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This second course of the Solar PV for Engineers, Architects and Code Inspectors series supplies learners with the insights necessary for properly planning, and therefore successfully installing, ...
This first course of the Solar PV for Engineers, Architects and Code Inspectors series provides an overview of the history and mechanics behind converting light into electricity, commonly known as ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Of course, solar systems and galaxies aren’t completely flat. Yes, the bulk of objects in galaxies and solar systems orbit on the same general plane as one another, but then you’ll have ...
This story is, of course, based in the realm of fiction, but could Earth ever really leave the solar system?
A mystery object tearing towards Earth at break-neck speed has raised fears that aliens are on their way here.
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.