A star-planet system with a COHERENT radio signal from an AURORA

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#astronomy #alien #exoplanets #aurora
Queinnec & Zarka (1998; Io and Jupiter aurora) - agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
Pineda & Villadsen (2023; coherent radio signal) - www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
My previous video reacting to the film Contact: • An astrophysicist reac...
My previous video on JWST's hunt for biosignatures: • JWST is hunting for th...
00:00 - Introduction
00:48 - The star YZ Ceti and its planets
01:17 - A planet's magnetic field and its habitability
02:40 - Generating an aurora on the star giving off radio signals
03:56 - The coherent radio signals detected from YZ Ceti
05:21 - What this means for our search for habitable planets
06:34 - A game of "telephone" on the internet
07:52 - Brilliant
09:02 - Bloopers
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@timothyodonnell8591 Жыл бұрын

Dr. Becky is so chill (and awesome) that I didn't know it was a rant until the end when she said it was a rant. It was a rant in the same way that someone is mauled by a month old kitten.

@argentum530 Жыл бұрын

...having been mauled by not one, not two, but three, month old kittens I can state with absolute certainty that mother cat was laughing at me as she went to hide...

@MaryAnnNytowl Жыл бұрын

This is a massively underrated comment!

@MaryAnnNytowl Жыл бұрын

@@argentum530 but they're so fun to be mauled by, LOL!

@jerelull9629 Жыл бұрын

I do believe that some young ladies seeing Dr. Becky will be infected by her obvious intelligence and unabashed enthusiasm. We need more Dr. Beckys who can translate scientist-ese into understandable English.😀🤩😘🤸🤸‍♂🤸‍♀

@neverlistentome Жыл бұрын

Really? I thought she was pretty smug... Plus you ever notice she doesn't go over her own research? It's almost like she is more like a KZfaq than a scientist...

@thirstfast1025 Жыл бұрын

I love just sitting at my desk, enjoying a nice cup of tea with someone who obviously loves what they do, listening to them talk about what they are excited about. Thank you, Dr! Your videos are more therapeutic than you may realize!

@charlottesimonin2551 Жыл бұрын

One of the reasons I watch your presentation is that you tell clear technical information in a lovely manner!

@YULspotter2 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Dr Becky for helping to clarify this discovery. Unfortunately a lot of online media uses "click bait" where they take key words that will jump out at you making you want to read the news story. Often because of the add revenue. Unfortunately, the science is lost in the process. But I'm thankful we have someone who can provide us with scientific explanation.

@infiniteformless Жыл бұрын

shes literally doing that with the title of her video

@stevecoates3799 Жыл бұрын

Sincere thanks to you Dr. Becky, for bringing sanity to enthusiastic astro reports

@MountainFisher Жыл бұрын

Overly enthusiastic reports. Some people want there to be extraterrestrial life so badly they believe impossible things.

@bonysminiatures3123 Жыл бұрын

insanity is believing in extra terrestrial life lol not

@Javaman92 Жыл бұрын

When I hear extreme stuff about space, I always tell myself, if it is true Dr. Becky will tell me about it. And then I just wait for your videos. 😀

@emhoj97 Жыл бұрын

Same! If I see a space news story that seems interesting but click-baity, I think "Dr Becky is probably already recording a video on this" 😅

@jomsviking9948 Жыл бұрын

Is that a Rocket City Trash Pandas mug? Props! Also great video as always.

@Big_Tex Жыл бұрын

That’s what the aliens WANT you to think

@MrFLUIZZLE Жыл бұрын

W3rd!! Alien 👽 👾 👽 👾 👽 🧝

@luudest Жыл бұрын

haha 😂

@daddymuggle Жыл бұрын

That's just what the aliens want you to think they want you to think.

@willjerden7024 Жыл бұрын

MI6 and the CIA sent Dr. Becky out to obscure the truth cause she is trusted by the masses. The Truth is out there.

@tiepup Жыл бұрын

@@daddymuggle that’s just what the machines who run the simulation want you to think what the aliens want you to think.

@jabradford32 Жыл бұрын

Go Trash Pandas (your cup). Love from Huntsville, Alabama

@ftumschk Жыл бұрын

Off-topic, but I've just finished Becky's audiobook "A Brief History of Black Holes", and really enjoyed it. I listen to loads of books on all kinds of subjects, and this was one of the best - not just the fascinating content, but also the narration. I look forward to the next one!

@abramwicasatheca6324 Жыл бұрын

I loved the book too! I have a lot of friends who don’t believe mainstream science, and I wish they would listen because the book showed the prices of discovery and how difficult it can be to get a new idea accepted. Now that I have listened to it a few times I life to fall asleep to it. Initially, the words are something I can wrap my mind around and it’s a great way to get my mind off of stressful things by thinking about the massive universe and our progress in understanding it. Once I start drifting to sleep it is too sciency to keep up with so it just becomes nice white noise.

@normanbarton7191 Жыл бұрын

Glad you help to explain these things to folks. I appreciate your interesting and approachable way of discussing it all! :-)

@Patrik6920 Жыл бұрын

..its interesting how skewed its reported.. most likely by ppl who dont have much of a clue what thay say... disregarding the fact all matter gives away EMR and sometimes in the spectrum we call radio frequencies... the real surprice is that its not an abundance of stable radio frequeny sources, but thats likely du to the vastness of space itself, gravity lensing and red shift...well 9:20... I belive thats what most scientist want to do from time to time :D

@neverlistentome Жыл бұрын

@@Patrik6920it's interesting to see you criticize others for their ignorance while you can't spell 'surprise'...

@Patrik6920 Жыл бұрын

@@neverlistentome ...oh...its also interesting how ppl can criticise others without knowing if thay have dyslexia or not...

@neverlistentome Жыл бұрын

@@Patrik6920 I didn't know that affected spell checker.... 😂

@neverlistentome Жыл бұрын

@@Patrik6920 ...but something tells me you don't and are just making excuses.

@Svensk7119 Жыл бұрын

"Radiation burped off the Sun". I have never, ever heard a scientist say that before! Your growling into the pillow was cute!

@punchkitten874 Жыл бұрын

Dr. Becky screaming into a pillow needs to be a meme ❤😂

@adamc1966 Жыл бұрын

😏😏🥰

@adamc1966 Жыл бұрын

@JDGlove I know we are supposed to love her for her mind but like the song by The Police says...Every little thing she does is magic.

@MikeJamesMedia Жыл бұрын

Dr. Becky, Your presentation style is so easy to understand, and contains obvious logical conclusions. (I'm not a physicist, so this is especially helpful to me.) Thank you for that! :)

@timsmith1894 Жыл бұрын

This is why critical thinkers go to real experts and great communicators, like @Dr.Becky. 😊

@TG-Maverick22 Жыл бұрын

I just bought your book ' A brief history of black holes' Dr Becky! Cant wait to read it :)

@joaogrande8846 Жыл бұрын

🙄

@erininstereo47 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for putting out these debunking videos. You are truly a shining example of an astrophysicist and science communicator. Keep up the good work!

@donaldhughes5400 Жыл бұрын

Love your Trash Pandas coffee mug. Hope you enjoyed your visit to Huntsville

@craigmacdougal9111 Жыл бұрын

I know that frustration well. In the 90's I was the main presenter in the local planetarium. I didn't need a pillow to scream into because the planetarium was pretty soundproof and set apart. I could just scream after the people were gone.

@Rattiar Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this explanation! Also, LOVE LOVE LOVE the Rocket City Trash Pandas mug. Nice shout out for humor, but also Smarter Every Day.

@CothranMike Жыл бұрын

Geographic Applause yay

@mikotagayuna8494 Жыл бұрын

As much as the report is sensationalist media nonsense, "never" is such a strong word for a scientific field that has only started to scratch the surface of what's out there.

@bonysminiatures3123 Жыл бұрын

Never is what a child would use , good comment

@alecburrett7482 Жыл бұрын

It's never aliens... til it is.

@enriqueboeneker Жыл бұрын

Love that you put faces to the authors of the papers! Great and fun video as always. Cheers!

@raymitchell9736 Жыл бұрын

What's that line "It's never Aliens... until it is" ... And, thanks to you, the art of Pillow Screaming has been elevated by displaying proper pitch and technique.

@Hei1Bao4 Жыл бұрын

Science journalism has a problem, so much so that I ignore any headline. You nailed it about the skepticism that arises from sensationalized science reports.

@patchvonbraun Жыл бұрын

In a couple of weeks, we'll have our annual open-house at our radio observatory. I will, once again, have to keep my shit together when people start asking me about signals from aliens. Perhaps I should take a throw pillow with me for safety's sake :)

@CheatOnlyDeath Жыл бұрын

I wish people would respond to such questions with how far they would be and the unlikelihood of traveling that distance, maybe ever. For example our fastest space vehicle reached about 300,000 miles per hour or so. At that speed I think it would take about 2000 years to travel a light year! So 24,000 years to get to this planet. Most of that voyage is in interstellar space where solar energy is not available and temperatures are near absolute zero. Even with hundreds of generations of astronauts and batteries that don't have to be recharged for thousands of years and packing thousands of years of food and water... Then there's the inevitable "we don't know how much faster we can travel in the future, cave men couldn't guess we'd go anywhere near as fast as we do now." It's an appealing argument until you imagine what happens if you collide with one spec of dust at a fraction of the speed of light. And recall the same arguments applying to predicting travel speeds on Earth back in the 1960s - here we are 50 years later and airlines fly at the same speeds as they did then because the speed of sound is the barrier. Exotic planes and missiles travel many times faster, but within one order of magnitude. Detecting transmissions from intelligent life is probably realistic, hence Seti, but visiting or being visited by living beings is a fanciful idea imo once you take distance into consideration. (I'm sure an expert could make that case more accurately and authoritatively than I could off the top of my head.)

@Dratchev241 Жыл бұрын

@@CheatOnlyDeath and likely add in, if lets say the et civilization has cracked the light speed barrier what makes anyone here think they will bother with us anyway? they cracked the light speed barrier already so to them we are nothing more then some backwoods primitive society, not worth the time or bother unless they just happened to want to just wipe us out and take the planets resources but again they cracked the light speed barrier so they likely wouldn't need to wipe out primitives for resources.

@petarnovakovich240 Жыл бұрын

Take a squeeze ball instead, that way you can work on your grip at the same time.

@DeadSparko Жыл бұрын

Hello just wanted to sat I love your videos and you make astronomy easy to learn!

@mikebrant192 Жыл бұрын

The scream into the pillow! That's a daily occurrence in MY life! We're driving to Montana this summer in the hopes of seeing auroras.

@jonbold Жыл бұрын

2:24 "But, we've never found a rocky Earth-like exoplanet with a magnetic field, orbiting another star, yet." This is an exercise in statistics. There is plenty of similarity in a handful of grains of beach sand, but the exoplanets are all vividly different from each other, even though they are all products of the same galaxy. Why are we looking for life? We are going to find something vividly different. This galaxy is big enough to produce nothing but exceptions to any rule we dream up. A rant is a technical discussion with a little passion thrown in for good measure. Thanks, needed that!

@jeffralston1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the coherent science rant, Dr. Becky. 😉

@perarnejakobsen3458 Жыл бұрын

Love your videos, interesting and easy to understand, even without a degree. Looking forward to new surprises from you and your friend in L2 ;-) Keep going 🙂

@TechViewOpinions Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the honest reporting!

@DanielaGlint Жыл бұрын

Thank you for explaining all these studies! Also you’re so cute when get upset. I love the bloopers!!

@paulrapp613 Жыл бұрын

A most excellent rant. Thankee 🧐.

@u2b4laz Жыл бұрын

I learned so much in this video! Mostly about how to indirectly detect distant planetary magnetic fields, but also discovered "squash" (i'm an american), rocket city trash pandas, and that Dr. Becky can rant (albeit like a month old kitten).

@briansquibb999 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video as always, Dr. Becky

@deejay5457 Жыл бұрын

Thnksfor being a voice of reason and science. What you do is important these days.

@floydriebe4755 Жыл бұрын

hiya, Dr B! no need to apologize for ranting! i agree wholeheartedly! the way people change the meaning of what others say is definitely rant-worthy, even if unintentional. telephone game, a great analogy. seriously interesting, this. a radio wave aurora? had no idea. another commenter said this but, what if the aliens just want us to think it's not them?😅 would be a shame. we could use some neighbors......teach us how to get along with others......maybe?

@floydriebe4755 Жыл бұрын

@dejuren i din't! Becky is great!

@davidtotten3042 Жыл бұрын

Well, it seems that I learn far more from your rants than I do from others lessons.

@ianmatthews7385 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Dr Becky, loving those magnetic field animations. Bringing the quality as usual. 👌

@holzkopfkino8267 Жыл бұрын

You've raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly, ma'am. Bravo!

@pierrechaput2439 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Dr. Becky, you're awesome. I see this type of exageration a lot in my feed and in the news and it bugs me. I'm happy and thankful for reliable sources like you for helping me get to the truth of some claims, and for generally spreading awareness about this. Keep 'em coming and thanks again :)

@malcolmnew8973 Жыл бұрын

Always impressed by your interesting and "coherent" content. As I understand it its going to take a while to detect habitable zone planets with magnetic fields in Sol-like systems, Studies on such planets in more common red dwarf systems are useful in themselves and also to inform future observations on planets with any potential for life. BTW I really like your Trash Panda mug and your splendid house plant which I dont recognise (any idea what it is) ? M.

@coyotej4895 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for explaining. Id like to say that unfortunately there are many out there who know they are "Gilding the Lily" (Lying) To get clicks. I hope people are not falling for it but unfortunately with this happening Way more and even from the Mainstream Media, no one being accountable anymore, I fear many will click and not be able to smell the BS they are being served up. I am so Grateful for yours and others channels that are not Click bating people. Bless and be well.

@RoyBattyLives Жыл бұрын

Thanks Dr Becky, fascinating stuff as always, brilliantly explained.

@liwoszarchaeologist Жыл бұрын

Protip: don't trust any news source that titles stories with the word "scientist" but without specifying their field(s) of expertise.

@persuasivebarrier2419 Жыл бұрын

the more bits of information i hear about the universe, the less i've been attracted to any idea of sentient life elsewhere. life? maybe. sentient, ability to communicate or sense? eh. i remember watching the cosmos series with neil degrasse tyson and kind of smirking at a more romanticized view of interpreting the universe (like you see in contact). that series instantly reminded me of a video neil did on intelligent design where he just completely obliterates the idea of any kind of "welcoming universe" in which is a) survivable outside our very own specific conditions (even then it's limited on earth) and b) finding any welcome sign for life, let alone sentient life, to blossom in the universe. the man cackling in the audience to neil's presentation is burned into my mind. such a funny presentation.

@hanssteyn9775 Жыл бұрын

As always nice listening to proper scientists.

@stevenbaumann8692 Жыл бұрын

These rants are needed. I do it with geology. It's also why you don't get science from the media

@McPilch Жыл бұрын

Dr. Becky, what are your thoughts on this exponential explosion of A.I. we're seeing now in terms of your field and job security? Or, in your case, do you see it as purely an amazing tool to help you out? Would be a very interesting and topical video!

@PBeringer Жыл бұрын

That's an interesting thought. I've wondered about it in relation to my own scientific field. The thing about astronomy is that AI has been making "observations" for decades, in fact, but "generative AI" is the big difference now. It's rare to deploy AI controlled systems to make measurements in acoustics, but it is done. I'm doubtful that generative AI will be able to analyse data with any of the same ability as humans, because they're just language models, so don't have the power of synthesis and a true creativity, et cetera. So while AI will make measurements and process data (according to parameters we set, anyway), it will remain strictly a (fairly useless) tool when it comes to analysis and synthesis, and humans will play _the_ critical role. Humans probably have more powerful pattern recognition abilities, anyway, which is a pretty mind-blowing thing to consider.

@wyst69 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for explaining what those signals really mean. It's really important for people like me who are interested but are not educated enough to decipher what those results really tell us.

@teemlee51 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the real complete information. Cheers from New Mexico...

@Dandelion_Stitches Жыл бұрын

Fantastic as always. Also I want that mug. :)

@franciscoathens924 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Dr. Becky for another great video! I've heard that though the red dwarf stars are cooler, their flares, ejections and fluctuations (they seem awfully moody little stars) pose significantly more danger to the planets in their much closer "habitable zone" due to proximity and frequency of the events.

@franck3279 Жыл бұрын

Yes, but on the other side, they are 90% of all stars, will shine for trilions of years and life could very well appear in deep caves, so the odds are not that bad for them, at least for microbes.

@emhoj97 Жыл бұрын

They're like humans in that way. Small and less space for the angery to spread. Moody little shits 😂 (speaking as a smol bean myself)

@Dragrath1 Жыл бұрын

Yeah I also remember one Journal article talking about some of the potential magnetohydrodynamic consequences of that proximity on magnetic activity according to MHD/plasma simulations, namely the planets are so close in where they are within the Alfven sphere where direct magnetic reconnection events are possible. The major implication that brings is that if such a close in planet has a magnetic field coronal loops(prominences)could directly reconnect with the planets magnetosphere in effect drawing the loop of plasma to the planets magnetic pole directly, in effect rather than the CME starting from the Stellar surface it would originate from the planet's surface searing away any planetary atmosphere in a burst of high energy radiation and high temperature plasma. Homing coronal death loops in essence That is frankly a far more terrifying scenario which doesn't get talked about nearly enough, while the black body radiation at that distance is what would give you the conditions for liquid water its also a very different magnetic environment which may result in wildly different consequences

@Mednite_Toker Жыл бұрын

I don't know why we are so anxious to find alien life when we can't even get along with ourselves

@Grunttamer Жыл бұрын

We can settle it all when we have the conservatives on one side and the progressives on the other and whoever the alien chooses is the winner?

@persuasivebarrier2419 Жыл бұрын

@@Grunttamer i'm on the "nuke it from orbit" side.

@ArcticPrimal Жыл бұрын

@@Grunttamer Yea we need a tie breaker

@DirtFlyer Жыл бұрын

Perhaps people are hoping aliens will save us from ourselves, or maybe they would force the many nitwits among us to shape up or (alien) ship out!

@lazyremnant380 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, seeing how polarized and if-you're-not-with-us-you're-against-us-view people these days have, even if a completely genocidal alien fleet who doesn't care about co-existence comes and invades Earth, I doubt that humanity as a whole can be united against them. Heck, we can't even manage to be on a same page against a virus that rampaged and killed humans indiscriminately across the entire world not too long ago!

@ericfielding2540 Жыл бұрын

Nice rant and explanation!

@jamesmundie3485 Жыл бұрын

I'm a first time commenter but a long time fan. I think I've seen all your videos, even the nail painting ones. I have to confess that I captured a screengrab from this week's episode and magnified your chest area - I was intrigued by the disk on your neckchain. I wondered if it might be George and the dragon, as on the UK sovereign coin, but my pixelly blown-up image reveals that it appears to be planet Earth. Nice. Love your content.

@Werepuppuy Жыл бұрын

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet". I'm truly shocked as a fellow scientist that you didn't attribute that to Abraham Lincoln. 😂

@daveharrison61 Жыл бұрын

Of course she didn't. Everyone knows it was Isaac Newton.

@diamondpidove9564 Жыл бұрын

hello!

@CritterKeeper01 Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the classic nerdy movie "Real Genius" when a character is trying to explain his science project to non-nerds, and when he says it involves "coherent light" one of the says, "Oh, so it talks!" They hear the word "coherent" and the only place they have heard it before is relating to speaking, so they jump to that conclusion. I wonder if that's part of the problem here?

@ziggystardust4627 Жыл бұрын

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@katg-gk5ox Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this!!

@Tero560 Жыл бұрын

Dear Dr. Becky, I have been wondering whether astronomers are still listening today in waterhole frequencies and is available data about systems with habitable zone planets from Kepler and other sources utilized in SETI. Thank you for the educational video.

@petarnovakovich240 Жыл бұрын

@dejuren But how would they know which frequencies to use? How would we know which frequencies they'd use? We could listen to all such frequencies, I suppose. This is what SETI are doing already.

@robertpearce8394 Жыл бұрын

@@petarnovakovich240 As Mr Savik said, humour it is a difficult concept.

@richardfellows5041 Жыл бұрын

As a retired RF engineer I can only add this; 1. We should be listening at the frequencies that we use. We use them because we can make them work with our technology. Other civilizations will have the same problems and likely solve them in the same way. AM, FM, street lights of sodium, gas lasers, hydrogen masers would all be good candidates. 2. Because we use these frequencies it is VERY hard to not pollute the measurements with local sources. 3. We do not yet have an RF detection system free of local pollution. Maybe one on the far side of the moon someday.

@ellisd3165 Жыл бұрын

I'm certain theres life out there somewhere, but for them to be on the same tech level as us at the same time isnt likely

@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475 Жыл бұрын

Indeed, they're well ahead.

@kleinerprinz99 Жыл бұрын

@@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475 Improbable considering when the stars and planets were formed. We're actually the earliest civilisaiton possible astronomically speaking. So even when other civilisaitons formed around the same time , the time it takes for signals to arrive anywhere are just astronomical.

@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475 Жыл бұрын

@@kleinerprinz99 We're pretty late in the Universe however. Even local stars in our galactic stream are 1 billion years older. Travel time for signals from another galaxy however, would be far more unlikely to be received now. Plus, why would they use radio?

@daveseddon5227 Жыл бұрын

I agree! They're probably only on Windows 3.1

@persuasivebarrier2419 Жыл бұрын

i'd avoid absolutes, words like certain here. be more like data from star trek: "the most elementary and valuable statement in science, the beginning of wisdom is: i do not know. i do not know [if there is other life or sentient life, sir]."

@ariedekker7350 Жыл бұрын

It was clear again, beautifully told.

@MongoosePreservationSociety Жыл бұрын

Amazing as always

@terenzo50 Жыл бұрын

Dr. House: "It's never lupus." Dr. Becky: "It's never aliens." Lord Kelvin: "Heavier than air flying machines are impossible."

@bradley2498 Жыл бұрын

Ok. Why is the assumption, that any form of life, even on the Earth, has to be Carbon based and/or needs what we are currently calling 'habitable zones'? We can't breathe in water, and most fish can't survive on land. We have found bacteria in chemical and nuclear waste, so why are we being so adamant, about the building blocks of all life, being Universally 'the same'? Love you Becky x

@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475 Жыл бұрын

There's good reason to look for life being Carbon based. This is mostly down to complexity carbon molecules can form, and bond strength. That said... I agree with you in our ideas of "life" are too narrow and ambiguous.

@bradley2498 Жыл бұрын

I totally get that is obviously much easier to look for things we are already very familiar with, but we are all taught that 'this planet and that moon aren't in habitable zones' etc.

@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475 Жыл бұрын

@@bradley2498 What life as we know it needs is a solvent. Water is one, so we're biased. But since nobody can or has ever defined "life", it's a bit silly to assume other forms out of existence. We may need to open the aperture on that search.

@bradley2498 Жыл бұрын

@@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475 Totally matey

@bonysminiatures3123 Жыл бұрын

Because scientists don't know anything about these forms of life they life to be in their safe zone

@fidelflores5339 Жыл бұрын

Awesome in-pillow yell!!! Perfect Response!

@rockman531 Жыл бұрын

Howdy Dr. B., Love the pillow-in-the-face scream! Big thumbs-up!! Take Care, Jim in Phoenix.

@mayankjha5307 Жыл бұрын

I get why you make such videos, but you're wasting your time really. There'll always be people seeing aliens in every radio signal.

@SharpAssKnittingNeedles Жыл бұрын

This is exactly what needs to be said Becky 😂 and so well-said too! And I was one of the peeps digging into you for not loving Contact as much as it should be. Keep spreading the good word of looking at the data!

@kenmrock9334 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for explaining this to us.

@mlungisimokhethi6958 Жыл бұрын

My favourite thing about Dr Becky is seeing a comment recommend something, and seeing it in the next video.😊

@ThomasC951 Жыл бұрын

Bought a copy of the book. Your amazing. Thanks for sharing.

@NWANK1011 Жыл бұрын

Good day Dr Becky

@timothydavey2406 Жыл бұрын

The voice of rationality and reason. These are unmissable. Thank you Dr B .

@eonasjohn Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video.

@theblackswan2373 Жыл бұрын

Nicely done

@Elenesski Жыл бұрын

Loved the scream in the pillow.

@markspc1 Жыл бұрын

It makes sense Dr. Becky

@Valery0p5 Жыл бұрын

This was not a rant, I learned a lot!

@bruceflyingsolo3977 Жыл бұрын

Dr. Becky = My #1 resource for facts and update to date info about the universe.

@DininDalael Жыл бұрын

SCIENTIST: "My research is useless if taken out of context." MEDIA: "Scientist says their research are useless."

@seattlegrrlie Жыл бұрын

Yeah I read a headline that was like "coherent radio waves signs of aliens" and I thought... that didn't make sense. You did an excellent job of explaining why.

@fireriffs Жыл бұрын

I love that mug!

@evilkalla Жыл бұрын

Huntsville person here, it makes me so happy to see you with a Trash Pandas mug!

@michaelare Жыл бұрын

I love that you have a Rocket City mug

@pascalbro7524 Жыл бұрын

I usually wait until you make a video or one of your colleagues chimes in on such matters before I add it to my ever expanding foundational knowledge on space thingies. Thank you for clearing that one up.

@Bluswede Жыл бұрын

Thanks for pulling us all back to reality with this video! I'm also liking the "Trash Pandas" mug from which you're sipping that Scotch...I have the baseball. Destin seems a pretty good guy...but I'd think that of any rocket scientist who would use his powers to create a Mach 1.5 baseball pitch!

@jerelull9629 Жыл бұрын

It's kinda fun seeing Dr Becky enthusiastic about something other than black holes of the supermassive sort. Lighting up is an understatement.

@magicsinglez Жыл бұрын

This is amazing

@DragonKingGaav Жыл бұрын

The SO loved the part when you screamed into the pillow.

@SpaceWhaIe Жыл бұрын

Educational science rants are some of my favorite rants. Please keep them coming.

@gauravgayakwad Жыл бұрын

😀 Really informative and insightful !!!

@kerbangol.8386 Жыл бұрын

I get all my good space news from you and Anton

@DouglasJenkins Жыл бұрын

I love the pillow scream!!!

@nicholasmaude6906 Жыл бұрын

I'd love to see Dr. Becky do some videos with Anton Petrov and Scott Manley.

@silo_fx3182 Жыл бұрын

I would get a T shirt with "Its never Aliens". Be terrific.

@DariusRoland Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Жыл бұрын

I have only skimmed throught the video, but thanks for debunking those news. You nailed it when you said "Don't believe everything you see on the internet.".

@garinclint2204 Жыл бұрын

Hello Dr. Becky from Phuket Thailand!!! I get an unbelievably beautiful view of Venus every night. I have been following you for a while and just wanted to let you know that you are awesome!! I learn so much from you.