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Curated Video
Solar Flares: The Powerful Explosions of the Sun
This video provides an overview of solar flares, explaining how they occur and their impact on Earth. It highlights the immense energy released during a solar flare and the various emissions it produces. The video also discusses the...
NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: James Cockrell, Small Spacecrafts: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast
A conversation with James Cockrell, Project Manager for Small Spacecrafts.
Curated Video
Exploring Space Weather
In this video, we explore the weather in space, focusing on the sun and its impact on Earth. We learn about solar wind, auroras, solar storms, and their effects on our communication systems and astronauts in space. The video highlights...
Curated Video
Exploring Solar Winds: The Phenomenon and Impact
Solar winds are super fast, nuclear winds emitted by the sun. Were these winds to reach Earth's surface, they would cause a lot of damage. Find out what makes solar winds so dangerous andwWhat protects Earth from this weather.
NASA
NASA | Studying the Solar Wind on Mars
Robert Lin, the late director of the Space Sciences Laboratory, discusses how NASA's MAVEN spacecraft will study the interaction of the Martian atmosphere with the solar wind. MAVEN's findings will reveal how Mars lost its early...
NASA
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Touches The Sun For The First Time
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there.
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Apalapse
The Science Behind the Aurora
Learn about the science behind nature's most spectacular light show. Caused by the sun, solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic shield and reacts with gas molecules creating the visible aurora.
Visual Learning Systems
Magnets and Electromagnetism: Earth as a Magnet
Upon viewing the Magnets and Electromagnets video series, students will be able to do the following: Define a magnet as a material that attracts iron and materials containing iron. Explain that magnets have a north pole and a south pole...
Professor Dave Explains
The Formation of the Solar System and the Structure of the Sun
So we learned about the formation of the Milky Way, which is the galaxy that we live in. But where in that galaxy do we live? We live on a planet that orbits a star that we simply refer to as "The Sun", so where is that, and when did our...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: All About the Sun
This video provides an overview of the Sun, explaining its role as a star and the largest object in our solar system. It discusses how the Sun formed, its layers, and its atmosphere. The video also includes review questions to reinforce...
Visual Learning Systems
The Amazing Universe: Our Star the Sun
This show explores the fascinating features of the universe, the different types of galaxies in our solar system and the position of our solar system in the Milky Way Galaxy. Other terminology includes: constellations, spiral galaxy,...
TED-Ed
What is an Aurora?
An impressive animation explains the earth's awe-inspiring auroras. The contributions of high-energy particles from the sun collide with our neutral atmospheric atoms. Explained are the roles of solar wind, plasma, the magnetosphere,...
SciShow
We're Heading to the Sun!
NASA currently operates missions to the sun at the center the galaxy as well as the mysterious glow at the outside edge of the solar system. Learn about both missions thanks to an engaging installment from the SciShow Space series....
SciShow
Why We've Only Ever Seen the Sun's Poles Once
Traveling to the sun presents many challenges. Learn how the Ulysses mission escaped the orbital plane and flew around the sun in an illuminating video from the SciShow Space series. It details the challenges of the mission and the...
SciShow
The Hottest Planet Ever
Have you ever wanted to visit the sun? While that's not an option given the temperatures involved, use a SciShow Space video to learn about the probe headed to the sun to help people understand a few things that confuse scientists. The...
PBS
Earth's Magnetic Shield
Our atmosphere is pretty amazing! How does it minimize the effects of solar weather? Scholars discover Earth's first line of defense against the sun—the magnetosphere. The activity, one of several in a sun unit from NOVA, explains how...
PBS
Solar Wind and Storms
Does the very thing that is responsible for life on Earth also have a dark side? Space scientists differentiate between sunspots, solar flares, and CMEs in an enlightening activity. The lesson, one of several in a unit presented by NOVA,...
MinuteEarth
Our Atmosphere is Escaping!
Our atmosphere keeps us from the extreme temperatures experienced on the moon. The video explains that our atmosphere actually leaks. It describes exactly which molecules escape and the multiple factors that contribute.
MinuteEarth
The Faint Young Sun Paradox!
Does the sun have a life cycle? The video explains the confusion of what scientists expect and what the history of the earth proves. Then it offers multiple theories about the discrepancy and details the most accepted theory.
Crash Course
Comets
Crystal ball or big, hairy, dirty snowball? Take young astronomy scholars on an up-close investigation of comets with a video. Topics include the makeup of comets and their two tails, long- and short-period comets, and how they interact...
Be Smart
The Science and Beauty of Auroras
Did you know that Earth is one of three planets that experiences auroras? A video explains what happens when the magnetic sun throws giant balls of plasma at the earth. It includes both the beauty and the damage an aurora can...
Khan Academy
Scale of Distance to Closest Stars, Scale of the Universe, Cosmology and Astronomy
The third video in a series based on the scale of the universe, this lecture uses great images to help expand on the idea of scale. By comparing the distance to the closest star to the progress of Voyager 1 and 2, the narrator gives the...
Bill Nye
Bill Nye The Science Guy on Magnetism
This mini-episode is really more about magnetic fields than the phenomenon of magnetism. Computer graphics help Bill explain how charged particles from solar wind create the awesome Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis. Mr. Nye also...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Solar Wind's Effect on Earth
This video segment adapted from NASA describes solar storms and their effects on Earth. Animations of coronal mass ejections and solar cycles help explain what we know, and what we can predict, about solar activity. [4:44]