WOW! Incredible new JWST images of 19 galaxies | Night Sky News February 2024

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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 - https://cobs.si/comet/484/
More information on the total solar eclipse on 8th April 2024 - https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/s...
Juno images from fly-by of Io - https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/juno...
More on the PHANGS project - https://phangs.stsci.edu/
PHANGS images released to public - https://webbtelescope.org/contents/ne...
Williams et al. (2024; PHANGS JWST galaxy images and processing pipeline) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.15142.pdf
Carleton et al. (2024; JWST finds isolated “dead” dwarf galaxy) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.16028.pdf

See JWST observing schedules here - https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-ex...
Get raw images from JWST and HST from the MAST archive here - https://mast.stsci.edu/portal/Mashup/...

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:    / @thehumanverse  

Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV

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👩🏽‍💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.


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