Welcome to the Explaining Science YouTube channel and blog!
There is a clear demand for good quality but easily understandable astronomy videos (and indeed not just astronomy but good science videos in general!). Although there are many excellent ones out there, there are also many bad videos on YouTube which give misleading and incorrect information. Sadly many of these poor videos are professionally made, look very slick and have a large number of views.
So, back in July 2020, I created the Explaining Science YouTube channel. I have organised it into playlists and the Popular Astronomy one will be of particular interest to those of you without a scientific background. If you would like to view something a little more challenging try General Astronomy or Physics .
So visit the channel, take a look at some of the videos, and let me know what you think!
All videos on my channel have a Creative Commons license which allows anybody to share, remix, and build upon any of my content for FREE.
A small selection of videos from the Explaining Science YouTube channel
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The Explaining Science Blog
I started the blog, a little earlier, back in April 2014. Since then it has steadily grown to have well over 7500 followers. It is now considered by the aggregator site feedspot.com to be one of the top astronomy blogs on the internet and has been mentioned on the BBC news website.
The blog contains mostly articles on astronomy, space and space travel – written at a level which is easily accessible to the non-scientist but without being dumbed down. But as well astronomy there are plenty of articles on many other scientific topics e.g.
The switch to zero emission vehicles
Time and time zones, daylight saving time, solstices, equinoxes, The date of Easter, the calendar
The seasonal changes in an English garden
Global warming and our attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rising use of fossil fuels by developing countries , opportunities for solar energy
The origin of the word Eureka!
There are even a couple of posts from the abstract world of pure math
And unlike many quality educational blogs, my blog is entirely free of adds
There over 250 posts. To view the most recent click on the icon below
There is also a X (formerly Twitter) account @ExplainingSci
and I’m on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/100008342959293
Explaining Science e-books
If you’d like to know more about popular astronomy , I’ve written three e-books which are available in the Amazon Kindle store at a nominal cost. By clicking on the links below you can find a detailed description of each book. You can also read a sample without any obligation to buy the entire e-book.
Short guide to the Moon e-book ,
Short guide to SETI e-book and
I have also put together a short video, about Explaining Science
Explaining Science 