JWST spots most distant MERGER of two supermassive black holes

JWST spots most distant MERGER of two supermassive black holes | Night Sky News May 2024

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AD - Head to squarespace.com/drbecky to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code DRBECKY. | This month we’re chatting about the solar storm that caused the spectacular aurora (northern & southern lights) that so many of us saw far from the poles, the newly coated mirror of the Vera Rubin Observatory, the brand new images we’ve got from the Euclid space telescope, and how JWST has spotted the most distant merging supermassive black holes ever seen.
NASA aurora forecast - www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/au...
NASA space weather prediction centre - www.swpc.noaa.gov/
Übler et al. (2024; most distant supermassive black holes) - arxiv.org/pdf/2312.03589
More on the Vera Rubin Observatory - rubinobservatory.org/
More on the Euclid Space Telescope - www.esa.int/Science_Explorati...
‪@EuropeanSpaceAgency‬
Euclid Early Release Observations press release (with images and links to scientific papers released 23/5/24) - www.euclid-ec.org/first-early...
My previous video on the final parsec problem - • The Final Parsec Probl...
00:00 Intro
00:58 Solstice & Summer Triangle
02:02 Planets hiding behind the sun
03:33 Noctilucent clouds
06:10 Aurora caused by severe solar storm!
16:41 Vera Rubin Observatory primary mirror coating
18:37 Euclid releases new deep-field views of galaxies
22:59 JWST black hole merger in early Universe!
Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV
Video edited by Jonny Hyman
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@spddiesel 23 күн бұрын

Dr. Becks: "you gotta get up around 3 AM." My bladder: "I got this..."

@Nick-Lab 23 күн бұрын

I think a deep dive into how a sun spot triggers a solar flare would be an awesome video.

@maconcamp472 23 күн бұрын

The Big Bang Theory!! 🐘 🐾 🥁 Each thought represents a bang❗️Higher vibrational thoughts 🐝🐝🐝 will create bigger bangs‼️ Pebbles And Bam Bam!! 🧊 🦕 🧊 🦖 🧊 🦣 🧊 Each grain of sand or pebble, a building block for planets or dark matter!! 🪨 Dark energy aka consciousness, creates the bang!! Supernovae!! 💥 Super Moons!! Flowery moons!! 🌹 Saturn a flowery moon!! Representing the 6th dimension!! More energy!!🪐 🛸 We control it!! 🧞 We’re stars!!✨ Hi, Hey, Hello!!🦜 The more G’s, the better!! They’ll reflect our minds, technology, and more!! G strings!! 👙 👙👙👙 Our brains look like gum!! 🧠 Juicier the better!!!🍏🍋‍🟩🫐🍍🍎🍌🍈🥥🍐🍉🍒🥝🍊🍇🍑🍋🍓🥭 Love everything until it loves you back!! Mosquitos too!!🦟 ❤ Each of us and each galaxy would represent a cell!! 🦠 We’re stars putting ourselves back together again!! Like Humpty Dumpty!! 🥚 🐓 The sky is blue because we’re meant to imagine it as a diamond!! The auroras then create the rest of the spectrum!! 🌈 💎 A purple sky would reflect the heart of the ocean!! An opened mind!! 🤯 The earth purring more!! Purrrrrple rain!!☔️ 🐈‍⬛ 🧶 Each thought to me is a solar flare, which shifts us into parallel worlds!! It’s hard here!!! I’m a peaceful dude, yet my life here has been super difficult!!🥹 Alpha Centauri represents a shift in consciousness!! Dog planet!! We’re riding the alpha waves!! Woof woof!!🐶 🐾 This is our world peace and enlightenment for the world and universe!! All is one!!😇🥳🥰🤩 We’re each a mini universe!!🌌 The 3 Body Problem represents our gut brain, 🍱 heart,❤️ and mind!! 🧠 The moon is a black hole!! 🕳️ A neutrino!! The planet is a colonized moon!!😇🌍👽 The sun is a shapeshifter!! 🌞 Are you and I sculpting together as a team or as individuals??? 🧑‍🎨 Using the moon as a tool!!! 🪨 The Sun is the eye!!👁️ I love the tool/word grinder!!!😮 We’d be Bumping and Grinding!!😂 The Earth is like a refrigerator and the atmospheric pressure is melting or defrosting the stars above, as if they’ve been in the freezer!! 🥶 It would also reflect us krystalyzing and becoming diamonds in the sky!! 💎 💎💎 Lucy becomes Maisie!! 🐒 👽 We could be stars from above aka heaven, melting everything from above, as well! Like a River Running Through It!!! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Gravitational waves or our thoughts raining down on us!! 🌧️ Unlocking a Secret Garden within and outside of us!!🤫 An Oasis!!!🏝️ 🏝️🏝️🏝️🏝️ Flowing!!! It helps a lot to flow!!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Letting go, so we can concentrate more and work on our project!! Heaven On Earth!!🌍 👼 Flowers!! 🌺 🌸 💐 and Flow-Ers!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 I know energy is still impurrtant!! 😻 And of course imagination!!! Love!!!💗 🐶 🎾 🧶 🐈‍⬛ To create heaven On Earth, the galaxies collide!! 🌌 Twin flames connect!! 🔥 🔥 We’re creating quantum entanglement!! Ghost particles merging, becoming more like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!!👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻 The universe is still the Earth!!⭐️🌍⭐️ We’re seeing it from the insides!! 🕵️ Like we’re inside a volcano 🌋 or wishing well!! The stars and galaxies are like coins!!🪙 The Goonies vibes!! 💀 We’re treasure!! Antarctica is treasure island!! 🐧🇦🇶 Unlocking antimatter!! 🐜 Booby and booty traps exposed!! Planet X!! Hubba Hubba!!🥰 Everything and everyone has been our teacher!!👩‍🏫 3D is like the murky bottom of a bong or volcano!!🌋 The fourth dimension, representing Mars is like the stem of the bong or the volcanos vent!! 👽 Experiencing higher dimensions is like the smoke or magma reaching our mouths 😋 and then circulating through our bodies!! We are the Earth!!🌍 👼 The road less traveled!!!🧳 🌹 Straight up!! 🎈 🎈🎈🎈🎈We’d be super condensed or extremely packed neutron stars!! Like Rigel!! Blueberries!! Antioxidants!! Betelgeuse has evolved into a neutron star!! 🍊🫐 Our long winding road, exploring different dimensions, finally straightening out!! I’m getting Pee Wee vibes!! Large Marge sent me!!🚴😂 We’re vaporized, as if we’ve been smoked or roasted!! 💨 The smoke representing again those compressed neutron stars climbing the higher dimensions of the universe like a chimney!! I’m Mary Poppins, y’all !! ☂️ 🧞‍♀️ It would also represent us as a comet traveling through a wormhole!! 💫 Who me, I’m just a worm!!🐛 🫖 Solving a labyrinth!! 🦉 Solving amaze!!! 🦋 Different energies tell a different story!! 📚 We’re storytellers!! Artists!!🧑‍🎨 We’re energy first!! 🐝 A 12 inch boner is like receiving a foot of snow!!⛄️ 😂 When powered by neutrons and a magnetar energy field, one is like the energizer bunny!!🐰 They’ll keep going and going and going!! 🐇 🐇🐇🐇🐇 If you’re destined to have more than one twin flame, you’re like Frogger, playing leap frog!! Lucy is a sucker for Lillies!! 🐸 🍀 🐸 🍀 🐸🍀🐸🍀🐸 G Force!!!🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳 Purrthquakes instead of Earthquakes!! 😻

@javamanV3 23 күн бұрын

I think any deep dive into our star is fascinating! Thanks Nick-Lab for raising the idea.

@donaldmilne5352 23 күн бұрын

Maybe try and get a solar physicist involved? If only there was one who was married to a fellow youtuber... 😉

@maxim635 22 күн бұрын

@@donaldmilne5352 'Parker Solar Physicist' probably doesn't do here justice 😅

@duran9664 21 күн бұрын

❌Scientists r dead wrong about the age of the universe❌ It is much much older; & this explains everything. 🤏

@TG-nd9rj 23 күн бұрын

I'm in south central Ohio, and I never thought I'd be able to see the aurora with my own eyes. My family took a trip to Alaska in Sept '22 and it was cloudy the whole trip; I thought we'd missed our only chance. Even this month, I thought I wouldn't be able to see it unless I used my phone. I live on the edge of my small town but there is still quite a bit of light pollution. When I walked outside and saw the sky was pink, I immediately started weeping. I love space so much and wish I had the money and the drive to study it. I'm glad we have scientists and creators like you, so that we can all enjoy the wonders of space.

@I_Don_t_want_a_handle 23 күн бұрын

I live in Oxfordshire, 30mins south of Oxford, and saw nothing. There was a faint yellowish glow in the Northern sky, but that could have been local light, Just bloody typical, the best chance in 500 years and zip. Looks like I'm destined to go to Iceland and, no doubt, it will be cloudy ...

@JohnDoe-nq4du 5 күн бұрын

@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle I missed the aurora entirely, despite having gone out to look at it, and I still can't figure out what was going on. I looked for it, but couldn't see any trace of anything that looked aurora-like, and I just wrote it off as being because of the massive source of light pollution I live just south of (Lima, OH, especially its oil refinery; I'm in Cridersville), but later (once it was too late for me to try again), I spoke to my sister and brother-in-law, who both live between me and said massive source of light pollution (in Shawnee), and they both insisted they could clearly see it, and that it was readily and dramatically visible even through the visual noise from the refinery (and it turned out they were looking at almost the same moment I was).

@proctophobic7127 23 күн бұрын

Living in Alaska made us experts on Aurora photography. We spent so many colds nights out on frozen rivers looking up and taking photos.

@maconcamp472 23 күн бұрын

@lightingthelatenight9942 23 күн бұрын

That's beautiful. Good on yall for recognizing the potential there, something that pains me strongly to this day given I missed the recent aurora in Alabama, where I'm not likely to be able to see then again. If I do tho I can only pray I get the experience you guys did, such a painful waste not to at this point lol

@pliktl 23 күн бұрын

@@lightingthelatenight9942 we saw a lot of nothing during the solar max :) the sun keeps the sky too bright 😂😂

@Orrsmen 23 күн бұрын

Florida snitched on us to mom and said it was their turn with the Aurora 😂

@javamanV3 23 күн бұрын

@@lightingthelatenight9942 worth a trip north - They knew about this days ahead.I am in NH and this rare aurora came as promised!

@beenaplumber8379 23 күн бұрын

No kidding Dr. Becky, HUGE kudos to our electrical grid engineers and their planning. No major outages anywhere it seems, and more importantly, no outages where I live. 😛 But really, that's a big deal for those of us who depend on CPAP therapy to sleep. (I don't have a backup generator like a hospital would.) I'm grateful.

@neils123 23 күн бұрын

The aurora borealis was amazing. Saw it from a park near my house just north of Boston. I had never seen it before, and didn't expect anything, and was really blown away. So cool.

@danesorensen1775 23 күн бұрын

"Southern coast of Australia"? They were seen in Townsville, which is mind-boggling. 😍

@eyeofthasky 23 күн бұрын

Real thanks for reminding me of the light show that basically everybody else besides me has seen. Thought that sense of remorse is finally over -- but now the wound got ripped open again 💔

@DrBecky 23 күн бұрын

But hopefully there’ll be another chance soon! 🤞

@maconcamp472 23 күн бұрын

@robertfarrimond3369 23 күн бұрын

It's the nature of the beast. I've been chasing Aurora for years. There are plenty of big ones I've missed just because I made a decision not to do a 400 mile round trip to get to clear sky. I've sat in a car in 30 degree weather on the Waterville Plateau waiting all night. After grudgingly giving up, I drove home(taking my time), and about the same time my head hit the pillow a CME was arriving. Every time is a gamble of whether the forecasters get it right. If they are off by 6 or 8 hours it's the difference between day or night.

@tudohuang7383 23 күн бұрын

Here in Taiwan (~23N, 120E), at the almost opposite side of the magnetic pole, I’m never gonna see aurora here unless Canada is fried I think

@maconcamp472 23 күн бұрын

@@tudohuang7383 The Big Bang Theory!! 🐘 🐾 🥁 Each thought represents a bang❗️Higher vibrational thoughts 🐝🐝🐝 will create bigger bangs‼️ Pebbles And Bam Bam!! 🧊 🦕 🧊 🦖 🧊 🦣 🧊 Each grain of sand or pebble, a building block for planets or dark matter!! 🪨 Dark energy aka consciousness, creates the bang!! Supernovae!! 💥 Super Moons!! Flowery moons!! 🌹 Saturn a flowery moon!! Representing the 6th dimension!! More energy!!🪐 🛸 We control it!! 🧞 We’re stars!!✨ Hi, Hey, Hello!!🦜 The more G’s, the better!! They’ll reflect our minds, technology, and more!! G strings!! 👙 👙👙👙 Our brains look like gum!! 🧠 Juicier the better!!!🍏🍋‍🟩🫐🍍🍎🍌🍈🥥🍐🍉🍒🥝🍊🍇🍑🍋🍓🥭 Love everything until it loves you back!! Mosquitos too!!🦟 ❤ Each of us and each galaxy would represent a cell!! 🦠 We’re stars putting ourselves back together again!! Like Humpty Dumpty!! 🥚 🐓 The sky is blue because we’re meant to imagine it as a diamond!! The auroras then create the rest of the spectrum!! 🌈 💎 A purple sky would reflect the heart of the ocean!! An opened mind!! 🤯 The earth purring more!! Purrrrrple rain!!☔️ 🐈‍⬛ 🧶 Each thought to me is a solar flare, which shifts us into parallel worlds!! It’s hard here!!! I’m a peaceful dude, yet my life here has been super difficult!!🥹 Alpha Centauri represents a shift in consciousness!! Dog planet!! We’re riding the alpha waves!! Woof woof!!🐶 🐾 This is our world peace and enlightenment for the world and universe!! All is one!!😇🥳🥰🤩 We’re each a mini universe!!🌌 The 3 Body Problem represents our gut brain, 🍱 heart,❤️ and mind!! 🧠 The moon is a black hole!! 🕳️ A neutrino!! The planet is a colonized moon!!😇🌍👽 The sun is a shapeshifter!! 🌞 Are you and I sculpting together as a team or as individuals??? 🧑‍🎨 Using the moon as a tool!!! 🪨 The Sun is the eye!!👁️ I love the tool/word grinder!!!😮 We’d be Bumping and Grinding!!😂 The Earth is like a refrigerator and the atmospheric pressure is melting or defrosting the stars above, as if they’ve been in the freezer!! 🥶 It would also reflect us krystalyzing and becoming diamonds in the sky!! 💎 💎💎 Lucy becomes Maisie!! 🐒 👽 We could be stars from above aka heaven, melting everything from above, as well! Like a River Running Through It!!! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Gravitational waves or our thoughts raining down on us!! 🌧️ Unlocking a Secret Garden within and outside of us!!🤫 An Oasis!!!🏝️ 🏝️🏝️🏝️🏝️ Flowing!!! It helps a lot to flow!!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Letting go, so we can concentrate more and work on our project!! Heaven On Earth!!🌍 👼 Flowers!! 🌺 🌸 💐 and Flow-Ers!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 I know energy is still impurrtant!! 😻 And of course imagination!!! Love!!!💗 🐶 🎾 🧶 🐈‍⬛ To create heaven On Earth, the galaxies collide!! 🌌 Twin flames connect!! 🔥 🔥 We’re creating quantum entanglement!! Ghost particles merging, becoming more like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!!👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻 The universe is still the Earth!!⭐️🌍⭐️ We’re seeing it from the insides!! 🕵️ Like we’re inside a volcano 🌋 or wishing well!! The stars and galaxies are like coins!!🪙 The Goonies vibes!! 💀 We’re treasure!! Antarctica is treasure island!! 🐧🇦🇶 Unlocking antimatter!! 🐜 Booby and booty traps exposed!! Planet X!! Hubba Hubba!!🥰 Everything and everyone has been our teacher!!👩‍🏫 3D is like the murky bottom of a bong or volcano!!🌋 The fourth dimension, representing Mars is like the stem of the bong or the volcanos vent!! 👽 Experiencing higher dimensions is like the smoke or magma reaching our mouths 😋 and then circulating through our bodies!! We are the Earth!!🌍 👼 The road less traveled!!!🧳 🌹 Straight up!! 🎈 🎈🎈🎈🎈We’d be super condensed or extremely packed neutron stars!! Like Rigel!! Blueberries!! Antioxidants!! Betelgeuse has evolved into a neutron star!! 🍊🫐 Our long winding road, exploring different dimensions, finally straightening out!! I’m getting Pee Wee vibes!! Large Marge sent me!!🚴😂 We’re vaporized, as if we’ve been smoked or roasted!! 💨 The smoke representing again those compressed neutron stars climbing the higher dimensions of the universe like a chimney!! I’m Mary Poppins, y’all !! ☂️ 🧞‍♀️ It would also represent us as a comet traveling through a wormhole!! 💫 Who me, I’m just a worm!!🐛 🫖 Solving a labyrinth!! 🦉 Solving amaze!!! 🦋 Different energies tell a different story!! 📚 We’re storytellers!! Artists!!🧑‍🎨 We’re energy first!! 🐝 A 12 inch boner is like receiving a foot of snow!!⛄️ 😂 When powered by neutrons and a magnetar energy field, one is like the energizer bunny!!🐰 They’ll keep going and going and going!! 🐇 🐇🐇🐇🐇 If you’re destined to have more than one twin flame, you’re like Frogger, playing leap frog!! Lucy is a sucker for Lillies!! 🐸 🍀 🐸 🍀 🐸🍀🐸🍀🐸 G Force!!!🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳 Purrthquakes instead of Earthquakes!! 😻

@jimsvideos7201 23 күн бұрын

The aurora here was bright enough to walk about and read a wristwatch.

@Snowflake-id4fw 23 күн бұрын

I'm blown away by the images of the Abell galaxy clusters. There may only be 4 or 5 stars in the field and all the rest of the features are galaxies. They are countless. You can see so far into the past! So many of them are red shifted. It absolutely mind-blowing. Thanks for posting these images.

@russellpenman7366 23 күн бұрын

Another great video! Always look forward to your video's.

@DeepeningTheListening 23 күн бұрын

A lot of great news this month. Thank you, Becky for bringing it all to us.

@Ka7ple1 23 күн бұрын

Great video, love the channel. I'm a ham radio operator, and the HF frequencies were at complete radio black out for a while during the aurora. The folks who like to use the 50MHz band (6m) (Low VHF) were having a field day, because they bounce their signals off the aurora, which enable them to make contacts at very great distances. Anyway, Love the video, and the channel. I've learned so much from watching you. Hope to see you again soon. All the Best.

@fedfraud.protection.servic2557 22 күн бұрын

Amazing! FCC general radio here. Ran 27Mhz pretty regular back in the day. That is something. Notice any rotating the UHF at all? Might not be a sunspot thing, but pretty time of day dependant on DTV. Good skip, huh? Good to see/hear someone with actual technical expertise. I'll listen for you. Best.

@jaimecastells4283 23 күн бұрын

This was a particularly eventful month and your enthusiasm for all this news is wonderful! Thank you for all this information and your grins! The energy with which you present this material is shared by your audience. 😄

@marypotter_2010 23 күн бұрын

dr Becky, you are such an inspiration and amazing astrophysicist! I love how you are so passionate and enthusiastic about space! you've truly helped me A LOT in learning more and as a space enthusiast, you are my go to channel every day! Also, your book is really good as far as ive read it, its filled with humor and amazing knowledge! Thank you for doing what you do!

@japneetsingh5015 23 күн бұрын

Even two black holes merged waiting for GTA6

@dreamersfolly 23 күн бұрын

💀💀

@jedaaa 23 күн бұрын

😅😂😂😂

@janemf 23 күн бұрын

spoiler: no they didn’t

@lethargogpeterson4083 23 күн бұрын

Imagine what wonders may be discovered before Half Life 3!

@santyclause8034 23 күн бұрын

But can you run Crysis 3?

@Kanner111 16 күн бұрын

Amazing episode. So much stuff and yet all of it was incredibly interesting!

@MCsCreations 23 күн бұрын

Thanks for all the news, dr. Becky! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

@nannakurzhaar 23 күн бұрын

thanks so much for explaining what to see in the sky, it helps me so much to orientate 🙂

@pokerstarPR 23 күн бұрын

Auroras were spotted as far as Puerto Rico in the Carribean. Which is further south than Florida.

@DrBecky 23 күн бұрын

Hadn’t heard that one!

@oberonpanopticon 23 күн бұрын

Did we just survive a second carrington event?

@farmergiles1065 23 күн бұрын

@@oberonpanopticon It may depend on what you mean. I've heard it said that this event involved solar energies at Earth that were as large as the 1859 event. If so, it's also clear now that those energies did not have the same disastrous effect on civilization's infrastructure as it did in 1859. There are many reasons why that could be so, but one is that our control of the electrical grid is far superior to what was available in 1859. We can (and should) do whatever we can to harden our grids against all kinds of electrical and magnetic influences, wherever those come from. And work on making the systems more robust is ongoing continuously. Two issues we face are threat levels, and also basic grid capacity, both critical for our future needs. And the biggest issue of response is money. A complete overhaul would be massively expensive at any time. It would have to be an equally massive benefit to be gained to make that worthwhile, like a game-changing technological advance. We have none of these at present, but there's a lot of work being done looking for one. It could happen. In the mean time, there are always incremental improvements that can and should be done, and those need prioritization and clear-headed consideration by those who can supply the money. Meaning: not the government itself, but the knowledge and experience of those who work with the systems all the time. Hang on! There's plenty of time left in this solar maximum event to produce auroras as big as what we've just seen. And who's to say exactly where the largest bursts of charged particles will end up on Earth, and what equipment lies in their exact path? The bigger the ejection, the bigger the chances of fireworks, of all kinds.

@paulfrancis9223 23 күн бұрын

@@DrBeckyAnd folks have pictures of the Aurora Australis as far north as Southern Queensland (-27.5) It's crazy.

@sandipanborthakur8637 22 күн бұрын

There were observations from India too.

@TheOldBlackCrow 23 күн бұрын

Awesome video! Though, I'm waiting for you to have an episode on a peek into your current research in relation to these new discoveries.

@andrewmullen4003 21 күн бұрын

Your passion for your subject shines through, thanks for sharing it with us.

@timsexton 23 күн бұрын

Always a joy to see your presentation! *_TRUST !!_*

@jjgerbildick7305 23 күн бұрын

Amazing work doc...thanks for walking us thru!

@edcherney 22 күн бұрын

Let's come back down to earth and talk about what's been happening in space news. Only an Astrophysicists can say that with a straight face! You, my esteemed Dr. Becky Smethurst, are out of this world and simultaneously one of the most down to earth Scientist and Science Communicators on KZfaq! And, a delight to watch! Thanks again, for all you do!:)

@spddiesel 23 күн бұрын

"Aurora Borealis, shining down on Dallas, can you picture that?"- Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem

@sterbebett 23 күн бұрын

That huge MCL35 in the background though ❤

@sterbebett 23 күн бұрын

That lego Peugeot 9X8 at the back👍🏻

@AxionOverdrive 23 күн бұрын

Babe wake up! Dr. Becky just dropped another video! 📺🏃‍♂ Thanks for yet another great one!

@jojojojo2529 23 күн бұрын

Thank You, Dr. Becky 💐

@simonf8370 21 күн бұрын

Loving your audio after the new room fitting 😊

@danzephyr2797 21 күн бұрын

I love all of your amazing content. Thanks Dr Becky

@AntonioSantos66 23 күн бұрын

I love your video. The best you ever publish! Thank you.

@williamthornburgh3675 23 күн бұрын

Loving the content Dr Becky AND the improved acoustics of your new studio, but is that a McLaren F1 car on the top shelf in the background??? Lol.

@robertgerrity878 23 күн бұрын

What's on Becky's shelves game. There's a story to it, fer shure.

@sero-zin_127 22 күн бұрын

Man feels so good looking and learning about night sky!! I wasnt updated thats why its feel good hearing this stuff after so long!

@kewoolf 19 күн бұрын

Love the channel! Just found it and am picking my way around. Since you're a black hole expert I had hoped to see a discussion of gravastars. I don't even know enough to ask you the right questions - maybe it's too far outside orthodoxy..? Thanks for the great content!

@Mizgrievoux 23 күн бұрын

More cloud related effects plz that was dope and it gives more things to look up for

@EliasMheart 23 күн бұрын

23:32 Wow, that's a great visualisation! Great job NASA/ESA (:

@leovictorsr 23 күн бұрын

I couldn’t help but note your excitement talking about the evolution of galaxies with their SMBH 😂

@leovictorsr 23 күн бұрын

Also wish I could see aurora here in Brazil 😢

@ljosephdumas3113 23 күн бұрын

🎵"You say past-l and I say pas-tell"🎵 I see your aluminium and raise you an aluminum! 😁

@pierreabbat6157 23 күн бұрын

Cherry tom/e/to, cherry tom/a/to.

@thekaxmax 23 күн бұрын

And both are correct

@martynspooner5822 23 күн бұрын

I often wondered what the Americans call aloomenum was, I am embarrassed to say it was years before I twigged it was aluminum.

@martynspooner5822 23 күн бұрын

It took me years to twigg what our American friends call aloomenum was. It is of course aluminum and I am embarrassed to say how long it took me to tumble.

@screwaccountnames 22 күн бұрын

22:04 You say envelope-d, I say en-veloped

@MichaelSiegel14 23 күн бұрын

Swift is in a similar orbit to Hubble and we've dropped something like 20 km in the last year thanks to the Sun. Hoping we'll get through this solar cycle in one piece! 🤞

@kostuek 23 күн бұрын

kind of dig those euclid images, very nice

@PhysicsNative 19 күн бұрын

Not only the best astrophysics channel on YT, but the best science channel as. Outstanding communicator. Like you, I’m also tentative on the purported black hole merger observations from JWST. We need more observations and analysis!

@MikeJamesMedia 23 күн бұрын

Thanks for doing what you do, the way you do it! :)

@csh43166 23 күн бұрын

I was sad not to see the aurora. It was visible in our area, but there was too much ground light at my house, and I couldn't get out of town. Seeing them is on my bucket list - I'm determined to see them!!! 💚💜

@amnesiai 23 күн бұрын

Wow so much cool stuff in this video!

@joecanales9631 23 күн бұрын

Howdy Dr. Becky, thanks for your always informative videos. I had seen another science communicator announcing the JWST sighting of the merging supermassive black holes, but I was left with more questions than answers. I love the work that can be done with the spectrum of starlight. Although direct observations are not possible at these distances, the graphs these data reveal can be equally exciting to see. Thanks for your explanations. I missed the Aurora. Although we are in severe drought, and only have a handful of cloudy nights a year, it was cloudy in my part of the state during the aurora. I did see pictures from others who had clearer skies in New Mexico during that event. Being a geophysicist (retired) I have been intrigued by them for a long time and not having had a chance to see them in person. But the solar maximum has only just started. I like to use my telescope to project the sun image into a white piece of cardboard inside my garage to watch for sunspots. I’ve noticed non of the glass elements ever get hot and the sun image is big. Thanks again for your great explanations of what’s happening in sky news. Been tracking Vega and the Summer Triangle for a while now and summer is approaching!

@Tebsana 23 күн бұрын

The aurora has definitely been the highlight of my year so far! Never did I ever think I would be able to see the Aurora at home in London esp with all the light pollution

@Shadows518 23 күн бұрын

The aurora australis was seen as far north as Auckland, New Zealand. It was SO bright.

@silverhoax6290 23 күн бұрын

Hi, most amazing presetation, as always. You're perfect for this kind of stuff and i'm deeply impresed by your amazing work on this channell, explaining such complicated and delicate matter in such simplistic and ordinary language so we all can understand. Please keep it up and please keep yourself up, you're amazing, we all love you, you're the bestest xxx

@davemi00 23 күн бұрын

All of the UK sits between 50° and 60° Lat. You should see Northern Lights frequently, in unpolluted areas. Northern Michigan at 45° Lat we see them often.

@terrydaniels9126 23 күн бұрын

The night sky is music to my heart ♥ the stars are glowing love to heart

@AnonymousFreakYT 23 күн бұрын

Sadly, where I was, "a faint green glow on the Northern horizon" was all I got. Only one night was it naked-eye visible at all, and even then just barely. Yet people noticeably further South (and with *MORE* city-light-glow!) were able to see the reds clearly! I did get to see them moving to the naked eye - again, just barely. Something I had never been truly positive about before. It seems like videos of aurora are always time lapses, so I had no idea how fast they shifted.

@ChaitanyaShukla2503 23 күн бұрын

That aurora was visible even in India(only the northern most part) so yeah its quite odd how big that particular event ended up being.

@williemacdonald72 19 күн бұрын

I went out to photograph the aurora not expecting much so only took one of my full frame cameras with me. I was blown away by the display and the fact I had to shoot facing south here in Dumfries and Galloway.

@DonsArtnGames 23 күн бұрын

Saw the Aurora Borealis above Angel's Camp, California (central area)... I couldn't believe that it was this far south. I thought it had to be something else.

@Geeknlonely2.0 23 күн бұрын

Lucky you, here in the southern hemisphere we had the Aurora Australis, but is winter and that night was completely clouded 😢

@skysurfer5cva 23 күн бұрын

My wife and I took our oldest grandson (12 years old) to Bass Lake on that Saturday (we were booked on Friday, which was the best night). I got some decent photos, but the ridgeline on the north side of the lake blocked the lower part of the aurora. The aurora peaked for us about 9:00 to 9:30 p.m., then it dwindled until we left at 11:00 to make the one-hour drive back to Fresno.

@aldebaran4154 21 күн бұрын

That aurora was so strong it was seen here in Hawai'i, for those who were up just after 4am on May 14th

@_NicBP 22 күн бұрын

Actually the southern lights (Aurora Australis for us) was visible as far north as Townsville in Queensland Australia… very much further north than the southern coast of Australia! Amazing. For some perspective for northerners, about as close to the equator as Guatemala, Yemen, Sudan, India, Thailand.

@Echo3_ 21 күн бұрын

I remember that night with the Aurora it was cloudy here but I got the solar flare X class alert when it happened. There were so many flares that night!

@CLIFFemALL83 18 күн бұрын

Thank you 💫

@motivationzunet 23 күн бұрын

Smashing content❤

@henribg1 22 күн бұрын

Thank God you are well!

@shanewallace2564 23 күн бұрын

I'd never seen the aurora before except for on the tv. There's parts of it that look quite a bit like fog in a wind tunnel. My nephew was kind of worried that we were losing atmosphere. Lol

@a.karley4672 23 күн бұрын

Next time your nephew comes up with that idea, he's on quite fruitful scientific ground. Some models of the evolution of Mars's atmosphere count "erosion" by the Solar wind as being a significant factor in it's evolution from having a (somewhat) Earth-like atmosphere to it's "too thin to be poisonous" state today. But it's not a simple story, because the UV light from the Sun (which isn't deflected by a magnetic field) also splits atmospheric water, allowing the loss of the hydrogen. Which was probably not important to Mars (the water froze out onto the ground, where it is protected from the UV by dirt), but may have been important in the evolution of Venus' atmosphere. Your nephew's question/worry plays to a whole host of interesting planetary science.

@hinesification 23 күн бұрын

The final coating is mainly to keep the silver from tarnishing. Most ground-based telescopes use aluminum coating because it’s less oxidizable… but is is not as reflective as silver.

@thomasdjonesn 23 күн бұрын

I was so excited about the IFU when I heard about it, and it's amazing and wonderful. Here on our happy little rock, we can watch the universe unfold. Sometimes it's the only thing that keeps me going.

@DavidBeddard 20 күн бұрын

I'm gutted I missed the aurora. The first I heard about it was a news report about it the following morning. I have seen the aurora before, at least, but I'm still thoroughly miffed.

@santyclause8034 20 күн бұрын

I got Melbourne, nice almost noctilucent solid overcast. Most of the Southern states got some Aurora Australis, not us here.

@jonreznick5531 23 күн бұрын

"width" of lens and "f/stop" are two different things in photo optics.

@lordgarion514 23 күн бұрын

You're audio volume is awesome. Please do all vids this way. My hearing is less than perfect, and I have to play almost all YT vids full blast. I actually got to turn my volume down 2 clicks. Things sound better when I'm not maxing out the phones little amplifier.

@stargazer7644 23 күн бұрын

That's because most other YT vids are 10 to 20 dB below where they should be.

@bazpearce9993 23 күн бұрын

I got those aurora too. In fact there's a few look just like what you showed Becky. I uploaded a GIF of 1,053 frames, and uploaded it. :)

@davidtatro7457 22 күн бұрын

It's so exciting to finally see Euclid up and running! A bit off topic, but have you ever considered doing a video discussing galaxy size vs. SMBH size? It always boggles the mind how relatively tiny Sag A* seems in relation to the Milky Way's size and mass relative to so many other galaxies out there. Or perhaps the relatively large SMBHs just stand out in our observations because they tend to make more visible phenomena? Anyway, l find it interesting and haven't seen any experts specifically talk about that subject.

@i.m.gurney 22 күн бұрын

Tangentially, Becky, you introduced me to the word 'neb', as a southerner (Surrey) I have surpassed 50 before encountering it....

@mykliv4546 23 күн бұрын

Asterism -that would be a great name for a "super-group" prog-rock band!!! ❤

@atlasisshrugging 23 күн бұрын

Actually, there IS a rock group (out of Japan) by the name of Asterism. Their music does, broadly speaking, fit into the "progressive rock" genre, but from the way they describe themselves, they might fit into the prog-rock subgenre of "math rock".🤓 youtube.com/@asterism_asia?si=TquY2jXBYuhcj5me

@fedfraud.protection.servic2557 22 күн бұрын

Well, what about Supernova and M83?🤔

@user-mk1hy7nf9s 20 күн бұрын

Considering the grid didn't get smoked means it can only get better. the Carrington event must have been spectacular. 🤩☠️🤩

@ChrisM-hx9kv 23 күн бұрын

Commenting to feed the algorithm 🙃

@scratchanitch 23 күн бұрын

Replying for extra boost.

@nannakurzhaar 23 күн бұрын

me too :)

@jojojojo2529 23 күн бұрын

Is your text a comment, too? ok, it's commenting the yt algo, so to see. 😉

@farmergiles1065 23 күн бұрын

I say let's jack the YT algorithm as far as it may go for Becky's benefit.

@Astras-Stargate 20 күн бұрын

This is a spectacular video, Dr. Becky. You are so good at explaining everything and I love your videography especially in this one. Those images from Euclid have a kind of "softness" to them, making them so very striking. ❤🛰🌃💞

@robbierobinson8819 23 күн бұрын

Lovely episode as always. Thanks for the images of the aurorae from around the world from South Africa where, if I ever see an aurora, we are probably fried! Doesn't applying Occam's Razor suggest that the merging of the supermassive black holes so early in the universe's history is likely to be galaxies merging as they do more recently? After all, galaxies would have been close together, so even with fewer numbers, merging would be quite "common"?

@elieloucas6303 22 күн бұрын

Thank you for the great content as always. Noticed the McLaren F1 car and is that an LMP1/hypercar (looks like the new Peugeot) as well?

@pahtar7189 18 күн бұрын

If the matter falling into a black hole is in a disk, those black holes that don't show a Doppler shift are simply oriented with one pole pointed more or less toward us.

@georgepucula9034 20 күн бұрын

It was exciting to see reports from the UK of the amazing Northern Lights. But, it was nerve racking wondering if the light show could still be seen in Canada 5-6 hours later. Fortunately, the aurora were brilliant!

@DonkThikkness 23 күн бұрын

I learn so much from this channel, thank you for all the content! Read an article that NASA is developing a mission to send a telescope (a small fleet of spacecraft to Voltron into a telescope, apparently) out about 550 AU to use the gravitational lensing of our sun. The purpose is to use the bent light as an amplifier so the telescope can see the surfaces of exoplanets. Sounds like crazy sci-fi stuff, but I trust the math and science behind it makes it possible. Crazy to think because Voyager 1&2 are about 162 AU and 136 AU away.

@a.karley4672 23 күн бұрын

That's the LUVOIR mission PROPOSAL you're referring to - I think. Still very much on the whiteboard, and subject to frequent detail changes, including in name. But it is a long way from being designed, let alone built or launched. For example - at 3-4 times the distance to the Voyagers, the radio transmitter is going to need to be 9-16 times as powerful as a Voyager's (actually, a lot more, for better transmission rates) ... so when you hear arguments about launching an actual nuclear power plant, you know it's *approaching* the _final_ design.

@warrencolegrove1 23 күн бұрын

I love this channel!

@AnarchoAmericium 23 күн бұрын

Dr. Becky, since you brought it up discussing the sun, could you do a video on magnetics in space and why it can be so vexing?

@user-ds7uk1ft2x 23 күн бұрын

Not sure what you mean by vexing. There's an entire theory based on EM forces, called plasma cosmology. It happens to be the only self-contained physical theory of the universe, as opposed to ad hoc curve-fitting theories. That may be why some people consider it vexing.

@andyny29 23 күн бұрын

Loved the reference to “The Simpsons.”

@ianw7898 19 күн бұрын

@ 12:15; Slight correction. CMEs aren't collecting H atoms from the solar 'surface'. They happen in the corona. The magnetic field loops, which originate on and below the surface, come together in the corona, which is ~ fully ionised. When the fields are oppositely directed, magnetic reconnection occurs. It is the reconnection of the field lines that accelerates the charged particles outwards (and downwards). Obviously, magnetic reconnection cannot accelerate the neutrals in the photosphere and lower chromosphere.

@johnkotches8320 18 күн бұрын

I really enjoyed the extra long blooper section. Spending an entire day staring at monitors 1m or so away is not something our eyes were designed to do, so it's fairly common for our eyes to develop issues at that distance. I'm assuming you have a full field reading prescription which solves the problem nicely for work.

@iangregory3719 23 күн бұрын

Nice to see the time-lapse of the mirror coating. I did wonder though how its done. My first instinct would be P.V.D. Sputtering, but that would i thought usually take a lot longer than 4 to 5 hours.

@julianemery718 23 күн бұрын

How could you NOT include steamed hams? It was the most perfectly applicable meme.

@stargazer7644 23 күн бұрын

When talking about camera lenses, the focal length is the magnification or zoom amount and is referred to as "wide (wide angle)" or "long (telephoto)". The aperture is measured in f-stops, and is referred to the "speed" of the lens - either fast (low f-stops like f/1.2) or slow (high f-stops like f/5.6). The aperture is related to speed because big apertures let in more light and let you use fast shutter speeds (a fast lens), while low apertures let in little light and require slow shutter speeds. In low light situations you want as fast of a lens as possible. The f-stop or focal ratio is actually the ratio of the diameter of the pupil of the lens compared to the focal length. It is more useful than the actual measurement of the diameter of the lens because it relates directly to exposure. Each f-stop down or up relates to a halving or doubling of the required exposure time. If an f/5.6 lens required a 10 second exposure to see aurora, an f/4 lens would need 5 seconds, an f/2.8 would need 2.5 seconds, and an f/2 would need 1.25 seconds to get the same shot.

@KelticTim 21 күн бұрын

With the poles wandering further faster, enjoy those lights while you can, the poles are gonna flip soon.

@Sembazuru 21 күн бұрын

In the MidAtlantic instead of the Aurora I saw clouds. Congrats to all the other people who were able to see them far from the normal latitudes. Hopefully I can join you at the next geomagnetic storm.

@mawkernewek 23 күн бұрын

I saw them in Cornwall, though didn't photograph them this time around. I've seen it twice before here and once in Cambridge but not as much as this.

@seantlewis376 22 күн бұрын

I live in the Pacific Northwest of the US, and we only get clear skies two or three months of the year, so I downloaded an app that shows me what the night sky would look like if I could see it, based on my GPS location, and what direction I'm pointing my phone. It's pretty darned cool.

@BilichaGhebremuse 23 күн бұрын

Excellent❤

@Awesomekraken677 22 күн бұрын

.... it was cloudy the entire week in Sydney when the aurora was there... I have only despair to share...

@markhollis5850 23 күн бұрын

Sneaky way to take cool landscape photos with an aurora (or stars!): Use a camera that has an HDR imaging chip, OR, put that camera on a tripod, take two photos, one at long exposure for the sky and a different one at shorter exposure (or longer if it is really dark) for the landscape. You can even stack THREE images, one for the Moon, exposed correctly, one for the stars and a third exposed for the landscape. Then, create layers in Photoshop and get rid of everything, save what is correctly exposed, in each of the three layers. Astrophysicists do this all the time with black and white images of different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum to create false-color images.

@a.karley4672 23 күн бұрын

As you say, this is how astrophotographers have worked for a century and a half. But ... there is no such thing as an "HDR chip" or sensor. HDR is a software toolset for manipulating existing image formats - and I believe also a new range of image formats. The sensors in CCDs have long been able to handle more exposure range than the 8 bits range that JPEG was designed for in the 1980s, and image formats are starting to catch up. (I recall a comment in the "PNG Book" which described that format, that PNG could, from day 1, handle up to 64 bits per pixel per colour, and described that as being for "scientific or medical" work. That pixel depth is why astronomers use (for technical work, not for presentations) the FITS image format, and sometimes the TIFF family of formats. JP(e)G is fine for the job it was intended for - but it's not intended for precision imaging (because - the lossy compression) or high-contrast imaging (the 8-bit channel width).

@neoanderson7 23 күн бұрын

So disappointed we had so much cloud cover during the whole time of the big burp. 😔. Guess we have to keep fingers crossed till next year. 🤞🏻 That is 1 shiny mirror! 😎 The expression on your face when you said that sentence about the merging black holes! 👏🏻🙂

@May-or-May-not 21 күн бұрын

I'm kinda jealous you got to see the aurora that beautiful. Ironically I couldn't see it because I live in the arctic and was too far north 😅

@TallDude73 23 күн бұрын

If you say "aurora" enough times, it starts to sound like an engine revving up. ;)

@jimsvideos7201 23 күн бұрын

10:30 You have the focal length and aperture swapped. Aperture is the hole through the lens; larger ones admit more light in a given time but can cause distortion.

@stargazer7644 23 күн бұрын

She was talking about f-stop, which is how variable aperture in a camera lens is measured. It's the ratio between focal length and the diameter of the aperture, also known as the speed of the lens. She said she doesn't have a wide enough lens, as hers is an f/3.5. When she said "wide", she meant she doesn't have a fast enough lens. She wasn't talking about focal length, which is usually what photographers apply the term "wide" to.