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Newton's idea of gravity

At the time of Isaac Newton, it was believed that the celestial bodies were moved by the so-called ether, a substance assumed to fill up all of space. But no one could prove the existence of this substance. Newton realized: rather than ether, there must be a universal action at a distance, originati

Gravity as curved space

The universe is depicted as a flat grid. Earth, Moon and Sun dent this grid due to their mass. All celestial bodies then must move along the dents. But their centrifugal force acts against this. Author: ZDF/Terra X/ T. Schultes/ Nikolai Holzach Translation and dubbing: alugha Click here to see m

LANDING ON A COMET - The Rosetta Mission

+++ Update +++ Rosetta's lander Philae is safely on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as these first two CIVA images confirm. One of the lander's three feet can be seen in the foreground. DLR's Rosetta special http://www.dlr.de/en/rosetta ------------ After a 10-year journey of some

ScienceCasts: A Supermoon Trilogy

Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. A series of three supermoons will appear on the celestial stage on December 3, 2017, January 1, 2018, and January 31, 2018. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA

Where does gold come from?

According to one of the scientific theories of the origin of the Earth, the planets were formed in the distant past by a collision of billions of small celestial bodies - with the element gold as a component in the building material of the galaxies. Author: ZDF/Terra X/Mirror TV/Jens Nicolai/Olive