From Dr. Becky.
AD | Go to https://ground.news/drbecky to stay fully informed with the latest Space and Science news. Save 40% off the Vantage plan through my link for unlimited access | Hello! And welcome to this episode of Night Sky News for October 2025 with me, astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst! This is the show where we chat about what you should look out for in the night sky in the next month, and what’s been happening in space news in the past month. In this episode we’re chatting about ExoMars’ view of interstellar comet 3I ATLAS, JWST’s spotting a supernova before it went supernova, and the latest on the crisis in cosmology, with a new independent measurement of the expansion rate of the Universe…
My previous videos on the Crisis in Cosmology – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd19WvC9yqUf5TRqYoMYxEwjT6JIDW4Zn
Catch up on all the previous episodes of Night Sky News – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd19WvC9yqUfPMKsdRaJ7czJFd5qYzLbj
Kilpatrick et al. (2025) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10994
Planck et al. (2015) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.01589
Shajib et al. (2023) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.02656
TDCosmo collaboration (2025) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.03023
00:00 Introduction
00:54 Shooting stars from the Orionids still around
01:18 Toenail Moon + Mercury + Mars!
02:44 Supermoon 5th Nov (drowns out the Taurids)
03:15 Leonids Meteor Shower
06:12 Comet 3I-ATLAS seen by ExoMars
10:15 JWST images Sagittarius B2 cloud
11:03 JWST spots star before it went supernova
15:04 Time Delay Cosmography cracks the Crisis In Cosmology?
21:30 Bloopers
CREDIT: 01:07
Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV
Video edited by Jonny Hyman
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👩🏽💻 I’m Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don’t know. If you’ve ever wondered about something in space and couldn’t find an answer online – you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.