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Where Do the Biggest Galaxies Come From?
Submillimeter galaxies are ancient, dense, massive galaxies with up to 10 times the number of stars in the Milky Way, and for a long time, scientists couldn’t even figure out how they existed in the first place.
SciShow Kids
Why Does the Moon Change?
Have you ever wondered why, some nights, the moon looks like a big, bright circle, and some nights it looks like a little sliver? Join Jessi and Squeaks to learn about how the moon's orbit changes the way we see it here on Earth!
SciShow Kids
Get to Know Your Galaxy!
Have you ever thought about what's beyond our solar system? Think real big, because we're about to explore galaxies!
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3D Printing Organs in Space
Several companies are developing 3D printers that might eventually be able to print organs...in space! What!?
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Earth Doesn’t Orbit the Sun
Understanding gravity can sometimes be a bit of a balancing act, much like the fundamental laws of physics and how they inform what it is exactly that Earth orbits.
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How Doctors on Earth Stopped a Medical Emergency in Space
There was a medical incident on the ISS which required NASA to treat an astronaut from Earth. And astronomers have discovered what might be some of the universe’s earliest stars.
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3 Historic Firsts in Asteroid Exploration
We’ve visited lots of places in our solar system in the last 60 years, but modern technology has made an unlikely candidate the hottest new frontier of solar system exploration: asteroids. Today, we’ll take a look at a few exciting...
TED Talks
TED: How a blind astronomer found a way to hear the stars | Wanda Diaz Merced
Wanda Diaz Merced studies the light emitted by gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic events in the universe. When she lost her sight and was left without a way to do her science, she had a revelatory insight: the light curves she could no...
SciShow
A ‘New Neptune’ With Water, and Cyanide in Space
SciShow Space News shares the latest developments from around the universe, including the discovery of water vapor on a new “exo-Neptune,” and cyanide found in the clouds where stars are born.
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The Star That Trolled Astronomers
In 1967, a star was discovered that seemed to be different than most stars, . . . it looked like it was blinking.
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The Supernova of 1054, Our Very Special Guest Star
All of humanity likely saw it, a brilliant supernova that lit up the daytime sky in 1054. But 960 years later, there’s still a lot we dont quite understand about the famous celestial phenomenon.
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Could There Be Planets Beyond Neptune?
Did you grow up thinking there were nine planets in the solar system? You might have been right all along! Today we discuss the possibility of distant worlds in our solar system.
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The Farthest Galaxy We've Ever Seen! | SciShow News
Scientists have spotted a galaxy from the early origins of the universe, and found evidence to support the existence of a 9th planet in our solar system.
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The Sun's So Bright, It's Spinning Slower
Scientists have known the outside of the sun spins slower than the inside for a while, but they didn't know why until recently.
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The Next ISS Experiments, and Pluto's Weird Methane Mountains
A new crew is headed to the ISS, and Pluto seems to have methane snow.
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Robert Evans, Supernova Superstar
A backyard astronomer holds the world record for most supernovas found by searching manually. He's memorized what over a thousand galaxies look like.
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Three New Exoplanets Close to Home
TESS found 3 new exoplanets around a strangely calm m-dwarf star, and it's possible they could be habitable!
SciShow
Mama, Where Do Galaxies Come From?
For most of human history, we didn't know that galaxies were a thing. So over the past century, astronomers have been working to understand how galaxies come to be and how they evolve over time. And for a full decade, there was one...
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The Wow! Signal
Deep in an archive in Columbus, Ohio, there's a slip of paper with a bunch of random-looking letters and numbers printed on it called the âWow' signal.
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The First Neutron Star Collision We've Ever Seen
The results are in from the neutron star collision this past August! Astronomers are revealing what they've learned so far, with more pure gold research underway!
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A New Way to Find Planets!
For the first time, astronomers have detected the light coming from an exoplanet. SciShow Space News explains how they did it, and why it was so difficult in the first place.
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3 Ways Exoplanets Rocked Planetary Science
Exoplanets have taught us a lot more about planets than our solar system could ever teach us, from what happens when they’re born, to what happens when their stars die.
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The Biggest-Ever Supernova
NASA has chosen three companies whose craft it will use to ship cargo to the ISS and we've got new details about the brightest supernova we've ever observed.
Crash Course Kids
Glow On
So, have you ever wondered why some stars are brighter than others? You might think it's because they're closer to us, but that's not the whole story? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina chats about how stars glow and how...