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…

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…

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…