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Thanks to Brilliant for sponsoring today’s video. My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets. This phrase was one of the mnemonics designed to help me in my youth to remember the names...
I’m going to tell you a story from 200 years ago. In 1820, French astronomer Alexis Bouvard almost became the second person in human history to discover a planet. He’d been tracking the position...
So, you think Planet 9 exists with 99.8% probability? Something like that. Yeah maybe 99.. I’ll push it higher. 99.9% probability. This is wishful thinking. It is. I mean if you’re that sure, find...
When we imagine the solar system, we tend to have this concept of a flat disk with lots of rings indicating the orbital motion of the planets. Given that we’ve learned this since we...
There are 8 planets in our solar system!We all revolve around the sun. Join us to learn about different planets. Now, sing along and have some fun. My name is Mercury. I’m the second...
– Our solar system is oneof over 500 known solar systemsin the entire Milky Way galaxy. The solar system came into beingabout 4. 5 billion years ago, when a cloudof interstellar gas and dust...
We don’t fire a rocket motor all the way to mars. We don’t need toYou just place the spacecraft on a trajectory to mars and let it coast for seven months and 300 million...
Mars is our next-door neighbor, and yet. . . we almost never visit. We sent the InSight lander in 2018, an orbiterand lander combo in 2016, and two orbitersbefore that in 2013. Basically one...
– Our solar system is oneof over 500 known solar systemsin the entire Milky Way galaxy. The solar system came into beingabout 4. 5 billion years ago, when a cloudof interstellar gas and dust...
Scientists from the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Cambridge have found that the small red star had visited our Solar System 70,000 years ago. It actually visited the Oort Cloud, thus...
The following video gives us the most beautiful pictures of Pluto captured during the NASA’s New Horizon’s mission.
The following video gives us a short review about moons in our Solar System that can support life. New studies reveal more information about the characteristics of their atmosphere, underlying water, and so on....
A team of researchers from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil has discovered that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa not only has a huge ocean beneath its surface but also has a lot of...
The following video gives us interesting insights about NASA’s New Horizon’s mission to Pluto. It summarizes all data collected during the mission and help us better understand this mysterious dwarf planet.
The following video explores the Pluto’s atmosphere and its unique mechanism. Namely, Pluto’s atmosphere is cooler than scientists previously thought. The haze around Pluto contains mainly two elements – nitrogen and methane – that...
The following video explains new findings about bright spots on Ceres. Namely, scientists have discovered that Ceres has more than 300 bright spots across the surface.
