How Can We Find New Planets?--Consider the Following With Bill Nye

Astronomers have discovered hundreds and hundreds of exoplanets--worlds circling faraway stars. Bill shows us one of the ways they find these planets that are still too distant to be seen by even the most powerful telescopes.

[melancholymistress]

Oh man, I remember watching Bill Nye when I was at home in elementary school, then in science class in high school. Why on earth do we not have this awesomeness on TV anymore?!

[CapitalJ]

these videos should have more views. They're great. I wish there even more bill nye videos. It would be cool if there was a daily bill nye video, or maybe just weekly. He makes everything easy to understand and to remember, and makes it interesting. 

[SweeeeetTea]

Omg it's like I'm a kid again. THIS IS PURE MAGIC

[EthanNin]

The dimming of light too, when a planet passes in front of its parent star, the light from that star dims ever so slightly.

[compmanio]

Same old Bill Nye. Good to know that some things really do stay the same.

[SGAngle]

can these have closed captioning available?

[KrikXela]

I'm pretty sure that Bill Nye has just had his jimmies wobbled...

[cannibalisticrequiem]

So what you're saying Bill is that it's all orbital wobble...

[DimitrY]

Why does this remind me so much of the dna guy from jurassic park?

[killersnailalamode]

he broke the time space barrier years ago

[unmemorablehero]

So in a sense it's all about wibbly wobbly timey

[clewis]

This part of Bill Nye's initiative to get kids more interested in science. This is not aimed at adults. And I didn't see any disrespect or 'oggling'. Color had nothing to do with it. Why did you even bring that up?

[clewis]

I can see now that it was a mistake to reply to your original comment. If only there was a way to prevent people like you from using the internet. I will say nothing more to you.

[sladikk]

I dunno...Bill Nye doesn't act as good as he was 10 years or so ago...Maybe it's just the writers.

[EonofAeon]

Cause US public tv stations/networks nowadays are utter shite. Just sayin.