Instructional Video4:49
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How art can help you analyze - Amy E. Herman

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video6:02
Professor Dave Explains

Types of Binary Star Systems

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video5:04
SciShow

The Mysterious Cosmic Explosion Called “The Cow” | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video10:06
Astrum

How do planets orbit in multi-star systems?

Higher Ed
Can planets exist in multi-star systems, and what would that look like from their perspective? Thanks to Blinkist for sponsoring today's video.
Instructional Video1:16
NASA

NASA’s Fermi Finds Record-breaking Binary Star

3rd - 11th
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...
Instructional Video3:37
NASA

NASA’s Roman Mission Will Use Exploding Stars to Measure Cosmic Distances

3rd - 11th
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,...
Instructional Video2:46
SciShow

Tatooine Discovered?

12th - Higher Ed
Hank tells us about NASAs discovery of the 1st planet ever discovered to be orbiting a binary star.
Instructional Video11:47
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Chapter 9 | You're Thinking About Tomatoes | STORY

Pre-K - 5th
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...
Instructional Video4:38
SciShow

Our First Glimpse of a Newborn Supernova - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
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.
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 Video5:18
SciShow

We Still Can't Find the First Stars in the Universe | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video1:17
Next Animation Studio

NASA discovers glowing vampire star from Kepler space probe archives

12th - Higher Ed
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.”
Instructional Video1:33
NASA

TESS Satellite Discovered Its 1st World Orbiting 2 Stars

3rd - 11th
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...
Instructional Video10:42
PBS

How Stars Destroy Each Other

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video6:45
SciShow

How Two Dead Stars Sparked a New Field of Astronomy

12th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video4:45
SciShow

3 Ways to Slingshot a Star

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video4:20
SciShow

The Truth About the Sun's 'Twin' and the Dinosaurs

12th - Higher Ed
Researchers published a paper last month, exploring the possibility that our sun might have once had a stellar twin! Could our solar system have once been a binary, or even a multi-star system?
Instructional Video2:02
NASA

NASA's Kepler, Swift Missions Harvest ‘Pumpkin’ Stars

3rd - 11th
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...
Instructional Video4:01
NASA

NASA | Swift Catches Mega Flares from a Mini Star

3rd - 11th
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...
Instructional Video2:29
NASA

NASA | X-ray Satellites Monitor the Clashing Winds of a Colossal Binary

3rd - 11th
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...
Instructional Video3:18
NASA

NASA | Fermi Finds a Youthful Pulsar Among Ancient Stars

3rd - 11th
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...
Instructional Video7:50
Professor Dave Explains

The Alpha Centauri System

12th - Higher Ed
When we eventually develop the capacity to leave our solar system, we will be ready to visit countless other worlds. Where will we go first? Probably the closest system to ours, since it'll be the fastest. Which system is that? The Alpha...
Instructional Video10:54
Rachel's English

English words you mispronounce (Yosemite)

6th - Higher Ed
Americans mispronounce English words all the time! It’s helpful for non-native speakers to know this and to study the words that Americans commonly mispronounce, as they’re likely to be tough for them as well. Donald Trump recently...
Instructional Video5:03
SciShow

Kepler's Planetary Bonanza

12th - Higher Ed
You've know that the Kepler Space Telescope has discovered HUNDREDS of new planets outside our solar system -- but how does it find them? And how do scientists tell the real planets from the celestial fake-outs? It involves a lot of...