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What Supernova Distance Would Trigger Mass Extinction?
New ReviewThe deaths of massive stars results in one of the most beautiful and violent events in the universe: the supernova. But if these explosions occur too close to Earth their radiation can impact life and even trigger mass extinctions.
MinutePhysics
Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and White Dwarfs (Collab. w/ MinuteEarth)
This video is about the differences between the corpses or final degenerate dense star forms that dead stars take: black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs. The main distinguishing features between them are the mass cutoffs...
SciShow
Five Of The Biggest, Baddest Supernova Varieties
Supernovae are only rare to the passive stargazer, but if you’re an astronomer studying them, you get to see some of the most brilliant explosions in the universe. Here are five of the most significant supernovae known to science.
SciShow
Space Superlatives of 2022
As we wrap up 2022, we'd like to celebrate a few of the cosmic “winners” discovered this year, at least while they still hold their titles.
PBS
How Stars Destroy Each Other
Our galaxy is full of dysfunctional stellar relationships. With more than half of all stars existing in binary orbits, it’s inevitable that many stellar remnants will end up in parasitic spirals with their partners. Today we’re going to...
PBS
How An Extreme New Star Could Change All Cosmology
A new white dwarf has been discovered (poetically named: ZTF J1901+1458) that’s doing some stuff that no white dwarf should ever be able to do. In fact, it has multiple properties that are so extreme that it almost certainly did NOT form...
Crash Course
White Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulae
Today Phil follows up last week’s look at the death of low mass stars with what comes next: a white dwarf. White dwarfs are incredibly hot and dense objects roughly the size of Earth. They also can form planetary nebulae: huge,...
SciShow
How Stars Freeze
When you think of a frozen object in space, you might think of Pluto, but stars themselves actually freeze.
SciShow
The Future of Our Sun and Earth
SciShow Space gives you a blow by blow account of what's going to happen to the sun -- and Earth.
SciShow
How Space Tech Is Changing Life on Earth: 2020 Edition
We’ve developed thousands of technologies for space exploration, but luckily for us, sometimes those solutions apply to problems here on the ground, too.
SciShow
What Saturn’s Rings Tell Us About Its Soupy Core
The insides of the our gas giant friend, Saturn, might be less of a mystery now that we’ve figured out how to use its rings to indicate its internal makeup. And the light emitted from some very old, very hungry black holes could be...
SciShow
This Planet Survived the Death of its Star
When stars die, they tend to take everything around them with them. But new evidence appears to show a planet orbiting a white dwarf, and we’re not sure how it survived! Plus, experiments designed to detect dark matter might be capable...
PBS
We Are Star Stuff
Stars are our stellar alchemists. They spend their entire lifespan creating and molding elements. In their final moments, a supernova spreads these elements out into the universe, providing the building blocks for new stars, planets, and...
SciShow
This Stellar Blast Showered the Universe with… Calcium | SciShow News
We knew some stars created large amounts of calcium, but no one really ever knew how...until now! Plus, astrophysicists believe they’ve finally seen evidence of the star that created one of the most important supernovas ever!
SciShow
The End of Everything
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!
SciShow
Zombie Stars Discovered!
SciShow Space reveals the discovery of a whole new kind of supernova, and the undead stars they leave behind.
SciShow
The Star That’s Secretly a Lawn Sprinkler
Scientists have found a star that spins so fast that it can almost complete a full rotation by the time it takes you to finish reading this episode description.
SciShow
A New Idea About Tabby's Star!
Astronomers might have finally discovered part of why Tabby's Star acts so strangely and we have some new ideas about what triggers a type Ia supernova.
SciShow
Get Ready for a New Star in the Night Sky! SciShow News
Astronomers are predicting that two stars are likely to merge and explode, and it may happen soon... on a cosmic timescale. Plus, scientists break up a meteorite and find the oldest solid matter ever discovered on earth.
SciShow
NASA Is Giving Up on Their Mars Mole | SciShow News
This week in news, the Insight rover's Mole apparatus called it quits, and research reported their findings on the first ever observed intergalactic binaries.
SciShow
The First Commercial Mission to the Moon!
A private company has been approved to land on the moon!
SciShow
The Most Metal Planet Fragment Ever
Scientists have discovered a shard of a planet that survived the death of its star and TESS has found the first direct evidence of an exocomet.
SciShow
This Star Just Won't Stop Exploding!
M31N 2008-12a is a rare phenomenon called a recurrent nova, and it may hold the key to understanding the lives and cataclysmic deaths of massive stars.
SciShow
We Found a Planetary Graveyard | SciShow News
Researchers think they may have found a new way to study planets after they've been "buried" in a star! Astronomers are also officially acknowledging the discovery of a distant body with a thousand-year orbit and an adorable nickname.