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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

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

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 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:/

Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

Are we alone in the Universe? You have probably asked yourself this question at some point. We will show you how planetary scientists are looking for signs of life in other planets, using our very own Earth a laboratory. Europlanet 2020 RI http://www.europlanet-2020-ri.eu/ Europlanet Outreach http:

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 The Purpose Of Life?

We’re going to do something a little different today. We’ll explore a series of potential purposes, and see what exactly they might tell us about life and how we live it. Then we’ll leave it up to YOU to create your own answers. Make sure to let us know the answers you create in the comment section