Watch these videos to learn more about the universe and our environment from world experts.
Defending the Dark: A wonderful film produced in partnership with Mountains of Stars on the dark skies of Maine, by Tara Roberts Zabriskie.
Many know the #AppalachianTrail traverses through protected lands. But did you know these same protections directly benefit the night skies above the Trail as well? In our latest short film, "Go Dark - A #WildEast Story," take a journey with Atlanta-based LatinXhikers and astronomer Dr. Tyler Nordgren as they experience the splendor of a starry sky that shines brighter because of the wildness of A.T.
Go Dark — A Wild East Story
Appalachian Trail Conservancy
Learn about the Stellafane Telescope Makers Convention, held every summer in Springfield, VT, where thousands of telescope and astronomy enthusiasts gather from around the world. Definitely something you should attend!
Hunting for dinosaurs showed me our place in the universe
Kenneth Lacovara | TED2016
The search for planets beyond our system
Sara Seager | TED2015
The search for dark matter — and what we’ve found so far
Risa Wechsler | TED@NAS
What are animals thinking and feeling?
Carl Safina | TED Mission Blue II
Inside the black hole image that made history
Sheperd Doeleman | TED2019
Powers of Ten
Space is big….really big. And we’re small. But there is also smaller!
What connects you to the stars? What happens when large numbers of satellites affect the view?
What happens when satellites affect our view of the sky?
The Solar System
How Big is It? A real scale model.
"I'm glad we're here" is the start of this talk by Dave Brain. What does it take for a planet to be hospitable for life? On how many planets could we use a compass to find north (and what does that have to do with it)?
Do habitable worlds require magnetic fields?
Dave Brain | TEDxBoulder
In his captivating talk Paul describes what we call "light pollution," the overuse and misuse of artificial light at night. In cities and towns, in suburbs and villages all over the world, we are using more light than we need, and we are using it ways that waste money and energy, harm our physical health, harm the environment, and yes-rob us of the stars.
Why We Need Darkness
Paul Bogard | TEDxBratislava
Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars
David Deutsch | TEDGlobal 2005
Meet the filmmakers and watch clips of the award-winning PBS documentary which tells the remarkable life story of astrophysicist George Ellery Hale as he struggles both personally and professionally to build the great telescopes at the Yerkes Observatory (near Chicago), the Mount Wilson Observatory (above Los Angeles), and finally the million-pound telescope on Palomar Mountain (near San Diego), considered the "moon shot" of the 1930s and '40s.
Journey to Palomar
Robin Mason | Distinctive Voices @ the Beckman Center
Bradley Jay did a nice interview of Doug Arion, Executive Director of Mountains of Stars, in a tour of his Tmakwa Observatory.
Tour the home observatory of Mountains of Stars Executive Director, Douglas Arion
International Observe the Moon Night Program at Thurgood Marshall Middle School, Lynn, MA, streamed from observatories across the Northeast, including the Tmakwa Observatory of Douglas Arion, Mountains of Stars Executive Director.
Learn about the April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse - and what New Hampshire is doing to prepare for it - welcoming thousands to the area!