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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
    @spddiesel Месяц назад +65

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

  • @Nick-Lab
    @Nick-Lab Месяц назад +101

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

    • @maconcamp472
      @maconcamp472 Месяц назад

      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
      @javamanV3 Месяц назад +2

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

    • @donaldmilne5352
      @donaldmilne5352 Месяц назад +1

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

    • @maxim635
      @maxim635 Месяц назад

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

    • @duran9664
      @duran9664 Месяц назад

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

  • @TG-nd9rj
    @TG-nd9rj Месяц назад +31

    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
      @I_Don_t_want_a_handle Месяц назад +4

      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
      @JohnDoe-nq4du 18 дней назад +1

      @@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).

  • @beenaplumber8379
    @beenaplumber8379 Месяц назад +10

    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.

  • @proctophobic7127
    @proctophobic7127 Месяц назад +50

    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
      @maconcamp472 Месяц назад

      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!! 😻

    • @lightingthelatenight9942
      @lightingthelatenight9942 Месяц назад +1

      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

    • @Orrsmen
      @Orrsmen Месяц назад

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

    • @javamanV3
      @javamanV3 Месяц назад +1

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

    • @lightingthelatenight9942
      @lightingthelatenight9942 Месяц назад

      @@javamanV3 oh I knew about it beforehand as well, just circumstances being as they were I was regrettably unable to get a viewing opportunity

  • @neils123
    @neils123 Месяц назад +11

    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.

  • @eyeofthasky
    @eyeofthasky Месяц назад +61

    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
      @DrBecky  Месяц назад +24

      But hopefully there’ll be another chance soon! 🤞

    • @maconcamp472
      @maconcamp472 Месяц назад

      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!! 😻

    • @robertfarrimond3369
      @robertfarrimond3369 Месяц назад +7

      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
      @tudohuang7383 Месяц назад +2

      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
      @maconcamp472 Месяц назад

      @@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!! 😻

  • @danesorensen1775
    @danesorensen1775 Месяц назад +9

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

  • @jimsvideos7201
    @jimsvideos7201 Месяц назад +5

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

  • @Snowflake-id4fw
    @Snowflake-id4fw Месяц назад +3

    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
    @russellpenman7366 Месяц назад +11

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

  • @Ka7ple1
    @Ka7ple1 Месяц назад +4

    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
      @fedfraud.protection.servic2557 Месяц назад

      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.

  • @DeepeningTheListening
    @DeepeningTheListening Месяц назад +1

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

  • @MCsCreations
    @MCsCreations Месяц назад +1

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

  • @marypotter_gryffindor
    @marypotter_gryffindor Месяц назад +4

    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!

  • @jaimecastells4283
    @jaimecastells4283 Месяц назад +1

    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. 😄

  • @edcherney
    @edcherney Месяц назад +1

    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 RUclips! And, a delight to watch! Thanks again, for all you do!:)

  • @AxionOverdrive
    @AxionOverdrive Месяц назад +2

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

  • @timsexton
    @timsexton Месяц назад +1

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

  • @nannakurzhaar
    @nannakurzhaar Месяц назад +2

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

  • @Kanner111
    @Kanner111 29 дней назад

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

  • @japneetsingh5015
    @japneetsingh5015 Месяц назад +146

    Even two black holes merged waiting for GTA6

  • @sterbebett
    @sterbebett Месяц назад +2

    That huge MCL35 in the background though ❤

  • @PhysicsNative
    @PhysicsNative Месяц назад

    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!

  • @pokerstarPR
    @pokerstarPR Месяц назад +15

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

    • @DrBecky
      @DrBecky  Месяц назад +7

      Hadn’t heard that one!

    • @oberonpanopticon
      @oberonpanopticon Месяц назад

      Did we just survive a second carrington event?

    • @farmergiles1065
      @farmergiles1065 Месяц назад

      @@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
      @paulfrancis9223 Месяц назад

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

    • @sandipanborthakur8637
      @sandipanborthakur8637 Месяц назад

      There were observations from India too.

  • @andrewmullen4003
    @andrewmullen4003 Месяц назад

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

  • @TheOldBlackCrow
    @TheOldBlackCrow Месяц назад +2

    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.

  • @samedwards6683
    @samedwards6683 5 дней назад

    Thanks so much for creating and sharing this informative and entertaining video. Great job. Keep it up.

  • @jjgerbildick7305
    @jjgerbildick7305 Месяц назад

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

  • @jojojojo2529
    @jojojojo2529 Месяц назад +1

    Thank You, Dr. Becky 💐

  • @AntonioSantos66
    @AntonioSantos66 Месяц назад +1

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

  • @terrydaniels9126
    @terrydaniels9126 Месяц назад +1

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

  • @motivationzunet
    @motivationzunet Месяц назад +2

    Smashing content❤

  • @sero-zin_127
    @sero-zin_127 Месяц назад

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

  • @csh43166
    @csh43166 Месяц назад +1

    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!!! 💚💜

  • @Mizgrievoux
    @Mizgrievoux Месяц назад +1

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

  • @danzephyr2797
    @danzephyr2797 Месяц назад

    I love all of your amazing content. Thanks Dr Becky

  • @sterbebett
    @sterbebett Месяц назад +2

    That lego Peugeot 9X8 at the back👍🏻

  • @williamthornburgh3675
    @williamthornburgh3675 Месяц назад +2

    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
      @robertgerrity878 Месяц назад

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

  • @amnesiai
    @amnesiai Месяц назад +1

    Wow so much cool stuff in this video!

  • @spddiesel
    @spddiesel Месяц назад +2

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

  • @simonf8370
    @simonf8370 Месяц назад

    Loving your audio after the new room fitting 😊

  • @MichaelSiegel14
    @MichaelSiegel14 Месяц назад +1

    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! 🤞

  • @MikeJamesMedia
    @MikeJamesMedia Месяц назад

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

  • @williemacdonald72
    @williemacdonald72 Месяц назад

    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.

  • @EliasMheart
    @EliasMheart Месяц назад +1

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

  • @kostuek
    @kostuek Месяц назад +1

    kind of dig those euclid images, very nice

  • @kewoolf
    @kewoolf Месяц назад

    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!

  • @Tebsana
    @Tebsana Месяц назад

    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

  • @ljosephdumas3113
    @ljosephdumas3113 Месяц назад +14

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

    • @pierreabbat6157
      @pierreabbat6157 Месяц назад

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

    • @thekaxmax
      @thekaxmax Месяц назад

      And both are correct

    • @martynspooner5822
      @martynspooner5822 Месяц назад +1

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

    • @martynspooner5822
      @martynspooner5822 Месяц назад +1

      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
      @screwaccountnames Месяц назад +1

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

  • @davidtatro7457
    @davidtatro7457 Месяц назад

    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.

  • @aldebaran4154
    @aldebaran4154 Месяц назад

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

  • @Shadows518
    @Shadows518 Месяц назад +1

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

  • @joecanales9631
    @joecanales9631 Месяц назад +1

    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!

  • @_NicBP
    @_NicBP Месяц назад

    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.

  • @CLIFFemALL83
    @CLIFFemALL83 Месяц назад

    Thank you 💫

  • @georgepucula9034
    @georgepucula9034 Месяц назад

    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!

  • @henribg1
    @henribg1 Месяц назад

    Thank God you are well!

  • @davemi00
    @davemi00 Месяц назад +1

    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.

  • @DavidBeddard
    @DavidBeddard Месяц назад

    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.

  • @hinesification
    @hinesification Месяц назад

    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.

  • @AnonymousFreakYT
    @AnonymousFreakYT Месяц назад +1

    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
    @ChaitanyaShukla2503 Месяц назад +1

    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.

  • @Echo3_
    @Echo3_ Месяц назад

    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!

  • @silverhoax6290
    @silverhoax6290 Месяц назад

    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

  • @bazpearce9993
    @bazpearce9993 Месяц назад +1

    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. :)

  • @warrencolegrove1
    @warrencolegrove1 Месяц назад

    I love this channel!

  • @DonkThikkness
    @DonkThikkness Месяц назад +1

    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
      @a.karley4672 Месяц назад

      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.

  • @leovictorsr
    @leovictorsr Месяц назад +1

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

    • @leovictorsr
      @leovictorsr Месяц назад

      Also wish I could see aurora here in Brazil 😢

  • @johnkotches8320
    @johnkotches8320 Месяц назад

    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.

  • @neoanderson7
    @neoanderson7 Месяц назад

    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! 👏🏻🙂

  • @user-mk1hy7nf9s
    @user-mk1hy7nf9s Месяц назад

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

  • @DonsArtnGames
    @DonsArtnGames Месяц назад +5

    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
      @Geeknlonely2.0 Месяц назад

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

    • @skysurfer5cva
      @skysurfer5cva Месяц назад

      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.

  • @i.m.gurney
    @i.m.gurney Месяц назад

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

  • @pahtar7189
    @pahtar7189 Месяц назад

    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.

  • @shanewallace2564
    @shanewallace2564 Месяц назад +1

    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
      @a.karley4672 Месяц назад

      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.

  • @ChrisM-hx9kv
    @ChrisM-hx9kv Месяц назад +5

    Commenting to feed the algorithm 🙃

    • @scratchanitch
      @scratchanitch Месяц назад +3

      Replying for extra boost.

    • @nannakurzhaar
      @nannakurzhaar Месяц назад +1

      me too :)

    • @jojojojo2529
      @jojojojo2529 Месяц назад +1

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

    • @farmergiles1065
      @farmergiles1065 Месяц назад

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

  • @thomasdjonesn
    @thomasdjonesn Месяц назад

    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.

  • @ianw7898
    @ianw7898 Месяц назад

    @ 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.

  • @BilichaGhebremuse
    @BilichaGhebremuse Месяц назад

    Excellent❤

  • @jonreznick5531
    @jonreznick5531 Месяц назад +1

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

  • @lordgarion514
    @lordgarion514 Месяц назад +1

    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
      @stargazer7644 Месяц назад

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

  • @mykliv4546
    @mykliv4546 Месяц назад +5

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

    • @atlasisshrugging
      @atlasisshrugging Месяц назад

      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
      @fedfraud.protection.servic2557 Месяц назад

      Well, what about Supernova and M83?🤔

  • @gordonwallin2368
    @gordonwallin2368 Месяц назад

    Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

  • @Sembazuru
    @Sembazuru Месяц назад

    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.

  • @tomholroyd7519
    @tomholroyd7519 Месяц назад

    beautiful colorful clouds of dust around stars lit by colorful stars

  • @stargazer7644
    @stargazer7644 Месяц назад

    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.

  • @Astras-Stargate
    @Astras-Stargate Месяц назад

    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. ❤🛰🌃💞

  • @jerelull9629
    @jerelull9629 Месяц назад

    I expected you'd be *somewhat* interested in the black hole merger😜. you and your expressions didn't disappoint.

  • @Awesomekraken677
    @Awesomekraken677 Месяц назад

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

  • @Space30MINUTES
    @Space30MINUTES Месяц назад

    It's impressive what JWST can detect! Is there anyone here who is passionate about space and astronomy?

  • @santyclause8034
    @santyclause8034 Месяц назад

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

  • @FabDelight
    @FabDelight Месяц назад

    Is that a McLaren on your book shelf? My 2 passions combined how wonderful ❤️

  • @seantlewis376
    @seantlewis376 Месяц назад

    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.

  • @KelticTim
    @KelticTim Месяц назад

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

  • @ozzy6162
    @ozzy6162 Месяц назад

    I've read some really surprising stuff over the past few days Becky. They're both astrophysics topics so maybe you could explain them in (or part of) a video?
    (1) Researchers now think that it's possible for a star to become a black hole without going through the supernova stage.
    (2) Research suggests the Sun's magnetic field is generated only 20,000 miles from the surface rather than much deeper (deep dynamo theory). Apparently modelling based on this shallow dynamo theory produced a Sun that behaves the way ours does with closely linked torsional oscillations and sunspot activity.

  • @markhollis5850
    @markhollis5850 Месяц назад +1

    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
      @a.karley4672 Месяц назад +1

      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).

  • @ronaldstrous2764
    @ronaldstrous2764 Месяц назад

    I just realised that Robert Llewellyn uses the same intro tune for his almost breaking news episodes.

  • @AnarchoAmericium
    @AnarchoAmericium Месяц назад +1

    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
      @user-ds7uk1ft2x Месяц назад

      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.

  • @joyl7842
    @joyl7842 Месяц назад

    29:45 no kidding! After just one observation? That would be unscientific, considering how many galaxies there are.