T Coronae Borealis is about to go nova! Here's why and how to spot it | Night Sky News April 2024
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Astronomers without borders eclipse glasses donation: astronomerswithoutborders.org/programs/solar-glass…
Eclipse glasses USA donation program: eclipse23.com/
Annular eclipse map 2nd October 2025: www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2024-october-2
AAVSO announcement of T Coronae Borealis pre-eruption dip: www.aavso.org/news/t-crb-pre-eruption-dip
JWST proposal 4607 to observe T CrB nova: www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-public/4607.pdf
Seminar by Dr Brad Schaefer from LSU on T CrB and observations you can do to help: • Special webinar: "Recurrent Nova T Cr...
Save Chandra campaign: www.savechandra.org/act/
Popinchalk et al. (2024; which species has seen the most total solar eclipses) - arxiv.org/pdf/2403.20175.pdf
Walker et al. (2024; multi-wavelength astrology) - arxiv.org/pdf/2403.19749.pdf
Gammal et al. (2024; solving the crisis in cosmology by varying the value of pi) - arxiv.org/pdf/2403.20219.pdf
Wilkins, Newman & Roper (2024; FOOD redshift epoch system) - arxiv.org/pdf/2403.20144.pdf
Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2024a; polarisation of the ring) - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2df…
Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2024b; physical interpretation) - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2df…
My previous video explaining the M87* black hole image - • 5 Reasons Why Astrophysicists Care Ab...
My previous video explaining the M87* polarised black hole image - • A FIFTH force of physics?! And a new ...
My previous video explaining the Sag A* Milky Way black hole image - • The new BLACK HOLE image explained by...
00:00 Intro
00:50 The Eclipse!
01:55 Lyrids, meh
02:50 Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower
04:34 Losing Jupiter
05:32 Mars + Saturn
05:59 Toenail Moon + Mars + Saturn!
08:09 New star in the Night Sky (T Corona Borealis)
16:06 Save Chandra!
18:09 April Fools Astrophysics Papers
21:14 Black Hole Croissant - EHT sees Sag A* in polarised light
26:43 Conclusion
27:01 Bloopers
Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV
Video edited by Jonny Hyman
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コメント (21)
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If you're having issues with the sound on this video with your speaker set up, turn off your bass speaker. It sounds fine on a laptop or phone. In the meantime, through trial & error I'll try to figure out if its my new shotgun mic, the not yet fully furnished office/studio space with more echo than I'd like, or something in the edit that caused the issue for those of you with more sophisticated audio set ups.
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Better Help is extremely problematic with serious privacy, ethics, and quality of care concerns. I really wish you would consider looking for other sponsors.
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It's cool that you compare Chandra's budget to an F-16 because the F-16 was specifically designed to be *cheap*. So that really highlights how budgetarily unimpactful Chandra is. I'm a US citizen, so I feel morally obligated to Get Noisy here.
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Adding my voice to those urging you to reconsider accepting sponsorship from Better Help. People need good, qualified, available mental health, especially here in the UK, not the Uber of counselling that will sell their very private and sensitive data to all and sundry.
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But you can help save the Chandra telescope. I with bet that a bunch of people here in the USA (me included) didn't even know we could help save it. Your videos spread the word and mobilizes people who can work to make a difference. TY!
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I signed the petition and wrote to my reps. It took 1 min of my time by following the link in the description. Hope you all in the US did too. And thank you Dr. Becky for bringing this issue to my attention :)
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As the NASA Adminstrator told the US Congress yesterday, the NASA budget for the Science Division has been cut by about $2.7 billion dollars for the US Government years 2024 and 2025, so they have hard choices to make. People resident in the USA contacting their members of Congress can make a difference as Congress makes the final decisions on the budget.
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I know Betterhelp pays the bills, but you really should drop it.
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An eclipse gives us the rare toenail sun
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The problem I see with better help, and with mental health care in general is that the people who need it the most are the least likely to have the insurance or money to afford it. And the “free” healthcare system is atrocious. Most mental illness CANNOT be treated properly in just a few sessions.
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Better Help is terrible with patient data. Not the best company
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Please everyone don't use better help, the service is just awful and there are serious confidentially concerns. I'm quite surprised a channel like this is pushing it, most unethical as the minimum research will show you how bad it is.
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Thanks for heads up on the Chandra telescope. I will send my Representatives and Senators a note (they often hear from me about other things [Ukraine], so this should be a change for them).
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Thank you for considering us in the Southern Hemisphere. I know there isn’t a lot of us , but even our own news sources often don’t take into consideration our position. And often even report on celestial events that we cannot even observe.
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Please reconsider your partnership with better help, they are a predatory organization that has taken the commercialization of people's anxieties and mental health struggles to an unprecedented and unethical level. I am afraid that I will have to rescind my subscription and support for your content if you choose to keep them as a sponsor.
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jsyk better help is. not a great company. as in, sharing patient records and not vetting their "therapists" properly. theres a looot of stories if you care to go searching for them and i recommend you do since a lot of ppl arent thrilled that they keep popping up in your videos
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"BBC asking for an interview but I said, "no."" Huh? What's the backstory on that little bomb?
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I was involved with the Internet Engineering Task Force for something like 13 years. We had a tradition of issuing an April 1st "RFC" (which is what the standards documents are called). There have been several amusing ones over the years. My fave was done by my then IETF colleague, Steven Bellovin on the "Evil Bit".
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Having a scientific paper recognising that dinner=midday meal and tea=late afternoon meal is the most validated I've ever felt.
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My suggestion for the names of cosmic epochs: z>15 Preparation Dinner 10
