Bizarre Green Galaxy Found, But Green Stars Are Impossible Though?

[@_anubias_]

Interestingly, in the Romanian language, there exist a very old saying when someone hits his head very hard. The saying goes something along seeing green stars ("He hit his head so hard, he started seeing green stars", or like a threat "I'm going to punch you until you see green stars", etc.)

[@eafesaf6934]

That's an strangle odd way of phrasing... Sometimes I wonder if ancient slang and languages just sub consciously filtered through to our time and place in society, blending in in plain sight but the deeper meaning was lost to the ages past..

[@nightshadegatito]

Interesting how humans can intuit something as a group and unconsciously… green being one of the colors not seen in stars among other colors not seen by the naked eye, yet the old saying says “green” which is accurate to the science.

[@motodude23]

​@@nightshadegatito maybe it's the stars you see when you hit your head or your about to pass out, not in the sky

[@BloodHarzard]

​@@motodude23you don't see stars when you hit your head, lol

[@itisinickt]

@@BloodHarzard humans do see stars when passing out or hit their head. if you arent a human...

[@Makinnoz13]

Finally, plant based galaxy

[@thehellyousay]

[@seanhewitt603]

I think it could be mold.

[@Timbo6669]

@@seanhewitt603which is fine if it’s green mould. Black mold might make me think black sun but oh well.

[@dna3930]

Wishing it was living in a carnivore universe!😅😅😅

[@GentleReader01]

For when Galactus goes vegan.

[@graemerigg4029]

🎵 It's not easy being green 🎵🐸

[@theophrastus3.056]

LOL!

[@Chill_Mode_JD]

“Oh Kermie” 🐷

[@leonmusk1040]

@@Chill_Mode_JD think it fits prof green better

[@Arhius]

Grunt from Warcraft 3 😁

[@vasil3089]

move then

[@brunokopte1347]

We found Nurgle's Garden. Nobody tell Chris. PS: thank you for your coverage of scientic news, Anton. Much appreciated.

[@Deletirium]

C'mon, do a heresy. Just a little heresy.

[@sadwingsraging3044]

Inquisitor! We need an Inquisitor here!😑

[@SirCharles12357]

Thumbs up for Warhammer Total War reference!

[@worldlinezero4783]

Somebody call the Emperor, I hear he's somewhere in the Himalayas right now

[@mtpender69]

"We have arrived and it is now that we preform our charge..."

[@scottstreet5796]

A Green galaxy? Repeat after me: "In brightest day, in [OOPS!blackest] DARKEST night..."

[@13tapioca]

They found the green lantern sector wooooo

[@jamesartmeier3192]

… no evil shall escape my sight.

[@lizafrench8455]

​@@jamesartmeier3192Let those who worship evil's might, beware my power, Green Lantern's light".

[@DarrylConliffe]

My first thought!

[@NN-Nathan]

Oa my goodness,, that's a turn up for the books, 😂

[@Bohr2um]

Took us so long to discover this galaxy, it started molding

[@cocolove9916]

Lmaooo 😂😂😂😂

[@wishgodgirl1903]

Love you Anton, you ARE a wonderful person. Thank you for all you do!

[@butters4596]

Hello wonderful Anton, person here. Thank you for your continued effort to bring us this information.

[@inthefade]

In a science fiction novel by Greg Egan (I think Quarantine?) humans have observed green galaxies presumed to be taken over by self-replicating machines... It is just a passing mention in one paragraph iirc, but I like the idea.

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

I like "Dyson Spheres" myself. There's a huge region in space that's basically "empty" but shouldn't be. I like to think some voracious species is devouring stars in an ever expanding bid for intergalactic conquest. Nomadic and rapacious creatures that may even be more fear inducing than we are.

[@SBImNotWritingMyNameHere]

Dreams of cosmic neighbours...

[@MrM1729]

Alastair Reynolds?

[@Toraih-YT]

I think of Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space (the green plaque)

[@lqr824]

@@Toraih-YT "Greenfly"

[@l.mcmanus3983]

You mentioned Galaxy Zoo and then a 20 year timeline and I had a jarring moment where I realized it really has been that long since Galaxy Zoo started. And I feel old because I remember when it had just started and what a neat and innovative idea it was.

[@folee_edge]

It's Father's Day in the United States - happy Father's Day to you, Anton.

[@Hykje]

Those galaxies simply don't know that it's impossible.

[@jimcurtis9052]

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you 🙃👍😎

[@Hedron-Design]

First time I heard of green stars or Galaxies. Fascinating to me, thank you good sir. I hope we do more studies on these galaxies. I would love to learn more.

[@orangeaedan]

9:03 I like how he said voorwerp which means object. It is literally named object

[@annapierce8666]

Looking forward to what the JWST will uncover when observing these rare bean galaxies

[@eleanorchapple8772]

Every day something unusual amazing different-every day! The universe is full of unique mysterious fabulous and incredible ginormous objects and our sweet Anton lands them on our screen in vivid graphics, photos charts and tables. Thank you Anton

[@ronin47-ThorstenFrank]

Oh, a glimpse of the future, Alistair Reynold´s Greenfly has gone rampant.

[@SpikeMoby]

My first thought as well 😂

[@DDawnIII]

Love your very well informed videos There is so many things outthere

[@derrickross2761]

Back in the early 2000s I was part of the Galaxy zoo project. We called those green pea galaxies at the time. They were definitely interesting to look at

[@johnmiller2689]

Green ionized oxygen. Now, why so much oxygen?

[@johnmiller2689]

Just got to Anton's confirmation. Just what I thought, ionized oxygen.

[@Johnny_Appleweed]

Oxygen is very common in the universe.

[@johnh539]

yes that is pretty for down the metallicity ladder, it really does remind you how diverse space is.

[@A1-ultra]

@@johnh539 Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe. Only Hydrogen and Helium are more abundant. So not very surprising to have lots of it hanging about.

[@Lund.J]

Copper(II), Cu(ll), non-halide, emits green light in flame test.

[@yomogami4561]

thanks for the information anton fascinating as always

[@dogprowilhelm7630]

Galactic evolution from green peas to green beens and macro scalar fermi bubble echoes from the past. Great video Anton❤

[@ralphmourik]

As a Dutch guy, hearing Anton say Voorwerp is kind of funny 😋 it is the Dutch word for object, fyi 👍

[@MrM1729]

Sounds like the Greenfly terraforming machines written about by Alastair Reynolds!

[@moondogaudiojones1146]

Excellent. That kinda spices up space a little more. Amazing

[@PaulTanner-pc1nj]

The Borg find your lack of faith in the green disturbing.

[@Terran.Marine.2]

Way to go for the lore combo move!

[@garyobrian3597]

Locutus of Borg approves of this message

[@bsodcat]

I immediately thought when I saw the green galaxy that it was a blue shifted galaxy comprised of yellow white stars, which means that galaxy is very angry at us and it’s coming at us at a very high speed XD

[@bjornfeuerbacher5514]

When yellow white stars are blueshifted, you don't see green stars. This is not light mixing of colors, where yellow and blue gives green.

[@jemborg]

Thank you Anton for reminding me that I am part of something that is both humbling and exalting at the same time.

[@lyleswanson7557]

Maybe these green galaxies aren't ripe yet.🤷

[@AllknowingUnknown]

BANANA 🍌

[@uneartheros]

Dad?

[@samuelluc132]

Agreed. Let's not try to eat them, just as a safety precaution.

[@DomingosCJM]

(6:55) "the light from the center black hole", doesn't it sounds inconsistent here? Black holes where supposed to hold entire galaxies by gravity that would absorb light also, now they emit light... To be kind with Anton I would try to correct it as: 'light from the dark matter halo that surround the black hole'...

[@Tim_Nightman]

In a universe full of hate and missinformation Anton is a little light of reality that shines back on us no matter the color😊💚. To quote a famous movie: "How green where we? ohhhh soooo green!!(the fifth Element)"

[@brunom72]

Hi Anton You're haircut looks great !!!

[@jasonpatterson8091]

It's not so much that stars produce a mixture of light colors and so they're never green. If that were the case then all but the very coldest and very hottest stars would be white. It has to do with how we see color. Even though a star whose spectrum peaks in the green light should be green, all of our cones are roughly equally stimulated, so we see white. We've evolved for that to be true - the source of almost all naturally occurring light on Earth should be neutral in color.

[@Chill_Mode_JD]

@4:11 That little boat looks like it’s having a good time 😂

[@annsidbrant7616]

Very interesting. I kept thinking about Hanny's Voorwerp the whole time.

[@jeffmccloud905]

It's caused by the Fifth Element. Super Green

[@Canard712]

Green Lantern's source of power.

[@nowster]

Not Soylent Green?

[@Chill_Mode_JD]

Multi pass

[@m4rvinmartian]

@@Chill_Mode_JD You didn't even try bro. Moooolti-passs

[@CoolBreezeHeals]

Big Baada Boom

[@FlavioSantos-uw1mr]

Considering how abundant hydrogen is, there is a lot of potential water around this galaxy

[@davids7009]

When I think about how beautiful auroras are I can't imagine an entire galaxy lit up with this kind of green glowing light. The view must be spectacular!

[@felixar90]

Is the green after compensating for the redshift, or how they actually appear?

[@arctic_haze]

If not for the easily recognizable green oxygen emission line, we would not know those galaxies are different. I believe there is a variety of galaxies which we do not discriminate only because they are not interestingly colored.

[@etahhcumosevahi]

It’s interesting how galaxies and planets are so specifically one particular type. You’d think the distribution of elements would be mixed somewhat evenly across space creating all very similar planets and galaxies.

[@LordDustinDeWynd]

Howdy from Temple, Texas!

[@comrade_marshal]

It is just like observing a state having statistically extremely low probability. Among the hundreds of billions of galaxies, we see a handful of these exotic galaxies

[@canonwright8397]

If one listens real close, on a dark, dark night, one can almost hear these green giant galaxies say... Ho, ho, ho. Green Gient.

[@josephpaulduffey873]

Great video, Anton!

[@VulpisFoxfire]

...Is it possible to have blue and yellow stars close enough together that the distance we're viewing them at causes them to blur together and end up green?

[@bobwaite6630]

My first thought too. They look through so broad a light spectrum in these fields, I dont even know if we’re talking the same green lol. Why wouldnt transiting stars combine to green???

[@jackvos8047]

No because light is additive colour mixing, not subtractive like paint. Yellow is a secondary colour in additive mixing being a mixture of red and green. This means a yellow and blue star close enough together will blur into white as the all primary additive colours mixed results in white.

[@robertnewhart3547]

Ahh, the Ziploc theorem.

[@tatersquad2000]

​@jackvos8047 if true how does rgb light combine to make other colors instead of just making white?

[@bjornfeuerbacher5514]

Color mixing is possible for individual stars, but not for whole galaxies. Additionally, that doesn't explain the measured oxygen emissions.

[@BWBDCan]

They started calling them "green beans" as they were tired of saying " have you seen the green pee I discovered?"

[@bowerbird5808]

Flashback to E.E. “Doc” Smith’s classic “skylark” series.

[@Unknown17]

Soylent Green is made out of people!

[@zoik2420]

Anton you are the best. Thank you

[@yvonnemiezis5199]

Fascinating, very entertaining, thanks👍😊

[@margretminer8589]

What awesome photos!

[@Mikey-mike]

Thank you, wonderful Anton.

[@m.pearce3273]

I love oddball galaxies especially Green ones🐲🔥

[@immunitycorrupts3641]

Green is my Fav color.

Clearly that is the Mario Galaxy 2. It contains almost as many green stars as yellow stars and comets combined!

[@terri241]

Leprechaun Galaxies! Love it!

[@JJ-fr2ki]

A good explanation should explain the rarity too. Life is low frequency and should be considered. Was there excess IR? Evidence of H20? If not, I think giant plant hypothesis can be dismissed.

[@itsmebatman]

There are things that seem weird but make total sense when you think about them a few moments. Just like there are no green stars there are also no animals with green fur. There many with green feathers or green skin, so it sounds surprising when you hear about the no green fur thing.

[@tesseract_1982]

Depends. Blue colors on animals tend to be caused by structural colors, not pigments, because blue is ... kinda rare, hard to make... The green color of plants of course is from chlorophyll, which has a function for them. Green feathers are caused by a mix of blue structural color and yellow pigment, not green pigment. Feathers and hairs, as well as scales, consist of the same material. So why no green fur? (If the algae-filled fur of slots doesn't count... 😉 ) I think the micro structures crammed onto a hair's surface would not work or disable the hairs' functions, make them stick together perhaps... Speculation though. I think there just wasn't the evolutionary pressure, due to nocturnal early mammals for example, and sometimes evolution just faces too much of a "hurdle" that is not overcome, or brown was just more protective for them... Green colors of reptiles, amphibians, and birds are caused by a combination of yellow pigment and blue structural color. There are pet breeds that "separated" these factors, leading to only one of them being present. AFAIK there is only one butterfly that has patches of blue caused by a pigment and not structural color. And a few mammals, primates, do have blue patches of skin, all caused by structural colors.

[@davidpowell3347]

What about the sloth with green algae growing on its fur ?

[@Unknown17]

What do you mean, "No green fur"? Have you opened the Tupperware in the back of my fridge?

[@tesseract_1982]

@@davidpowell3347 I just mentioned that in the comment above.

[@Zookeeper.]

Dude, those galaxies crave electrolytes 😜

[@deathbydeviceable]

It's what space craves

[@sssssnake222]

S***, I thought there was two of you

[@the80hdgaming]

18 seconds... A new personal best...

[@ossiec513]

Happy for you my friend…. Happy for you ………….

[@bobo-cc1xw]

A game for true artists. You need to push yourself to stare at the screen and get macros for text

[@robertnewhart3547]

This is mindcraft, right? We're talking about mindcraft?

[@RustyStringz]

Plus, yellow and blue light, which are combined to make green, aren't next to each other in the (human) visible color spectrum. Yellow - green (our sun's native light) or blue - red (purple or UV) is possible, but not yellow-blue. 🌟😎🌞

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

Could be a lot of strange radiation as well :)

[@CoffeeFiend1]

Reminds me of GGG's from old school Elite Dangerous.

[@janes-e378]

At the moment,ours doesnt seem to make much sense lol...love yr content anton keep up all yr work..

[@steveclark2205]

A galaxy made of the purest Green 💚

[@davidh.4944]

Except it's more of a splat...

[@SacredOwl]

My guess was oxygen.

[@crowverra5343]

Ive done theoreticals and it could be light refraction or burning high amounts of copper, barium, boron, ect they stars arent green but they have suspended green burning elements in the stars atmosphere or in the hot parts of space.

[@-Pol-]

"Voorwerp" is such a more exciting word than "Object"

[@MrLoonzy]

what about the green flash from our sun sometimes when it's setting you can fire lots of shots and maybe capture it which i have done once, but i've seen it with the naked eye once, but there are some amazing examples of it from pro photographers??

[@phaedrussocrates7636]

Thank you

[@dandaisuki9224]

Thats the Gateway Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy

[@kgw100]

Could be red shifted down to green. Or a medium of gas or something around it the light passes through

[@eliyahurahimi]

"We are the BORG you will be assimilated, resistance is futile"

[@willverschneider1102]

When enormous cosmic beings roam the universe on St. Patrick's Day, be relieved that some galaxies won't be pinched. 🍀🍀🍀🍀

[@charlesrhodes1089]

Someone picked the synthesis option in those galaxies

[@lizafrench8455]

Copper/brass burns green right?

[@ReformedGoldBug]

Nice to see astronomers giving peas a chance

[@marnig9185]

It's good that green bean Galaxys are so rare,i like my oxegen well pared❤

[@kathyb2562]

Hi Anton. My most Wonderful Person!!🤗💌

[@Dloin]

Anton is about to be chosen for the Green Lantern corp 😂

[@jestergodfield690]

Are they in a state of temperature change? Getting hotter and visibly going from red to blu as a result?

[@jestergodfield690]

(UPDATE) oh. 😑

[@larkljc]

It used to be yellow. Like this☀️

[@gmotionedc5412]

That grin🤭😄😆🤣

[@billionsandbillionsofstars]

So freaking cool!⭐️

[@EJ_D._Kidd]

Would be crazy if we live in one of these galaxies that would look green from afar and somehow its a key to the formation of organic chemicals

[@thomasgeorgecastleberry6918]

Do little Green Men come from Green Galaxy's? No Green Stars? Maybe the astronomer stuck a green light filter on the eyepiece of his telescope.

[@truthert]

Our star is actually in the green color range, not the yellow, it's just the amount of red and blue light making it seem yellow.

[@petercole4573]

They seem to be far away which means there must be some red shifting going on. If something is blue then red shift will turn it green, yellow, orange, and finally red. Why wasn't that discussed?

[@christopherleubner6633]

Doppler shift. Either red shifted moving away to the green or more likely blue shifted from yellow starlight being shifted to the green. ❤

[@davidhoward4715]

No.

[@steveclark2205]

A galaxy that glows in the Dark😊

[@frasermcneil-watson2058]

what is the motion of one of these with respect to us - ie is there a red (or blue ) shift involved?

[@kubhlaikhan2015]

Two questions. Are the galaxies emitting green light also emitting high levels of the X-rays that supposedly cause it? and Are the levels of X-ray emissions so high that it would make life highly unlikely anywhere in those galaxies?

[@drsatan3231]

X-rays are on the invisible spectrum and do not cause green light

[@lenseay7645]

Is there any commonalities between these objects in terms of their positions relative to the billion LY wide bubbles youve been discussing of late? Such as all near the center or at the edges of the bubbles? 🤔

[@josephdoiron8376]

Tommyknocker Galaxy! Hope they don't come knocking this way!

[@641McBuddy]

I always knew that there could been a green galaxy, just like I believed there could be a green star. They might've found one. I just been a believer in the red blue green spectrum of light that I believed green was also possible.

[@distainedrogue536]

This is why I support this man on Patreon and you should too. Nice work.

[@LogicStandsBeforeGod]

Jwst is failure because all mirrors do not function like one mirror but rather all mirrors produce the same image and then each image is stacked on top of other to produce one image, so the size of that one image is equivalent to the size of one mirror and one mirror is 4.3 feet. All mirrors do not produce one image to size of 6.5 meters but just 4.3 feet focal point. Anyone has any input share it please.

[@stargazer5784]

Sure, I've got some input. You need to deeply study the science of optics. You're making yourself sound pretty silly (I'm trying to be kind when I say that) to those of us who build and use reflecting telescopes. If you think that you really understand reflectors, then why doesn't the secondary create a blank spot in the center of the image? No cheating and looking it up before you answer.

[@DanijelTurina973]

I wouldn't think too much into it. Probably redshifted from UV or something.

[@DarenMiller-qj7bu]

Mean Joe Greene eats mean green beans in mean Joe Greene bean jeans.

[@robertnewhart3547]

Down by the sea shore.