I shall never forget the night we saw Halley's Comet, as it was also the night my mum caught us smoking dope, so thereby proving that comets mark a great disaster, as she was none too pleased..

Part of me thinks giving hearts to everybody cheapens the whole idea, but you guys are always so nice! :-)

I love your work and suggest it to all my students. I wish KZfaq had more content like yours. Please keep producing material.

Saving this for bedtime was not easy.

This guy gets brilliantly researched astronomy and somehow gives it the feeling of warm and cozy story telling. Thank you, squared.

It’s unlikely that you fully realize how happy you make us. 👊

I just started watching, but I have to say: it blows my mind that Kant was the first to develop the nebular hypothesis. They didn't teach that in my freshman year philosophy class. edit: Thank you, Nick, for another incredible video. I can only imagine the amount of research and work that went into this.

A Kerrington-level event sounds terrifying to some, but I think it's exactly what humanity needs to remind us that we have more important things to worry about than who believes in the best god.

Great video Nick. Such a high quality of production and wonderful content. Clear, concise and pitched at a level that respects your audiences intelligence. Thank you!

I saw Halley's Comet in1986. My father, a sputnik and even Apollo program vet, woke us up to view it through his telescope.

... was not a dirty snowball, but a snowy dirt ball ... The story of my life right there

KZfaqs best content creator has done it again! I love this channel so much - thanks for this

You, Sir, make a good video thank you. Thumbs up

Niiiiiiiick I've been so so excited, I swear I've listened to part 1 all the way through at least 20 times

This is still one of the very best channels on YT for astronomy hands down. I love how long and detailed the videos are. The discussions on the various topics are so thorough and well researched that it blows away the competition. If only there were more science related channels that handled their content like this one.

Excellently well written.

These videos could be broadcast, unedited, on television. TV documentaries are so dumbed down and focused on presenters and personalities these days that they couldnt hope to have content this rich.

You ride the line between confident and cocky so well it's absolutely perfect given the channels content

Your opening comment made me laugh. The work you put into your videos is astounding. Thank you.

1:10. That's the identical pre-Voyager solar system map that hung in my 6th(?) grade science class. That's the picture I had of Ceres until Hubble and Dawn showed it to be round.

Best intro ever. Makes me smile every time.

You have outdone yourself once again,amazing video. I absolutely love how you combine history with astronomy..Thank you, Nick :)

That Carrington Event was so interesting to hear about. I hope you can do a whole video on that event in the future.

Been going through your work while you are absent. I do hope things aren't too bad . This episode is some of your best work and is frankly exceptional.

Want to say I'm highly impressed by this, and kind of shocked that your videos don't have more views. This is like the top tier of original physics/cosmology/astronomy documentaries, as good as it gets, way better than any professional documentaries which almost always talk down to the audience. Will watch the rest of your work for sure, and I hope you get more attention from youtube in the future.

Speaking of cakes and icing, your words and your voice are a nutritious and delicious layer cake, and the pictures are the exciting icing. 🎂⭐️ All the best, congrats and I hope we can keep exploring our aquatic universe in a part 11 and beyond. ☮️ I lived through the Quebec blackout. It was an incredulous “the Sun can do *that* to us??” reaction. Science will always be MUCH more amazing than any supernatural silliness we apes can invent.

Is it irony that the mood can be very dark while discussing an object that is so bright?

Recently stumbled on this channel. I haven't watched many. Good job on this one. It seems people are gravitating towards these long format conversations. Thank you.

Gah, by some evil fate I never see your updates. Then, after several months of thinking of you (in a non-creepy way), I come back and find that perhaps the fates are not evil, they simply like to present me with a bountiful gift....a gift of multiple episodes. Some people have a gift that when you see it, you know it is special. These videos are your gift. So wonderfully and thoughtfully done. I simply feel gratitude that you have shared this gift with us.

Thoroughly enjoyed this! I've watched it twice and look forward to more - you pack so much into your videos. Love the history, the graphics, and your humor. I'm glad you chose comets - fascinating objects aren't they? Thanks for creating another wonderful video

Thanks to the algorithm I found this. After just a few moments I subscribed.

I love your work. I hope this channel takes good care of you, because you have taken good care of it.

Astronomy and philosophy in one genius mind. Immanuel Kant! I did not know!

Best science program I have ever seen. The amount of work necessary to create this bogels the mind. And the only discussion of the flare in 1859 and what such a future event might do to our electronic world! sends shivers. Highest praise!!! Bravo! Bravo!

Hi Nick! Got suggested to one of your videos from having watched John Michael Godier's videos. Just wanted to say I really enjoy your work and how much effort you put into telling detailed stories of the cosmos, the science behind it and the influential people behind the amazing discoveries you present here! Thank you!

Love your videos and thanks for posting :) I think it would be prudent to mention that before Parker in 1958,, the norwegian physisist Kristian Birkeland accuratly predicted the exsistense of the solarwind partickles in this explaination of the aurora borealis. Based on various scientific observations of aurora borealis, and his terella experiment. And he did this in early in the 19 hundreds. Think it was between 1908 and 1914 if i remember correct.

It is information like this,at 12:33 , delivered in this manner that gives such an awesome respect to the effort astronomers put into their craft.

Props have to be given to STEREO and Venus Express for showing that Venus can have a bit of a "comet like" tail as well. Nay to the detractors, lol

Excellent as always thank you!

It's amazing how Kant, Newton, Halley and other astronomers were able to deduce with amazing accuracy the nature of comets without access to a space program, or modern telescopes with modern instruments. Kant's prediction that comets are made of fragile material was proven by the Deep Impact mission to comet Temple 1.

Another great episode.

Subbed... this was a fantastic video and I learned a lot about comets. Keep up the great work !!!

Excellent video as always, I enjoyed every m minute of it! Glad I finally got to watch it today ^_^;

Excellent. As always.

this is great, thanks very much for your work.

Well timed sarcasm, even in our culture of general disdain, retains a flavor all its own.

Another great presentation, think I might be hooked. 🪐

An utter delight

Worth the wait...as always.

Outstanding ! Once again.

Brilliant (as always)

Bravo, maestro!! Bravo!

amazeballs. looking forward to part the third.

Snowy dirtball! Luvit.

wow i applaud your research

This was amazing. Thank you!

Thank you for this video

you taught me comets i never knew

42:11 - Millions of years from now, aliens surveying our solar system will wonder why an old burned-out comet is essentially a pile of loose gravel with a strangely solid chunk of elemental copper on one side.

Great work! Obvious ofcourse: seek a collaboration with some other youtubers like John Michael Godier and the guys of universetoday: you deserve a bigger audience!

Amazing video!

when it comes to space I have three favorites: Nick, Anton and Scott. Thanks for all your excellent videos.

I was going to say, comets come in two predominantly different speeds; one would seem to correspond to Kuiper belt objects, and the other's must come from the oort comet cloud. Then, there's interstellar comets!

This is quality content ☺

I actually watched this last night but was too tired to comment... looks & sounds great! If you ever have technical issues, it would be my sincere joy to assist you... Thanks again for your works, I am going to watch this again right now!

Is the brief footage of 45:47 to 45:50 an actual "last moment" video of the Philae lander at Churyumov-Gerasimenko?

It took me longer than I would have liked to realize why North was used to describe Paraguay and South, Cuba.

I love your videos. Your a very good teacher. I am curious if you have read or seen any of the info on electric comet theory? I found out about it fron another astronmer youtuber called sea. They make a strong case for plasma and electromagnetism being the main energy of a comet. And make the case that the water and other elements may be a product of ???electrolysis???..maybe you could explain it

Nice video

NASA's CONTOUR mission would have been a major comet mission, flying past seven comets - but it exploded as its main engine was used for the first time at the lunar distance.

Tudel is an excelent name for an astronemer

I don't exactly remember the context here and now ... but somebody once said something like, at a certain point in time after the big bang event, the entire universe had "goldilocks conditions" ... and this was when life, as we know it (?) was invented. The point was associated with Schrödinger's "negative entropy" ... and I'm fairly certain that "primordial ice" was part of the argument, which I suppose is what comets amount to, all things considered. Just a random associative thought there. Other than that: Excellent video!

Good stuf my man!

32:58 I once thought I invented that word as a kid.

I can imagine Napoleon... "I like your balls" Lol

Hello Nick, I have a little request: Could you do a video on iapetus?

@ 18:26 the is a beautiful image of solar flare activity erupting from the sun. I would love to know if this an artists rendition or if this an enhanced image, perhaps an early release from the Parker Solar probe? Love your content. More please. ;-)

And next we will shove an astroid by a minute amount.

Good vid , but no mention of the Japanies probe out there now with 2 landers on a comet and 3 more to follow from the same probe including an impactor , hope to see more on that next time :)

11:08 Cool to learn that! - I've been to Josefov for Brutal Assault fest.

Where did you did the storm video at 17:39?

A little late but I'm still enjoying the party!

With all the data gathered recently on multiple comets floating by none of them were found to be made of water ice. They have geologic features. They develop tails at extreme distances from the sun in extreme cold. It looks like the comet's are same as asteroids and respond to changing electric charge field conditions.

Why have I never seen the pictures of Halley's nucleus before??

Despite his little known presence, I became aware of Laplace initially from the boradgame _Laplace, Newton & Lagrange_ by Bone Games... and looked him up from that. Then promptly forgot him... Thanks for the reminder.

Am I the only one who, whenever Kant is mentioned or displayed, my mind instantly goes into: Ooooooo... Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable, Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could drink you under the table, David Hume could outconsume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel, and Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel...

Damn well....

So being 2020 now (for me at least), so we should be expecting a Carrington event sometime before the year is out then, seems like that kind of year.

Dear Sir: Thank you for your excellent research, and in many ways, it's a "trip down memory lane" for me, having experienced first hand some of what you talk about. I have a few questions: 1. You were born in London, yet you do not sound British. Your accent sounds rather American. How is this possible? 2. You didn't mention Fred Hoyle! He had an alternative theory to the "dirty snowball" one, plus it's his idea that, since comets have all the necessary accoutrements for developing life, life in fact evolved there and fell to Earth. (Perhaps he didn't invent that notion, but he certainly ran with it). Why did you choose to skip all that? Thank you again! You're a joy!

Will you touch on Hayabusa 1 and 2? Especially 1 is probably one of the funniest "successful" missions ever.

45:47 What are we looking at?

Wth. Is this demonetized? I havent seen a single ad? Thats weird.

O.K., What's the guys name @ 5:17?

I´m from 1974 evolutionairy year ir seemed ..hihi Grtz from the netherlands Johny geerts

How did they know for a fact that they wouldn't bring a new and possibly dangerous element to Earth when they collected all that stuff from the thing that landed in the desert, and the scientists got it? Are they positive there isn't something scary out there we might not know how to control?

Can I, as well, have a heart? I like your videos too.

I have tried listening to many other content makers who upload videos about astronomy, but have found none to compare to you. Indeed, yesterday I unsubscribed from almost all of them as I found them annoying! I will now watch this video after up-voting it!

34:33 - Goth comet is _so dark._

@33:05 Edmond Halley is British? LOL

@32:16, Ok boomer...