Curated Video
Exploring Venus: Earth's Sister Planet
Venus is similar in size to Earth and may have once had a similar climate. These days, though, Venus has an incredibly hot atmosphere. Learn more about out planetary neighbor!
Curated Video
C++ for Beginners - Running a program
This lesson demonstrates different ways to launch a program, while also examining the importance of Build configuration. This clip is from the chapter "Your First Program" of the series "C++ for Beginners".Where to get the IDE
Curated Video
Exploring Uranus: The Cold Ice Giant of the Solar System
This video provides a brief overview of the planet Uranus. It starts by giving some key facts about Uranus, then discusses the discovery of Uranus by Sir William Herschel in 1781. Lastly, the video mentions that Uranus has two sets of...
Professor Dave Explains
Uranus: It's Pronounced "YOOR-uh-nus"
Yes, yes, we've all heard the classic jokes surrounding the name of this planet. But grow up! If we are going to explore the cosmos we don't have time for scatological humor! Now, let's take a look at Uranus, the seventh planet from the...
Professor Dave Explains
History of the Earth Part 1: Hadean, Archean, and Proterozoic Eons
If we are going to learn about the Earth, we had better start from the beginning! The Hadean, Archean, and Proterozoic eons will take us all the way from the formation of the Earth, 4.6 billion years ago, until about half a billion years...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Planets
The video is a brief introduction to planets and their characteristics. The video series aims to answer questions about planets, such as their movement in space and what they are like. Planets part 1/7
Curated Video
Olympus Mons: The Tallest Volcano in the Solar System
This video provides a fascinating overview of Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system located on the surface of Mars. It explains the unique characteristics of this shield volcano and compares its size to popular landmasses...
NASA
NASA | Dust Simulations Paint Alien's View of the Solar System
Dust ground off icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, the cold-storage zone that includes Pluto and millions of other objects, creates a faint infrared disk potentially visible to alien astronomers looking for planets around the sun. Neptune's...
Astrum
The most exciting telescope that no-one is talking about
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is perhaps the next most exciting observatory to the James Webb Space Telescope.
NASA
Hubble and Webb: A New Golden Age of Astronomy
The scientific community is incredibly excited to have these two highly complementary observatories operating together. With their collaboration, they will push the boundaries of knowledge on the backdrop of a rapidly evolving...
After Skool
Moon Speech - John F. Kennedy (Animated)
On September 12, 1962, John F. Kennedy gave one of the best speeches in recorded history. "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will...
Visual Learning Systems
Planets Quiz
This video is a quiz covering the Planets series. It includes topics such as the unique characteristics of Earth, the orbits of planets around the sun, the number of planets in our solar system, the relationship between a planet's...
Professor Dave Explains
History of Astronomy Part 4: Kepler's Laws and Beyond
The heliocentric model of Copernicus was extremely controversial in its time, but it wasn't the end of the story. Johannes Kepler used the data of his boss, Tycho Brahe, to further corroborate it, but also show that the planets do not...
NASA
Europa Water Vapor Plumes - More Hubble Evidence
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured even more evidence of water vapor plumes on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. The probable plumes appear to be repeating in the same location and correspond with a relatively warm region on Europa's...
NASA
Hubble's Field Guide to Nebulae
Nebulae are some of the most resplendent objects in the universe, but it’s easy to confuse which one is an “emission nebula,” and which one is an “absorption nebula.” Thankfully, this “Field Guide” will give you a quick rundown so you...
English Tree TV
Planets & Solar System Song
It’s a fun planets and solar system song for kids! Learn about the planets, their names and some attributes as we fly through space exploring the solar system!
msvgo
Cartesian Equation of Ellipse
It defines ellipse as the locus of a point, its associated terms. It also derives the Cartesian standard equation of ellipse.
TMW Media
Mercury, The Solar System Historian: How the solar system formed
How are particles closer to the sun compared to particles farther away? What are terrestrials? Mercury, The Solar System Historian, Part 1
Dom Burgess
Why Aliens Will Probably Be Robots.
Is there other life out there in the universe? Do aliens really exist? If so, then where are they all?! In this most epic of episodes, Dom has his favourite film (Aliens) interrupted by an extraterrestrial visitor - how very...
Dom Burgess
Is Time Travel Possible? Tipler Cylinder - Every Think Part 1 of 3
Tipler Cylinders? Wormholes? Ring Lasers? Is it possible to travel BACK in time? In this action packed episode, Dom is hunted down by a government agent who wants to know how he made a time machine. Part 1 Dom is chased down and...
Visual Learning Systems
Our Distant Neighbors: Exploring the Outer Planets
The video discusses the exploration of outer planets, particularly Jupiter, through the use of powerful telescopes and spacecrafts. It highlights the contributions of early scientists like Galileo and the advancements in technology that...
NASA
The Hubble Deep Field: Looking Back In Time
The Hubble Space Telescope has made over 1.5 million observations since its launch in 1990, capturing stunning subjects such as the Eagle Nebula and producing data that has been featured in almost 18,000 scientific articles. But no image...
NASA
Hubble Confirms Largest Comet Nucleus Ever Seen
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has determined the size of the largest icy comet nucleus ever found. And, it’s big! With a diameter of approximately 80 miles across, it’s about 50 times larger than typical comets. Its 500-trillion-ton mass...
Astrum
Can a planet be bigger than its star?
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?