WOW! Incredible new JWST images of 19 galaxies | Night Sky News February 2024
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Published 2024-02-22
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In this month’s night sky news episode we’re chatting about comet Pons Brooks, which might become a naked-eye comet, the European-Extremely Large Telescope in Chile moving its dome for the first time, ESA giving the go-ahead for the LISA gravitational wave detector, JWST finding a rare “dead” dwarf galaxy, and JWST revealing the dust structure in 19 galaxies in incredible detail.
My YouTube short on the end of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars - • Ingenuity helicopter on Mars damages ...
Last week’s video on the horizon problem and the cosmic microwave background - • The Horizon Problem | The Universe's ...
My previous YouTube video on the next 5 big astronomical observatories, including the E-ELT - • Move over JWST! 5 new telescopes to g...
My previous video on how gravitational wave detectors work - • Why can't LIGO detect mergers of supe...
Keep an eye on the brightness of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks here - cobs.si/comet/484/
More information on the total solar eclipse on 8th April 2024 - www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2024-april-8
Juno images from fly-by of Io - www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?source…
More on the PHANGS project - phangs.stsci.edu/
PHANGS images released to public - webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news…
Williams et al. (2024; PHANGS JWST galaxy images and processing pipeline) - arxiv.org/pdf/2401.15142.pdf
Carleton et al. (2024; JWST finds isolated “dead” dwarf galaxy) - arxiv.org/pdf/2309.16028.pdf
See JWST observing schedules here - www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/observing-sch…
Get raw images from JWST and HST from the MAST archive here - mast.stsci.edu/portal/Mashup/Clients/Mast/Portal.h…
00:00 Intro
01:07 "Micro”-Full Moon!
02:17 Venus, Mars, crescent Moon
03:43 Waxing crescent Moon + Jupiter!
04:21 Half-moon in Winter Hexagon
05:31 Post-Equinox conjunction of Venus & Saturn
06:51 Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks!
08:48 AD Planet Wild
10:32 E-ELT rotates dome
12:12 LISA adopted by ESA
15:15 Arno Penzias RIP
16:15 Ingenuity end of mission
16:30 Juno close flyby of Io
19:42 19 of the PHANGS JWST MIRI galaxies!
25:42 First-ever isolated “dead” dwarf galaxy discovered by JWST
30:21 Conclusion
31:56 Bloops
Video edited by Jonny Hyman: youtube.com/@theHumanVerse
Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV
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All Comments (21)
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For some reason the button "Publish in subscription feeds and notify subscribers" was unticked when I originally uploaded this video. This can't be changed once the video has gone public, so I have reposted it here to ensure all my subscribers see it! Apologies if this video appeared twice for you. Hope you still enjoy this month's Night Sky News :)
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Thank you for your work. It’s very HARD TO FIND HONEST content that is not sensationalised. I am watching from Australia and do appreciate the inclusion of the southern hemisphere where you can. 😊👍😎THANKS.
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Thanks for featuring us, Dr. Becky! We're so excited to dig in to all of this great multiwavelength science - keep up by following our channel here😀
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What a beautiful time to be alive with all the most recent science and technological advances! 💙
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I'm glad LISA is moving forward. I also think it's fascinating that astronomers can use neutron stars as gravitational detectors.
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Congratulations on the move, Dr Becky! Love your work always! Matt, Sydney AU!
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Yay the night-sky news the longer version landed, thank you Dr Becky for this. Keep up the good work please 👍
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What a terrific show. Engaging and interesting from start to finish. TY Doc.
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LISA is good news. Hopefully someday its discoveries will move forward our understanding of the universe.
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Congrats on your upcoming move Dr. Becky, well deserved! 👍👍👏👏💖💖
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Thanks a mill. Any Juno news always cheers me up for some reason! And condolences on the mic. It had a good run.
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I prefer to think you're remaining stationary while the rest of the universe moves in order to give you a nicer house. Happy to be doing my part.
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Congratulations on the move! Looking forward to seeing the new digs in March, and hope you'll be happy (but not too happy, or we'll miss those fabulous bloopers at the end of each show). Cheers!
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Congrats on the move! Re: bloopers: "spouth" (n.) 1) a spout that always faces south (i.e., one at the north pole of a world, or one that is fixed in a south-facing orientation elsewhere); 2) the mouth of one's spouse. Coming up with definitions for accidental neologisms is something I do for fun... and yes, working on the OED is one of my dream jobs.
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Congrats on moving into a new place! I hope one of those upcoming videos is about the Kerr paper PBS SpaceTime jus5 did a video on - I’d love to get your perspective.
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Congrats on the move! Loving the channel, you're doing a great public service here. 💖
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Always phenomenal! Thanks to you and everyone who made these images possible! From Scientists to Custodians. #Grateful ❤
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Your excitement is contagious. Thats what always keeps me coming back for more NSN.
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Don't thank us! We thank you for being such an incredible resource! So entertaining, informative, topical, well researched and presented! You've worked hard and deserve all of it! Thanks!
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Congratulations Dr Becky!!!
