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  • The Earth: Crash Course Astronomy #11

    Phil starts the planet-by-planet tour of the solar system right here at home, Earth. -- Table of Contents Earth is a Planet 0:03 Layers of Earth 1:25 The Magnetic ...

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  • The Spirit of UC Santa Cruz

    Wonder what it's like to be a student at UC Santa Cruz? Take a look... Visit UC Santa Cruz online: http://www.ucsc.edu/ Find out how to apply to UC Santa Cruz: ...

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  • Thermal Evolution of Giant and Rocky (Molten) Planets - Jonathan Fortney (UCSC) 2014

    presented by Dr. Jonathan Fortney, UCSC slides from this presentation can be viewed here: ...

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  • UC Santa Cruz's stellar astronomy department shines

    What makes UC Santa Cruz's astronomy department world-famous?

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  • How To Discover Habitable Planets

    Steve Vogt, Professor Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz, describes how to discover a habitable planet. To see more of Steve's story and other ...

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  • 3 Exoplanets With Extreme Weather

    You might think weather on earth is pretty crazy, but at least we don't have an apocalyptic shockwave to worry about every 111 days. Host: Hank Green ...

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  • Bizarre Gas Giant Planet with Wildly Eccentric Orbit Like-Comet and Extreme Temperature Swings

    The planet has wild variations in its weather as it orbits its parent star. The gas giant planet heats up 555 °C (1000 °F) in just a matter of hours triggering "shock ...

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  • Quake Predictions on MSM, Amazing Pluto | S0 News Nov.17.2016

    Earthquake Prediction on the News: http://www.koat.com/article/video-earthquake-researcher-uses-sun-to-make-predictions/8299193 http://www.

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  • The Core Accretion Scenario — Doug Lin (UCSC) 2015

    slides from this presentation may also be viewed here: http://nexsci.caltech.edu/workshop/2015/talks/LINsagan.pdf.

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  • Gregory Laughlin "Probing the Galactic Planetary Census"

    "Probing the Galactic Planetary Census: Methods for Discovering and Characterizing Exoplanets" Gregory P. Laughlin, UCSC (Professor, Astronomy and ...

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  • Global Catastrophe: Deep-Ocean Impact Eltanin Meteor

    When a huge meteor collided with Earth about 2.5 million years ago in the southern Pacific Ocean it not only likely generated a massive tsunami but also may ...

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  • Jennifer Burt, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Our Strange Place in the Galaxy

    Presented at the 2015 UCSC Grad Slam, "Our Strange Place in the Galaxy"

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  • Jonathan Fortney explains the discovery of a six-planet system orbiting a Sun-like star

    Jonathan Fortney, a member of the Kepler science team, talks about the discovery of a six-planet system orbiting a Sun-like star and how the Kepler mission is ...

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  • Why does Earth have a Magnetic Field?

    Thanks for watching! Links to learn more about Earth's Magnetic Field: More on pole flips: http://www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/education/reversals.html#top More on ...

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  • Claire Max "The Secrets of Adaptive Optics"

    "The Secrets of Adaptive Optics" Claire E. Max, Director, Center for Adaptive Optics, UCSC June 25, 2012 "Computational Astronomy: From Planets to Cosmos" ...

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  • Triton: The Celestial 'Cantaloupe'

    Join SciShow Space as we explore Neptune's largest moon, Triton. It's kind of a weird place and may even have liquid water! ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to ...

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  • Jim Gill - Volcanism as the Re-creation of Earth

    Emeriti Lecture - Jim Gill Volcanism as the Re-creation of Earth.

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  • Onward California: An Incredibly Hostile Universe

    Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/prime/) Most of the universe is incredibly hostile, it's a vacuum, it's freezing-cold space or burning hot near a star. The first habitable planet ...

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  • Citizen Science – Can Science Harness the Power of 7 Billion?

    From SETICon II, June 22-24 2012 Panelists: Debra Ann Fischer- Debra Fischer is a professor of Astronomy at Yale University. Her research is centered on the ...

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  • Advanced Studies Lab facilitates joint research efforts

    A unique collaboration between UC Santa Cruz and NASA Ames Research Center enables academia, industry, and startups to access laboratory resources.

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  • Raja GuhaThakurta "Intro to University of California Observatory Instrument Labs"

    "Intro to University of California Observatory Instrument Labs" Raja GuhaThakurta, Professor, UCSC June 25, 2012 "Computational Astronomy: From Planets to ...

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  • 2015 Lick Observatory UC Santa Cruz student night

    UC Santa Cruz astronomy student observing night through the 36" Great James Lick Refractor. Beautiful night. Copyright University of California / Lick ...

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  • Robert Irion "News from Deep Space! A Journalism Roundtable Discussion on Covering Astronomy"

    "News from Deep Space! A Journalism Roundtable Discussion on Covering Astronomy" Robert Irion, UCSC (Director, Science Communication Program) June ...

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  • The 2012 Plot Thickens: Mayan Cycle, Pole Shift, Earthquake Predictions

    Thank you: dcsymbols - planetary-earthquake connection Mr2tuff2 - constant support and conversation Thyalwaysseek - Ohio State 5200yr Climate Model ...

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  • [Science Week 2016] Lost Worlds of the Solar System

    The early Solar System was a violent place. Before the familiar planets were formed, several earlier generations of small planets and asteroids were formed and ...

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  • Onward Outtakes

    Terrie Williams, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz, talks about how the marine lab has been able to take in orphaned sea mammals ...

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  • Refutando o Criacionismo da Terra Jovem parte 2/4

    Em um desses dias eu estava pelo Periscope, quando numa conversa com um criacionista ele questionou os métodos de datação. Eu tentei explicar para ele, ...

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  • S0 News January 20, 2014: Cosmic Connections, Spaceweather

    Website: http://www.suspicious0bservers.org Blog: http://www.suspicious0bserverscollective.org Major Warnings/Alerts: https://twitter.com/TheRealS0s Donate ...

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  • The World's Most Advanced Ground-Based Telescope by Michael Bolte, UC Santa Cruz

    Join Michael Bolte, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz and member of the TMT International Observatory Board, for a presentation on ...

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  • Precipitation Initiation in Warm Clouds

    Official entry into the AAAS Science Dance Contest. Name: Jennifer D. Small PhD Title: Precipitation Initiation in Warm Clouds PhD Institution: University of ...

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  • Severe Storm Alert, Jupiter Chaos | S0 News March 24, 2015

    www.Suspicious0bservers.org www.ObservatoryProject.com TODAY's LINKS: Protostar: ...

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  • The Birth and Evolution of Galaxies

    Sandy Faber and Raja Gahu Thakurta, noted professors of Astrophysics and Astronomy at UC Santa Cruz , share their knowledge of galaxies with gifted ...

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  • Sandra Faber Keynote Talk

    Keynote Talk Sandra M. Faber, UCSC June 25, 2012 "Computational Astronomy: From Planets to Cosmos" UC-HiPACC's 2012 Science / Engineering ...

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  • Sea Lions Can Keep A Beat

    Turns out, sea lions love to rock out to their favorite music! Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have discovered sea lions are the only other mammals besides humans ...

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  • The 10 Most Amazing Facts About Dreams

    Mind-blowing facts about your dreams... (HD - 03/2016) FOLLOW THE HYBRID LIBRARIAN: Subscribe ▷ http://bit.ly/daretoknow Facebook ...

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  • Characterizing the Atmospheres of Exoplanets: A New Challenge in Exoplanetary Science?(SETI Chats)

    A discussion on characterizing the atmospheres of exoplanets: a new challenge in exoplanetary science. With scientists, Jon Jenkins (SETI Institute), Jonathan ...

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  • K2 Observes Neptune in a Dance with Its Moons

    NASA's Kepler spacecraft, known for its planet-hunting prowess of other stars, is also studying solar system objects. In its new K2 mission, Neptune and two of its ...

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  • A new model for the origin of life - Bruce Damer and Dave Deamer (SETITalks)

    Full Title: A new model for the origin of life: Coupled phases and combinatorial selection in fluctuating hydrothermal pools Hydrothermal fields on the prebiotic ...

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  • Exploding Stars, New Planets, Black Holes and the Crisis at the Lick Observatory

    Feb. 26, 2014 Dr. Alex Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley) Lick Observatory, the first mountain-top telescope facility in the world, was founded in 1888, ...

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  • Steve Vogt—Faculty Research Lecturer

    Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, has designed, built, and used high-precision spectrometers to find new worlds outside our solar system ...

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  • Earth Magnetic Field Reversal (Glatzmaier & Roberts model)

    Glatzmaier and Roberts created a physical model of Earth magnetic field production in the planet's liquid core and ran a simulation on supercomputers.

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  • What's Missing Observation and Theory — Doug Lin (UCSC) 2015

    slides from this presentation may be viewed here: http://nexsci.caltech.edu/workshop/2015/LINunresolved.pdf.

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  • Advanced Studies Laboratory - Rose Grymes (SETI Talks)

    SETI Talks Archive: http://seti.org/talks Dr. Rose Grymes is the inaugural director of the Advanced Studies Laboratory (ASL), a NASA Ames and UC Santa Cruz ...

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  • Science Day on The Hill on This Week @NASA

    The NASA Science Day on Capitol Hill provided an opportunity to showcase, for members of Congress and the public, the work and accomplishments of the ...

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  • Spring 2011: A chat with Chancellor Blumenthal

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  • Planetary dynamics around cramped exoplanet star systems

    Michael Nayak explains the strange planetary dynamics at play in crowded solar systems far beyond the reach of what our telescopes can see at the 2016 UC ...

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  • Jacob Bean "Observations of Exoplanet Atmospheres" KSPA 2016 lecture 1 of 3

    Jacob Bean's first lecture from the 2016 Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz "Comparative Planetology in the Solar System"

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  • An Incredibly Hostile Universe

    Searching the universe for habitable planets. Most of the universe is incredibly hostile, it's a vacuum, it's freezing-cold space or you're burning hot near a star.

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