Stars & Stellar Populations

Stars & Stellar Populations

Our Sun is one of many, and ancient beyond measure, but is it older than most stars? Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g/join Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Join Nebula:...

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Rivers in Space & Water From Stars

Rivers in Space & Water From Stars

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Starboosting

Starboosting

A starbooster is a megastructure designed for heating a cooler star to make it more sun-like and with a wider habitable zone for planets. Orion's Arm Starbooster entry: https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47897efc7129a To find out more about them and other...

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Refueling Our Sun

Refueling Our Sun

Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur One day our Sun will die, and consume our world in fire, but is it possible to refuel our Sun...

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The Future of Solar Power

The Future of Solar Power

Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Solar power has been promised for decades as bringing us a bright future, and at last is...

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The Fermi Paradox: Solar Flares

The Fermi Paradox: Solar Flares

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Our Sun constantly froths with sunspots and solar flares, many larger than our planet, and yet these are dwarfed by Coronal Mass Ejections, such as the Carrington Event of 1859, which would...

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Colonizing Red Dwarfs

Colonizing Red Dwarfs

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur For every yellow star like our own there are ten times as many smaller stars. Red Dwarfs are the most common type of star, outnumbering all the others combined, and as we head out into...

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Summer on Jupiter: Making a Second Sun

Summer on Jupiter: Making a Second Sun

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Jupiter is an enormous gas giant, more massive than all the other planets in the solar system combined... and yet small compared to our Sun and other Stellar Objects. Could Jupiter be turned into a...

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Conscious Stellar Objects

Conscious Stellar Objects

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Ancient cultures long thought the Sun had a mind of it's own, but could life form in stars by nature or exist by artificial origins, and what would star with a mind of its own be like? Visit...

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Colonizing Pluto

Colonizing Pluto

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Pluto and it's largest moon, Charon, are so far from the Sun and so tiny that they would not seem like promising options for interplanetary colonization. However, they may turn out to be excellent...

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Making Suns

Making Suns

Use my link http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "ISAAC" to 500-500 to get a free book including a copy of Olaf Stapledon's "Star Maker" Without the Sun our world would be a frozen wasteland, and for this reason any efforts to colonize the galaxy must focus on...

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