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Did you know? Constellations
Discover the ancient origins of constellations.
NASA
NASA | Disk Detective: Search for Planetary Habitats
A new NASA-sponsored website, DiskDetective.org, lets the public discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. The site is led and funded by NASA and developed by...
Science360
Telescopes on Earth Explore Space's Secrets
Exploring the mysteries of dark energy and black holes. Identifying exoplanets. Capturing the origins of galaxies. Just some of what's happening at ground-based observatories -- windows on the universe that allow researchers to gaze...
Professor Dave Explains
Mercury: The Innermost Planet
It's time to take a tour of the solar system, one object at a time! First up is Mercury, the planet that orbits closest to the Sun. So closely in fact that there is no atmosphere, and things get very toasty during the daytime. What else...
Curated Video
Black Holes
This live-action video program is about the word black hole. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word black hole through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Visual Learning Systems
Our Galaxy and Stars: Stars
This captivating series of programs explores many of the amazing features of our universe. Special attention is given to our solar system, distances in space, and stars. Terminology and concepts include: Milky Way Galaxy, light-year,...
Visual Learning Systems
Our Solar System
The video explains the concept of our Milky Way galaxy and our solar system's formation. The Inner Planets part 2/11
Curated Video
What is the Universe? (Simple English)
This live-action video program is about the word universe. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word universe through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
Visual Learning Systems
Stars and Galaxies: What Are Stars?
Upon viewing the Stars and Galaxies video series, students will be able to do the following: Explain that our solar system is part of the Milky Way galaxy. Understand that the Milky Way galaxy is huge and contains billions of stars....
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Earth and Our Solar System
This video is a lesson about the solar system, specifically focusing on the Milky Way galaxy, the inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars), the outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune), and their characteristics. The...
Visual Learning Systems
Stars and Galaxies: Tools of Astronomy
Upon viewing the Stars and Galaxies video series, students will be able to do the following: Explain that our solar system is part of the Milky Way galaxy. Understand that the Milky Way galaxy is huge and contains billions of stars....
Curated Video
Scientists Find a Star Survive a Black Hole Encounter
Scientists Find a Star Survive a Black Hole Encounter | WION Fineprint
Curated Video
Solar eclipse draws thousands to Wyoming town of Casper
The Aug. 21 solar eclipse has astronomers and eclipse chasers from around the world flocking to a long thin line in the U.S.
Curated Video
7 Earth-like planets discovered by NASA
Seven Earth-sized planets, all of which could contain water, have been found orbiting a small star 39 light-years away
Curated Video
#TheMoment astronomers discovered the hungriest black hole in the universe
Australian scientists have discovered the most luminous object in the universe — a black hole that eats equivalent to a sun per day.
Curated Video
Gravitational waves: Astrophysicists hear the hum of the universe
Teams of astrophysicists have discovered the universe gives off a hum of ultralow-frequency gravitational waves.
Curated Video
SpaceX's Starlink: Could a flood of satellites create a space-junk nightmare?
Australian researchers are developing groundbreaking software to manage traffic in space aimed at reducing the risk of collisions.
Curated Video
Solar eclipse turns skies dark over Chile and Argentina
Turning day into night. Thousands gather in Chile and Argentina to view a rare total solar eclipse.
Curated Video
Jupiter, Saturn merging in night sky, closest in centuries
The two largest planets will be one-tenth of a degree apart in what is being dubbed the ‘Great Conjunction’.
Curated Video
World witnesses supermoon from lockdown
Some astronomers expect the moon to come closer to the Earth than at any time since 1948.
Curated Video
Scientists Monitor Object Possibly from Beyond Our Solar System
Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the third-ever known interstellar object currently speeding through our Solar System at over 60 kms.
Curated Video
Old spacecraft crashes on Earth: End of a 53-year-long mission to Venus
50 years after a Soviet spacecraft took off to explore Venus, it has crashed back down to Earth.
Curated Video
Venus like never before. Rare celestial crescent dazzles UAE skies
#Gravitas In the UAE, Venus positioned itself between Earth and the Sun. It resulted in a breathtaking crescent of Venus, reminiscent of the moon’s phases.
Curated Video
Signals from 1,600 light-years away challenge scienc
Something strange appears to be reaching us from deep space. Every 2 hours, a pulse of radio waves ripples through the cosmos, baffling the astronomers. Our next story explains how, after many years of mystery, the scientists have...