Visual Learning Systems
Our Galaxy and Stars: Stars
This captivating series of programs explores many of the amazing features of our universe. Special attention is given to our solar system, distances in space, and stars. Terminology and concepts include: Milky Way Galaxy, light-year,...
Visual Learning Systems
Our Solar System
The video explains the concept of our Milky Way galaxy and our solar system's formation. The Inner Planets part 2/11
Visual Learning Systems
Stars and Galaxies: What Are Stars?
Upon viewing the Stars and Galaxies video series, students will be able to do the following: Explain that our solar system is part of the Milky Way galaxy. Understand that the Milky Way galaxy is huge and contains billions of stars....
Mazz Media
What is the Universe? (Simple English)
This live-action video program is about the word universe. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word universe through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Earth and Our Solar System
This video is a lesson about the solar system, specifically focusing on the Milky Way galaxy, the inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars), the outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune), and their characteristics. The...
Visual Learning Systems
Stars and Galaxies: Tools of Astronomy
Upon viewing the Stars and Galaxies video series, students will be able to do the following: Explain that our solar system is part of the Milky Way galaxy. Understand that the Milky Way galaxy is huge and contains billions of stars....
Curated Video
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arizona: new telescope at kitts peak
nxc 47093 "telescope" shows: pan to kitts peak observatory: new telescope at kitt peak: man walks up steps to telescope: starry sky: dr david l crawford: sof: ...
Curated Video
NASA's mission to find new life on exoplanets ++TRACKED++
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NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is set to take off from Cape Canaveral next week (April 16 2018) in search of new worlds that aren't in our solar system.
TESS will focus on...
Curated Video
RR0208/C Chile: Observatory
Cerro Tololo Observatory, Vicuna, Chile (Recent) File: space shuttle launch, Hubble space telescope, Galileo, Constellation Leo animation (File), Cerro Tololo Observatory mountain, Equi River valley, SOT, Malcolm Smith, Observatory, SOT,...
Curated Video
Astronomers say a steep drop in state and federal funds has forced the shutdown of Northern California's Allen Telescope Array, a powerful tool in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
HEADLINE: Budget Cuts Pull Plug on Alien Search Devices
CAPTION: Astronomers say a steep drop in state and federal funds has forced the shutdown of Northern California's Allen Telescope Array, a powerful tool in the search for...
Curated Video
A peek at the largest optical telescope in the world
A peek at the largest optical telescope in the world
Curated Video
Animation: What Are Exoplanets
Beyond our solar system, planets are waiting to be discovered.
These alien worlds orbit other stars. And astronomers are searching for an Earth twin that might support some form of life, perhaps microbes.
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Crash Course
The Scientific Revolution: Crash Course History of Science #12
The Scientific Revolution forever changed our concept of astronomy! Science scholars explore the major mindshift in Europe that signaled the beginning of a new area during the 12th installment of a 15-part series discussing the History...
SciShow
The Star That Trolled Astronomers
Is it a bird, or a plane, or a blinking star? Scientists discovered in 1967 what they later determined to be a pulsing star. An episode of a larger solar system playlist discusses the chemistry behind the existence of this type of star.
Crash Course
Introduction to Astronomy
We directly see only four percent of the universe. The video introduces astronomy and encourages viewers to think bigger. Starting with what science is and how we define astronomy, it then continues into the many ways astronomy has...
SciShow
Dark Matter
Dark matter accounts for 23 percent of the known universe, yet scientists don't know what it is. No one can see it, but everyone knows it is there based on the weight of the universe. Even though it isn't invisible, it does have an...
SciShow Kids
What Do Astronauts Do?
Discover why astronauts go to space and what they do there with an entertaining video equipped with captivating graphics and an energetic host.
SciShow
Dark Energy
Dark energy makes up more than 70 percent of the energy in the universe, yet scientists can't really explain it. Video attempts to explain what dark energy is and why we can't answer that question. It offers multiple theories and...
SciShow
Great Minds: Henrietta Leavitt and the Human Computers
For most people, it would seem impossible to make breakthroughs in astronomy when you aren't allowed to use a telescope, but Henrietta Leavitt did just that. She discovered a formula for determining the distance to stars that are...