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An Asteroid Flyby, and Good Morning, New Horizons!
This week in SciShow Space News we bring you the latest on what to expect from NASA's New Horizons deep space mission and what asteroids to watch for in the coming years!
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The Hottest Exoplanets in the Universe
With exoplanets, often we want to know if they are Earth-like and whether they might host life, but we can also learn a lot from planets that are nothing like Earth.
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How Do We Know What the Milky Way Looks Like?
How do we know what the Milky Way looks like if we've never been outside of it?
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Why Is Pluto Not A Planet?
Pluto's not a planet. We're sorry, but we think it's time you move on. If you've gone through all your breakup music and Meg Ryan movies, and you still can't get over it, then SciShow Space will get out the ice cream, cuddle up with you...
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Neutron Stars Just Keep Getting Weirder
Neutron stars are some of the strangest things in the universe, but are they the source of the mysterious Fast Radio Bursts? Or is it aliens? Spoilers: probably not aliens.
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Brown Dwarfs
While Jupiter is nowhere near massive enough to initiate fusion in its core, there are even more massive objects out there that fall just short of that achievement as well called brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs, have a mass that places them...
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3 of the Universe’s Most Extreme Galaxies
With so many galaxies in the universe, some are bound to astound us. Here are three of the most extreme galaxies scientists have discovered so far.
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3 Galaxies That Shouldn't Exist
The universe is a big place full of galaxies that we've only begun to study. SciShow Space presents 3 of the strangest ones we've found so far.
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Triton: The Celestial 'Cantaloupe'
Join SciShow Space as we explore Neptune's largest moon, Triton. It's kind of a weird place and may even have liquid water!
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Distances
How do astronomers make sense out of the vastness of space? How do they study things so far away? Today Phil talks about distances, going back to early astronomy. Ancient Greeks were able to find the size of the Earth, and from that the...
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The Milky Way Broke Its Arm
The spiral of the Milky Way is not as smooth as we once thought because an arm not so far from home appears to be broken! And we may have discovered the answer to why a local asteroid puts on the appearance of a comet.
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Exploring Uranus and Neptune
Join SciShow Space as we complete our tour of the Solar System planets with the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune.
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The Asteroid Belt: Not What You Think!
Buckle up for a trip to the asteroid belt -- though it's not nearly as dangerous out there as you might think. But there's a LOT waiting to be discovered, including some crucial clues about the formation of the solar system itself.
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Is the Universe Expanding?
Is the universe expanding? About a hundred years ago astronomers made a discovery that helped us unravel the mystery of the history of the universe!
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Oceans on Saturn's Moon Enceladus!
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a huge ocean under the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. But how? And what does it really mean? Hank lays out the data -- straight from space to your brain!
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The Oldest Quasar Ever and the Newest Failed Launch
We have discovered an enormous black hole that’s older and farther away than any we’ve ever seen, and a recent rocket launch did not go as planned.
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Voyager 2’s Notes from Interstellar Space | SciShow News
Voyager 2 is the second object to leave our solar system, which means we now have twice as much information about its edges! And scientists have found a record-breaking black hole.
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The Big Bang, Cosmology part 1
Thanks to observations of galaxy redshifts, we can tell that the universe is EXPANDING! Knowing that the universe is expanding and how quickly its expanding also allows us to run the clock backwards 14 billion years to the way the...
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Planet 9 from Outer Space
Could we have a possible 9th Planet? Hank Green tells us what we think we know with this elusive object.
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How We Could Study the First Nanoseconds of the Universe
The oldest light we can see comes from when the universe was less than 400,000 years old, so how can we study those first few moments of history?
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Galaxies, part 1
The Milky Way is our neighborhood in the universe. It’s a galaxy and there are many others out there. Galaxies contain gas, dust, and billions of stars or more. They come in four main shapes: elliptical, spiral, peculiar, and irregular....
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Introduction to Astronomy
Welcome to the first episode of Crash Course Astronomy. Your host for this intergalactic adventure is the Bad Astronomer himself, Phil Plait. We begin with answering a question: "What is astronomy?"
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New Jupiter Weirdness From Juno
Astronomers have announced the Juno space probe’s first findings from Jupiter!
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Meet the 5 Dwarf Planets!
Jessi introduces you to some of the most newly-named members of the solar system: the five dwarf planets!