Star Crash: The Explosion that Transformed Astronomy
For more 4K space, and more great History and Science than you'll ever watch, check out our sister network... https://www.magellantv.com/featured A startling collision in an ancient galaxy slews Earth's largest telescopes to a spot in the Hydra constellation. Two rapidly spinning neutron
From playlist Black Holes & Exploding Stars
The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
For more 4K space, and more great History and Science than you'll ever watch, check out our sister network... https://www.magellantv.com/featured Our Milky Way may harbor millions of black holes... the ultra dense remnants of dead stars. But now, in the universe far beyond our galaxy, the
From playlist Black Holes & Exploding Stars
Black Hole Apocalypse — Official Trailer
Join astrophysicist Janna Levin and others as they hunt for clues about the nature of black holes. NOVA’s “Black Hole Apocalypse” premieres January 10 on PBS. NOVA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NOVAonline NOVA on Twitter: @novapbs NOVA on Instagram: @novapbs
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How a Black Hole Would Kill You
Hey Everyone, You can find our 4K UHD content and more great space and science shows on: https://www.magellantv.com/genres/space What would happen if you crossed paths with a black hole? Nothing good, that's for sure. Here are two popular theories about how exactly a black hole would kill
From playlist Black Holes & Exploding Stars
Imagine a really bad day. Perhaps you're imagining a day where the Sun crashes into another star, destroying most of the Solar System. No? Well then, even in your imagination things aren't so bad... It's all just matter of perspective. Fortunately for us, we live in out the boring suburb
From playlist Guide to Space
Navigate fields of cosmic objects in your quest to become a black hole. The NOVA Black Holes App is available free from the App Store on iPad or at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nova-black-holes/id1114574985
From playlist Original shorts
The Most Devastating Earthquakes In History | Mega Disaster | Spark
When the earthquakes all hell breaks loose, they strike with lighting speed and a huge bulk of destruction. These forces baffle experts who are on a desperate mission to predict when the next big one will hit. The Earth’s titanic forces can rip apart the land, homes and people’s lives. Th
From playlist Mega Disaster
8. Catastrophic Impacts in Earth's History
(February 2, 2010) David Morrison, NASA Lunar Science Institute, discusses the discovery of the cretaceous catastrophe that caused the last mass extinction and explains NASA's research on the danger of similar events occurring in Earth's near future. Stanford University: http://www.stanfo
From playlist Lecture Collection | Astrobiology and Space Exploration (Winter 2010)
A meteor burst into a fireball over Siberia. Can we spot the next deadly asteroid in time? Aired March 27, 2013 on PBS
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Towards a Posthuman Future – with Martin Rees
Martin Rees explores how advances in technology and artificial intelligence, if pursued and applied wisely, could empower us to overcome the threats humanity faces on Earth. Martin's book "On the Future" is now available: https://geni.us/PlUBBPx Martin Rees is a leading astrophysicist as
From playlist Livestreams
Rogue Gas Giant, Fish In Space, Detecting Primordial Black Holes | Q&A 212
What effect would a rogue gas giant have if it flew through the Solar System? Can fish survive in microgravity and go to space? Do hypervelocity stars leave a wake we could detect? How much do we actually know about Proxima Centauri? All this and more in the week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Pa
From playlist Fraser Cain / Universe Today Podcast
How did the field of quantum mechanics come about in the first place? The Rayleigh-Jeans catastrophe, also known as the ultraviolet catastrophe was a prediction by the Rayleigh-Jeans law that a blackbody would radiate infinite amounts of ultraviolet light. It wasn’t until Max Planck came a
From playlist The Physics of Light
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. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and
From playlist SciShow Space
Cosmic Journeys - Solar Superstorms
For more 4K space, and more great History and Science than you'll ever watch, check out our sister network... https://www.magellantv.com/featured A fury is building on the surface of the Sun – high-velocity jets, a fiery tsunami wave that reaches 100,000 kilometers high, rising loops of e
From playlist Cosmic Journeys: Season 1
Properties of Stars | Introductory Astronomy Course 8.04
Welcome to Astronomy: Exploring Time and Space, a course from Professor Impey, a University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. Learn about the foundations of astronomy in this free online course here on YouTube. This video is part of module 8, Stars. Want t
From playlist Introductory Astronomy Module 8: Stars
Why Did the Challenger Space Shuttle Explode? | Epic Engineering Failures
In this first part of two, Stephen Ressler brings us behind the scenes to learn about the personalities, conversations, and conflicting goals that led to the catastrophic explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It will become clear that this disaster—which killed seven people and threw
From playlist Science
Revealing the Nature of Dark Matter
Dr. Dan Hooper, a Theoretical Astrophysicist at Fermilab, explores the current status of the dark matter search and some new thoughts on the nature of this mystery. A signal of gamma rays has been observed from the center of the Milky Way, and it may be the breakthrough that we have long
From playlist Searching for Dark Matter
SEEDSHIP - Stellar Colonization in Text Format (Free to Play)
Seedship is here: http://philome.la/johnayliff/seedship/play Hello and welcome to What Da Math! In this video, we will talk about stellar colonization. Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath Space Engine is available for
From playlist Space Games REVIEW
Exoplanets: Crash Course Astronomy #27
Today Phil explains that YES, there are other planets out there and astronomers have a lot of methods for detecting them. Nearly 2000 have been found so far. The most successful method is using transits, where a planet physically passes in front of its parent star, producing a measurable d
From playlist Astronomy
Black Hole Devours Cosmic Cloud! - The Countdown #27
SUBSCRIBE, future astronauts: http://goo.gl/bRbj4 LINKS for the TOP 5 are listed BELOW!! --------------- The Other Blue Planet http://goo.gl/DIKXOD Neptune's New Moon http://goo.gl/A3d9qY Sizing Up Neutron Stars http://goo.gl/Ks7jjF Meteorite Reveals History of Mars' Crust http://goo
From playlist The Countdown