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SciShow

4 Awesome Future Space Missions

12th - Higher Ed
Hank fills us in on the four exploratory missions to space that he is most excited about - New Horizons is going to Pluto and the Kuiper belt; Juno is on it's way to Jupiter; Dawn is exploring two large asteroids; Rosetta will land on a...
Instructional Video4:34
SciShow

Why Everyone Was Watching Tabby's Star Last Weekend

12th - Higher Ed
Tabby's star is at it again. Could it be aliens this time!? Also, astronomers have discovered a planet with the density of styrofoam!
Instructional Video4:36
SciShow

We Detected Water Plumes on Europa... 20 Years Ago

12th - Higher Ed
Researchers found surprising new evidence hiding in data captured back in 1997, and we've discovered stars forming in a distant galaxy as early as 250 million years after the Big Bang.
Instructional Video9:33
PBS

Life on Europa?

12th - Higher Ed
The Hubble Telescope found more evidence of vast plumes of water bursting through the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. What does this tell us about the potential for life on Europa?
Instructional Video5:16
SciShow

3 Times We Intentionally Crashed into Other Worlds

12th - Higher Ed
Most of the time, it’s not great when an expensive spacecraft slams into an extraterrestrial body. But now and then mission control intentionally crashes a spacecraft for science!
Instructional Video4:53
SciShow

More New Earth-like Planets Nearby!

12th - Higher Ed
Between the new, potentially Earth-like planets, organic molecules on Ceres, and SpaceX's successful launch, it's been quite a week in space!
Instructional Video5:24
SciShow

The Two Asteroids That Shouldn’t Be There

12th - Higher Ed
Space Clue: 203 Pompeja and 269 Justitia in the asteroid belt with evidence of being formed outside of it. But the real mystery is how they got there! And we again return to Ganymede with new evidence suggesting even more kinds of water...
Instructional Video9:37
PBS

Quantum Entanglement (The Bohr-Einstein Debate)

12th - Higher Ed
Albert Einstein strongly disagreed with Niels Bohr when it came to Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics. Quantum entanglement settled the argument once and for all.
Instructional Video5:01
Curated Video

A New Idea About Tabby's Star!

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers might have finally discovered part of why Tabby's Star acts so strangely and we have some new ideas about what triggers a type Ia supernova.
Instructional Video5:31
SciShow

A Baby Planet May Have Once Smashed Into Jupiter - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Shortly after Jupiter formed, it might have been struck by an object that may have otherwise become its own planet! And researchers have a new estimate of how many Earth-like planets might exist.
Instructional Video4:50
SciShow

The Most Common Planet in the Universe?

12th - Higher Ed
There’s one kind of planet we’ve found more often than any other in the universe so far: mini-Neptunes. Now, some scientists think they’ve figured out why there are just so many of them.
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

We Might Be Wrong About Planet Formation

12th - Higher Ed
Though we’ve been able detect thousands of exoplanets in the last few decades, we’ve now directly imaged an exoplanet that changes our whole perspective on how we think planets like Jupiter form!
Instructional Video5:07
SciShow

New Jupiter Discoveries from the Juno Mission!

12th - Higher Ed
The Juno spacecraft has been making close flybys of Jupiter and its measurements have revealed some new things about Jupiter’s interior. And astronomers were surprised after putting together the most complete atmospheric profile that’s...
Instructional Video5:03
SciShow

Brown Dwarfs Space’s Strangely Important Oddballs

12th - Higher Ed
You’d think it would be easy to tell if an object in space was a star or a planet - is it big, hot, and shining? It’s a star! Small, cool, and made of rock and gas? Planet! But cosmic oddities know as brown dwarfs remind us that the...
Instructional Video4:39
SciShow

Comet Chase & Molten Moons

12th - Higher Ed
In this episode of SciShow Space News, Hank details the work of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft. He also explains the new discoveries of Jupiter's moon Io.
Instructional Video4:28
SciShow

Move Over, Mars We Could Farm on Asteroids!

12th - Higher Ed
When people live throughout the solar system, we'll need some way to feed them that doesn't involve constant shipments of Earth-grown food. Will the asteroid belt be our new cosmic food court?
Instructional Video5:58
SciShow

This Amazing Mission Almost Failed After Launch

12th - Higher Ed
The ESA Hipparcos team worked for 20 years on the project, then had to watch as the mission ALMOST failed! But somehow, they turned it around, and today, this little-known mission has totally transformed what we know about space.
Instructional Video4:30
SciShow

Why We've Only Ever Seen the Sun's Poles Once

12th - Higher Ed
The Ulysses mission revolutionized our understanding of the sun, but it's been the only orbiter to take this kind of out-of-ecliptic journey. Will an upcoming mission give us even more?
Instructional Video4:22
SciShow

Water on Ganymede, and NASA Needs Your Help!

12th - Higher Ed
Which is a bigger deal to you? The discovery that there's probably more water on Jupiter's moon Ganymede than all the oceans on Earth? Or the fact that you can now help NASA find asteroids? Learn about both, then decide for yourself!
Instructional Video4:54
SciShow

The Weirdness of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

12th - Higher Ed
It's Jupiter's beauty mark - but do you know where the Great Red Spot came from, or how long it's been there, or how long it'll continue to exist? Well, neither do scientists, really.
Instructional Video3:43
MinutePhysics

Extraterrestrial Cycloids - Why Are They on Europa?

12th - Higher Ed
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Space Telescope Science Institute for supporting this video. This video is about the cycloid curves on Jupiter's moon Europa - they're ridges or valleys in the icy surface that formed...
Instructional Video5:05
SciShow

3 Planets That Shouldn't Exist

12th - Higher Ed
We explore several exoplanets whose features make us think they shouldn't even have been able to form in the first place!
Instructional Video5:45
SciShow

3 Ways We Know What the Ancient Solar System Was Like

12th - Higher Ed
The New Horizons spacecraft has given us lots of clues about the early days of our solar system, but we don't always have to travel billions of kilometers to peer into our past.
Instructional Video5:20
SciShow

On This Planet, the Floor Is Actually Lava | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We have new insights into the bizarre nature of lava planets, and the icy moon Europa may yet reveal some of her salty secrets.