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From PBS Space Time. PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to:http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE The molecular basis of all life is mysteriously asymmetric, only using molecules on one side of what should be the equivalent mirrored pairs. The universe has a similar mirror asymmetry, and it may be that our…
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From Sixty Symbols. Mike Merrifield discusses the third known interstellar comet to pass through our solar system (3I/ATLAS). More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ Deep Sky Videos: https://www.youtube.com/DeepSkyVideos Messier Objects: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC9FC5F6773B383D5 More on the comet 3I/ATLAS… https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/ https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25N12.html ESO image: https://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/images/potw2527a/ The paper Mike discusses… https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05318 More Mike on Sixty Symbols: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNGAgplgACrGL9UlxyDHq7k Mike…
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 July 2025, with me astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst. This is the show…
From Sixty Symbols. Professor Mike Merrifield creates his digital doppelganger – then Brady asks them both the same questions. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ Videos on all 110 Messier Objects (featuring Mike Merrifield): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC9FC5F6773B383D5 Brady visits the ELT site (before construction): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=450jt8LlcnY More Mike on Sixty Symbols: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNGAgplgACrGL9UlxyDHq7k Mike Merrifield: https://about.me/michael.merrifield Computerphile…
From Dr. Becky. AD – To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/DrBecky and you’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription | Us astronomers and astrophysicists have been waiting for this moment for a LONG time: the first images from the Vera Rubin Observatory in…
From Sixty Symbols. Professor Meghan Gray discusses space co-ordinates and what sits at position 0,0 in the sky? More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ From Prof Gray: “Mea culpa dear viewers – as rightly pointed out by several commenters, the pinch point of the analemma is not where the equinox occurs. Instead it…
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From PBS Space Time. Learn More About Anydesk: https://anydesk.com/spacetime Did God have any choice in creating the world? So asked Albert Einstein. He was being poetic. What he really meant, was whether the universe could have been any other way. Could it have had different laws of physics, driven by different fundamental constants. Or is…
From Dr. Becky. AD – Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code DRBECKY at checkout. Download the Saily app or go to https://saily.com/drbecky | Will our Milky Way galaxy, our island in the universe of 100 billion stars, one day collide with our neighbour the Andromeda galaxy? Because when we observe…
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From PBS Space Time. Remove your personal information from the web at https://joindeleteme.com/SPACETIME Big things are made of smaller things, and those smaller things are made of smaller things still. That’s reductionism in a nutshell, and digging our way to the smallest layer has been one of the primary goals of physics for ever. But…
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 June 2025 with me, astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst. This is the show…
From Dr. Becky. AD | Join me in reading Nautilus by heading to http://joinnautilus.com/drbecky where you can get 15% off a membership to Nautilus, perfect for any science enthusiast. | Is there life on Mars? It’s a BIG question that David Bowie has been asking for a long time! So the majority of missions and…
From Curious Droid. 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com When Voyagers 1 & 2 were launched in 1977, we sent them with a golden record with sounds, language, music and images encoded on the analogue waveform, just like a…
From Sixty Symbols. Full interview with Ed from our video about Phantom Dark Energy and findings from DESI… Main video is at https://youtu.be/UDOsuwDeGeE — 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 at…
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…
From PBS Space Time. Learn More About Anydesk: https://anydesk.com/spacetime The biggest news in cosmology in recent years is that the mysterious universe-accelerating entity we call dark energy may be fading away. The evidence for this is now strong enough that enormous effort is going into confirming this result. So what’s it going to take, and…
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 | The cutting edge of science is where all the unknowns are. Where there’s more questions than answers, and it’s all hands on deck…
From Dylan O’Donnell. If it was easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not, and that’s why we astrophotographers are masochists with low self esteem. This inspirational video is brought to you by High Point Scientific 🙂 https://bit.ly/4ez1GtO Support the channel by buying Dylan’s Telescopes, Cameras & Equipment using the links below! EQUIPMENT LIST ————…
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:…
From Dr. Becky. AD | Join me in reading Nautilus by heading to http://joinnautilus.com/drbecky where you can get 15% off a membership to Nautilus, perfect for any science enthusiast. | We only know of one planet in the universe that hosts life: Earth. So when we search for other life out there in the Universe…
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…
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 –…
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From Dr. Becky. AD | Huge thanks to KiwiCo for sponsoring today’s video. Go to https://www.kiwico.com/astrodrbecky and use code ASTRODRBECKY for 50% off your first monthly crate! | Hello and welcome to this episode of Night Sky News for May 2025 with me, astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst. This is the show where we chat about what…
From Dylan O’Donnell. I have emerged from the conclave with 20 commandments on stone tablets to share with the other OCD astrophotographers. *Parts the pixels with his bare hands* You’re free now, brothers… as long as you literally obey all these rules forever and ever. Support the channel by buying Dylan’s Telescopes, Cameras & Equipment…
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From PBS Space Time. Remove your personal information from the web at https://joindeleteme.com/SPACETIME The vacuum of space is a chaotic sea of quantum fluctuations. Some have said that this vacuum energy can be harvested to build our future starship engines, or manipulated to build warp drives. It can’t. But it is technically possible to move…
From Dr. Becky. AD – Go to https://surfshark.com/drbecky or use code DRBECKY at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN. | The planet K2-18b has been hitting the headlines again this month with the claim of a tentative detection of something known as dimethyl sulphide (DMS) in its atmosphere from this paper by Madhusudhan et…
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From Dylan O’Donnell. How am I supposed to do nighttime astronomy when there is all this cool daytime solar stuff to do? I am being pulled in both directions. NOTE : I fiddled the collimator knob which you shouldn’t actually do on the sun ideally, but can be done separately to focus. Minh has more…
From PBS Space Time. Huge thanks to KiwiCo for sponsoring today’s video! Go to https://www.kiwico.com/spacetime and use code SPACETIME for 50% off your first monthly crate Check Out Reactions on the Earth Month Playlist At one-one-thousandth of a second after the Big Bang, the great annihilation event should have wiped out all matter, leaving a…
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…
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From Dylan O’Donnell. Market uncertainty starts to affect the astrophotography community, especially in the USA. Let’s talk. Support the channel by buying Dylan’s Telescopes, Cameras & Equipment using the links below! EQUIPMENT LIST ———— Celestron 14" Edge HD Telescope https://bit.ly/3BGKuEL Esatto Robotic Focuser: https://bit.ly/3CB8sBY Celestron 11" Edge HD Telescope https://bit.ly/3JB95JE Baader 2" high Speed Filters…
From Dylan O’Donnell. What would you do if you had a million dollars? I’ll tell you what I’d do, man: two telescopes at the same time, man. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too. Thanks to the legends at TESTAR for…
From PBS Space Time. Check Out All PBS Earth Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnNZYWyBGJ1F8ofFm4H9UTrHxqU8zngK4 Planet Earth is the jewel of the solar system—the shimmery blue oceans, the verdant green forests, the wispy whimsical cloud formations. Saturn is the only competitor for most gorgeous planet with that giant ring system. Hmm… what if we could put the jewel of…
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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…
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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…
From Dylan O’Donnell. Does your astronomical observatory need some self-awareness about its environment? Watch me repair and upgrade the Lunatico Cloudwatcher and even extend it’s functionality a little! Oh and you can check my real time data here : BBO – AAG Solo Weather Station This video isn’t sponsored but you can check our Lunatico…
From PBS Space Time. Remove your personal information from the web at https://joindeleteme.com/SPACETIME Giant space rocks are definitely going to hit the Earth again. We actually do know how to deflect them, but only if we find them and correctly assess their risk. But the solar system is a chaotic place. How is it even…
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From PBS Space Time. Thank you to Cyber GhostVPN for Supporting PBS. Learn More About Cyber GhostVPN: https://www.cyberghostvpn.com/PBSSpaceTime Did you know that many of us have up to 4% neanderthal DNA? And that 100% of your DNA may come from outer space? No joke. The biochemistry that defined the coding system of your DNA may…
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 ↓↓↓ See our video on Caldwell 1 – https://youtu.be/Et2Ij161PXE Mike Merrifield is an emeritus professor from the University of Nottingham. Messier Objects playlist: http://bit.ly/MessierObjects Back…
From Sixty Symbols. Trajectories of Asteroid 46925 Bradyharan… Courtesy of Alexander Bock. Music by Alan Stewart. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ See all the videos about the asteroid at this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBO4UqGylRzFFLZL8wEkRbpo Trajectories rendered by Alexander using the open-source astrovisualization software OpenSpace (http://openspaceproject.com), developed in collaboration between American Museum of Natural History,…
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From Dylan O’Donnell. What is this? A telescope for ANTS? And why is a crappy old vintage hipster Petzval suddenly the new cool thing in telescope design? Thanks to the legends at High Point Scientific! High Point Scientific: https://bit.ly/3oW0PMx The parts list for the whole $3.2k setup! Apertura 75Q : https://bit.ly/4hW25cb The QHY miniCAM8: https://bit.ly/3W8If4i…
From Sixty Symbols. Newly-named 46925 Bradyharan – see full interviews and more at this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBO4UqGylRzFFLZL8wEkRbpo More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ David Rankin from Catalina Sky Survey: https://catalina.lpl.arizona.edu Daniel Bamberger at Northolt Branch Observatories: https://www.facebook.com/NBObservatories Mike Merrifield: https://x.com/AstroMikeMerri Adam Block: http://adamblockphotos.com Asteroid info at SSD JPL: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=Bradyharan&view=VOP Asteroid info at MPC: https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%E2%9C%93&object_id=Bradyharan…
From Dylan O’Donnell. Ok, so it’s not new, but it’s making a bit of a comeback thanks to a few solar astrophotography enthusiasts and modern high speed cameras, and I can totally see why. Thanks to ScopeTrader for sponsoring this episode! Get photos of hot telescopes in your area right in your inbox at 👉🏼…
From PBS Space Time. Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime How did the universe begin? How can something come from nothing? One way to “solve” this most difficult of philosophical conundrums is to avoid it altogether. Maybe the universe didn’t begin. Maybe the Big Bang was just one…
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From PBS Space Time. Thanks to Radiacode for sponsoring this video. Use the promo code "PBS" to get an exclusive 10% discount at: https://103.radiacode.com/PBS They say fusion is 50 years away, no matter when you ask. Then why are billions suddenly being pumped into fusion startups? Yes to train LLMs, but there’s a reason the…
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From PBS Space Time. Learn More About Anydesk: https://anydesk.com/spacetime According to quantum physics, the universe should have collapsed on itself in the instant after the Big Bang due to all particles being 100 million billion times heavier. Recent observations of the universe existing suggest that this may not have happened. Even more recent experiments at…