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SciShow

3 Solar Systems Scientists Still Don’t Understand

12th - Higher Ed
From gigantic planets too close to their stars, to those in unfathomably wide orbits, astronomers have discovered seemingly impossible solar systems that shouldn’t exist at all. But they do.
Instructional Video3:48
SciShow

Water Weirdness Sweaty Comets, and Titan's Hidden Oceans

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow News gives you some wet and weird developments from around the solar system, including new insights about what liquid lurks under the surface of Titan, and a sweaty comet that's been spotted on its way toward the sun.
Instructional Video3:30
SciShow

How Do Astronauts Do Their Business?

12th - Higher Ed
So how do astronauts manage to pee and poop in microgravity? And what happens to all of their waste? Do you really want to know? If you do, the answers are inside!
Instructional Video7:42
PBS

Kronos: Devourer Of Worlds

12th - Higher Ed
What happens when a star eats its planets? Find out on today's Space Time Journal Club.
Instructional Video4:21
SciShow

400 Million New Stars in Our Galaxy!

12th - Higher Ed
The Gaia space observatory released a detailed 3d map of the Milky Way, and scientists have figured out why Charon's north pole is red!
Instructional Video3:40
SciShow

Astrobiology & the Search for Alien Life

12th - Higher Ed
Hank talks about astrobiology - the study of and search for life in the universe off Earth. Right now, the field has more questions than answers, but all they all seek to answer that one fundamental query: are we alone in the universe?
Instructional Video5:32
SciShow

Something Is Creating and Removing Oxygen on Mars - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Oxygen levels in the Martian atmosphere are mysteriously inconsistent, and scientists don’t have a clear explanation for what’s behind the changes. Meanwhile, scientists DO have explanations for the tiger-like stripes on one of Saturn’s...
Instructional Video4:01
SciShow

Record-Breaking Space Discoveries of 2016!

12th - Higher Ed
2016 was a lot of things, but for astronomers, it meant the discovery of some of the farthest, faintest, and youngest objects in the universe we've seen yet.
Instructional Video3:33
SciShow

A Year in Space, and the Lunar Eclipse!

12th - Higher Ed
Two astronauts are about to embark on the One Year Mission which can help us understand more about the long-term effects of being in space, and there is an upcoming total lunar eclipse (the shortest one this century)!
Instructional Video15:13
SciShow

SciShow Quiz Show: Bears, Beats, Battlestar Galactica?

12th - Higher Ed
Hank’s up to his old tricks again as he faces off against SciShow Senior Producer and Host Caitlin Hofmeister. Can she see through his lies and win her patron the prize?
Instructional Video5:35
SciShow

Why Does It Take So Long to Get to Mercury?

12th - Higher Ed
On a cosmic scale, Mercury isn’t very far away, but it's incredibly hard to get there. Getting into orbit around it takes years of flybys in the solar system, but we're going to do it again!
Instructional Video6:22
SciShow

3 Weird Stars You Can See with the Naked Eye

12th - Higher Ed
These three stars can easily be seen with the naked eye, but it took some fancy telescopes for us to realize how weird they really are!
Instructional Video4:53
SciShow

Is There Really An Infinite Multiverse? - Stephen Hawking's Last Paper

12th - Higher Ed
Just a few days before he died, Stephen Hawking submitted one last research paper using string theory math to talk about the multiverse.
Instructional Video3:20
SciShow

Breaking News: Mars Suitable for Life

12th - Higher Ed
Earlier today, mission specialists with NASA's Mars Science Laboratory announced that they have found, for the first time, evidence of an ancient environment on Mars that could have sustained life. Hank tells us the specifics in this...
Instructional Video31:47
SciShow

Black Holes: The Hungriest Things in the Universe | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
If you thought a hot dog eating contest was impressive to complete, imagine if a black hole entered it! They eat up everything around them, including stars! But they’re not just gluttonous blobs of the universe. Like all things in space,...
Instructional Video4:45
SciShow

A Zombie Star That Just Won’t Die

12th - Higher Ed
What exactly is a ‘Zombie Star,’ and how does it compare to other stars and supernovas? We’ve also learned more about how the haze over Pluto plays a role in its temperature.
Instructional Video4:39
SciShow

3 Things We Still Don’t Understand About the Milky Way

12th - Higher Ed
We have been studying our home galaxy for years, but even though astronomy has come a long way, there is still a lot we don't know about the Milky Way.
Instructional Video5:49
SciShow

There's an Interstellar Asteroid Hiding Near Jupiter

12th - Higher Ed
We may have found another interstellar asteroid and scientists have some new ideas about how Saturn's moons got their weird shapes.
Instructional Video4:26
SciShow

How Bad Are Satellite Constellations for Astronomy? - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Imagine being excited to use one of the world's most advanced telescopes, only to see bright streaks of light on every picture! This is a problem facing some astronomers as satellites fill up the night sky.
Instructional Video5:18
SciShow

Our Past Written in the Stars

12th - Higher Ed
Unfortunately, time machines don't exist, but there are other ways to learn about our sun's past.
Instructional Video4:57
SciShow

Weird Names Around the Solar System

12th - Higher Ed
Not all of the objects in the solar system are named after Greek and Roman gods -- some are named after literary figures, movie stars, and don't get us started on what people think Earth is really called.
Instructional Video16:15
TED Talks

Sara Seager: The search for planets beyond our solar system

12th - Higher Ed
Every star we see in the sky has at least one planet orbiting it, says astronomer Sara Seager. So what do we know about these exoplanets, and how can we find out more? Seager introduces her favorite set of exoplanets and shows new...
Instructional Video5:21
SciShow

Meet Blue Moon: Blue Origin's Lunar Lander SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Blue Origin announced a a new lunar lander, Blue Moon, that will be delivering supplies, and eventually astronauts to the lunar surface within the next 5 years, and robots like Chang’e-4 are giving us an early glimpse at what we might...
Instructional Video11:00
SciShow

SciShow Quiz Show: With the SciShow Space Reid Reimers!

12th - Higher Ed
Welcome to SciShow Quiz Show, where SciShow Space co-hosts Hank and Reid are back for another round!