Earth's mysterious red glow, explained - Zoe Pierrat
AdultsEducationScienceSpaceNatureBiology... Explore the phenomenon and uses of chlorophyll fluorescence, a small amount of light emitted by plants during photosynthesis.
How Distant Galaxies Mess With Our Lives
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The Largest Black Hole in the Universe - Size Comparison
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The Ultimate Guide to Black Holes
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Why Robots That Bend Are Better
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Would Living on the Moon Suck? - Dear Blocko #31
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What if We Nuke the Moon?
AdultsNatureScienceSpace What would happen if we were to detonate a very very powerful nuclear weapon on the moon?
What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth
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Do You Expand With The Universe?
AdultsEducationScienceSpacePhysics... As the universe expands, is said to "stretch" photons. But if it stretches photons, does it also stretch molecules, galaxies and you? A portion of this video was sponsored by Salesforce.
Could we harness the power of a black hole?
AdultsEducationScienceSpaceFuture... Imagine a distant future when humans reach beyond Earth, forge cities on planets thousands of light-years away, and maintain a galactic web of trade and transport. What would it take to make that leap?
What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like?
AdultsEducationHumanSpaceScience... The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our home galaxy.
Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization? Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections
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Parallel Worlds Probably Exist. Here’s Why
AdultsHumanScienceSpacePhilosophy... The most elegant interpretation of quantum mechanics is the universe is constantly splitting
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The Cosmic Calendar | Cosmos: Possible Worlds
AdultsLifeScienceSpacePhilosophy... The Cosmic Calendar visualizes the chronology of the universe, scaling approx. 13.8 billion years to one single year for perspective.
How Could We Get To Mars In Only 28 Hours?
AdultsConstructionScienceSpaceFuture... There's a cheat code to getting to Mars. Can humans handle the harsh conditions that space will throw at them?
How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines
AdultsScienceSpaceTechnology Nothing in the Universe is static. In the milky way, billions of stars orbit the galactic center.
Some, like our sun, are pretty consistent, keeping a distance of around 30,000 light years from the galactic center, completing an orbit every 230 million years.
The Mysterious Event That Made Venus A Death Trap
AdultsHistoryScienceSpace At one time long ago, the planet Venus had some similarities in its climate to that of Earth, and having the potential to be habitable for the existence of life, but something happened that made Venus an uninhabitable, rocky, desolate planet, but what?