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A Gleaming Series of USPS Stamps Features a Decade of the Sun’s Phenomena | Colossal
JUNE 25, 2021 GRACE EBERT NASA and the USPS have teamed up to release a glimmering series of stamps that celebrates some of the sun’s most alluring phenomena. Printed with a foil treatment, the ten designs are derived from a … Continue reading
Is There Life on Earth?
I mean… how do you really know? SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a video! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ If we lived light years from Earth, how would we know there’s life here? Let’s take a … Continue reading
Visualising gravitational waves
I take a classic demonstration of warping spacetime and figure out how to demonstrate gravitational waves with the addition of some wheels and a drill. Discussion video about LIGO and gravitational waves: Tom Scott’s video about frame rate: Visit my … Continue reading
Why the Stars Are Disappearing
[…] It never gets dark anymore. Not REALLY dark, anyway. Not like it used to. Light pollution is not only making it more difficult to see the night sky, but it’s also affecting our health. For the past century and … Continue reading
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BBC Radio 4 – The Blind Astronomer
Kate Molleson tells the story of Wanda Diaz-Merced and her pioneering work with sound. This is the story, and the sound, of Puerto Rican scientist Wanda Díaz-Merced, who is revolutionising astronomy by turning data from space into audio that can … Continue reading
Emily Levesque Public Lecture: The Weirdest Stars in the Universe
In her March 7 public lecture at Perimeter Institute, Emily Levesque discusses the history of stellar astronomy, present-day observing techniques and exciting new discoveries, and explores some of the most puzzling and bizarre objects being studied by astronomers today.
In conversation with Dr Alexandra Amon (Dark Energy Survey & Stanford University)
A week ago the Dark Energy Survey released its long-awaited 3 years worth of data – the positions of 226 million galaxies! Along with that came a whole load of new science in 30 papers (!) – I dived into … Continue reading
Dark matter: smooth or clumpy?! | The Dark Energy Survey Results!
A week ago the Dark Energy Survey released its long-awaited 3 years worth of data – the positions of 226 million galaxies! Along with that came a whole load of new science in 30 papers (!) – I dived into … Continue reading
Could Milky Way’s Central Black Hole Actually Be Something Else?
[…]Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about an interesting study proposing that central black hole could be something else. Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.06301.pdf […]
How do we know we’re not at the centre of the universe? 🪐 💫 – BBC
Professor Brian Cox explains exactly what it means when your horoscope says “Mercury is in retrograde”, and how it lead to the discovery that we’re not at the centre of our Solar System. You can stream Brian Cox’s Adventures in … Continue reading
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