From Dr. Becky.
The first 100 people to sign up with my trainwell link https://go.trainwell.net/DrBecky get 14-days FREE + $25 off on their 1st month! – AD | Hello and welcome to this episode of Night Sky News for October 2024! This is the show where we chat about what you should look out for in the night sky in the next month, and what’s been happening in space news in the past month. In this episode we’re chatting about SO many things, including which planets you can spot in the night sky, how to get a last look at C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) before it gets too faint, plus the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2024 for AI tools which went to Geoffery Hinton and John Hopfield, the launch of the Europa Clipper mission and the Hera mission, Earth’s new min-moon asteroid 2024 PT5, plus JWST’s latest discovery of a galaxy in the distant Universe that appears as if the gas outshines the stars.
Cameron et al. (2024) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.02051
My previous video chatting to Alex Cameron about his work with JWST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVkDiQjaNFg
00:00 Introduction
00:54 Orionids Meteor Shower
01:54 Comet 2024/A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
03:35 Toenail moon meets Venus & Mercury
03:49 Mercury greatest elongation
04:42 Saturn, Jupiter & Mars
05:13 Mars and Jupiter in the Winter Hexagon
06:55 Trainwell AD
08:54 Nobel Prize in Physics for AI
12:51 Europa Clipper launch
14:40 Hera launch to Didymos and Dimorphos
18:07 Earth has a second moon asteroid 2024 PT5
20:31 JWST’s bright gas galaxy GS NDG 9422
27:43 Bloopers
Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV
Video edited by Jonny Hyman
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👩🏽💻 I’m Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don’t know. If you’ve ever wondered about something in space and couldn’t find an answer online – you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.
