Curated Video
Death of the Sun
The Sun is dying, getting hotter as it goes. Eventually it will shrink into a black dwarf, but life will have vanished long before. Physics - Our Solar System - Learning Points. The Sun is 5 billion years old and will begin to die in 5...
Wonderscape
S to Z and Return Home: The End of the Cosmic Journey
This video covers the last segment of the alphabet adventure, from S to Z, and the return home. It discusses Saturn, Titan, Uranus, Venus, white dwarfs, X-rays, young Crescent moons, and the Zodiac, concluding with the characters...
Curated Video
GCSE Physics - The Life Cycle Of Stars / How Stars are Formed and Destroyed #84
This video covers: - How stars form, live and die - How they transition between a nebula, protostar, main sequence star - And then either red giant, white dwarf and black dwarf - Or red super giant, supernova, and then neutron star or...
Professor Dave Explains
Star Systems and Types of Galaxies
We've learned a lot about stars! We know how they form, and we know that most of them exist in galaxies. But how are they arranged within galaxies? And are there different types of galaxies or are they all the same? There is a lot to...
Science360
NSF Physics Frontiers Centers Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics Center for Evolution for ...
Thursday, July 30, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET: NSF-funded Physics Frontiers Centers (PFCs) are pushing the frontiers of science across the disciplines of physics. The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics Center for Evolution of the...
Next Animation Studio
Stars bolster Einstein’s theory
A dwarf star in the Musca constellation has so much mass that it measurably distorts space and time.
NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: Jessie Dotson and Geert Barentsen, Kepler’s Contributions to Astronomy
A conversation with Jessie Dotson, Kepler’s project scientist, and Geert Barentsen, director of the mission's guest observer office, talking about how NASA’s first planet-hunting mission has contributed so much to the field of astronomy.
Next Animation Studio
Real life 'Death Star' observed destroying planets in its own solar system
A dying star is ripping apart planets in its own solar system, according to a team of astronomers who published a paper yesterday in the journal Nature. The star, called WD 1145+017, is a white dwarf in the constellation Virgo. The...
Next Animation Studio
The Sun will someday destroy the asteroid belt before it dies
Billions of years from now, the Sun will exhaust its hydrogen fuel and enter what astronomers call the ‘giant branch’ phase.
Next Animation Studio
NASA discovers glowing vampire star from Kepler space probe archives
Astronomers have spotted a strange white dwarf star that devours its captive companion and blazes intense light in a rare event called a “super-outburst.”
NASA
TESS, Spitzer Spot Potential Giant World Circling Tiny Star
An international team of astronomers has reported what may be the first example of an intact planet closely orbiting a white dwarf, a dense leftover of a Sun-like star that’s only 40% bigger than Earth. The detection of the Jupiter-size...
TMW Media
The Milky Way, Our Galaxy: Learn about other stars compared to our sun and how they will die
What are the outer rings of a dying star? How are Supernovas created? The Milky Way, Our Galaxy, Part 2
Astrum
Can a planet be bigger than its star?
What makes a planet a planet? And what makes a star a star? Once we know this these defining characteristics, we start to notice that these definitions can overlap. Which begs the question, can a planet be bigger than its parent star?
NASA
NASA’s Roman Mission Will Use Exploding Stars to Measure Cosmic Distances
NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see thousands of exploding stars called supernovae across vast stretches of time and space. Using these observations, astronomers aim to shine a light on several cosmic mysteries,...
NASA
NASA Missions Study Shock Waves in Nova Explosion
Unprecedented observations of a nova outburst in 2018 by a trio of satellites, including NASA’s Fermi and NuSTAR space telescopes, have captured the first direct evidence that most of the explosion’s visible light arose from shock waves...
FuseSchool
PHYSICS - Astrophysics - Lifecycle of a star
This video is about the lifecycle of a star but did you know that each star starts from a cloud of dust and hydrogen gas?
Visual Learning Systems
Stars and Galaxies: Life Cycles of 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....
Professor Dave Explains
Classification of Stars: Spectral Analysis and the H-R Diagram
So we have made it through the dark ages, and are now a few hundred million years into the lifetime of the universe. There are plenty of stars all over the place, but are they all the same? How can we classify stars? Let's go through the...
Professor Dave Explains
The Life and Death of Stars: White Dwarfs, Supernovae, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes
We've learned how stars form, and we've gone over some different types of stars, like main sequence stars, red giants, and white dwarfs. But a star will move between these categories over its lifetime. How does that happen, exactly? And...
Wonderscape
Preschool Prep: Alphabet in Outer Space
In this video, Relevart, an alien, visits Earth and teaches a young Earthling named Will the Alphabet. They embark on a journey through space, exploring various celestial objects and learning about them. The video combines educational...
Visual Learning Systems
The Amazing Universe: Stars
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,...