JWST discovers exoplanets orbiting DEAD STARS

From Dr. Becky. To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit brilliant.org/drbecky – the first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. When stars like the Sun die do their planets survive? In 5 billion years the Sun will swell into a red giant star, swallowing up…

What Would Happen if you fell into a Black Hole?

From Curious Droid. Imagine that your on a science mission to study black holes when through no fault of their own, one of the crew ends up outside the ship and being pulled towards the blackhole. With no prospect of rescue how long would our astronaut survive once over the event horizon and what would…

JWST made the crisis in cosmology even WORSE (AGAIN) #shorts

From Dr. Becky. Check out the THREE new papers from one of the teams investigating the crisis in cosmology with the James Webb Space Telescope: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04773.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04776.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04777.pdf I’ll be covering this more in this month’s Night Sky News episode due out Thursday 25th January 2024. Subscribe so you don’t miss it! #spacetelescope #JWST #cosmology…

A Serendipitous Star (and most distant star) – Sixty Symbols

From Sixty Symbols. Dr Emma Chapman discusses Earendel (WHL0137-LS) – a distant star discovered by sheer luck, More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ Dr Emma Chapman: https://dr-emma-chapman.com First Light by Dr Chapman (Amazon link): https://amzn.to/41RH7Ec The University of Nottingham physics and astronomy: http://bit.ly/NottsPhysics Deep Sky Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/deepskyvideos JWST Imaging of Earendel, the Extremely…

The TOP 5 space news stories of 2023

From Dr. Becky. There’s been some BIG astronomy news stories this year, but somehow I managed to whittle it down to my top 5 and count them down in this video. Do you agree with my top 5? Or do you think something else should have made the cut? Let me know in the comments…

Comet Hale-Bopp – Deep Sky Videos

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…

What if Humans Are NOT Earth’s First Civilization? | Silurian Hypothesis

From PBS Space Time. Enjoy 10% OFF and free worldwide shipping on all Hoverpens with code PBS: North America & other countries: https://bit.ly/pbs_novium UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/pbs_noviumeu To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime We’re almost certainly the first technological civilization…

Does Many Worlds Explain Quantum Probabilities?

From PBS Space Time. Check Out our NEW MERCH Store! For 15% Off Use the Code: PBS https://crowdmade.com/collections/pbsspacetime Principle of Indifference Proof: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qsYNMb6OK3ZbJADE0jDXWsjp6OtijPBS/view?usp=sharing Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime The mystery of what happens when we go from a superposition to a definite state is known as the…