M107 - An OG Globular Cluster - Deep Sky Videos

Dr Becky Smethurst discusses Messier 107 - also known as NGC 6171 - an Oosterhoff type I cluster. Extra M107 chat at: • M107 - Dark Matter (ex...
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[@MiguelAPerez]

I'm a simple man. I see Dr. Smethurst on a video, I watch it immediately. 13/10

[@DrBecky]

🤗🤗🤗

[@beck4218]

"Falsifiable twaddle" love it.

[@DrBecky]

😅

[@inamortz2372]

To all involved in these, yous are legends. One of my favourite corners of KZbin.

[@DrBecky]

Thanks!

[@PaulPaulPaulson]

So the last messier object in this series will be M108, a spiral galaxy. Maybe not the last video, there is an intro video and this series deserves an outro. I would love an extra video as a celebration.

[@daseeyesh]

Yeah, intro from 2012! Where is the cake!? 🎂Time flies...

[@StereoSpace]

Becky has a real talent for explanation.

[@iampracticingpiano]

Once the Messier catalog is complete, can we move to NGC objects, please? LOVE this series--thank you!!!!

[@wolfman83778]

Now that would take bloody forever. There are something like 7000 objects in the original catalog, and don't forget the associated IC I and IC II, as well as the various revisions that have been made to the NGC/IC since Dreyer published it. It might be better to make a series on the Herschel's GC, which is about a thousand objects. It would take ages to do it if they used this format of having one of about a dozen astronomers look up an object in their free time, check the background of research, condense it down into a video that's less than ten minutes long, and get it edited. Might be better to expand their pool of astronomers to interview, because the reason the Messier catalog took so long to finish was because once the well known ones were done with, these astronomers would take their time becoming familiar with the less known objects before talking about them, and take it from me, that's time consuming and something that's better left to your free time! I'm sure Brady could save himself time by reaching out to astronomers that might have actually done a bit of research on these objects already.

[@Starclimber]

Good idea. Won't be running out of THEM anytime soon!

[@BillMSmith]

Deep Sky video WITH Dr. Becky? Yeah, I can make time for that. I like how she shows us how added data has expanded and improved how we define things without making (too much) fun of her predecessors.

[@davidhiraki4938]

Amazing to see this project nearing completion after over a decade! What is next for the channel? If you're looking for ideas, I'd love for a series on our solar system, sort of a cross between "Moon of the Week" and Periodic Videos. You could do an updated video on each planet (and the sun, of course), and then dive into the dwarf planets, moons, and asteroids. Love your work! Can't wait to see what is next!

[@skuzzbunny]

one of my all time favorites, lovely to see her on channel again, thank you!!!

[@felipemuci5944]

Excellent video! Thank you!!!

[@michaelcollins966]

Nearly there Brady! Just one more to go! Can't wait to see this decade long challenge complete.

[@SharpAssKnittingNeedles]

Good lerd I love the science in this vid, Brady! So cool how much data we can discern on objects that are as old or older than our galaxy, and Becky's explanation of everything is so clear as always! This is the GOAT of channels! Thank you!

[@Fux704]

Great image quality in this one. Nice!!

[@ianmcclelland2524]

I click on your channel, just to put a smile on my face......Love how much you love your career.......

[@Caesarr7]

New camera Brady? Fantastic image quality

[@seansmith729]

A new Messier video and it's Dr Becky, it is indeed a good day

[@LionidasL10]

Yay Dr. Becky!

[@GaryDunion]

The astronomer urge to describe anything heavier than helium as a "metal"

[@johannweber5185]

Well I guess chemists would be irritated by astromers calling oxygen and fluorine "metals".

[@JamesWylde]

Great video!

[@kevandeg]

so excited for a deep sky walkthrough of the new JWST data 🎉

[@ragnkja]

That would be cool.

[@michaelsommers2356]

Dr. Smethurst plans to post such a video later today.

[@avt_astro206]

Great Video. Just One more To go. m108 galaxy, best For last!

[@forthrightgambitia1032]

I believe Ophiculus wasn't considered part of the zodiac because when the concept was created in the ancient world the earth's precession meant it was off the ecliptic at the time.

[@manco828]

Nothing boring about globular clusters.

[@jeromesnail]

That was actually really interesting.

[@surrog]

Awesome video, but I must say that I can't wait for videos on JWST results on this channel :)

[@chillsahoy2640]

That paper from 1973? Oh that's like 30...no 40...no wait...that paper is 49 years old. Are you telling me they wrote that paper HALF A CENTURY AGO?!?!?!

[@veggiet2009]

Maybe we need to think about more descriptive names. Like "low rotation Galaxy" and "high rotation Galaxy" or "low metallic globular cluster" and "high metallic globular cluster" or "native globular cluster" or some other such nomenclature rather than keeping the type 1/2 dichotomies that don't tell you anything about why they are the type they are

[@KafshakTashtak]

That made me wonder if arms of galaxies were originally globular clusters that joined the galaxy, and got torn apart, and shaped into an arm.

[@qwaqwa1960]

Pretty sure I have a book by HS Hogg, but damned if I can find it...

[@ggb3147]

Only one to go! ✌

[@cptechno]

Are there planets around stars in globular clusters?

[@sonnylecrone8468]

It's predictable and plausible that humanity is unlocking the door. To questions that could not be answered since the beginning of Time think about that for a minute.. . . . .

[@karlkarl93]

Would it be possible to get a video about Öpik of the Oort-Öpik fame? Not sure what he actually did and why is his name sometimes shared with Oort.

[@CarlosArellano99]

She’s bacc in business we stannn

[@Bladavia]

so long, globular clusters

[@oninoyakamo]

Stars carried along in eddies left behind from a pair of galactic mergers in the Milky Way's past following the planes of their original gravity fields?

[@satubock]

How ya get Becky back?

[@CheshireTomcat68]

She's no prima donna, she's there for the science when asked.

[@PrivatePAuLa29a]

@@CheshireTomcat68 Was about to say. They probably just asked her.

[@DrBecky]

I’d never leave Deep Sky Videos 😱

[@iugoeswest]

Woot woot

[@Scribe13013]

Ophiuchus changed me from a Sagittarius to a Scorpio...I'll never forgive him for that...lol

[@vaderdudenator1]

Wait is this the final object???

[@SterremanWillie]

Just one question about people born "under" Ophiuchus; You mentioned that the Sun is in Ophiuchus between 29 November and 18 December - but did you take precession into account to get those dates, i.e. are those the dates the Sun is currently in Ophiuchus or 2000 years ago (like the astrologers believe, since they don't take precession into account)?

[@franziskavkarma]

I'm no professional astronomer or anything, so I could be wrong, but it seems like 2000 years ago (I went as far back as I could on Stellarium, which is year 1 AD) the Sun was in Sagittarius throughout Nov 29 and Dec 18, while nowadays it's in Ophiuchus during those dates. I'm not too knowledgeable on astrology, but if they don't take precession into account, then the supposedly 13th sign would be between Nov 2nd and Nov 19, I think. (TLDR, the dates mentioned in the video are the ones the Sun is currently in Ophiuchus)

[@SterremanWillie]

Thanks @@franziskavkarma for doing the legwork in Stellarium (which I still meant to do). So it seems like Dr Becky needs to brush up on astrology because you can't have the current sky, this is far to real! ;-) ;-)

[@nick30brodeur]

Now redo all the videos with JWST images 😆

[@ricardoabh3242]

The last boring one lol

[@alnilam2151]

Deciphering brings with it its' own headaches, the only thing ever done wrong is survive 2tellAtaleRtwo never heard from the heavens above to the sky below: the matter needs correcting! {\}

[@carnsoaks1]

Look into Gas Streams. These objects were recently hypothesised as creating the SMBHs in the early universe. A stream of dense H gas might coalesce into pearls on a string, huhdyhuh? And create globules-a-clustered.

[@iamthebeelzebub]

I had a joke about my mucus and your mucus, but that would have been lame and probably flagged as sexist, because modern people can't separate between sexual and sexist. I'm just gonna disappear now, bye.