dr-becky 2 months ago
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Incredible New JWST Images of 19 Galaxies

In this month’s night sky news episode we’re chatting about comet Pons Brooks, which might become a naked-eye comet, the European-Extremely Large Telescope in Chile moving its dome for the first time, ESA giving the go-ahead for the LISA gravitational wave detector, JWST finding a rare “dead” dwarf galaxy, and JWST revealing the dust structure in 19 galaxies in incredible detail.

00:00 Intro

01:07 "Micro”-Full Moon!

02:17 Venus, Mars, crescent Moon

03:43 Waxing crescent Moon + Jupiter!

04:21 Half-moon in Winter Hexagon

05:31 Post-Equinox conjunction of Venus & Saturn

06:51 Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks!

08:48 AD Planet Wild

10:32 E-ELT rotates dome

12:12 LISA adopted by ESA

15:15 Arno Penzias RIP

16:15 Ingenuity end of mission

16:30 Juno close flyby of Io

19:42 19 of the PHANGS JWST MIRI galaxies!

25:42 First-ever isolated “dead” dwarf galaxy discovered by JWST

30:21 Conclusion

31:56 Bloops

Dr Becky Smethurst
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