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Cosmic Microwave Background Challenge | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
If a photon leaves the train station shortly after the Big Bang ...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The History of Everything Ted
David Christian gives a TED talk covering the Universe's 13.8 billion year history in 18 minutes.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Astronomy: A Brief History of the Universe
Thanks to the wonders of physics, astronomers can map a timeline of the universe's history. Today, Phil's going to give you an overview of those first few minutes (yes, MINUTES) of the universe's life. It started with a Big Bang, when...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Treasures of the Earth the Origin of Heavy Elements
Learn about the formation of elements from this video by NOVA and how these elements were incorporated into Earth when it formed. Closed caption available. [2:27]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Big Bang and Expansion of the Universe: Big Bang Introduction
Discusses the Big Bang Theory about the formation and expansion of the universe, what problems this theory presents, and how to conceptualize seemingly impossible ideas, e.g., that the universe has no edge. [11:02]
Crash Course
Crash Course Big History #2: Exploring the Universe
Learn about what happened in the Universe after the big bang. Also find out about cosmic background radiation, how hydrogen and helium turned into stars, formed galaxies, created heavy elements, and eventually created planets. [14:37]
Crash Course
Crash Course Astronomy #45: Deep Time
Are the Universe's days are numbered? Learn about the expected fate of stars, protons, matter, and black holes. [15:15]
Crash Course
Crash Course Big History #201: Why Cosmic Evolution Matters
This video that discusses why cosmic evolution matters including the rapid growth of after the Big Bang beginning with cosmic inflation and continuing through external inflation to theories of how the universe might end.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Big History?
We hear David Christian's explanation of the project Big History which seeks to answer questions of the universe from a variety of disciplines and combine them into one coherent story that will explain how everything came to be the way...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ways of Knowing Introduction to Cosmology
The history of the Universe decorates the night sky. Learn how to watch this history by studying cosmic light emissions. [6:22]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Threshold 1: The Big Bang
Watch a video about space, time, matter, and energy. Learn how everything around us today is provided as a result of the Big Bang. [1:59]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Threshold 2: Stars Light Up
A video documenting how the early Universe was dark and cold until a star was born when few atoms of hydrogen and helium got together. [2:49]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Thresholds of Increasing Complexity
Watch this video to understand thresholds that happened during our Universe's history. See the eight dramatic transitions highlighted in the Big History unit. [2:16]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Emerged From the Big Bang?
Explore the Big Bang theory in this video. Learn about the evidence that exist to support the theory. [13:19]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Why Is the Universe Right for Life?
How did our universe develop in such a way that we can exist? Is it by accident or design -- and is that a question science can answer?
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Lawrence Krauss on "A Universe From Nothing"
In his book, Krauss surveys modern cosmology and what it says about the past and future universe.