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You may have heard of your “sign” — sometimes called your “Zodiac sign” or your “star sign.” It’s a name that corresponds to mythology but also to stellar constellations. So why do you have the sign you have? Your sign is kind of, sort of related to the constellation that rises in the western night […]
Read it »NASA sent a small drone helicopter to Mars as part of the Perseverance rover. Dr. Becky explains how it could work and reacts to NASA’s broadcast. Did it fly?
Read it »Find out why in this short video.
Read it »Gravity and radiation keep stars in balance. But when they run out of energy, they collapse in on themselves. What happens next depends on how much mass they have.
Read it »Most moons we observe are tidally-locked to the planets they orbit. This means the same side of the moon faces the planet at all times. What if the earth were tidally-locked with the sun?!? That would mean that only one side of earth would face the sun’s heat and light at all times. This video […]
Read it »There is a 1:1,000,000,000 scale (that’s one-billionth) model of our solar system along St Kilda beach in Melbourne, Australia. It’s probably the only way you’ll ever be able to tell your friends you hiked from Pluto to Mercury.
Read it »Carolyn Porco discusses how samples gathered from icy geysers on Saturn’s moon Enceladus hint that an ocean under its surface could harbor life.
Read it »Jocelyn Bell Burnell is the astronomer who discovered pulsars. A man got the credit for it. Watch this true story about a groundbreaking scientist who was overlooked through history.
Read it »A volcano moon, the biggest moon in the solar system, the oldest moon in the solar system, and a moon with the best chance of hosting life are Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, named after Galileo who discovered them in 1610. Jupiter has 79 moons that we know of so far. This is a long video […]
Read it »Just as the planets in our solar system orbit a central star, so do the contents of our galaxy orbit a supermassive black hole. Dr. Becky asks, “What would happen if we removed that black hole?”
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