Race to the Terrestrial Planets (Probes Episode #1)

The Insane Science of Neutron Stars

In the late 1960s, a series of anomalous, repeating radio sources began cropping up all over the Milky Way galaxy, and though initially speculated to be messages from aliens, we soon learned that they are Pulsars, a rapidly rotating neutron star emitting high volumes of radiation. In this video, we will revisit these extreme, dense objects, as the final gateway faced by matter before it collapses into a black hole. This is the insane science of neutron stars. SOUNDTRACK: - Jokulls Loom (Storyblocks) - Be Here Now (Storyblocks) - Serenity (Storyblocks) - Falling Through a Dream (Storyblocks) - Sleep for Wellness (Storyblocks) - Peaceful Background Pad (Storyblocks) - Halloween in a Haunted House (Storyblocks) - Underworld (Storyblocks) - Dramatic Ambient Cinematic Music (Storyblocks) - Monomyth, The Fall (Scott Buckley): https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/the-fall/ - Ambient Water (Storyblocks) - The Natural Ambient (Storyblocks) The track by Scott Buckley was provided via a Creative Commons Attribution licence, which allows reuse where credit is given. Scott Buckley's website and library can be found at the following link: https://www.scottbuckley.com.au CHAPTERS: 00:00: The Crab Nebula 01:55: How is a Neutron Star Formed? 07:24: Radio Pulsars 11:18: X-Ray Binary Pulsars 13:24: Millisecond Pulsars 16:51: Magnetars 20:42: Starquakes 23:49: When Neutron Stars Collide 29:09: Quark Stars 32:23: Strange Stars 36:03: Thorne-Zytkow Objects

Collisions of the Early Solar System

How did Earth get its moon? Why is Mercury so close to the sun? Why does Uranus orbit on its side? The answers to all of these questions are the many collisions that ravaged the early Solar System. Each of our neighbouring worlds bears scars which echo their violent past, from the many craters of the moon's battered surface, to the sideways rings of the planet Uranus. And in this video, we will examine a number of the most significant collisions, which each played a pivotal role in building up the Solar System as we know it today. SOUNDTRACK: - The Ghost of Aberbeeg | CO.AG Music - Edge of Silence, Ambient Sounds 06 | CO.AG Music - Balefire | Scott Buckley Creative Commons Music - Short Song 011023 | Chris Zabriskie Creative Commons Music - Short Song 020823 | Chris Zabriskie Creative Commons Music - Speak to Me | CO.AG Music CO.AG Music: https://www.youtube.com/@co.agmusic1823 Scott Buckley Music: https://www.scottbuckley.com.au Chris Zabriskie Music: https://chriszabriskie.bandcamp.com CHAPTERS: 00:00: Introduction 01:37: The Terrestrial Planets 03:33: Collision that Formed the Moon 06:07: Giant Impact Hypothesis 09:42: What Happened to Mercury? 13:37: Late Heavy Bombardment 16:45: What Rammed into Uranus? 20:32: The Dwarf Planet 23:43: Pluto & Charon's Moons 27:25: Sputnik Planitia 32:58: Closing

A Glimpse of the Sun

The Sun... both the giver of life, and destroyer of worlds. Host of the eight planets, and incubator of Earth with its light and heat. Yet in spite of its brilliance, the true nature of the sun's power remains shrouded in mystery, with scientists unable to explain many of the processes playing out in its atmosphere. But in 2024, NASA will attain their closest glimpse of the sun so far, as they come just five million miles from its surface, diving into the stellar Nether Zone, to "touch" the sun itself. BACKGROUND TRACK: "Christmas Ambience" by CO.AG Music Song: https://youtu.be/e23_O1koRiA?si=5gebdLo6tpmIQpY3 Artist: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA CHAPTERS: 00:00: Welcome... 01:45: Anatomy of the Sun 05:03: The Coronal Mystery 08:21: Space Weather & the Solar Cycle 11:59: Geomagnetic Storms 15:31: The Carrington Event 18:38: A Geomagnetic Storm in 2024? 22:20: Missions to Study Space Weather 25:02: The Parker Solar Probe 30:28: Parker's 2024 Mission

Back to the Moon with Artemis

It's been more than half a century since humans last went to the Moon. But we will return before the decade is up, through NASA's revolutionary Artemis Program. But unlike its ancestral Apollo Program, Project Artemis is about more than just landing astronauts on the lunar surface. Its endgame is to enable us to stay there, and keep going back to a semi-permanent surface habitat- all in preparation for NASA's yet more ambitious, daunting endeavour of the 2030s- to reach the Red Planet, Mars. SOUNDTRACK: "Finding Direction" - CO.AG Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xptr7cYeDBA) "Her Smile Feeding the Cold Earth" - CO.AG Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7gX08Ww6lY) "Are You in Here With Us?" - CO.AG Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68e7Yqt0q_Q) "Floating Through Black" - Boomer (Storyblocks Media) "Echoes" - Enzo Orefice (Storyblocks Media) "Nightlife" - CO.AG Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PE2XxNWj0M) "Enchanted Winds" - Humans Win (Storyblocks Media) "Still" - Humans Win (Storyblocks Media) "Meditation Yoga Ambient" - Watermello (Storyblocks Media) CO.AG's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@co.agmusic CHAPTERS: 00:00: Artemis II 02:15: Road to the Moon Landing 07:09: The Apollo Program 13:31: The New Space Race 18:00: The Artemis Program 21:32: Artemis III 23:22: Artemis IV: The Next Moon Landing 26:04: Moon to Mars

Voyager: Beyond the Solar System (Probes Episode #3)

Of all the spacecraft to have visited other worlds, there are two which have travelled further than any other, discovering more about the Solar System than their inventors ever could have imagined. They are the legendary pair of Voyager Probes- still the only spacecraft ever to have visited the Ice Giant planets, Uranus and Neptune. The story of their 40 years in space makes up the topic of our video today- from the gas giants, to the ice worlds, and then out into the depths of interstellar space... SOUNDTRACK: - Just a Shadow | CO.AG Music (https://youtu.be/pRDzXIV5yKg?si=Z4ooBaD1wZmV_Y7B) - Deep Sleep | Amber Waldron (Storyblocks) - Beyond This Earth to the Stars | CO.AG Music (https://youtu.be/aPQl1d96_Bk?si=sLbl_gG8oqhcwuW0) - Contemplative | Amber Waldron (Storyblocks) - Spa Go | Gushito (Storyblocks) - Descend Into Horror 5 | CO.AG Music (https://youtu.be/Ev49l2ZGFmg?si=Cj4CUoob2wRCjSaQ) - Guitar Drone Meditation | Humans Win (Storyblocks) - SpaceShip | Jayson Wayne Brown (Storyblocks) CO.AG's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@co.agmusic CHAPTERS 00:00: Welcome Back 01:31: The Grand Tour 06:00: Voyager-1's Gas Giants Mission 09:40: Voyager-1's Titan Flyby 12:27: The Pale Blue Dot 14:30 Voyager-2's Gas Giant Mission 18:15: Voyager-2's Uranus Encounter 21:24: Voyager-2's Neptune Encounter 25:00: Exiting the Heliosphere 29:19: The Interstellar Mission 34:04: One Final World... (Pluto) 37:05: New Horizons Kuiper Belt Mission 42:48: An Unconventional Signature...