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Curated Video
All About August's Supermoon Blue Moon
Did you know about the full moon in August was a Supermoon and a blue moon.<b<br/>r/>
Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/GSFC
Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/GSFC
Curated Video
James Webb Space Telescope Captures Stunning 4K View Of Milky Way's Heart
The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C (Sgr C).
Reported to be around 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole,...
Reported to be around 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole,...
Curated Video
Double X Flare As Spacecraft Spots Sun Blasting A Pair Of Major Eruptions
Sunspot AR3767 erupted with a X1.7-class solar flare, followed by an X1.1-class flare from sunspot AR3780.
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Footage courtesy: NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE,...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the f
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Footage courtesy: NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE,...
Curated Video
Chandra X-Ray Observatory At 25
The Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched on July 23, 1999 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. See 25 'never-before-seen' images from the observatory to mark the anniversary. <b<br/>r/>
Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart
Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart
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Strong Solar Flare Spews Dark Plumes Of Plasma, Solar Storm Earth-Bound
Sunspot AR3757 erupted with an M1-class solar flare and a plasma plume. <b<br/>r/>
Footage courtesy: NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta
Footage courtesy: NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta
Curated Video
Gas Giant Exoplanet Seen Transforming Into A Hot Jupiter
The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory has a strangely elongated orbit.
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Easy Languages
Do You Believe in Astrology?
In this episode of Easy Spanish, the hosts ask people about their zodiac signs and whether they believe in astrology. Participants share their signs, personality traits they associate with them, and their opinions—ranging from belief...
Curated Video
The Science Behind Clairvoyance and Astrology: Debunking Myths
Dive into the intriguing world of clairvoyance and astrology to discover what science has to say about these ancient practices. This video explores how psychics and astrologers use techniques like cold reading and the Barnum effect to...
Curated Video
What Constellations Mean to Different Cultures
The stars have guided and entertained us for thousands of years. Here we explore some of the messages people have seen in the stars through the millennia and look forward to how we might relate to the stars in the future.
Neuro Transmissions
I gave fake personality tests, and people believed it.
You seem like the kind of person who would watch this video. ...or are you? Don't believe everything people say about you. With the recent popularity of astrology, disinformation, and pseudoscience, you may be at risk of falling victim...
Professor Dave Explains
Unpacking the Schrödinger Equation
We've talked about the Schrödinger equation before, but we really didn't dig into it with any depth at all. Now it's time to really get in there and do the math. What is the Hamiltonian operator? What is the time-independent Schrödinger...
Professor Dave Explains
Exploring the Gliese 667 System
As we continue our search for earth-like, potentially habitable worlds, we come across an interesting triple-star system called Gliese 667. The smallest of these three stars, Gliese 667 C, is a red dwarf with several planets, one of...
Professor Dave Explains
Types of Binary Star Systems
Our solar system has just one star in it, the sun. But this is actually not the most common situation for systems. Most systems are multi-star systems, with binary systems being extremely common. These are systems where two stars orbit...
Professor Dave Explains
Position and Momentum Operators in Quantum Mechanics
We've learned a bit about quantum mechanics from a strictly conceptual and qualitative standpoint. But now it's time to dig a little deeper. Quantum mechanics is mathematics, so if we want to understand it on a fundamental level, we have...
Professor Dave Explains
The Future of Space Travel: Fusion Engines, Warp Drives, and Wormholes
Okay, we've all dreamed about exploring the universe and finding our own little cosmic vacation bungalow. But these places are really far, so how can we get there? Not the way we go through space now, that's just too slow. Are there...
Astrum
Better than the James Webb Space Telescope? The Upcoming Extremely Large Telescope
Looking forward to the James Webb Space Telescope? Just wait until ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is completed.
Professor Dave Explains
Warped Spacetime, Gravitational Lensing, and Gravitational Waves (Corroborating General Relativity)
We learned a bit about general relativity and the curvature of spacetime, both earlier in this series, as well as in the modern physics course. But let's talk a bit more about the astronomical observations that corroborate this theory....
Astrum
How big can planetary systems get?
How big do you think our solar system is? Up until Pluto? A bit beyond? How big can other solar systems get?
Curated Video
The Skidi Star Chart: Native American Horoscope Par Excellence
A map of the heavens, the stunning Skidi Star Chart acted as a clock, a calendar, a compass – and shaped the cultural and spiritual lives of its creators, the Pawnee Tribe.
Weird History
Why Elizabeth I Was A Badass Queen
Queen Elizabeth the first may have been a virgin who can’t drive but what most people don’t know is that she was one of the most brutally cut-throat and significant rulers England has ever had. A badass to some, a merciless imperialist...
Astrum
Are we sending microbes to alien worlds? Panspermia
With all the focus on the Coronavirus, it made me wonder how viruses would cope in space generally. This led on to other questions like "do we contaminate other worlds with Earth based life?" and "can alien bacteria and viruses thrive...
Astrum
Why is space black?
Olber's Paradox. With so many stars in the universe, why is space black and not white with light?
Professor Dave Explains
Particle in a Box Part 1: Solving the Schrödinger Equation
Now that we understand the Schrödinger equation, it's time to put it to good use, and solve a quantum problem. Let's find the eigenfunctions and eigenenergies associated with a quantum particle restricted to an infinite square well. This...