Curated Video
Exploring Solar Winds: The Phenomenon and Impact
Solar winds are super fast, nuclear winds emitted by the sun. Were these winds to reach Earth's surface, they would cause a lot of damage. Find out what makes solar winds so dangerous andwWhat protects Earth from this weather.
NASA
NASA | Studying the Solar Wind on Mars
Robert Lin, the late director of the Space Sciences Laboratory, discusses how NASA's MAVEN spacecraft will study the interaction of the Martian atmosphere with the solar wind. MAVEN's findings will reveal how Mars lost its early...
NASA
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Touches The Sun For The First Time
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. The new milestone marks one major...
Apalapse
The Science Behind the Aurora
Learn about the science behind nature's most spectacular light show. Caused by the sun, solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic shield and reacts with gas molecules creating the visible aurora.
Visual Learning Systems
Magnets and Electromagnetism: Earth as a Magnet
Upon viewing the Magnets and Electromagnets video series, students will be able to do the following: Define a magnet as a material that attracts iron and materials containing iron. Explain that magnets have a north pole and a south pole...
Professor Dave Explains
The Formation of the Solar System and the Structure of the Sun
So we learned about the formation of the Milky Way, which is the galaxy that we live in. But where in that galaxy do we live? We live on a planet that orbits a star that we simply refer to as "The Sun", so where is that, and when did our...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: All About the Sun
This video provides an overview of the Sun, explaining its role as a star and the largest object in our solar system. It discusses how the Sun formed, its layers, and its atmosphere. The video also includes review questions to reinforce...
Visual Learning Systems
The Amazing Universe: Our Star the Sun
This show explores the fascinating features of the universe, the different types of galaxies in our solar system and the position of our solar system in the Milky Way Galaxy. Other terminology includes: constellations, spiral galaxy,...
Getty Images
This animation shows a magnetospheric sunstorm, during which the reconnection causes energy to be rapidly released along the field lines causing the auroras to brighten
This animation shows a magnetospheric sunstorm, during which the reconnection causes energy to be rapidly released along the field lines causing the auroras to brighten
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Aurora around Saturn's north pole.
Collisions with charged particles in the solar wind cause gas atoms and molecules to emit light. Aurorae typically occur around the poles as charged particles are directed there by planets' magnetic fields. Imaged in ultraviolet light by...
Getty Images
4K Time-lapse: Northern Light Aurora Borealis at VIK Southern Iceland
4K Time-lapse: Northern Light Aurora Borealis at VIK Southern Iceland
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4K Time-lapse: Northern Light Aurora Borealis at VIK Southern Iceland
4K Time-lapse: Northern Light Aurora Borealis at VIK Southern Iceland
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4K Time-lapse: Northern Light Aurora Borealis at Kirkjufell Iceland
4K Time-lapse: Northern Light Aurora Borealis at Kirkjufell Iceland
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Animation, starting with our Sun; zoom out through the solar system to reveal the Heliosphere and the Heliopause where Voyager I passed through in November 2003. Credit NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
Animation, starting with our Sun; zoom out through the solar system to reveal the Heliosphere and the Heliopause where Voyager I passed through in November 2003. Credit NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
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TIME LAPSE: Idyllic Winter Landscape Northern Lights
Time lapse of Aurora Borealis over idyllic winter landscape at Lofoten islands northern norway.
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Animation of solar wind patterns and radiation from the Sun, with the Earth's magnetic field.
The solar wind is made up of charged particles emitted by the Sun. The Earth's magnetic field, its magnetosphere, deflects these particles, forming a wake-like pattern of field lines that is compressed on the sunward side and trails over...
Bloomberg
Westley Group Launches $300M Fund to Find the Next Tesla
The Westly Group's founder and former Tesla board member Steve Westly speaks with Emily Chang about the launch of his firm's new fund, the cleantech investing landscape and the cult of Elon Musk.
Curated Video
Genesis set for dramatic midair capture
1. Satellite images of the Sun's visible layer shown in animated rotation sequence.
2. Animation view of NASA Genesis probe and Sun in background.
3. Animation view of circular isotope collector arrays onboard Genesis probe.
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