PBS
How Eclipses Revealed Our Solar System
New ReviewOf all the astronomical phenomena you can witness, the total solar eclipse has to be the most visceral--the most in-your-face reminder that our reality consists of giant balls of rock spinning around stars. It's also the eclipse and...
PBS
Earth Had Rings (and Might Regain Them)
New ReviewPlanet Earth is the jewel of the solar system—the shimmery blue oceans, the verdant green forests, the wispy whimsical cloud formations. Saturn is the only competitor for most gorgeous planet with that giant ring system. Hmm… what if we...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Newton's three-body problem explained | Fabio Pacucci
In 2009, researchers ran a simple experiment. They took everything we know about our solar system and calculated where every planet would be up to 5 billion years in the future. They ran over 2,000 simulations, and the astonishing...
PBS
How Can Matter Be BOTH Liquid AND Gas?
Supercritical Fluids are one the strangest states of matter and yet they are found everywhere from Decaf Coffee, to dry cleaning, to the atmosphere of Jupiter. When we think of an exotic state of matter we tend to think of the really...
Curated Video
The Solar System Part 1| Astrophysics | Physics | FuseSchool
CREDITS Animation & Design: Joshua Thomas Narration: Dale Bennett Script: Alistair Haynes In this video we will begin to look at some of the key features that describe the parts our Solar System. Quite simply it is the name given to the...
Curated Video
Titan: Moons of the Solar System (3/4)
The landing of the Huygens probe in 2005 unveiled the surface of Saturn's mysterious largest moon for the first time in history. Six years on, the data from the mission and its Cassini mother craft has revealed it to be a fascinating...
Curated Video
The Moon: Moons of the Solar System (4/4)
When Apollo 17 lifted off from the lunar surface in 1972, it ended the greatest chapter of exploration in human history. For nearly 40 years the moon has remained abandoned and untouched. But the secrets locked up in the Apollo samples...
Curated Video
Europa: Moons of the Solar System (1/4)
The quest to find life elsewhere in the universe is biggest in modern science. An ice covered ocean on a small world orbiting Jupiter may hold the answers to this fundamental question. Archive footage appears courtesy of Footagevault....
Curated Video
Phobos & Deimos: Moons of the Solar System (2/4)
Named after the Greek gods of fear and dread, Mars's two moons remained undiscovered until the late 19th century. Since the start of the Space Race they've been minor supporting characters in our quest to understand the Red Planet, but...
Jam Campus
PLANETS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM SONG (KARAOKE VERSION)
Do you know the planets of our solar system? See if you can sing this karaoke version of The Planets of the Solar System song. Bonus points if you don't even have to look at the screen! ✌SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://bit.ly/2F48qzK 🙏...
Jam Campus
PLANETS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM SONG (Parody of The Chainsmokers - Closer)
✌SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://bit.ly/2F48qzK 📩 [FREE DOWNLOAD] 7 SECRETS OF MAKING YOUR OWN SONGS: http://eepurl.com/geN6WT 🎧 SEE OUR FULL SONG LIBRARY → New music videos added every week: https://www.jamcampus.com 🔥NEED A VIDEO...
TED Talks
TED: Lessons from a solar storm chaser | Miho Janvier
Space physicist Miho Janvier studies solar storms: giant clouds of particles that escape from the Sun and can disrupt life on Earth (while also producing amazing auroras). How do you study the atmosphere on the Sun, which burns at...
Big Think
Edward Frenkel: Let's Stop Hating Math
Mathematician Edward Frenkel (http://edwardfrenkel.com) argues that we need to embrace math to survive our brave new world. Edward Frenkel is professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as author and...
PBS
Interstellar Expansion Without Faster Than Light Travel
New ReviewIn the far future we may have advanced propulsion technologies like matter-antimatter engines and compact fusion drives that allow humans to travel to other stars on timescales shorter than their own lives. But what if those technologies...
SciShow
Kepler's Planetary Bonanza
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...
PBS
Venus May Have Life!
If you rank the most habitable places in our solar system Venus lands pretty low, with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead and sulphuric acid rain. And yet it may have just jumped to the front of the pack. In fact, we may have...
Professor Dave Explains
Position and Momentum Operators in Quantum Mechanics
We've learned a bit about quantum mechanics from a strictly conceptual and qualitative standpoint. But now it's time to dig a little deeper. Quantum mechanics is mathematics, so if we want to understand it on a fundamental level, we have...
Tumble Science Podcast for Kids
High School Astronomer Uses Math to Find Planets
There is no minimum age for scientific discovery. Young scientists ask questions about topics that have puzzled humans for hundreds of years. This audio story introduces a high school senior who uses math to help astronomers search for...
Curated Video
New and Ancient Lessons from Lunar Eclipses
Ancient perceptions of lunar eclipses weren’t as primitive as one might think. Some rigorous math was applied to these cosmic events that shaped our understanding of the solar system.
Science360
Extreme Microbes : Extremophiles - Science Nation
Astrobiologist Richard Hoover really goes to extremes to find living things that thrive where life would seem to be impossible - from the glaciers of the Alaskan Arctic to the ice sheets of Antarctica. These so-called, "extremophiles"...
Curated Video
The Solar System Part 2 | Astrophysics | Physics | FuseSchool
CREDITS Animation & Design: Joshua Thomas Narration: Dale Bennett Script: Alistair Haynes This video looks at the characteristics of the outer planets, dwarf planets, moons and comets. SUBSCRIBE to the FuseSchool YouTube channel for many...
Domain of Science
How to Read Math
Baffled by equations, well no more! Continue learning at this video's sponsor https://brilliant.org/dos Lots of people find mathematical equations intimidating because they don't make sense. But they are not hard to understand if you...
Curated Video
Moons and planets - Moons (3/5)
For more like this subscribe to the Open University channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXsH4hSV_kEdAOsupMMm4Qw Free learning from The Open University...
Curated Video
Gaia and the Killer Asteroids - 60 Second Adventures in Astronomy (14/14)
How do you take a census in space? Find out how it is possible to produce a 3D map of the galaxy, with a little help from the new Gaia Spacecraft and a whole heap of measuring. (Part 14 of 14) Playlist link -...