Cosmic Ballet – Comets & Asteroids
Cosmic Ballet – Comets & Asteroids Every few years, a bright comet fills our sky. From a small, bright area called the head, a tail may extend gracefully over one-sixth or more of...
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Satellites made in the UK and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (Amy Aviation’s UK Tour)
There are loads of places around the UK which are associated with Britain’s aerospace industry. Some of them might be near to where you live! Let’s spin the propeller and see where we’re headed...
GPS: The Revolutionary Navigation Technology | Global Positioning System | Satellites
Have you ever been lost while driving? Like you thought you were going to the grocery store but ended up in another country lost? Well, have no fear because today we’re going to talk...
The Best Earth-like Exoplanet Has 4 Major Problems
As telescopes like the James Webb look out across the Milky Way, you might have heard the growing buzz around newly discovered exoplanets. It wasn’t that long ago – only 1992 – that we...
GPS: The Global Positioning System
after carefully considering the many scientific and technical achievements and spaceflight satellites and sensing the International Astronautical Federation gave its 60th anniversary award to the one space project in history providing the greatest measurable...
Exoplanets: Crash Course Astronomy
When you look up at the night sky, and if you happen to live far from city lights, you can see thousands of stars. It seems like the sky is crammed shoulder to shoulder...
Why Black Hole Environments Are a Lot More Complicated Than We Thought
Black holes are one of the most mind-boggling aspects of space. For a start, they aren’t actually objects, they are the result of the extreme warping of space-time. And because of this warping, some...
Tutorial on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS): Positioning, Navigation and more!
Today, everyone may already be familiar with the term GPS, the Global Positioning System. GPS receivers are found in your cell phone, smartwatch, navigation devices, cameras, glasses, and many more. You may not; however,...
Russian Nuclear Weapons in Space? Here’s What We Know. | WSJ
– [Narrator] Alarm and confusion have gripped Washington. – The US has new intelligence. – Of a quote “Serious national security threat.” – Nukes in space, really? – [Narrator] New intelligence suggests that Russia...
Brian Cox on how black holes could unlock the mysteries of our universe
– Could black holes be the key to a quantum theory of gravity? A deeper theory of how reality, of how space and time works? Black holes are interesting because we have a place...
Space is Full of Junk. Here’s How to Clean It Up…
– On February 10th, 2009, somewhere in orbit above Siberia, a Russian military satellite collided with an American communication satellite. At the moment of collision, each satellite was traveling nearly 36,000 kilometers per hour....
Exoplanets and the search for life in the universe – with Chris Impey
(gentle music) (audience applauds) – Thanks Peter. I’m delighted to be here. I first lectured here I think six or seven years ago about the future of space and then did black holes during...
10.8 Global Positioning System
PROFESSOR: Welcome back to A20 special relativity. In this last section of this chapter, we talked about applications and implications of special relativity. We talked about the global positioning system. You all have used...
NASA’s Kepler Telescope Discovered A New Exoplanet Even Better for Life Than Earth
Over its 9-year mission, NASA’s Kepler Telescope turned its gaze to over half a million stars, revealing that 20-50% of all visible stars could harbor potentially habitable Earth-sized rocky planets. In our relentless search...
What Happens If You Destroy A Black Hole?
Black holes can destroy everything – but can they be destroyed? What happens if we push physics to the absolute limits, maybe even break it and the universe in the process? Let’s create a...
Earth Is Hurtling Towards Something Strange and We Don’t Know What It Is by ✨ Dolores Cannon
Imagine the vastness of the cosmos revealed in the 1970s, showing us that our galaxy is not just a stationary mass but is moving at an incredible speed of 390 miles per second. This...
What Is an Exoplanet?
– [Narrator] You’ve seen weird, wonderful worlds in science fiction. We don’t yet know what sorts of life might exist out there. But some of the planets not unlike the ones in your favorite...
Black Holes Explained – From Birth to Death
Black holes are one of the strangest things in existence. They don’t seem to make any sense at all. Where do they come from… …and what happens if you fall into one? Stars are...
