Universe Unplugged IPAC | Caltech
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The Universe Unplugged video series presents exciting astronomical science in playful ways designed to appeal to a broad audience of lifelong learners of all ages, with a special focus on underserved communities in science. Produced at Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, California, the videos integrate the talents of celebrities, astronomers, and educators, to communicate the wonders of the universe as revealed by NASA's many astrophysics missions.
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Bonus exoplanet clips! ASTROPHYSICS VARIETY HOUR (part 14)
The host of a science show (Felicia Day) bids the viewers goodbye. Includes closing credits of the complete Astrophysics Variety Hour.
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Rachel Bloom sings “Planets Blocking Light” SPACE MUSICAL (part 13)
Rachel Bloom performs an original song about discovering planets around distant stars, what astronomers call "exoplanets." In the process, she educates a skeptical drone about how humans can find these distant planets without actually seeing any of the planets themselves.
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What exactly is an exoplanet... again? FELICIA DAY EXPLAINS SCIENCE (part 12)
The host of a science show (Felicia Day) recaps some of the key science explained in the Astrophysics Variety Hour, including what exoplanets are and how astronomers can discover them.
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Exoplanet photobombs? THE SOCIAL ASTRONOMER (part 11)
A charming astronomer explains to a party full of drones how it's occasionally possible--but difficult--to photograph a planet around another star, and how it might become more common in the future.
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Sir Isaac Newton gets schooled on finding exoplanets NEWTON'S GHOST (part 10)
The ghost of Sir Isaac Newton is haunting his great great great grand-niece, Dr. Ivonne! In this sitcom spoof, Newton is trying to catch up on all the science he missed over the past several hundred years, and is particularly curious about the discovery of planets orbiting other stars . Ivonne explains several common techniques of exoplanet discovery including the Radial Velocity technique (detecting a "wobble" in a star), Transit Photometry (measuring tiny dips in a star’s brightness as a planet passes), and Gravitational Lensing (a warping of a distant star’s light by a foreground planet’s gravity field). He even learns that there are planets that don't orbit stars, but rather exist floating in the dark spaces between stars!
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Why are exoplanet names so weird? THE SOCIAL ASTRONOMER (part 9)
A charming astronomer explains to a party full of drones the naming convention behind some of the complex-looking names given to recently discovered exoplanets.