Your friendly neighbourhood astrophysicist, Dr Becky Smethurst, is an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford. She makes videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm and focuses on how we know things, not just what we know, and especially, the things we still don’t know.
From Dr. Becky. Head to https://squarespace.com/drbecky to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code DRBECKY – AD | One of the biggest hopes for the James Webb Space Telescope, JWST was that it could tell us whether the TRAPPIST-1 planets were habitable to life. TRAPPIST-1 is a system of…
From Dr. Becky. Go to https://ground.news/drbecky to stay fully informed with the latest Space and Science news. Save 50% off the Vantage plan through my link for unlimited access this month only. – AD | Do you remember the famous images of the supermassive black holes in the centre of the galaxy M87 and our…
From Dr. Becky. Head to https://squarespace.com/drbecky to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code DRBECKY – AD | It is time to take out the trash. Because this month saw yet another bullshit claim that an announcement of the discovery of intelligent alien life was imminent. And I got…
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 this month only. | The hunt for exoplanets, planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy the Milky Way, has been going for almost 30…
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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 this month only. Black holes burp. A lot. And we think these burps have a huge impact on how the Universe has evolved. If…
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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 this month only. | Where are we likely to find life in our Solar System outside of Earth? Mars, Venus, or maybe even Europa?…
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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 this month only. – I never ever get tired of seeing images we’ve taken of other worlds – other planets orbiting distant stars in…
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. | Hello and welcome to this episode of Night Sky News for August 2024. This is the show where we chat about what you…
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 this month only. | Turns out there’s not many black holes that have held the title of “the closest black hole to Earth known”,…
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From Dr. Becky. AD – Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this video! The first 500 people to use my link will get a 1-month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/drbecky07241 | AI, or artificial intelligence, feels like a buzz word you just can’t escape from these days. It is everywhere. And astrophysics is no exception with…