxy? A team of 44 astronomers have landed on what they say is the definitive answer at least for now. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Vi
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Scientists Are About to Prove a Mirror Universe Exists
459 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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The First Billion Years of the Universe - with Emma Chapman
269 views / 0 likes - addedWhat happened after the Big Bang? When did the very first stars burst into life? Why are those stars were so unusual, and what they can teach us about the Universe today?Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/9zxsC68PJUIEmma's book "First Light" is available now
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How Many Stars Are There?
1,021 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 Picture of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
160 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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Scientists Just Fit Our Universe in a BoxWait What
326 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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A Mysterious Object Punched a Hole in the Milky Way, Scientists Are Confused
469 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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Hubble Spotted New Evidence That Dark Matter Is "Cold"
330 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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NASA Is Getting New Spacesuits, Here's What Makes Them So Special
227 views / 0 likes - addedNASA is aiming to return to the Moon by 2024, and this time with new and improved spacesuits. The agency's new eXploration extravehicular mobility units (xEMUs) allow astronauts to move about more naturally and have longer EVA's. Subscribe to Seeker! http
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The History Of Astrology In 6 Minutes
173 views / 0 likes - addedEver wonder where your horoscope comes from?Credits: https://www.buzzfeed.com/bfmp/videos/150483Subscribe to BuzzFeedVideo: https://bzfd.it/2lVAsJ3BuzzFeedVideoBuzzFeeds flagship channel. Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, always shareable. New videos po
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Did Scientists REALLY Find Signs of Life on Venus?
286 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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Scientists Just Witnessed the Birth of a Heavy Element in Space
271 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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This Dead Star Is Twisting Spacetime
281 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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Are There Storms On The Moon?
756 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 Gamma-Ray Burst Was the Most Powerful Energy Event Ever Recorded
398 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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How to find a planet you can't see
158 views / 0 likes - addedTiny wobbles and faint twinkles that have led astronomers to nearly 5,000 new worlds.Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO For a tour of some of the odd exoplanets scientists have found, watch part one, her
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Journey to the Edge of the Universe [4K]
220 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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The Absurd Search For Dark Matter
214 views / 0 likes - addedThis video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly subscription. Astronomers think there should be 5 times as much dark matter as ordinary matter – a shadow universe that m
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