Planets in the night sky

In our night sky, you can see space - big, mysterious, and frankly a bit scary. I sometimes look up at it and ask those big questions. Such as, how do stars work? How did it all begin? And, what is...
In 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope was launched to answer one question: how many stars in our galaxy harbor planets like the Earth? To answer that question, Kepler stared at one small area of our...
In this video we are going to go looking for Jupiter and to do that we need to plan ahead using a piece of free software called Stellarium. Stellarium is your own virtual Planetarium, it allows you to...
looking at the vertical menu bar we've got our help window and the main thing i want to point out here is that it holds all the shortcut keys search window pretty self-explanatory you would...
To start off with our space scene, we are going to need to start with a background. So, on our screen here we see that we have got Photoshop open here. Let us create a new document and let us change...
Where are we On the Earth Where is Earth? In the Solar System In the Solar System, what is Earth doing? We will learn about it through this model. What is this? This is the Earth. Actually, a model of...
[music] I'm standing under one of Austin's famous Moontowers. At the end of the 19th century to recreate moonlight in this growing city. The moon is the brightest thing in the night...
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QUIET SUN: The sun's southern hemisphere is peppered with sunspots, but none of them is actively flaring. Solar activity remains low. NOAA forecasters estimate a 15% chance of M-class solar...