Physics Girl
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...
Language Tree
Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Analyzing Language Choices, Part 1
This video for beginner English learners covers choosing language or words to provide more detail and better understanding of the situation when speaking or writing.
Crash Course
High Mass Stars
Massive stars fuse heavier elements in their cores than lower mass stars. This leads to the creation of heavier elements up to iron. Iron robs critical energy from the core, causing it to collapse. The shock wave, together with a huge...
SciShow
Five Of The Biggest, Baddest Supernova Varieties
Supernovae are only rare to the passive stargazer, but if you’re an astronomer studying them, you get to see some of the most brilliant explosions in the universe. Here are five of the most significant supernovae known to science.
TED Talks
TED: Remembering climate change ... a message from the year 2071 | Kim Stanley Robinson
Coming to us from 50 years in the future, legendary sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson tells the "history" of how humanity ended the climate crisis and restored the damage done to Earth's biosphere. A rousing vision of how we might unite...
SciShow
3 of the Most Peculiar Supernovas
Massive stars die in fantastic explosions called supernovas. Most of them fit neatly into a few categories, but then there are the peculiars, a special group of supernovas that don’t quite fit in with the rest.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How to detect a supernova - Samantha Kuula
Just now, somewhere in the universe, a star exploded. In fact, a supernova occurs every second or so in the observable universe. Yet, we’ve never actually been able to watch a supernova in its first violent moments. Is early detection...
SciShow
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.
SciShow
What We’re Learning from the Brightest Supernova Ever Seen - SciShow News
It’s been a great week for space explosions! Astronomers learned more about the mechanism that causes novas by looking at the nova V906 Carinae, and the brightest supernova ever recorded shed some new light on pulsation pair-instability.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Cannibalism in the animal kingdom - Bill Schutt
Until recently, scientists thought cannibalism was a rare response to starvation or other extreme stress. Well-known cannibals like the praying mantis and black widow were considered bizarre exceptions. But now, we know they more or less...
SciShow
New Supernova, and Internet on the Moon
SciShow Space shares the latest news from the around the universe, including the first supernova observed in real time, and Internet service on the moon. Finally!
SciShow
Zombie Stars Discovered!
SciShow Space reveals the discovery of a whole new kind of supernova, and the undead stars they leave behind.
SciShow
The High-Tech Future of Sustainable Fishing
We’ve gotten maybe too good at fishing, and as a result we’ve completely transformed the oceans. So what can we do to make fishing more sustainable and still enjoy our fish and chips?
SciShow
How to Catch a Supernova Rerun
On earth a sound echo lets you hear something again. Over great distances, a light echo can let you see something again, specifically an exploding star.
TED Talks
TED: The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system | Karen J. Meech
In October 2017, astrobiologist Karen J. Meech got the call every astronomer waits for: NASA had spotted the very first visitor from another star system. The interstellar comet -- a half-mile-long object eventually named `Oumuamua, from...
SciShow
The Biggest Star In The Universe Is Too Small
R136a1 is the most massive star that astronomers have ever discovered. It's so massive you might think the laws of physics wouldn't allow it. But it turns out that its current mass estimate is actually so low that it threatens our...
SciShow
This Star Just Won't Stop Exploding!
M31N 2008-12a is a rare phenomenon called a recurrent nova, and it may hold the key to understanding the lives and cataclysmic deaths of massive stars.
SciShow
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...
SciShow
These Stars Are Being Eaten Alive from the Inside
In general, a star’s size will determine its final destiny. Some stars fizzle out, while others explode, and what seals their fate may come down to a curious, cannibalistic process happening inside their cores!
SciShow
Extreme Hypothetical Stars
You might think we've already found every kind of star by now, but astronomers think there are more that should hypothetically exist!
PBS
The Boundary Between Black Holes & Neutron Stars
When we detected the very first gravitational wave, a new window was opened to the mysteries of the universe. We knew we’d see things previously thought impossible. And we just did - an object on the boundary between neutron stars and...
NASA
NASA | Neutron Stars Rip Each Other Apart to Form Black Hole
This supercomputer simulation shows one of the most violent events in the universe: a pair of neutron stars colliding, merging and forming a black hole. A neutron star is the compressed core left behind when a star born with between...
Curated Video
Betelgeuse - Will It Become A Supernova?
Learn about Betelgeuse -- a red supergiant star also known as Alpha Orionis that is one of the largest stars of its class -- with this Space Science video from KLT.
Curated Video
Exploring the Phenomenon of Supernovas
A supernova is a spectacular explosion of a star that leads to the creation of a new star, enriching the surrounding space with elements like hydrogen and helium. This cosmic event, among the brightest stellar explosions ever observed,...