Curated Video
Lunar and Solar Eclipse Explained: A Beginner’s Guide to Eclipses
Solar and lunar eclipses are celestial phenomena that occur when the sun, moon and Earth align in a way that either the moon casts a shadow on Earth or the latter casts a shadow on the moon. So what are the similarities and differences...
Crash Course
How to Engineer Health - Drug Discovery & Delivery: Crash Course Engineering #36
Engineers are problem solvers, and our own health is full of problems to be engineered. In this episode we discuss drug discovery and drug delivery. We’ll explore everything from classical and reverse pharmacology to the new field of...
Curated Video
Exploring Eclipses: Lunar and Solar Phenomena
An eclipse occurs when the Moon and Earth align with the Sun, resulting in either a lunar or solar eclipse. During a lunar eclipse, Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon, casting a shadow. In a solar eclipse, the Moon blocks...
SciShow
Eclipses That Don't Eclipse
Here on Earth, we’re used to seeing both lunar and solar eclipses. But further out are eclipses that don’t behave at all the way we expected them to.
SciShow Kids
2015's Solar Eclipse
In this episode of SciShow Kids, Jessi talks about solar eclipses, and in particular, the solar eclipse of 2015! Jessi will show you how eclipses occur and where the best places to view the eclipse are.
Mr. Beat
What's the Big Deal About Solar Eclipses?
Almost everyone knows about his first voyage. You know, in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean, dude? Far less people know about his last voyage. He left Spain on what would be his final voyage on May 11, 1502. It didn't go so well. An...
NASA
The Moon's Role in a Solar Eclipse
This video explains how our moon creates a solar eclipse, why it's such a rare event to see, and how data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has enhanced our ability to map an eclipse's path of totality. Music Provided by Universal...
CuriosaMente
Why aren't there solar eclipses every month? - Curiosamente #1
An animated explanation of how eclipses work. As you know a solar eclipse occurs when the moon is placed between the earth and the sun. But, if the moon takes about 28 days to travel around Earth, why don’t we see eclipses every month?
Curated Video
What Are Eclipses?
Solar and lunar eclipses are spectacular phenomena which captivate people around the world, but what causes them? Physics - Our Solar System - Learning Points. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon....
Crash Course
Thermodynamics: Crash Course History of Science
It's time to heat things up! LITERALLY! It's time for Hank to talk about the history of Thermodynamics!!! It's messy and there are a lot of people who came up with some ideas that worked and other that didn't and then some ideas that...
Bozeman Science
AP Biology Lab 5: Cellular Respiration
Paul Andersen explains how a respirometer can be used to measure the respiration rate in peas, germinating peas and the worm. KOH is used to solidify CO2 produced by a respiring organism.
TED Talks
Rajesh Rao: A Rosetta Stone for a lost language
Rajesh Rao is fascinated by "the mother of all crossword puzzles": how to decipher the 4000-year-old Indus script. He's enlisting modern computation to try to read this lost language, the key to understanding this ancient civilization.
Curated Video
The Universe: The Solar and Lunar Eclipse
By the end of this learning object, the student will be able to: Compare between the solar eclipse and the lunar eclipse.13572
NASA
What Spacecraft Saw During the 2017 Solar Eclipse
On Aug. 21, 2017, a solar eclipse passed over North America. People throughout the continent experienced a partial solar eclipse, and a total solar eclipse passed over a narrow swath of land stretching from Oregon to South Carolina,...
Space Videos
What is an eclipse? Lunar and Solar eclipses explained
What is a lunar eclipse? What is a solar eclipse? This short video explains the difference between these regularly occurring events that can be observed from Earth. Subscribe For More Videos Like This:...
SciShow
How Ancient Babylonians Predicted Eclipses
There's an eclipse coming up in April of 2024! You'd think it takes a lot of modern technology for us to know about it, but it turns out that humans have been able to predict eclipses for nearly three thousand years. And we've been using...
Curated Video
Our Solar System
Dr. Forrester classifies the parts of our solar system by examining such components as planets, moon, Sun, Milky Way, comets, asteroids, and meteors. She explains lunar phases, lunar eclipses, and solar eclipses. Dr. Forrester...
Professor Dave Explains
William Howard Taft: Plus-Sized President (1909-1913)
Taft was the hand-picked successor to the monolithic Teddy Roosevelt. What did he do in office? Besides being famous for being overweight, he was also the only president to become a Supreme Court Justice. What else did he do? What did he...
Physics Girl
What's the difference between a solar and lunar eclipse?
Solar and lunar eclipse - which is which? And how can you finally remember the difference?
MinuteEarth
Eclipses Used To Be Terrifying
Because eclipses are powerful and frightening events, ancient cultures went to great lengths to understand eclipses, leading to remarkably accurate predictions and helping invent the science of astronomy.
Crash Course
Eclipses
The big question in the comments last week was, "BUT WHAT ABOUT ECLIPSES?" Today, Phil breaks 'em down for you.
NASA
Tracing the 2017 Solar Eclipse
When depicting an eclipse path, data visualizers have usually chosen to represent the moon's shadow as an oval. By bringing in a variety of NASA data sets, visualizer Ernie Wright has created a new and more accurate representation of the...
NASA
Baseball Hits an Eclipse
One of the best places to view the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse was at a ballpark in Keizer, Oregon. Here, NASA Goddard and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission partnered with the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes Minor League Baseball team for an...