Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Chapter 9 | You're Thinking About Tomatoes | STORY
You're Thinking About Tomatoes - Chapter 9 Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen. A sequel to the very popular ‘You're Thinking About Doughnuts’. Frank is back among the ruins of the past again, this time on a school trip to a...
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3 Weird Stars You Can See with the Naked Eye
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!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How art can help you analyze - Amy E. Herman
Can art save lives? Not exactly, but our most prized professionals (doctors, nurses, police officers) can learn real world skills through art analysis. Studying art like Rene Magritte's Time Transfixed can enhance communication and...
NASA
NASA’s Fermi Finds Record-breaking Binary Star
Using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and other facilities, scientists have found the first gamma-ray binary in another galaxy and the most luminous one ever seen. The dual-star system, dubbed LMC P3, contains a massive...
Professor Dave Explains
Types of Binary Star Systems
Our solar system has just one star in it, the sun. But this is actually not the most common situation for systems. Most systems are multi-star systems, with binary systems being extremely common. These are systems where two stars orbit...
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,...
SciShow
The Mysterious Cosmic Explosion Called “The Cow” | SciShow News
The exploding “cow” around 200 million light-years away is running astronomers for a loop, but if it is what some hypothesize, we are witnessing a first for astronomy! Meanwhile, we got photographic evidence of a planet orbiting a binary...
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Tatooine Discovered?
Hank tells us about NASAs discovery of the 1st planet ever discovered to be orbiting a binary star.
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TESS Satellite Discovered Its 1st World Orbiting 2 Stars
Researchers working with data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered the mission’s first circumbinary planet, a world orbiting two stars. The planet, called TOI 1338b, is around 6.9 times larger than...
PBS
How Stars Destroy Each Other
Our galaxy is full of dysfunctional stellar relationships. With more than half of all stars existing in binary orbits, it’s inevitable that many stellar remnants will end up in parasitic spirals with their partners. Today we’re going to...
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How Two Dead Stars Sparked a New Field of Astronomy
Pulsars are more than just cool blinking lights shining across the universe. The discovery of the first binary pulsar paved the way for gravitational wave astronomy astronomy today.
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3 Ways to Slingshot a Star
The star-mapping satellite Gaia has found more than 20 stars speeding across the Milky Way toward intergalactic space. There are just a few things that can slingshot a star out of a galaxy and all of them take some extreme gravitational...
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The Fastest Runaway Star in the Galaxy
Most stars orbit the center of the galaxy. Some stars don't. Learn what scientists think is going on, with Reid Reimers!
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The Star That’s Secretly a Lawn Sprinkler
Scientists have found a star that spins so fast that it can almost complete a full rotation by the time it takes you to finish reading this episode description.
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Our First Glimpse of a Newborn Supernova - SciShow News
A super bright flash in the sky might be the birth of a supernova remnant and it turns out there's more than one way to build a binary star system.
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We Still Can't Find the First Stars in the Universe | SciShow News
Astronomers looking farther back in time than ever before are giving us a better idea of what the early universe must have been like, and we've identified another of the mysterious ultraluminous X-ray pulsars.
NASA
NASA's Kepler, Swift Missions Harvest ‘Pumpkin’ Stars
Astronomers using observations from NASA's Kepler and Swift missions have discovered a group of rapidly spinning stars that produce X-rays at more than 100 times the peak levels ever seen from the sun. The stars, which spin so fast...
NASA
NASA | Swift Catches Mega Flares from a Mini Star
On April 23, NASA's Swift satellite detected the strongest, hottest, and longest-lasting sequence of stellar flares ever seen from a nearby red dwarf star. The initial blast from this record-setting series of explosions was as much as...
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.
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.”
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NASA | X-ray Satellites Monitor the Clashing Winds of a Colossal Binary
O-type stars are among the most massive and hottest known, pounding their surroundings with intense ultraviolet light and powerful outflows called stellar winds. NASA's Swift and ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatories took part in a 2011...
Astrum
How do planets orbit in multi-star systems?
Can planets exist in multi-star systems, and what would that look like from their perspective? Thanks to Blinkist for sponsoring today's video.
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5 AMAZING stars we’ve discovered in space!
5 of the most unusual, amazing and interesting stars we've discovered in our universe. Red giants, supernovas, hybrid stars, orbiting binaries, large stars, old stars, small stars, we've discovered thousands of stars within our milky way...
NASA
NASA | Fermi Finds a Youthful Pulsar Among Ancient Stars
In three years, NASA's Fermi has detected more than 100 gamma-ray pulsars, but something new has appeared. Among a type of pulsar with ages typically numbering a billion years or more, Fermi has found one that appears to have been born...