SciShow
The Biggest Star In The Universe Is Too Small
R136a1 is the most massive star that astronomers have ever discovered. It's so massive you might think the laws of physics wouldn't allow it. But it turns out that its current mass estimate is actually so low that it threatens our...
PBS
What If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?
Our solar system is a tiny bubble of habitability suspended in a vast universe that mostly wants to kill us. In fact, a good fraction of our own galaxy turns out to be utterly uninhabitable, even for sun—like stellar systems. Is this why...
SciShow
Radioactive Iron Rain!
This week on SciShow Space News we're talking about gravity waves (not gravitational waves) on Pluto, and radioactive interstellar rain on Earth!
Crash Course
Dark Energy, Cosmology part 2
The majority of the universe is made up of a currently mysterious entity that pervades space: dark energy. We don’t know exactly what it is, but we do know that dark energy accelerates the expansion of space. We think this means the...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Light seconds, light years, light centuries: How to measure extreme distances - Yuan-Sen Ting
When we look at the sky, we have a flat, two-dimensional view. So how do astronomers figure the distances of stars and galaxies from Earth? Yuan-Sen Ting shows us how trigonometric parallaxes, standard candles and more help us determine...
Veritasium
Spinning Black Holes
A pulsing black hole in the centre of a distant galaxy sheds light on black hole and galaxy formation. How fast are black holes rotating and how does that rotation change over its life-span?
Astrum
What A Supernova Could Do to Earth
What are the odds a supernova could end the world tomorrow?
Astrum
When Will The Next Naked-eye Supernova Event Happen?
When will the next naked-eye supernova event happen? What will it look like? Will we be safe? Astrum Answers!
Curated Video
Element
An element is a pure substance that cannot be broken down any further by chemical means. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual definitions. Twig Science...
Curated Video
What Are Stars?
What are stars made of? How are they born, how do they live, and how do they die? Physics - Our Solar System - Learning Points. Our nearest star is the Sun. A star is formed from a cloud of dust and gas, which shrinks under gravity and...
TMW Media
Searching for Life in the Galaxy: How life on Earth began
What was proto-Earth like? How do Earth slowly form over time? Where were the first forms of life found on Earth? Searching for Life in the Galaxy, Part 1
Science360
Super Stars
Who are the biggest super stars in the universe? For Adam Burrows, an astrophysics professor at Princeton University, it's not who, but ""what,"" and they are far from Hollywood, or even Earth, for that matter. Burrows would tell you...
Next Animation Studio
Megalodon's extinction might have been caused by supernova explosion
New paper proposes megalodon may have gone extinct due to supernova explosion
NASA
NASA | Our Violent Universe
Our universe is more than a serene landscape of stars--it is teeming with activity from some extremely violent events. In a presentation at the IMAX theatre at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. on...
NASA
TESS Completes its Primary Mission
On July 4, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) completed its primary mission, a two-year-long survey that imaged about 75% of the starry sky. In capturing this giant mosaic, TESS has found 66 new exoplanets, or worlds...
NASA
NASA’s Roman Mission Will Use Exploding Stars to Measure Cosmic Distances
NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see thousands of exploding stars called supernovae across vast stretches of time and space. Using these observations, astronomers aim to shine a light on several cosmic mysteries,...
Curated Video
NASA telescope captures space fireworks
1. Still of supernova viewed from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
NASA's space telescope has captured the titanic supernova explosion of a massive star .
The photo shows glowing, gaseous streamers of red, white, and blue, as well as green...
Curated Video
NASA satellite allows view of birth of a black hole
1. Wide shot of press conference
2. Press conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Derek Fox, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena:
"If gamma-rays bursts are the birth cries of black holes, then the HETE satellite (High-Energy...
Curated Video
USA: PICTURES OF SUPERNOVA TAKEN FROM HUBBLE TELESCOPE
English/Nat
Scientists have obtained new pictures showing that a exploding star is lighting up space with spectacular images - the likes of which have not been seen since 1604.
Pictures of the so-called 'supernova' were taken from the...
Curated Video
Scientists discover brightest supernova ever seen
1. Animation of 2006GY Supernova exploding ++mute++
2. Wide of panel of scientists
3. Set up Nathan Smith, Astrophysicist at the University of California/Berkeley
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nathan Smith, Astrophysicist at the University of...
Curated Video
USA/SPACE: EVIDENCE OF A NEW TYPE OF BLACK HOLE
English/Nat
Scientists using the Chandra X-ray telescope in space have uncovered evidence of a new type of black hole.
In a relatively close galaxy, astronomically speaking, a mid-sized black hole's discovery has prompted renewed debate...
Curated Video
Three telescopes to examine the supernova
1. Zoom animation from Scorpius constellation pushing deeper to reveal Kepler's Supernova
Pasadena, California, USA - 6 October 2004
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Michael Werner, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
"Supernova's are critical...
Curated Video
Space - Shuttle Crew Seeing Stars...From Hidden Ga
Space mute Duration: 0.50"
Astronauts aboard the US space shuttle Endeavor were able to watch
a stellar explosion in progress, a celestial event taking place in a far-off galaxy hundreds of...
Curated Video
USA: NASA SCIENTISTS REPORT A MONUMENTAL STAR BURST
English/Nat
Astronomers working with America's space agency, NASA, say they've seen a bursting star which is unlike anything ever observed.
It came in the form of a huge explosion of X-rays from a distant star last August.
Scientists...