• 2013
Astrum

Summary Astrum is your tour guide to the Solar System and beyond. As humankind's space probes traverse the Solar System Astrum takes you along to learn what they discover about the sun, planets, moons and planetoids. And Astrum shares the findings of the growing fleet space telescopes. View more details

  • 2013

Astrum

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Alex McColgan

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 6, 2013

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official English YouTube Channel Official Portuguese YouTube Channel

Language : English

Summary Astrum is your tour guide to the Solar System and beyond. As humankind's space probes traverse the Solar System Astrum takes you along to learn what they discover about the sun, planets, moons and planetoids. And Astrum shares the findings of the growing fleet space telescopes. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 6, 2013

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official English YouTube Channel Official Portuguese YouTube Channel

Language : English

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Jun 07, 2016
Our Solar System's Planets: Uranus
Uranus is an odd ball among the planets of the Solar System. For starters its axis of rotation is tilted almost parallel to the plane of the Solar System and its magnetic field is not aligned with this axis.
Jul 29, 2019
The Bizarre Characteristics of Triton: Our Solar System's Moons
Neptune's moon Triton revolves opposite to Neptune's rotation in an inclined orbit that convinces astronomers it is a capture moon from the Kuiper belt. Since it is larger than Pluto it is the largest object birthed in the Kuiper Belt. Astronomers also speculate that Triton has a metallic core that may be radioactive enough to generate a subsurface ocean.
Dec 14, 2020
What Milankovitch Cycles Will do to Earth
Milankovitch Cycles are caused by changes in Earth's orbit and axial tilt and cause long term impacts on climate. Current the Milankovitch Cycles are working in our favor producing an inter-glacial period with moderate temperatures.
Jul 23, 2021
Why NASA Didn't Go Directly to the Moon: Apollo Episode 1
This first installment on the Apollo program examines President Kennedy's choice of a manned moon landing as the United States' ultimate goal for NASA. Once the moon was the objective it was not obvious how to get there. A rocket with enough fuel to travel to the moon, land and then return would have to be huge.
Sep 26, 2021
Thousands of Unidentified Sungrazers Spotted
An unanticipated discovery by the current fleet of Solar probes are thousands of sungrazing comets. These comets often pass through the Solar corona. Some even survive. But most become plasma which interacts and provides valuable information about the Solar magnetic field.
Oct 07, 2021
What Hubble Saw Happening to Galaxies Stunned Me: Hubble Images Episode 12
Here is the story of giant galaxies reaching the end of their star forming period told with images from the Hubble Telescope. As stars stop forming these galaxies lose there dramatic color and spiral arms transitioning into lenticular and then elliptical galaxies. But they aren't yet ready disappear. These galaxies are chock full of red stars that will shine, though dimly, for billions more years.
Oct 13, 2021
NASA's Most Unusual Mission Lucy
NASA is preparing (2021) to launch a probed named LUCY to explore Jupiter's Greek asteroids surrounding it's L4 Lagrange Point and a binary Trojan asteroid near Jupiter's L5 Lagrange Point. First contact will be a main belt asteroid in 2025.
Nov 04, 2021
NASA's Stunning Discoveries on Jupiter's Largest Moons: Our Solar System's Moons
The Pioneer, Voyager, Galileo and New Horizons space probes visits to the Galelian moons of Jupiter opened humanities eyes to the diversity Solar System objects. Suprisingingly, there are found moons with volcanoes, surface cracks hundreds of miles long, multi-ring craters and subsurface oceans.
Dec 21, 2021
NASA's Unexpected Discovery in Stardust
Feb 03, 2022
97,000 Sonic Black Hole Experiments Revealed Something "Impossible": Black Holes Part 2
Hawking's concept of black hole evaporation is explained along with an experiment of a similar physical behavior that suggested he may be correct.
Mar 20, 2022
NASA Scientists' Stunning Discoveries on Planet Mercury Ray Systems Messenger Images Part 1
In 2011 the Messenger probe went into orbit around the planet Mercury conducting the first close up observations. Here are some of the surprising surface features it discovered.
Mar 31, 2022
What NASA's Dawn Saw on Ceres and Vesta Stunned Me
Jul 08, 2022
Voyager 1 and 2 Detected Something Beyond the Edge of Our Solar System
Astronomers saw some surprises when the Voyage probes entered interstellar space which were caused by the counter rotation of the Sun's magnetic fields at the north and south poles and possibly from the hypothetical supernovae that compressed the gas cloud that formed the solar system.
Jul 21, 2022
What Is It That So Many People Have Seen? Ball Lightning
Despite centuries of anecdotal evidence including damage, injuries and deaths, ball lightning has been frustratingly difficult to document scientifically.
Sep 27, 2022
This Ignored $1 Billion Telescope's Images Are Unlike Anything I've Seen Before SOFIA
Sofia was the third of NASA airborne infrared telescopes. Using it astronomers made several significant discoveries.
Oct 23, 2022
Aftermath of the Biggest Explosion Ever Caught on Camera | Shoemaker-Levy 9
In 1994 astronomers were fortunate to have three interplanetary probes in position to record the impacts of fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet with Jupiter's atmosphere and the resulting fireballs.
Jan 08, 2023
NASA's Discoveries Deep Within Jupiter's Clouds and Moons Juno Year 6 Update
Having competed its primary mission exploring Jupiter, Juno's orbit was adjusted to take a close look at Ganymede and then Europe. Still to come in 2023 is a visit to Io.
Jan 15, 2023
The Planet Closer to the Sun than Mercury Vulcan
Vulcan is a theoretical planet inside the orbit of Mercury which, had it existed, would have explained the deviation of Mercury's orbit from Newton's Law of motion. But the orbital deviation was the result or relativistic effects.
Feb 08, 2023
The Signal NASA Didn't Want to Receive from the LUCY Probe
Shortly after launch NASA's LUCY probe, destined to explore several Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, failed to fully open one of its solar arrays. Patiently over several months NASA engineers performed a remote repair. Then, upon discovering a satellite of one of the target asteroids, expanded LUCY's mission scope.
Feb 08, 2024
Antimatter Surprised CERN Scientists Yet Again
Scientists explore the differences between matter and antimatter.
Apr 04, 2024
This Model Explains WHY Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Happens | Theory of Everything Part 2
An explanation of why Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle is a necessary part of Quantum Mechanics using String Theory.
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