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Origins of the Universe 101 | National Geographic (video)
How old is the universe, and how did it begin? Throughout history, countless myths and scientific theories have tried to explain the universe’s origins. The most widely accepted explanation is the big bang theory. Learn about the explosion that started it all and how the universe grew from the size of an atom to encompass…
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The Human Body in Space
For more than 50 years, NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) has studied what happens to the human body in space. Researchers are using what they learn to design procedures, devices, and strategies to keep astronauts safe and healthy throughout their missions.
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Station Benefits for Humanity (resource)
The International Space Station is an unprecedented achievement in global human endeavors to build and utilize a research platform in space. Since 2000, the station evolved from an outpost into a highly capable microgravity laboratory. Results are compounding, new benefits are emerging, and the third decade is building on research. https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/space-station-research-and-technology/benefits-for-humanity/
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How to Build a Space Colony | Visualizing The Future (video)
Imagine a sprawling megastructure floating endlessly through space. One day, humans may occupy an orbital settlement several hundred kilometers from Earth. Perhaps, humans will settle closer to the moon, or in the main asteroid belt beyond Mars. If humans ever migrate into space, what would our settlement look like, and how would we navigate life…
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The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O’Neill (Full Documentary)
The High Frontier tells the untold story of Gerard K. O’Neill who in 1977 wrote the book, The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space, which sparked a grassroots movement to build Earth-like habitats in space in order to solve Earth’s greatest crises.
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What If We Built an O’Neill Cylinder? (video)
Tired of living on an overpopulated Earth? Why not move to the O’Neill Cylinder? An artificial state-of-the-art space habitat where we can control everything, including the weather. What would it take to build a space station like this? How big would it be? And how would we make it suitable for life?
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How LIGO Detected Gravitational Waves (article)
Learn about the discovery of gravitational waves in this NOVA Next article https://lpb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nvnn-sci-ligo/wgbh-nova-next-how-ligo-detected-gravitational-waves/
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Gravitational Waves Explained Using Stick Figures (video)
This video is about gravitational waves in the weak field limit as discovered by the LIGO collaboration, explained by parallels to electromagnetic radiation, sound waves, water waves, etc.
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LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves (video)
After a decades-long quest, The MIT-Caltech collaboration LIGO Laboratories has detected gravitational waves, opening a new era in our exploration of the universe.
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What are gravitational waves? – Amber L. Stuver (video)
Ted Ed video: In September 2015, scientists witnessed something never seen before: two black holes colliding. Both about 30 times as big as our Sun, they had been orbiting each other for millions of years. A fraction of a second before the crash, they sent a vibration across the universe at the speed of light…
