From PBS Space Time. Learn more about Hack the Moon at https://wehackthemoon.com Recently, the oldest quasar ever seen was discovered by the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, the Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, as well as the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona. In this first episode of the PBS DS mini-series, STELLAR,…

From PBS Space Time. To learn to think like a scientist check out http://Brilliant.org/SpaceTime Check out the new Space Time Merch Store! https://pbsspacetime.com/ Support Space Time on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Black holes are really only dangerous if you get too close. Ha, who am I kidding. It turns out they may be responsible for ending star…

From PBS Space Time. Carl Sagan’s famous words: “We are star stuff” refers to a mind-blowing idea – that most atomic nuclei in our bodies were created in the nuclear furnace and the explosive deaths of stars that lived in the ancient universe. In recent years it’s become clear that the truth is even more…

From PBS Space Time. To Learn more about ExpressVPN, visit: https://www.expressvpn.com/spacetime We live in the stelliferous era. Somewhere between 10 and 1000 billion trillion stars fill the observable universe with light. But there was a time before the first star ignited. A time we call the cosmic dark ages. Check out the new Space Time…

From PBS Space Time. Try Audible for 30 days visit https://www.audible.com/spacetime or text spacetime to 500 500! Quantum computing is cool, but you know what would be extra awesome – a quantum internet. In fact if we want the first we’ll need the latter. And the first step to the quantum internet is quantum cryptography.…

From PBS Space Time. You can learn more about CuriosityStream at https://curiositystream.com/spacetime How do you take a picture of a black hole and what can we learn from it? Our first ever actual bona fide photo of a black hole, made by the Event Horizon Telescope and revealed to the world in a press conference…

From PBS Space Time. You can learn more about CuriosityStream at https://curiositystream.com/spacetime We’ve been failing to detect dark matter for decades. Finally, the latest failure to detect dark matter may have actually proved its existence. One of these is true: either most of the matter in the universe is invisible and formed of something not…

From PBS Space Time. We live in a universe with 3 dimensions of space and one of time. Up, down, left, right, forward, back, past, future. 3+1 dimensions. Or so our primitive Pleistocene-evolved brains find it useful to believe. And we cling to this intuition, even as physics shows us that this view of reality…

From PBS Space Time. Have you ever asked “what is beyond the edge of the universe?” And have you ever been told that an infinite universe that has no edge? You were told wrong. In a sense. We can define a boundary to an infinite universe, at least mathematically. And it turns out that boundary…

From PBS Space Time. Of all the unlikely ends of the universe, the Big Rip has to be the most spectacular. Galaxies ripped to shreds, dogs and cat first living together, then tragically separated by the infinitely accelerating expansion of space on subatomic scales. Good thing it’s not going to happen. Or is it? Check…

From PBS Space Time. Learn More about The Great Courses Plus: http://ow.ly/wvWC30o0QYV Check out the new Space Time Merch Store! https://pbsspacetime.com/ Support Space Time on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime The power of Dark Energy may be increasing as the universe ages. Subtle clues are emerging that the accepted model for the nature of dark energy and dark…

From PBS Space Time. Check out Sound Field: http://youtube.com/soundfieldpbs Check out the new Space Time Merch Store! https://pbsspacetime.com/ Support Space Time on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Thanks to Matthias Rüby for on-site camera work. https://www.instagram.com/matthiasrueby/ The private space-race has been on for a while now. The attention has been on Space-X and Blue Origin with their reusable…

From PBS Space Time. You can learn more about CuriosityStream at https://curiositystream.com/spacetime Check out the new Space Time Merch Store! https://pbsspacetime.com/ Support Space Time on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime See Matt in NYC at Caveat March 7th at 9pm: https://www.caveat.nyc/event/astronaut-training-a-space-camp-game-show-for-lunatics-3-7-2019 Bad ideas come and go in physics. But there’s one bit of nonsense that is perhaps more…

From PBS Space Time. You can learn more about CuriosityStream at https://curiositystream.com/spacetime Check out the new Space Time Merch Store! https://pbsspacetime.com/ Support Space Time on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Hook up an old antenna to your TV and scan between channels. The static buzz you hear is mostly due to the ambient radio produced by our noisy…

From PBS Space Time. You can check out Google’s Science Journal app at http://g.co/ScienceJournal Check out the new Space Time Merch Store! https://pbsspacetime.com/ Support Space Time on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Email your answers to: pbsspacetime@gmail.com With the subject heading: Negative Mass Challenge Question Invisible to the naked eye, our night sky is scattered with the 100s…

From PBS Space Time. Check out the new Space Time Merch Store! https://pbsspacetime.com/ Support Space Time on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Email your answers to: pbsspacetime@gmail.com With the subject heading: Negative Mass Challenge Question Challenge question: if 1kg of apples is $5 and 2kg is $10, how much is -1kg of apples? The answer? Priceless. Because you…