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SciShow

Celebrating Stephen Hawking’s Most Famous Discoveries

12th - Higher Ed
Last week we lost legendary scientist Stephen Hawking. To honor of one of the greatest legacies in cosmology, we wanted to celebrate and unpack some of his most famous findings.
Instructional Video4:53
SciShow

There Are Planet-Sized 'Tornadoes' on the Sun!

12th - Higher Ed
Solar tornadoes are not tornadoes, and scientists are studying a black hole with a telescope bigger than the earth!
Instructional Video6:14
SciShow

How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
For the first time ever we have visual confirmation that black holes actually exist and we got it with a telescope the size of our planet.
Instructional Video3:46
SciShow

Why Solar Eclipses Create Those Crescent-Shaped Lights

12th - Higher Ed
Everyone is watching the sky during a solar eclipse, but but if you look down, you'll catch another kind of light show.
Instructional Video5:41
SciShow

How Tech Designed for Space Is Saving Lives on Earth

12th - Higher Ed
Space technology gets applied in all sorts of ways down here on Earth, making us more comfortable, healthier, and even saving lives!
Instructional Video6:01
SciShow

How Going to Space Changes the Way You Think Forever

12th - Higher Ed
A trip into space produces physiological effects in human beings, but it can also change a person in a profound, psychological way.
Instructional Video5:14
SciShow

We May Have Found the First Exomoon! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve discovered what appears to be the first known moon outside of the solar system and new models of Europa’s surface predict the presence of ice blades!
Instructional Video24:37
SciShow

The Strangest Planets in the Universe | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
Sci-Fi worlds may have giant worms or twin suns, but those are pretty cozy compared to these wild worlds.
Instructional Video3:34
SciShow

New Earth-Size Planet and a Solar Eclipse

12th - Higher Ed
Caitlin Hofmeister gives you the latest news from around the universe, including Kepler's latest exoplanet discovery, an upcoming solar eclipse, and a breathtaking image from Hubble.
Instructional Video3:59
SciShow

Tabby's Strange Star Just Got Stranger

12th - Higher Ed
It's been a year since astronomer Tabetha Boyaijan found strange signals coming from a star called KIC 8462852, aka Tabby's Star. Now, new research shows that it's even stranger than we thought. Plus, good news from spaceflight company...
Instructional Video3:32
SciShow

Hooray for Astromice!

12th - Higher Ed
This week on SciShow Space News, we’re learning more about the side effects of space travel… from mice. Plus, we explore the most luminous galaxy!
Instructional Video4:04
SciShow Kids

The Farthest We’ve Ever Gone in Space

K - 5th
Humans have never visited another planet, but we can send special spacecraft called probes to visit them for us! One of those probes, called Voyager 1, has gone deeper into space than any other, and it's sent us some amazing pictures...
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TED Talks

Will Wright: Spore, birth of a game

12th - Higher Ed
In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces.
Instructional Video5:40
SciShow

These Icy Rocks Might Be from Another Solar System | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
New research suggests that Venus’ patterned crust might currently be more active than we thought! Astrophysicists have also modeled the orbits of mysterious objects between Jupiter and Neptune, and found that they could have come from...
Instructional Video17:47
TED Talks

TED: How to land on a comet | Fred Jansen

12th - Higher Ed
As manager of the Rosetta mission, Fred Jansen was responsible for the successful 2014 landing of a probe on the comet known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In this fascinating and funny talk, Jansen reveals some of the intricate...
Instructional Video4:49
SciShow

New Evidence of Water on Jupiter! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve got some new evidence for water beneath Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, and a new model of Jupiter’s weird magnetic field.
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SciShow

Why It's So Hard to Land on Mars

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve sent more spacecraft to Mars than any other planet, but around half of the probes that have ever attempted to explore Mars have either crashed or disappeared.
Instructional Video3:15
SciShow

What Are Seasons Like On Other Planets

12th - Higher Ed
Ever wonder what seasons are like on other planets? Astronomers are beginning to find out, and SciShow Space explains how they know, what causes the change in seasons, and what 'summer' might mean on distant worlds.
Instructional Video5:14
SciShow

How We Solved the Mystery of Pulsating Auroras

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers have finally observed what causes pulsating auroras, and our estimates of the mass of the Andromeda Galaxy have shrunk.
Instructional Video5:19
Be Smart

The Amazing Science of DUST?

12th - Higher Ed
Some of the universe's biggest action is a result of its smallest stuff
Instructional Video5:05
SciShow

Could Water Survive on the Closest Exoplanet?

12th - Higher Ed
Exoplanets are being discovered in the habitable zone to sustain life as we know it. Could water be found on the closest exoplanet to us?
Instructional Video10:23
SciShow

The End of Everything

12th - Higher Ed
Hank gives us an inclusive overview of how everything in the universe is thought to have begun, and how cosmologists predict it will all come to an end. Now get happy!
Instructional Video4:28
SciShow

What's It Like On Mercury?

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space takes you on a tour of Mercury, the sun's closest friend, where a year is just a day and half long, and the surface holds many surprises -- like ice!
Instructional Video4:46
SciShow

We're Turning Pulsars into Galactic GPS!

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists have thought for awhile that pulsars could be used as a sort of galactic positioning system, and astronomers have published the most advanced topographical map of Titan to date!