During the course of making the Crash Course Astronomy series, our animators at Thought Café and I put together a fun poster of the solar system with little factoids about the various members of ...

OK, over the past eight episodes of Crash Course Astronomy we’ve covered a lot of basics: What you can see, how you can see it, and how some basic forces sculpt what’s out there. So. What’s ...

It’s like going back to school again and reading up on the solar system – the sun and everything that orbits around it, including planets, moons, asteroids, comets and meteoroids. Take a ...

In the aftermath of a some stars we find a weird little object known as a neutron star. In the aftermath of a 8 – 20 solar mass star’s demise we find a weird little object known as a neutron ...

Binary and Multiple Stars: Crash Course Astronomy #34 Episode 34 | 11m 46s Double stars are stars that appear to be near each other in the sky, but if they’re gravitationally bound together we ...