SciShow
How Ancient Babylonians Predicted Eclipses
There's an eclipse coming up in April of 2024! You'd think it takes a lot of modern technology for us to know about it, but it turns out that humans have been able to predict eclipses for nearly three thousand years. And we've been using...
MinuteEarth
Eclipses Used To Be Terrifying
Because eclipses are powerful and frightening events, ancient cultures went to great lengths to understand eclipses, leading to remarkably accurate predictions and helping invent the science of astronomy.
SciShow
Don’t Look At the Sun! …Unless | Compilation
It’s common knowledge that you should never look directly at the sun. But, like, what about during an eclipse? Surely you can look then?
PBS
The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing
Niels Bohr, a Danish Physicist said “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded .” Is what we see perceived to be real or is it an illusion? In the world of our mind’s eye, light travels in a straight line. In...
Be Smart
Do Other Planets Have Seasons Too?
Earth has seasons, but what about the rest of the planets in the solar system? Let’s take a tour from Mercury to Pluto and see what seasons would be like on all our planetary neighbors. Bring a sweater!
SciShow
Studying the Solar Eclipse: SciShow Talk Show
Jen Fowler of the Montana Space Grant Consortium joins us this week to talk about her work with weather balloons and the upcoming solar eclipse, and Jessi from Animal Wonders brings along Gaia the Southern Three-Banded Armadillo!
SciShow
Looking for Life During a Lunar Eclipse | SciShow News
Astronomers took advantage of a lunar eclipse to study Earth as if it were an exoplanet, and Mars's Insight lander used seismic data to reveal for the first time boundaries between different layers of Mars.
SciShow Kids
Make an Eclipse Viewer!
Jessi and Squeaks show you how to make a pinhole viewer so you can safely watch the solar eclipse!
SciShow
A Year in Space, and the Lunar Eclipse!
Two astronauts are about to embark on the One Year Mission which can help us understand more about the long-term effects of being in space, and there is an upcoming total lunar eclipse (the shortest one this century)!
PBS
The Treasures of Trappist-1
Last week, seven earth-like planets were discovered orbiting a Red Dwarf star 39 light years away. Each one could be capable of supporting life.
SciShow
Why Solar Eclipses Create Those Crescent-Shaped Lights
Everyone is watching the sky during a solar eclipse, but but if you look down, you'll catch another kind of light show.
Crash Course
Eclipses
The big question in the comments last week was, "BUT WHAT ABOUT ECLIPSES?" Today, Phil breaks 'em down for you.
SciShow
Studying the Solar Eclipse: SciShow Talk Show
Jen Fowler of the Montana Space Grant Consortium joins us this week to talk about her work with weather balloons and the upcoming solar eclipse, and Jessi from Animal Wonders brings along Gaia the Southern Three-Banded Armadillo!
SciShow Kids
What Will Happen During the Solar Eclipse?
There's an Eclipse coming on August 21st, and Jessi and Squeaks are PUMPED! Today, they'll show you where in the world you'll be able to see the eclipse, what happens during an eclipse, and tell you how you can watch the eclipse safely!
PBS
The Great American Eclipse
Get your eclipse glasses ready because the a total solar eclipse is an astronomical event unlike any other.
SciShow
The 2017 Solar Eclipse: What You Need to Know
On August 21, 2017, the United States will experience its first total solar eclipse since 1979! If you're in the right place at the right time, you're in for a spectacular show!
SciShow Kids
2015's Solar Eclipse
In this episode of SciShow Kids, Jessi talks about solar eclipses, and in particular, the solar eclipse of 2015! Jessi will show you how eclipses occur and where the best places to view the eclipse are.
SciShow
Eclipses That Don't Eclipse
Here on Earth, we’re used to seeing both lunar and solar eclipses. But further out are eclipses that don’t behave at all the way we expected them to.
SciShow Kids
Lunar Eclipses
Did you know there will be a lunar eclipse this week? Jessi and Squeaks explore what causes lunar eclipses and why they can make the moon look red!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What creates a total solar eclipse? - Andy Cohen
How can the tiny moon eclipse the sight of the gargantuan sun? By sheer coincidence, the disc of the sun is 400x larger than the disc of the moon, but the sun is 390x farther from Earth -- which means that when they align just right, the...
SciShow Kids
Getting Ready for the Eclipse!
Jessi and Squeaks are really excited about the total solar eclipse on August 21st, so they're revisiting all the amazing things they've learned about the sun, the moon, and how eclipses happen!
Curated Video
Eclipse, lunar
An alignment of the Earth directly in between the Sun and the Moon, so that the earth's shadow falls on the Moon and obscures all or part of it. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning...
Curated Video
Eclipse, solar
When the Moon is aligned directly in between the Sun and the Earth, it obscures all or part of the sun to an observer on the ground. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and...