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From Sixty Symbols. Professor Mike Merrifield retires from research astronomy (and becomes an emeritus professor instead) — More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ He’ll keep making videos with us here on Sixty Symbols and Deep Sky Videos. Mike Merrifield longer podcast interview: https://youtu.be/oObkD2G9CTM Mike video playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNGAgplgACrGL9UlxyDHq7k Mike on social media: https://x.com/AstroMikeMerri/ Roger…
From Sixty Symbols. Ed and Tony talk about actually "doing" theoretical physics – and meeting fans of their videos. More from this Q and A session: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNLpmQg4SSZ6tMsyDldilnA — More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ Featuring Tony Padilla and Ed Copeland from the University of Nottingham. More videos with Ed: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNtF1y-sneLuyCTE-Mda561 More videos with…
From DeepSkyVideos. The open cluster NGC 188 has retained an unusual population of middle-aged stars due to an orbit which spends long periods away from the messy galactic plane. More links and info in full description ↓↓↓ Discussed by Professor Mike Merrifield, emeritus professor from the University of Nottingham. The cluster is also dubbed Caldwell…
From Sixty Symbols. Explaining a photon at varying levels of difficulty. Another viewer question tackled by Ed and Tony. More from this Q and A session: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNLpmQg4SSZ6tMsyDldilnA — More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ Featuring Tony Padilla and Ed Copeland from the University of Nottingham. More videos with Ed: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNtF1y-sneLuyCTE-Mda561 More videos with…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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/…
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…
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…
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,…
From SciShow Space. Sometimes looking into a pool of a toxic liquid holds the secrets of the universe–or maybe just this one time. 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 Brooks, and AndyGneiss! Support…
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,…
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…
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:…
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…
From DeepSkyVideos. Professor Mike Merrifield discusses methods for measuring the distance to NGC 2. Includes the Tully-Fisher method. More links and info in full description ↓↓↓ More Mike Merrifield: http://bit.ly/Merrifield_Playlist Professor Merrifield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AstroMikeMerri A New Method of Determining Distances to Galaxies: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1975BAAS….7..426T/abstract Our thanks to Professor Tully for the picture of him with…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
From DeepSkyVideos. NGC 1 occupies prime position in the famed New General Catalogue – but why? More links and info in full description ↓↓↓ All 110 Messier Objects playlist: http://bit.ly/MessierObjects More Mike Merrifield: http://bit.ly/Merrifield_Playlist Professor Merrifield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AstroMikeMerri Larger λR in the disc of isolated active spiral galaxies than in their non-active twins: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038091…