Category Archives: Astronomy

The Euclid Space Telescope: tackling dark matter and dark energy mysteries

[…] My previous video on what JWST will observe next year: • The plan for JWST… My previous video on the evidence for dark matter – • All the evidence … 00:00 – Introduction 00:15 – Launch and orbit 00:52 … Continue reading

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After 3 Years of Hiatus, LIGO Is Finally Back! New Era For Gravitational Waves

[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about newly begun search for gravitational waves with LIGO and several other observatories Links: https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/… https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03606 https://theconversation.com/gravitati… https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/image/li… https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/33813 https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158… https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10… #ligo #gravitationalwaves #universe […]

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65,000 yrs – the great history of Australian Aboriginal Astronomy | Kirsten Banks | TEDxYouth@Sydney

Emus can’t fly, but there’s an Emu in the sky. People have been looking up to the stars for a long time, but for how long? Explore a different perspective of the night sky and learn about the great history … Continue reading

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JWST’s “too massive” galaxy problem solved?! | A non-universal IMF

[…] Remember those overmassive galaxies that JWST found that people claimed proved “the big bang never happened?” when in reality it was just that we couldn’t explain how they’d got so big? Well, turns out those galaxies probably aren’t that … Continue reading

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Exciting Updates From M87 Galaxy and Its Iconic Blackhole

[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about updates from the icon M 87 galaxy and its blackhole Links: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10… https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10… https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10… Jets: • M87 Black Hole Je… SgrA* image: • History … Continue reading

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Northern lights dazzle in parts of UK overnight | BBC News

Normally rare in southern parts of the UK, the aurora made an appearance for the second time in a month. By Simon King BBC Weather Sky gazers were treated to “one of the best displays of aurora” on Thursday night. … Continue reading

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Ice Mountains of Pluto as seen from New Horizon spacecraft.

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Meteor breaking into the earth’s atmosphere

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We owe everything to Earth’s tilt | Sasha Sagan

Rituals come not only from religion but from the way Earth spins around the Sun. ❍ Subscribe to The Well on YouTube: https://bit.ly/welcometothewell ❍ Up next: Michio Kaku: Is God a mathematician? https://youtu.be/Kfq50Vs2gG4 Many of humanity’s cultural traditions are based … Continue reading

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The Square Kilometre Array’s complex combination of cattle, culture and cosmology | ABC Australia

[…] The $3 billion Square Kilometre Array is an internationally backed big-science project with a brief to build the world’s largest radio telescope. It will be built in two locations, one part in South Africa, and the other in the … Continue reading

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