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ScienceCasts: August 2017: A Big Month for Astronomy

Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. The Perseid meteor shower will peak on August 11, 12, and 13, and a Total Solar Eclipse will be visible in the United States from coast to coast on August 21. (This video is from 2017)

Was The Wow! Signal From Aliens?

Back in 1977, Jerry Ehman detected what he thought could have been radio signals coming from an alien civilization. This signal, called the “Wow” Signal after the notes written in Ehman’s findings, has for decades been used as evidence that there is other intelligent life out there. But was this act

What If The Earth Was Bigger Than The Sun

In case you didn’t know, the sun is bigger than the Earth. Yes, form here, the sun looks like its no bigger than the Moon. But that’s because of how far away it is from the Earth. 150 million kilometers to be exact. So how big is the Sun? The Sun’s radius is 695700 km. The Earth’s radius is 6371 kil

What Is Dark Matter?

Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/LifesBiggestQuestions 80 percent of our universe is made up stuff that doesn’t emit light or energy, and can't be directly observed. This is called dark matter. Many scientists believe its there, because there are, how to put this, hints that it exi

Why Do We Have Leap Years?

Every four years, we get an extra day in February. Who decided this, and what's the point? Follow Us! https://twitter.com/LifeNoggin https://facebook.com/LifeNoggin Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/LifeNoggin Life Noggin is a weekly animated educational series. Whether it's scie

What If A Massive Solar Flare Hit Us?

The sun is great. The sun is our friend. The sun allows us to keep on living. Basically everything you know and love you can thank the sun for. But the sun is a fickle beast. We are entirely at the suns mercy, and sometimes, our fiery mate kicks off out there. Click here to see more videos: https:/

Can We Build Into Space?

Imagine for a second, a skyscraper, the tallest skyscraper ever built, that’s 100 kilometers tall. You could take an elevator from the ground floor of this skyscraper all the way up to where space begins to a sky bar where you could look at the earth below, and maybe even be launched into space from

What Would It Take For Earth To Explode?

The Death Star could destroy a planet, but what are some realistic ways it could happen. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/LifeNoggin Follow Life Noggin! Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifenoggin/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifenoggin Official Website: https://lnstudios.co/ We

What If The Moon Crashed Into Earth?

Our moon is 2,150 miles wide and orbits the earth at a distance of 384 thousand kilometers, but since its formation, the moon has actually been moving away from the earth. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/LifesBiggestQuestions VIDEO CONCEPT: Landon Dowlatsingh - http://bit.ly/2bwF

The Unbelievable Scale of Black Holes Visualized

Black Holes are weird, and awesome and a lot of other things. Let's go down this rabbit hole... Please Subscribe: https://alugha.com/RealLifeLore Music is by Brandon Maahs. Check out his website and music by clicking this link: http://www.brandonmaahs.com/audio-reel Instagram: https://www.youtube