Cosmology & astrophysics Videos Recommended on Hacker News (108)
Cosmology & astrophysics is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 108 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 287 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Cosmology and astrophysics: black holes, dark matter, dark energy, Big Bang, galaxies, stars, gravitational waves, exoplanets, the observable universe, Sabine Hossenfelder, Kurzgesagt.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K): “does a great job with visuals and voiceovers about what will happen over the next trillions x trillions of years” — an HN commenter, 2023.
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12 mo on HNTIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K)
9 mo on HNThe Solar Gravitational Lens will Map Exoplanets. Seriously.
8 mo on HNPowers of Ten™ (1977)
6 mo on HNA new way to visualize General Relativity
5 mo on HNCarl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot
6 mo on HNThe REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!
5 mo on HNStar Size Comparison 2
5 mo on HNWhat Everyone Gets Wrong About Gravity
5 mo on HNHow Far Are The Nearest Stars?
5 mo on HNLeonard Susskind on The World As Hologram | TVO Docs
5 mo on HNCivilizations at the End of Time: Iron Stars
4 mo on HN4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour
5 mo on HNTurning Earth Into a Telescope | The Terrascope
4 mo on HNHow to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines
4 mo on HNHow Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole | Space Time
4 mo on HNdark matter is not a theory
4 mo on HNCivilizations at the End of Time: Black Hole Farming
4 mo on HNHow to Understand What Black Holes Look Like
4 mo on HNEntanglement and Complexity: Gravity and Quantum Mechanics
4 mo on HNHow To Terraform Venus (Quickly)
4 mo on HNThe Moon's Orbit is WEIRD
4 mo on HNBlack hole Firewalls - with Sean Carroll and Jennifer Ouellette
4 mo on HNShould We Colonize Venus Instead of Mars?
3 mo on HNThe Fermi Paradox Compendium
4 mo on HNTelescope Building with John Dobson
3 mo on HNVLT (Very Large Telescope) HD Timelapse Footage
3 mo on HNIs The Alcubierre Warp Drive Possible? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
3 mo on HNAre Space and Time An Illusion?
3 mo on HNWhat Happens at the Event Horizon? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
3 mo on HNHawking Radiation
3 mo on HNThe Halo Drive
3 mo on HNWhy is the Solar System Flat?
3 mo on HNDo Events Inside Black Holes Happen?
3 mo on HNThe Fermi Paradox: Dark Forest Theory
3 mo on HNThe Known Universe by AMNH #datavisualization
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