"... Over the last year, we at MinuteEarth and MinutePhysics have had the privilege of working with NASA's Heliophysics Education Activation Team make a series of videos about the awesomeness of solar... continue reading
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From YouTube, "The Earth is a gigantic ball of semi-molten rock, with a heart of iron as hot as the surface of the Sun. Titanic amounts of heat left over from its birth and the radioactive decay of trillions... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 1 year 7 months 4 weeks ago • 354 views • 11:59What If you took the celestial bodies that have elements names for them (Mercury, Ceres, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto), and made them entirely composed of those elements? Minute physics animates and presents... continue reading
posted by noims 1 year 8 months 3 weeks ago • 29 views • 3:41"How can it be summer in North America and winter in Australia at the same time?! ..."
posted by ant 1 year 10 months ago • 51 views • 5:39From Youtube, "The night sky seems peaceful and orderly. But in reality, stars are careening through the galaxy at speeds of hundreds of thousands of kilometers per hour. Not bound by static formations... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 326 views • 9:46"Take a look inside a hive as a wasp queen begins her reign; founding a colony, hunting to feed her brood and defending against intruders. As the sun rises, something royal stirs inside a pile of firewood.... continue reading
posted by ant 3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 16 views • 5:23From Youtube, "The sun. Smooth and round and peaceful. Except when it suddenly vomits radiation and plasma in random directions. These solar flares and coronal mass ejections, or CMEs can hit earth and... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years ago • 135 views • 9:43YouTube description: The history of the Earth from its formation to present day, covering major events throughout its 4-billion-year history. Estimates of average temperature, atmospheric composition,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 808 views • 11:36From Twitter: Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson Astrophysicist In the tropics, the Sun sets vertical to the horizon; Twilight doesn’t last very long; and the Full Moon rises shortly after sunset,... continue reading
posted by BSR 4 years 11 months ago • 49 views • 30 secsYT - ThePanthNetwork Published on Feb 20, 2012 This video answers the questions "What is Pantheism?" and "What do Pantheists believe?" Please watch this video with your volume up, as it does not... continue reading
posted by Buck 6 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 66 views • 3:26How the Sun affects the Earth.
posted by bobknight33 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 99 views • 4:19What if the Sun was here on Earth?
posted by w1ndex 6 years 9 months 1 week ago • 657 views • 7:01Destin and friends calculate where best to catch the ISS transitting the sun during the 2017 eclipse.
posted by nanrod 6 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 754 views • 8:39YT: A total eclipse of the sun is an awe-inspiring sight, but throughout history it has also inspired scientific research. Studying eclipses has led to discoveries about the composition of the sun, the... continue reading
posted by Fantomas 6 years 10 months ago • 46 views • 4:29https://youtu.be/Zm6X77ShHa8 Beavers have done more to shape North American landscapes than any animal beside humans. We don’t notice them much today because there aren’t many left, but before colonization,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,121 views • 5:19Sometimes, it seems hard to go outside and face the day. But what would happen if you never saw sunlight?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years ago • 30 views • 3:32YouTube description: Originally built by the Incas, the manmade salt pans in Maras, Peru, have endured for over 500 years. Beneath the Qaqawiñay mountains runs a salty fresh spring, which empties into... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 1,535 views • 1:20It takes less acceleration to get to other stars than our own sun. Crazy, huh?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 4 months ago • 1,866 views • 3:13