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...
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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...
Real space food vs fake space food
Let me take you on an epic journey to the heart of the galaxy. Oh, no wait, that’s uh, that’s just an ice cream sammich. A space ice cream sandwich. I mean, look at...
Chris Hadfield’s Space Kitchen
Let’s talk about space food. In the early days of space exploration, food was mostly squeezed out of tubes and brought up in dehydrated packets. But today we can have quite a variety of...
AI SpaceFactory – MARSHA – Our Vertical Martian Future – Part One
MARSHA is our proposal for a Martian surface habitat. It’s born of a careful response to the Martian environment and a synergy between structural, architectural and construction principles with human experience at the center....
NASA’s Challenge to 3D Print Future Habitats on Mars
Right now, you’re looking at renderings of human settlements on Mars. These designs were part of NASA’s 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, a 4-year long competition aimed at engineering homes for another planet. The brightest...
Chris Hadfield’s Space Kitchen
Let’s talk about space food. In the early days of space exploration, food was mostly squeezed out of tubes and brought up in dehydrated packets. But today we can have quite a variety of...
