M36 - The star with a tail - Deep Sky Videos

[@AntonioBarba_TheKaneB]

"Star formation is a really messy process, and the more closely you look at it, the Messier it gets" -- Prof. Merrifield (2017)

[@doic342ido9]

^_^

[@adricortesia]

pun intended ;)

[@seanrodden6151]

Antonio Barba Mike's expression said he was waiting for Brady to get it :-)

[@thewitchking84]

you could really see the satisfaction on his face after enouncing the pun :D

[@TheTipov]

dang 40 minutes too late

[@calcumore_not_less]

The closer you look, the Messier it gets !!

[@meatballg8655]

Nathan Brewer that pun knocked me out cold, I was seeing stars.

[@calcumore_not_less]

Meatballs for life I too thought it was pretty stellar.

[@MitchDonovan]

He's a gas!

[@MrBenjiih]

"Climate vs weather." Really like that analogy. Great vid!

[@emilioherrera6345]

"They had this nice picture of what might be going on but then foolishly they decided to collect some more data" 4:57 The doom of every scientist...

[@RonJohn63]

And Merrifield seems to strongly imply that it's a bad thing: "you might start forecasting the weather!".

[@ricardoabh3242]

Was not expecting that a star could be that dynamic, the 50 years scale, when young.

[@AntonioBarba_TheKaneB]

yep, that's impressive

[@WetaMantis]

check out the crab nebula and Hubble variable nebula.

[@PaulPaulPaulson]

I really like the zoom in sequence! Would love to see that in future videos, too!

[@dezkelz]

Messier puns. Nicely done, professor!

[@TheVergile]

6:07 - trying not to chuckle at his own joke

[@Hermanatus]

the more closely you look at it, the "messier" it gets. wonderful unintentional pun

[@steve1978ger]

I laughed at 3:17, "a disk of material around it, which presumably eventually might form some planets or WHATEVER"

[@Qexilber]

"the messier it gets" xD Nice pun speaking about a Messier object! ;)

[@anthonyhall7019]

love the guy who starts this video! he is so smart!

[@bignimmo1971]

magic videos guys and gals.... keep em coming, well impressed

[@veggiet2009]

I'm confused, I thought the result of the molecular analysis was that it wasn't one star in a state in the formation process but it is multiple objects that are lining up from our viewpoint, after he states that he goes back to talking about star formation in the singular.

[@misterkefir]

(...)The "messier" it gets --> and then that pause after he said that. Epic xD

[@wadaya87]

Even though it's not a Messier object, it would be fantastic to see a video about The Great Attractor! :D been watching your videos for years, Brady, they're fantastic!

[@scowell]

I think the big takeaway is that we need more observatories at more wavelengths! Especially molecular wavelengths.

[@passthebutterrobot2600]

Apparently storing books & folders on a set of shelves is also a really messy process

[@kasnitch]

what an impressively pertinent question Brady. you have a good mind.

[@Temp0raryName]

1. Ironic that a catalog created to avoid confusion with comets would have an object that looks very much like one! 2. If this object was recently not a star, then perhaps it would have been subject to astronomical effects we would associate with non-stars. Perhaps that really is a gaseous tail, analogous to a comet's (but far far larger) which was stripped off the object due to the influence of the nearby hidden object emitting energy in a form capable of doing that? Which would explain it not having a counterpart on the other side of the newly formed star.

[@DivakerTimothy]

Please do a video of what possibly could have happened with the 🌟 N6946-BH1 not going supernova.

[@cshinghirtis]

One lesson that could be learned is 4000 light years is very far away..and the corollary to that would be what's very far away is very hard to see.

[@symetryrtemys2101]

I've been waiting for this one! One of my favourite m objects!

[@aluisious]

"There's a thing with a tail, and we did a bunch of modelling, and figured we probably only see one tail because it's pointed at us and the other side is hidden." Sometimes these videos make me feel like people are incredibly smart, and sometimes, not so much.

[@MrMyusernameistaken]

Who of you had to put the volume to the maximum?

[@MrSimythe]

MrMyusernameistaken ...not I, but I use earbuds, when watching KZbin.

[@mattmcalister1915]

The audio on this video seems a little unclear. Too much mic gain me thinks, perhaps a little muffled too.

[@Server0750]

The word tail had me confused, it gave me the idea of something holding back stuff from the star as it moves tru empty space...

[@singlespies]

Started typing "the messier it gets..." then scrolled down the page to see if anyone had noticed yet...

[@DeadInsideDave]

are there any planets that are so large that if we were to find life on them would they then would they be giant sized? like how large is the biggest planet discovered and how big might the animals be if they existed on it?

[@karmaarachnid8345]

Might life on a very massive planet be better off staying small? It seems like having high gravity could make it difficult to carry around the weight of a big body. After all, here on Earth small organisms like ants can be stronger than big ones in proportion to their size.

[@AntonioBarba_TheKaneB]

also, here on earth we know that small animals are much more common and they survive much longer through the eons. Big animals are fragile because they / we need more energy for every aspect of our life. Take a look at insects, they really are the lords of this planet

[@DeadInsideDave]

my reasons for asking is i was wondering that if we did ever meet intelligent life is it possible that they could be giants in size because of the size of these mega planets? im thinking like that old tv show "land of the giants".

[@AntonioBarba_TheKaneB]

I'm thinking the opposite could be true, since the stronger gravity means more energy is spent to move around and to pump blood/fluids in the body, so I think there is an evolutionary advange in being small and light, even more so if the gravity is strong.

[@DeadInsideDave]

is there any situations in which a planets scale might lead to giants animals or is that just environmental etc

[@Frostlander]

Is Professor Merrifield ok? Past few videos he has seemed a bit more disheveled. No attack here, just worried/wondering.

[@AstroMikeMerri]

Sarkazeoh just getting old!

[@Pedrooko]

Volume is too low.

[@EtzEchad]

It could be a Bussard ramjet...

[@eiver]

6:05 - The more you look at it, the Messier it gets :-D

[@annsidbrant7616]

Sure M36 is young! It's about 25 million years old, and it's young enough that it hasn't even got any red giants in it. So there!

[@wilsonscott2370]

Wish they would look at it with one of the space telescopes

[@slpk]

[@alexandrugheorghe5610]

please check your microphone! sound's always too low with Prof.

[@megaalibear]

Keith from Objectivity had best watch out for his title as chief punner on Brady's videos with Merri [sic] Mike's Messier puns!

[@CelticSaint]

Definitely a Guppy, or a Koi Carp with it's mouth open. A very bright mouth. 0:56

[@ben10pa]

he looks like whispers from sense 8

[@kentscoffey]

Ask Professor Merrifield if he could talk SLOWER for us who are not British.

[@rhoddryice5412]

I always set the speed at 0.75 when feat. Prof. Merrifield

[@cgaccount3669]

For what it's worth this Canadian has no issues with his voice at all.

[@carlwitt7950]

This is the Astronomic equivalent of being told about the birds and the bees.

[@UrbanPanic]

Eh, probably just a Shkadov thruster.

[@peachtrees27]

Has / will ALMA observe this mess(y-ier-help) object? I hope so! Excellent video btw. Big thanks.

[@lithium820]

I love the beard

[@fahimrumman6945]

professor merrifield unshaved looks he just woke from hibernation! also great video!

[@lucidmoses]

So they should rename Messier objects to messy objects.

[@levi12howell]

Am I the only one who can barely hear this guy speak?

[@9miinox]

not first but close nvm first

[@kasparsr]

star formation is a Messier process

[@davelane1980]

Insta-click

[@AddisonLarson]

So what you are saying is God partially kugelblitzed (to use it as a verb) a black hole (THE singularity), and the black between the stars is the shell of the expanded black hole we live in, and we are screwed because one day the the bubble will pop and the kugelblitzing light will reach earth!? or worse the kugelblitzing light will be turned off causing a collapse of our universe all together!? lol just kidding, but seriously...

[@mylesbishop1240]

AddisonLarson shhh please don't comment ever again, cheers 🍻

[@AddisonLarson]

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