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This giant laser can simulate a planet’s core
How do you study the innards of alien worlds? You just need the world’s largest laser. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videosf='http://goo.gl/0bsAjO' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>videos As astronomers...
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How to find a planet you can’t see
Tiny wobbles and faint twinkles that have led astronomers to nearly 5,000 new worlds. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videosf='http://goo.gl/0bsAjO' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>videos Pluto was...
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Should we reflect sunlight to cool the planet?
Solar geoengineering might help lower temps, but it’s a controversial approach. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videosf='http://goo.gl/0bsAjO' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>videos The climate change...
TED Talks
TED: The most Martian place on Earth | Armando Azua-Bustos
How can you study Mars without a spaceship? Head to the most Martian place on Earth -- the Atacama Desert in Chile. Astrobiologist Armando Azua-Bustos grew up in this vast, arid landscape and now studies the rare life forms that have...
MinuteEarth
The Problem With Concrete
Concrete is responsible for 8% of humanity’s carbon emissions because making its key ingredient - cement - chemically releases CO2, and because we burn fossil fuels to make it...
NASA
TESS, Spitzer Spot Potential Giant World Circling Tiny Star
An international team of astronomers has reported what may be the first example of an intact planet closely orbiting a white dwarf, a dense leftover of a Sun-like star that’s only 40% bigger than Earth. The...
NASA
Hubble Spots Giant Flapping Shadow
In 2017, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a huge wing-shaped shadow cast by a fledgling star’s unseen, planet-forming disk. The young star, called HBC 672, is casting the shadow across a more distant...
Curated Video
Why the new space telescope looks so strange
A NASA astrophysicist explains humanity’s big new toy Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videosf='http://goo.gl/0bsAjO' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>videos After 25 years and nearly $10 billion, the James...
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Saturn's Perfect Hexagon | NASA's Unexplained Files (Full Episode)
What could make a NASA astronaut report seeing a flying saucer in the skies above a US Air Force test range? How have the swirling gases of Saturn formed a perfect Hexagon that has hovered above the planet's pole for 30 years? Stream...
Curated Video
Crop Circles Decoded: What Science Has to Say
Crop circles decoded, and their secrets revealed. They are sometimes beautiful patterns in the middle of a field. They attract tourists from around the world. They have inspired conspiracy...
TED-Ed
3 Planets That Shouldn't Exist
Take a journey through the universe to learn about three planets that are mysteries to scientists—because they shouldn't be able to exist! Class members watch a short video to learn about Kepler-78b, Kepler-10c, and HD 106906b,...
SciShow
Why Does Saturn Have Rings?
Why do Saturn and the other gas giants have rings? Hank reveals the Roche limit as the cause, the distance within which gas planets would fail to hold together due to their own gravity. At this particular distance, orbiting materials...