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They Might Be Giants – How Many Planets?

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:54:14 +0000

Created by ColourMovie. From TMBGs new CD/DVD set Here Comes Science. Available at iTunes and Amazon now! http://bit.ly/AmazonScience

Duration : 0:1:58

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Planets and stars size in scale

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:35:54 +0000

planets and stars size in scale, Uranus isn’t shown but it’s barely bigger than Neptune.

It shows:
Mercury Mars Venus Earth Neptune Saturn Jupiter Sun Sirius Pollux Arcturus Rigel Betelgeuse Antares MY Cephei W Cephei

Duration : 0:1:25

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NOVA | The Pluto Files with Neil deGrasse Tyson: Colbert Can’t Remember All the Planets | PBS

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:32:10 +0000

http://www.pbs.org/nova/pluto/ Starting Feb 19th we challenge you to go to NOVA’s Web site and come up with a mnemonic appropriate for this new era of planetary science, and we’ll let you decide whether to stick to the eight official planets or fold in the dwarf planets as well (Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris—five and counting). http://www.pbs.org/nova/pluto/

Duration : 0:0:54

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Why Isn’t Pluto a Planet Any More?

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:07:20 +0000

Dr. Robert Hurt explains why Pluto got… well… plutoed.

Duration : 0:3:31

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Planets and Stars (please read (more info) )

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:36:00 +0000

READ THIS FIRST! : The Size Of planets and Stars to Scale (see NOTE)
Name of planets as shown:
Pluto Mercury Mars Venus Earth Neptune Uranus Jupiter Saturn
Name of Stars as shown:
Sun Sirius Vega Pollux Arcturus Aldebaran Rigel Deneb Pistol Star Betelgeuse Antares VV Cephei
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Name of Song: Stakka & K Tee – Rubber Bullet
Original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1NkoZeTEWc
Author: jaxxrr
Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/jaxxrr
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NOTE: This video is a edited version of “Energy vs Information” made by jaxxrr (to which all credit goes to), I was very impressed by the production value both the video and music.

Seeing that it received few hits, which may be due to the title and tags. In order for more people to see and enjoy this video I mirrored the edited version, so people won’t get too side tracked on the political message. (Although I’m against wars and big oil as well)

Please see the original version if you like here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1NkoZeTEWc

-=NOTE=-
This video was made BEFORE “VY Canis Majoris” was listed as the largest known star, When this video was made 2006 by it’s author JAXXrr, the star “VV Cephei A” was listed as the largest known star.

For a list of current largest “known” stars see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_known_stars
Keep in mind while watching this video that the “largest known stars” are all found in our own galaxy (The Milky Way). We know of only of a very few of the estimated 200-300 Billion stars that make up our galaxy, which is just ONE of at least 300-500 billion galaxies in the visible universe.
To learn more about the Universe see this site; it will blow your mind!…

http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/12lys.html

Just keep zooming out……..

Duration : 0:2:39

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