M106 - MEGA MASER QUASAR - Deep Sky Videos

[@annayosh]

small misspeaking, but large difference - M106 is not 22 to 25 lightyears away, but 22 to 25 megalightyears

[@BIGWUNuvDbunch]

You mean the mega maser quasar is mega parsecs away?

[@bellsTheorem1138]

That had me confused too.

[@CelticSaint]

Yes, if it was 25 light years away we'd be in serious trouble!

[@passthebutterrobot2600]

I know astrophysicists love approximations, but this is ridiculous

[@RockHoward]

Not the biggest astronomy error I have ever witnessed (that was 10 ** 200), but this one got my attention. Ha!

[@superdau]

I guessat 9:50 you meant 22-25 million light years away? 25, 25 thousand and 25 billion wouldn't make sense and the number 22 to 25 is too specific for it to be something else like 2,5 or 250 something. [EDIT] yeah, 5 second google for NGC 4258 would have told me that.

[@DrBecky]

Oh my Universe - my chipped nails 🙈no one look!

[@SquaredSmith]

I am far to interested in you being excited about space to notice your nails

[@LeoWattenberg]

I'm already busy looking at the octocat in the background!

[@KinesVildHasse]

Your enthusiasm makes up for it!

[@dahemac]

Tackling actively accreting black holes will play havoc with your nail finish.

[@Annie1962]

didn't notice but now that you've mentioned it.. I'mma look now

[@GionKunz]

I love M106, thanks so much for sharing your knowledge!

[@gustavderkits8433]

You should cover the very recent discovery of a probable Seyfert event in the Milky Way about 3.2 Myr ago, by Joss Bland-Hawthorn and his team. Their analysis combines the Fermi bubbles data with the ionization of hydrogen clouds in th Magellanic stream. So we may be living in a Seyfert galaxy, which may just be a temporary condition of any galaxy. Worth your attention.

[@KeenanTims]

It's pretty crazy that lasers/masers occur in nature; they require pretty contrived situations to appear on earth, and I guess they're pretty rare in the cosmos too. Super interesting, and I really love Dr Becky's enthusiasm, pretty sure she just coined a new term ;). I'd love an episode on the distance ladder and the different clever ways cosmologists have come up with to measure distances with little more than a few smudgy dots of light on a photographic plate.

[@ChucksAstrophotography]

Fascinating information, this galaxy is a very popular target in the night sky for astrophotographers.

[@zapfanzapfan]

Still have a backlog of material with Dr Becky? Sweet! Mega Maser will be a thing from now on :-)

[@robnorris4770]

I can’t draw a straight line without a scale, but from this I learned I can draw a black hole. And a clump of Maser emission looks like a smashed spider.

[@UpcycleElectronics]

Very cool. I keep imagining a version of Spaceballs in some bubble universe has a mega maser. ..."Aaaaim de laaayzzaar.... FHIGHAR DE MEGAA MAAZAAHRRR!!!"

[@DavidThomasScorbal]

1:08 In this version of physics, electrons do Hohmann Transfers between energy levels. Neat.

[@Casowsky]

Jebediah Kerman up to his old antics I'm sure

[@mikeclarke952]

Mega Maser Quasar = MEMAQ Pronounced, "me mak". Used in a sentence: "Holy cow look at that memaq emission"!

[@jefflucas_life]

I have to make 2nd visit, it's so sheared, smeared looking with high emissions. Very interesting to image like M63.

[@zaahidapatel1362]

thanks for the informative series of videos ...and for all the work u do @DeepSkyVideos just a curious comment ...y does @Dr.Becky use the "normal" way to calculate distance of m106 from earth ; i thought space was curved (as mr einstein said) and there must be some pretty fancy mathematical way of calculatin distances in space ........ unless.............................................................

[@masaharumorimoto4761]

Wowzers!! She's sharp as a thumbtack! My brain hurts thinking about a water maser... Universal SuperSoaker.

[@Hali_D]

This galaxy is my favorite. Thank you for this information!

[@aerospacenews]

Fantastic video. I always find these very interesting. Especially the parts I actually understand. ;)

[@alanjs1]

Yet another great video. Here's an idea for a video. The nebula flyby in the video got me thinking, how bright would a nebula be if you was really close? The clip on the video gave the impression it would be really bright, but how bright would say the Orion nebula be if we were say less than a light year away, or even just a few AU? I was always under the assumption that as they were so massive, the luminance per area is actually low. Would love to hear your charming explanation!

[@BaronSamedi1959]

They maybe massive but are also rather big so the density will be rather low, *I think*. SO when you get quite close the brightness will be low as you will be seeing the darkness of space through the glowing gas.

[@alanjs1]

@@BaronSamedi1959 That's what I think aswell. Would be nice to get the Doc's opinion on it tho!!

[@thechrisgrice]

Wait... she said that the distance to the Mega Masar was 25 light years. Surely that can't be correct?

[@manfredpseudowengorz]

Missing "millions". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_106

[@Lerxster]

Nice piece on the Today program about Mercury vs Astrology :-)

[@StereoSpace]

That was quite a bit more than I was expecting.

[@roberthanleytortora7405]

really pulls it together there at the end VERY COOL btw nice job on event horizon

[@fazergazer]

Cosmologists often leave out the mega or million when talking with each other.

[@ITFAE]

love her enthusiasm

[@oliverberard]

Really appreciate teaching skills here - good teachers take complex ideas and explain them in ways the layman can understand [sort of :-)]

[@chilllytube]

Does the gas heat up by friction, or just the pressure?

[@line_noise]

That's the tidiest scientist's office I've ever seen! Where are the piles of journal extracts dating back to 1973?

[@eyykendrick]

Line Noise right

[@DrBecky]

😂 I’m a neat freak. Also - pixels not paper!

[@eyykendrick]

@@DrBecky I LOVE YOU!!! Honestly your genuine wholeheartedness motivates me to be more enthusiastic when I interact with people throughout the day. Your happiness is infectious and I hope to be the same way.

[@robinfallegger739]

I love all videos with Becky !

[@vieuxnez]

Love the high tech laptop stand! ;)

[@bobknip]

Considering the contents of that laptop stand, describing it as "high-tech" is probably accurate. :-)

[@epsyuma]

22 to 25 light-years away? That can't be or we would all be toast.

[@Hailfire08]

Can we just make masar an official term?

[@AstroRamiEmad]

9:30 is the distance 20 to 25 ly??? That sounds like inside our own Galaxy. Did you mean 25 million ly? Or are we talking about the distance between that blob and the black hole?

[@jimmyshrimbe9361]

Oh my frack!! My notifications are turned off for this channel and I DEFINITELY didn't have it set that way. What the eff?

[@Axonteer]

you still have it in your feed so just dont sub to 20000 chans and youll be fine

[@DeepSkyVideos]

Get that fixed!

[@jimmyshrimbe9361]

@@Axonteer yeah, thanks. It's more of a "why did that happen" comment, though.

[@jimmyshrimbe9361]

@@DeepSkyVideos you better believe I fixed it immediately!

[@manfredpseudowengorz]

Thanks for a reminder.

[@MrKago1]

So are we seeing just the glowing accretion disk or are we seeing the jets pointing at us or both? also does this mean the mega maser light is highly polarized like in lasers?

[@bobknip]

8:49 Dr. Becky's nice eye.

[@dknabeel]

Dr Becky is back :D

[@Veptis]

we get the office video on a different channel?

[@rhoddryice5412]

Bradys channels are well worth watching.

[@Depressed_Dinosaur]

New DSV, thank you!!! Now ignitine the Mega-Maser-Quasar-Blaster, and the world is ours!

[@winnieg100]

How is the graph made?

[@SeminarChauffeur]

Does it have any satellite galaxies?

[@SquaredSmith]

I hope that Dr Becky is having a good day.

[@davidwilkie9551]

Who says "QM says"...?, Why? What? How does it "say" outside of the Anthropic Principle? (String Theory Mathematics) This is the next posit of harmonic resonance-> coherent interference radiation in sequence since Vera Rubin's "Dinner Plate" galaxy rotation observation. Interesting and an illustration of the Conformal Fields=> i-reflection/black-hole Modulation Mechanism of probabilities in potential possibilities QM-TIMESPACE, e-Pi-i interference Principle.

[@MrGooglevideoviewer]

Awesome video! Very interesting :)

[@pierreabbat6157]

AMAZING MASAR

[@skyward7699]

How many stars are in M106?

[@Banzaj33]

I share your love for this galaxy. I even have it tattooed on me 😊

[@ericsbuds]

[@GoFyouSelfGrandma]

Have any blue nugget galaxies discovered so far have massive galactic central black holes?

[@jamesdriscoll9405]

Had to re - ring the bell. wth YT?

[@bogey19018]

Is there any life on this M106 galaxy?

[@luckypillgrim1913]

I find the answer why discoveries are going so slow :( they are done on Mac's

[@str1xt]

Columated mega masers, yes I said to myself, that's what I was thinking .

[@Ben_the_Ignorant]

I saw that galaxy it with a 10x50 binocular but it takes a very dark night.

[@maynardjohnson3313]

That's what I've always said, things like Gamma Ray Bursters, things that blast high energy photons anisotropicly across space distantly especially are kind of naturally occurring lasers. The jets of ionized matter acreating into things like black holes form a population inversion preferentially in a particular direction or vector and through super-radiance, single pass laser gain without a fabry perot cavity, these structures preferentially blast out energy at higher than expected levels due to stimulated emission along the jet axis. I've also wondered that if one set up an actual resonant cavity with gallium arsenide, zinc selenide or first surface gold mirrors on a suitable substrate in the atmosphere of Mars, would you get a CO2 laser beam at 10.6 microns? We had a naturally occurring, water moderated, nuke reactor in Africa. Why not naturally occurring lasers? Maybe not freakin' sharks with freakin' laser beams on their heads but what about Gamma Ray Bursters? I'm not sayin' anything, just sayin'.

[@q23main]

Darth Vader wanted me to ask, can you put that technology on a "moon"? 😉

[@janeclark1881]

22-25 Mly is not ±3%. It's nearer ±8%

[@gert-janbraas7516]

@5:46 a photon has exited an electron to go to a higher band, and then a second photon 'stimulates it down', emitting one(?) photon? What am i missing here?

[@leftaroundabout]

You've basically got it right. The weird-seeming thing here is the “stimulating it down” part, but actually this shouldn't be too surprising: all the emission / radiation processes are reversible, so coupling to a down-transition is in principle just as well possible as to an up-transition. The reason we don't usually notice that as much is that in most situations, there are far more electrons in the low-energy state than in the high-energy one, so up-stimulation has simply much more opportunity than stimulated emission. The few instances where that does happens normally go unnoticed because the emitted radiation is indistinguishable from the stimulating one. That's very different in a laser/maser though, the crucial thing being the population inversion: there are more electrons in the _high_ energy state, thus you actually get more energy out after the stimulation and that's the light/microwave _amplification_ mechanism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_inversion

[@gert-janbraas7516]

@@leftaroundabout Aha. Thanx. From that wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stimulated_Emission.svg

[@peteshea155]

Aristarchus is the singular Earthbound source to all skylights. but you are a doctor so the Earth can't be flat and stationary and all the reflected skylights can't be local reflections off of a contoured watery mirrorlike barrier. carry on.

[@JohnDoe-vq8bg]

The KZbin cor-rector's do love you Dr Becky! Best regards!

[@tribananas]

Very cool.

[@Smonserratm]

Masers were invented before lasers.

[@MegaPhester]

Am I the only person terrified by massive clouds in space shooting microwave lasers? What would happen if an inhabited star system passed through the beam? I imagine the distances are big enough that this scenario is very unlikely but imagine a whole planet being boiled or sterilized by a huge beam randomly sweeping through the neighbourhood...

[@RedStefan]

Yeah pretty sure quasars are not habitable

[@sujimtangerines]

Me, thinking about gamma ray bursts.

[@kaylaandjimbryant8258]

@9:52 oops. 22-25 LY away would put it inside the milky way.

[@ibizenco]

Is the universe not FASCINATING?

[@ScottLahteine]

In my universe M106 sets the fan speed.

[@ChristopherSprance]

Sweet octocat mini

[@thomasp2572]

in 5:40 both photons should leave the vicinity of the atom.... the way it is now, it looks like that the stimulating photon is being absorbed, which is not right

[@ricardoalves3475]

IT'S INSIDE OUR GALAXY!!! RUN AWAY!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!

[@n1k0n_]

Gaser?

[@ianbaird6113]

Halton Arp Seyfert Galaxy, what did he find? Seeing RED? Why would a astronomer get banned for trying to publish his observations? Science after all is questioning the Narrative even if it means you get Blacklisted! Why is that?

[@arasharfa]

This is what KZbin is for

[@bruinflight]

"Quantum mechanics says..." LOL

[@d4v0r_x]

mega maser quasar laser phaser goes brrr

[@rokpape8214]

You are my favourite...

[@TexanRanger321]

Could fast radio burst be the equivalent of the x Ray maser, by polar reversal of the singularity ?

[@BaronSamedi1959]

You're accidentally touching an interesting issue: How does it come that maths are so incredibly good at describing our universe? Your comment of course is still totally insane of course.

[@billschlafly4107]

I love how passionate she is.

[@sulijoo]

The universe is a grand menagerie, filled with animals we can barely imagine.

[@leftpastsaturn67]

You know you've been single for too long when an attractive doctor talking about collimation makes you a little weak at the knees.

[@alnilam2151]

Pesky ould critterz those interfering antiferometerz; al ways cloud prognosiable aspects in shadow like a drought oasis that was a dream within a dream? 'T was a Mirage al' de time! No joke ;

[@Axonteer]

Ill bet her dotted dress was chosen because of deep sky videos and it sort of imitates the night sky ;-)

[@MrUpphew]

Dr B trying to find D

[@sirkowski]

Megazord

[@will2see]

@ 9:54 - "22 to 25 ly away" - MILLIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG, you didn't notice that when you edited the video??????

[@yuotwob3091]

23-25 light years ^ - 3 away , so, on the page

[@Modenut]

Rule #276 of The Patriarchy *clearly* states that women are not allowed to know space...things. (no, I was not actually serious)

[@mjb9455]

what if red shift measurement is wrong? Maybe the universe is not expanding.

[@virkez010]

What if the measured evidence I have of your making of this comment is wrong? Maybe you never made this comment.

[@deathsheadknight2137]

does anyone else like notice the oddness of a British scientist using a manner of speech reminiscent of like, California valley girls?

[@TraitorVek]

H2

[@brettmoore3194]

How can yous say that is a real image?

[@bjorkstrand7773]

rubbish

[@lovewind2009]

Allah understands our prayers even when we can’t find the words to say Them.

[@brianpetkovic4579]

l u .

[@pvhufpvhuf3751]

Wrong pronunciation of Seyfert.

[@pottierkurt1702]

Doesn't the university own a tripod 4 that camera. The filming of this made me carsick.

[@Mr.Unacceptable]

Beckey's dimples are just so distracting.

[@danfg7215]

Solder Joe Who’s Becky? I only see dimples

[@wesleycameron1034]

This is all bad science

[@ashwinvishwakarma2531]

omg chipped nails i cant watch anymore, unsubbed