Day in the life: Astrophysicists
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- Rhaana Starling and Phil Evans are astrophysicists at the University of Leicester. They study gamma ray bursts detected by the Swift spacecraft. More from the East Midlands STEM partnership at www.emstempartn...
- What do you do?
- I'm a Rocket Scientist.
Pls tell one thing , I want to be a astronomer in isro so can I do PhD for it?
@@qwertqwert5568 You could
@@d1d1ka29 ok,but after my school or college?
@@qwertqwert5568 after both and some more years of research
@@d1d1ka29 ok , thx for your help
everyone in my year wants to go into politics, management, business, law, etc. i'm proud to say i want to be an astrophysicist when i grow up :D
Chris Davies how's it going?
im curious how your situation is going too. I hope the dream never died :)
im gonna be a astrophysicist or a astronomer
@Chris Davies I think you had grown up, are you an astrophysicist now?
No he is a money in the cage. Very sad for him🤣😭🤣😭
I can just do anything related to physics and astronomy its just the awesomest thing ever thought of!
i feel you man
These two people seem so lovely!! I love their personalities and their energy and love of life! You can tell these two thoroughly enjoy their job and it's great to see! Loved the video! I hope to work for NASA some day! Building the dream
Laura Tuesley are you working for nasa yet?
Hoping for the same 😊
Sounds so incredibly exciting.
I want to be an astrophysicist SO BAD, but I am just terrible at complicated math. Something about it just doesn't click for me. :(
happycowsmmmcheese87 Me tooooo
happycowsmmmcheese87 same
HappyKit just practice and practice until you mastered it
me too...but also i dont know if im ready to spend my life just sitting in a lab and making calculations
The Curious Owl is right. It's not easy for anyone at first. You just do the math so much that you will get used to it and don't have to look things up. It really is one of those "practice makes perfect" sort of things. One day you'll look back at things you used to think were complicated and think they are easy. Something else would seem complicated by then LOL!
i wanna surf the galaxies
and wade in a nebula
+Kepler Born and go inside event horizon and come out! :D
you can do that in lucid dreaming
and drink in the milky way
Nice to see this, the department has obviously grown since my days in that corner of Leicester Uni. These 'day in the life' videos open a window in to the word of current academia that everyone can appreciate.
Is it even worth it to become an astrophysicist? I heard that there are barley any jobs for it, and when you do get a job for it, you have to write many essays for grants to support research.
It can be a little competitive, but there aren't always enough people with the level of degree required. There's all different sorts of jobs, working for the government, academia, or the private sector. The private sector is really opening up too, with all the commercial spaceflight companies that have started in the area--like Space X and Virgin Galactic. The people who have to write papers are generally working in academia, at a university, and they're usually trying to get their research published. They already know they need results and will have to write papers. Government and private sector would have a lot less issues with trying to impress someone for funding. In academia, the person's main job will be teaching, mixed with research, and they'll have to be writing so get funding approved by the university they are at. In turn, the university would favor people who actually get results and prove themselves, because that's what will get donors for the grants. In private sector, it is a business that gets its funding through business (like a cell phone company paying to have a satellite brought up on the next mission), so they don't need to deal with that. Government labs and agencies already have a budget (whatever legislation allowed them to have) and they divide it between missions and research themselves.
You do it because it's your passion and if you couldn't see yourself doing anything else
When they started talking about collaboration, I thought, that looks like so much fun. I'm in 8th grade.
Even me dude
I want to be an astophysicicts ☹️☹️ but i don't if i should study medicine or what i want... :( the problem is that i like both please heeelp
I don't know*
Damaris Isigar Which one have you always been dreaming about as a child? In other words, choose the one where you know that you will enjoy it so much, that it will never seem that you will work a day in your life.
Damaris Isigar maybe you should learn English first
Mike Z lol😂
You're not smart enough for either
Rhanna looks like me when I was 13 lol and what a beautiful name. They seem like really interesting and hardworking people. Love the series guys. Keep up the good work!
When I grow up I want to be an astrophysicist. (:
did you get it?
@@WoollyMammoth666 no
@@shootershillroad6613 r u Christina S.
Did u grow up yet? Did u become it?
you can do it just for yourself, may be you won't be astrophysicist as job, but with hard work you gain some understanding of things going on in cosmos and physics in general. So this way is always good, never too late, work hard, good luck
What music is playing in the background? I love the feel of it
AH, found it, Jose Gonzalez - All You Deliver
I wanted to be an astrophysicist all my life...and for some reason, today im 28 and never started college.. Asking myself if its too late for me to go back in school...
barbe00brune It's never too late
barbe00brune And did you?
Sorry dude too late
barbe00brune did you do it bro?
Did you?
The song in the background is heartbeat not all you deliver
Awesome! I love the theme...
Looking through a telescope is definitely something special.
4 people doesn´t like gamma rays...
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I'm not much of a fan myself.
@DeadStarsShine I want to study Cosmology and Astrophysics too, and as with you, I'm not that good at math. But I can tell you, when you see how math relates to Physics, it really makes it more exciting and get you encouraged to study it. I'm not that good at math, but when I see math in Physics, it gets me excited, because it explains a real phenomena and is not "just" an abstract equation. ;)
Its pretty interesting to think that all of them are on hand and prepared for something that happened light years ago
haha, well not too long after seeing this video, I decided to go back to school and give it a shot :p So maybe in 8 years .. ill be one.
How's you plan?
Hows it going for ya 😂
barbe00brune Halfway there bro, how's it going?
HoWS IT GOING
How's it going now?
If I did my maths right, and GRBs travel at c, then you detected a GRB from almost 13, 000 lights years away! I cannot even conceive of such a distance, but yet we can observe something that hpenned that far away, and that long ago, I am simply in awe.
Electromagnetic radiation consists of a stream of particles called photons, which we haven't been able to measure the size of yet though it is predicted they are smaller than electrons and quarks. You're also forgetting that there are forms of electromagnetic radiation that don't pass through everything (such as visible light) so the size of the particle is irrelevant.
That's mainly due to the extremely long education one has to go through to even get qualified for such a job. After getting that masters and Ph.D, a scientist is often over 35 when he/she finally gets that dream job.
Gets it though..
Not all the time. At 24 i got my masters and my dream job right after. What you're saying is true for a large majority...but in this day and age looking for a 9 to 5 job is not the only thing. If you cant get hired...start your own company. We live in a world where possibilities are endless if you determined at something...youl get t.
I think the average age for people in a PhD program is like 36. It's pretty common for people to start their graduate degrees around that age.
I'm 38 and will just be starting my PhD program in a year. *shrugs*
Zoleka Mncwabe what did you study, and in which university?
@lumaix Are these courses for high school?, amongst those three I think I'll choose chemistry instead of statistics.
Also, thank you for the reply!
And then reality hit me #math
Astronomer is less math
I thought astronomers use a lot of math and physics to interpret the data that they gathered
@@mariaaliciatolentino8725 Yes. But we don't need to go wwery deep, unless we are dealing with theoretical astrophysicists. They are crazy. I myself am an observational astronomer, using computers to analyse (sometimes mathematically) the observations, the data of specific physical phenomena, and trends between them.
@@neventomicic330 i want to pursue a career in theoretical astrophysicist can you tell me what it is like to become one?
@@thecuriousowl9081 search this on Reddit, there are so meant threads with this info
When I grow up‚ I want to be an astrophysicist !
Same! :)
I want to be a physicist as well, I'm 2 years away from my Physics B.S. ^^
dojokonojo congrats! Is it very difficult? Im not sure if I should major in astronomy or physics.
Hey..r u really doing it? Its been 8 years
@@Greedio Getting a physics degree in undergrad is not hard. Grad school is another story. I gave up on that. But half my friends are getting their PhDs around this time.
@@dojokonojo Aww
IIRC There's often a visible light (or non gamma ray atleast ...) afterglow that they want to take a picture of as soon as possible
Show them codes!!! That what we are working on the hole time. + nice images (for me, interacting galaxies).
Omg she's Gretchen from Disney's Recess
I'm Fifteen and Currently wanting to be in the U.S. Air force.. Which has a lot A LOT of restrictions upon me since I want to be a fighter pilot.. But I deeply love science and astronomy and am actually pretty good at it, and learn things quickly. This is a very tough choice.
When you say gamma rays are small, you mean their wavelength right?
first of all who gave you a thumbs down lets fix that...second i think she's better than kinda...
I'd love to become an astrophysicist as I know I can understand the material and have enough passion to suffer trough the 12+ years of schooling, it's just too bad that the only 2 physicist I know both work at minimum wage, one of them working low and behold at Walmart. Getting a degree is astrophysics is one thing, but actually getting a job in the field is another.
This gave me goose bumps :3
What is the urgency with the text messages? From what I understand the bursts are momentary...so what can they do about it?
They're looking at supernovae, so they want to study them before they fade. The gamma ray bursts are fast, but the supernova will fade over time.
@mexicano7771000 i'm about your age except 1 years younger and I love flying and I like astronomy and computer so im stuck with 2 choices btw do you have Microsoft Flight Simulator X? You can fly fighter plans on it you know
awesome... i wanna be a physicst wen im older
Do it. It's such a beautiful field.
Are u a physicst now?
None:
UA-cam after 11 years: Let's recommend this.
Yeah!
Could you please tell me the name of the song that starts at 1:51? I've heard it before somewhere else but don't know where
Its from life is strange. It was the main theme song i think. Look up on google
I need a better explanation than Google can give me, I'm going back to finish high school a year later and then this summer I think I'm gonna move a few hours to a bigger city in my state and start off with 2 years of community so I can get my core stuff done and then i want so SO badly to either study astronomy or physics or astrophysics or whatever but i believe I'm going to need a PhD to get a real position as an astronomer but it is literally the sciences I like and none that I don't so far so I'm excited.
Question is, what's the difference between being an astrophyisicist and an astronomer.
Astrophysics = understanding physics for astronomical objects. Involves heavy understanding of quantum mechanics, relativity, gamma radiation, and all that super cool stuff.
Astronomer = specializes in exploration and documentation of astronomical objects. Probably more concerned with viewing, telescopes, noting celestial events, etc.
Honestly, they probably do go hand in hand though.
Eddie Avinashi thanks,also I looked into it and the place I currently was planning to transfer after my two year, (University of Oregon) is at the bottom of a list of some 300 colleges as far as physics/astronomy and stuff goes so yay
This is an amazing video. I'm hoping that i can do what you do. Im going to study astronomy at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.(im from the U.S.A)
I just thought it would be fun to travel and experience life before it is too late.Also, I heard New Zealand was one of the most beautiful places in the world.Not to mention the U.S is starting to take a downward spiral with its economy and what not.
I know what I wanna be when I grow up!
I wish he had given a figure for something like lightening houses or something. It sounds impressive using big numbers for a kettle but in terms of powering houses I'd like to know.
+Ghost572 The tea kettle is 2x10 to the 35th power years. Impossible to convert that to powering houses without making some major assumptions. First, he gave no clue as to how much power his tea kettle uses. Then, how much power does your 'house' use? But, yeah, he could've used an example with more meaning. Even if he used house years though it would still be an astronomical number of years. The energy used by all of civilized Earth might be a start.
1:07 Ahh, we British simply can't resist doing gamma ray maths whilst making at least one of our 15 daily cups of tea.
How old is Phil? Seems like a young man.
who's the music please?
@o0oo0ooo0oooo0ooooo0
It's "Heartbeats" by José González.
Hello, I want to become a Astrophysicist and I already know it's part of my passion, I want to learn a lot about space and all the celestrial bodies and amazing phenomenon that happens in space but I'm not sure how I become a Astrophysicist.
I figured I would obviously need Math, Science ( Astronomy perhaps, physics) and possibly a masters in physics, I'm not sure if this is right but could someone give me a list of courses needed in highschool and university to become one?
Thank you so much! :]
Gama solor panels for converting power?????????¿
@TheisticThinker Exactly. So many people have trouble with math because they haven't been properly shown real life representations of what the mathematical equations are describing. And there are some people who just have a real talent for logically mulling over arbitrary numbers in their head. I am one of the latter set of people. However, if I have no real-life phenomenon to correlate to the math, then the numbers themselves don't really INTEREST me.
GRB is exciting science but most annoying thing to other observatories is the fact that they must stop observing and start observing the afterglow of such a Gamma Ray Burst... that is observatories in the GRB follow-up network... ;-)
heartbeats originally done by the knife
Working with satellites and exploring the universe is depressing? I can imagine few things more exciting and interesting.
@mexicano7771000 Hey, glad to hear you are considering both of these options. Personally, I have been going through something similar. I have been thinking a bit about joining the National Guard (eight years of service) and I've been studying astronomy and physics for four years now (informally, getting my hands on whatever I can get them on). I just had an experience while I was thinking about this. Visualize yourself in each position: 2, 4, 8 (how ever many you want) years down the road.
what is that song at 1:57?
I agree
oh...........OH i get it, apologies for missing that minor detail :') ah so much love for lotr!
Awesome.
heartbeats by jose gonzalez
what is difference between astrophyscis and astronomy
mother nature im only in high school, but im pretty sure astrophysics is the study of universe using math, like determining the distnace between planets and stars and such, and astronomy is just looking in the universe
@DeadStarsShine yeah man, i hear you. same problem here
I love smart girls with glasses and buck teeth. I find them irresistible.
eww
very cool
I am 11 and I have always wanted to be an astrophysicist
I'm 28 and only just finished a double major in it. Absolutely do it.
Being a lawyer, doctor, or anything else your parents say is "respectable" or just makes a lot of money is complete rubbish. We need to be a multi-planetary species and venture into the universe. Become an engineer, physicist, mathematician, etc. These fields will, literally, push mankind and life on Earth to higher realms. You won't be sorry.
@ wow!, thank you. I've also thought about moving on to university and studying aerospace engineering. But there's a love for astrophysics as well!
Is Rhaana a professor yet?
We still can't harness the full potential of solar energy and you want to harness gamma rays?
A telescope thing,made my laugh
I didn't think telescopes worked in England. :)
I would love to get a text message when a star dies 😏🙂
Oh nice that's my temporary career coarse
just in jest but ..come on! this is the NERD motherlode. it doesn't get any more nerdy than this ! No matter how much of a nerd you think you are, you have been out nerded!!!
@omglolgiraffe Make sure you get As in all your math classes.
i needed this for a project: a day in the life of ( insert job of choice) for my pdcp class and this didn’t even tell me when they get off work. this title doesn’t really give the viewer a correct sense of content- in my opinion.
Do anyone of you think it's possible to get a PhD in astrophysics though I'm now studying to get master's in engineering? Anybody with that experience please comment.
@elydelacruz indeed.
NASA seems to be the only employer for this.
@mexicano7771000 and see what your interests would be. Personally, eight years down the road I would like to be married or at least happily dating someone, earning my PhD in astrophysics, and getting on in my life...rather than patrolling a street in a foreign country (if I was deployed), or being apart from my family...But, that's just me...please don't allow my view to influence yours...just consider where you want be in life. That's my advice, Aaron
@frajirek90 If your interested you can do anything you want ..even i'm in electronics engineering and i want to be a computational engineer! :)
#Awards#episode#sub#Highlights#vielen dank für arbeitet best pro
I have the exact same problem.
Casey CASEY NEISTAT???
That's my aim
My son is astronomrr in nasa
Sure,buddy ;)
@elydelacruz ...yah then we could all turn into the incredible hulk lol
I’m wearing my NASA hat rn.
woah youre here
Even here? Of all places?
Make sense
it's not rocket science, ohh it is
@acs1978aus I'm 15 and I want to be a physicist because of stuff like this
@Hiyrustrider same 4 me
They remind me of Freddie Mercury.
first comment i see, took the words from the inside of my brain.
i think rhaana was meant to be an astrophysicist. her surname says it. joking.
Astrophysicist kid squad.
WOW
Yo