Out of This World

Out of This World

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Why is NASA sending a spacecraft to a metal world? - Linda T. Elkins-Tanton

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Why is NASA sending a spacecraft to a metal world? - Linda T. Elkins-Tanton

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  1. 1 Could we actually live on Mars? - Mari Foroutan
  2. 2 Where does gold come from? - David Lunney
  3. 3 The journey to Pluto, the farthest world ever explored - Alan Stern
  4. 4 Light seconds, light years, light centuries: How to measure extreme distances - Yuan-Sen Ting
  5. 5 How fast are you moving right now? - Tucker Hiatt
  6. 6 The death of the universe - Renée Hlozek
  7. 7 Who won the space race? - Jeff Steers
  8. 8 The beginning of the universe, for beginners - Tom Whyntie
  9. 9 How small are we in the scale of the universe? - Alex Hofeldt
  10. 10 The moon illusion - Andrew Vanden Heuvel
  11. 11 What creates a total solar eclipse? - Andy Cohen
  12. 12 What is the universe expanding into? - Sajan Saini
  13. 13 Could the Earth be swallowed by a black hole? - Fabio Pacucci
  14. 14 Could human civilization spread across the whole galaxy? - Roey Tzezana
  15. 15 The life cycle of a neutron star - David Lunney
  16. 16 Is there a center of the universe? - Marjee Chmiel and Trevor Owens
  17. 17 Why is NASA sending a spacecraft to a metal world? - Linda T. Elkins-Tanton
  18. 18 Should we be looking for life elsewhere in the universe? - Aomawa Shields
  19. 19 Three ways the universe could end - Venus Keus
  20. 20 What is the universe made of? - Dennis Wildfogel
  21. 21 Sunlight is way older than you think - Sten Odenwald
  22. 22 Four ways to understand the Earth's age - Joshua M. Sneideman
  23. 23 How far would you have to go to escape gravity? - Rene Laufer
  24. 24 Could we survive prolonged space travel? - Lisa Nip
  25. 25 Would you live on the moon? - Alex Gendler
  26. 26 How to build a dark matter detector - Jenna Saffin
  27. 27 Why neutrinos matter - Sílvia Bravo Gallart
  28. 28 How do we study the stars? - Yuan-Sen Ting
  29. 29 Is space trying to kill us? - Ron Shaneyfelt
  30. 30 The first asteroid ever discovered - Carrie Nugent
  31. 31 What light can teach us about the universe - Pete Edwards
  32. 32 How to detect a supernova - Samantha Kuula
  33. 33 Could comets be the source of life on Earth? - Justin Dowd
  34. 34 Questioning the universe - Stephen Hawking
  35. 35 Can a black hole be destroyed? - Fabio Pacucci
  36. 36 There may be extraterrestrial life in our solar system - Augusto Carballido
  37. 37 The dust bunnies that built our planet - Lorin Swint Matthews
  38. 38 Einstein's twin paradox explained - Amber Stuver
  39. 39 Are we living in a simulation? - Zohreh Davoudi
  40. 40 Hawking's black hole paradox explained - Fabio Pacucci
  41. 41 NASA’s first software engineer: Margaret Hamilton - Matt Porter & Margaret Hamilton
  42. 42 Newton’s three-body problem explained - Fabio Pacucci
  43. 43 Could we harness the power of a black hole? - Fabio Pacucci
  44. 44 What if every satellite suddenly disappeared? - Moriba Jah
  45. 45 The woman who stared at the sun - Alex Gendler

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