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Destroying Space Junk With Lasers, and Two Rare Eclipses!
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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A Tribute to John Glenn
The first American astronaut to orbit Earth, John Glenn passed away yesterday in Ohio. But he leaves an admirable legacy.
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The First Exoplanets Were Found Around... a Pulsar
The first time scientists found exoplanets, they were orbiting something very different from our sun: a pulsar.
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4 Awesome Future Space Missions
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...
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New Surprises from the Asteroid Bennu - SciShow News
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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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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Airglow: Why The Night Sky Is Really Green
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.
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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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Future Space News of 2015: Destination Ceres and Pluto!
SciShow Space brings you NEWS FROM THE FUTURE, with details about the space missions to look forward to in 2015.
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The Year-Long Twin Astronauts Experiment
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...
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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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Minerva and the New Hunt for Alien Worlds
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!
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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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The Twins Paradox Hands-On Explanation | Special Relativity Ch. 8
This video is chapter 8 in my series on special relativity, and it presents a hands-on explanation of the resolution to the Twins Paradox using the mechanical minkowski diagram, aka mechanical Lorentz transformation, aka spacetime globe....
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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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What are Years... and the Galactic Supermassive Black Hole!
It's leap year time... so what are years, anyway? And what do they have to do with the supermassive black hole in the core of the milky way?
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Space-Grown Vegetables, and the Ring That Shouldn't Exist
Astronauts ate some space-grown lettuce, and astronomers discovered a ring of galaxies that's so big it defies the laws of physics.
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The Apollo Program's Loneliest Astronauts
Michael Collins isn't as recognizable a name as Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, but his job on the Apollo 11 mission was just as important.
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What We Learned from the Kepler Space Telescope - SciShow News
October was bittersweet for space scientists as we said goodbye to both the Kepler Space Telescope and Dawn mission.
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Working on Pathfinder: SciShow Talk Show
Hank's friend from grad school, Bryan von Lossberg recounts his time working on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission, and Jessi from Animal Wonders surprises us with Goma the red eyed tree frog!
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The First Commercial Mission to the Moon!
A private company has been approved to land on the moon!
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A Baby Planet May Have Once Smashed Into Jupiter - SciShow News
Shortly after Jupiter formed, it might have been struck by an object that may have otherwise become its own planet! And researchers have a new estimate of how many Earth-like planets might exist.