JWST spots most distant MERGER of two supermassive black holes | Night Sky News May 2024

[@spddiesel]

Dr. Becks: "you gotta get up around 3 AM." My bladder: "I got this..."

[@Nick-Lab]

I think a deep dive into how a sun spot triggers a solar flare would be an awesome video.

[@maconcamp472]

The Big Bang Theory!! 🐘 🐾 🥁 Each thought represents a bang❗️Higher vibrational thoughts 🐝🐝🐝 will create bigger bangs‼️ Pebbles And Bam Bam!! 🧊 🦕 🧊 🦖 🧊 🦣 🧊 Each grain of sand or pebble, a building block for planets or dark matter!! 🪨 Dark energy aka consciousness, creates the bang!! Supernovae!! 💥 Super Moons!! Flowery moons!! 🌹 Saturn a flowery moon!! Representing the 6th dimension!! More energy!!🪐 🛸 We control it!! 🧞 We’re stars!!✨ Hi, Hey, Hello!!🦜 The more G’s, the better!! They’ll reflect our minds, technology, and more!! G strings!! 👙 👙👙👙 Our brains look like gum!! 🧠 Juicier the better!!!🍏🍋‍🟩🫐🍍🍎🍌🍈🥥🍐🍉🍒🥝🍊🍇🍑🍋🍓🥭 Love everything until it loves you back!! Mosquitos too!!🦟 ❤ Each of us and each galaxy would represent a cell!! 🦠 We’re stars putting ourselves back together again!! Like Humpty Dumpty!! 🥚 🐓 The sky is blue because we’re meant to imagine it as a diamond!! The auroras then create the rest of the spectrum!! 🌈 💎 A purple sky would reflect the heart of the ocean!! An opened mind!! 🤯 The earth purring more!! Purrrrrple rain!!☔️ 🐈‍⬛ 🧶 Each thought to me is a solar flare, which shifts us into parallel worlds!! It’s hard here!!! I’m a peaceful dude, yet my life here has been super difficult!!🥹 Alpha Centauri represents a shift in consciousness!! Dog planet!! We’re riding the alpha waves!! Woof woof!!🐶 🐾 This is our world peace and enlightenment for the world and universe!! All is one!!😇🥳🥰🤩 We’re each a mini universe!!🌌 The 3 Body Problem represents our gut brain, 🍱 heart,❤️ and mind!! 🧠 The moon is a black hole!! 🕳️ A neutrino!! The planet is a colonized moon!!😇🌍👽 The sun is a shapeshifter!! 🌞 Are you and I sculpting together as a team or as individuals??? 🧑‍🎨 Using the moon as a tool!!! 🪨 The Sun is the eye!!👁️ I love the tool/word grinder!!!😮 We’d be Bumping and Grinding!!😂 The Earth is like a refrigerator and the atmospheric pressure is melting or defrosting the stars above, as if they’ve been in the freezer!! 🥶 It would also reflect us krystalyzing and becoming diamonds in the sky!! 💎 💎💎 Lucy becomes Maisie!! 🐒 👽 We could be stars from above aka heaven, melting everything from above, as well! Like a River Running Through It!!! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Gravitational waves or our thoughts raining down on us!! 🌧️ Unlocking a Secret Garden within and outside of us!!🤫 An Oasis!!!🏝️ 🏝️🏝️🏝️🏝️ Flowing!!! It helps a lot to flow!!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Letting go, so we can concentrate more and work on our project!! Heaven On Earth!!🌍 👼 Flowers!! 🌺 🌸 💐 and Flow-Ers!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 I know energy is still impurrtant!! 😻 And of course imagination!!! Love!!!💗 🐶 🎾 🧶 🐈‍⬛ To create heaven On Earth, the galaxies collide!! 🌌 Twin flames connect!! 🔥 🔥 We’re creating quantum entanglement!! Ghost particles merging, becoming more like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!!👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻 The universe is still the Earth!!⭐️🌍⭐️ We’re seeing it from the insides!! 🕵️ Like we’re inside a volcano 🌋 or wishing well!! The stars and galaxies are like coins!!🪙 The Goonies vibes!! 💀 We’re treasure!! Antarctica is treasure island!! 🐧🇦🇶 Unlocking antimatter!! 🐜 Booby and booty traps exposed!! Planet X!! Hubba Hubba!!🥰 Everything and everyone has been our teacher!!👩‍🏫 3D is like the murky bottom of a bong or volcano!!🌋 The fourth dimension, representing Mars is like the stem of the bong or the volcanos vent!! 👽 Experiencing higher dimensions is like the smoke or magma reaching our mouths 😋 and then circulating through our bodies!! We are the Earth!!🌍 👼 The road less traveled!!!🧳 🌹 Straight up!! 🎈 🎈🎈🎈🎈We’d be super condensed or extremely packed neutron stars!! Like Rigel!! Blueberries!! Antioxidants!! Betelgeuse has evolved into a neutron star!! 🍊🫐 Our long winding road, exploring different dimensions, finally straightening out!! I’m getting Pee Wee vibes!! Large Marge sent me!!🚴😂 We’re vaporized, as if we’ve been smoked or roasted!! 💨 The smoke representing again those compressed neutron stars climbing the higher dimensions of the universe like a chimney!! I’m Mary Poppins, y’all !! ☂️ 🧞‍♀️ It would also represent us as a comet traveling through a wormhole!! 💫 Who me, I’m just a worm!!🐛 🫖 Solving a labyrinth!! 🦉 Solving amaze!!! 🦋 Different energies tell a different story!! 📚 We’re storytellers!! Artists!!🧑‍🎨 We’re energy first!! 🐝 A 12 inch boner is like receiving a foot of snow!!⛄️ 😂 When powered by neutrons and a magnetar energy field, one is like the energizer bunny!!🐰 They’ll keep going and going and going!! 🐇 🐇🐇🐇🐇 If you’re destined to have more than one twin flame, you’re like Frogger, playing leap frog!! Lucy is a sucker for Lillies!! 🐸 🍀 🐸 🍀 🐸🍀🐸🍀🐸 G Force!!!🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳 Purrthquakes instead of Earthquakes!! 😻

[@javamanV3]

I think any deep dive into our star is fascinating! Thanks Nick-Lab for raising the idea.

[@donaldmilne5352]

Maybe try and get a solar physicist involved? If only there was one who was married to a fellow youtuber... 😉

[@maxim635]

@@donaldmilne5352 'Parker Solar Physicist' probably doesn't do here justice 😅

[@duran9664]

❌Scientists r dead wrong about the age of the universe❌ It is much much older; & this explains everything. 🤏

[@TG-nd9rj]

I'm in south central Ohio, and I never thought I'd be able to see the aurora with my own eyes. My family took a trip to Alaska in Sept '22 and it was cloudy the whole trip; I thought we'd missed our only chance. Even this month, I thought I wouldn't be able to see it unless I used my phone. I live on the edge of my small town but there is still quite a bit of light pollution. When I walked outside and saw the sky was pink, I immediately started weeping. I love space so much and wish I had the money and the drive to study it. I'm glad we have scientists and creators like you, so that we can all enjoy the wonders of space.

[@I_Don_t_want_a_handle]

I live in Oxfordshire, 30mins south of Oxford, and saw nothing. There was a faint yellowish glow in the Northern sky, but that could have been local light, Just bloody typical, the best chance in 500 years and zip. Looks like I'm destined to go to Iceland and, no doubt, it will be cloudy ...

[@JohnDoe-nq4du]

@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle I missed the aurora entirely, despite having gone out to look at it, and I still can't figure out what was going on. I looked for it, but couldn't see any trace of anything that looked aurora-like, and I just wrote it off as being because of the massive source of light pollution I live just south of (Lima, OH, especially its oil refinery; I'm in Cridersville), but later (once it was too late for me to try again), I spoke to my sister and brother-in-law, who both live between me and said massive source of light pollution (in Shawnee), and they both insisted they could clearly see it, and that it was readily and dramatically visible even through the visual noise from the refinery (and it turned out they were looking at almost the same moment I was).

[@proctophobic7127]

Living in Alaska made us experts on Aurora photography. We spent so many colds nights out on frozen rivers looking up and taking photos.

[@maconcamp472]

The Big Bang Theory!! 🐘 🐾 🥁 Each thought represents a bang❗️Higher vibrational thoughts 🐝🐝🐝 will create bigger bangs‼️ Pebbles And Bam Bam!! 🧊 🦕 🧊 🦖 🧊 🦣 🧊 Each grain of sand or pebble, a building block for planets or dark matter!! 🪨 Dark energy aka consciousness, creates the bang!! Supernovae!! 💥 Super Moons!! Flowery moons!! 🌹 Saturn a flowery moon!! Representing the 6th dimension!! More energy!!🪐 🛸 We control it!! 🧞 We’re stars!!✨ Hi, Hey, Hello!!🦜 The more G’s, the better!! They’ll reflect our minds, technology, and more!! G strings!! 👙 👙👙👙 Our brains look like gum!! 🧠 Juicier the better!!!🍏🍋‍🟩🫐🍍🍎🍌🍈🥥🍐🍉🍒🥝🍊🍇🍑🍋🍓🥭 Love everything until it loves you back!! Mosquitos too!!🦟 ❤ Each of us and each galaxy would represent a cell!! 🦠 We’re stars putting ourselves back together again!! Like Humpty Dumpty!! 🥚 🐓 The sky is blue because we’re meant to imagine it as a diamond!! The auroras then create the rest of the spectrum!! 🌈 💎 A purple sky would reflect the heart of the ocean!! An opened mind!! 🤯 The earth purring more!! Purrrrrple rain!!☔️ 🐈‍⬛ 🧶 Each thought to me is a solar flare, which shifts us into parallel worlds!! It’s hard here!!! I’m a peaceful dude, yet my life here has been super difficult!!🥹 Alpha Centauri represents a shift in consciousness!! Dog planet!! We’re riding the alpha waves!! Woof woof!!🐶 🐾 This is our world peace and enlightenment for the world and universe!! All is one!!😇🥳🥰🤩 We’re each a mini universe!!🌌 The 3 Body Problem represents our gut brain, 🍱 heart,❤️ and mind!! 🧠 The moon is a black hole!! 🕳️ A neutrino!! The planet is a colonized moon!!😇🌍👽 The sun is a shapeshifter!! 🌞 Are you and I sculpting together as a team or as individuals??? 🧑‍🎨 Using the moon as a tool!!! 🪨 The Sun is the eye!!👁️ I love the tool/word grinder!!!😮 We’d be Bumping and Grinding!!😂 The Earth is like a refrigerator and the atmospheric pressure is melting or defrosting the stars above, as if they’ve been in the freezer!! 🥶 It would also reflect us krystalyzing and becoming diamonds in the sky!! 💎 💎💎 Lucy becomes Maisie!! 🐒 👽 We could be stars from above aka heaven, melting everything from above, as well! Like a River Running Through It!!! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Gravitational waves or our thoughts raining down on us!! 🌧️ Unlocking a Secret Garden within and outside of us!!🤫 An Oasis!!!🏝️ 🏝️🏝️🏝️🏝️ Flowing!!! It helps a lot to flow!!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Letting go, so we can concentrate more and work on our project!! Heaven On Earth!!🌍 👼 Flowers!! 🌺 🌸 💐 and Flow-Ers!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 I know energy is still impurrtant!! 😻 And of course imagination!!! Love!!!💗 🐶 🎾 🧶 🐈‍⬛ To create heaven On Earth, the galaxies collide!! 🌌 Twin flames connect!! 🔥 🔥 We’re creating quantum entanglement!! Ghost particles merging, becoming more like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!!👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻 The universe is still the Earth!!⭐️🌍⭐️ We’re seeing it from the insides!! 🕵️ Like we’re inside a volcano 🌋 or wishing well!! The stars and galaxies are like coins!!🪙 The Goonies vibes!! 💀 We’re treasure!! Antarctica is treasure island!! 🐧🇦🇶 Unlocking antimatter!! 🐜 Booby and booty traps exposed!! Planet X!! Hubba Hubba!!🥰 Everything and everyone has been our teacher!!👩‍🏫 3D is like the murky bottom of a bong or volcano!!🌋 The fourth dimension, representing Mars is like the stem of the bong or the volcanos vent!! 👽 Experiencing higher dimensions is like the smoke or magma reaching our mouths 😋 and then circulating through our bodies!! We are the Earth!!🌍 👼 The road less traveled!!!🧳 🌹 Straight up!! 🎈 🎈🎈🎈🎈We’d be super condensed or extremely packed neutron stars!! Like Rigel!! Blueberries!! Antioxidants!! Betelgeuse has evolved into a neutron star!! 🍊🫐 Our long winding road, exploring different dimensions, finally straightening out!! I’m getting Pee Wee vibes!! Large Marge sent me!!🚴😂 We’re vaporized, as if we’ve been smoked or roasted!! 💨 The smoke representing again those compressed neutron stars climbing the higher dimensions of the universe like a chimney!! I’m Mary Poppins, y’all !! ☂️ 🧞‍♀️ It would also represent us as a comet traveling through a wormhole!! 💫 Who me, I’m just a worm!!🐛 🫖 Solving a labyrinth!! 🦉 Solving amaze!!! 🦋 Different energies tell a different story!! 📚 We’re storytellers!! Artists!!🧑‍🎨 We’re energy first!! 🐝 A 12 inch boner is like receiving a foot of snow!!⛄️ 😂 When powered by neutrons and a magnetar energy field, one is like the energizer bunny!!🐰 They’ll keep going and going and going!! 🐇 🐇🐇🐇🐇 If you’re destined to have more than one twin flame, you’re like Frogger, playing leap frog!! Lucy is a sucker for Lillies!! 🐸 🍀 🐸 🍀 🐸🍀🐸🍀🐸 G Force!!!🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳 Purrthquakes instead of Earthquakes!! 😻

[@lightingthelatenight9942]

That's beautiful. Good on yall for recognizing the potential there, something that pains me strongly to this day given I missed the recent aurora in Alabama, where I'm not likely to be able to see then again. If I do tho I can only pray I get the experience you guys did, such a painful waste not to at this point lol

[@Orrsmen]

Florida snitched on us to mom and said it was their turn with the Aurora 😂

[@javamanV3]

@@lightingthelatenight9942 worth a trip north - They knew about this days ahead.I am in NH and this rare aurora came as promised!

[@lightingthelatenight9942]

@@javamanV3 oh I knew about it beforehand as well, just circumstances being as they were I was regrettably unable to get a viewing opportunity

[@beenaplumber8379]

No kidding Dr. Becky, HUGE kudos to our electrical grid engineers and their planning. No major outages anywhere it seems, and more importantly, no outages where I live. 😛 But really, that's a big deal for those of us who depend on CPAP therapy to sleep. (I don't have a backup generator like a hospital would.) I'm grateful.

[@neils123]

The aurora borealis was amazing. Saw it from a park near my house just north of Boston. I had never seen it before, and didn't expect anything, and was really blown away. So cool.

[@danesorensen1775]

"Southern coast of Australia"? They were seen in Townsville, which is mind-boggling. 😍

[@eyeofthasky]

Real thanks for reminding me of the light show that basically everybody else besides me has seen. Thought that sense of remorse is finally over -- but now the wound got ripped open again 💔

[@DrBecky]

But hopefully there’ll be another chance soon! 🤞

[@maconcamp472]

The Big Bang Theory!! 🐘 🐾 🥁 Each thought represents a bang❗️Higher vibrational thoughts 🐝🐝🐝 will create bigger bangs‼️ Pebbles And Bam Bam!! 🧊 🦕 🧊 🦖 🧊 🦣 🧊 Each grain of sand or pebble, a building block for planets or dark matter!! 🪨 Dark energy aka consciousness, creates the bang!! Supernovae!! 💥 Super Moons!! Flowery moons!! 🌹 Saturn a flowery moon!! Representing the 6th dimension!! More energy!!🪐 🛸 We control it!! 🧞 We’re stars!!✨ Hi, Hey, Hello!!🦜 The more G’s, the better!! They’ll reflect our minds, technology, and more!! G strings!! 👙 👙👙👙 Our brains look like gum!! 🧠 Juicier the better!!!🍏🍋‍🟩🫐🍍🍎🍌🍈🥥🍐🍉🍒🥝🍊🍇🍑🍋🍓🥭 Love everything until it loves you back!! Mosquitos too!!🦟 ❤ Each of us and each galaxy would represent a cell!! 🦠 We’re stars putting ourselves back together again!! Like Humpty Dumpty!! 🥚 🐓 The sky is blue because we’re meant to imagine it as a diamond!! The auroras then create the rest of the spectrum!! 🌈 💎 A purple sky would reflect the heart of the ocean!! An opened mind!! 🤯 The earth purring more!! Purrrrrple rain!!☔️ 🐈‍⬛ 🧶 Each thought to me is a solar flare, which shifts us into parallel worlds!! It’s hard here!!! I’m a peaceful dude, yet my life here has been super difficult!!🥹 Alpha Centauri represents a shift in consciousness!! Dog planet!! We’re riding the alpha waves!! Woof woof!!🐶 🐾 This is our world peace and enlightenment for the world and universe!! All is one!!😇🥳🥰🤩 We’re each a mini universe!!🌌 The 3 Body Problem represents our gut brain, 🍱 heart,❤️ and mind!! 🧠 The moon is a black hole!! 🕳️ A neutrino!! The planet is a colonized moon!!😇🌍👽 The sun is a shapeshifter!! 🌞 Are you and I sculpting together as a team or as individuals??? 🧑‍🎨 Using the moon as a tool!!! 🪨 The Sun is the eye!!👁️ I love the tool/word grinder!!!😮 We’d be Bumping and Grinding!!😂 The Earth is like a refrigerator and the atmospheric pressure is melting or defrosting the stars above, as if they’ve been in the freezer!! 🥶 It would also reflect us krystalyzing and becoming diamonds in the sky!! 💎 💎💎 Lucy becomes Maisie!! 🐒 👽 We could be stars from above aka heaven, melting everything from above, as well! Like a River Running Through It!!! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Gravitational waves or our thoughts raining down on us!! 🌧️ Unlocking a Secret Garden within and outside of us!!🤫 An Oasis!!!🏝️ 🏝️🏝️🏝️🏝️ Flowing!!! It helps a lot to flow!!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Letting go, so we can concentrate more and work on our project!! Heaven On Earth!!🌍 👼 Flowers!! 🌺 🌸 💐 and Flow-Ers!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 I know energy is still impurrtant!! 😻 And of course imagination!!! Love!!!💗 🐶 🎾 🧶 🐈‍⬛ To create heaven On Earth, the galaxies collide!! 🌌 Twin flames connect!! 🔥 🔥 We’re creating quantum entanglement!! Ghost particles merging, becoming more like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!!👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻 The universe is still the Earth!!⭐️🌍⭐️ We’re seeing it from the insides!! 🕵️ Like we’re inside a volcano 🌋 or wishing well!! The stars and galaxies are like coins!!🪙 The Goonies vibes!! 💀 We’re treasure!! Antarctica is treasure island!! 🐧🇦🇶 Unlocking antimatter!! 🐜 Booby and booty traps exposed!! Planet X!! Hubba Hubba!!🥰 Everything and everyone has been our teacher!!👩‍🏫 3D is like the murky bottom of a bong or volcano!!🌋 The fourth dimension, representing Mars is like the stem of the bong or the volcanos vent!! 👽 Experiencing higher dimensions is like the smoke or magma reaching our mouths 😋 and then circulating through our bodies!! We are the Earth!!🌍 👼 The road less traveled!!!🧳 🌹 Straight up!! 🎈 🎈🎈🎈🎈We’d be super condensed or extremely packed neutron stars!! Like Rigel!! Blueberries!! Antioxidants!! Betelgeuse has evolved into a neutron star!! 🍊🫐 Our long winding road, exploring different dimensions, finally straightening out!! I’m getting Pee Wee vibes!! Large Marge sent me!!🚴😂 We’re vaporized, as if we’ve been smoked or roasted!! 💨 The smoke representing again those compressed neutron stars climbing the higher dimensions of the universe like a chimney!! I’m Mary Poppins, y’all !! ☂️ 🧞‍♀️ It would also represent us as a comet traveling through a wormhole!! 💫 Who me, I’m just a worm!!🐛 🫖 Solving a labyrinth!! 🦉 Solving amaze!!! 🦋 Different energies tell a different story!! 📚 We’re storytellers!! Artists!!🧑‍🎨 We’re energy first!! 🐝 A 12 inch boner is like receiving a foot of snow!!⛄️ 😂 When powered by neutrons and a magnetar energy field, one is like the energizer bunny!!🐰 They’ll keep going and going and going!! 🐇 🐇🐇🐇🐇 If you’re destined to have more than one twin flame, you’re like Frogger, playing leap frog!! Lucy is a sucker for Lillies!! 🐸 🍀 🐸 🍀 🐸🍀🐸🍀🐸 G Force!!!🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳 Purrthquakes instead of Earthquakes!! 😻

[@robertfarrimond3369]

It's the nature of the beast. I've been chasing Aurora for years. There are plenty of big ones I've missed just because I made a decision not to do a 400 mile round trip to get to clear sky. I've sat in a car in 30 degree weather on the Waterville Plateau waiting all night. After grudgingly giving up, I drove home(taking my time), and about the same time my head hit the pillow a CME was arriving. Every time is a gamble of whether the forecasters get it right. If they are off by 6 or 8 hours it's the difference between day or night.

[@Tudo11927]

Here in Taiwan (~23N, 120E), at the almost opposite side of the magnetic pole, I’m never gonna see aurora here unless Canada is fried I think

[@maconcamp472]

@@Tudo11927 The Big Bang Theory!! 🐘 🐾 🥁 Each thought represents a bang❗️Higher vibrational thoughts 🐝🐝🐝 will create bigger bangs‼️ Pebbles And Bam Bam!! 🧊 🦕 🧊 🦖 🧊 🦣 🧊 Each grain of sand or pebble, a building block for planets or dark matter!! 🪨 Dark energy aka consciousness, creates the bang!! Supernovae!! 💥 Super Moons!! Flowery moons!! 🌹 Saturn a flowery moon!! Representing the 6th dimension!! More energy!!🪐 🛸 We control it!! 🧞 We’re stars!!✨ Hi, Hey, Hello!!🦜 The more G’s, the better!! They’ll reflect our minds, technology, and more!! G strings!! 👙 👙👙👙 Our brains look like gum!! 🧠 Juicier the better!!!🍏🍋‍🟩🫐🍍🍎🍌🍈🥥🍐🍉🍒🥝🍊🍇🍑🍋🍓🥭 Love everything until it loves you back!! Mosquitos too!!🦟 ❤ Each of us and each galaxy would represent a cell!! 🦠 We’re stars putting ourselves back together again!! Like Humpty Dumpty!! 🥚 🐓 The sky is blue because we’re meant to imagine it as a diamond!! The auroras then create the rest of the spectrum!! 🌈 💎 A purple sky would reflect the heart of the ocean!! An opened mind!! 🤯 The earth purring more!! Purrrrrple rain!!☔️ 🐈‍⬛ 🧶 Each thought to me is a solar flare, which shifts us into parallel worlds!! It’s hard here!!! I’m a peaceful dude, yet my life here has been super difficult!!🥹 Alpha Centauri represents a shift in consciousness!! Dog planet!! We’re riding the alpha waves!! Woof woof!!🐶 🐾 This is our world peace and enlightenment for the world and universe!! All is one!!😇🥳🥰🤩 We’re each a mini universe!!🌌 The 3 Body Problem represents our gut brain, 🍱 heart,❤️ and mind!! 🧠 The moon is a black hole!! 🕳️ A neutrino!! The planet is a colonized moon!!😇🌍👽 The sun is a shapeshifter!! 🌞 Are you and I sculpting together as a team or as individuals??? 🧑‍🎨 Using the moon as a tool!!! 🪨 The Sun is the eye!!👁️ I love the tool/word grinder!!!😮 We’d be Bumping and Grinding!!😂 The Earth is like a refrigerator and the atmospheric pressure is melting or defrosting the stars above, as if they’ve been in the freezer!! 🥶 It would also reflect us krystalyzing and becoming diamonds in the sky!! 💎 💎💎 Lucy becomes Maisie!! 🐒 👽 We could be stars from above aka heaven, melting everything from above, as well! Like a River Running Through It!!! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Gravitational waves or our thoughts raining down on us!! 🌧️ Unlocking a Secret Garden within and outside of us!!🤫 An Oasis!!!🏝️ 🏝️🏝️🏝️🏝️ Flowing!!! It helps a lot to flow!!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Letting go, so we can concentrate more and work on our project!! Heaven On Earth!!🌍 👼 Flowers!! 🌺 🌸 💐 and Flow-Ers!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 I know energy is still impurrtant!! 😻 And of course imagination!!! Love!!!💗 🐶 🎾 🧶 🐈‍⬛ To create heaven On Earth, the galaxies collide!! 🌌 Twin flames connect!! 🔥 🔥 We’re creating quantum entanglement!! Ghost particles merging, becoming more like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!!👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻 The universe is still the Earth!!⭐️🌍⭐️ We’re seeing it from the insides!! 🕵️ Like we’re inside a volcano 🌋 or wishing well!! The stars and galaxies are like coins!!🪙 The Goonies vibes!! 💀 We’re treasure!! Antarctica is treasure island!! 🐧🇦🇶 Unlocking antimatter!! 🐜 Booby and booty traps exposed!! Planet X!! Hubba Hubba!!🥰 Everything and everyone has been our teacher!!👩‍🏫 3D is like the murky bottom of a bong or volcano!!🌋 The fourth dimension, representing Mars is like the stem of the bong or the volcanos vent!! 👽 Experiencing higher dimensions is like the smoke or magma reaching our mouths 😋 and then circulating through our bodies!! We are the Earth!!🌍 👼 The road less traveled!!!🧳 🌹 Straight up!! 🎈 🎈🎈🎈🎈We’d be super condensed or extremely packed neutron stars!! Like Rigel!! Blueberries!! Antioxidants!! Betelgeuse has evolved into a neutron star!! 🍊🫐 Our long winding road, exploring different dimensions, finally straightening out!! I’m getting Pee Wee vibes!! Large Marge sent me!!🚴😂 We’re vaporized, as if we’ve been smoked or roasted!! 💨 The smoke representing again those compressed neutron stars climbing the higher dimensions of the universe like a chimney!! I’m Mary Poppins, y’all !! ☂️ 🧞‍♀️ It would also represent us as a comet traveling through a wormhole!! 💫 Who me, I’m just a worm!!🐛 🫖 Solving a labyrinth!! 🦉 Solving amaze!!! 🦋 Different energies tell a different story!! 📚 We’re storytellers!! Artists!!🧑‍🎨 We’re energy first!! 🐝 A 12 inch boner is like receiving a foot of snow!!⛄️ 😂 When powered by neutrons and a magnetar energy field, one is like the energizer bunny!!🐰 They’ll keep going and going and going!! 🐇 🐇🐇🐇🐇 If you’re destined to have more than one twin flame, you’re like Frogger, playing leap frog!! Lucy is a sucker for Lillies!! 🐸 🍀 🐸 🍀 🐸🍀🐸🍀🐸 G Force!!!🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳 Purrthquakes instead of Earthquakes!! 😻

[@Snowflake-id4fw]

I'm blown away by the images of the Abell galaxy clusters. There may only be 4 or 5 stars in the field and all the rest of the features are galaxies. They are countless. You can see so far into the past! So many of them are red shifted. It absolutely mind-blowing. Thanks for posting these images.

[@Ka7ple1]

Great video, love the channel. I'm a ham radio operator, and the HF frequencies were at complete radio black out for a while during the aurora. The folks who like to use the 50MHz band (6m) (Low VHF) were having a field day, because they bounce their signals off the aurora, which enable them to make contacts at very great distances. Anyway, Love the video, and the channel. I've learned so much from watching you. Hope to see you again soon. All the Best.

[@fedfraud.protection.servic2557]

Amazing! FCC general radio here. Ran 27Mhz pretty regular back in the day. That is something. Notice any rotating the UHF at all? Might not be a sunspot thing, but pretty time of day dependant on DTV. Good skip, huh? Good to see/hear someone with actual technical expertise. I'll listen for you. Best.

[@russell-60]

Another great video! Always look forward to your video's.

[@asterialumin_2030]

dr Becky, you are such an inspiration and amazing astrophysicist! I love how you are so passionate and enthusiastic about space! you've truly helped me A LOT in learning more and as a space enthusiast, you are my go to channel every day! Also, your book is really good as far as ive read it, its filled with humor and amazing knowledge! Thank you for doing what you do!

[@MCsCreations]

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

[@williamthornburgh3675]

Loving the content Dr Becky AND the improved acoustics of your new studio, but is that a McLaren F1 car on the top shelf in the background??? Lol.

[@robertgerrity878]

What's on Becky's shelves game. There's a story to it, fer shure.

[@pokerstarPR]

Auroras were spotted as far as Puerto Rico in the Carribean. Which is further south than Florida.

[@DrBecky]

Hadn’t heard that one!

[@oberonpanopticon]

Did we just survive a second carrington event?

[@farmergiles1065]

@@oberonpanopticon It may depend on what you mean. I've heard it said that this event involved solar energies at Earth that were as large as the 1859 event. If so, it's also clear now that those energies did not have the same disastrous effect on civilization's infrastructure as it did in 1859. There are many reasons why that could be so, but one is that our control of the electrical grid is far superior to what was available in 1859. We can (and should) do whatever we can to harden our grids against all kinds of electrical and magnetic influences, wherever those come from. And work on making the systems more robust is ongoing continuously. Two issues we face are threat levels, and also basic grid capacity, both critical for our future needs. And the biggest issue of response is money. A complete overhaul would be massively expensive at any time. It would have to be an equally massive benefit to be gained to make that worthwhile, like a game-changing technological advance. We have none of these at present, but there's a lot of work being done looking for one. It could happen. In the mean time, there are always incremental improvements that can and should be done, and those need prioritization and clear-headed consideration by those who can supply the money. Meaning: not the government itself, but the knowledge and experience of those who work with the systems all the time. Hang on! There's plenty of time left in this solar maximum event to produce auroras as big as what we've just seen. And who's to say exactly where the largest bursts of charged particles will end up on Earth, and what equipment lies in their exact path? The bigger the ejection, the bigger the chances of fireworks, of all kinds.

[@paulfrancis9223]

​@@DrBeckyAnd folks have pictures of the Aurora Australis as far north as Southern Queensland (-27.5) It's crazy.

[@sandipanborthakur8637]

There were observations from India too.

[@davemi00]

All of the UK sits between 50° and 60° Lat. You should see Northern Lights frequently, in unpolluted areas. Northern Michigan at 45° Lat we see them often.

[@japneetsingh5015]

Even two black holes merged waiting for GTA6

[@dreamersfolly]

💀💀

[@jedaaa]

😅😂😂😂

[@janemf]

spoiler: no they didn’t

[@lethargogpeterson4083]

Imagine what wonders may be discovered before Half Life 3!

[@santyclause8034]

But can you run Crysis 3?

[@TheOldBlackCrow]

Awesome video! Though, I'm waiting for you to have an episode on a peek into your current research in relation to these new discoveries.

[@nannakurzhaar]

thanks so much for explaining what to see in the sky, it helps me so much to orientate 🙂

[@DeepeningTheListening]

A lot of great news this month. Thank you, Becky for bringing it all to us.

[@jaimecastells4283]

This was a particularly eventful month and your enthusiasm for all this news is wonderful! Thank you for all this information and your grins! The energy with which you present this material is shared by your audience. 😄

[@davidtatro7457]

It's so exciting to finally see Euclid up and running! A bit off topic, but have you ever considered doing a video discussing galaxy size vs. SMBH size? It always boggles the mind how relatively tiny Sag A* seems in relation to the Milky Way's size and mass relative to so many other galaxies out there. Or perhaps the relatively large SMBHs just stand out in our observations because they tend to make more visible phenomena? Anyway, l find it interesting and haven't seen any experts specifically talk about that subject.

[@joecanales9631]

Howdy Dr. Becky, thanks for your always informative videos. I had seen another science communicator announcing the JWST sighting of the merging supermassive black holes, but I was left with more questions than answers. I love the work that can be done with the spectrum of starlight. Although direct observations are not possible at these distances, the graphs these data reveal can be equally exciting to see. Thanks for your explanations. I missed the Aurora. Although we are in severe drought, and only have a handful of cloudy nights a year, it was cloudy in my part of the state during the aurora. I did see pictures from others who had clearer skies in New Mexico during that event. Being a geophysicist (retired) I have been intrigued by them for a long time and not having had a chance to see them in person. But the solar maximum has only just started. I like to use my telescope to project the sun image into a white piece of cardboard inside my garage to watch for sunspots. I’ve noticed non of the glass elements ever get hot and the sun image is big. Thanks again for your great explanations of what’s happening in sky news. Been tracking Vega and the Summer Triangle for a while now and summer is approaching!

[@MichaelSiegel14]

Swift is in a similar orbit to Hubble and we've dropped something like 20 km in the last year thanks to the Sun. Hoping we'll get through this solar cycle in one piece! 🤞

[@captainboots]

It was cloudy for days around the time of the aurora here. I consoled myself with having seen the total eclipse earlier (and the hope there'd be more activity in the next year or two).

[@edcherney]

Let's come back down to earth and talk about what's been happening in space news. Only an Astrophysicists can say that with a straight face! You, my esteemed Dr. Becky Smethurst, are out of this world and simultaneously one of the most down to earth Scientist and Science Communicators on KZbin! And, a delight to watch! Thanks again, for all you do!:)

[@PhysicsNative]

Not only the best astrophysics channel on YT, but the best science channel as. Outstanding communicator. Like you, I’m also tentative on the purported black hole merger observations from JWST. We need more observations and analysis!

[@ljosephdumas3113]

🎵"You say past-l and I say pas-tell"🎵 I see your aluminium and raise you an aluminum! 😁

[@pierreabbat6157]

Cherry tom/e/to, cherry tom/a/to.

[@thekaxmax]

And both are correct

[@martynspooner5822]

I often wondered what the Americans call aloomenum was, I am embarrassed to say it was years before I twigged it was aluminum.

[@martynspooner5822]

It took me years to twigg what our American friends call aloomenum was. It is of course aluminum and I am embarrassed to say how long it took me to tumble.

[@screwaccountnames]

22:04 You say envelope-d, I say en-veloped

[@santyclause8034]

I got Melbourne, nice almost noctilucent solid overcast. Most of the Southern states got some Aurora Australis, not us here.

[@jimsvideos7201]

The aurora here was bright enough to walk about and read a wristwatch.

[@Echo3_]

I remember that night with the Aurora it was cloudy here but I got the solar flare X class alert when it happened. There were so many flares that night!

[@Kanner111]

Amazing episode. So much stuff and yet all of it was incredibly interesting!

[@timsexton]

Always a joy to see your presentation! *_TRUST !!_*

[@AnarchoAmericium]

Dr. Becky, since you brought it up discussing the sun, could you do a video on magnetics in space and why it can be so vexing?

[@williamschlosser]

Not sure what you mean by vexing. There's an entire theory based on EM forces, called plasma cosmology. It happens to be the only self-contained physical theory of the universe, as opposed to ad hoc curve-fitting theories. That may be why some people consider it vexing.

[@EliasMheart]

23:32 Wow, that's a great visualisation! Great job NASA/ESA (:

[@sterbebett]

That huge MCL35 in the background though ❤

[@kewoolf]

Love the channel! Just found it and am picking my way around. Since you're a black hole expert I had hoped to see a discussion of gravastars. I don't even know enough to ask you the right questions - maybe it's too far outside orthodoxy..? Thanks for the great content!

[@jimsvideos7201]

10:30 You have the focal length and aperture swapped. Aperture is the hole through the lens; larger ones admit more light in a given time but can cause distortion.

[@stargazer7644]

She was talking about f-stop, which is how variable aperture in a camera lens is measured. It's the ratio between focal length and the diameter of the aperture, also known as the speed of the lens. She said she doesn't have a wide enough lens, as hers is an f/3.5. When she said "wide", she meant she doesn't have a fast enough lens. She wasn't talking about focal length, which is usually what photographers apply the term "wide" to.

[@csh43166]

I was sad not to see the aurora. It was visible in our area, but there was too much ground light at my house, and I couldn't get out of town. Seeing them is on my bucket list - I'm determined to see them!!! 💚💜

[@samedwards6683]

Thanks so much for creating and sharing this informative and entertaining video. Great job. Keep it up.

[@ianw7898]

@ 12:15; Slight correction. CMEs aren't collecting H atoms from the solar 'surface'. They happen in the corona. The magnetic field loops, which originate on and below the surface, come together in the corona, which is ~ fully ionised. When the fields are oppositely directed, magnetic reconnection occurs. It is the reconnection of the field lines that accelerates the charged particles outwards (and downwards). Obviously, magnetic reconnection cannot accelerate the neutrals in the photosphere and lower chromosphere.

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

Sadly, where I was, "a faint green glow on the Northern horizon" was all I got. Only one night was it naked-eye visible at all, and even then just barely. Yet people noticeably further South (and with *MORE* city-light-glow!) were able to see the reds clearly! I did get to see them moving to the naked eye - again, just barely. Something I had never been truly positive about before. It seems like videos of aurora are always time lapses, so I had no idea how fast they shifted.

[@ChaitanyaShukla2503]

That aurora was visible even in India(only the northern most part) so yeah its quite odd how big that particular event ended up being.

[@AxionOverdrive]

Babe wake up! Dr. Becky just dropped another video! 📺🏃‍♂ Thanks for yet another great one!

[@lordgarion514]

You're audio volume is awesome. Please do all vids this way. My hearing is less than perfect, and I have to play almost all YT vids full blast. I actually got to turn my volume down 2 clicks. Things sound better when I'm not maxing out the phones little amplifier.

[@stargazer7644]

That's because most other YT vids are 10 to 20 dB below where they should be.

[@williemacdonald72]

I went out to photograph the aurora not expecting much so only took one of my full frame cameras with me. I was blown away by the display and the fact I had to shoot facing south here in Dumfries and Galloway.

[@Shadows518]

The aurora australis was seen as far north as Auckland, New Zealand. It was SO bright.

[@georgepucula9034]

It was exciting to see reports from the UK of the amazing Northern Lights. But, it was nerve racking wondering if the light show could still be seen in Canada 5-6 hours later. Fortunately, the aurora were brilliant!

[@jonreznick5531]

"width" of lens and "f/stop" are two different things in photo optics.

[@Mizgrievoux]

More cloud related effects plz that was dope and it gives more things to look up for

[@robbierobinson8819]

Lovely episode as always. Thanks for the images of the aurorae from around the world from South Africa where, if I ever see an aurora, we are probably fried! Doesn't applying Occam's Razor suggest that the merging of the supermassive black holes so early in the universe's history is likely to be galaxies merging as they do more recently? After all, galaxies would have been close together, so even with fewer numbers, merging would be quite "common"?

[@bazpearce9993]

I got those aurora too. In fact there's a few look just like what you showed Becky. I uploaded a GIF of 1,053 frames, and uploaded it. :)

[@terrydaniels9126]

The night sky is music to my heart ♥ the stars are glowing love to heart

[@DavidBeddard]

I'm gutted I missed the aurora. The first I heard about it was a news report about it the following morning. I have seen the aurora before, at least, but I'm still thoroughly miffed.

[@DonkThikkness]

I learn so much from this channel, thank you for all the content! Read an article that NASA is developing a mission to send a telescope (a small fleet of spacecraft to Voltron into a telescope, apparently) out about 550 AU to use the gravitational lensing of our sun. The purpose is to use the bent light as an amplifier so the telescope can see the surfaces of exoplanets. Sounds like crazy sci-fi stuff, but I trust the math and science behind it makes it possible. Crazy to think because Voyager 1&2 are about 162 AU and 136 AU away.

[@a.karley4672]

That's the LUVOIR mission PROPOSAL you're referring to - I think. Still very much on the whiteboard, and subject to frequent detail changes, including in name. But it is a long way from being designed, let alone built or launched. For example - at 3-4 times the distance to the Voyagers, the radio transmitter is going to need to be 9-16 times as powerful as a Voyager's (actually, a lot more, for better transmission rates) ... so when you hear arguments about launching an actual nuclear power plant, you know it's *approaching* the _final_ design.

[@ozzy6162]

I've read some really surprising stuff over the past few days Becky. They're both astrophysics topics so maybe you could explain them in (or part of) a video? (1) Researchers now think that it's possible for a star to become a black hole without going through the supernova stage. (2) Research suggests the Sun's magnetic field is generated only 20,000 miles from the surface rather than much deeper (deep dynamo theory). Apparently modelling based on this shallow dynamo theory produced a Sun that behaves the way ours does with closely linked torsional oscillations and sunspot activity.

[@Tebsana]

The aurora has definitely been the highlight of my year so far! Never did I ever think I would be able to see the Aurora at home in London esp with all the light pollution

[@i.m.gurney]

Tangentially, Becky, you introduced me to the word 'neb', as a southerner (Surrey) I have surpassed 50 before encountering it....

[@hinesification]

The final coating is mainly to keep the silver from tarnishing. Most ground-based telescopes use aluminum coating because it’s less oxidizable… but is is not as reflective as silver.

[@UrgoMeister]

Thanks Dr. Becky! It seems there's one small mistake at 11:25. Each cyclical period between solar minimums OR maximums (one complete cycle) are ~11 years. Dr. Becky said, "~11 years between each solar minimum and each solar maximum" which would be a half cycle at ~5.5 years.

[@DonsArtnGames]

Saw the Aurora Borealis above Angel's Camp, California (central area)... I couldn't believe that it was this far south. I thought it had to be something else.

[@Geeknlonely2.0]

Lucky you, here in the southern hemisphere we had the Aurora Australis, but is winter and that night was completely clouded 😢

[@skysurfer5cva]

My wife and I took our oldest grandson (12 years old) to Bass Lake on that Saturday (we were booked on Friday, which was the best night). I got some decent photos, but the ridgeline on the north side of the lake blocked the lower part of the aurora. The aurora peaked for us about 9:00 to 9:30 p.m., then it dwindled until we left at 11:00 to make the one-hour drive back to Fresno.

[@stargazer7644]

When talking about camera lenses, the focal length is the magnification or zoom amount and is referred to as "wide (wide angle)" or "long (telephoto)". The aperture is measured in f-stops, and is referred to the "speed" of the lens - either fast (low f-stops like f/1.2) or slow (high f-stops like f/5.6). The aperture is related to speed because big apertures let in more light and let you use fast shutter speeds (a fast lens), while low apertures let in little light and require slow shutter speeds. In low light situations you want as fast of a lens as possible. The f-stop or focal ratio is actually the ratio of the diameter of the pupil of the lens compared to the focal length. It is more useful than the actual measurement of the diameter of the lens because it relates directly to exposure. Each f-stop down or up relates to a halving or doubling of the required exposure time. If an f/5.6 lens required a 10 second exposure to see aurora, an f/4 lens would need 5 seconds, an f/2.8 would need 2.5 seconds, and an f/2 would need 1.25 seconds to get the same shot.

[@johnkotches8320]

I really enjoyed the extra long blooper section. Spending an entire day staring at monitors 1m or so away is not something our eyes were designed to do, so it's fairly common for our eyes to develop issues at that distance. I'm assuming you have a full field reading prescription which solves the problem nicely for work.

[@Darwiin88]

Would it be possible to detect gravitational waves from SMBH mergers thanks to pulsars ?

[@Astras-Stargate]

This is a spectacular video, Dr. Becky. You are so good at explaining everything and I love your videography especially in this one. Those images from Euclid have a kind of "softness" to them, making them so very striking. ❤🛰🌃💞

[@shanewallace2564]

I'd never seen the aurora before except for on the tv. There's parts of it that look quite a bit like fog in a wind tunnel. My nephew was kind of worried that we were losing atmosphere. Lol

[@a.karley4672]

Next time your nephew comes up with that idea, he's on quite fruitful scientific ground. Some models of the evolution of Mars's atmosphere count "erosion" by the Solar wind as being a significant factor in it's evolution from having a (somewhat) Earth-like atmosphere to it's "too thin to be poisonous" state today. But it's not a simple story, because the UV light from the Sun (which isn't deflected by a magnetic field) also splits atmospheric water, allowing the loss of the hydrogen. Which was probably not important to Mars (the water froze out onto the ground, where it is protected from the UV by dirt), but may have been important in the evolution of Venus' atmosphere. Your nephew's question/worry plays to a whole host of interesting planetary science.

[@mawkernewek]

I saw them in Cornwall, though didn't photograph them this time around. I've seen it twice before here and once in Cambridge but not as much as this.

[@spddiesel]

"Aurora Borealis, shining down on Dallas, can you picture that?"- Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem

[@oysteinsoreide4323]

problems with things low on the eastern horizon here at my location is that just east of me there are mountains, so you would have to climb them before looking east to see low objects.

[@griffn14]

Missed the aurora again. This is so frustrating. Is there a way to be notified about it in advance couple of minutes or live when it is "on"?

[@aldebaran4154]

That aurora was so strong it was seen here in Hawai'i, for those who were up just after 4am on May 14th

[@thomasdjonesn]

I was so excited about the IFU when I heard about it, and it's amazing and wonderful. Here on our happy little rock, we can watch the universe unfold. Sometimes it's the only thing that keeps me going.

[@sero-zin_127]

Man feels so good looking and learning about night sky!! I wasnt updated thats why its feel good hearing this stuff after so long!

[@kostuek]

kind of dig those euclid images, very nice

[@iangregory3719]

Nice to see the time-lapse of the mirror coating. I did wonder though how its done. My first instinct would be P.V.D. Sputtering, but that would i thought usually take a lot longer than 4 to 5 hours.

[@AntonioSantos66]

I love your video. The best you ever publish! Thank you.

[@sterbebett]

That lego Peugeot 9X8 at the back👍🏻

[@neoanderson7]

So disappointed we had so much cloud cover during the whole time of the big burp. 😔. Guess we have to keep fingers crossed till next year. 🤞🏻 That is 1 shiny mirror! 😎 The expression on your face when you said that sentence about the merging black holes! 👏🏻🙂

[@danzephyr2797]

I love all of your amazing content. Thanks Dr Becky

[@pahtar7189]

If the matter falling into a black hole is in a disk, those black holes that don't show a Doppler shift are simply oriented with one pole pointed more or less toward us.

[@andrewmullen4003]

Your passion for your subject shines through, thanks for sharing it with us.

[@Dudleymiddleton]

0:32 Are these images from JWST? I didn't know Euclid's telescope had hexagonal artifacts!

[@silverhoax6290]

Hi, most amazing presetation, as always. You're perfect for this kind of stuff and i'm deeply impresed by your amazing work on this channell, explaining such complicated and delicate matter in such simplistic and ordinary language so we all can understand. Please keep it up and please keep yourself up, you're amazing, we all love you, you're the bestest xxx

[@MrSJPowell]

I'm kind of bummed about the Aurora. A rare chance to get one near here in north Florida, and I wasn't able keep abreast of it because my neighborhood was hit by a tornado the same day, and I didn't have internet to know to get out of light pollution to see it.

[@drrogueofthesea]

Alright. I've always thought you were a fascinating host, but here you are absolutely adorable...irresistible really. You look like you're just having a great time. I just want to crawl right through the screen and join you. Great job, your best so far. 🎉

[@JBrimacombe]

The aurora was even visible from Cairns, Australia: only 17 degrees south of the equator.

[@jojojojo2529]

Thank You, Dr. Becky 💐

[@amnesiai]

Wow so much cool stuff in this video!

[@seantlewis376]

I live in the Pacific Northwest of the US, and we only get clear skies two or three months of the year, so I downloaded an app that shows me what the night sky would look like if I could see it, based on my GPS location, and what direction I'm pointing my phone. It's pretty darned cool.

[@tonyppe]

sorry you have a mistake about the aurora's in the southern hemisphere. I'm not near the south coast, I am in Perth and they were seen farther north than I am. Tasmania had a great view by the looks of things but even north of perth we had red glows above the horizon.

[@bitegoatie]

Final parsec: only a problem under some circumstances, where the angle of approach makes it a problem.

[@May-or-May-not]

I'm kinda jealous you got to see the aurora that beautiful. Ironically I couldn't see it because I live in the arctic and was too far north 😅

[@SolaceEasy]

I have dreamed of seeing Aurora but I'm not North enough typically. I got to see it from Tucson.

[@leovictorsr]

I couldn’t help but note your excitement talking about the evolution of galaxies with their SMBH 😂

[@leovictorsr]

Also wish I could see aurora here in Brazil 😢

[@elieloucas6303]

Thank you for the great content as always. Noticed the McLaren F1 car and is that an LMP1/hypercar (looks like the new Peugeot) as well?

[@wyattmitchell6843]

pretty sure you're mixing up f-stop and focal lenth

[@balaenopteramusculus]

Yeah, noticed that as well, haha, Oh, well.

[@markhollis5850]

Sneaky way to take cool landscape photos with an aurora (or stars!): Use a camera that has an HDR imaging chip, OR, put that camera on a tripod, take two photos, one at long exposure for the sky and a different one at shorter exposure (or longer if it is really dark) for the landscape. You can even stack THREE images, one for the Moon, exposed correctly, one for the stars and a third exposed for the landscape. Then, create layers in Photoshop and get rid of everything, save what is correctly exposed, in each of the three layers. Astrophysicists do this all the time with black and white images of different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum to create false-color images.

[@a.karley4672]

As you say, this is how astrophotographers have worked for a century and a half. But ... there is no such thing as an "HDR chip" or sensor. HDR is a software toolset for manipulating existing image formats - and I believe also a new range of image formats. The sensors in CCDs have long been able to handle more exposure range than the 8 bits range that JPEG was designed for in the 1980s, and image formats are starting to catch up. (I recall a comment in the "PNG Book" which described that format, that PNG could, from day 1, handle up to 64 bits per pixel per colour, and described that as being for "scientific or medical" work. That pixel depth is why astronomers use (for technical work, not for presentations) the FITS image format, and sometimes the TIFF family of formats. JP(e)G is fine for the job it was intended for - but it's not intended for precision imaging (because - the lossy compression) or high-contrast imaging (the 8-bit channel width).

[@DataRae-AIEngineer]

I lost power AND cell service during that solar storm here in the SW United States.

[@ValkyrieofNOLA]

Here in New Orleans, the light pollution is too bright for us to have seen the auroras… They were visible across the lake over the Causeway Bridge, which is just a couple dozen miles north… I was so upset that I couldn’t see anything, and the people I knew on the Northshore were posting photos of them! I’m determined to witness the auroras and see the plane of the Milky Way one day. The closest dark sky preserve is in Texas and I can drive there. Once I save enough money to get a good camera for astrophotography, and to make the trip to Texas, I’m going. Even if I have to go by myself in the desert, I have to go sometime soon.

[@Awesomekraken677]

.... it was cloudy the entire week in Sydney when the aurora was there... I have only despair to share...