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Jake’s video about The Curiosity Box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p91-GhjgeEU
Minute Physics on why December days are the longest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZMMuv0Ltyo
StandUpMaths on calendars and leap days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkt_wmRKYNQ
Tom Scott on the Equation of Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Qnobvx_kM
My video on what would happen if the Earth stopped spinning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0-GxoJ_Pcg
GREAT visuals showing how Earth moves around the sun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82p-DYgGFjI
http://www.timeanddate.com/
George Washington’s birthday: https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/washington/
real-time sub solar point location: http://rl.se/sub-solar-point
Lahaina noon images from the Oahu Astrophotography club: https://www.facebook.com/OahuAstrophotoClub
analemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma
great solargraph and analemma images: http://analemma.pl/english-version
interactive seasons and ecliptic simulator: http://astro.unl.edu/classaction/animations/coordsmotion/eclipticsimulator.html
Nasa video of seasonal movement of Earth: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20063
Tropical year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_year
Earth rotation specifics: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=20196
How Earth moves through the universe:
https://astrosociety.org/edu/publications/tnl/71/howfast.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/04/vortex_motion_viral_video_showing_sun_s_motion_through_galaxy_is_wrong.html
http://space.gizmodo.com/racing-while-standing-still-1558642922/1559622011
I always see representations of the solar system with the planets existing on the same plane. If that is the case, what is "above" and "below" our solar system?
byu/Hyperchema inaskscience
minute physics on cab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZQ-5-KYHw
PBS spacetime on the cosmic microwave background:
CMB rest frame:
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/25928/is-the-cmb-rest-frame-special-where-does-it-come-from
Does "No Absolute Reference Frame" contradict the cosmic microwave background (CMB)?
byu/Bellgard inAskPhysics
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_reform
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_length_fluctuations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background
wikicommons images:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial#/media/File:Kew_Gardens_0502.JPG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CathedralofLearningLawinWinter.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Beach,_Florida#/media/File:South_Beach_20080315.jpg
To explore space, I highly recommend these:
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
http://en.spaceengine.org/
music by http://www.youtube.com/jakechudnow
and http://www.audionetwork.com
Awesome 3D graphics by Eric Langlay: https://www.youtube.com/user/ericdraven30
Lame 2D stuff by me.
