Instructional Video5:09
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Something weird is happening in our galaxy | Ashkbiz Danehkar

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In 2010, NASA announced the discovery of a never-before-seen galactic object: two gigantic gaseous bubbles, each emanating an impressive 25,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way. Astronomers were perplexed: what created these...
Instructional Video13:32
PBS

Was the Milky Way a Quasar?

12th - Higher Ed
The Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm by the destructive standards of the rest of the Universe, and compared to its own very violent past. But just recently we discovered that its violent past was much more recent than we thought - and...
Instructional Video4:12
SciShow

Fermi Bubbles Our Galaxy’s Giant Gamma Ray Mystery

12th - Higher Ed
Fermi bubbles are made up of gamma rays, but where they came from is still up for debate. Did they come from a star-forming region, or the black hole at the middle of our galaxy?
Instructional Video
NASA

Science Casts: Mysterious Objects at the Edge of the Electromagnetic Spectrum

9th - 10th
NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope is finding hundreds of new objects at the very edge of the electromagnetic spectrum. Many of them have one thing in common: Astronomers have no idea what they are. [3:27]