Mercury Rising!!! 🌡️💕💕💕💕🤒 It’s getting hot in here!! 👙Global warming is the planet warming up to each other!! 🐨🐨 The Big Bang Theory!! Gravity is memory!!🐘 🐾 🥁 We’re each a particle, photon or star; cosmic surfing!!!🏄♂️ 🏄♀️ When this wave collapses seems to depend on us. The physics!! 👩🔬 We’re all fizzicists!! 🥤 Mount Shasta is the root!! ⛰️ Root beer!! 🍺 🐻 Big bear!!! Big bear chase me!!! The Great Outdoors!!🐾 🌲 🐾🌲🐾🌲🐾🌲 The 7 goddesses of the Pleiades!! 💎💎💎💎💎💎💎 After I personally tie the knot with them, we’ll create the figure 8 and become infinite!! Astronauts and cosmonauts!! Naughty!! 🪢 🧑🚀🎱😂 My Russian nesting dolls!! 🪺 My fine China!!! 🍽️ Each thought represents a bang❗️Higher vibrational thoughts 🐝🐝🐝 will create bigger bangs‼️ Pebbles And Bam Bam!! 🧊 🦕 🧊 🦖 🧊 🦣 🧊 Each grain of sand or pebble, a building block for planets or dark matter!! 🪨 Dark energy aka consciousness, creates the bang!! Supernovae!! 💥 Super Moons!! Flowery moons!! 🌹 Saturn a flowery moon!! Representing the 6th dimension!! More energy!!🪐 🛸 We control it!! 🧞 We’re stars!!✨ Hi, Hey, Hello!!🦜 The more G’s, the better!! They’ll reflect our minds, technology and more!! G strings!! 👙 👙👙👙 Our brains look like gum!! 🧠 Juicier the better!!!🍏🍋🟩🫐🍍🍎🍌🍈🥥🍐🍉🍒🥝🍊🍇🍑🍋🍓🥭 Love everything until it loves you back!! Mosquitos too!!🦟 ❤ Love cancer!! The Crab Nebula!! 🎇 Don’t be crabby!!🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 Nothing transcends space and time more than love!! 💗 Love is a spaceship!! Taking us higher!!✈️ 🚀 🛸 The greatest attraction in the universe!! 🎪 Each of us and each galaxy would represent a cell!! 🦠 We’re stars putting ourselves back together again!! Like Humpty Dumpty!! 🥚 🐓 The sky is blue because we’re meant to imagine it as a diamond!! The auroras then create the rest of the spectrum!! 🌈 💎 A purple sky would reflect the heart of the ocean!! An opened mind!! 🤯 The earth purring more!! Purrrrrple rain!!☔️ 🐈⬛ 🧶 Each thought to me is a solar flare, which shifts us into parallel worlds!! It’s hard here!!! I’m a peaceful dude, yet my life here has been super difficult!!🥹 Alpha Centauri represents a shift in consciousness!! Dog planet!! We’re riding the alpha waves!! Woof woof!!🐶 🐾 This is our world peace and enlightenment for the world and universe!! All is one!!😇🥳🥰🤩 We’re each a mini universe!!🌌 The 3 Body Problem represents our gut brain, 🍱 heart,❤️ and mind!! 🧠 Connecting mind, body, soul, and spirit!! The Holy Spirit becomes whole!! A glory hole!!! 🔆 The moon is a black hole!! 🕳️ A neutrino!! The planet is a colonized moon!!😇🌍👽 The sun is a shapeshifter!! 🌞 Are you and I sculpting together as a team or as individuals??? 🧑🎨 Using the moon as a tool!!! 🪨 The Sun is the eye!!👁️ I love the tool/word grinder!!!😮 We’d be Bumping and Grinding!!😂 The Earth is like a refrigerator and the atmospheric pressure is melting or defrosting the stars above, as if they’ve been in the freezer!! 🥶 It would also reflect us krystalyzing and becoming diamonds in the sky!! 💎 💎💎 Lucy becomes Maisie!! 🐒 👽 We could be stars from above aka heaven, melting everything from above, as well! Like a River Running Through It!!! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Gravitational waves or our thoughts raining down on us through higher dimensions!!! 🌧️ Pass the doobie to the left hand side!!🇯🇲🍍 Unlocking a Secret Garden within and outside of us!!🤫 An Oasis!!!🏝️ 🏝️🏝️🏝️🏝️ Flowing!!! It helps a lot to flow!!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Letting go, so we can concentrate more and work on our project!! Heaven On Earth!!🌍 👼 Flowers!! 🌺 🌸 💐 and Flow-Ers!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 I know energy is still impurrtant!! 😻 And of course imagination!!! Love!!!💗 🐶 🎾 🧶 🐈⬛ To create heaven On Earth, the galaxies collide!! 🌌 Twin flames connect!! 🔥 🔥 We’re creating quantum entanglement!! Ghost particles merging, becoming more like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!!👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻 The universe is still the Earth!!⭐️🌍⭐️ We’re seeing it from the insides!! 🕵️ Like we’re inside a volcano 🌋 or wishing well!! The stars and galaxies are like coins!!🪙 The Goonies vibes!! 💀 We’re treasure!! Antarctica is treasure island!! 🐧🇦🇶 Unlocking antimatter!! 🐜 Booby and booty traps exposed!! Planet X!! Hubba Hubba!!🥰 Everything and everyone has been our teacher!!👩🏫 3D is like the murky bottom of a bong or volcano!!🌋 The fourth dimension, representing Mars is like the stem of the bong or the volcanos vent!! 👽 Experiencing higher dimensions is like the smoke or magma reaching our mouths 😋 and then circulating through our bodies!! We are the Earth!!🌍 👼 The road less traveled!!!🧳 🌹 Straight up!! 🎈 🎈🎈🎈🎈We’d be super condensed or extremely packed neutron stars!! Like Rigel!! Blueberries!! Antioxidants!! Betelgeuse has evolved into a neutron star!! 🍊🫐 Our long winding road, exploring different dimensions, finally straightening out!! I’m getting Pee Wee vibes!! Large Marge sent me!!🚴😂 We’re vaporized, as if we’ve been smoked or roasted!! 💨 The smoke representing again those compressed neutron stars climbing the higher dimensions of the universe like a chimney!! I’m Mary Poppins, y’all !! ☂️ 🧞♀️ It would also represent us as a comet traveling through a wormhole!! 💫 Who me, I’m just a worm!!🐛 🫖 Solving a labyrinth!! 🦉 Solving amaze!!! 🦋 Different energies tell a different story!! 📚 We’re storytellers!! Artists!!🧑🎨 We’re energy first!! 🐝 A 12 inch boner is like receiving a foot of snow!!⛄️ 😂 When powered by neutrons and a magnetar energy field, one is like the energizer bunny!!🐰 They’ll keep going and going and going!! 🐇 🐇🐇🐇🐇 If you’re destined to have more than one twin flame, you’re like Frogger, playing leap frog!! Lucy is a sucker for Lillies!! 🐸 🍀 🐸 🍀 🐸🍀🐸🍀🐸 G Force!!!🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳 Dorothy’s Ruby red slippers!! ❤❤ Something here in 3D land has to change, yes, mmmmm! Dark Crystal Series!!😍 🧚🏼 We need to get this show rolling!! 🎥 We need our second moon!! Two moons!!! Two Mercurys!! Two black holes!!🕳️ 🕳️ They’ll need some color!! 🌈 Two blood moons!! 🩸 🩸 Two Ruby red slippers!!🥿 🥿 We have to die and become reborn!! Dye!! Dye those slippers red!!😮❤❤😂 Makes complete sense!! 🤯 There’s no place like home!! Home is where the heart is!! Jupiter and the 5th dimension!! 🐸 🍀 Clover Field!!👽 🛸 Time speeds up real fast once we’re there because seeing is definitely believing!! We get excited, hearts start pumping!! 💕 Minds start to open up!! 💜 Oxytocin pumping through our blood!! A love signature!! ✍️ Removing our writers block!! We’re storytellers!! 📚 The two blood moons also like draculas fangs!! Or the fangs of a snake and spider!! A kundalini experience!!!🐍💜 An anti venom!! 🐜 A love bite!! I’m nibbling your ear!! Ringing your ears like church bells!! A liberty bell! 🔔 Heightening your spidey senses!!!🕷️😳🩸🩸 My story just gets juicier!! 🍇 Sticky icky!! 🎄When is it juicy enough for you, I guess, is the question!! Strawberry Hill!! Cherry Blossoms!!🍒🍓We even got hills named after chocolate!!🍫 Purrthquakes instead of Earthquakes!! 😻 A Never Ending Story!! 🐺 ☁️ 🐌 ☁️ 📖 “Still in love! Still in love with that dream!! 🏔️ 🏔️ 🦌 “ Super Earth!! ⭐️ Superheroes!! ⭐️ Super pets!! ⭐️ Super foods!!⭐️ A place where everything is awesome!!🤩 A place where everyone is adorable!!🥰 I’m a sighentist!!🙄 A souldier!!😇 A Glad I Ate Hers!!😋🥧 And most of all a Roarier for the universe!!🦁 The Great Lakes represent the heart of the ocean coming together!! 🫀🌊 A huge manifestation!! 🐰 ⏰ 🍄 A microcosm of our oceans, which will someday become fresh!! 🔬 We’re sky people!! The planet our backyard!! An aquarium!! 🐠 An octopuses garden!!🪴 🐙 Dinosaurs have played the role of our bacteria!! 🦠 They’re back!!! 🦕 🦟 Hold on to your butts!!! Everything is getting supersized!!🧑🏿🍳🍟🍔🥤 When the Earth gets it two blood moons 🩸 🩸, it will represent us!!! Mostly centered around twin flames!!🥰🥰 Like we’re children of the universe!! We’ll be cells too and it will be like we’re watching each other grow and evolve!!🦥🐾🦥🐾 Our stars bursting here and there!! 💥 🎇 🎆 A galaxy is a moon or seed exploding dramatically!! A eureka moment for sure!! If Yellowstone’s “Old Faithful” is an eye 👁️ , then when it blows 🌋 , that could be imagined as Gaia firing off photons, particles, or stars into the sky!!🌌 The same as solar flares for the sun!!🌞 When the universe turns more lights on, especially when it comes to the Milky Way Center or that of a galaxy like Andromeda; it would represent these photons 👻 particles 🎇 or stars!!✨ All coming from Gaia’s third eye!! 🌍 👼 🪽 Old Faithful!! 🌋 Moana!! 🌀 Micro/macro!! A galaxy is the result of the moon exploding dramatically!! Eureka!!💡 🤯🔬 🔭 🪐 🧑🚀 ⭐️ My cosmic perspective!! 🐼 🧪 ⚛️
I live my life like that, "jack of all trades" . Eventually you get good at learning new things, but I'm not great at retaining that information all the time. :D
I had a cheap pair of binoculars to -spy on my neighbours- look at birds but they were still good enough to see the position of Jupiter's four largest moons. I couldn't see any details, they were just specks but I could still see their movement changing over the next week or two. Having a tripod was useful as well.
Try a Monopod! I can sit in a lounge chair and adjust as needed to browse a good portion of the sky. I now use my first star-gazer binocs as bird-watchers, and upgraded star gazers.
Hi Fraser, can't thank you enough for the Sky Master tip! You'd mentioned them as your own choice in a video a little while back so I bought a pair on Amazon Prime Day. Absolutly LOVE 'em!!! Keep up the good work, we're all counting on you!
i think the biggest challenge of astronomy is educating it. I've studied astronomy since I was 8 when my dad bought me my first telescope (I'm 62 now) and I have educated myself from every subject in astronomy from A to Z. It galls me how ignorant most people are on the subject, the myths and misconceptions.
In reference to Lyra, Vera Rubin Observatory is going to find tens of interstellar objects every month. Sending probe to another one should be much easier than to Oumuamua.
Some people I take seriously like Avi Loeb think that Oumuamua specifically may have been an interstellar probe, so there's some significance to going after it specifically, unless we find another interstellar object that doesn't straightforwardly look like an asteroid or comet.
As always, Fraser, I am amazed at the breadth and depth of your knowledge. I know it’s your job to keep informed, but you clearly love it and are very good at it. Thanks for all you do, especially the interviews with various space scientists.
I love my 8x50 binoculars. When dusk comes, I can still see birds. The second number is the ratio between the outer lens and the eyepiece. This is important because some binoculars have a small eyepiece to get a bigger ratio. I bought a bunch of 7x35s a few years ago for about $10 apiece. I gave each of my kids one and put one in the glove compartment of each car. The first number is magnification. Bigger magnification is great for birds, but it is not so good for looking at star"s" because the field of view is small. It is great for looking at a small cluster of stars or planets. So, my sweet spot is to get a cheap pair of binoculars to keep them handy and buy a second pair when you can get a good deal on them. Remember that a spotting scope may be a third option.
I am loving your effort to keep your reporting as unbiased by your opinions as possible. But you clearly love the subject. You can express that more without being biased.
Wow. For a minute there you had me scared. I thought my caudal sphincter was on its side. I considered calling my physician. Thankfully I watched the video
I like the fact that you pronounce the planet’s name correctly unlike some who’s pronunciation just makes me think of that episode of Futurama where they rename the planet to something even worse 😂
In Greek, it's pronounced "OO-Rawn-os" (and I think it's spelled Ouranos). We should just do that instead. Of course, Fraser couldn't just do that without explanation, otherwise, we wouldnt know what he was talking about. The proto-IAU made a massive mistake when they decided to do the Latinized transliteration of the Greek name for the mythological figure; (if they *really* wanted to do Latin, they should've just used the Roman name *Caelus*).
Since Uranus is a gas giant, it's hard to imagine how a collision could tilt the axis to such an extent. You might expect a big splash, but there's no obvious mechanism for applying a torque to the entire planet. A close encounter with Neptune might do the trick, via a gyroscopic force 90° to the orbital change induced by gravity.
the kind of violence that would occur that creates a smbh in place would be absolutely incomprehensible. like we think that active galactic nuclei are pretty amazing, but this is on an entirely different level.
Re binoculars, I have a 10x50 pair. I found anything bigger was too heavy to use easily. Mine are great for what I want - I can see planets as discs, moons, our moon is fantastic, and objects like the Orion Nebula are visible. Also, the Pleiades are amazing at that resolution.
We must go back ASAP to Uranus and Neptune at the same time (different probes) with atmosphere probes (like Huygens) and a risky lander for Triton (that lands and surveys surface and probes around - no need to send a Perseverance equivalent!! Must make sure we make the most of those missions as it would be one in 50-100 years opportunity for us to learn. I would opt in to pay more tax knowing that it would directly go to fund those missions (despite the fact that I’m no USA citizen!) - need a specific small tax to fund space exploration. It’s about our survival as a curious species !!! Go Neptune, go Triton, go Uranus!! Let’s do a mission naming competition! I propose trident for Neptune ! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
For such a dark matter aficionado it is surprising that Fraser hadn’t already worked out the answer to the Uranus tilt. In the early days of the formation of the solar system, the dark matter unicorns that live on Uranus only built one stable ground, hence the tilt to that side of the planet.
Why don’t we re-purpose Parker Solar probe and send it to the outer planets or ʻOumuamua. Being the fasting man-made object now, all long would it take to get to Uranus, Neptune, Pluto or ʻOumuamua? Fraser we need you to answer this 😂
The first telescope I ever used was a loaner from the local RASC. It was the 'red ball" telescope called the Astroscan made by Edmund Scientific. Great beginner scope but unfortunately no longer produced.
Project Lyra in L2 waiting for interstellar object. The Vera Rubin synoptic observatory scanning the sky all the time looking for a visitor. I like to think that.
14:57 Has the possibility that Uranus is a captured extrasolar or rogue planet been ruled out? That could explain its tilt and maybe even the outward migration of Saturn and Jupiter, but I never hear people with more knowledge than me discuss that as a solution to Uranus’ mysteries.
if you place 2 tiny black holes in front of the binoculars you will get a decent gravitational lense to see the rings of Saturn and it's moons in full technicolour
Hey Fraser, I took your advice and just bought the Celestron Skymasters. Now I need to learn my constellations! What app would you recommend for tracking the sky and learning constellations in live time?
@24:20 I think it would be cool if some day, out of sheer boredom, we could build up Ceres to the size of another terrestrial planet, using all asteroids, trojans, small moons, and KBOs. And then colonize it.
Re: Planet 9 from Outer Space 😉 I have been thinking more and more about aggregate mass. What if the singular object we are looking for was intercepted by an Oumuamua just a few hundred million years ago? Like an opening billiard break, it would disrupt the centrality of that mass but not diminish the gravitational force. Thoughts?
Learn how to align a newtonian telescope. Buy a use one. When I was a kid, a guy had a broken 3" newtonian on an alt-az mount, for $2. I looked down the eyepiece holder, told him it just needed alignment, and did that while we were talking. I told him it was fixed (and checked with one of the included eyepieces) but he didn't care, and I bought it. 2 eyepieces and a barlow. They were the smaller sized eyepieces (because it was such a small telescope) and a white cardboard tube, but for the price, I couldn't complain. Even after much inflation, you might be able to find good deals at local tag sales, especially if you learn what to look for, and how to do basic maintenance.
Hey Fraser. Let say we have unlimited budget, are we still having the technology limitations on building some consider-scifi construction like space elevator, moon base or even Dyson sphere?
Regarding a good telescope around $200 I got some reccomendations better than Fraser here Orion Starblast - 4.5 inch reflector for $250 but its a tabletop telescope so you need a good table Orion Observer 134mm (5.2 Inches reflector on a equitorial mount) mount takes a good amount of time to learn Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 80 AZ 3.3 ish inch refractor whit smart phone guiding app lens is not as big as the other reflectors but the contrast and image quality is probably better on average If you only want to look at the moon and planets and dont care for anything else a Orion StarMax 90mm tabletop maksutov is creat I have one and it is excellent on the moon and planets.
How do we know that Uranus & Neptune swapped orbits? Also, is the present configuration of planets and orbits effectively stable for the likely duration of the solar system, assuming no heavyweight visitors?
Hey Fraser, I have a question for you and other Dobsonian-Newtonian lovers. Can you manually use your telescope to track the ISS, airliners, and birds? I don't think so. Refractors are aimed line of sight and they have no central obstruction. Astronomy novices may prefer a much more versatile and capable telescope which is easier to aim without a finder scope.
No, you're not going to track the space station or birds with a dobsonian. It amazes me that they can make motor drives that can track the celestial bodies with that type of mounting... no need for an equatorial with heavy counterweights. But, to track birds, that's a bridge too far. The questioner had a budget of $200... maybe a kids' b-day present? At that price, you'll have to compromise somewhere. You won't get a large diameter compact telescope with auto-search and tracking. As much as that would be a great beginner telescope, it's not the worst thing, to have to learn how to locate objects in the sky manually. Start with the moon, then planets, then orion nebula and andromeda galaxy in the north, and M13. By then, you're starting to get the hang of it, and should be able to star hop to some more difficult objects, if the telescope is big enough, and the seeing is good enough, for them.
Yes you're right, a refracting Astronomical scope to track moving birds but they're great for pointing, aiming and looking at anything out on the horizon. The Moon, Jupiter, and Saturn all look great. I will admit that a larger reflector will give better views of Mars and dark sky objects which you cannot get with a $200 60 - 70mm refractor with a good eyepiece.
When I was little, my dad and I followed the spirit and opportunity rovers. Starting before launch watching the animations on the mission, I have good memories looking, with my dad, at the first photos the rovers send us. In oktober I will become a dad of my own, are there any cool new missions planned that I can look forward to follow with my kid?
Hello Fraser! Great Show! Here is my question! Can amateur scientists all over the world come together and repeat the Kepler Mission on a shoe-string budget given what we now know. I ask because I am not as excited with JWST as everyone else seems to be but the Kepler Mission really touched my soul in a way that no other NASA mission has done to date. Please let me know your thoughts! Let’s find Earth 2.0!
What about a bi-elliptic transfer to the Sun? Go "up" to convert kinetic energy to gravitational potential energy, maybe via a gravity assist, then burn at aphelion to cancel out your lesser remaining kinetic energy.
Any updates on Tau Corona Borealis? I haven't heard anything since April-ish. I look every chance I get when the sky is clear, still nothing. September was mentioned as the latest part of the window, and September is just around the corner. Is there any way that the timing will make for a briefer, brighter nova? or the opposite?
@Fraser Cain the little clip mic, it sounds muffled. don't mind much just pointing it out to you. I even notice it in the commercial for those little mics. :)
You know what's another good question about Uranus? Why is it the only planet using a Greek name instead of a Roman one? It should be named Caelus, Uranus' Roman counterpart. Strange that the one planet that doesn't fit the naming scheme also happens to have a funny name. I won't stand for it any longer. For now on, I'm referring to the planet as Caelus.
Maybe not quite ideal for a beginner is to just use a camera. I use one that is compatible with Raspberry pi. Usually I just use a C or CS mount lens but sometimes I use a 3d printed adapter and simple-ish electronics to drive a lens from my Canon camera. Sometime I use a few servo motors so I can aim at different things. I haven't attempted tracking yet so my time lapse stars have tails when I get carried away with exposure time. Usually I stack and stitch a bunch of images . I guess I take about 2000-3000 images overnight, look at some as they came in but do most of the work the next day. Maybe not everyone's idea of fun but I like it,, especially the freedom from mosquitoes and slight concerns about large carnivores and omnivores.
Would their be any meaningful cost savings of building two identical orbiters, for a double Neptune/Uranus mission? Like the Voyagers, but sent to two different planets.
It's the same as a Mercator projection map of the Earth, except that the sphere being mapped is the sky as seen from earth. The map's "equator" is most likely the equator of the Earth, unless the folks making the map had a reason to use some other reference plane.
Good show! Are you familiar with Gary Felder, and have you tried to interview him about gravitational waves, inflation or another topic? I watched his series on the Big Bang and Beyond where he is a great teacher.
Like many others it seems, I was quite disappointed to find that Neptune's real appearance was closer to that of Uranus than the deep blue colour it was known for. 😔
Would it be feasible to design a robust universal probe designed that 80% of the design features are static and 20% are mission specific? Then, make 20 copies and launch them into long-term orbit around all of the planets and a selection of interesting solar system objects?
Question I was watching star talk last night and the mentioned of the big rip happens at the end of the universe the last thing will be the "3d individual pixels" (their words) that make up the fabric of space-time will no long be able to stick/stay together. Just wondering what force it is that holds space time together, as they said it would be after the 4 big forces had already been torn apart. Cheers
Makes little sense to me (and I'm a physicist myself) - both saying that the "3d individual pixels" will be torn apart, and that the 4 big forces will be torn apart. I think they meant that rather metaphorically.
UNSEEN GIANT (limerick) There was once a large planet called "9." Since not seen, none yet dared to assign a name to this body, but, not to seem shoddy, on its structure and mass they'll opine.
Can this be cause of dark matter? Particle masses are a consequence of elementary particles interacting with the Higgs field. This field isn’t likely to be in the lowest possible energy state it could be in. Thus it could theoretically change its state (phase transition), dropping to a lower energy state in a certain location. If that happened it would alter completely the laws of physics in that region.
let's face it, Oumuamua is a rock. i think budgets could be spend on other, more, closer rocks and planets. Also when some people make it a alien spacecraft, i always think Aliens MUST have better things to do. That goes for almost all crazy alien "theories".
I live about two miles from the Astrobotics lab in SW Pennsylvania. It breaks my heart that VIPER sits there ready to go to the Moon but has been grounded. What a waste..
