Introduction to Astronomy: Crash Course Astronomy #1
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Welcome to the first episode of Crash Course Astronomy. Your host for this intergalactic adventure is the Bad Astronomer himself, Phil Plait. We begin with answering a question: "What is astronomy?" -- Table of Contents: What is Astronomy? 3:00 Who Studies Astronomy? 3:50 Origins & Developments 6:52 -- PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Follow Phil on Twitter: https://twitter.com/badastronomer Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Tumblr - http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Support CrashCourse on Subbable: http://subbable.com/crashcourse -- Photos: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_cutaway.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_magnetic_field#mediaviewer/File:Geodynamo_Between_Reversals.gif http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_storm#mediaviewer/File:Magnetosphere_rendition.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn#mediaviewer/File:Saturn_PIA06077.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/243_Ida#mediaviewer/File:243_Ida_large.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comet_Hale_Bopp_NASA.jpg http://solarviews.com/raw/comet/kuiper3.jpg http://solarviews.com/cap/comet/kuiper3.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_bright_stars#mediaviewer/File:3_Solar_Interstellar_Neighborhood_(ELitU).png http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/06/28/planetary_nebula_sh2_68_the_flaming_skull_nebula.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/06/06/milky_way_galaxy_two_new_discoveries_about_its_spiral_arms.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole#mediaviewer/File:PIA16695-BlackHole-Corona-20130227.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messier_69_HST.jpg http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/06/25/nearby_galaxies_swift_uv_pictures_of_two_galactic_neighbors.html http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Earth%27s_Location_in_the_Universe_SMALLER_%28JPEG%29.jpg http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/21/age_of_the_universe_planck_results_show_universe_is_13_82_billion_years.html http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2007/02/True-colour_image_of_Mars_seen_by_OSIRIS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy#mediaviewer/File:WISE-_Andromeda.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulum_Galaxy#mediaviewer/File:VST_snaps_a_very_detailed_view_of_the_Triangulum_Galaxy.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope#mediaviewer/File:HST-SM4.jpeg http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/12/21/winter_solstice_2013_the_shortest_day_of_the_year.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/12/28/full_moon_today_is_the_13th_full_moon_of_2012.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus#mediaviewer/File:Nikolaus_Kopernikus.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#mediaviewer/File:Tycho_Brahe.JPG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler#mediaviewer/File:Johannes_Kepler_1610.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#mediaviewer/File:GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei#mediaviewer/File:Justus_Sustermans_-_Portrait_of_Galileo_Galilei,_1636.jpg http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/09/25/revealing_the_universe_the_hubble_extreme_deep_field.html
Comments
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Is Astronomy easy ? Im taking it next semster as a required class.
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I want to see an astrophysicist
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i don know but i had a dream to become a doctor but whenever i see the sky like u told it just facinates me i am really confused
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i need to be emotionless when i learn about this stuff or else I'll have an existential crisis
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А на русском есть😩
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Hold on, u have to give more or less equal credit to Gottfried Leibniz for inventing calculus. Ofc Isac Newton started and publish paper before Gottfried Leibniz but Leibniz also have no less contribution in calculus as well.
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1:35 the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
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5:56 yea. thats how religions was born. which till now some people are still believe in it
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So many people thinking this is all lies from NASA. They think the Earth is flat and only things in the heavens is the Milky Way cloud, the sun the moon and stars. They think we never went to space.
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I love learning new life lessons. Hooray
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WE're not apes we actual came from the sea and evolved to the land
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Come on Crash Corse do a serious on Quantum Physics
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Thanks soooooo much we watch this at school but you guys really teach well so I actually watch you at home to
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I'm already 16 and I'm learning in the internet more about astronomy more than in school! I wish to be an astronomer in the future.
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This dude needs to chill with religion
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+CrashCourse Can you do Astrology as well.
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I WANT THIS LITTLE TELESCOPE! WHERE DO I FIND IT?
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So coooool!
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He's not a Bad ASTRONOMER... HE'S AWESOME!!!!
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Thank you! Thank you guys for such an amazing and informative video...it really helped me as i'm going to compete in an astro-quiz , really helped me understand!!!! <3
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