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 – FlexiSpot July Sale – Up to 50% off Sale – https://bit.ly/3VPefti AD – FlexiSpot Standing Desk E7 PRO – https://bit.ly/3XVYXFX In this month’s Night Sky News episode we’re chatting about how to spot the conjunction of Mars & Jupiter, the Moon occult Saturn, and the Pleiades meteor shower. Plus in space news…
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 current most distant galaxy known is JADES-GS-z14-0, which was found in a JWST image. But there’s a whole long list of galaxies…
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. | Although all our observations of the Universe point towards dark matter outnumbering normal matter 5 to 1, we still don’t…
From Dr. Becky. AD | Go to https://piavpn.com/Becky to get 83% off Private Internet Access with 4 months free! | In this episode of Astrophysicist reacts we’re watching Battlestar Galactica season 1 episode 1 "33" to pick out the science from the fiction in this sci-fi show. We’re chatting about faster than light speed travel,…
From Dr. Becky. AD – Head to https://squarespace.com/drbecky to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code DRBECKY. | In this episode of Night Sky News for June 2024 we’re chatting about how to spot the Milky Way, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn in the sky this month, how on 5th…
From Dr. Becky. AD – Go to https://ground.news/drbecky to stay fully informed with the latest Space and Science news. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access this month only. | Neutron stars are some of the most extreme objects in the universe that we can see – the…
From Dr. Becky. If you’re struggling, consider therapy with BetterHelp #ad. Click https://betterhelp.com/drbecky for a 10% discount on your first month of therapy with a credentialed professional specific to your needs. | NASA’s next great observatory that’s set to launch is the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (which used to be known as WFIRST). The…
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. | Back in 2023, we saw the first ever claim that JWST had discovered a possible signature of life in the atmosphere of an…
From Dr. Becky. If you’re struggling, consider therapy with BetterHelp #ad. Click https://betterhelp.com/drbecky for a 10% discount on your first month of therapy with a credentialed professional specific to your needs. | In this video we’re chatting about the new research paper claiming to have observed the "plunging regions" inside the innermost stable circular orbit…
From Dr. Becky. AD – Head to https://squarespace.com/drbecky to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code DRBECKY. | This month we’re chatting about the solar storm that caused the spectacular aurora (northern & southern lights) that so many of us saw far from the poles, the newly coated mirror…
From Dr. Becky. The full unedited version of my interview with Mark Clampin, the Director of the Astrophysics Division at NASA. We chatted about the Habitable Worlds Observatory, including how it will be different to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and how the plan is to use it to take a direct images of…
From Dr. Becky. AD | To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/drbecky and you’ll get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. | The Habitable Worlds Observatory is a space based telescope that plans to directly image earth-like planets around sun-like stars, due to launch in the 2040s. It’s a…
From Dr. Becky. AD – Go to https://ground.news/drbecky to stay fully informed with the latest Space and Science news. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access this month only. | I often get asked how do we know dark matter exists? Which is why I’ve made a video…
From Dr. Becky. AD | Enjoy 10% OFF on all Hoverpens and free shipping to most countries with code DrBecky: North America & other countries: https://bit.ly/drbecky_novium UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/drbecky_noviumeu There’s a strange, unexplained feature of the Cosmic Microwave Background which seems to be aligned with the Solar System, and we don’t why. Is it…
From Dr. Becky. AD – Head to https://squarespace.com/drbecky to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code DRBECKY. | The first year of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey has been released this month along with a few dozen scientific research papers delving into the data. The…
From Dr. Becky. If you’re struggling, consider therapy with BetterHelp #ad. Click https://betterhelp.com/drbecky for a 10% discount on your first month of therapy with a credentialed professional specific to your needs. | In this month we’re having fun with astrophysics April Fool’s papers, talking about the new supermassive black hole image from the Event Horizon…
From Dr. Becky. AD – Go to https://ground.news/drbecky to stay fully informed on Space and Science News. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access this month only | Last weekend the lead researcher of a group using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to calculate the…