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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 Is a Dwarf Planet? | NASA Planetary Sciences

In this video from NASA, learn about the history of defining a planet, and examine how classification changes based on new knowledge. Our understanding of the solar system has evolved since the ancient Greeks, who first used the word planetes to distinguish the objects that moved against the backdro

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:/

Where Did Life Come From?

Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/LifesBiggestQuestions Our earth is really old. Estimates put the age of our earth at 4.5 billion years. For 1.5 billion years, it was desolate, no life existed. But Somewhere around 3 billion years ago, life began to sprout on planet earth. Scientis

Why Does Saturn Have Rings?

Saturn is unique. Unlike the other 8 planets in our solar system Saturn has one thing going for it the others are lacking. Rings! Beautiful, multicoloured rings, make the 6th planet from the sun a cosmic marvel, but how and why are they there? Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/Life

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

The Nebra sky disk

The Nebra sky disk is the world's oldest known concrete representation of astronomical phenomena and is more than 3600 years old. It shows a crescent moon, the full moon - sometimes interpreted as the sun - and a total of 32 stars. Author: ZDF/Terra X/SPIEGEL TV/Christopher Gerisch/Tilman Remme/Rei