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  • @astrumspace
    @astrumspace  Рік тому +223

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    • @d4rk0v3
      @d4rk0v3 Рік тому +10

      Point of contention. The sun would not just look like a bright star in the sky from Pluto. It would be too bright to observe directly. It would be painful to look at. It would be SO much brighter than you'd think. Someone with sharp eyes would even be able to resolve the sun as a very tiny disk if their visor had a filter (it would) to block out the intense glare (obviously hypothetical since a person standing on Pluto ... one can dream?). In fact, the sun would outshine most of the stars in the sky during the day, especially during perihelion.

    • @d4rk0v3
      @d4rk0v3 Рік тому

      @@australien6611 Did you even check yourself before commenting? I'd do that, because you'd see I am correct.

    • @destwong
      @destwong Рік тому +23

      Lol master work scam

    • @australien6611
      @australien6611 Рік тому +3

      ​@@d4rk0v3 i did but you clearly didn't because you are wrong

    • @chaosopher23
      @chaosopher23 Рік тому +7

      Let me add an observation that can be a discovery itself. Where Pluto lives is a region of space that is heavily populated by lots of rocks of various sizes. They will hit each other, and Pluto is a gravitational giant among them. Therefore, I would expect Pluto's surface to be covered in craters, but it is not. Instead, Pluto's surface is very native, with few impact craters. Pluto is highly volcanic.
      We need an orbiter with a better radio transmitter.

  • @richardbrekke3289
    @richardbrekke3289 Рік тому +116

    It's a dwarf planet, so I figure the heat is just from the forges.

  • @Dakiraun
    @Dakiraun Рік тому +558

    I never fail to be blown away by the images of Pluto. Born in the mid 70s and taking an interest in astronomy even as a kid, I remember the reveals of the planets as the Voyager probes went by, but I also remember being a bit sad that they were not on a path to see Pluto. It was so far out there that I thought it'd be something we'd never see, or at least, not in my lifetime. I'm glad they did New Horizons, and I'm even more happy that Pluto ended up being a big bag of surprises in terms of its complexity, because I hope that encourages more similar missions to other outer dwarf planets.

    • @rolandthethompsongunner64
      @rolandthethompsongunner64 Рік тому +31

      Pluto deserves a permanent orbiting probe. Imagine how it must transform during it’s 248 year orbit around the sun !

    • @Dakiraun
      @Dakiraun Рік тому +13

      @@rolandthethompsongunner64 Oh yeah, would probably be completely different every orbit. Would sure be tricky though - probe would have to be fast to get out there in a reasonable amount of time, but then has to have enough fuel to decelerate and enter orbit, then be nuclear powered to last since solar's a non-option out that far.

    • @ODUBlue
      @ODUBlue Рік тому +10

      Ceres getting investigated just before was the perfect appetizer course. Those two missions were fascinating for me.

    • @carlcushmanhybels8159
      @carlcushmanhybels8159 Рік тому +10

      I hope this encourages scientists to backdoor Pluto into being a planet again! Chief among Mini Planets, or some such description.

    • @godless-clump-of-cells
      @godless-clump-of-cells Рік тому +3

      @@carlcushmanhybels8159 Dwarf planets are essentially planets that lack the necessary mass to gravitationally attract objects in their orbit around the sun.

  • @Rebar77_real
    @Rebar77_real Рік тому +205

    Amazing imagery from so far away. Don't miss Pluto finishing its first orbit since discovery on March 23, 2178.

    • @floatthecreek
      @floatthecreek Рік тому +62

      I can hardly wait. I'll only be 218 years old.

    • @1234j
      @1234j Рік тому +36

      I've set the alarm. Let's hope my phone battery lasts that long.

    • @guillermobarrio55
      @guillermobarrio55 Рік тому +8

      Details will follow! 🤣

    • @1234j
      @1234j Рік тому +19

      How do I subscribe for a reminder, so my descendants can put it in their diary equivalents, please??

    • @Mangaka-ml6xo
      @Mangaka-ml6xo Рік тому +11

      @@1234j Get the date tattooed on your children and grand-children, it will be hard to forget that way!

  • @bazpearce9993
    @bazpearce9993 Рік тому +174

    I love that Pluto can grow an atmosphere when it's nearest the Sun that freezes back onto the surface nearer apogee. Almost gives it a feel of a comet. It even leaves a tail behind no doubt due to the Solar wind.

    • @manofcultura
      @manofcultura Рік тому +22

      To be fair all planets have a “tail”. I think Venus is the one that loses the most material of all the non-giant planets.

    • @bazpearce9993
      @bazpearce9993 Рік тому +3

      @@manofcultura But that's not being fair is it? Pointing out a single shared attribute. Another cometary attribute is it's inclination to the ecliptic of 17 degrees. I would class that as deliberately bending over backwards to keep Pluto in th e planet club.

    • @manofcultura
      @manofcultura Рік тому +11

      @@bazpearce9993 well I don’t care about Pluto lol. I’m not one of those. However; I do class Pluto as a planet or at least planetoid. I would rather be geophysically consistent than astronomically consistent. Astronomers are as arbitrary as ornithologists. A planet in my mind is anything rounded by gravity and consists of anything heavier than helium. Simple and exquisite description. It’s orbit, inclination, co-orbiting bodies, moons and the rest do not matter. In fact I consider Pluto Charon a dual planet system like earth-moon.

    • @pride2184
      @pride2184 Рік тому +4

      ​@@bazpearce9993 pluto is a planet. Comets are way smaller. Like only two even come close to pluto and they are half its size if that. Planets are round. They have enough mass to be shaped by its own gravity. That should be enough to keep pluto as a Planet. But they deliberately made rules to knock pluto from being a Planet which is just scientifically dishonesty we all fell for.

    • @bazpearce9993
      @bazpearce9993 Рік тому

      ​ @Pride Stop being such a crybaby. I never even said it wasn't a planet and you're both on me like snowflakes. I stated it has some traits in common with comets.
      The Minor planet distinction is to simplify things, which is what science is supposed to do. How many planets do you want? 8 or 8 freaking thousand?

  • @jkdbuck7670
    @jkdbuck7670 Рік тому +269

    What they found on and around Pluto is some of the most fascinating stuff I've seen in my lifetime.

    • @HoopTY303
      @HoopTY303 Рік тому +3

      Absolutely agree.

    • @mistermysteryman107
      @mistermysteryman107 Рік тому +4

      You folks are easily impressed.

    • @mxb2432
      @mxb2432 Рік тому +11

      ​@PAUL MH Definition of a planet :
      ✔️1- It must orbit a star (in our cosmic neighborhood, the Sun).
      ✔️2- It must be big enough to have enough gravity to force it into a spherical shape.
      ❌3- It must be big enough that its gravity cleared away any other objects of a similar size near its orbit around the Sun.
      Or we would have to change the definition 🫤

    • @ogedeh
      @ogedeh Рік тому +1

      What did they find

    • @jamesstead2256
      @jamesstead2256 Рік тому

      @@mistermysteryman107 if you seen mine you would be impressed 🤣

  • @karenkingrey6142
    @karenkingrey6142 Рік тому +108

    Pluto has always been such a point of fascination for me. I’m not sure why, but I love any new info that comes out. Thanks so much for this and your other videos about it.

    • @australien6611
      @australien6611 Рік тому

      😎

    • @albatross1688
      @albatross1688 Рік тому +4

      Perhaps because it's in the far edge of our solar system and is the furthest celestial body we have learned about in school? One does not need to have a reason to wish to understand that which exists on the edge of our imagination.

    • @nebahatkarsloglu8144
      @nebahatkarsloglu8144 Рік тому +3

      I also love this far away tiny planet and it's still 9th planet in my heart .. And there are two more planet are waiting to be discoverd in future insha Allah (if The God will) ..

    • @nebahatkarsloglu8144
      @nebahatkarsloglu8144 Рік тому +1

      I seek refuge with God from expelled devil
      The Glorious Qur'an Chapter 12 Joseph
      4. When Joseph said to his father, “O my father, I saw eleven planets, and the sun, and the moon; I saw them bowing down to me.”
      5. He (Jacop) said, “O my son, do not relate your vision to your brothers, lest they plot and scheme against you. Satan is man's sworn enemy.
      6. And thus your Lord will choose you, and will teach you the interpretation of events, and will complete His blessing upon you and upon the family of Jacob, as He has completed it before upon your forefathers Abraham and Isaac. Your Lord is Knowing and Wise.
      7. In Joseph and his brothers are lessons for the seekers.

    • @australien6611
      @australien6611 Рік тому +1

      @@nebahatkarsloglu8144 🙄

  • @eroraf8637
    @eroraf8637 Рік тому +18

    Pluto-posting will never get old. I’ll probably be looking back at July 2015 (and the following few years of data and reactions) as an old man and still be impressed.

  • @jus10lewissr
    @jus10lewissr Рік тому +6

    I remember getting to see our first real images of Pluto for the first time some years back and never in a million years would I have ever expected it to be so spectacular. You just sort of expect some dull, icy, featureless rock and that couldn't be any further from the truth; Pluto is absolutely breathtaking.

  • @kayzeaza
    @kayzeaza Рік тому +17

    I remember learning about New Horizons in middle school. It had only really just been launched then, maybe about two or three years after. Learning it was gonna take so long to get there had me bugging hahah. But then I completely forgot about it until it arrived. It’s cool to finally know what Pluto actually looks like

  • @kevinb9830
    @kevinb9830 Рік тому +11

    It's actually quite refreshing to have an actual human narrator and relevant pictures.

  • @xyz7572
    @xyz7572 Рік тому +2

    I love that when he talks about the mysteries of Tombaugh Regio (the white heart), there’s a hidden subtitle that he doesn’t say out loud:
    _”After all, every heart has its secrets”_

  • @Quickened1
    @Quickened1 Рік тому +32

    I would have never seen these images and data without this video! Thanks Alex...

  • @xpndblhero5170
    @xpndblhero5170 Рік тому +41

    Walking through those dunes is probably almost physically impossible because it's most likely like walking through Styrofoam beads over 6 feet deep.... I can't imagine how weird it would be but it would also be really cool.

    • @alessandrovilla6759
      @alessandrovilla6759 Рік тому +8

      Well, walking would certainly be very different than how we do on Earth. Perhaps you have seen movies of astronauts on Moon, how they carefully control energy by making little jumps. With a Moon gravity only 1/6 of Earth's, any normal step would propel a man enough to fly (uncontrollably) for many meters. Pluto's surface gravity is only about 1/16 of Earth's, so it requires 1/16 of the energy to make a similar jump or step. Flexing a toe would be more than enough.
      Your comparison with Styrofoam is indeed pertinent. The human body (mostly composed by water) has a density higher than tiny particles of water ice on the Pluto dunes. I'd expect the effect to be like traversing very soft snow (6 feet or more deep...). Hope to live enough to see how (if ever) a surface exploration of Pluto will be conceived, it is certainly an interesting challenge.

    • @xpndblhero5170
      @xpndblhero5170 Рік тому +6

      @@alessandrovilla6759 - Agreed, that would be an epic vacation destination.... Go there and jump 50ft in the air then land on a pile of super lightweight snow for fun, then you can go "Mountain Climbing" which would consist of jumping to the top then jumping from peak to peak. 😂

    • @brown3394
      @brown3394 Рік тому +2

      That would be an awesome service to offer someday - instead of those creepy machines - when we get really old and terminal, we can go on one way trips to do that, with a group of fellow ancients at the end of their days.

    • @msytdc1577
      @msytdc1577 Рік тому +1

      ​​@@alessandrovilla6759 except for the fact that the moon suits the Apollo astronauts were wearing while on the moon doubled their weight, so combined they weighed 1/3rd as much as they would on Earth, about 60lbs. No one is launching themselves uncontrollably by jumping with those kinds of numbers.

    • @marhawkman303
      @marhawkman303 Рік тому +1

      @@msytdc1577 als the hopping was simply the most efficient way to move, they could walk if they wanted to.

  • @ian_b
    @ian_b Рік тому +52

    New Horizons has been my Space Age highlight. I was born in 66 and since I was a child I'd always wanted to see the surface of Pluto pretty much more than anything else. And boy, were we not disappointed. We're just so lucky the mission was approved before Mike Brown took a wrecking ball to the definition of a planet.

    • @TheGeffry
      @TheGeffry Рік тому +7

      Does it really matter that much what the definition is? Pluto is Pluto. If you want to call an apple an orange, then do it, but it will still be an apple.
      The important thing is that we look up :)

    • @overcomingobstaclescreates1695
      @overcomingobstaclescreates1695 Рік тому +4

      Same! I was born in the early 80s, so I was fortunate enough to have books with pictures of the gas giants from the Voyager missions. But Pluto was always my favorite and I never imagined that in my lifetime we would get to study it up close!.
      When I was young, I once asked someone why it was that Hubble could take a detailed picture of a galaxy thousands of light-years away, but we couldn't get a decent picture of Pluto. (Don't worry, I received a lesson in optics and lighting). I will never forget the moment when we all saw Pluto *as it is* for the first time. 🤩😍🥰
      Now I dream that one day in the future, humans will be able to explore Pluto in person.

    • @tosspot1305
      @tosspot1305 Рік тому +8

      I think he means that the mission wouldn't have been approved so we would have never got to see it's beauty

    • @ian_b
      @ian_b Рік тому +2

      @@tosspot1305 Yes, that's what I meant.

    • @TheGeffry
      @TheGeffry Рік тому +3

      @@ian_b I get that, but Ceres is also a dwarf planet and there was Dawn... I'm just saying, I don't really think that the planet status had much to do with the approval, after all, asteroids and comets also get dedicated missions.
      But then again, what do I know? As stated before, we can call ourselves lucky to be able to see these worlds.

  • @xyz7572
    @xyz7572 Рік тому +2

    I remember when the first pictures of Pluto came in, with its iconic white heart shape. The entire world was in awe.

  • @futotesan
    @futotesan Рік тому +9

    Those compiled images from 2:52 to 3:00...just breathtaking. So much to be said...how far we have come...

  • @stevenweller1673
    @stevenweller1673 Рік тому +10

    Pluto love. It's a feeling like no other for no other place is exotic in such a strange and wondrous way. As a kid in the early seventies I'd think of Pluto in the abstract, wondering what a cold dark planet could be like. Now we know and it's like a frozen flower opening before our eyes. Subsurface oceans, slowly flowing nitrogen plains, cryo volcanoes and lovely lovely landscapes...and someday the wind blowing furiously as the ground evaporates and the atmosphere thickens...
    Golly it's good!
    S.W.

  • @weeooh1
    @weeooh1 Рік тому +11

    Very informative thank you. And special thanks for not resorting to click-bait titles like some of the other YT channels have been doing lately.

  • @frankreynolds445
    @frankreynolds445 Рік тому +3

    I was 47 when the New Horizon was on its way to Pluto. I always wondered what it looked liked since I was a kid. In 2015 I finally got to see what it looked like. It was beyond my expectations.

  • @ABCKorpi
    @ABCKorpi Рік тому +46

    I really hope for a Kuiperbelt object orbiter mission in the future. Seeing what a simple flyby did to our understanding of Pluto, I cannot imagine what we'd learn about it with a proper orbiter or even a lander probe.

    • @nathanhough8156
      @nathanhough8156 Рік тому +2

      It would probably take decades to get there Saddly

    • @hanspecans
      @hanspecans Рік тому +2

      The sad part is this will most likely not happen in our lifetimes.

    • @davidfiler7439
      @davidfiler7439 Рік тому

      Mildly interesting factoid - if you landed on one of the Kuiper Belt rocks, stepped outside your ship, you would not see another rock anywhere because they average 100,000 miles distance between them. Also, both Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft passed through the asteroid belt.

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena Рік тому +6

    This is a wonderful and fascinating era for us non-astronomers who are informed about the numerous discoveries in our galaxy and beyond.

  • @g4_61
    @g4_61 Рік тому +8

    Super excited for another Pluto episode! Keep up the great work.

  • @jamesrobinson4703
    @jamesrobinson4703 Рік тому +3

    With dark blue sky's and everything..... The view from this Planets surface would be absolutely stunning.

  • @vaughnmojado8637
    @vaughnmojado8637 Рік тому +6

    Thank you for sharing this. I’m fascinated by deep space and will never learn enough in my lifetime.

  • @zingodoom
    @zingodoom Рік тому +4

    2:10 - bit of a mistake here. Nix and Hydra were discovered together in 2005 (the initials N and H being tribute to New Horizons itself). Kerberos and Styx were discovered in 2011 and 2012, respectively

  • @hiddentruth1982
    @hiddentruth1982 Рік тому +2

    the thing I like about this channel is that there isn't any interjection. It's the simple facts and current theories based on the facts. No aliens did it talk like the "history " channel does.

  • @catalinacurio
    @catalinacurio Рік тому +3

    One of the best videos I’ve watched. Not only fascinating but narrated succinctly. Thank you.

  • @dianep1385
    @dianep1385 Рік тому +10

    Alex,your presentations are wonderful! Thank you 😊

  • @emmmpeee8655
    @emmmpeee8655 Рік тому +12

    Always such wonderful narration.

  • @macrograms
    @macrograms Рік тому +6

    Glad to hear from you again. Love this channel! :)

  • @jeffstackhouse1392
    @jeffstackhouse1392 Рік тому +1

    Your voice sounds almost identical to Sebastian Vettel, even down to small inflections in your voice. It’s quite maddening to try to convince myself that Seb isn’t doing voiceover work for the channel. Of course I know that it could not be true. The joy in your voice does very clearly come through. Well done sir

  • @libanomar013
    @libanomar013 Рік тому +9

    Absolutely mind-blowing

  • @ivx8345
    @ivx8345 Рік тому +34

    Astrum you are the best! I was always interested in space but you make it so much more appealing with your videos. Let's hope you inspire more people to look up instead of putting energy in petty differences and petty earth circumstances.

  • @abenjamin13
    @abenjamin13 Рік тому +8

    Always appreciate these videos thank you.

  • @riverbender9898
    @riverbender9898 Рік тому +1

    Your work is always of great interest. Thank you.

  • @southron_d1349
    @southron_d1349 Рік тому +7

    It seems the tidal forces between Pluto and Charon are enough to keep things warmer than had Pluto just its four small moons.

  • @aarondavis8943
    @aarondavis8943 Рік тому +4

    Flame and shadow! But more shadow in this case.
    Surely there's a black hole out there we can name _Morgoth?_ Seems appropriate as he's trapped in the Void. Yes, I'm a nerd.

  • @longtailgt
    @longtailgt Рік тому +2

    Pluto just never fails to fascinate me! These are the kind of videos I can come back to and watch over again and always be entertained!

  • @delskioffskinov
    @delskioffskinov Рік тому +1

    Alex your soothing voice is one of those voices that make any subject sound interesting! I could listen to you all day. Keep up the great work you do and i'll keep on loving your narrations lol!

  • @kaltonian
    @kaltonian Рік тому +3

    fantastic astrum, amazing pictures taken,
    the time taken to transmit or recieve data is long but certainly worth while, especially receiving the images.

  • @Taikamuna
    @Taikamuna Рік тому +10

    It's mind blowing that the sun only looks like a bright star

    • @adambattersby8934
      @adambattersby8934 Рік тому +1

      The Sun IS a bright star.

    • @rais1953
      @rais1953 Рік тому +1

      A very bright star. From the BBC: The average distance of Pluto from the Sun is about 39 times that of the Earth’s. So, on average, the Sun on Pluto looks about 1,520 times fainter than it does on Earth. But this isn’t particularly faint. The full Moon is on average about 400,000 times fainter than the Sun. So, doing the maths, this means the Sun seen from Pluto is about 264 times brighter than the full Moon. This is about the amount of light you’d see on Earth when the Sun is around four degrees below the horizon, during ‘civil twilight’, which is more than enough to read by. Even on Pluto, looking directly at the Sun would probably be painful.

  • @beri232
    @beri232 Рік тому +1

    Ahhhh….. the soothing sound and voice of Astrum…. helps me sleep every time!

  • @cosmicphoto05
    @cosmicphoto05 Рік тому

    Thanks for this fascinating field trip to Pluto!

  • @rais1953
    @rais1953 Рік тому +8

    All the fascinating and intricate detail we now have on Pluto/Charon should establish that "dwarf planet" should be regarded as a type of planet like terrestrial and gas giant planets.

    • @ldubt4494
      @ldubt4494 Рік тому +3

      Dwarf planet literally has the word "planet" in it. It is already regarded as a type of planet.

  • @rzm8308
    @rzm8308 Рік тому +6

    You’re the reason why I’m in love in astronomy ❤

  • @nimaiiikun
    @nimaiiikun Рік тому +1

    I still enjoy that early video you did on solar system distances and had to drive for a while to show how far Alpha Centauri was

  • @DVSx86
    @DVSx86 Рік тому +1

    cool! thanks for the great video, as usual!

  • @annakeye
    @annakeye Рік тому +5

    I would love to know more about Charon in relation to Pluto. Though called a 'moon' (satellite) of Pluto, it is more than half of Pluto's size which makes it less moon like and more like
    a dwarf planet.

    • @spacecat8511
      @spacecat8511 Рік тому +3

      I see no problem with pluto and charon being binary planets + orbiting captures asteroid satelites

    • @overcomingobstaclescreates1695
      @overcomingobstaclescreates1695 Рік тому +4

      @@spacecat8511 Especially given that they orbit a barycenter outside of Pluto's surface.

  • @stephanieparker1250
    @stephanieparker1250 Рік тому +1

    Those photos…. Takes my breath away!! 😮

  • @marcussoileau4960
    @marcussoileau4960 Рік тому

    I have been watching new horizons since before the fly by. You make the best videos. The way you present is masterful. Thanks.

  • @just_me2797
    @just_me2797 Рік тому +5

    I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that Pluto is precisely the temperature that it should be.

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  • @robertadams5423
    @robertadams5423 Рік тому +2

    Can you please explain what a cryovolcano is? I think it's an excellent opportunity to explain how they work compared to how Earth's volcanos work. Thank you

  • @styx5912
    @styx5912 Рік тому +3

    Beautiful

  • @_Painted
    @_Painted Рік тому +3

    Could Pluto's higher than expected temperature be explained by internal friction due to tidal forces from its extremely large moon, Charon? Also could Pluto's mantle be made of something colder than liquid water, like a thin layer of liquid neon for example?

  • @clod8
    @clod8 Рік тому +1

    The heart shape on Pluto! And to think, Pluto had been demoted to a dwarf planet right before the images came out.

  • @IndiBrony
    @IndiBrony Рік тому +7

    2:31 - 2kBps? Oh please, I'm old enough to remember when my home internet was almost that slow, and that didn't have to travel through most of the solar system! 😆

  • @SteveDay-np9hr
    @SteveDay-np9hr Рік тому +4

    Excellent video as ever Alex. The imaging sensors for Lorri & Ralph. Where made & supplied, by the company & dept I worked for & materials Controller for this project.
    Due to low budget made available by NASA. New Horizons had to purchase, where possible, off the shelf items.
    Also, due to the low light level conditions on Pluto - equiv to dusk on earth. When New Horizons took the spectacular images looking back at Pluto, revealing it's blue atmosphere. The sun had to be directly behind Pluto, preventing damaging the light-sensitive devices.

    • @eherrmann01
      @eherrmann01 Рік тому +2

      Thank you for your contribution to such a successful mission.

  • @padraic773
    @padraic773 Рік тому +2

    A new Pluto video!
    Hell yeah!

  • @melodylalhruaitluangikhawl7640

    Your channel is always interesting to watch and hear for us who's not even a science guy, but facinated by the wonders of the vast universe.Thank you. ❤

  • @therealKINDLE
    @therealKINDLE Рік тому +3

    Fascinating. By the Gods I hope we get our damn act together here so we can eventually become space explorers. Just imagine walking on another planet.

  • @964cuplove
    @964cuplove Рік тому +4

    First of all thanx a lot for making these fantastic videos, a pleasure to watch and great in teaching us the newest developments !!
    There is a documentary about new horizons, and the most touching moment is when the first image is downloaded and all the scientists stand around a wall mounted display and look at it like kids in a candy shop…. Fantastic display of all the best in human curiosity and scientific interest.
    I wish the world could leave senseless conflicts like the current on by Russia behind us and put that sort of money into science and the climate crisis solution etc. what a world we could have.

  • @mirchiamemeina1524
    @mirchiamemeina1524 Рік тому

    I love this channel so much. It stokes the sense of wonder. Thank you.

  • @reinaldoj.aponte9851
    @reinaldoj.aponte9851 Рік тому +1

    I'm blown away by the endless possibilities that offer the times I Am lucky to live in. As a conscious being watching this images and listening to the brilliant minds who make it possible for me to expand my understanding of the universe, to glimpse and enjoy the view of this regions of the universe is to me a miracle. Just to think that I am mortal, nevertheless able to witness and to be aware of the immensity, beauty and nature of this part of reality, blows my mind. So I am thankful to all who makes it possible. 🚀

  • @racookster
    @racookster Рік тому +4

    Watching this, it occurred to me that being demoted to "dwarf planet" status might be the best thing that ever happened to Pluto. Back when it was just the ninth planet, hardly anyone ever gave it any thought. Now, everybody loves it. Who doesn't love an underdog?

  • @PropagandaFacts
    @PropagandaFacts Рік тому +6

    This is gonna sound or rather read weird...but my biggest regret about life is that it goes by so fast. I would really enjoy watching the universe unfold without the sense of time. If I can experience loneliness in my death, then I would call that Hell.

    • @HumanScourgeYT
      @HumanScourgeYT Рік тому +3

      I really like the way you worded this. I too share the same feeling and always have. Of course in the afterlife I hope to encounter my loved ones… but boy do I hope my soul can traverse the cosmos. I’d give anything to see distant worlds and black holes and all of creation. “If it’s just us, sure is an awful waste of space” Carl Sagan

    • @PropagandaFacts
      @PropagandaFacts Рік тому +1

      ​@@HumanScourgeYT I'm a big fan of Robert Heinlein.

  • @gryph01
    @gryph01 Рік тому +2

    Pluto needs some love.

    • @charlesgardner7258
      @charlesgardner7258 Рік тому

      I agree I mean it is still a planet but it's just called a dwarf planet

  • @MrKotBonifacy
    @MrKotBonifacy Рік тому +1

    Just a side note on "Sputnik Planitia" - "u" in sputnik is pronounced as in "put" [u], not as in "cut" [a]. "Sputnik" is a Russian word, "спутник" ("one who/ that is travelling along", from "c-"' prefix meaning "together / with" and the root "путь" - a path, route, road, way, and "-ник" suffix indicating a person on thing "doing the act"). Anyway, the letter "y" in Cyrillic represents [u] sound, hence "as explained above".

  • @verdi2310
    @verdi2310 Рік тому +2

    *PLANET* Pluto is fascinating.

  • @user-vl4yi8jy9m
    @user-vl4yi8jy9m Рік тому +13

    After this video, Pluto has the right to claim re-consideration and recognition as one of the planets of the celestial group

    • @tobystewart4724
      @tobystewart4724 Рік тому +2

      Does it? Do you care to remember the dozens of others that are the same size with equally unique qualities? Bet you don't. Bet you can't name more than a few, if any, even though dozens have been found.

    • @spacecat8511
      @spacecat8511 Рік тому +2

      @@tobystewart4724
      Oh I remember. And the only reason why they weren’t considered alongside Pluto’s demotion is ‘cause they’re a bunch of cowards. More planets is more to love. Spherical and the center of its system and has an atmosphere? It’s a bloody planet. (Hell. Sometimes THE MOON gets brought up as “mmm maybe it is a very small planet and Earth’s a binary system vs planet and moon” so.)

    • @tobystewart4724
      @tobystewart4724 Рік тому +1

      @Space Cat notice how you didn't name one? I did. You should learn what "coward" means since you used it incorrectly.

    • @spacecat8511
      @spacecat8511 Рік тому +1

      @@tobystewart4724
      Because I didn’t need to? And neither did you, buddy. Also if you wanna troll about vernacular I’m shocked you didn’t go for the much lower hanging fruit over how I used “planet” vs “dwarf planet” as there is literally nothing wrong with how I used “coward.” But go off, troll.

    • @howardbaxter2514
      @howardbaxter2514 Рік тому +2

      I think that because of Charon and how the center of mass of Pluto and its moons is outside of the planet is one of the reasons why Pluto won’t be reinstated as a planet.

  • @bernardedwards8461
    @bernardedwards8461 Рік тому +2

    Pluto's atmosphere waxes and wanes with the transition from aphehelion to perihelion and back again, and this also affects the surface topography. Perhaps the internal heating as well as being partly caused by decay of radioactive elements is also a result of tidal flexion caused by its comparatively large moon which in adition to being large orbits quite close to Pluto.

  • @stjabraham
    @stjabraham Рік тому

    Love your videos and soothing voice!

  • @WilfredoWolganG
    @WilfredoWolganG Рік тому +3

    What if the planets were living organisms and not just hunks of rocks floating in space? That would solve this conundrum

    • @Journey_Awaits
      @Journey_Awaits Рік тому

      They don’t reproduce

    • @WilfredoWolganG
      @WilfredoWolganG Рік тому

      @@Journey_Awaits There are animals that reproduce asexually. There is also the Pyura Chilensis known as the living rock which is a good example of my hypothesis.

  • @its_me_nick
    @its_me_nick Рік тому +3

    Cool ✌️

  • @williewaset
    @williewaset Рік тому +2

    Pluto is still hot after being demoted...Keep it coming on Pluto!

  • @drez13
    @drez13 Рік тому

    Awesome video mate

  • @LinkTheFusky
    @LinkTheFusky Рік тому +3

    the devs didn't expect us to glitch through the invisible wall

  • @nerd26373
    @nerd26373 Рік тому +4

    NASA's discoveries are certainly fascinating. Planets out in the solar space sure can be unpredictable from time to time.

  • @magichands135
    @magichands135 Рік тому

    Great to hear about planet Pluto

  • @belka44
    @belka44 Рік тому +2

    Thousand times my favorite video👍👍👍❤❤❤

  • @Ntmoffi
    @Ntmoffi Рік тому +5

    The 9th planet is so cool just by itself.

    • @johnburn8031
      @johnburn8031 Рік тому +1

      It's the first of the dwarf planets.

    • @KingdomOfSaulo
      @KingdomOfSaulo Рік тому +2

      @@johnburn8031 no, thats ceres.

    • @johnburn8031
      @johnburn8031 Рік тому +1

      @@KingdomOfSaulo I ought to have written one of the dwarf planets.

  • @XerxesGammon200
    @XerxesGammon200 Рік тому +81

    Pluto will be reinstated as a planet one day and silence all the haters 👍

  • @hreader
    @hreader Рік тому +1

    When I was very, very young I used to watch 'Space Patrol' on my parents' b/w TV, and this series sometimes featured a race called 'Plutonians'! (I think there were featured inhabitants on most of the other planets as well including Jupiter). At that time, the received wisdom was that Pluto was utterly frozen and dead so that 'Plutonians' were a complete fantasy. Having watched this however I begin to wonder... but perhaps they'd have to be entirely underwater life. Still, an advance on how Pluto was conceived by science rather than by kids' TV sci-fi back in 'Space Patrol' days (early 1960's)!

  • @Mister_Weasel
    @Mister_Weasel Рік тому

    Thanks, Alex 🙂

  • @obtrunco
    @obtrunco Рік тому +6

    I wonder what it'd be like for an astronaut to walk on Pluto's frozen nitrogen surface.

  • @jamespanetta-cf6pu
    @jamespanetta-cf6pu Рік тому +4

    I find that astronomers very narrow-minded, "diminutive" view of Pluto unfortunate.
    Pluto ... which exhibits a unique binary, yin-yang dance of Charon and Pluto in their synchronous rotational relationship and is more dramatic than astronomers limited viewpoint consider. Pluto and its mate may be physically small compared to the Earth … but the powerful electromagnetic dance that Pluto and Charon are engaged in, is perhaps the most dynamic vibration orbiting the Sun, besides Jupiter. The diameter of Pluto - Charon from its barycentre is more 19k km,...while the Earth's diameter is 12k km,...and then add to that the four Moons orbiting around this yin-yang system: Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra.
    The barycenter of every Planet in our solar system is in the planet,...the barycenter of Pluto is between it and Charon.

  • @stokesseegers5012
    @stokesseegers5012 Рік тому +1

    I've been waiting for another planet/dwarf planet video

  • @KingdomOfSaulo
    @KingdomOfSaulo Рік тому +1

    les goo more pluto episodes!

  • @JaykPuten
    @JaykPuten Рік тому +7

    Hey! It's still a planet to me!
    I don't care if I'm a heretic....
    I still know it's not one to everyone else...
    But I still count it in the planets in the solar system (mostly because I was born in a time of...well... Impending nuclear doom, then political sexual scandals, then war...
    Wow...only a sexual scandal interrupted war in my life)
    Being a millennial is Soo weird sometimes

    • @SteveDay-np9hr
      @SteveDay-np9hr Рік тому +1

      Although declassified as planet. Its still a planet to me too.

    • @freefall9832
      @freefall9832 Рік тому

      It was the greatest scientific discovery of our time. Reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf should have gotten someone a Nobel prize.

    • @JaykPuten
      @JaykPuten Рік тому

      @@freefall9832 that's your opinion, and opinions are not fact and can be wrong and can be wrong on both sides of the opinion, a Nobel prize for it's reclassification is a bit much...
      I mean I guess calling it a dwarf *PLANET* is a better compromise than "large piece of the kaiper belt that was once considered a full planet"

    • @freefall9832
      @freefall9832 Рік тому

      @@JaykPuten sarcasm?

    • @JaykPuten
      @JaykPuten Рік тому

      @@freefall9832 semi sarcasm... As I do appreciate his opinion and where it comes from

  • @HoopTY303
    @HoopTY303 Рік тому +4

    I would love to shine some light into the depression of Write Mons and see what’s going on in there!

  • @Ph33NIXx
    @Ph33NIXx Рік тому +1

    Pluto having a subsurface ocean is wild...

  • @thomascopley9591
    @thomascopley9591 Рік тому

    Pluto and Charon are a very fascinating system. There must be some tidal forces going on between them, possibly keeping the inside of Pluto warm enough for liquid water

  • @thisguy555
    @thisguy555 Рік тому +3

    Question: suppose a new metal is somehow discovered that only exists on Pluto. Plutonium is taken. Ideas?

    • @johnburn8031
      @johnburn8031 Рік тому

      Hadesium?

    • @thulyblu5486
      @thulyblu5486 Рік тому +3

      How about "Tonium." That's similar to hat we did with the rare earths. In a small Swedish village/mineshaft "Ytterby" we discovered Ytterbium. We found more so we called it Terbium. And then Erbium. Oh and Yttrium. Oh and then Holmium after Stockholm because the capital of Sweden is close by. Oh and Thulium after an old word for Scandinavia "Thule". Oh and Gadolinium after the Finnish Chemist Johan Gadolin who discovered the first rare earth element from rocks out of this mine. And yes, I read up on all this and this is where my screenname came from by the way.
      So Tonium? Lutonium? Tombaughium? Or something related to Tolkien again since all the regions and mountains are named after stuff like this. Mordorium would be cool.

  • @SmithsMobile
    @SmithsMobile Рік тому +5

    Hearing the name Jeff Bozo and the word entrepreneur in the same sentence made me cringe.

  • @MS-60663
    @MS-60663 Рік тому

    @ 11:46 Pluto looks like the most delicious scoop of vanilla, cookies and cream, chocolaty walnut ice-cream I've ever seen.
    And I hear it's kept frozen for endless freshness, too!

  • @richardaitkenhead
    @richardaitkenhead Рік тому +18

    It always has been and always will be a planet to me, the pictures astound me everytime, it's breathtaking.

    • @Jellyman1129
      @Jellyman1129 Рік тому

      It’s definitely a planet, don’t listen to the Irrelevant Astronomical Union.

  • @peternystrom921
    @peternystrom921 Рік тому +1

    Pluto, You are still my Planet.

  • @hanspecans
    @hanspecans Рік тому +9

    I love your videos but your sponsor is literally a scam. Do better.

    • @soth1sol
      @soth1sol Рік тому +2

      sponsors are whack af, agreed