NEWS: Dark Energy’s Phantom Menace – Sixty Symbols

From Sixty Symbols. Tony and Ed discuss some recent findings from the world of Dark Energy. Full uncut interview with Ed is at https://youtu.be/rcgnhoe4LSA — More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ Support Sixty Symbols content via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixtysymbols DESI paper — https://inspirehep.net/files/4e84e8f39981be29846f14e1a3044e5b ACT paper — https://inspirehep.net/files/575b0da26acedbb91d1e259d88f9e251 Tony Padilla and Ed Copeland are based…

AI in Physics (and pineapple on pizza) – Sixty Symbols

From Sixty Symbols. Ed Copeland and Tony Padilla answer more viewer questions. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ More from this Q and A session: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNLpmQg4SSZ6tMsyDldilnA Ed and Tony are physicists at The University of Nottingham and Sixty Symbols stalwarts. Ed: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/ed.copeland Tony: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/antonio.padilla More Tony videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBPJmX64Jay51cdZTKMz4ACs More Ed videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNtF1y-sneLuyCTE-Mda561 Patreon:…

Mysteries of NGC 2403 (full interview with Seth Skostak) – Deep Sky Videos

From DeepSkyVideos. Full interview with SETI’s Seth Shostak from our video about NGC 2403 – Main video is at — https://youtu.be/kkNWEu5KWkY — More links and info in full description ↓↓↓ Seth Shostak: http://sethshostak.com Seth Shostak’s thesis: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11812191.pdf Messier Objects playlist: http://bit.ly/MessierObjects Back us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/deepskyvideos Astronomy at The University of Nottingham: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/astronomy/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeepSkyVideos…

Dark Matter and Aliens in NGC 2403 – Deep Sky Videos

From DeepSkyVideos. Mike Merrifield and Seth Shostak discuss a bewildering discovery in NGC 2403… and an offer to its alien inhabitants — Patreon bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/129506586 — Full Shostak video: https://youtu.be/xy2mE07Pp8E NGC 2403 is also known at Caldwell 7 Our video on Caldwell 1 – https://youtu.be/Et2Ij161PXE Our video on Caldwell 2 – https://youtu.be/Or3Db6ENf84 Messier 33 –…

Questions about Black Holes – Sixty Symbols

From Sixty Symbols. Professors Ed Copeland and Tony Padilla take on more questions from viewers about Black Holes. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ More from this Q and A session: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNLpmQg4SSZ6tMsyDldilnA More Black Hole videos on Sixty Symbols: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNnhsKqjZ_pO2Hum73dbJBT Videos at the Large Hadron Collider: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7DEC46BD7058D7BB Ed and Tony are physicists at…

The Sound of Meteors – Sixty Symbols

From Sixty Symbols. Professor Mike Merrifield discusses meteor showers – and whether it’s possible to hear meteors travel through the sky? More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ More videos with Mike: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNGAgplgACrGL9UlxyDHq7k Mike Merrifield is an emeritus professor at The University of Nottingham: https://x.com/astromikemerri Photoacoustic Sounds from Meteors: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313259225_Photoacoustic_Sounds_from_Meteors Green Flash video shown…

The Story of Galaxy Clusters (and Abell 1) – Deep Sky Videos

From DeepSkyVideos. Abell 1 is the first galaxy cluster in the so-called Abell Catalogue. Professor Meghan Gray has the story. More links and info in full description ↓↓↓ Professor Gray is based at the University of Nottingham – https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/meghan.gray More videos with Dr Gray – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBORQN625NgO3c4T82M6w2st Messier Objects playlist: http://bit.ly/MessierObjects Back us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/deepskyvideos…

The Bow-Tie Nebula (Caldwell 2 or NGC 40) – Deep Sky Videos

From DeepSkyVideos. Professor Mike Merrifield on the second entry in the so-called Caldwell Catalogue, a planetary nebula with a fascinating story to tell. More links and info in full description ↓↓↓ More Caldwell Catalogue videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJEVJey9Wz4RQK6uXH0O0t9504NnyzJL Mike Merrifield is an emeritus professor from the University of Nottingham. Messier Objects playlist: http://bit.ly/MessierObjects Back us on Patreon:…

A Fascinating Double Star (Albireo) – Deep Sky Videos

From DeepSkyVideos. Professor Meghan Gray discusses the double star Albireo (also known as Beta Cygni) at the head of swan in the constellation Cygnus… More links and info in full description ↓↓↓ Messier Objects playlist: http://bit.ly/MessierObjects Telescopes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFDDC58C2516AE284 Back us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/deepskyvideos More videos with Meghan Gray: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBORQN625NgO3c4T82M6w2st Some papers from this video……

Asteroid 4179 Toutatis – Deep Sky Videos

From DeepSkyVideos. Professor Meghan Gray discusses how a musical link started her exploration of this Near Earth Asteroid. More links and info in full description ↓↓↓ Composer Kaija Saariaho’s page: https://saariaho.org/works/asteroid-4179-toutatis IAU’s Minor Planet Centre: https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=4179 The Ginger-shaped Asteroid 4179 Toutatis: New Observations from a Successful Flyby of Chang’e-2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3860288/ Our Messier Objects playlist: http://bit.ly/MessierObjects…

John Green Learns About Black Holes

From SciShow Space. This is a snippet of a larger conversation taking place on Crash Course Pods: The Universe. Over 11 episodes, John Green and Katie Mack walk through the entire history of the universe…even the parts that aren’t written yet. The first five episodes are out now and can be streamed on the Crash…

Comet Hale-Bopp – Deep Sky Videos

From DeepSkyVideos. Professor Meghan Gray discusses the Great Comet of 1997, Hale-Bopp. Also known less grandiosely as C/1995 O1. More links and info in full description ↓↓↓ Circular about Hale-Bopp’s discovery: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/06100/06187.html#Item1 JWST Observations of Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) at 46 au: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022DPS….5430902K/abstract Messier Objects playlist: http://bit.ly/MessierObjects Brady visits Messier’s grave: https://youtu.be/W3-hwKQqy0I Back us on…

El Gordo (The Fat One) Galaxy Cluster – Deep Sky Videos

From DeepSkyVideos. Professor Meghan Gray discusses the immense galaxy cluster El Gordo (The Fat One), also known less catchily as ACT-CL J0102-4915. More links and info in full description ↓↓↓ Professor Gray: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/meghan.gray The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: ACT-CL J0102-4915 "El Gordo," a Massive Merging Cluster at Redshift 0.87 – https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ…748….7M/abstract JWST’s PEARLS: A new lens…

Double Quasars – Deep Sky Videos

From DeepSkyVideos. Professor Meghan Gray explains the sometimes strange phenomenon of twin quasars. More links and info in full description ↓↓↓ Professor Gray is an astronomy professor at The University of Nottingham – https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/meghan.gray A close quasar pair in a disk–disk galaxy merger at z = 2.17 – https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05766-6 0957+561 A, B: twin quasistellar objects…

A Stream of Stars (Abell 1795) – Deep Sky Videos

From DeepSkyVideos. An intergalactic stream of stars in the galaxy cluster Abell 1795 – featuring Professor Mike Merrifield. More links and info in full description ↓↓↓ Back us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/deepskyvideos MMTF-Hα and HST-FUV Imaging of the Filamentary Complex in ABELL 1795: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJ…703L.172M/abstract Michael Merrifield: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/michael.merrifield Messier Objects playlist: http://bit.ly/MessierObjects Deep Sky Videos website: http://www.deepskyvideos.com/…

Crab Nebula in 3D – Deep Sky Videos

From DeepSkyVideos. Professor Mike Merrifield discusses a new perspective of the Crab Nebula, also known as Messier 1. More links and info in full description ↓↓↓ SITELLE data paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02709 Merge Cube: https://mergeedu.com/cube Crab model for viewing with Merge Cube or just in AR: https://objects.mergeedu.com/link/KVKDP5 And for your paperweight needs: https://crystalnebulae.co.uk Messier Objects playlist: http://bit.ly/MessierObjects…

We Don’t Know Why Astronauts Get Motion Sick

From SciShow Space. A majority of modern astronauts experience any one of a suite of symptoms scientists collectively call Space Motion Sickness, or SMS. But despite knowing about it for nearly as long as humans have gone into space, we still don’t know exactly what causes it, or how to predict which astronauts might lose…

The Biggest Star In The Universe Is Too Small

From SciShow Space. R136a1 is the most massive star that astronomers have ever discovered. It’s so massive you might think the laws of physics wouldn’t allow it. But it turns out that its current mass estimate is actually so low that it threatens our understanding of how the universe got to be where it is,…

JWST: Looking Beyond The Pretty Pictures

From SciShow Space. The James Webb Space Telescope isn’t just for finding Pinterest worthy pictures, we’re finding some amazing details in the sometimes blurry background photos. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: Jason A Saslow, David Brooks,…

Is Our Solar System Missing Moons?

From SciShow Space. You might be pretty confident that when a moon is there it’s there to stay, but that’s not always the case. Moons may have a history of disappearing. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) Correction: 05:19 Well, this is half right. The moons don’t actually orbit the same distance from Mars and orbit…

The Future of the Search for Life

From SciShow Space. Get 50% off your SciShow Space calendar today by heading to https://complexlycalendars.com/products/scishowspace Astronomers have found more than 5,000 planets in the last three decades, but that’s not nearly as exciting as potentially coming across the first extraterrestrial creatures. And we may finally be in a position to make that discovery. Hosted by:…

Eavesdropping On Other Worlds

From SciShow Space. We usually only get to use our sense of sight in exploring the universe, but that hasn’t prevented scientists from trying to listen in. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ———- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: Jason A Saslow, David…

Atlas: The Little Rocket That Still Can

From SciShow Space. Order your SciShow Space Pinboard and all SciShow merch here: https://dftba.com/scishow In 1962, John Glenn went into orbit on an Atlas rocket, and thus began a family of rockets that lasted for 60 years! Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ———- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep…

What’s Going to Space in 2023?

From SciShow Space. 2022 was a pretty exciting year for space science, but what news might we expect in the coming year? Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: Jason A Saslow, David Brooks, and AndyGneiss! Support SciShow…

Did Earth’s Continents Come from Space?

From SciShow Space. Earth didn’t always have the land beneath your feet, but what might have caused it to form is a bit of a mystery. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: Jason A Saslow, David Brooks,…

A Big Bang Beginner’s Guide | Compilation

From SciShow Space. While there’s still a lot that astrophysicists don’t know about the Big Bang, there are some things we do know. So today, let’s get caught up on the Big Bang basics. Hosted by: Reid Reimers (he/him) ———- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free…

Space Superlatives of 2022

From SciShow Space. As we wrap up 2022, we’d like to celebrate a few of the cosmic “winners” discovered this year, at least while they still hold their titles. Hosted by: Reid Reimers (he/him) ———- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: Jason A…

This Year in Space News (That Isn’t JWST)

From SciShow Space. If you’ve been distracted looking at the amazing photos The James Webb Space Telescope has taken, not to worry. Here are three other stellar stories from the last year of space science! Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ———- Huge thanks go to…

Five Of The Biggest, Baddest Supernova Varieties

From SciShow Space. Head to https://complexlycalendars.com/products/scishowspace to buy your 2023 SciShow Space calendar today! Supernovae are only rare to the passive stargazer, but if you’re an astronomer studying them, you get to see some of the most brilliant explosions in the universe. Here are five of the most significant supernovae known to science. Hosted by:…