Mazz Media
Solar System
This live-action video program is about the term solar system. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term solar system through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Mazz Media
Our Solar System
Satellite footage, telescopic photos and animation are used to teach students about the many fascinating aspects of our solar system. Viewers are introduced to ancient astronomers, telescopes, observatories and space exploration....
Curated Video
Exploring Solar Winds: The Phenomenon and Impact
Solar winds are super fast, nuclear winds emitted by the sun. Were these winds to reach Earth's surface, they would cause a lot of damage. Find out what makes solar winds so dangerous andwWhat protects Earth from this weather.
Learning Mole
Planets
This animated video lesson is all about the planets in the solar system. Students will love this engaging and interactive video.
Professor Dave Explains
Pluto, Comets, Asteroids, and the Kuiper Belt
We've just wrapped up a survey of all the planets and moons in the solar system. But is that all there is? Not even close! There are tons of objects that make up the asteroid belt, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud, you can't even believe...
Professor Dave Explains
The Formation of the Earth and The Moon
As we make our way through the solar system, our third stop brings us to Earth, which is almost certainly where you are sitting as you read these words, unless my content is still being watched hundreds of years after its release on some...
Visual Learning Systems
Our Galaxy and Stars: Meteors and Comets
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,...
Next Animation Studio
Giant comet heading for Earth
Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is a thousand times larger than the average comet and it’s approaching at a high rate of speed.
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,...
Curated Video
USA - Brightest comet visible to naked eye
Comet Hale-Bopp, the brightest comet to enter the solar system since 1577, can now be seen clearly with the naked eye in the northern hemisphere's night sky.
The comet, named after the two astronomers who simultaneously discovered it,...
Curated Video
USA - Comet Hale-Bopp
NASA released six still pictures on Friday (21/03) of the comet
Hale-Bopp taken by astronomer James Young from the Table
Mountain Observatory, part of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
California.
vs stills of the comet hale bopp;
sot...
Curated Video
USA: SCIENTISTS USE HIGH TECH TOOLS TO VIEW HALE BOPP COMET
NASA, USA, 1 April 1997
1. Simulated comet spinning around
2. Various photos of comet in sky
3. SOUNDBITE: Fred Espenak, NASA Astrophysicist
4. Various photos of comet
5. SOUNDBITE: Espenak
6. Various rocket being assembled (NASA...
Curated Video
USA: STARGAZERS LOOK FOR LEONID METEOR SHOWER
Natural Sound
Stargazers around the world are looking towards the heavens for a unique celestial event.
It's a meteor shower created by the dusty trial of Comet Temple-Tuttle.
The dazzling display, also known as the Leonid meteor...
Curated Video
SPACE: US SHUTTLE DISCOVERY BEAMS DOWN PICTURES OF HALE-BOPP COMET
English/Nat
NASA's space craft Discovery's beamed down faint, fuzzy pictures of the Hale-Bopp comet Saturday from an ultraviolet telescope.
It's the first time the $500,000 telescope has flown in space.
If everything works, scientists...
Curated Video
NASA releases space probe due to collide with comet
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
1. Video from the mothership (Deep Impact) as it approaches the comet over a one month time period - showing outbursts
2. Scientists as JPL applaud after Deep Impact releases its...
Curated Video
Preview to launch of Deep Impact meteorite probe
++Animation++
1. Rocket carrying Deep Impact blasting off
2. Deep Impact separating from rocket in space
3. Deep Impact's trajectory towards comet
4. Graphic of comet's trajectory in solar system
5. Comet moving in space
6. Deep Impact...
Curated Video
UK: LEEDS: TRAVEL AGENCY RUNS "COMET FLIGHTS" TO SEE HALE-BOPP
Eng/Ger/Nat
Hundreds of amateur astronomers have been getting an extra-special glimpse of what's been called "the comet of the century".
They've been on special 'comet flights' run by a British travel agency to get a better view of the...
Curated Video
Comet probe blasts off from Cape Canaveral
1. Delta II with Contour satellite on launch pad
2. Control room at Cape Canaveral
3. Engine pack of Delta II rocket
4. Countdown with launch pad
5. Delta II lifts off launch pad
6. Rocket in mid flight after launch
7. Rocket...
Curated Video
SYND 16-11-73 ASTRONAUTS PREPARE FOR THIRD SKYLAB MISSION
Gerald Carr, Robert 'Hoot' Gibson, William R. Pogue, the three skylab astronauts attending their final briefing and work-out session prior to blast off on Friday. It could last for up to eighty-four days if all goes well.
1. ms...
Curated Video
Preparations for Jewish festival of Passover
Jerusalem - 25 March 2013
1. Various shots of Ultra-Orthodox Jews standing around bonfire and burning bread and other leavened food
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Zaki Dreyfus, Ultra-Orthodox Jew:
"The reason we burn the fire is that Hashem...
Curated Video
Preview of plans for Deep Impact to send probe to blast comet
1. Computer animation sequence showing approach of Deep Impact spacecraft toward comet and impact of Deep Impact comet probe
Pasadena, California - June 24, 2005
2. Mid shot of Deep Impact mission project manager Rick Grammier pointing...
Curated Video
The head of the European Space Agency's mission operations said on Monday he had been surprised to learn that comet lander Philae had awakened from a seven-month hibernation and managed to communicate with Earth for more almost two minutes. (June 15)
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 2063639The head of the European Space Agency's mission operations said on Monday he had been pleasantly surprised to learn that comet lander Philae had awakened from a seven-month hibernation and...
Crash Course
The New Astronomy: Crash Course History of Science #13
Sword duels, religious unrest, war—who says science is boring? Aspiring astronomers discover fascinating facts about the famous scientists that dared challenge the accepted model of the solar system in the 13th video of a 16-part History...