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SciShow

Why Everyone Was Watching Tabby's Star Last Weekend

12th - Higher Ed
Tabby's star is at it again. Could it be aliens this time!? Also, astronomers have discovered a planet with the density of styrofoam!
Instructional Video4:36
SciShow

We Detected Water Plumes on Europa... 20 Years Ago

12th - Higher Ed
Researchers found surprising new evidence hiding in data captured back in 1997, and we've discovered stars forming in a distant galaxy as early as 250 million years after the Big Bang.
Instructional Video4:01
SciShow

New Dwarf Planet (Maybe) Discovered

12th - Higher Ed
Back in 2014, an international team of astronomers was taking pictures of distant galaxies, when they noticed a dot moving across their images. Could it be Planet Nine?
Instructional Video3:20
SciShow

Rogue Planets, Loners of the Universe

12th - Higher Ed
Meet one of the newest celestial bodies to be discovered: rogue planets, worlds that hurtle around the galaxy without any parent star. Caitlin Hofmeister explains how we found them, and where we think they might have come from.
Instructional Video3:46
SciShow

New Supernova, and Internet on the Moon

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space shares the latest news from the around the universe, including the first supernova observed in real time, and Internet service on the moon. Finally!
Instructional Video4:12
SciShow

Asteroids, Exomoons, and a Crash on the Moon

12th - Higher Ed
Caitlin serves up the latest in space-science news, this week featuring developments in missions dedicated to sampling asteroids, detecting exomoons, and solving the mysteries of the moon.
Instructional Video4:04
SciShow

The Boomerang Nebula: The Coolest Place in Outer Space

12th - Higher Ed
The Boomerang Nebula is colder than space! And it's not really shaped like a boomerang!
Instructional Video5:30
SciShow

We Live in a Chimney

12th - Higher Ed
There are some captivating things when you look up at the night sky, but our location in the Milky Way may be fogging up our view.
Instructional Video6:05
SciShow

Found: The Missing Link of Black Holes | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers have been trying to figure out black holes for hundreds of years, and newly published research may hold some big clues! Plus, rust isn’t supposed to happen in dry and airless places like the Moon. Could the elements that...
Instructional Video7:26
SciShow

Apocalypse Averted, Colossal Squid, & Rocket to the Sun?

12th - Higher Ed
Hank tells us about near-earth objects & primordial black holes; new developments in evolutionary genetics; a giant squid & a giant radio telescope; & answers viewer questions about disposing of nuclear waste in space.
Instructional Video4:07
SciShow

SpaceX's Awesome New Craft, and 'Mega-Earth' Discovered

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space gives you the latest news from around the universe, including the discovery of a new class of exoplanet dubbed a "mega-Earth," and a tour of SpaceX's new crewed vehicle, the Dragon V2.
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

Life Beyond Neptune The Kuiper Belt & Scattered Disc

12th - Higher Ed
The solar system is enormous, and includes the Kuiper Belt and the Scattered Disc, both of which turn out to be really weird in some pretty awesome ways.
Instructional Video4:23
SciShow

Cruithne, the Asteroid With a Horseshoe Orbit

12th - Higher Ed
There’s a small asteroid that appears to orbit Earth in a horseshoe shape. Sometimes referred to as Earth’s second moon, but it's orbit is much weirder than that.
Instructional Video16:19
TED Talks

TED: The hunt for a supermassive black hole | Andrea Ghez

12th - Higher Ed
With new data from the Keck telescopes, Andrea Ghez shows how state-of-the-art adaptive optics are helping astronomers understand our universe's most mysterious objects: black holes. She shares evidence that a supermassive black hole may...
Instructional Video16:43
SciShow

Our Expanding Universe | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
The universe is expanding. But how much is it expanding? Is it doing expanding the same way everywhere? And can physics actually explain the expansion?
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SciShow

Zeroing in on Dark Matter

12th - Higher Ed
In an effort to find Dark Matter, what did we find? Let's zero in on the matter.
Instructional Video3:47
SciShow

Asteroid Fly-By!

12th - Higher Ed
Today Emily Graslie of The Brain Scoop gives us the news about a couple of near- misses for our planet and an update on where astronomers think habitable life might be found in other star systems.
Instructional Video5:24
SciShow

The Two Asteroids That Shouldn’t Be There

12th - Higher Ed
Space Clue: 203 Pompeja and 269 Justitia in the asteroid belt with evidence of being formed outside of it. But the real mystery is how they got there! And we again return to Ganymede with new evidence suggesting even more kinds of water...
Instructional Video5:22
SciShow

NASA Is Giving Up on Their Mars Mole | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
This week in news, the Insight rover's Mole apparatus called it quits, and research reported their findings on the first ever observed intergalactic binaries.
Instructional Video4:49
SciShow

Will We Ever Find Intelligent Alien Life?

12th - Higher Ed
What can an equation tell us about whether or not we're alone in the universe?
Instructional Video4:04
SciShow

Watch the Delta Aquarids, and Meet NASA's 'Aquanauts'

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space preps you for the Delta Aquarids, a meteor shower, and explains what makes them so unique. Plus, join "aquanauts" on one of NASA's least-known missions, a nine-day tour in its NEEMO undersea laboratory.
Instructional Video6:30
SciShow

Planets Could Form Around Black Holes! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
This week in space. Scientists have discovered a black hole that could possibly everything we know about black holes, and also, evidence that planets, yes planets, could form around super massive black holes.
Instructional Video5:35
SciShow

Do Exoplanets Have Rings?

12th - Higher Ed
Exorings are pretty elusive, but we’ve already found what might be the first set of exorings, and if we find more, we’ll have a treasure trove of new information.
Instructional Video5:01
Curated Video

A New Idea About Tabby's Star!

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers might have finally discovered part of why Tabby's Star acts so strangely and we have some new ideas about what triggers a type Ia supernova.