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Newton's idea of gravity

At the time of Isaac Newton, it was believed that the celestial bodies were moved by the so-called ether, a substance assumed to fill up all of space. But no one could prove the existence of this substance. Newton realized: rather than ether, there must be a universal action at a distance, originati

Gravity as curved space

The universe is depicted as a flat grid. Earth, Moon and Sun dent this grid due to their mass. All celestial bodies then must move along the dents. But their centrifugal force acts against this. Author: ZDF/Terra X/ T. Schultes/ Nikolai Holzach Translation and dubbing: alugha Click here to see m

LANDING ON A COMET - The Rosetta Mission

+++ Update +++ Rosetta's lander Philae is safely on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as these first two CIVA images confirm. One of the lander's three feet can be seen in the foreground. DLR's Rosetta special http://www.dlr.de/en/rosetta ------------ After a 10-year journey of some

ScienceCasts: A Supermoon Trilogy

Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. A series of three supermoons will appear on the celestial stage on December 3, 2017, January 1, 2018, and January 31, 2018. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA

Where does gold come from?

According to one of the scientific theories of the origin of the Earth, the planets were formed in the distant past by a collision of billions of small celestial bodies - with the element gold as a component in the building material of the galaxies. Author: ZDF/Terra X/Mirror TV/Jens Nicolai/Olive

What If The Earth Had 2 Moons?

Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/LifesBiggestQuestions The Earth and the Moon have been partners in crime for billions of years. This partnership has been the subject of much study over the years, with the interactions between the two celestial bodies being examined. But what would