Last year, you loved watching me push the limits of science in the most extreme environments imaginable. In the name of discovery and exploration across every planet in our Solar System, the WHAT IF team is back—and this time, we’re raising the stakes even higher. Get ready for bigger questions, […]
Neutron stars are massive gravitational monsters, and orbiting one wouldn’t end up well for our planet. But what if we took just a spoonful of it and transported it to Earth? Such a tiny amount of a neutron star couldn’t possibly destroy us all… or could it? When a star […]
For every galaxy that’s visible from Earth, there are nine smaller ones that we can’t see, even with all the technology we’ve developed. That’s 90% of all space stuff in the observable universe that we’re missing out on. We can’t even see all the stars in the Milky Way. Our […]
Detonation vs. Deflagration. ** LINKS ** Music by Jake Chudnow: http://www.myspace.com/jakechudnow Shockwave in slo mo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjC4SvZIARY How a bullet works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m64ClfsXe_4 Smokeless Powder burned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sbg8vmLgHo Nitroglycerine + hammer: http://youtu.be/r17czTWHFmU Firework 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7mp7k6fmLs Firework 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moMslnSyC44 World Record Rocket Attempt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frwVK35iE4c 100 tons of TNT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgLzgdbfeJE Shockwave hits camera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2imofil5GbM 1965 […]
This pretzel-shaped collection of galaxies is our Universe. And it’s about to collide with another universe. It might be fascinating to watch, but we should probably be worried about what’s going to happen when they crash. How would it change the physics of our Universe? Is there any chance that […]
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Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that’s no diamond in the sky. That looks like a supernova. As much as we love to blow stuff up here on Earth, no bombs or pyrotechnics could compare to […]
Just 3,000 light-years from Earth is a black hole visible to the naked eye. Thankfully, we are a safe distance from this stellar black hole and many others like it. There are approximately 100 million of them out there in our galaxy that we know of. They are the remnants […]
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Sources: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-neutron-stars/ Neutron stars are one of the most extreme and violent things in the universe. Giant atomic nuclei, only a few kilometers in diameter but as massive as stars. And they owe their existence to the death of something majestic. OUR CHANNELS ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ German Channel: https://kgs.link/youtubeDE Spanish Channel: https://kgs.link/youtubeES […]
