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SciShow

We May Have Found the First Exomoon! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve discovered what appears to be the first known moon outside of the solar system and new models of Europa’s surface predict the presence of ice blades!
Instructional Video9:58
PBS

Strange Stars

12th - Higher Ed
What happens when matter can't get any denser yet somehow does? The answer - it becomes strange. Strange Stars may be the most massive stellar remnant that is just shy of forming a black hole. And they could be even cooler than black holes.
Instructional Video3:59
SciShow

Tabby's Strange Star Just Got Stranger

12th - Higher Ed
It's been a year since astronomer Tabetha Boyaijan found strange signals coming from a star called KIC 8462852, aka Tabby's Star. Now, new research shows that it's even stranger than we thought. Plus, good news from spaceflight company...
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TED Talks

Will Wright: Spore, birth of a game

12th - Higher Ed
In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces.
Instructional Video3:34
SciShow

New Earth-Size Planet and a Solar Eclipse

12th - Higher Ed
Caitlin Hofmeister gives you the latest news from around the universe, including Kepler's latest exoplanet discovery, an upcoming solar eclipse, and a breathtaking image from Hubble.
Instructional Video5:05
SciShow

Could Water Survive on the Closest Exoplanet?

12th - Higher Ed
Exoplanets are being discovered in the habitable zone to sustain life as we know it. Could water be found on the closest exoplanet to us?
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 Video5:27
SciShow

How Plastic Balls and Garbage Cans Help Us Study Space

12th - Higher Ed
How can we be so sure of the way celestial bodies behave when they're so far away? With the help of some speakers, garbage cans, and springs of course.
Instructional Video9:23
TED Talks

Tom Wujec: Learn to use the 13th-century astrolabe

12th - Higher Ed
Rather than demo another new technology, Tom Wujec reaches back to one of our earliest but most ingenious devices -- the astrolabe. With thousands of uses, from telling time to mapping the night sky, this old tech reminds us that the...
Instructional Video5:44
SciShow

This Massive Star Just... Vanished | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers have some insights into the mysterious disappearance of the luminous blue variable star in the Kinman Dwarf Galaxy, and we're digging up more clues about how our friend the Moon may have formed.
Instructional Video6:42
SciShow

The Star That’s Secretly a Lawn Sprinkler

12th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video5:26
SciShow

How Does Titan Still Have an Atmosphere?

12th - Higher Ed
From what we know about Titan, it seems like its atmosphere should have disappeared millions of years ago. So, why hasn’t it?
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 Video4:24
SciShow

A Dying Hot Jupiter and The Birth of Carbon Planets

12th - Higher Ed
We think we discovered a Hot Jupiter being consumed by its star! Hank Green explains this and the birth of carbon planets in this episode of SciShow News.
Instructional Video6:00
SciShow

A New Idea About Tabby's Star!

12th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video4:39
SciShow

A Planet Only Half Covered in Volcanoes | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists have found a world that might be half volcanoes, half ball of ice, and it could teach us a lot about how life began on earth.
Instructional Video3:40
SciShow

1,284 New Exoplanets, and Tsunamis on Mars!

12th - Higher Ed
Using a new technique, astronomers with the Kepler space telescope have confirmed a whole bunch of new exoplanets. And other astronomers have announced that mega-tsunamis were probably involved in shaping Mars' terrain.
Instructional Video5:44
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.
Instructional Video4:34
SciShow

Why Everyone Was Watching Tabby's Star Last Weekend

12th - Higher Ed
Tabby's star is at it again. Could it be aliens this time!? Also, astronomers have discovered a planet with the density of styrofoam!
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 Video3:46
SciShow

New Supernova, and Internet on the Moon

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space shares the latest news from the around the universe, including the first supernova observed in real time, and Internet service on the moon. Finally!
Instructional Video4:04
SciShow

The Boomerang Nebula: The Coolest Place in Outer Space

12th - Higher Ed
The Boomerang Nebula is colder than space! And it's not really shaped like a boomerang!
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!
Instructional Video4:53
SciShow

More New Earth-like Planets Nearby!

12th - Higher Ed
Between the new, potentially Earth-like planets, organic molecules on Ceres, and SpaceX's successful launch, it's been quite a week in space!