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Introduction to the Solar System: Crash Course Astronomy #9

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In today's Crash Course Astronomy, Phil takes a look at the explosive history of our cosmic backyard. We explore how we went from a giant ball of gas to the system of planets and other celestial objects we have today. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace: http://www.squarespace.com/crashcourse Check out the Crash Course Astronomy solar system poster here: http://store.dftba.com/products/crash... -- Chapters: Introduction 00:00 Geocentrism vs Heliocentrism 0:51 Makeup of the Solar System 2:38 Is Pluto a Planet? 3:14 Our Solar System 4:24 How Our Solar System Formed 5:36 Planet Formation Depends on Distance to Sun 7:14 Review 8:57 -- PBS Digital Studios:    / pbsdigitalstudios   Follow Phil on Twitter:   / badastronomer   Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at   / crashcourse   Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook -   / youtubecrashcourse   Twitter -   / thecrashcourse   Instag …...more
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Introduction to the Solar System: Crash Course Astronomy #9
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In today's Crash Course Astronomy, Phil takes a look at the explosive history of our cosmic backyard. We explore how we went from a giant ball of gas to the system of planets and other celestial objects we have today. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace: http://www.squarespace.com/crashcourse Check out the Crash Course Astronomy solar system poster here: http://store.dftba.com/products/crash... -- Chapters: Introduction 00:00 Geocentrism vs Heliocentrism 0:51 Makeup of the Solar System 2:38 Is Pluto a Planet? 3:14 Our Solar System 4:24 How Our Solar System Formed 5:36 Planet Formation Depends on Distance to Sun 7:14 Review 8:57 -- PBS Digital Studios:    / pbsdigitalstudios   Follow Phil on Twitter:   / badastronomer   Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at   / crashcourse   Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook -   / youtubecrashcourse   Twitter -   / thecrashcourse   Instagram -   / thecrashcourse   CC Kids:    / crashcoursekids   -- PHOTO/VIDEO CREDITS Sun: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/fil... [credit: NASA/ESA] Jupiter: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/hubble... [credit: NASA/ESA] Geocentric celestial spheres; Peter Apian's Cosmographia (Antwerp, 1539): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestia... Ganymede: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Noa... Mercury: http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/s... [credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington] Understanding Solar System Dynamics: Orbits and Kepler's Laws (2008): https://archive.org/details/OrbitsAnd... Mercury: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080116.html Venus: http://www.msss.com/all_projects/mage... Earth: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD... Mars: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gall... Jupiter: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cas... Saturn: http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slat... [credit: Photo by NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/Gordan Ugarkovic] Uranus: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arch... Neptune: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astron... http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/fil... [credit: JHUAPL/SwRI/Dan Durda] Bennu’s Journey: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/deta... http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/deta... Artist's impression of a protoplanetary disk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protopla... Rocky Ring of Debris Around Vega: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spi... [image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech] Proplyds in the Orion Nebula: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Spa...

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