SciShow Space (videos of July 2017)

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5:43 Our First-Ever Missions to Mars, and What We Learned From Them A lot of our knowledge of the inner solar system was gained fairly recently, and the Mariner program led the way!
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5:37 'Weird! Signal' Mystery Solved! Where did astronomers finally conclude that the 'Weird! Signal' was coming from? What has Elon Musk been up to with SpaceX and the Falcon Heavy rocket?
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4:52 The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts FRBs last just a few milliseconds, and astronomers have detected less than a couple dozen of them without our current telescopes. Where do scientists think they come from?
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5:49 Why Solar Eclipses Are Awesome On August 21, 2017, the United States will experience its first total solar eclipse since 1979! If you're in the right place at the right time, you're in for a spectacular show!
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4:34 Why Getting Sick in Space Is the Worst We've talked about some of the ways microgravity can negatively affect humans, but for bacteria, being in space might be quite beneficial!
4:28 The Coolest Things We Didn't Know About Pluto Two Years Ago On July 14, 2015, New Horizons flew by Pluto. Scientists have used the data from the mission so far to uncover active geology, an enormous canyon, a unique case of chemical coloration, and more. Wh...
5:28 Do Any Stars NOT Have Planets? Astronomers have used a few different methods to detect exoplanets, and improved telescopes are increasing the rate of discovery. But is it possible that any stars DON'T have planets, or are they j...
4:34 The Mysterious Origins of Our Galaxy's Fastest Stars A new paper that borrows old astrological data from the Voyager 2 probe has used brand-new computer simulations to find some new weird data about Uranus’s magnetic field. Another paper has new info...
5:05 How Vera Rubin Found the First Direct Evidence for Dark Matter | Great Minds Vera Rubin graphed the rotation curves of galaxies, helping astronomers better understand the accelerated orbits of stars on the outskirts of galaxies. Her life's work generated some of the first s...