The Oort Cloud: Crash Course Astronomy #22 

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@@supaooze3600 Looks like i picked the wrong day to stop sniffing airplane glue.

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Amber Nelson What a fascinating planet it turned out to be -- not at all the boring, frozen ball of ice it was believed for so long to be!

Now its approaching the oldest and most distant object we've ever gone to. Bravo.

Yoooo that is AWESOME😍

Phlos Fysics Phan 42 yep

Phlos Fysics Phan 42, I think the same, too!!!

Phlos Fysics Phan 42 I have to agree especially since I absolutely can’t stand how Hank presents things. He talks way too fast. When you are watching a video that is about something you are learning about you need people to talk at a regular pace so that you have time to process the information and put it in your head. When they talk so fast it is in one ear and out the other because you didn’t have enough time to hold it in your short-term memory in order to transfer to your long term memory. I kind of wish this guy was a little slower talking but that is most likely an issue with myself and I’m sure most people have no problem with it. I really, really can’t stand Hank and it kills me to know the millions of dollars that he has made from making his fast talking videos.

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Not nearly as incorrect is the fact that no comet nuclei we’ve ever pictured and feel free to go doublecheck in trying to be wrong as ever once demonstrated that it’s a dirty snowball they all look like hard sedimentary rock or volcanic rock. What we’re seeing here is nothing but pure theory passed off as proven science which is absolutely incorrect. Proven science and excepted science are two different things I have no problem with everything said here as long as you put in the statement theory these are not fax proven definitively what we’re seeing here is nothing but pure theory passed off as proven science which is absolutely incorrect. Proven science and excepted science are two different things!

@@jamesbellegarde2893 Handy life hint: If you want people to take your comment as a serious and intelligent piece, you might want to brush up on your spelling and grammar. That was annoying to read.

James Bellegarde Dude. Get Grammarly or something. You’re just embarrassing yourself.

@@jamesbellegarde2893 uuuummmmm no bro. Comets are definitely frozen gas mixed with other things , which is why they sublimate.

Marauder Gun Yes all the ones that look exactly like astroids and all the astroid that are “firing off Jets”are supplementing. Then you need to explain why the Jets go in the opposite direction from the sun sorry but your just sublimation theory is pretty much debunked, Not that any astronomer who built his career on the delusional big bang theory is ever going to admit that. Welcome to the age of plasma cosmology

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azdgariarada We still don’t... *”ARTIST’S IMPRESSION”*

We're living in the second great age of discovery right now... :) OL J R :)

Gareth Dean yukyukyuk 😜😂

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Oh good god ... Nice :)

A likely tail.

Congration. You done it.

I pray you can binge watch RU-vid videos like this that will help on your trek for knowledge. I pray you become or have CPU savvy so you can download and read a lot of .pdfs (books), and that you are led where to look for a new information.

Remember those days well... even though I was born in 1971. Back in the pre-internet days... when I was in school I read books about astronomy and planets and moons voraciously, and there wasn't that much to tell. There had only been flyby spacecraft to Mercury and Venus and Mars at that time, so most of it was artwork, and general information like day length of the various planets, their sizes, year lengths in Earth days or Earth years, and the major moons of the outer planets. Some stuff about their atmospheres or elements found there via spectroscopy or sketchy details about their surfaces of the moons or inner planets from radar astronomy, but that was about it. Pioneer flew by Jupiter and Saturn when I was in elementary school, but it took awhile for that information to disseminate. They were also pretty limited compared to the Voyager probes which were launched in 1979, which everybody was excited about. The pics we'd gotten back of Mars' surface from the Viking landers in '76 had been amazing, even though they couldn't move around on the surface. The photos and data sent back by Voyager was literally rewriting the text books and discovering new worlds, as what had only been sketchy ground-based telescope images and "artists impressions" or depictions by famous space artists like Chesley Bonestell (among others) which were beautiful pieces of art, but were just how we IMAGINED it looked... Voyager actually sent back snapshots that showed us REAL WORLDS out there in the darkness we'd never REALLY seen before! The instruments sent back data that told us about those worlds, details we'd never known before, and surprised us with things like Io's volcanoes... I remember a movie from about 1979 starring Sean Connery called "Outland", where he was a Federal marshal on a mining colony on Io, which was then thought to be a dead world like our Moon, rich in metals. Voyager proved that long-held view COMPLETELY WRONG with only a handful of photographs! It really was "discovering new worlds"... we'd known *forever* that they were there, but knew tantalizingly little about them; science surmised most of what we knew from distant observations. I remember well the anticipation of the Voyager fly-by's of Saturn, then a few years later, Uranus, and then finally Neptune. SO much was learned, it went from a couple paragraphs and a grainy telescope photo or artist rendering to whole books being written. Most of the libraries back then had surprisingly few books on the subject back then either-- some dated back to the 50's and 60's and had already had parts of them rendered obsolete from the Mariners and Pioneers and Vikings and Soviet Veneras and other such probes... When you were hungry for more, well, you took what you could get, because "pickin's was mighty slim"... Then we finally got the internet, and now with RU-vid and various online sources and services like "Great Courses Plus" and many others, you can literally learn more in an afternoon than most PhD's at the time knew back then... It's amazing to think how much we'll be able to learn in the coming decades... and that we'll have a front-row seat to it, via the internet... (Unless a super-solar-flare sends us all back to the Stone Age electronically, or we manage to nuke ourselves...) Later! OL J R:)

Woah! That was long!

Firstly ,wow a boomer who doeaent hate younger generation ur awesome Second, earth does not pass through the asteroid belt but quite a few asteroids can get to earth especially when the earth on its slightly but barly noticable elliptical orbit gets closest to the asteroid belt

"we were born too late to explore earth and too early to explore the universe"

Viktor Nerlander Maybe season 2 will happen

whiteflagstoo Yes please

Viktor Nerlander the universe is infinite, the series is therefore also infinite. They could probably do some stuff on Exoplanets and possible Earth Like planets (which is what most astronomers are interested in, naturally).

monkeytrollu I guess the series has only really touched on the Solar System at the moment, there's still plenty more than that in Astronomy!

Even Andy My prediction was right, they are now doing exoplanets :)

NichoTBE Let's hope that the new generation of telescopes (like The James Webb Space Telescope will help us understand the region better.

PokeZelda6664 It's very soon. I'm excited!

PokeZelda6664 I've been talking my wife's ear off about it.

PokeZelda6664 I can't wait myself.

PokeZelda6664 Holy crap I'm getting a buzz every time I get news about it since 2013! I'm getting so excited as the days go by. 14th of July I believe is the time we'll get data for the first time

PokeZelda6664 This should be worth a new day of celebration once it reaches. Day of New Horizons maybe!

Steve Lovelace you are much younger than me so you don’t realize what it’s like to have Pluto be a planet for most of your life and how heartbreaking the whole ordeal is. We were taught that it’s orbit was no lined up in the plane of the rest of the solar system. Pluto didn’t even have a discovered moon. And some of it could be because for most of us that learned and knew pluto as a planet for a such a long time were also the children that only had cartoons to watch on Saturday mornings from 8am-11am (that’s all the tv there was for kids) and we all watched Disney and loved Mickey Mouse’s dog, Pluto. I’m sure that is subconsciously. It’s just like when they decided peanuts weren’t nuts but legumes. Or that tomatoes are fruits. Or that your dad isn’t your real dad. It’s a really hard, cold world out there....lol Also I hope you see the irony and ridiculousness (not meant meanly) of your comment. The subject finally goes unsaid and then there is that person who has to bring it up because they can’t help themselves. But seriously, I know how you feel. I feel the same way when every science thing you are watching has to bring up climate change. We are bombarded with it so while watch a science thing about something else it doesn’t need to be forced in there. We know! Have a great day! Take Care.

Galaxies send us lots of photons. Tiny objects billions of kms away in the oort cloudcan only reflect the sun's photons, if their surface is reflective. They also shine in longer wavelenghts, but many of those waves are filtered out by our atmosphere. I hope we'll soon have more powerful scopes in space that help us get a more complete picture of our solar system and allows us to observe it in many different wavelengths.

***** Might make sense. If this is supposed to be #22, the 2 is below the 5 on the number pad. Could have hit the 5 by mistake.

Fighting_Hussar And if it is, we'd be able to finally travel at FTL speeds to other parts of the galaxy!

Cuckoo Phendula And find an alien robots who want to kill us all :D

JumboCod91 But the colour change dude xD So unique xDD

JumboCod91 more importantly, that'd mean asari are real, so it doesnt really matter

Tjag321 Well when Asari and Quarians are included (Ok I might be freak but also Turian females are hot O.o) then fuck her right in the pussy xD

Josh Bobst Wait until we get to episode 31. He's got some great shirts, but the one he brought for that shoot is my favorite so far. -Nicole

CrashCourse Ok, I'll wait.

+CrashCourse on oort is a comets

PaladinV0ci isnt kerbin the planet

Alex Sitaras It is.

PaladinV0ci no it kerbals. You see jeb,bob&bill there?

Will Gallagher dude are you for real??

Will Gallagher wait !!!! Why not Etheria? (It’s wayyyyy worse - form she-ra and the princesses of power)

Masde of ice

Alex Sitaras Ha! I get it! "Siriusly", as in the star Sirius? Because the Sun stole from other...stars...please say that pun was intentional.

***** yup

Yeah me three

***** Same

Thomas PlaysTheGames maybe they are reserving episode numbers for pluto close up

khhnator my exact thought

Look at the thumbnail I think it was just a typo

I just thought of that. "Highly speculative" in this video, and a few months later, "Moderately to Highly Probable." Science!

Tonay Planet X?

Gummy Bugz This newly predicted ninth planet bares no resemblance to the Niburu myth that has been orbiting the internet for several years now. If you add up all the supposed "facts" about Niburu, it couldn't possibly exist. It was predicted to crash into the earth in 2012 just for starters. That alone proves Niburu doesn't exist.

i know this is late and you probably wont read it, but..... if you think about it there are many planets beyond neptune. maybe even infinite planets orbiting other stars in other galaxies. since space is infinite there should also be infinite planets. technically :)

Space may be infinite, or not. But the number of bodies in it doesn't seem to be. They're just maybe uncountable, which is different. New bodies also may be continually manufactured, but given the dissipation of energy over time, that, too, may come to an end. Especially if they're right that space will continue to expand without a predictable end.

***** Apparently, both are correct, although I think that original (Greek) pronunciation is Haron (that initial h is pronounced).

hmm.. did not know that, thanks for the info.

Charon can be pronounced as SHA•ron or KHA•ron as a Greco-Roman myth person.

I knew a girl with that name. She pronounced it "Sharon."

In the Greek alphabet it looks like Xapon. English has neither the sound nor the letter X. It sounds a bit like an aspirated English H but softer, not using abdominal muscles. English orthography is an awful mess. The above X sound is often transcribed as KH. So maybe it's better spelled Kharon :)

theJamman Sorry for the unnecessary scare! I hope we didn't send you into too great a panic. -Nicole

Nicole, how about giving us an early bonus video on astronomy? :D

CrashCourse Asteroids next. Are you gunna release it for June 30 (asteroid day!)?

JoannaPawluk I also can't wait for it! It's going to be really exciting, we're going to see what Pluto looks like for the first time!! Ah you're so lucky that it happens on your birthday :D I do check for the news of New Horizon :D

It's my birthday that week aswell super excited

Ganesh Thad Not even close! We're only about halfway there (not counting outtakes, there will be 46 in total)! -Nicole

CrashCourse Yay!

CrashCourse That's great news. These have been some of my favorite YT videos. The series had a slow start, but has really been interesting and informative.

CrashCourse 46 woah Thanks for sharing guys it must be hyped to watch :*

CrashCourse THANK YOU!! I love you #NoHomo :v

Gad Yariv youtube wont release it, they used it on the RU-vid "Heros" video

Darren Landrum It's never too late.

+Jordan Shank get your head in the real world,it is too late.

Emil Chew No, it's really not. It's never to late to pursue your interests and learn something new about the universe around you.

+Geometry dash Pianore You betya!

Wow I only noticed the KSP figures on the bottom right 10 minutes into the video.. real observant of me. Not only am I an amateur astronomer but I'm also an avid KSP player :)

Imad Gibbs Not likely - we have a lot to cover and the series is working off of a syllabus. It's somewhat in flux, but I wouldn't get your hopes too high for such a video. HOWEVER, you can always keep an eye on Phil's Bad Astronomy blog over on Slate. I would also recommend subscribing to SciShow Space, which is produced here in the same office and will definitely be making a ton of videos as we learn things from New Horizons. :) -Nicole

CrashCourse I didn't know about SciShow Space! Thanks for the heads up.

CrashCourse What syllabus is that? Because 22 episodes in and we're still in the solar system! What about, you know, stars? Galaxies? Red shift? Black holes? Dark matter? Quasars? Pulsars? Clusters? Nebulae? Expansion? Etc... Etc...

Imad Gibbs FWIW, it's going to take 16 months to get all of the data back. The transmission rate is sadly pretty low. The good news is that low res and compressed data will come back first and then the full, uncompressed data set will follow. IIRC, the transmission won't occur until all of the science is done so it will be a little bit before we get our first glimpse. I'm chomping at the bit as I'm sure you are.