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SciShow

What Are Seasons Like On Other Planets

12th - Higher Ed
Ever wonder what seasons are like on other planets? Astronomers are beginning to find out, and SciShow Space explains how they know, what causes the change in seasons, and what 'summer' might mean on distant worlds.
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SciShow

3D Printing in Space, and When Venus Meets Mars

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space News gives you the latest from a batch of experiments on the Space Station, a new mission to forecast space weather, and a guide to this year's conjunction of Mars and Venus!
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SciShow

SpaceX Reused a Rocket!

12th - Higher Ed
This week SpaceX accomplished a first in the history of spaceflight: They reused a rocket big enough to send things into orbit!
Instructional Video10:23
SciShow

The End of Everything

12th - Higher Ed
Hank gives us an inclusive overview of how everything in the universe is thought to have begun, and how cosmologists predict it will all come to an end. Now get happy!
Instructional Video5:29
SciShow

Earth Used to Have 19-Hour Days (and Pluto Has Dunes!)

12th - Higher Ed
According to a new model, days on Earth used to really fly by, and today Pluto has wind-swept dunes made of very weird sand.
Instructional Video4:43
SciShow

Can We Redirect Asteroids like in Armageddon? | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
If you think punching an asteroid to knock it off the course to Earth’s destruction is purely for science fiction, you might only be right a for a little longer! Plus, scientists are being thrown for a loop with the orbits of planets...
Instructional Video4:49
SciShow

Wernher von Braun: From Nazis to NASA

12th - Higher Ed
The American space program wouldn't be what it is today if it weren't for the contributions of a scientist who was also a former Nazi. Learn about the life and work of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun.
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TED Talks

TED: The sound the universe makes | Janna Levin

12th - Higher Ed
We think of space as a silent place. But physicist Janna Levin says the universe has a soundtrack -- a sonic composition that records some of the most dramatic events in outer space. (Black holes, for instance, bang on spacetime like a...
Instructional Video5:44
SciShow

On Venus, You're Walking on Eggshells | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Earth's thick crust might one of the reasons our planet can support life. But scientists are looking for something a little more brittle.
Instructional Video3:42
SciShow

We Are Sending a Probe into the Sun

12th - Higher Ed
Why are we sending a rocket into the sun? SciShow Space explains the why, what and how of Solar Probe Plus, a mission that'll give us our closest look yet at our nearest star.
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SciShow

Multicolored Meteor Shower!

12th - Higher Ed
Those bright spots on Ceres? We've got some new insight into what they might be! Also, the Geminids meteor shower is coming up and will peak on December 13-14.
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A New Binary Asteroid (That's Also a Comet!)

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers discovered something cool about an object in the asteroid belt (2006 VW139/288P), and the European Space Agency is conducting a bed rest study that could help us get on our way to Mars.
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SciShow

Destroying Space Junk With Lasers, and Two Rare Eclipses!

12th - Higher Ed
This week on SciShow Space News, astronauts had to take the scenic route to the ISS because of some space debris. And this month, you might get to see two eclipses: a solar eclipse, and a rare supermoon eclipse.
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SciShow

The First Exoplanets Were Found Around... a Pulsar

12th - Higher Ed
The first time scientists found exoplanets, they were orbiting something very different from our sun: a pulsar.<br/>
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SciShow

A Tribute to John Glenn

12th - Higher Ed
The first American astronaut to orbit Earth, John Glenn passed away yesterday in Ohio. But he leaves an admirable legacy.
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SciShow

4 Awesome Future Space Missions

12th - Higher Ed
Hank fills us in on the four exploratory missions to space that he is most excited about - New Horizons is going to Pluto and the Kuiper belt; Juno is on it's way to Jupiter; Dawn is exploring two large asteroids; Rosetta will land on a...
Instructional Video6:01
SciShow

New Surprises from the Asteroid Bennu - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
There’s nothing boring about Bennu! From its chemistry, size, shape, and spin to its extremely old age, it proves that even the smallest objects in the solar system have a bizarre and fascinating history.
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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?
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SciShow

The Year-Long Twin Astronauts Experiment

12th - Higher Ed
Astronauts Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko will soon undertake a historic, record-breaking mission: to live in space for an entire year. And scientists will have some extra help studying the effects of this extended stay on the...
Instructional Video4:19
SciShow

Airglow: Why The Night Sky Is Really Green

12th - Higher Ed
If you look closely enough, you'll see the night sky is actually a little green. SciShow Space explains the science behind the phenomenon known as airglow.
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 Video3:28
SciShow

Future Space News of 2015: Destination Ceres and Pluto!

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space brings you NEWS FROM THE FUTURE, with details about the space missions to look forward to in 2015.
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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 Video10:05
SciShow

Minerva and the New Hunt for Alien Worlds

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow explains the science of detecting exoplanets -- planets in orbit around distant stars -- and how a new observatory being built in California may open up whole new worlds to us, literally!