dr-becky 2 years ago
astrophysicist #Space and Time

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!

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
astrophysicist