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What Makes Stars So Different From Each Other?
Why are stars different brightness, colours and sizes? A look at the main sequence of stars, and what makes stars different from each other.
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How Arrokoth Shocked NASA Scientists
Almost everything you could want to know about New Horizon's visit to Arrokoth.
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Exciting Discoveries on Jupiter's Largest Moon
Almost everything you could want to know about Jupiter's biggest moon, Ganymede.
Curated Video
The Density Tower
Dr. Boyd gives the physics definition of density, then walks you through a demonstration to show how liquids with different densities can form multiple liquid layers in a container.
Veritasium
Why Trees Are Out to Get You
These videos are from 2012 so my interest in trees goes back a long ways. I think these videos discuss two of the most interesting and amazing facts about our leafy friends: they are made mostly of CO2 (which comes from us breathing out...
Veritasium
The kg is dead, long live the kg
Will this be the last video I make about SI units? Quite possibly. There's something about being so precise and defining the systems within which science works. When we can more accurately and routinely measure a kilogram, a mole, a...
Veritasium
The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies
In this video, we explore the Jana Bekoff Effect (or the Intermediate Axis Theorem), which involves the surprising flipping motion of objects like a wingnut in space. This phenomenon, first observed by cosmonaut Vladimir Jana Bekoff in...
Veritasium
How To Measure The Tiniest Forces In The Universe
This video explores the intricacies of precision mass measurement, from the standard kilogram to forces as small as 10 micrograms. It delves into the challenges of subdividing large masses and the limits of conventional methods, like...
Veritasium
How One Supernova Measured The Universe
This video discusses the prediction and discovery of a supernova in the galaxy SP1149, located billions of light years away. Scientists predicted the supernova would occur in November 2015, but the event was captured earlier due to...
Epic History TV
The Peninsular War: Victory at Vitoria and the Fall of Napoleon in Spain
Wellington’s victory at Badajoz paved the way for a decisive Allied advance into Spain, culminating in the triumph at Salamanca and the rout of French forces at Vitoria in 1813. Though marked by brutal combat, destruction, and looting,...
Curated Video
The Evolution of Voting Rights in the United States
This video provides a brief history of how the United States transitioned from being ruled by preordained monarchies to a country where citizens have the right to vote. It highlights the Revolutionary War, the drafting of the US...
R Programming 101
Plotly for 3d and interactive plots in R
Use plotly to create interactive and 3d plots in R. Plotly integrates with ggplot2. If you're interested in data visualisation and want to create plots and graphs that tell a story with your data then plotly is a great place to start....
Curated Video
What If Our Clothes Could Disrupt Surveillance Cameras?
What do you get when you combine mass surveillance with A.I.? It’s a dystopia that’s already a reality in places across the world. Fashion designers are pushing back, crafting clothing and accessories that trick facial recognition...
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Why Scientists Want Blurry Photos With This Telescope
It seems counterintuitive, but ESA's newest space telescope, CHEOPS, is designed to take blurry images of stars. But this helps astronomers to understand more about orbiting exoplanets than a clear image would. Here's why!
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Why All The Planets Are On The Same Orbital Plane
Is it a coincidence? Or is something else at play here?
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Where Have All the Quasars Gone?
Supermassive black holes and their distribution in the universe.
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The Universe's Largest Planets
What makes a planet a planet? And what makes a star a star? Once we know this these defining characteristics, we start to notice that these definitions can overlap. Which begs the question, can a planet be bigger than its parent star?
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Planets That Can Dwarf Stars
What makes a planet a planet? And what makes a star a star? Once we know this these defining characteristics, we start to notice that these definitions can overlap. Which begs the question, can a planet be bigger than its parent star?
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Hubble's Images of Our Solar System: Space Images episode 9
Hubble doesn't just look at distant nebula and galaxies, but has also observed celestial bodies and events in our own solar system. So what has it seen? Images from Hubble / NASA / ESA.
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How to Find Rogue Planets
Gravitational microlensing events are revealing the mysteries of rogue planets, but what are they, and how does it work? And what role does the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope play in helping us spot more rogue planets in the future?
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How a Planet with Seven Suns Proves the Universe Prefers Order
Can planets exist in multi-star systems, and what would that look like from their perspective?
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Are Two Suns Better Than One?
How much of an effect would a second Sun have on Earth? Is there a way it could work?