Curated Video
Unveiling the Mystery: Black Holes and Their Enigmatic Nature
This video provides a brief yet intriguing overview of black holes, explaining their formation, characteristics, and different types. It highlights the challenges scientists face in directly observing black holes and explores the...
Curated Video
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Deepens Its Infrared View
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to explore even more cosmic questions, thanks to a new near-infrared filter. The upgrade will allow the observatory to see longer wavelengths of light, opening up exciting new...
Curated Video
Hubble Captures Supernova’s Light Echo
Over a period of two and a half years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed the "light echo" of supernova SN 2014J in galaxy M82, located 11.4 million light-years away. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina Jackson Music...
IDG TECHtalk
How Pixel users can get the most out of Android 12, plus Android considerations for enterprise users
By rolling out some Android 12 features exclusively to Pixel users, Google gave itself an opportunity to further differentiate its own devices from the rest of the Android pack. New updates, like the Material You interface, give Pixel...
Curated Video
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...
Curated Video
NASA Missions Team Up to Study Unique Magnetar Outburst
On April 28, a supermagnetized stellar remnant known as a magnetar blasted out a simultaneous mix of X-ray and radio signals never observed before. The flare-up included the first fast radio burst (FRB) ever seen from within our Milky...
SciShow
The JWST Pictures You Haven’t Seen Yet
The James Webb Space Telescope released its first official batch of photos to the public, but they weren't the first images the telescope captured since they had taken a bunch while testing the cameras. Let's talk about some of those...
Curated Video
Does Dark Matter BREAK Physics?
In this episode, welcome in Matt O'Dowd as the new host to rigorously take you through the mysteries of space, time, and the nature of reality. We're starting off this new season with perhaps one of the most mysterious things of all -...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How many universes are there? - Chris Anderson
The fact that no one knows the answer to this question is what makes it exciting. The story of physics has been one of an ever-expanding understanding of the sheer scale of reality, to the point where physicists are now postulating that...
Curated Video
Space Particles Are Flying Through You Right Now!
Tiny remnants of extreme nuclear reactions in space are flying through your body right now. And astronomers are hunting them to learn more about some of the most energetic and violent objects in the universe.
National Geographic
Exoplanets 101 | National Geographic
Exoplanets challenge the notion that we are alone in the universe. Learn what types of exoplanets exist, the methods scientists employ to find them, and how many worlds might exist in the Milky Way Galaxy. ➡ Subscribe:...
National Geographic
Black Holes 101 | National Geographic
At the center of our galaxy, a supermassive black hole churns. Learn about the types of black holes, how they form, and how scientists discovered these invisible, yet extraordinary objects in our universe. ➡ Subscribe:...
MinutePhysics
How Do We Know The Universe Is Accelerating?
New ReviewThe universe is expanding – this we know from looking at red shifts of distant galaxies – but the acceleration of the universe's expansion is harder to measure. It requires measuring the change of recession velocity over time, and it's...
Curated Video
Cold Neptunes: An Exoplanet Sweet Spot?
A new statistical study of planets found by a technique called gravitational microlensing suggests that Neptune-mass worlds are likely the most common type of planet to form in the icy outer realms of planetary systems. The study...
Curated Video
What Would Happen If You Traveled Through A Black Hole
Science fiction films have long depicted black holes as portals through space and time or gateways to other dimensions. And now, physicists have found that black holes might be suitable for hyperspace travel after all. Following is a...
Life Noggin
How Many Stars Are In The Universe?
Do you ever look up into the night sky and wonder how many stars there are? Watch More: How Much Money Is Space Worth? ►►►► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT11_2h6_LY Support Life Noggin on Patreon:...
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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's Christmas Burst From Blue Supergiant Star Explosion
Gamma-ray bursts, or GRBs, are the most luminous and mysterious explosions in the universe. The blasts emit surges of gamma rays -- the most powerful form of light -- as well as X-rays, and they produce afterglows that can be observed at...
Curated Video
Swift Links Neutrino to Star-destroying Black Hole
For only the second time, astronomers have linked an elusive particle called a high-energy neutrino to an object outside our galaxy. Using ground- and space-based facilities, including NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, they traced...
NASA
NASA | 'Disk Detectives' Top 1 Million Classifications in Search for Planetary Habitats
Citizen scientists using the NASA-sponsored website DiskDetective.org have logged 1 million classifications of potential debris disks and disks surrounding young stellar objects (YSO). This data will help provide a crucial set of targets...
Curated Video
Sounding Rocket Solves One Cosmic Mystery, Reveals Another
In the last century, humans realized that space is filled with types of light we can’t see – from infrared signals released by hot stars and galaxies, to the cosmic microwave background that comes from every corner of the universe. Some...
Curated Video
NASA | The Dual Personality of the 'Christmas Burst'
The Christmas burst, also known as GRB 101225A, was discovered in the constellation Andromeda by Swift's Burst Alert Telescope at 1:38 p.m. EST on Dec. 25, 2010. Two very different scenarios successfully reproduce features of this...
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NASA | Disk Detective: Search for Planetary Habitats
A new NASA-sponsored website, DiskDetective.org, lets the public discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. The site is led and funded by NASA and developed by...
Big Think
Why spiritualizing the cosmos is a disservice to science and religion | Michelle Thaller
Where is God? Michelle Thaller lays out a cosmic view of religion, science, and the human condition. - Ancient humans believed lightning, seasons, and other unexplainable natural phenomenon were the acts of gods, but what happens when...