This is my favourite crash course series. Mainly due to Phil. I don't know, just the sheer amount of wonder and passion that he puts into this, makes appreciate this series on a whole other level than the others. Not to mention that he is talking about some of the most beautiful, powerful and eventful in... ever kinda helps.
A few years ago, I took an intro astronomy class taught by a respected astrophysicist in the community. She was incredibly smart, but I didn’t really learn much, and the class definitely wasn’t enjoyable. If I had been taught by Phil, it would’ve been my favorite class during my undergrad thus far. He’s so passionate and fascinated by this stuff, and rightly so, because it’s absolutely INSANE. Love this series. 10/10. It makes me want to take more astronomy courses.
Anyone else squeal like a little girl when you see there's a new CC:Astronomy video? I can't freaking wait to get to the black holes episode! You're one of my heroes Phil.
I love the way Phil presents this stuff. Not only does he make all the information easily digestible (with beautiful NASA photos), he also makes it relatable on our tiny, tiny level by talking about how these far-flung things in space have interacted with his own life in some way. Plus, I absolutely love all the silly faces, reactions, and truely awful jokes he puts in the episodes. Fantastic series!
This crash course should be required learning in every school around the world. Phil makes it easy (somewhat) to digest and also fun to learn. Give this man a raise :)
I am not that interested in astronomy, but every time I see a CC:Astronomy pop-up in my subscription list I click it thinking "aw might as well". 3 minutes in I am staring at the screen going, "This is the most interesting thing I've ever heard of."
Phil is absolutely my favourite crash course instructor. Trying really hard to get into the economics folks because I'd love to know more about how money works and how we think about it, but boy are they... noticeably new to being on camera.
+Felipe josé I suspect next is novae then plausibly supernovae is the episode after. At some point beyond that we'll get into black holes, neutron stars and quasars I expect.
+Banana Hunter Pro Ours too! +1 to this excellent recommendation! Just to make it as easy as possible for anyone interested: ruclips.net/video/vNaEBbFbvcY/видео.html -Nicole
Aw.. this is my third comments on this series. Would be really fun if ones can attend Phil Plait class. :D Love his way sharing knowledge so much! Thank you Phil Plait!
That just blew my mind! The planets getting eaten by their star, BUT STILL ORBITING IT FROM INSIDE?! Like wtf?! That's the coolest thing ever!! Like how do you come up with that?! That's freaking incredible.
Thank you very much for making this video, Phil Plait and the others at _CrashCourse_ Astronomy! I really enjoyed hearing about white dwarfs, planetary nebulæ and how they form. So beautiful! I hope you will mention black dwarfs sometime. ;D 10:14 Love that laughter! Love it!
So happy i found this. I loved astronomy when i was a kid but i watched Brian Coxs TV program on it and it destroyed my interest but now I've got it back thanks Phil
What happens to the orbit of a planet that gets swallowed? I imagine friction would slow it down and deteriorate the orbit. Do they fall into the center of the star or the star vaporizes it before that can happen?
Of all the crash courses I love this one the most. The other crash courses rely on gimmicks and jokes, Phil just lets the science be the attraction. He has a palpable sense of enthusiasm, keep up the god work.
UUUhHHH, I learned something today. The idea for planets causing Planetary nebulae deformation is even new for me, and I am in the Astronomical community for 4 years. Although I am working with galaxies, soooo, ...
Crash course astronomy is by far the best in the Crash course series!! Kudos and keep the videos coning! I always watch them while having Friday breakfast here in the Philippines. :)
I love how passionate the presentation is as a whole. I get oh so excited whenever a Crash Course Astronomy video appears on my subscription page. Can anyone recommend a book that explores the universe and the stars in an interesting fashion? I'm not a science student nor do I work in the science field but I am truly fascinated by this subject, and would love to have my spare time devoted to reading stuff about this. :)
Neat. I actually learn a few new thing today. I should study more about White Dwarfs. For some reason they have not interested me that much in the past. But this changed my mind. :)
Phil, you are awesome! I love that you so are so obviously fascinated by the subject, it warms my heart to see somebody so dedicated to his job! Also, I laugh about every single pun you make, mainly because of your facial expression! :D Thank you for doing this, and thanks to everyone else involved!
doing a physics seminar presentation on white dwarf structure and the derivation of the Chandrasekhar Limit. I will be using some of these facts as entertaining filler now, so thanks Phil!
Excellent episode! If only one thing could be added about the deaths of stars, and white dwarfs in particular, it would have to be Type 1A supernovae. Of course this death only happens when the white dwarf is in a binary system, but binaries were mentioned, while this very massively huge and astronomically important cause of stellar death is not.
these really are amazing! I enjoyed every single minute of each video in this series! keep up the good work, you are doing something that benefits the whole of humanity!!
Whenever I think of things happening over "a few thousand years", such as the dissipation of planetary nebulae or the precession of the equinoxes, as being far too long a time period to matter, I then recall that we have detailed astronomical records from a few thousand years ago.
@badastronomer, is it any coincidence the core of of stars are comprised of elements on the periodic table that have the lowest atomic number: hydrogen (1) and helium (2) in the sun and lithium (3) in low mass stars? Always informative and entertaining. Can't wait for next week!
5:45 I accidentally did this to a black hole in Universe Sandbox 2. I made it explode, and it turned into many stars at just the right mass and density to become supernova, which caused a dozen jets to come off in a beautiful pattern. I didn't even mean to blow up my black hole... Clicked it by accident, but it was awesome. Totally unrealistic, but awesome.
This is my favourite crash course series. Mainly due to Phil. I don't know, just the sheer amount of wonder and passion that he puts into this, makes appreciate this series on a whole other level than the others. Not to mention that he is talking about some of the most beautiful, powerful and eventful in... ever kinda helps.
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I am a fan of the subject matter but I think Phil is a great host. The faces are what get me.
+Dean Goldenstar Wow. Thank you so much!
+Dennis Burgner :D
***** No. Thank you for this amazing series^^
I really love it when Phil does this ":D" face.
+kaiplue "And now we've come...full circle" :D
+kaiplue I'm a guy and I'm having a raging boner for Phil.
Amin Gholamzadeh Good for you. :D
+Amin Gholamzadeh say nohomo please
+Rizki Yanuar it wouldn't be bad if he intended. to say it with allthehomo
This is definitively the best episode of Crash Course Astronomy I've seen. Thumbs up!
+selfreference2 Thanks! This stuff just keeps getting more interesting the more we explore!
-Nicole
+selfreference2 I had the same thought. Awesome stuff!
this is the best crash course ever
+truth1901 what ever the thing is that keeps us on earths surface, and not floating into space, is not an illusion.
+truth1901 Yea...um...Einstein never did that.
Phil Plait inspired me to be an amateur astronomer.
Thanks and keep up the good work!
A few years ago, I took an intro astronomy class taught by a respected astrophysicist in the community. She was incredibly smart, but I didn’t really learn much, and the class definitely wasn’t enjoyable. If I had been taught by Phil, it would’ve been my favorite class during my undergrad thus far. He’s so passionate and fascinated by this stuff, and rightly so, because it’s absolutely INSANE. Love this series. 10/10. It makes me want to take more astronomy courses.
Can't wait for next week!! You guys are AWESOME! Ky
Phil Plait, you're fantastic. Do this series forever, please!
+Isaac Andrade It's so meta, even this acronym.
+Nitay A. The Red Rectangle Nebula is pretty cool
+Nitay A. the cateye Nebula, am I right?
+Max Fux yup, also my favourite
+Nitay A. Nebula
Please NEVER stop making these videos.
I'll confess I'm a little afraid of Phil's next episode... He's gonna' be blowing up stars for us...
+Migario Lamplight And lots of 'em.
That's goin' Nova the top
+Migario Lamplight I guess it'll be mind blowing.
Anyone else squeal like a little girl when you see there's a new CC:Astronomy video? I can't freaking wait to get to the black holes episode! You're one of my heroes Phil.
I love the way Phil presents this stuff. Not only does he make all the information easily digestible (with beautiful NASA photos), he also makes it relatable on our tiny, tiny level by talking about how these far-flung things in space have interacted with his own life in some way. Plus, I absolutely love all the silly faces, reactions, and truely awful jokes he puts in the episodes. Fantastic series!
This is mind blowing! I had never heard of that theory of the stars swallowing their planets. Awesome!
+Emily Nadira I loved the thought of planets stirring up a nebula like a whisk.
Wow, I'd never heard the theory that planets engulfed by their progenitor star could help shape the nebula. Amazing!
KSP and CrashCourse = perfect combination for astronomy geeks!
+MrB999 Y'know, if Phil has the three Kerbals on his desk, perhaps someone should do the opposite: Build a Phil-shaped rocket in KSP!
+MrB999 You're forgetting about the Universe Sandbox!
KSP
Space Engine
Crash Course
Universe Sandbox 2
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= EVEN MORE PERFECT COMBINATION FOR ASTRONOMY GEEKS LIEK ME
+MrB999 KSP, Space Engineers, No Man's Sky and Universe Sandbox
Raga Khalif Spacegasm!!!
This crash course should be required learning in every school around the world.
Phil makes it easy (somewhat) to digest and also fun to learn.
Give this man a raise :)
CrashCourse astronomy - Phil plait - Thumbs up!
thank you Phil, 11 minutes packed with quality info
Oh man, I love Phil. He is such an awesome teacher
My favorite star is the DEATH STAR
+Dr.Voctor It sure as hell isn't a moon.
HA HA HA indeed not
+Dr.Voctor mine is a porn star.
+ociv delos
Loo
That’s no star...
My favorite Astronomy episode yet. i wish that coming episodes about stars life cycles are even more detailed and visual.
I absolutely love him. One of the best hosts on CC.
I am not that interested in astronomy, but every time I see a CC:Astronomy pop-up in my subscription list I click it thinking "aw might as well". 3 minutes in I am staring at the screen going, "This is the most interesting thing I've ever heard of."
Sarah Ziglar contradiction ?
nice! i learned something again!
I love this series, especially because of Phil's sheer enthusiasm.
I could keep watching these videos all day long, best serie ever.
I love Crash Course and I am soooo happy that I found it. Every single one you guys does excellent work. 👍🏽
I’ve not seen this dude before... just back-to-backed about 6 videos. Awesome. Properly awesome. I’m so happy.
Phil is absolutely my favourite crash course instructor. Trying really hard to get into the economics folks because I'd love to know more about how money works and how we think about it, but boy are they... noticeably new to being on camera.
Oh man I hope we get into black holes next episode
+TheZeyon Next is going to be supernovas, Black Holes should come soon enough
+Felipe josé I suspect next is novae then plausibly supernovae is the episode after. At some point beyond that we'll get into black holes, neutron stars and quasars I expect.
I recommend PBS spacetime vid on black holes. It blew my mind.
+Banana Hunter Pro Ours too! +1 to this excellent recommendation! Just to make it as easy as possible for anyone interested: ruclips.net/video/vNaEBbFbvcY/видео.html
-Nicole
+TheZeyon It'll be a few more weeks. Outtakes are coming up next and then Black Holes will be episode 33 -- but we're getting there!
-Nicole
I've really started to look forward to these episodes.
Aw.. this is my third comments on this series. Would be really fun if ones can attend Phil Plait class. :D Love his way sharing knowledge so much! Thank you Phil Plait!
That just blew my mind! The planets getting eaten by their star, BUT STILL ORBITING IT FROM INSIDE?! Like wtf?! That's the coolest thing ever!! Like how do you come up with that?! That's freaking incredible.
I learn more in one of these 10-15 minute videos than I did in almost a whole semester of astronomy in high school.
*I’m addicted to this series*
Crash course astronomy is amazing!!! Thanks to Phil here!
Thank you very much for making this video, Phil Plait and the others at _CrashCourse_ Astronomy! I really enjoyed hearing about white dwarfs, planetary nebulæ and how they form. So beautiful! I hope you will mention black dwarfs sometime. ;D
10:14 Love that laughter! Love it!
I really love all these Astronomy series!!! I wish there are more videos coming :(
So happy i found this. I loved astronomy when i was a kid but i watched Brian Coxs TV program on it and it destroyed my interest but now I've got it back thanks Phil
I love these series :D
Never been so excited for more
I'm always so happy when there's a new episode of this series!
I hope that this series goes for at least another 30 episodes... though, I know that would be a lot of work to put in.
Michael D. Rodgers,
Unfortunately, It only had 46 episodes 😔😔
I love the dramatic zoom-ins. Hilarious! This is good stuff.
What happens to the orbit of a planet that gets swallowed? I imagine friction would slow it down and deteriorate the orbit. Do they fall into the center of the star or the star vaporizes it before that can happen?
3 years ago and no answer?
You are great Phil. Not everyone have such a knowledge about astronomy and especially not everyone worked on Hubble. Go on!
One of my favourite celebrity astronomers but that shirt ! Crash Course always knocks it out of the park with how enjoyable their content is.
Of all the crash courses I love this one the most.
The other crash courses rely on gimmicks and jokes, Phil just lets the science be the attraction.
He has a palpable sense of enthusiasm, keep up the god work.
I love this series so much I squeal whenever a new episode is posted
UUUhHHH, I learned something today. The idea for planets causing Planetary nebulae deformation is even new for me, and I am in the Astronomical community for 4 years. Although I am working with galaxies, soooo, ...
This is my favorite Crash Course series
Phil is greatest of all time with this!
Crash course astronomy is by far the best in the Crash course series!! Kudos and keep the videos coning! I always watch them while having Friday breakfast here in the Philippines. :)
Amazing, loving the series.
Best series idea CrashCourse ever did.
I love how passionate the presentation is as a whole. I get oh so excited whenever a Crash Course Astronomy video appears on my subscription page.
Can anyone recommend a book that explores the universe and the stars in an interesting fashion? I'm not a science student nor do I work in the science field but I am truly fascinated by this subject, and would love to have my spare time devoted to reading stuff about this. :)
+Shafiq Faizal (piecemealcranky) You watch anime? did you watch "Deadman Wonderland"? and do you have a anime list?
+Franziska Von Karma I do, actually. And yes, I have watched that... My list: myanimelist.net/animelist/piecemealcranky
Ok... I was just going to watch Akame ga kill.
I watched Madoka Magica, what are you're thoughts on the end of rebellion, with what Homura did?
Love you Dr Plait ! “And we come FULL CIRCLE” 8:11
This guy is the best, people need to take notes on how to make videos from him.
Professor phill have a knowledge grip on astronomy. Accept the greatness of creater
These vids are solidly explained in understanding.
Please make a course on *Theory of Relativity*
Can't wait for the next episode, this helps a lot since today we started with astronomy today at class. Happy to share my happiness with class mates.
thank you for making these videos! really interesting keep it coming
This series is the only that keeps me wating for the next episode every week. Please keep up the good work!
next week is gonna be brilliant
Neat. I actually learn a few new thing today. I should study more about White Dwarfs. For some reason they have not interested me that much in the past. But this changed my mind. :)
Best series on youtube.
BEST CRASH COURSE SERIES EVER. MORE PLEASE 🙏🏼
Phil, you are awesome! I love that you so are so obviously fascinated by the subject, it warms my heart to see somebody so dedicated to his job! Also, I laugh about every single pun you make, mainly because of your facial expression! :D
Thank you for doing this, and thanks to everyone else involved!
this is an amazing episode of crash course
I always look forward to new episodes
I can't wait a week for the next episode!!!
doing a physics seminar presentation on white dwarf structure and the derivation of the Chandrasekhar Limit. I will be using some of these facts as entertaining filler now, so thanks Phil!
I can't wait to see an episode about neutron star.
My favorite series out of all Crash Course!
Excellent episode! If only one thing could be added about the deaths of stars, and white dwarfs in particular, it would have to be Type 1A supernovae. Of course this death only happens when the white dwarf is in a binary system, but binaries were mentioned, while this very massively huge and astronomically important cause of stellar death is not.
Phil should do a Q&A video one day
Took a long exposure photo of M27 the other week. Absolutely amazing.
I like these series so much.
I just love the kerbals on the desk, Since im watching this while i wait for a time warp as Jeb heads to pluto lol
Love this guy! Such great energy.
hey I didnt know some of this, cool. Love your enthousiasm and yellow shirt.
these really are amazing! I enjoyed every single minute of each video in this series! keep up the good work, you are doing something that benefits the whole of humanity!!
Whenever I think of things happening over "a few thousand years", such as the dissipation of planetary nebulae or the precession of the equinoxes, as being far too long a time period to matter, I then recall that we have detailed astronomical records from a few thousand years ago.
Can't wait for next week's episode :-D
I think Phil got a little teary when he was talking about the death of a star (9:30)...
Thank you for using the metric system!
10:22 Cloudy with a chance of planetary nebulae. I see what you did there. :)
this is the best crash course ever !
@badastronomer, is it any coincidence the core of of stars are comprised of elements on the periodic table that have the lowest atomic number: hydrogen (1) and helium (2) in the sun and lithium (3) in low mass stars? Always informative and entertaining. Can't wait for next week!
I can't wait until next week!
Are there plans for uploading English subtitles? First time I don't see them on these videos :(
Thanks for this great videos, guys!
Check now. I have captions
He's Really Getting into this.
We'll learn more about that in future episode xD
Fascinating.......
Yeah i dont actually understand him that well its just interesting and satisfying to see this video.
love crash course. thank you for such a wonderful and free resource.
5:45 I accidentally did this to a black hole in Universe Sandbox 2. I made it explode, and it turned into many stars at just the right mass and density to become supernova, which caused a dozen jets to come off in a beautiful pattern. I didn't even mean to blow up my black hole... Clicked it by accident, but it was awesome. Totally unrealistic, but awesome.
I can't wait for next week's about supernovas !!
Man I love your clips, they are so informative and interesting. Really brings astronomy to life! :)
OMG next week be here already
I'm ashamed to say how many times I backed up the video by three seconds just to watch Phil's 'pun face' at 8:11.