JWST's "overmassive" galaxies problem SOLVED?! | Night Sky News September 2024

[@Torbjorn.Lindgren]

Starliner return: "No crew but no more issues with thrusters either" - Nope, one of the 12 thruster used to orient it during atmospheric re-entry failed to ignite. Which is likely a different issue but i's still "thrusters". And that's only one of the two issues Starliner encountered during the return (there was also a navigation system "glitch" when everything went blank, then came back). I think either of these would have been enough to show that NASA did the right thing in taking no risks. So Boeing and NASA has even more work to fix than they knew before they tried returning it.

[@kerianhalcon3557]

Boeing can't make an air plane stay in the air, not sure why we would trust them to get a craft into space. Does not surprise me that they have these problems.

[@NovemberIGSnow]

I think they would have made the right decision even if absolutely no issues happened with the starliner on reentry.

[@airplaneB3N]

Idk man if I were one of those astronauts, and it were up to me, I think I would have 100% hopped on that shuttle and took the risk. Bugs be damned if it gets me home, it gets me home. Rather than spend another 5 months in space.

[@Carl-Sargent]

@@airplaneB3N They were more than happy to get a longer stay in space. It’s the dream job.

[@airplaneB3N]

@@Carl-Sargent And all the health risks and complications that may come with the extended stay? I'm not so sure about that.

[@TheBunzinator]

Actually, Starliner did have a few issues during return. 1 failed thruster, and a GNC glitch.

[@csh43166]

I couldn't sleep last night, so I went out early this morning (4am-ish) and checked out Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the Pleiades with my binoculars. It was cool and quiet outside, and I love the night sky. It calmed my frustration from not being able to sleep. Astronomy can definitely ease what ails you!!! And I can't wait to see the comet!! Fingers crossed it's a great show!! Thank you, Dr. Becky!!! 🔭🌃🌠☄

[@bobblebardsley]

I know manmade satellites aren't the same as seeing planets, meteors etc, but just watching a dot of light as it crosses the sky is weirdly relaxing for me too, if I'm ever outside on a clear night I'll usually take a few minutes to look up until I see one pass over, it never takes very long anymore.

[@Lucas.boninsegna]

"that tell-tale tail... of that comet" 😂❤

[@TheBrianRaglandChannel]

🤣😂😅

[@TheBrianRaglandChannel]

.........If it was an "old wives" tale........ I guess it would be called the "that tell-tale tail-tale... of that comet" ha ha ha.

[@StSav012]

7:45

[@Lucas.boninsegna]

@@TheBrianRaglandChannelor, perhaps we could call it "Which witch with the swiss watch was wearing which wristwatch"" and then we'd be able to say "that tongue-twisting tell-tale tail track... of that comet"

[@Lucas.boninsegna]

we weren't half as fun tho 🤣

[@connix69]

I ALWAYS love how you explain things so succinctly and efficiently in both layman and professional terms. I wish I had considered astrophysics when I was young, because I love it as a 57 year old man.

[@RolandMcKenney]

"after Starliner's first *crewed* test flight" my ears heard as "after Starliner's first *crude* test flight"...

[@timwildauer5063]

Not wrong

[@GregorBarclay]

That’s the deal with homophones baby

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

I like the image "Yeah, we just whacked it up there, gave it some welly on the thrusters, fooled about a bit to see what would happen "

[@phukfone8428]

Exactly, the phrase she should have used was "manned flight"

[@dhobbit2]

Hehe bought a small telescope, picked a bright star and it turned out to be Saturn. It’s by far my favorite planet.

[@technomage6736]

I literally just had the thought of buying a cheap telescope one second before reading this. 😄

[@jimsilsby3841]

I had exactly the same experience! Saturn is soooo beautiful ❤

[@ErnestRobinson-v1f]

As usual, not to be missed! Your explanation of the flybys was beautifully illustrated and gave a real sense of how cool these maneuvers are for space navigation.

[@frankowalker4662]

I've not seen a meteor shower for many decades. The light polution is horrific round here.

[@marklacombe2671]

"Wow" signal translation. "So long and thanks for all the fish."

[@rbb9753]

I thought it was “Send more Chuck Berry”

[@Asiago9]

"It's so sad that it had to come to this, we tried to warn you but oh dear" The only good thing from the movie was that song

[@lambeausouth1]

Aliens were like hurry shut that dam thing off! The humans almost spotted us 😀

[@allanschramm8415]

Or,maybe, a more advanced civilisation than us spotted it as well? …..”Dark Forest😢”

[@Gunni1972]

All your Cryptocurrency are belong to us now, hehehe.

[@Tillersweep]

The senders of the WOW signal had their funding cut.

[@MossyMozart]

That could be.

[@joyl7842]

It's fascinating how little we understand whilst being able to look back so far into the history of the universe. Imagine a alien species looking out into the universe billions of years from now and hardly seeing anything. It will be so much more difficult for them to draw any conclusions without all that data. It makes me wonder. Do we live in the perfect moment in time to be able to look back to the beginning and if we evolved a little later, JWST wouldn't see these galaxies?

[@themcclure]

Thanks for introducing me to Planet Wild. Fell in love with the Little Owl and signed up!

[@MCsCreations]

Thanks for all the info, dr. Becky! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@big1971al]

Thanks Becky, watching your videos is so informative, keep them coming.

[@davehall8584]

Doctor Becky..yet another superb video...thank you!

[@HotelPapa100]

On that annular eclipse: The moon will be FARTHER from the earth when this eclipse happens, making it relatively smaller. The moon currently is close to its perigee at full moon, close to it's apogee at new moon, which is the phase relevant for solar eclipses.

[@theweebrt]

Hello Dr. Becky, I saw you in a documentary on Italian TV!

[@lreid1457]

Thanks for the cheery update!

[@Positively_Houston]

So glad to see your videos pop up🥳

[@Starman_67]

Thanks, Becky. Great bloopers 😂. Oh, and the episode was fantastic, too 😜

[@ferbleal1]

Thanks for the informations !

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

Yes, good info - except one thing... She said that the moon would be *closer* to earth when annular eclipse is happening, but it should be farther away.

[@CloudhoundCoUk]

No alien life is interfering with your desk today. Thank you for the video. If the weather is good, I will go out for the next few nights to observe what I can.

[@kittywampus]

i hope we have a cat in this one

[@Bassotronics]

Schrödinger’s cat?

[@jasonGamesMaster]

Apparently comets are like cats, lol. Does that count?

[@kittywampus]

@@jasonGamesMaster seems to be the case

[@craigtevis1241]

Maybe the US presidential campaign scared the cat off. 😂

[@cattoocat]

meow meows 😺

[@StanFarleyMusic]

The great philosopher Yogi Berra said it best -- "It gets late early out there"

[@fedfraud.protection.servic2557]

😂😂😂😂😂. Yogi Berra knows what's what.😂😂

[@carlstreet7095]

The Highlands would be awesome for star-gazing

[@Knowledge_Seeker64]

I came here to learn about resolving the JWST conundrum, and you provided info on that as expected. But what I didn’t expect was info on a potentially valuable resource for solving one of our scariest problems here on Earth. Thanks for sharing that

[@TheBrianRaglandChannel]

🤩I really love your videos...... just so you know. I look forward to them every month. Cheers. From Crestview, Florida. USA.....👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@drakulian7456]

Dr Becky, why didn't you mention the competing theory MOND regarding JWST's finding of too many overly massive galaxies?

[@reluginbuhl]

What about selection bias? A bigger galaxy is brighter and therefore more likely to be visible.

[@donavenmusic]

We love you, Dr. Becky! ♥️🪐✨

[@noxpunkis]

I live in central Stockholm but I have a big park right where I live where I often can see the Perseid meteor shower.

[@TCook-d3s]

Another excellent video. Thanks for posting.

[@stewartmcdowall2285]

Always informative, entertaining and mind boggling! 😮😊❤

[@craigtevis1241]

Thanks for the Babe reference at the end. That will do indeed. 😊

[@ChrisH_S]

yeaaahhh!!! My monthly astronomical pill We appreciate it, thank you very much for continuing to teach us! The best on KZbin! 🥰🥰🥰 🌃🌃

[@cattoocat]

take with a warm drink and a biscuit of your choice 😸

[@MrPhroz]

Great video as usual, by the way it probably was late 90s when I watched Contact at the movies or i'm older than I thought ;)

[@PyroRob69]

Don’t forget, both Voyagers did multiple flybys for gravity assists

[@humansustainability]

i think the 'double' thing here is the use of the moon and earth in conjunction. usually multiple GAs are only planetary during egress. in other words, a subtle indication of better maths and faster computers with better software.

[@Pistolsatsean]

@@humansustainability First consecutive double flyby perhaps?

[@PyroRob69]

@@Pistolsatsean They are all consecutive when you do one right after the other :) Voyagers also were assisted out of the planetary plane.

[@PhysicsNative]

Great show, as always. Such a wonderful communicator!!!

[@ShannonWare]

Night Sky New is the best!

[@timeads2036]

"Juice eye view of the moon" HAHAHAHA! Nice!

[@ColConway-xe9yj]

Hi Becky. Any chance of showing what stars/planets for the southern hemisphere? I’m in Aussie. Thanks mate. Col

[@johnmann6866]

My! Approaching late youth I still remember the impossibility of the 3-body problem. Nice to see that navigating the solar system is becoming routine. Kudos to the ESA Flight planners.

[@StevenStyczinski-sy8cj]

It never ceases to amaze me how many people forgot or failed to learn grade school biology about how the human eyes adjust to the dark. I remember being taught that at least 5 different times going through grade school. Your iris adjusting and that chemical your body produces to make seeing in low light conditions better. Did they stop teaching that in school or what?? Repetition for emphasis is my best solution that I can think of. The stars have their own light. Flood lights in your yard don’t help. As several well-meaning friends tried to do. We can try.

[@yomogami4561]

thanks for the news dr becky i love to watch daytime full moons like i saw this morning in usa like you like the toenail moon :)

[@TheoneandonlyRAH]

omg i remember dr becky from sixty symbols....i'm so olddd!! i had no idea she had her own channel now. subscribed

[@carlvanmeeteren1760]

Big bang theorie is missing 95 percent of the parameters in the model (dark matter / dark energy). It surprises me that so many scientists are happy to explain that they might have missed something. They are not missing something, they are missing out on a lot.

[@cjjones1556]

I wonder if every time you hear os say "spectra", the whole spectra explanation plays in your head. Love your stuff Dr. B. Thanks for all your hard work with these videos.

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

She often calls the spectra the 'rainbow', but that's not a good description, since we can only see the visible light in a rainbow, but a spectrograph detects much more than visible light, such as infrared, etc, etc.

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

Cloudy tonight

[@grindsession24]

So the most distant galaxies aren't more mature than we predicted they're just brighter... Due to black holes. Suggesting that our previous predictions hadn't taken into consideration the existence of black holes. That is a curious way to say that we still don't know what's going on with those earliest galaxies but... we're pretty sure the problem is somewhere in our math.

[@alid-o1g]

Thanks for the clarification

[@williamschlosser]

By "math", do you mean our supposed "best model of the universe"?

[@XGD5layer]

I'm pretty sure that Dr Becky has mentioned in the many Crisis in Cosmology explanations that we haven't been sure of the composition of galaxies that aren't immediately near us. The JWST will give us more data points, but for now we can only assume

[@petersage5157]

"Comets are like..." what the s***?! That has to be the best joke I've heard this year.

[@stephenwatts7734]

One nice thing here in Australia is we get a great view of mercury. And I mean it is really impressive . Amazing

[@MetalMalc]

My wife's late parents used to live, in an isolated village, with a really dark sky. A new family moved in, to the village of ten houses, and got the local council to put street lighting in (so that when their guests, who had to park their cars on the single lane village road, didn't step in puddles).

[@d.t.4523]

Thank you, keep working.

[@whoff59]

One hour ago I saw a bright star below Auriga, and now from this I know it was Jupiter 😊

[@GhostFlashDrew]

have you ever thought to try to a segment on met office channel & chat about space news/space weather. Dr.Tamitha Skov is a great space weather channel.

[@davidknight3249]

The bloopers cracked me up.

[@Galahad54]

Your tell-tale tail made me remember two songs, Edgar Allen Poe's famous 'Telly Talley Heart', and a song from Texas around 1968 about the first artificial heart 'Achey DeBakey Heart'. I hope you don't find this song a bit heartless, like the Wilson sisters did, Thunderthud said it was 'dead on a rival', Lennon-McCartney told me it had no beat, we had a bit of a skiffle over that.

[@Evan-us7fz]

Where is link for where to look for the comet tsuchshan depending on location? Please?

[@ljfinger]

Starliner did have a new thruster issue during EDL.

[@jojojojo2529]

Thank You, Dr. Becky

[@richiebricker]

Of coarse the early universe can grow giant galaxies right at the start. There is so much more material close to them to gather. Much the same as its easier to find a mate in a highrise apartment complex than in your mansion. Youre not gonna find a mate in your mansion cause there aint nobody there while there are thousands of people in an apartment complex. With galaxies, The bigger you are, the more stuff your going to collect. It all seems so perfectly simple to me

[@YULspotter]

Another cool video Dr. Becky. Considering the content of the Bloopers section, I was waiting for you to say that space was hard but words are harder 😊

[@MrBroberds]

Isn't a solar eclipse annular when the Moon is FARTHER from the Earth?

[@Ronald5Dii]

My thought too. Apogee I would say indeed.

[@bimblinghill]

Yeah I think that was a little flub

[@andreasluthi9182]

Yes, she probably misspoke. But it makes sense that we have an annular eclipse and a super moon two weeks apart, as the super-full-moon has to occur when the moon is closest to earth, so the new moon two weeks later has to occur when it is farthest from earth. And as solar eclipses only happen on a new moon it will be annular under these circumstances.

[@jamiepearson532]

Yeh, Becky must have misspoke. At first I thought "No, the supermoon and the annular eclipse must be 3 weeks apart, because if the moon's orbit is an oval then opposite ends of the orbit (2 weeks apart) should both be distant from earth. But you're right, the supermoon is 2 weeks after. For those wondering, google just confirmed it's because Earth isn't at the centre of the oval, it's over at one end, so there is a single near point and a single far point per orbit.

[@timothylocke6242]

What she said is correct and what you're saying is correct... the new moon 🌚 happens when the moon and sun are on the same side of the earth... the annular eclipse happens when the new moon's penumbra crosses the earth. 2 weeks later, the moon will be full, the distance from the earth will be close, so it'll be a super moon...

[@barry8642]

WOW they're going to let us know more about it now🎉

[@bobblebardsley]

Strictly speaking, the day and night are equal length not on the equinox, but on the equilux, which is a few days later (or earlier, in the spring). That's because the Sun's leading edge (at sunrise) or trailing edge (at sunset) is above the horizon for longer than the centre of the Sun. There are also some refraction effects due to Earth's atmosphere. All of this means on the equinox, the daytime is about 12 hours and 10 minutes long. There's also an interesting effect in December where although December 21st is the 'shortest day', for me in Manchester the earliest sunset is 15:49 on December 9th-17th and by December 21st, sunset is at 15:51. The day is only getting shorter during (some of) that time because sunrise continues to get later by up to a minute more than sunset. I'm not actually sure of the reason why that is the case but it makes me happy on December 9th knowing I've already reached the earliest sunset, as darker evenings affect my mood much more than darker mornings do. (I can't claim to be a scientist since dropping out of a Physics with Astronomy degree in semester 4, so some or all of the above may be wrong, I've been as accurate as possible!)

[@Scott619B]

Dear Dr. Becky: Longer nights good thing; unfortunately, in some places (like the NW US) this also means more nights with total overcast...

[@rogercoziol3027]

Increase in efficiency of star formation, this means galaxies form faster at high z. Implies also that galaxies grow faster than their SMBH. This is consistent with what we found in QSOs: Cutiva-Alvarez et al. 2023, MNRAS, 521, 3058.

[@sweetbb125]

Thank you for the videos. Why do you always publish the Night Sky News towards the end of the month and not in the beginning of the month?

[@mikehenderson3575]

I drive a truck at night so I've been lucky to see many meteor showers. I've also seen two meteor explode in the sky. One in northern Idaho was so bright is lite the whole sky up.

[@Ariane-qq9co]

I read somewhere that the systems set up to track objects that enter the areas between us and the moon put out an automatic alert saying an unknown metallic object was passing through the area at high speed. After a few moments of concern they realised it was there own JUICE space probe 😊

[@neoanderson7]

I always enjoy these segments. ❤️👏🏻

[@brianrussell463]

2:28 so I just had a thought about Crescent moon phases each cycle. The going from a New Moon to a Full Moon and back to a New Moon again would make to Crescent Moons or Toe Nail Moons each cycle. The first after the New Moon would be the Waxing Crescent Moon or the Right Toe Nail Moon(as the "toe nail" would be on the right side of the moon) or the Waning Crescent Moon or the Left Toe Nail Moon (as the "toe nail" would be on the left side of the moon). Dr. Becky, Which would be your favorite one of the two the right or left Toe Nail Moon and do you like my idea?

[@Novaaaa04]

hello dr becky, may i ask a good application to use for finding out exact times certain stars/planets will be at certain points in the sky, i live in the UK but the area is covered in housing so unfortunatly i can only observe things that are quite high in the sky

[@scottdorfler2551]

So the signal that looks like a hydrogen cloud is a hydrogen cloud. WOW!!!

[@akashmihir84]

Wow signal also featured in the new Netflix series 3 Body Problem.

[@MossyMozart]

Actually, it was a compressed copy of _To Serve Man,_ the galactically famous cookbook.

[@CD_Character]

Good self-catch on the "vernal equinox". Still, nowhere as bad as when someone called it the "vertical equinox" !!

[@wintermath3173]

Can you do a follow-up about the Chandra X Ray observatory? Was its funding restored?

[@evanp695]

from argentina, and it IS the vernal equinox here!

[@Onestringpuppet]

Hi, i have enjoyed a lot of your content, thanks for the uploads. Unrelated to this video though, i decided to check out your website and on the first line of the research section there is a simple spelling error. The word fellow, you have spelled felllow and it stood out to me right away. Just letting you know in case you hadn't realised 😊. Best of luck 👍

[@PeterBurton50]

Hello Dr. Becky, I have a question which I wonder if you may devote some time to in a future episode which, by the way, I always watch with interest. During the formation of the solar system, the Earth and Mars probably had very similar axial inclinations and rotation periods having been formed near each other from the same protoplanetary disk. Then (it’s assumed) a Mars-sized body collided with the Earth - the aftermath forming the Moon. Why is it then that, after this catastrophic event, the Earth still has an inclination within 1.5 degrees and a rotation period within 37 minutes compared with Mars? Does this then cast serious doubt on the above scenario?

[@EliasMheart]

Hi Dr. Becky, just wanted to ask: Where's the nova in the Corona Borealis constellation at?^^ Wasn't it supposed to be here by autumn? Did I miss it, or is the star just not as punctual as expected? :P Have a good one (:

[@paulalexandredumasseauvan2357]

your content is EXCELLENT AS USUAL ...HOWEVER(!)... your background "set" IS KILLER! you are now THE HOLLYWOOD VERSION (vision?) of what an astrophysicist's home-office looks like! 👍☺

[@flabreque]

Unfortunately she didn’t obey the KZbinr rule and the shelf is not a KALAX from IKEA.

[@nocturnus009]

03:03 BA DEE YAA, Say that you’ll Remember, Ba Dee YAA, Dancing in September, NEVER WAS A CLOUDY DAY!!!!

[@tehlaser]

Starliner crew: “Us? Stay in space? For many weeks? Well, I guess if we HAVE to _pleasedon’tfixitpleasedon’tfixitpleasedon’tfixit_ gotta be safe and all _pleasedon’tfixit_ we’ll make do.”

[@bzgraphicartist]

Can anyone recommend a good set of binoculars for star gazing?

[@kayinoue2497]

I am IN IT for additional spectra of those early, massive galaxies. Whatever clues about early star formation we can get, I gobble it up. Also, what do we have to do to get a video with you only speaking with a Geordie accent? HAHA.

[@barry8642]

Sweet it's a great time for looking up

[@Oldw00d]

no mention of the temporary moon can you cover this I would love to know if it will be visible by eye in the UK and how/when to see it :D please :D

[@BruceKoerner]

It would have been nice to explain why a super moon and an annular eclipse go together. Because one requires the moon to be larger (closer), the other requires the moon to be smaller (farther). The answer is the moon's eliptical orbit is eccentric. They are the perigee and apogee of the same orbit.

[@Ariane-qq9co]

Where is the link for comet timings? X

[@adamc1966]

Where are the links for the comet??😢

[@simeonwildman788]

Am I missing the link for the comet's best viewing conditions in my area? I see the eclipse (not going to enjoy it here), but I would love to see the comet!

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

This may be a stupid question... In the early universe, the average density of space would have been higher- more matter per cubic whatever. So would that mean it was actually easier for really massive, luminous stars to form, as soon as it was cool enough for hydrogen to exist?

[@SpaceCadet4Jesus]

From an amateur point of view, seems reasonable.

[@lucashouse9117]

Did I miss the nova or has that not happened yet? I thought it was soon but I haven't seen anything about it for awhile.

[@tonyhull9427]

Have you discussed Palomar 5 on your channel before? I read there are several black holes in this stream of stars.

[@annrobinette]

Love your videos so much !!! Seriously you make astrophysics so interesting!! Matt from PBS space time is awesome also but he gets really technical and some people who aren’t physics savvy might not understand ! But I still love his channel !

[@BillTheCat47]

As always, a most informative video! However, I've grown quite fond of the OUT TAKES 💯😹😹😹😹 I truly admire the whole... self-deprecating nature of your presentation, sooooooo endearing! 💯🙏👍✌️🤟🤙♥️😸

[@WEPayne]

No cat but marvellous content as always :)

[@danielavery1272]

When are we going to see the nova? I was promised a nova this summer. Summer only has a few days left, and so far I've been very disappointed.