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. 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. | Welcome to this episode of Night Sky News for March 2025. This is the show where we chat about what you should look out for…
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. | The supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is flickering – we know that thanks to observations taken…
From Dr. Becky. Why don’t us astrophysicists build telescopes on the beach? On an island in the middle of the ocean they’d be so far away from light pollution! You could pick islands like Soneva Fushi or Soneva Jani in the Maldives and then after collecting your data at night just chill out on the…
From Dr. Becky. AD | Join me in reading Nautilus in 2025, by heading to http://joinnautilus.com/drbecky you can get 15% off a membership to Nautilus, a perfect new years treat for any science enthusiast. | Occasionally you see an image from the Hubble Space Telescope that absolutely blows you away – and this month we…
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. | Hello and welcome to this episode of Night Sky News for February 2025 with me astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst. This…
From Dr. Becky. 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 – AD | Wherever we look in the Universe we see spiral galaxies. 70% of all galaxies today have this spiral structure that show up in…
From Dr. Becky. Try out Surfshark today by heading to https://surfshark.com/drbecky and you’ll get 4 additional months free on your subscription – AD | The Copernican principle states that the Earth is not in a special place in the Universe. Us humans are not privileged observers, we’re seeing the same Universe as everyone else; and…
From Dr. Becky. AD | Join me in reading Nautilus in 2025, by heading to http://joinnautilus.com/drbecky you can get 15% off a membership to Nautilus, a perfect new years treat for any science enthusiast. | Us astrophysicists love a good unsolved mystery – because when you can’t explain something you’ve observed you know that eventually…
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. | Hello and welcome to this episode of Night Sky News for January 2025! This is the show where we chat…
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. | Happy New Year everybody! Now there is a tradition on this channel that in the first week of January I react to space…
From Dr. Becky. AD | Join me in reading Nautilus in 2025, by heading to http://joinnautilus.com/drbecky you can get 15% off a membership to Nautilus, a perfect new years treat for any science enthusiast. | 2024 has seen a LOT of big astrophysics and astronomy news announced, and while I’ve tried to cover as much…
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 | Hello and welcome to this episode of Night Sky News for December 2024! This is the show where we chat…
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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 ultimate goals of all of astrophysics has always been to work out when the very first stars formed in the Universe. Now you might have heard people talk…