How to spot Comet NEOWISE, plus the largest 3D map of the Universe | Night Sky News July 20
Find out what you can look for in the night sky in the next month, plus catch up on all the latest space news. From spotting Comet NEOWISE and the upcoming Perseid meteor shower, to the 10 year timelapse of images of the Sun, to the smallest neutron star or the largest black hole ever detected by LIGO, to a star that may have skipped supernova and collapsed directly into a black hole and the largest 3D map of the Universe released to date which will help hopefully resolve the "crisis in cosmology"... #space #cometNEOWISE #space
Find where Comet NEOWISE is from your location: https://theskylive.com/planetarium?ob...|10.48393976525617|dec|44.598440218261665|fov|62.35000000000001
00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - Comet NEOWISE
05:16 - Meteor Showers
08:13 - 10 Year Sun timelapse
10:30 - LIGO merger of black hole and something else?
14:03 - A skipped supernova?
17:45 - The largest 3D map of the Universe
Timelapse of the Sun - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/...
Giant spots on Betelgeuse (info on my Instagram stories): Dharmawardena et al. (2020) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.09409.pdf
A white dwarf thrown out in a supernova (info on my Instagram stories): Gänsicke et al. (2020) - https://www.eso.org/public/archives/r...
LIGO’s smallest black hole or biggest neutron star? - Abbott et al. (2020) - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
A star that possibly skipped supernova to become a black hole - Allan et al. (2020) - https://www.eso.org/public/archives/r...
eBOSS’s 3D map of the Universe (with 3D VR video) - https://www.sdss.org/press-releases/n...
eBOSS 20 new papers describing science with this 3D map - https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/public-...
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👩🏽💻 Dr Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist researching galaxies and supermassive black holes at Christ Church at the University of Oxford.
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