In Discovering a New Planet: The Search for Hidden Worlds, Professor Stephane Udry is part of a team that developed a detector to search for life-bearing planets. While observing a distant star, they detected its light "wobbling," which indicated the presence of a massive planet — the first exoplanet discovered outside our Solar System. This video is excerpted from BBC's Earth: The Power of the Planet, a documentary that explores the fascinating geology on planet Earth.
In The Moon's Impact on Earth: How the Moon Shapes Our Planet’s Systems, learn how the Moon plays a crucial role in Earth’s tides, climate, and seasons. Meet Jerry Wiant who uses a laser to measure the Moon’s distance from Earth at the McDonald Observatory in West Texas, revealing that the Moon is receding at a rate of 3.8 cm/year. This information helps us understand the Moon's influence on Earth and the long-term effects of its gradual movement away from the planet. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Earth: The Power of the Planet, a documentary that explores the fascinating geology on planet Earth.
In The Death of Stars: The Discovery of Neutrons, narrator Kate Yule explores how stars reach the end of their lives and can no longer fight against their own gravity. Some stars expand, whereas giant stars contract to form black holes, invisible to telescopes. Learn how Jocelyn Bell Burnell built a new telescope which detected pulsars, which emit no visible light, but send out radio waves. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In The Elusive Black Hole: The First Image, narrator Kate Yule describes the impossibility of photographing a black hole because the gravitational pull of black holes can consume entire stars. Learn how Dan Marrone from the University of Arizona attempts to capture photographic evidence of the moment when this takes place using a radio telescope. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In Black Holes: A New Discovery, narrator Kate Yule details how radio telescopes picked up signals from neutron stars in the 1960s. Learn how their discovery suggested that black holes existed. Scientists believed that once something had fallen into a black hole, it appeared to be lost from the Universe forever, until Stephen Hawking suggested that black holes can also emit particles and eventually disappear. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In Discovering a New Planet: The Search for Hidden Worlds, Professor Stephane Udry is part of a team that developed a detector to search for life-bearing planets. While observing a distant star, they detected its light "wobbling," which indicated the presence of a massive planet — the first exoplanet discovered outside our Solar System. This video is excerpted from BBC's Earth: The Power of the Planet, a documentary that explores the fascinating geology on planet Earth.
In The Moon's Impact on Earth: How the Moon Shapes Our Planet’s Systems, learn how the Moon plays a crucial role in Earth’s tides, climate, and seasons. Meet Jerry Wiant who uses a laser to measure the Moon’s distance from Earth at the McDonald Observatory in West Texas, revealing that the Moon is receding at a rate of 3.8 cm/year. This information helps us understand the Moon's influence on Earth and the long-term effects of its gradual movement away from the planet. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Earth: The Power of the Planet, a documentary that explores the fascinating geology on planet Earth.
In The Death of Stars: The Discovery of Neutrons, narrator Kate Yule explores how stars reach the end of their lives and can no longer fight against their own gravity. Some stars expand, whereas giant stars contract to form black holes, invisible to telescopes. Learn how Jocelyn Bell Burnell built a new telescope which detected pulsars, which emit no visible light, but send out radio waves. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In The Elusive Black Hole: The First Image, narrator Kate Yule describes the impossibility of photographing a black hole because the gravitational pull of black holes can consume entire stars. Learn how Dan Marrone from the University of Arizona attempts to capture photographic evidence of the moment when this takes place using a radio telescope. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In Black Holes: A New Discovery, narrator Kate Yule details how radio telescopes picked up signals from neutron stars in the 1960s. Learn how their discovery suggested that black holes existed. Scientists believed that once something had fallen into a black hole, it appeared to be lost from the Universe forever, until Stephen Hawking suggested that black holes can also emit particles and eventually disappear. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.