Look closely and see a meteor shower captured in this series of time-lapse shots. From December 14-16, 2012, the Geminid meteor shower made a spectacular appearance over the Paranal Observatory in Chile. As the meteors showered down over the site, photographer Gianluca Lombardi spent over 40 hours recording the spectacle.
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Composer Robert Alexander is helping NASA make new discoveries by turning raw data into music through a process called Data Sonification. Alexander, a classically trained composer, charts the sun’s cycles and patterns, transcribing the data into audio equivalents that he uses as the basis for his music.
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Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe — How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? — and discusses how we might go about answering them.
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Today Hank Green uses his patented prognosticating abilities to tell you about some space news events to watch out for in 2013. What is the Curiosity rover going to spend most of the year doing? Why are we going back to the moon? And what two awesome things are projected to occur around Thanksgiving Day? Find out in this edition of SciShow News.
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What would happen if you were cast adrift in the vacuum of space? Would your head explode? Would you freeze to death? Or quickly reach a boiling point? Hank Green as explors all of the most pressing alternatives he answers a SciShow viewer’s question about what happens if the human body gets exposed to space.
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In one of his Great Minds episodes of the SciShow, Hank Green salutes Henrietta Swan Leavitt. A graduate of Radcliffe College, Leavitt was one of a number of volunteer women astronomers who were allowed in 1893 to serve as “computers” at Harvard College Observatory, doing tedious work male scientists wouldn’t do, and ultimately making a discovery now known as Leavitt’s Law, which allows us to measure the distance to stars.
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The Mayan calendar might not have been precise in predicting the world of the world, but the Maya certainly took astronomy seriously as a cornerstone to their religious beliefs. In a cave in Mexico’s Yucatán, a National Geographic explorer reveals what is believed to have been an underground observatory for witnessing the zenith passage of the sun.
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Anyone with some brains and lots of courage can build their own space rocket using everyday, off-the-shelf products. Vice recently flew to Denmark to meet the founders of Copenhagen Suborbitals, a non-profit open-source D.I.Y. space endeavor.
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Hank Green pays tribute to some of the great scientific minds we lost in 2012, beginning with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride. Green concludes by apologizing for some mistakes made in recent SciShow episodes.
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In this episode of SciShow, Hank Green gives us an inclusive overview of how everything in the universe is thought to have begun, and how cosmologists predict it will all come to an end. Now get happy!
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