Instructional Video3:48
SciShow

New Space-Flight Awesomeness!

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space celebrates the Falcon 9 vertical landing and looks forward to new missions in space! Also-- are globular clusters a good place to look for extraterrestrial life? Find out in this episode of SciShow Space News!
Instructional Video6:10
SciShow

3 Cosmic Time Capsules

12th - Higher Ed
Long before we were around, the universe was preserving clues about the distant past, in everything from little balls of carbon to huge groups of stars.
Instructional Video10:12
Crash Course

Star Clusters

12th - Higher Ed
Last week we covered multiple star systems, but what if we added thousands or even millions of stars to the mix? A star cluster. There are different kinds of clusters, though. Open clusters contain hundreds or thousands of stars held...
Instructional Video10:50
Crash Course

The Milky Way

12th - Higher Ed
Today we’re talking about our galactic neighborhood: The Milky Way. It’s a disk galaxy, a collection of dust, gas, and hundreds of billions of stars, with the Sun located about halfway out from the center. The disk has grand spiral...
Instructional Video2:52
NASA

Hubble's Messier Marathon Madness

3rd - 11th
In mid-March, skywatchers in the northern hemisphere can try to observe all 110 objects from the Messier catalog in one night. To celebrate the Messier Marathon, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is releasing 12 new images to add to...
Instructional Video4:19
NASA

Hubble Views Galaxy Lacking Dark Matter

3rd - 11th
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took an image of a bizarre, ghostly looking galaxy called NGC 1052-DF2 that astronomers calculate to have little to no dark matter. This is the first galaxy astronomers have discovered to be so...
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Astronomy #35: Star Clusters

9th - 10th
There are many different kinds of star clusters, though. Open clusters contain hundreds or thousands of stars held together by gravity. They're young, and evaporate over time, their stars let loose to roam space freely. Globular...
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Astronomy #36: Nebulae

9th - 10th
There are many different kinds of star clusters. Open clusters contain hundreds or thousands of stars held together by gravity. They're young, and evaporate over time, their stars let loose to roam space freely. Globular clusters, on the...