Travel into the future for a preview of the Giant Magellan Telescope. This cathedral-sized telescope perched on a Chilean mountaintop will, like Star Trek's ...
Alyssa Goodman, IIC Founding Director, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Most scientists draw pictures to communicate their ideas to each other.
Video of a guest lecture I gave at Harvard as part of the "Life as a Planetary Phenomenon" class (SPU30). In this lecture, I discuss the moons of the Solar System ...
In 2015–2016, the Next in Science series focused on frontiers in astronomy and astrophysics. Scholars discussed new interdisciplinary research on what the ...
Red shift. Let's go to the dome, -ome Let's go get away They say, no clouds today Have a drink, clink, found the moonshine. RGB Fits, are hard to combine.
Over the past decade, astronomers have answered - or are closing in on the answers to - some of the biggest questions about the universe. David Eicher ...
Travel into the future for a preview of the Giant Magellan Telescope. This cathedral-sized telescope perched on a Chilean mountaintop will, like Star Trek's ...
In 2015–2016, the Next in Science series focused on frontiers in astronomy and astrophysics. Scholars discussed new interdisciplinary research on what the ...
Recorded on the 09/15/2013 open class at Harvard School of Genius, First Grade.
Avi Loeb's life story and scientific contributions are highlighted in this video from the Smithsonian Science Education Center. Avi Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr.
Harvard Professor Alyssa Goodman discusses the integral role open access plays in astronomical research. To read open Harvard scholarship, visit ...
Title: Radio Astronomy and Interferometry Fundamentals [Lecture 1/2] Speaker: David Wilner, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (dwilner at ...
Representing nature's biggest explosions since the Big Bang itself, gamma-ray bursts were first accidentally spotted in the 1960s by Department of Defense ...
Interview with Harvard graduates in the 1980s illustrated how widespread the misconception of seasons are.
11:30 Space Rocks: Studies of the Composition of Asteroids and Meteorites Nina Louise Hooper 11:50 Physically Modeling Kuiper Belt Contact Binaries ...
Dimitar Sasselov, CfA In 1543 Copernicus showed that our planet isn't the center of the universe. Centuries later, we know that just as Earth is not the center of ...
The physical properties of our planet are intricately tied to the sequence of giant impact events that led to the formation of the Moon. The canonical giant impact ...
Harvard Professor Dr. Jonathan Grindlay speaks about AUC's Astronomy Minor and the planned collaboration with Harvard's DASCH Project. DASCH stands for ...
Conversations host Harry Kreisler speaks with Alexander Dalgarno, Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, on the subject of astrophysics. Series: ...
OK, black holes are intimidating. Because of their intense gravity, a black hole will absorb anything, and whatever falls in effectively disappears forever, making ...
Søren Meibom, CfA For many movie stars, their ages are well-kept secrets. In space, the same is true of the actual stars. Like our Sun, most stars look nearly ...
May 2015: Harvard Horizons Symposium, featuring Elisabeth Newton, a PhD candidate in Astronomy, on “Shedding light on red dwarf stars: Fundamental ...
Astronomy 98: The Astrophysics Research Tutorial Final Presentations Monday, December 7th, 2015, 2 – 5pm, Phillips Auditorium 2:00pm Feasibility of H2O ...
LOST PERSON BEHAVIOR Robert Koester 04:55 Technical Instructor Virginia Department of Emergency Management Visiting Fellow, Kingston University ...
"Observatory Nights" public lecture series from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Lauranne Lanz, CfA Five billion years from now, our Milky Way ...
"You really never know where your next great idea is going to come from." Michelle Borkin of Harvard University combines astronomy and medical imaging to ...
Subscribe now to ScienceNET! Sean Carroll is amazingly interesting in this Mortal Kombat inspired compilation covering many phenomena in cosmology and ...
Marcia Bartusiak One hundred years ago, at the Harvard College Observatory in 1912, Henrietta Leavitt discovered a new cosmic yardstick that allowed ...
Science for the Public May 12, 2015 www.scienceforthepublic.org Lincoln Greenhill, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Harvard ...
With its famous opening scene at a Harvard graduation, this classic of education research brings into sharp focus the dilemma facing all educators: Why don't ...
J. Kelly Beatty from Sky and Telescope Magazine offers a guide to choosing your first telescope. Observatory Night from December 19, 2013 at the ...
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Colloquium The Greatest Myth in the History of Astronomy Owen Gingerich "But perhaps the theory has too many ...
As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows' Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Alyssa A. Goodman '17 takes us through the creation of the ...
By Abraham Loeb and Steven R. Furlanetto Avi Loeb Director, Institute of Theory and Computation Chair, Astronomy Department, Harvard University Avi Loeb ...
Kelly Korreck, CfA The Sun provides the Earth with light and heat, but also blasts billions of tons of hot plasma into interplanetary space. Launched in 2010 ...
Here it is, folks: the end. In our final episode of Crash Course Astronomy, Phil gives the course a send off with a look at some of his favorite topics and the big ...
Gamma-ray bursts are not only incredible to study, but their discovery has an epic story all its own. Today Phil takes you through some Cold War history and then ...
Public lecture with Adam E. Cohen, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics, Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard ...
In the aftermath of a 8 – 20 solar mass star's demise we find a weird little object known as a neutron star. Neutrons stars are incredibly dense, spin rapidly, and ...
Today on Crash Course Astronomy, Phil dives into some very dark matters. The stuff we can actually observe in the universe isn't all there is. Galaxies and other ...
Lecture 1 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics concentrating on Cosmology. Recorded January 13, 2009 at Stanford University. This Stanford Continuing ...