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Why Everyone Was Watching Tabby's Star Last Weekend
Tabby's star is at it again. Could it be aliens this time!? Also, astronomers have discovered a planet with the density of styrofoam!
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We Detected Water Plumes on Europa... 20 Years Ago
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.
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New Dwarf Planet (Maybe) Discovered
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?
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Rogue Planets, Loners of the Universe
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.
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New Supernova, and Internet on the Moon
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!
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Asteroids, Exomoons, and a Crash on the Moon
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.
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The Boomerang Nebula: The Coolest Place in Outer Space
The Boomerang Nebula is colder than space! And it's not really shaped like a boomerang!
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We Live in a Chimney
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.
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Found: The Missing Link of Black Holes | SciShow News
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...
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Apocalypse Averted, Colossal Squid, & Rocket to the Sun?
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.
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SpaceX's Awesome New Craft, and 'Mega-Earth' Discovered
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.
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Life Beyond Neptune The Kuiper Belt & Scattered Disc
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.
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Cruithne, the Asteroid With a Horseshoe Orbit
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.
TED Talks
TED: The hunt for a supermassive black hole | Andrea Ghez
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...
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Our Expanding Universe | Compilation
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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Zeroing in on Dark Matter
In an effort to find Dark Matter, what did we find? Let's zero in on the matter.
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Asteroid Fly-By!
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.
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The Two Asteroids That Shouldn’t Be There
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...
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NASA Is Giving Up on Their Mars Mole | SciShow News
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.
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Will We Ever Find Intelligent Alien Life?
What can an equation tell us about whether or not we're alone in the universe?
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Watch the Delta Aquarids, and Meet NASA's 'Aquanauts'
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.
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Planets Could Form Around Black Holes! SciShow News
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.
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Do Exoplanets Have Rings?
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.
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A New Idea About Tabby's Star!
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.