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The Strange Case of Eta Carinae A
Eta Carinae A, a star that briefly held the title of the second-brightest star in the sky, has been dazzling astronomers for centuries. Learn more about this type of supermassive, mega-luminous star, known as a Luminous Blue Variable.
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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.
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The Oldest Planet Ever Discovered
We've only found one planet in a globular cluster, where gravitational interactions should usually rip baby planets apart, but that's not all that excites astronomers about PSR 1620-26 b.
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New Jupiter Discoveries from the Juno Mission!
The Juno spacecraft has been making close flybys of Jupiter and its measurements have revealed some new things about Jupiter’s interior. And astronomers were surprised after putting together the most complete atmospheric profile that’s...
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3 Exoplanets With Extreme Weather
You might think weather on earth is pretty crazy, but at least we don't have an apocalyptic shockwave to worry about every 111 days.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How many universes are there? - Chris Anderson
The fact that no one knows the answer to this question is what makes it exciting. The story of physics has been one of an ever-expanding understanding of the sheer scale of reality, to the point where physicists are now postulating that...
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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.
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Gold: The Big Bling
Hank talks about a shiny element that has fascinated humans for millenia.
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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.
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The Pristine Visitor From Another Star
You may have heard of the first interstellar object observed in our solar system, but did you know there's more than one? And speaking of icy rocks, new research suggests the ocean under the icy crust of Enceladus could be more dynamic...
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Does the Sun Have Long-Lost Siblings?
The sun may have thousands of stellar siblings, many of them probably just like it, elsewhere in the galaxy. Find out how astronomers are looking for them, and learn about a match that could be our star's long-lost sibling!
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ALMA: What We've Learned from One of the Best Telescopes on Earth
Move over Hubble, ALMA sees what you can't!
TED Talks
TED: The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system | Karen J. Meech
In October 2017, astrobiologist Karen J. Meech got the call every astronomer waits for: NASA had spotted the very first visitor from another star system. The interstellar comet -- a half-mile-long object eventually named `Oumuamua, from...
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Brown Dwarfs Space’s Strangely Important Oddballs
You’d think it would be easy to tell if an object in space was a star or a planet - is it big, hot, and shining? It’s a star! Small, cool, and made of rock and gas? Planet! But cosmic oddities know as brown dwarfs remind us that the...
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They're Calling It: The Forbidden Planet
We’ve discovered a planet that, for its size, is in a very strange place around it’s star! And other scientists, inspired by comets, have come up with a new way to potentially make breathable oxygen for people exploring Mars in the future.
PBS
Using Stars to See Gravitational Waves
Now that gravitational waves are definitely a thing, it's time to think about some of the crazy things we can figure out with them. In some cases we're going to need a gravitational wave observatory - in fact, we've already built one.
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Life on an Eyeball Planet? It's Possible
Tidally locked planets could be more common than Earth-like planets! And these 'eyeball planets' might even be a promising place to look for unique lifeforms!
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The Brightest, Biggest Space News of 2019!
This has been another really good year for exploring the universe. This is our annual superlatives episode, so let’s take a look at the some of the coolest breakthroughs of 2019.
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Why We've Only Ever Seen the Sun's Poles Once
The Ulysses mission revolutionized our understanding of the sun, but it's been the only orbiter to take this kind of out-of-ecliptic journey. Will an upcoming mission give us even more?
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There's Going to Be a New Star in the Sky
The night sky is about to look a little different, but that's nothing new!
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8 New Earth-Like Planets Discovered!
SciShow Space starts the year off with a bang, and the discovery of 8 Earth-like planets, two of which may be the most promising candidates yet for harboring life.
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Dust Could Turn Extreme Planets Habitable | SciShow News
Some tidally-locked exoplanets might actually be more habitable than astronomers initially thought, and we have some ideas about how Peter Pan disks can last so much longer than other protoplanetary disks.
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Take a Trip Through Space!
Take a trip through our star area, using only the ten hundred most used words, inspired by Randall Munroe of XKCD.
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NASA Just Launched a New, Planet-Hunting Telescope!
From launching a new satellite, to finding diamonds from a lost world, researchers have been hard at work transforming how we think about our planet, the solar system, and the rest of the universe.