SciShow
More on Mating & Monogamy
Hank clarifies the misconceptions about Chagus disease, discusses a couple of interesting celestial events - one that happened in the past and one that will happen in the distant future, and sheds more light on the benefits of sexual...
SciShow
Breast Cancer gets Worse in the Spring and Fall. But...Why?
Seasonal illnesses from infectious diseases aren’t a new concept, but a few decades ago public health experts began to notice the same behavior in some non-infectious diseases like breast cancer. These patterns have helped us learn a lot...
SciShow
A Season for Disease'n
Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring. Every new season brings new...diseases.
Crash Course Kids
Land and Water
Remember Sol, the closest star to Earth? We like to call it The Sun and we haven't talked about it in a little while. One interesting thing about the energy we get from the sun is that it's not absorbed the same way by different...
Nature League
How Does Space Impact Life on Earth? - Field Trip
This week on Nature League, Brit explores the rhythms of life on Earth by interviewing Dr. Mark Reiser about solar and lunar cycles.
Nature League
Biological Clocks and the Rhythm of Life - Lesson Plan
This week on Nature League, Brit Garner explores the rhythms and cycles of life on Earth.
NASA
NASA's Curious Universe: Seasons of the Sun
As Earth makes its annual trip around the Sun, we feel the impacts of its journey in the form of seasons. Our planet’s tilt in relation to the Sun determines what season we experience here on Earth. But, did you know that the Sun goes...
Curated Video
Houston We Have a Podcast: Space Weather
Dr. Steve Johnson, Senior Scientist of the Space Radiation Analysis Group, discusses what's being done right now to document radiation exposure, not only to ensure our astronauts stay healthy, but to understand weather in space. HWHAP...
NASA
Gravity Assist: Gravity Assist Podcast, Mercury with Faith Vilas
Our virtual tour of the solar system continues with Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun. Since it’s tough to observe Mercury except at dawn or twilight, most of what we know about Mercury is from NASA’s Mariner 10 and MESSENGER missions.
Next Animation Studio
Sun unleashes largest solar flare in more than three years
A massive storm over the Sun discharged the largest solar flare in three years on Sunday, No. 29.
Science360
SOLAR CYCLES
In episode 17, Charlie and Jordan chat about wastewater catalysts, solar cycle disruptions and an "iron shield" for rice.
NASA
NASA Hangout: All Eyes on the Sun
On March 29, 2014, an X-class flare burst off the right side of the sun . . . and NASA was watching. Coordinating their observations, five NASA observatories and one ground-based telescope were able to see things in the flare they'd...
NASA
12th Annual Goddard Film Festival
This year’s 12th Annual Goddard Film Festival will highlight Goddard’s achievements over the past year in astrophysics, Earth science, heliophysics and planetary science. Highlights include recent and upcoming missions such as the Nancy...
NASA
How To Track The Solar Cycle
Understanding the Sun’s behavior is an important part of life in our solar system. The Sun’s powerful outbursts can disturb the satellites and communications signals traveling around Earth, or one day, Artemis astronauts exploring...
NASA
NASA | SDO: Three Years in Three Minutes--With Expert Commentary
This version of SDO:Three Years in Three Minutes is extended and narrated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center heliophysicist Alex Young. He highlights many interesting aspects of the video and points out several of the single-frame...
NASA
11 Years Charting Edge of Solar System
Far, far beyond the orbits of the planets lie the hazy outlines of the magnetic bubble in space that we call home. This is the heliosphere, the vast bubble that is generated by the Sun’s magnetic field and envelops all the planets. The...
NASA
NASA | Highlights from SOHO's 20 Years in Space
Dr. Joe Gurman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center provides commentary on selected shots from SOHO's 20 years in space. After 20 years in space, ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, is still going strong....
NASA
Highlights From SDO's 10 Years of Solar Observation
In February 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — is celebrating its 10th year in space. Over the past decade the spacecraft has kept a constant eye on the Sun, studying how the Sun creates solar activity and drives space...
NASA
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory: Year 7 Ultra HD (4k)
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has now captured nearly seven years worth of ultra-high resolution solar footage. This time lapse shows that full run from two of SDO's instruments. The large orange sun is visible light captured by...
NASA
The Solar Cycle As Seen From Space
The Sun is stirring from its latest slumber. As sunspots and flares, signs of a new solar cycle, bubble from the Sun’s surface, scientists are anticipating a flurry of solar activity over the next few years. Roughly every 11 years, at...
NASA
NASA | Alex Young Interview About Our Sun's Magnetic Flip
Alex Young is interviewed about the current solar cycle and what a magnetic flip means for the earth and NASA's study of magnetic fields.
NASA
NASA | Solar Cycle
The number of sunspots increases and decreases over time in a regular, approximately 11-year cycle, called the sunspot cycle. The exact length of the cycle can vary. It has been as short as eight years and as long as fourteen, but the...
Next Animation Studio
New research debunks link between solar cycle and North Atlantic winter weather
Research published in Nature Geoscience presents new evidence that debunks the existence of a correlation between solar activity and winter weather in the North.
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Animation of sunpot migration over a 11 year solar cycle and indicates the features causing total solar irradiance variability. Credit NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
Animation of sunpot migration over a 11 year solar cycle and indicates the features causing total solar irradiance variability. Credit NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab