From Dr. Becky.

AD | Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code DRBECKY at checkout. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/drbecky | Welcome to this episode of Night Sky News for April 2026 with me astrophysicist, Dr Becky Smethurst. 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 the Artemis II mission (its successes and whether it was worth the price tag), the new images of Saturn from the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope which allow us to peer into Saturn’s atmosphere, and the mysterious "super-puff" exoplanet Kepler-51d which we can’t explain…

Libby-Roberts et al. (2026) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.21358

My previous video on Saturn’s hexagonal polar storm: https://youtu.be/PCpis-SiZ0c
My previous video on capturing the night sky: https://youtu.be/ToN15U6dy1Q

00:00 – Introduction
00:50 – Stargazing
07:10 – Artemis II – was it worth the cost?
15:07 – New Saturn Images from JWST and HST
17:00 – Super-Puff Planet Kepler-51d observed with JWST
22:16 – Bloopers

Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV
Video edited by Martino Gasparrini: https://www.fiverr.com/mgs_editing

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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.

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