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Forty-eight episodes, more than eight hours of content, 100,000 words, a year and a half of work, topics ranging from quantum fluctuations to the death of the Universe, and 12 million views … finally, ...

Her solution? Incorporating artistic assignments into her scientific curriculum — a practice becoming more commonplace within science education, and one with which Wooten has firsthand experience. “In ...

Massive stars fuse heavier elements in their cores than lower mass stars. Massive stars fuse heavier elements in their cores than lower mass stars. This leads to the creation of heavier elements up to ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

One of my favorite topics in astronomy is exoplanets: planets orbiting other stars. Astronomers have been looking for them for decades, and there were lots of false alarms, but no true planets found … ...

How can we use light to learn about the universe? How can we measure the properties of planets, stars, and galaxies? How can we explore our cosmic origins and the history of the universe? This course ...

Planetary Society and California State University Dominguez Hills Team Up on Distance Learning Beginning Monday, February 7, a 13-week astronomy and planetary science course sponsored by The Planetary ...

Physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and SUNY Stony Brook recently concluded that two black holes maintained their total surface area after merging. While this research was a ...

Cornell University has introduced an astronomy course to explore the connection between the term black holes and “racial blackness” — proof, say critics, that even the hard sciences aren’t immune to ...

That was the subject line in an email I received recently. I thought, “Here we go again, someone asking about this area of pseudoscience.” But it was actually worse. A student was inquiring about ...

Phil gives the course a send off with a look at some of his favorite topics. 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 ...