Biggest and Most Unusual Discoveries In Space Sciences of 2023 - Video Compilation

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  • Опубліковано 25 лис 2024

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  • @seanparker4461
    @seanparker4461 5 місяців тому +55

    I'm glad this guy exists. He makes me happy. I hope that he manages to get rich doing this. I hope he's so rich that he can do this just because he likes to and for no other reason. I wish nothing but good things for Anton and his wonderful family.

    • @KTomlon
      @KTomlon 4 місяці тому +8

      Don't mind me I'm testing to see if youtube shadowbanned me

    • @SteveDorrans
      @SteveDorrans 4 місяці тому

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    • @Niaaal
      @Niaaal 7 днів тому

      ​@@KTomlonYou are not

    • @davidharvey3743
      @davidharvey3743 2 дні тому

      Send him money. $ 5 bucks. I do every month

    • @davidharvey3743
      @davidharvey3743 2 дні тому

  • @niquil7800
    @niquil7800 10 місяців тому +35

    Wait... 3 HOURS and 39 Minutes?! Holy moly Anton, that is quite the seminar you are giving! Thanks so much for all your content. I wish you an uplifting 2024 with many great opportunities and mindblowing discoveries and beautiful experiences with your loved ones.

  • @the80hdgaming
    @the80hdgaming 10 місяців тому +25

    Happy New Year to you Anton... And to all the wonderful people seeing this...

  • @ryanrobison8973
    @ryanrobison8973 10 місяців тому +35

    I legitimately get so excited around this time of year for these compilations. It's been around 3 years now and I just wanted to say thank you for your hard work! You are one of the relatively few science communicators that I really trust.

  • @georgetau3044
    @georgetau3044 7 місяців тому +62

    Goodnight, fellow sleepers

    • @Larry-j9b
      @Larry-j9b 5 місяців тому +6

      Good morning 🌅

    • @twistedmezelf
      @twistedmezelf 5 місяців тому +7

      Sleep tight

    • @chuckster255
      @chuckster255 5 місяців тому +10

      How did you know that I use Anton's voice as a sleep aid?

    • @bjjthaiboxing
      @bjjthaiboxing 4 місяці тому +7

      You got me... Helps me sleep. And learn new things!

    • @garrettchambers9005
      @garrettchambers9005 9 днів тому +2

      Literally this always shows up on my auto play even if I was watching something totally different. I wake up halfway through his 4 hour video and Imm like I’m glad my ad revenue went somewhere good.

  • @loushark6722
    @loushark6722 10 місяців тому +63

    Hardest working high quality content creator 🥇🏆

    • @MrClarencdw
      @MrClarencdw 8 місяців тому +2

      Hear hear!

    • @Larry-j9b
      @Larry-j9b 5 місяців тому

      He does do his research, I mean reading publications!

  • @stanbinary
    @stanbinary 10 місяців тому +8

    Happy new 2024, Anton and all people here that are attracted to science

  • @JonnoPlays
    @JonnoPlays 10 місяців тому +13

    3 hour video. Somebody hit the super thanks! 👌 💯 💰

  • @ONKTmetalband
    @ONKTmetalband 10 місяців тому +5

    Thank you for not using background music! Your videos are awesome! This is one of the few channels about space without too loud sleepy ambient songs playing! ❤

  • @whyukraine
    @whyukraine 10 місяців тому +20

    Anton, you need a merch store. Pajamas, body pillows, nightlights, melatonin pills in the shape of your head, that kind of stuff.

  • @artdonovandesign
    @artdonovandesign 3 місяці тому +2

    Every spot a *Galaxy*
    That is incomprehensible!

  • @loushark6722
    @loushark6722 10 місяців тому +7

    Hardest working high quality content creator on yt 🏆✨👌

  • @padraiggluck2980
    @padraiggluck2980 10 місяців тому +19

    I tune in just to be called a wonderful person. 🙂

    • @daveswietlik6291
      @daveswietlik6291 8 місяців тому +1

      It's a lie you're the only one he's not referring to

  • @aliquraishi3525
    @aliquraishi3525 10 місяців тому +3

    Happy New Year ! Always looking forward to new posting from Anton.

  • @jimcurtis9052
    @jimcurtis9052 10 місяців тому +6

    Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. ❤️😊🙏

  • @charliemorgan5287
    @charliemorgan5287 10 місяців тому +2

    YOUR NEW CAMERA ANGLE IS GREAT DEFINITELY KEEP IT

  • @EdCos
    @EdCos 10 місяців тому +7

    Happy New Year Anton, thanks for a great informative 2023 and I'm looking forward to what you give us in 2024.

    • @JDdollars
      @JDdollars 10 місяців тому +1

      Love the mic i can hear now

  • @Marcus-l7q
    @Marcus-l7q 10 місяців тому +2

    Even though I'm not smart enough to understand the concept, you always make it interesting and introduce it in a way that makes me wanna learn. Thanks love your videos

  • @InternationalAnders-gp7tx
    @InternationalAnders-gp7tx 7 місяців тому

    I love that Anton explains all this stuff in a way I can surprisingly understand. Thank you!

  • @JenniferMarieGoddenSpace
    @JenniferMarieGoddenSpace 2 місяці тому

    Hey I wanted to say hello to one of my favorite UA-camrs and creators. You have been my nerdy space loving boyfriend for close to a decade. Thank you for enriching my mind and pushing forward the love of space that comes in a power greater than yourself and a belief in a god that loves us all beings. You have spent more time talking to me than my significant other at least regarding the stuff his brain couldn’t hold onto. Some loves know no boundaries or space and time and are able to see ourselves into new dimensions and undefined limitations. If we are going to the stars and universe some day it makes sense some of them might have shared a connection to the interest you invested learning about space with. Thank you for your beautiful brain

  • @mckinney9739
    @mckinney9739 10 місяців тому +10

    I love how Anton describes the early universe like he was there

    • @joepss7946
      @joepss7946 10 місяців тому +10

      In a way, we all were.

    • @bobhightower8822
      @bobhightower8822 8 місяців тому +2

      @@joepss7946 this is being slept on

    • @JesseAllenJr
      @JesseAllenJr 8 місяців тому +2

      ​@@bobhightower8822Right? Holy shit lol

    • @sebastiancortezpop
      @sebastiancortezpop 8 місяців тому +2

      Can you prove Anton wasnt there?

    • @PaulHigginbothamSr
      @PaulHigginbothamSr 7 місяців тому +2

      For people scientific like Anton he is there. Thank goodness.

  • @gregpieczka8996
    @gregpieczka8996 6 місяців тому +1

    OOUU LA LA...THIS IS SO COOL

  • @BastilsBlather818
    @BastilsBlather818 8 місяців тому +1

    I'll be honest I did not have the largest amount of faith in what I've called bumpy the rockets capabilities , I was totally for space sharks with lasers on their helmets .
    Thus I was surprised with those results ☺ one good step forward for this planet

  • @doodoomode7370
    @doodoomode7370 10 місяців тому +3

    Love you

  • @marioluna2957
    @marioluna2957 10 місяців тому +1

    Happy New Year Anton👍

  • @scott6129
    @scott6129 10 місяців тому +1

    The expansion rate of the universe isn't only different where you look. When you look and how you look also changes the results.

  • @sapphirecampbell-wh7iy
    @sapphirecampbell-wh7iy 10 місяців тому +6

    You should do Event Horizon with Godier

  • @phillipmitchell2254
    @phillipmitchell2254 6 місяців тому

    Thank you for all you do, Wonderful Anton!

  • @501Mobius
    @501Mobius 10 місяців тому +17

    The name given is Hawaiian I guess because the telescopes are in Hawaii. When are we going to name things in the cosmos based on telescopes in Chile? Then we could name a really big structure ay chihuahua caramba. :)

    • @pacotaco1246
      @pacotaco1246 10 місяців тому +4

      We need to do this asap

    • @douglaswilkinson5700
      @douglaswilkinson5700 10 місяців тому +5

      ​@@pacotaco1246Some politics are involved. Astronomers want to build another large telescope on top of the mountain in Hawaii where the Keck, et al are located. The native Hawaiians believe the mountain is sacred. So the astronomical community is trying to do what it takes to get permission to construct a new telescope.

    • @pacotaco1246
      @pacotaco1246 10 місяців тому +1

      @douglaswilkinson5700 ah yea we shouldnt put such a massive faciliity on sacred lands when we can just put it somewhere else

    • @Nosirrbro
      @Nosirrbro 5 місяців тому

      @@pacotaco1246fr

  • @Cloud-bl5xf
    @Cloud-bl5xf 7 місяців тому

    Thanks for being trustworthy, Anton! Love your videos.

  • @NoxDNA
    @NoxDNA 10 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for providing amazing informative content. Best wishes for you and your channel in 2024!🎉

  • @-jeff-
    @-jeff- 10 місяців тому +1

    TY Anton for a great cosmic compilation!

  • @m.i.c.h.o
    @m.i.c.h.o 10 місяців тому +2

    Just finished it! Now onto the biology one ^^

  • @camoTiaras
    @camoTiaras 10 місяців тому +3

    What i want to see is a 3d map of everything thats not matter. I want to see the shape of the "nothing".

  • @JC-wu4iw
    @JC-wu4iw 10 місяців тому +1

    Bob Uecker is the primary broadcaster for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball team

  • @tomkop213
    @tomkop213 10 місяців тому +1

    Mindblowing

  • @telfordguy34uk
    @telfordguy34uk 10 місяців тому +2

    ' ooh la la ' lol😅

  • @markrix
    @markrix 10 місяців тому +2

    It's not that the Mic's weird it's that it's apparently levitating 😂

    • @markrix
      @markrix 10 місяців тому

      As the beastie boys said back in 1980s "1,2 oh my god!" 🎉

  • @harzerhamster6735
    @harzerhamster6735 9 місяців тому +2

    2:07:30 is nuts. Simple reason(s). If the planet was so close to a binary, there would've been the three-body problem. As the planet has the least mass ... it would've been ejected or swallowed. If one of the binaries became a white dwarf: it would've stolen gas from the remaining star, resulting in Novae by the number (and: Gravity vs. Pressure - if there is a white dwarf within a K-Type star, the gravitational pull would be to big for the remaining pressure produced by Helium-fusion - the star would collaps!). Mother nature usually prefers simple solutions. Like: Planet once had an orbit further away. As star expended to a red giant, it slowed down orbital speed due to increase of interplanetary density of gas (Heliosphere of star) and (if it was a gas giant/jupiter type) evaporation of its own gas. So the planet reduced distance to star (orbit) by drifting inwards slowly. As the star reduced size due to helium stage it was still not within and today it just seems to be to close to have survived "living in a star". Who made that study? Re-Inventing the wheel can be tricky, when you've got no clue about a car 🤪.

  • @op3staan4
    @op3staan4 5 місяців тому

    Bedankt

  • @Dilbert-o5k
    @Dilbert-o5k 10 місяців тому +1

    Maybe the cosmic rays are the alien communications that everyone is looking for

  • @crzybxrry
    @crzybxrry 4 місяці тому +1

    P.s. The thumbnail is shown of a fake super-saturn😅

  • @Gkitchens1
    @Gkitchens1 10 місяців тому +1

    Chinese scientists just published a paper showcasing that weak meissner effect indeed does possibly exist in the lk99 material at room temperature. So it’s not bs after all, possibly lol.

  • @jaredloveless
    @jaredloveless 7 місяців тому

    I wonder how many of those oscilations are reflections of each other... imagine being in a room where all of the walls are mirrored, you could see the same event from multiple angles all around you.

  • @alanmendoza4293
    @alanmendoza4293 8 місяців тому +1

    so the universe actually gives super HECR's about us

  • @Andy_Mark
    @Andy_Mark 10 місяців тому +1

    There was an apreciable increase in audio quality when you filmed the video with the big clunky microphone in front of your face. It seemed.... smoother? Anyone with me?

  • @robotaholic
    @robotaholic 10 місяців тому +123

    I am not smart enough to understand the barionic acoustic ossiclation method of measuring the size or expansion rate of the universe. 🤯🤙

    • @MichaelLeBlanc-p4f
      @MichaelLeBlanc-p4f 10 місяців тому +22

      Basically, it suggested everything is moving and nothing we see is there caused it's moved over millions of years

    • @lightien
      @lightien 10 місяців тому +5

      Same, idk what words mean. Feels bad

    • @a.m.v.6938
      @a.m.v.6938 10 місяців тому +8

      @ 1:33 I thought you had found Donald Trumps toupee. 😂

    • @scott6129
      @scott6129 10 місяців тому +6

      ​@@a.m.v.6938It's not orange enough to be Trump's

    • @iam4740
      @iam4740 10 місяців тому +5

      Don't feel bad. Many people study this for decades, and still do not understand it.

  • @ClanWarrior
    @ClanWarrior 10 місяців тому +1

    ALL THIS KNOWLAGE BEING ABSOLUTELY ABSORBED BY MY BRAIN WHILE I SLEEEP WAAAAA 😮💡😂

  • @markgarin6355
    @markgarin6355 10 місяців тому +1

    Are we boldly going where we haven't gone before?
    Interesting flat three dimensional image.
    Hawaiian?

  • @ExistentialGojora
    @ExistentialGojora 10 місяців тому +1

    GET DOWN WITH THAT NEW MIC! It sounds great over my music studio qualiity headphone. Thanks.

    • @markrix
      @markrix 10 місяців тому

      It's not that the Mic's weird it's that it's apparently levitating 😂 better sound that way i suppose.

  • @lurotov
    @lurotov 10 місяців тому +1

    Can a consortium of philanthropists organise and convert those commercial duelling into residential properties and selling at a reasonable price?

  • @lurotov
    @lurotov 10 місяців тому +1

    Bearing in mind that the universe works in polarities; magnetic, thermic and electrical and all of them work individually accordingly to their intensity... the dices are moving and we dont know the final result.

  • @agentviktor3297
    @agentviktor3297 8 місяців тому

    I prefer lavalier mics.
    Although most of the times, I only listen to you, barely watch the content.
    Either way, keep up the good work!

  • @PabloP169
    @PabloP169 10 місяців тому +1

    A bit too long to sit through in one session. So will need to come back to it, maybe!

  • @jeremysmith4620
    @jeremysmith4620 10 місяців тому +1

    Oh-la-la? I speak French as well! Baguette, vin, cigarette, je ne parle pas anglais!

  • @theBlankScroll
    @theBlankScroll 8 місяців тому +1

    Anton, i hope you're doing well, my dude.

  • @sharonshort4018
    @sharonshort4018 6 місяців тому +2

    FYI: Amaterasu is a goddess, not a god.

  • @Andy_Mark
    @Andy_Mark 10 місяців тому +1

    If BAO is correct, couldn't we extrapolate that data similarly to calculating the circumference of a circle based on a segment? Thus, ascertaining the total size of the BAO from determining the curve and length from a segment?

  • @alanbregovic8889
    @alanbregovic8889 9 місяців тому +1

    distant universe appears in slo-mo.....whaaaaat....distant part of universe appears to us in slo-mo....aaah

  • @shaundubai8941
    @shaundubai8941 7 місяців тому +1

    Wow - Alien super structure found

  • @madmesmith5187
    @madmesmith5187 10 місяців тому +2

    We were Born from a Blackhole Supernova 🤔

  • @danhove
    @danhove 10 місяців тому +2

    ... before the universe was created....created by who?

    • @ThePleasantDevourer
      @ThePleasantDevourer 7 місяців тому

      You think maybe we are some kids science fair project? A simulation of some kind?

  • @jupiter604
    @jupiter604 6 місяців тому

    Anton!

  • @AdrianLee
    @AdrianLee 7 місяців тому

    In linguistics, the diaeresis (double dots aböve) is typically used to separate a pair of vowels. That being said, "Boötes" is actually properly pronounced "bow oh teez" 🙂

  • @Larry-j9b
    @Larry-j9b 5 місяців тому +1

    Isn't everything a big bang remnant?

    • @frankfaga
      @frankfaga 4 місяці тому

      Good point. But there are cosmological postulates that predict events transcending the Big Bang. Check out Cyclical Conformal Cosmology (CCC), a very interesting idea from the creative mind of Sir Roger Penrose.

  • @oomahuntressprotectress848
    @oomahuntressprotectress848 10 місяців тому +1

    biggest! whats the feel heft of it?

  • @douginorlando6260
    @douginorlando6260 6 місяців тому

    My guess? Two large Black Holes at galactic centers merged. This caused a huge release of energy as they spiraled inward. The energy released energized the rest of the mass of the Two galaxies which created a chain reaction of supernovas of the stars (perhaps an incredible release of gamma rays, neutrinos, neutrons and antimatter which induced supernovas). The net result was to energize all the atoms and ions to nearly the speed of light kinetic energy. The resulting blast wave pushed out cosmic dust for a billion Lightyears. This left a shell of cosmic debris that was dense enough to feed creation of stars and galaxies in a billion lightyear wide shell.

  • @rodneydowd4739
    @rodneydowd4739 10 місяців тому +1

    11:39 🤣

  • @bassplayersayer
    @bassplayersayer 8 місяців тому +1

    Hi Anton, How does a blast wave work in space????

  • @ThinkTankxx
    @ThinkTankxx 10 місяців тому +2

    Anton, I have a question that I would like you to answer for me, not related to this episode. According to Kip Thorne and Leonard Susskind, black holes are not comprised of matter. Can you tell me what you think a black hole is? Singularities are a mathematical theory and not particularly reality. What is a black hole? Thank you!

  • @michaelhicks8603
    @michaelhicks8603 13 днів тому

    If you want to know what propane actually is, it’s carbon.
    Methane = 1 carbon, 4 hydrogens
    Ethane = 2 carbons, 6 hydrogens
    Propane = 3 carbon, 8 hydrogens.
    And on it goes up to hexatriacontane = 36 carbons 74 hydrogens. In theory there is no limit to the maximum size of an alkane. You can keep adding carbons forever.
    The name of these compounds denotes how many carbons long it is:
    1. Meth- (1 carbon) - Methane (CH₄)
    2. Eth- (2 carbons) - Ethane (C₂H₆)
    3. Prop- (3 carbons) - Propane (C₃H₈)
    4. But- (4 carbons) - Butane (C₄H₁₀)
    5. Pent- (5 carbons) - Pentane (C₅H₁₂)
    6. Hex- (6 carbons) - Hexane (C₆H₁₄)
    7. Hept- (7 carbons) - Heptane (C₇H₁₆)
    8. Oct- (8 carbons) - Octane (C₈H₁₈)
    9. Non- (9 carbons) - Nonane (C₉H₂₀)
    10. Dec- (10 carbons) - Decane (C₁₀H₂₂)

  • @cschleiger1991
    @cschleiger1991 6 місяців тому

    7:50 ish "Bao with the Bao the Bang de bang Diggy diggy diggy said the boogy, said um chum the boogey" :0 lol

  • @fredwood1490
    @fredwood1490 7 місяців тому

    At 54: we have seen stars speeding around super massive black holes like the one at the center of the Milky Way, in tight elliptical orbits, going very fast in all directions. Collisions shouldn't be rare here but common. This could be the cause of many Gamma Ray Bursts and maybe even some of the Fast Radio Bursts. In a Universe where anything possible can happen, everything possible will happen sooner or later.

  • @Andy_Mark
    @Andy_Mark 10 місяців тому +4

    My theory regarding the OMG particle- God flicked a booger.

    • @tpros6289
      @tpros6289 8 місяців тому

      My assumption was a sort of detonation from alien races, warring with each other. The planet killing bombs they lob at each other cause super high energy particle explosions. We just happen to catch a little shrapnel as the planets become frag grenades.

  • @approaching404
    @approaching404 3 місяці тому

    The ring pulses are brain waves and the universe is conscious, your welcome

  • @theomnisthour6400
    @theomnisthour6400 8 місяців тому

    You are describing the Mandela effects of the simulation multiverse's major version upgrades, what might be thought of as "time quakes". Trying to minimize the effects of these is the focus of the best physicists among the senior creators, as it can severely hamper playability for some of the most advanced players and cause a lot of random ascension symptoms to the soul vehicles of less advanced players, such as are being observed more and more widely among humanity in recent decades

  • @Ultimate_Tito_TheExplorer
    @Ultimate_Tito_TheExplorer 10 місяців тому +2

    Is this real? 3 hours and 39 minutes??

  • @WayOfAges
    @WayOfAges Місяць тому

    Should not the Doppler redshift of rapidly retreating objects be adjusted for that due to Lorenz time dilation? Likewise for the Einstein time dilation due to the gravitational well from which they emerge.

  • @BrenandiBal
    @BrenandiBal 5 місяців тому

    Could the universe synchronise its oscillation in the hum of g-waves like a lot of metronomes on a plate, or would the distance make that improbable?

  • @douginorlando6260
    @douginorlando6260 6 місяців тому

    Sometimes I think we have just as much chance of understanding the universe as oysters on the ocean seabed have of discovering galaxies exist.

  • @PaulHigginbothamSr
    @PaulHigginbothamSr 7 місяців тому +1

    I would be shocked to find life on Venus. It would seem to me to be hundreds of times less likely than say Mars.

  • @osmosisjones4912
    @osmosisjones4912 10 місяців тому +2

    Wormholes Linking areas of gravity for only a nano nano second explains everything scene Linked to dark matter

  • @BaseyCrown
    @BaseyCrown 3 місяці тому

    Damn, allowing 58min adds in the middle of this is criminal. Used to listen to this to try and fall asleep. Can’t do that anymore 😢

  • @sorreljaclyn
    @sorreljaclyn 10 місяців тому +1

    How do people make Rh null blood apart from making more babies? I'm freaking out 🤯🙀😳

  • @marknovak6498
    @marknovak6498 2 місяці тому

    Could superbubbles be the remnant of long dead quasars after pushing away inconceivable matter.

  • @GwydionFrost
    @GwydionFrost Місяць тому

    "BAO" is much more fun to talk about if you pronounce it to rhyme with the banana boat song-- "bay oh" instead of "bow".
    Just saying. LOL

  • @CGMaat
    @CGMaat 10 місяців тому

    Seems that the star sparks have become divine entropy - DEMOCRACY OF EQUANIMITY OF JUST RIGHT DISTRIBUTION. ONE - OM ! !

  • @TheMemesofDestruction
    @TheMemesofDestruction 8 місяців тому

    3:32:00 - 👀

  • @meedpelayo9915
    @meedpelayo9915 6 місяців тому

    It came from the Deathstar 😊

  • @fairygurl9269
    @fairygurl9269 8 місяців тому +1

    Its its Its The 5th Element

  • @coreyleavell6921
    @coreyleavell6921 7 місяців тому

    This may be a semantic question, but here it goes. I don't believe in particles as colloquially understood. I think all matter is still waves, or perturbations. So why does the scientific community refer to the effect of a stream of these "things" as a ray, but still insist on the idea of the individual pulses as material?

  • @TheSouthernSiren
    @TheSouthernSiren 7 місяців тому +1

    Anton, sorry but you don't look like Frodo. 😆

  • @hornet002
    @hornet002 9 місяців тому +1

    Aliens?

  • @BrenandiBal
    @BrenandiBal 5 місяців тому

    Black Dwarfs diamond mines

  • @billbogg3857
    @billbogg3857 7 місяців тому +1

    1.21.30 - OM !

  • @danielpalmer8156
    @danielpalmer8156 10 місяців тому +1

    Dark energy doesn't exist

    • @Coastal_Cruzer
      @Coastal_Cruzer 9 місяців тому

      Dark energy is a blanket term for stuff we don't understand yet. It exists to help math keep mathing

  • @troyjacobs8530
    @troyjacobs8530 3 місяці тому

    3:28:38 hey, my uncle has a CP violation

  • @angelaychou5128
    @angelaychou5128 10 місяців тому +2

    👍❤️🔴🌺

  • @jamesleatherwood5125
    @jamesleatherwood5125 Місяць тому

    Wouldnt time in the universe as whole move slower the further back you go in time as the gravity density would have been higher and time moves slower the higher the gravity density?

    • @jamesleatherwood5125
      @jamesleatherwood5125 Місяць тому

      And in the same regard, as the universe expands and the gravity density decreases? Wont time move more and more quickly over time? So that even we will appear in slow motion to an observer couple billion years dislocated further forward in time, simply because the gravity density is lower?

  • @frankcowan6625
    @frankcowan6625 7 місяців тому

    It happens sometime in the past.
    Who knew?
    Why did you use the word "the"?