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	2022-11-23: How To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos 14:44: We know that this Cherenkov is potentially visible based on reports of flashes by radiation therapy patients.
	2022-11-09: What If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilizations? 11:17: ... in every direction through space at close to the speed of light, making visible changes wherever they go, and that they stick around for a long ...
	2022-10-12: The REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets! 01:25: ... limit. We are not yet   able to repeat this trick with visible light  because this requires exact measurement of the   ... 10:07: ... The long focal line means that an Einstein ring   will be visible for years of travel time, slowly expanding outwards as we get ... 01:25: ... But there is one way to take a direct image of an exoplanet in visible light that could reveal   it’s detailed surface features. And that’s ... 15:45: ... have addressed. Actually   no - Hubble was most sensitive at visible  and ultraviolet wavelengths, while JWST is   an infrared ...
	2022-09-21: Science of the James Webb Telescope Explained! 03:43: The telescope is focused on the infrared - that light on the longer-wavelength side of visible light. 03:50: Hubble, on the other hand, did visible light into ultraviolet. 05:16: ... images as well as break light up into spectra, with sensitivities from visible red light through the slightly longer wavelengths of near-infrared all ... 03:43: The telescope is focused on the infrared - that light on the longer-wavelength side of visible light. 03:50: Hubble, on the other hand, did visible light into ultraviolet. 05:16: ... images as well as break light up into spectra, with sensitivities from visible red light through the slightly longer wavelengths of near-infrared all the ...
	2022-09-14: Could the Higgs Boson Lead Us to Dark Matter? 10:13: ... the ATLAS detector at the LHC: this event has caused a jet of various visible particles to shoot off to the ... 10:30: ... be more stuff firing out in the opposite direction of the jet, but no visible particles appeared on that ... 11:33: ... of the visible messy products of this particular type of event are launched in the same ... 10:13: ... the ATLAS detector at the LHC: this event has caused a jet of various visible particles to shoot off to the ... 10:30: ... be more stuff firing out in the opposite direction of the jet, but no visible particles appeared on that ...
	2022-03-08: Is the Proxima System Our Best Hope For Another Earth? 11:55: Auroras which may even be visible from Earth by a near-future telescope. 12:12: There’s far less visible light, so to our eyes the star would appear very dim. 14:45: Four lights are visible through the thick atmosphere - the gleaming white twins Tolimar and Rigel Kentaurus, the glowering red orb of Proxima herself. 12:12: There’s far less visible light, so to our eyes the star would appear very dim.
	2022-01-12: How To Simulate The Universe With DFT 18:10: ... Dyson sphere reprocessing a sun’s visible light into infrared, ultimately releasing exactly as much energy as it ... 18:34: It’s conceivable that they could channel it into a less visible form - perhaps microwave beams sent to hopefully-empty patches of the sky. 18:10: ... Dyson sphere reprocessing a sun’s visible light into infrared, ultimately releasing exactly as much energy as it ...
	2021-12-29: How to Find ALIEN Dyson Spheres 02:58: But if you shifted your gaze from visible light to infrared, you’d find all of the missing energy. 03:05: ... its 6000K surface is distributed at all wavelengths, but it peaks in the visible part of the ... 07:31: Two pure thermal spectra would be stitched into one weird spectrum with too little light at visible wavelengths and too much at infrared wavelengths. 09:20: At visible wavelengths a star’s color might not change much - it’ll just look dimmer. 09:31: But if we measure its colour using an infrared wavelength along with our visible light, we’d find too much of that IR. 09:40: The star would look cooler - lower temperature than suggested by its visible color alone. 12:33: ... to look for galaxies that had too much infrared light compared to their visible ... 09:40: The star would look cooler - lower temperature than suggested by its visible color alone. 02:58: But if you shifted your gaze from visible light to infrared, you’d find all of the missing energy. 09:31: But if we measure its colour using an infrared wavelength along with our visible light, we’d find too much of that IR. 12:33: ... to look for galaxies that had too much infrared light compared to their visible light. ... 07:31: Two pure thermal spectra would be stitched into one weird spectrum with too little light at visible wavelengths and too much at infrared wavelengths. 09:20: At visible wavelengths a star’s color might not change much - it’ll just look dimmer. 10:28: The team started by looking for stars that were a little too faint for their visible-light color - below the main sequence. 09:46: ... sphere that intercepts only 1% of its star's light could shift the visible-to-infrared color by a factor of more than ...
	2021-11-10: What If Our Understanding of Gravity Is Wrong? 00:24: ... apart - assuming  they are held together by the gravity of their visible mass ... 00:42: ... the gravity of visible matter is also way too weak to hold galaxy clusters together, or to bend ... 00:24: ... apart - assuming  they are held together by the gravity of their visible mass ... 00:42: ... the gravity of visible matter is also way too weak to hold galaxy clusters together, or to bend the ...
	2021-04-21: The NEW Warp Drive Possibilities 05:11: ... field required more energy than is contained in all the matter in the visible universe to move a moderate-sized ...
	2021-01-26: Is Dark Matter Made of Particles? 01:44: ... visible universe is made of these particles, interacting with each other through ... 03:58: These tell us something really important: dark matter is far more spread out - more diffuse - than almost all of the visible matter. 04:25: But no - dark matter seems to stay puffed up in gigantic halos surrounding the much more concentrated clumps of visible matter. 03:58: These tell us something really important: dark matter is far more spread out - more diffuse - than almost all of the visible matter. 04:25: But no - dark matter seems to stay puffed up in gigantic halos surrounding the much more concentrated clumps of visible matter. 01:44: ... visible universe is made of these particles, interacting with each other through the ...
	2020-10-05: Venus May Have Life! 02:22: ... appear to absorb the Sun’s light in a weird way - more short wavelength visible and UV light is sucked up than expected, leading to the yellow colour of ...
	2020-08-17: How Stars Destroy Each Other 02:45: But it can be found if you look a little off center for a spot of light that flares erratically from visible to X-ray wavelengths. 07:38: He observed these objects using visible wavelength of light - and found one object was indeed pulsing. 08:42: And the pulsing of visible light? 10:05: Those supernovae are visible not just across the galaxy, but in galaxies across the universe. 08:42: And the pulsing of visible light? 07:38: He observed these objects using visible wavelength of light - and found one object was indeed pulsing.
	2020-04-14: Was the Milky Way a Quasar? 12:21: ... cascade that may have helped forged the Fermi Bubbles would have been visible to the naked eye for our early hominid ...
	2020-04-07: How We Know The Earth Is Ancient 04:32: ... analogy - that the universe must be vastly larger than what was visible at the ...
	2020-03-03: Does Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat? 14:54: ... actually, most visible-light photons will travel the length of a typical double-slit experiment ...
	2020-02-24: How Decoherence Splits The Quantum Multiverse 14:38: ... only see what remains visible to us, stranded as we are on a single branch of the universal ...
	2020-01-13: How To Capture Black Holes 00:24: ... the sky, When we learned to see in neutrinos the core of the Sun became visible to us. But now that our vision extends to gravitational waves, what else ... 04:08: ... quasar phenomenon, and their accretion disks glow bright enough to be visible from the other side of the universe. More generally, these feeding ... 09:53: ... produces a flash of ultraviolet radiation - and those flashes may be visible to telescopes on Earth right after the gravitational waves ...
	2019-11-04: Why We Might Be Alone in the Universe 03:35: ... difficult or unlikely steps in the development from barren planet to visible technological ...
	2019-07-25: Deciphering The Vast Scale of the Universe 01:41: That’s not to say we’d never seen other galaxies – Andromeda is visible to the naked eye – if you have good vision. 01:48: And many nearby galaxies were visible as fuzzy blobs in our early telescopes.
	2019-06-20: The Quasar from The Beginning of Time 03:27: For example, visible light – the wavelength range that our eyes are sensitive to – spans only a tiny fraction of the spectrum. 03:40: For example, viewed in visible light, the Andromeda galaxy shows us newborn stars. 03:45: ... atmosphere is transparent to visible light, so a ground-based telescope can see a visible universe, as can ... 03:27: For example, visible light – the wavelength range that our eyes are sensitive to – spans only a tiny fraction of the spectrum. 03:40: For example, viewed in visible light, the Andromeda galaxy shows us newborn stars. 03:45: ... atmosphere is transparent to visible light, so a ground-based telescope can see a visible universe, as can we. ...
	2019-06-06: The Alchemy of Neutron Star Collisions 13:02: ... recombination and then the cosmic background would still have been visible red orange everywhere reflecting the 3000 Kelvin temperature at that ...
	2019-04-24: No Dark Matter = Proof of Dark Matter? 00:03: ... rotation rates of spiral galaxies were too fast given the mass of their visible stars alone they should throw themselves to pieces spinning that quickly ...
	2019-04-03: The Edge of an Infinite Universe 01:22: To review: the particle horizon defines the limit of the visible past, and there’s also cosmic event horizon defining the limit of the visible future.
	2019-03-28: Could the Universe End by Tearing Apart Every Atom? 09:44: And so there should be a handful of galaxies still visible to us.
	2019-03-20: Is Dark Energy Getting Stronger? 02:22: Those same textbooks talk about dark matter – an invisible stuff whose gravitational influence overwhelms all types of visible matter combined.
	2019-01-09: Are Dark Matter And Dark Energy The Same? 01:23: Based on the gravity from visible matter alone they shouldn’t be able to hold themselves together.
	2018-12-20: Why String Theory is Wrong 03:43: Shrink it down to around 10 to the power of negative thirtieth of a meter, so it's only visible to things equally miniscule.
	2018-11-21: 'Oumuamua Is Not Aliens 03:38: In regular comets, the outgassing is typically visible as sunlight reflects off dust carried along with the jets. 04:26: With no visible coma or tail, it doesn't look like outgassing, so maybe it's radiation pressure. 05:54: Oumuamua appears to be accelerating out of the solar system in a way completely consistent with outgassing except there is no visible outgassing. 07:31: The lack of visible outgassing is weird, but, frankly, it's not that weird. 04:26: With no visible coma or tail, it doesn't look like outgassing, so maybe it's radiation pressure. 05:54: Oumuamua appears to be accelerating out of the solar system in a way completely consistent with outgassing except there is no visible outgassing. 07:31: The lack of visible outgassing is weird, but, frankly, it's not that weird.
	2018-11-14: Supersymmetric Particle Found? 05:53: It spots neutrinos when they're decayed or electrons, muons, or tau particles, which in turn produce visible light as they streak through the ice.
	2018-10-25: Will We Ever Find Alien Life? 03:52: And because they almost certainly have a head start on us of at least thousands of years, that galactic gentrification might be visible to us. 09:17: ... great filter that seriously limits the Milky Way's production of highly visible galactic ...
	2018-08-01: How Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get? 01:37: It's visible to the naked eye only during a total solar eclipse. 02:24: Auroras normally only visible near the poles were witnessed across the entire planet.
	2018-05-02: The Star at the End of Time 05:46: First, they shine white as their black-body spectrum spans the visible range, just like our Sun.
	2018-03-28: The Andromeda-Milky Way Collision 01:31: On the dark sky, it's visible to the naked eye as a faint smudge. 08:37: ... view of our dynamical evolving universe, when we have a neighbor whose visible stars revealed its great distance, and whose spiral structure helped us ... 10:06: ... whereby the gravitational response of the universe doesn't match the visible matter given our understanding of that matter and/or the laws of ... 08:37: ... view of our dynamical evolving universe, when we have a neighbor whose visible stars revealed its great distance, and whose spiral structure helped us guess ...
	2018-03-21: Scientists Have Detected the First Stars 03:43: So the research team added together the CMB light from the entire visible sky and recorded this spectrum.
	2018-03-15: Hawking Radiation 09:22: This radiation is visible only to distant observers.
	2018-01-10: What Do Stars Sound Like? 08:12: ... helioseismic holography, the visible wave field-- so the distribution of Doppler velocities across the ...
	2017-12-20: Extinction by Gamma-Ray Burst 04:22: And nitrogen dioxide absorbs visible light, reducing the energy received from the sun.
	2017-11-29: Citizen Science + Zero-Point Challenge Answer 03:15: ... provides the raw, visible, and infrared images to the public via their website, and talented folk ...
	2017-09-28: Are the Fundamental Constants Changing? 14:02: To do something similar with visible light, you'd need a nanofabricated structure with actual concentric rings.
	2017-09-13: Neutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal? 03:01: This was the Hulse-Taylor binary, two neutron stars in orbit around each other, one of which is visible to us as a pulsar. 06:07: "Optical counterpart" means that there's a source of visible light associated with the gravitational wave.
	2017-08-16: Extraterrestrial Superstorms 05:02: Most of Jupiter's visible clouds are ammonia ice, tainted with colorful impurities, but there also clouds of hydrogen sulfide and regular H2O.
	2017-04-05: Telescopes on the Moon 01:40: On the moon, the stars are visible day and night. 01:51: ... is that it can see into near ultraviolet wavelengths and in the visible range observable within our ... 01:40: On the moon, the stars are visible day and night. 01:51: ... is that it can see into near ultraviolet wavelengths and in the visible range observable within our ...
	2017-03-29: How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole 07:49: At the moment of crossing, light rays from the event horizon itself are suddenly visible.
	2017-03-01: The Treasures of Trappist-1 05:29: On the inner planets' sunny side, the star will provide about as much visible light as our sun.
	2017-02-22: The Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System! 09:25: We'll need to figure out if this planet is real and what causes its strange mismatch in visible and infrared light.
	2017-02-15: Telescopes of Tomorrow 01:34: These cameras see mostly at infrared wavelengths of light, unlike Hubble's, which are optimized for visible and ultraviolet light. 02:06: Compare two shots from Hubble-- this taken in visible wavelengths, this in infrared. 03:36: This means that infrared has a disadvantage over visible or ultraviolet light. 03:53: Its infrared pics will be just as clear as Hubble's visible light images. 04:31: But without sensitivity to visible or ultraviolet wavelengths, it will not replace Hubble. 05:21: But GMT is built to explore visible wavelengths, just like Hubble. 09:06: ... also catch the visible light counterparts to gamma ray bursts, the most energetic explosions in ... 03:53: Its infrared pics will be just as clear as Hubble's visible light images. 09:06: ... also catch the visible light counterparts to gamma ray bursts, the most energetic explosions in the ... 03:53: Its infrared pics will be just as clear as Hubble's visible light images. 02:06: Compare two shots from Hubble-- this taken in visible wavelengths, this in infrared. 05:21: But GMT is built to explore visible wavelengths, just like Hubble.
	2017-01-04: How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer 00:40: Although they don't emit any light themselves, they can have a very visible effect on their surroundings. 01:18: ... the motion of a visible star reveals it to be in orbit around a companion that is dark invisible ... 01:29: This happens when the substance of a visible star is accreting onto a companion neutron star or black hole. 02:09: Sag A star is visible in X-rays, which occasionally flash brighter as it gobbles up a wisp of gas. 04:09: At visible wavelengths, this should look like a brightening of the star, an effect called microlensing. 00:40: Although they don't emit any light themselves, they can have a very visible effect on their surroundings. 01:18: ... the motion of a visible star reveals it to be in orbit around a companion that is dark invisible ... 01:29: This happens when the substance of a visible star is accreting onto a companion neutron star or black hole. 01:18: ... the motion of a visible star reveals it to be in orbit around a companion that is dark invisible light but ... 04:09: At visible wavelengths, this should look like a brightening of the star, an effect called microlensing.
	2016-11-09: Did Dark Energy Just Disappear? 14:52: So that's 500 nanometers' separation for visible light.
	2016-09-07: Is There a Fifth Fundamental Force? + Quantum Eraser Answer 03:51: But the researchers suggest it could mediate interactions between the so-called dark sector and the visible universe. 05:12: There's no visible interference pattern at all. 03:51: But the researchers suggest it could mediate interactions between the so-called dark sector and the visible universe.
	2016-08-24: Should We Build a Dyson Sphere? 00:53: ... only as strange points of infrared lights but otherwise black at visible ...
	2016-07-06: Juno to Reveal Jupiter's Violent Past 11:25: Our eyes can't register the difference in brightness across the visible part of the spectrum, so we register the color as white.
	2016-06-22: Planck's Constant and The Origin of Quantum Mechanics 05:43: But for higher frequencies, like visible and ultraviolet, it predicted brightnesses that were way too high.
	2016-05-04: Will Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed? 04:24: Another big difference compared to Starwisp is that Starshot will be powered by a visible light laser, not a maser. 04:31: This is important because visible light lasers can maintain a much tighter beam than a maser can. 04:24: Another big difference compared to Starwisp is that Starshot will be powered by a visible light laser, not a maser. 04:31: This is important because visible light lasers can maintain a much tighter beam than a maser can. 04:24: Another big difference compared to Starwisp is that Starshot will be powered by a visible light laser, not a maser. 04:31: This is important because visible light lasers can maintain a much tighter beam than a maser can.
	2016-03-02: What’s Wrong With the Big Bang Theory? 04:57: But there are some clues still visible at later times.
	2016-02-24: Why the Big Bang Definitely Happened 06:29: ... at the moment the CMB was created, and those ripples should still be visible in the way that galaxies are spread out on the ...
	2016-02-11: LIGO's First Detection of Gravitational Waves! 05:55: ... multiple telescopes that span the electromagnetic spectrum from radio to visible to ...
	2016-02-03: Will Mars or Venus Kill You First? 06:06: ... typically take days to reach Mars from the sun and are preceded by some visible indication like a solar flare, whose light reaches you in ...
	2015-10-15: 5 REAL Possibilities for Interstellar Travel 06:44: ... humans, we're going to need to a bigger boat, which means a proper visible light laser and a larger sail, coated with advanced, reflective and heat ...
	2015-07-08: Curvature Demonstrated + Comments 01:30: This vector right now is drawn super, super long, because it'll make it more visible on camera. 02:22: ... ends up-- and now I'm going to blow up the vector again to make it more visible-- sliding and projecting down, sliding and projecting down, sliding and ...
	2015-06-03: Is Gravity An Illusion? 10:42: Earth analogs in Earth-like orbits around Sun-like stars are not going to be visible.
	2015-05-13: 9 NASA Technologies Shaping YOUR Future 05:22: See, fog is opaque to visible light, but somewhat transparent to infrared light.
	2015-04-01: Is the Moon in Majora’s Mask a Black Hole? 07:43: ... OK To Be Smart" where Joe Hanson explained that the average color of all visible stars in the universe comes out to an off-white called Cosmic ...
	2015-02-25: How Do You Measure the Size of the Universe? 03:22: In more extreme cases, the wavelength can be stretched out of the visible spectrum altogether, into microwaves or radio waves.

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