Didn't I tell you masses do not exist in space? What is Jupiter ? Gas? What matter did create gas? Jupiter is good source for hour cars fuel? Why is the rain there , on Jupiter ??Because because Jupiter is growing gas plants and gas trees?
Thats awesome! I've been facinated by the planets ever since I learned about them at a Summer program when I was 7 years old. I have never used a telescope but I had no idea you could see the big red spot with one. Now I want to see it!
I love jupiter. Whenever I see it in the sky, I try to imagine the sheer brutality of what's going on in that place, in plain sight, right before my own eyes, while seeming so calm and serene, weightless, unchanging. The planets always remind me of how marvelous our universe is.
I remember watching Shoemaker-Levy 9 (or chunks of it?) hit Jupiter live on TV when I was a little kid. My mom was like, "Scientists don't know what this is going to do to Jupiter, so it might throw our entire solar system out of whack and Earth might be destroyed." My mother apparently got a real kick out of terrifying me as a kid.
CrashCourse, this is by far my favourite series. I never had an special interest in Astronomy, yet I absolutely love this series. Everything is so organized you fit a lot of information in only 10 minutes and yet it doesn't feel messy. The speaker is great at conveying the information, the graphics, everything... those 10 minutes feel like 3. I can't wait to see a new video everytime I finish one. I love your channel, and I absolutely love this series. Keep up the good work, I will be waiting impatiently for more videos. PS: I am not a patreon, because I have no job currently, but as soon as I recover financially I will totally help you out. Thank you for making the world a nice place.
this is my favourite episode of CC Astronomy and I think Phil is my fave host. He has that perfect balance of funny and serious educational tone. He made me laugh multiple times this episode but it never felt like he was departing from the topic just to get a laugh
I love Astronomy, but I never have the opportunity to learn some things about it, aside those which are taught at school. Thanks to CC I can learn something before university
You have the opportunity. There are plenty of books, videos, magazines available. More than ever before in mankind's history. It is your decision to not invest time into this (even 10 minutes a day...) and only you can change that!
You've finally answered the burning question I've had to about 20 years. Does Jupiter have a core? I know there wasn't actually an answer because we don't know, but I wondered if I just somehow overlooked it all these years. Thanks CrashCourse.
armourdaddy805 That's one of the current theories. However, the evidence isn't particularly strong. There's many alternate scenarios for the early formation of the solar system. I've seen theories that Jupiter and Saturn both moved outward together, moved inward and outward multiple times, etc. It's probably going to be a long time, if ever before we really know for certain.
The Juno probe didn't find a core within it. The magnetic survey didn't find one. Despite the pressure inside it anything we might call a rock would melt as it sinks in. Probably the melted metals are buoyant in the metallic hydrogen layer.
why in all those 20 years you never grabbed a scientific book about Jupiter and got your answer i don't understand... those books are usually thorough, even kids books. it's easier to get informations these day than in any other time in mankind's history
***** Are you going to get to more galactic and intergalactic structures/formations? Also will you be discussing the interesting moons of these planets that could harbor life? I love these so muuch and really appreciate the work involved in making these so please keep them coming!
PHIL IS AN AMAZING TEACHER.... His explanation of this topic was broken down accurately simple yet without any gimmicky hogwash. The US education system NEEDS about 1,000 more Phils.
Eleanor Jupiter must be the dad planet for the inner solar system's planets!! Why else would it protect us from comets?? :D My favourite is either Saturn or Neptune :)
At last, the burning question inside my head has been answered. I always suspected that Jupiter is a failed star ever since I opened up my own astronomy book when I was very young, but to call it a failed star is unfair for it is truly a very successful planet. Keep them coming sir, I really really liking this. Planning to buy a binocular in the future and hunt Jupiter when the time is right.
Terrific script and great visuals. Crash course makes astronomy and science accessible, tangible and easily digestable. I LOVE this channel personally but especially as a dad. I frequently watch with my 5 yr old daughter. Thanks for sparking our curiosity!
@@kindlestickss Without it, Earth would be hell, you silly uniformed man. Try watching the video again; Shoemaker Livy comet would have obliterated us.
@@kindlestickss It's inside's has saved our outside's and inside's, both personal and in planetary terms, countless times. It's heaven on earth inside, if that what it takes. Adore God who created it, adore Jupiter.
"Don't worry little planets, I'll protect you!" -a few billion years later- "Yeah, well eff you dinosaurs! Take THIS impact!" *This comment is neither scientifically nor historically accurate.
Dude, you're a sensei. You answered so many questions about my favourite planet, but I wish that you'd spent some time talking about why these objects form to begin with. Just: thanks so much for this course, man
Phil Plait is my favourite host. He has a great voice and way of explanation. Even though his field of specialization is astronomy I'd love to keep watching teach other crash course subjects in the future.
It's mind blowing to think how Jupiter's weather is driven by the planet so strongly. That's amazing! I'd love to experience it (assuming I had a craft that could survive).
So here is a dumb question I always had... If we could build a spacecraft or even, if we could somehow throw an object that would be able to sustain itself through Jupiter's atmosphere and preassure, with enough force, could we get it to go THROUGH Jupiter itself? I mean if it is just a gas plannet with no core of course...
Omar Sharief I know thats why I said "with enough force". I am talking about something impossible here of course, but It is hard for me to imagine a planet with no solid mass whatsoever in a way that you could throw something and it would go right through it... It is so... weird...
A WHOLE EPISODE ABOUT JUPITER'S MOONS? SWEET! :D AND ANOTHER ABOUT ASTEROIDS :D Now all we need is Crash Course Prehistory and my life will be complete lol xD This series is actually well timed too because you can have an episode about Pluto once New Horizons has reached it.
I cant believe that just a couple of months ago I was hating on the new presenter this series has been fantastic thanks to everyone who helped make this possible and free to view UK
Phil I've followed you since Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy. I have a son who I'm slowly getting interested in space, so this show is perfect for us. Keep up the good work..😉
Are you ever going to do a episode on Dwarf planets like Pluto? The new horizons mission was really amazing and I’d love to hear you talk about how weird Pluto is and the fact it has 5 freaking moons & one the shape of a football! How did that even happen! Please let us know! Love this stuff!
Hey there Phil! I absolutely love your videos about Astronomy on CrashCourse, a perfect example of internet edutainment at its best in my opinion. I would really appreciate if you do an episode in the future about Earth-like exoplanets and the Goldilocks zone hypothesis. Greetings from Chile!
i like to think of Jupiter as the earth's big brother. because it throws all the comets that could destroy us into interstellar space, which i personally think is amazing.
Sharing knowledge is one of the most beautiful things in the world to me ❤ I’m grateful for the entire crash course experience 🙏 lots of love from India 😊
It is good that you emphasize the ideas that are currently not supported by observational evidence and remain only propositions for the time being. This is a great video. Thanks.
How do we know what Jupiter's interior is like if it's atmosphere is hundreds of kilometers thick? Can the space probes we send really see far enough past its atmosphere? Edit: spelling
Golgiapparatus2 Speculation, mostly, and a big deal of observation. Remember that there are multiple theories about if the planet even has a core! (we don't know if it does, but it might).
Golgiapparatus2 well, there is spectroscopy that can be used to study that outer gas. Also, Galileo Orbiter was crashed into the Jupiter that stayed active for about 80 min and conducted few experiments before it was shut down.
Short answer: Yes. Long answer: We have had space probes and the like which work on wavelengths of light that penetrate all the way through the center. Think of hooking up an infrared camera to a space probe and crashing it into Jupiter. This gives us a fuzzy idea of what the core may be made out of. There is also the methods we use to determine the composition of atmospheres of pretty much everything. Just like we can tell that there is hydrogen in the sun, spectrometers can detect even the faintest amount of light produced in Jupiter's core (and there is a lot, heat energy mostly) and can tell by the wavelengths produced what its made out of.
always_hopeful It might not be spectroscopy actually. I always get confused with that but it is possible to study the atmosphere or other planets from Earth. In fact, currently, many are trying to study the atmosphere of exoplanets.
Very impressed with the neutrality of the series and this video. constantly giving both hypothesis, and admitting we don't know. what got me was the fact we don't know if Jupiter is good or bad for earth, i was thinking the exact same thing just before he gave the other opinion. fantastic videos!
another hardy episode! i really learned a lot! not sure if my schools sucked or if scientists just learned that much in the last.... i dont wanna say how long :P ...since i graduated.
Seriously, I love this show so much. I would be interested in the topic anyway, but Phil Plait makes it so much better. P.S. Never heard people calling Jupiter a failed star ._.
sion8 To create fusion you either need more mass, or more density. The monoliths were able to link up and artificially shrink the size of Jupiter, thus increasing its density, pressure, and temperature. So no mass needed, just some fancy monoliths.
drewmandan Well, while you accurately describe the way it is depicted in the movie, it is never explained how the thermal and radiation pressure from the fusion reaction is countered in the absence of sufficient gravity. One has to assume the involvement of a fifth fundamental force of nature called "handwaving."
Penny Lane I'm completely guessing here, but presumably the monoliths themselves are permanently held in place to form a structure of some sort, similar to how humans try to create artificial fusion using tokamaks and whatnot. In other words, Jupiter is not a star at all, rather it's a completely artificial fusion machine that happens to look like a star from the outside
At the very least, the concept of turning Jupiter into some sort of star makes for good science fiction ;) By far my favorite of the Astronomy video series. Great work Mr. Plait :)
Phil Plait, you sir have been one of my favorite astronomers, just saw you on the universe, 2nd season I believe. First you write code for THE FREAKIN HUBBLE, then you appear on all my shows I watch, I'm a HUGE space dude, then you pop up here on youtube. With this bad astronomy genus, now CC space. Thank you for all your knowledge you share, thses educational videos are a great water to get my kids into astronomy. And also good job to all the CC team for all these videos, love the Big History set.
Can I just say you're the best person EVER! I don't learn anything in my astronomy class and these videos teach me so much. I have an A in class right now bc of you.... THANK YOU. P.S why can't you be my professor?
Nillie It isn't really an alkali metal. It shares properties of alkali metals and of Halogens. It's somewhere in between and you can't count it to one of the groups alone.
Nillie are you sure about that? -I think the s and p orbitals behave differently- [oops, that makes no sense], and from that logic it could be considered a halogen just the same (a free proton and a hydride ion are both one electron away)... Anyway, seems to me like this is a bit of an overgeneralization
Yea, it is an oversimplification, and you're right in that its gas phase has just as much in common with the halogens. Come to think of it, the entire grouping of the periodic table is an oversimplification. For example, all of the 4th period transition metals have an equal claim on the "eka-aluminium" spot, but in the traditional way of presenting the elements, only gallium is obviously directly below aluminium.
I wish they had taught us in high school about alternative periodic tables... I actually managed to graduate without understanding what "periodic" means =(
TheDecimater1000 I think it's that going from empty space to smacking into a thick gas can be quite an impact. Like how objects can easily pass through water but if you belly flop into it off a cliff then you're gonna have a bad time.
Most meteorites on Earth impact our higher atmosphere which then proceeds to burn them up. Yet it is 'only' a gas. Hitting a gas at a very high velocity won't save you.
TheDecimater1000 A gas that very quickly gets up to thousands of degrees and has pressures higher than the bottom of the oceans on Earth, all within a few hundred kilometers of the cloud tops.
Grade school science class, learning about Jupiter was what made me think the solar system is an ecosystem. If not for Jupiter, life in this solar system would probably be impossible. This is also why I think the Rare Earth theory is probably the right solution to the FERMI paradox.
congratulations to the juno team...id be amazing to see an update to this video in a couple years...you know we're gonna learn some awesome stuff...great time to be a space geek : )
Jamie Wu you’re so cool dude. Look how progressive, intelligent, and better you are than the rest of us lower humans. If I were a super awesome progressive human like you, I’d hate the rest of humans too. I bet you’re so smart that you will never see this comment because aliens have already noticed you are way ahead of your kind and they’ve likely abducted you and initiated you into the cosmos cool kids club.
I was just returning home and the sky was amazing. It's summer down here and I got outside with my camera. Find out jupiter was one of the brighter lights in the sky. Zoomed in and boom, the galilean moons!! Amazing stuff.
@@@SiddharthPullabhatla Not as if the alternative was any better. A distant planet would have made a better president than either of them. In fact my plastic shoe horn would have made a better president than them. Less corrupt, less insane and less stupid. It's a no-brainer.
I wonder if it is even possible to say "head honcho" and not follow it with "big cheese".. I'm sure that if they are not paired, the universe will rip itself apart trying to find one in any of the parallel universe, destabilizing the whole multiverse.. Well, it was poor invention to start with so.. Head honcho......
Thank you very much for making this video, Phil Plait and your other colleagues at _CrashCourse_ Astronomy! Jupiter is definitely not a failure, but a really successful planet; the big gorilla in our neighbourhood. Why is Jupiter called Jupiter? All the other planets are named after Roman gods, right? And Mercury is the swifty god, Venus the goddess of love etc. What god is Jupiter? Also, where were the planets located when they formed in the Solar system? Which planet formed were? Did Earth really form so close to the Sun as we are now or did it get dragged closer by the Sun? Where did Pluto form?
Jupiter is the Roman equivalent of Zeus. Like Venus is the Roman version of Aphrodite. Etc. Jupiter/Zeus was the god of lighting and storms and the such. Fitting, as Jupiter has that never ending storm.
"Jupiter is not a failed star, it is a very successful planet"
Oh man, I loved that one XD
hd100546b:Hold my beer
The animation was really cute!
Didn't I tell you masses do
not exist in space? What is Jupiter ? Gas? What matter did create gas? Jupiter is good source for hour cars fuel?
Why is the rain there , on Jupiter ??Because because Jupiter is growing gas plants and gas trees?
I got to see Jupiter through a telescope when I was 7 and I got to see the red eye. I was so excited! I'm still excited to have that memory.
Thats awesome! I've been facinated by the planets ever since I learned about them at a Summer program when I was 7 years old. I have never used a telescope but I had no idea you could see the big red spot with one. Now I want to see it!
"It's not a failed star, it's avery successful planet" Awwwww :')
gae
Phil is my favourite host on CrashCourse. He seems so adorably passionate and enthusiastic about astronomy.
I love jupiter. Whenever I see it in the sky, I try to imagine the sheer brutality of what's going on in that place, in plain sight, right before my own eyes, while seeming so calm and serene, weightless, unchanging. The planets always remind me of how marvelous our universe is.
I remember watching Shoemaker-Levy 9 (or chunks of it?) hit Jupiter live on TV when I was a little kid. My mom was like, "Scientists don't know what this is going to do to Jupiter, so it might throw our entire solar system out of whack and Earth might be destroyed." My mother apparently got a real kick out of terrifying me as a kid.
slut4berniesanders That was amazing.
CrashCourse, this is by far my favourite series. I never had an special interest in Astronomy, yet I absolutely love this series. Everything is so organized you fit a lot of information in only 10 minutes and yet it doesn't feel messy. The speaker is great at conveying the information, the graphics, everything... those 10 minutes feel like 3. I can't wait to see a new video everytime I finish one. I love your channel, and I absolutely love this series. Keep up the good work, I will be waiting impatiently for more videos.
PS: I am not a patreon, because I have no job currently, but as soon as I recover financially I will totally help you out. Thank you for making the world a nice place.
this is my favourite episode of CC Astronomy and I think Phil is my fave host. He has that perfect balance of funny and serious educational tone. He made me laugh multiple times this episode but it never felt like he was departing from the topic just to get a laugh
I love Astronomy, but I never have the opportunity to learn some things about it, aside those which are taught at school.
Thanks to CC I can learn something before university
You have the opportunity. There are plenty of books, videos, magazines available. More than ever before in mankind's history. It is your decision to not invest time into this (even 10 minutes a day...) and only you can change that!
Maaaaaaaaan I love this guy he's just so damn enthused.
I just love Crash Course Astronomy so much! Thank you Phil, for not forgetting to be awesome.
You've finally answered the burning question I've had to about 20 years. Does Jupiter have a core? I know there wasn't actually an answer because we don't know, but I wondered if I just somehow overlooked it all these years. Thanks CrashCourse.
PrimevalDragon hey prime i have heard that jupiter and saturn changed orbits twice in the solar system while the system was young and forming.
armourdaddy805 That's one of the current theories. However, the evidence isn't particularly strong. There's many alternate scenarios for the early formation of the solar system. I've seen theories that Jupiter and Saturn both moved outward together, moved inward and outward multiple times, etc. It's probably going to be a long time, if ever before we really know for certain.
got it theory.nothing like our blue earth.
The Juno probe didn't find a core within it. The magnetic survey didn't find one. Despite the pressure inside it anything we might call a rock would melt as it sinks in. Probably the melted metals are buoyant in the metallic hydrogen layer.
why in all those 20 years you never grabbed a scientific book about Jupiter and got your answer i don't understand... those books are usually thorough, even kids books. it's easier to get informations these day than in any other time in mankind's history
"We'll dive into them - literally - in the next episode." Oh my gosh I hope not. I don't want to die.
love your videos CrashCourse
Alex Torres Thanks!
***** We watched a video with you in it at uni the other day! :) We were learning about the big bang/expansion of the universe. You're awesome.
Gandalf The Grey Thanks! Was that from a TV show?
***** Are you going to get to more galactic and intergalactic structures/formations? Also will you be discussing the interesting moons of these planets that could harbor life? I love these so muuch and really appreciate the work involved in making these so please keep them coming!
***** Not sure... I think so. I'm looking forward to learning more about our amazing universe! This series came at the perfect time! :)
I am a very successful planet!
PHIL IS AN AMAZING TEACHER.... His explanation of this topic was broken down accurately simple yet without any gimmicky hogwash. The US education system NEEDS about 1,000 more Phils.
When I saw this video in my subscription feed I literally screamed. I love Jupiter it's my favourite planet.
Eleanor I prefer cheese.
Eleanor Jupiter must be the dad planet for the inner solar system's planets!!
Why else would it protect us from comets?? :D
My favourite is either Saturn or Neptune :)
Crooked Ascension Jupiter is better than cheese don't fight me on this
Eleanor Ok lol
Eleanor didn't know Jupiter had fangirls
At last, the burning question inside my head has been answered. I always suspected that Jupiter is a failed star ever since I opened up my own astronomy book when I was very young, but to call it a failed star is unfair for it is truly a very successful planet.
Keep them coming sir, I really really liking this. Planning to buy a binocular in the future and hunt Jupiter when the time is right.
I know I've said it before, but I'm really enjoying all these in-depth videos about the planets. It's so interesting to learn about!
Terrific script and great visuals. Crash course makes astronomy and science accessible, tangible and easily digestable. I LOVE this channel personally but especially as a dad. I frequently watch with my 5 yr old daughter. Thanks for sparking our curiosity!
3:08 So, a hurricane of cyanide; sounds... inviting.
That's basically jupiter in a nutshell, it has 1 billion ways to kill you horribly in under a second/
@@ArkaSaurusRex218 It's hell.
@@kindlestickss Without it, Earth would be hell, you silly uniformed man. Try watching the video again; Shoemaker Livy comet would have obliterated us.
@@sandydennylives1392 Im talking about the inside of it dude.
@@kindlestickss It's inside's has saved our outside's and inside's, both personal and in planetary terms, countless times. It's heaven on earth inside, if that what it takes. Adore God who created it, adore Jupiter.
These episodes just keep getting better and better! Keep it up!
"Don't worry little planets, I'll protect you!"
-a few billion years later-
"Yeah, well eff you dinosaurs! Take THIS impact!"
*This comment is neither scientifically nor historically accurate.
FreshlyHere hello man after 4 years
Jupiter is a gay?
@@meghanachauhan9380 not that I'm disagreeing with you, but how did you come to this conclusion?
@@wormsandmushrooms Not to be rude, but did you see the '?' at the end of the comment? They were just wondering if Jupiter is a gay.
@@meghanachauhan9380 Personally, I feel like Jupiter is asexual. I'm not assuming anything though; it's just my opinion.
Dude, you're a sensei. You answered so many questions about my favourite planet, but I wish that you'd spent some time talking about why these objects form to begin with. Just: thanks so much for this course, man
You make the process of learning astronomy more fun! Thank you
Phil Plait is my favourite host. He has a great voice and way of explanation. Even though his field of specialization is astronomy I'd love to keep watching teach other crash course subjects in the future.
It's mind blowing to think how Jupiter's weather is driven by the planet so strongly. That's amazing! I'd love to experience it (assuming I had a craft that could survive).
I absolutely love Crash Course Astronomy; the team does a fantastic job each and every time!
So here is a dumb question I always had... If we could build a spacecraft or even, if we could somehow throw an object that would be able to sustain itself through Jupiter's atmosphere and preassure, with enough force, could we get it to go THROUGH Jupiter itself? I mean if it is just a gas plannet with no core of course...
Maybe but the gravity would probably make it stay on Jupiter somehow
Omar Sharief I know thats why I said "with enough force". I am talking about something impossible here of course, but It is hard for me to imagine a planet with no solid mass whatsoever in a way that you could throw something and it would go right through it... It is so... weird...
Mauro De Simone Shoemaker Levy 9 didn't go through & that was bigger & faster than just about anything we could come up with
Mauro De Simone Yes, I think so. In principle.
Mauro De Simone This sounds like a question for Kerbal Space Program
I just barely understand your lessons, and each second is pure pleasure.
When you get to Saturn, I love to hear the theories about the hexagon at the pole.
These planet-specific videos are incredible! All of then have shown me something new. Keep it up! Much love!
A WHOLE EPISODE ABOUT JUPITER'S MOONS? SWEET! :D AND ANOTHER ABOUT ASTEROIDS :D Now all we need is Crash Course Prehistory and my life will be complete lol xD This series is actually well timed too because you can have an episode about Pluto once New Horizons has reached it.
"A LOT MORE, A LOT MORE, A LOT!" man, I'm loving these series...
8:46 is going to be a meme. I need it to become a meme.
monev It would have to be used A LOT.
monev we all need this, monev.
monev Either that or 6:36, that's a astronomical pun.
***** a LOT MORE
TheBoxKing We all need this A LOT
I cant believe that just a couple of months ago I was hating on the new presenter this series has been fantastic thanks to everyone who helped make this possible and free to view UK
Anyone else rewatching this in light of Juno arriving at Jupiter?
glad to know i aint the only one
same here~ can't wait to see what we can discover from this Juno mission
Me neither! :D
I can't contain my excitement, we're going to know Jupiter on such a deeper level soon!
YES
you wish
Phil I've followed you since Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy. I have a son who I'm slowly getting interested in space, so this show is perfect for us. Keep up the good work..😉
so 2010 space odyssey lied to me?
Are you ever going to do a episode on Dwarf planets like Pluto? The new horizons mission was really amazing and I’d love to hear you talk about how weird Pluto is and the fact it has 5 freaking moons & one the shape of a football! How did that even happen! Please let us know! Love this stuff!
Thanks for clearing the failed star, unscientific theory up for me
Hey there Phil! I absolutely love your videos about Astronomy on CrashCourse, a perfect example of internet edutainment at its best in my opinion. I would really appreciate if you do an episode in the future about Earth-like exoplanets and the Goldilocks zone hypothesis. Greetings from Chile!
Did anyone else feel sad then happy about the pic of jupiter being a failed star but he later said it was a very successful planet so it got
Around 7:08
+Carlos Quiroz yeah seeing jupiter go from sad to happy made me go from sad to happy.
I am happy now 😁
yep
That Jupiter animation 7:10 is the cutest thing ever.
will you be producing a video about asteroids/the asteroid belt?
Zoltan Szisze Yes
Zoltan Szisze Yes! A few more things to get through first, but we'll get there!
-Nicole
Zoltan Szisze it's literally the first thing he said in the video...
Zoltan Szisze Jesus, even CC fell for this one.
Zoltan Szisze Just went live!
CrashCourse, you're amazing and I love your videos, especially the ones related to physics!
i like to think of Jupiter as the earth's big brother. because it throws all the comets that could destroy us into interstellar space, which i personally think is amazing.
Saturn also holds Jupiter back from moving into the center of the solar system which would possibly kill Earth
How great is this channel? Another fantastic production, thank you.
“It’d be really hard to turn Jupiter into a Star”
*Kyle Hill*
“Hold my Jupa-Juice”
6:34, you know, that might have been a lame joke, but the editing makes it FUCKING HILARIOUS, I went back like 10 times XD
Jupiter best planet 2015.
Charlie Hofigan Please celebrate responsibly.
What about now
Fine but I take 2019
Sharing knowledge is one of the most beautiful things in the world to me ❤ I’m grateful for the entire crash course experience 🙏 lots of love from India 😊
Crash Course #25: Pluto!
plz? :3
It is good that you emphasize the ideas that are currently not supported by observational evidence and remain only propositions for the time being. This is a great video. Thanks.
I did not know you could see Jupiter with binoculars, I am going to try this tonight.
You can see it with your eyes, but you can see much more with binoculars.
good luck seeing it with your ears.
I really love this series. You're doing amazing. c: Thank you so much for all the KNOWLEDGE!
How do we know what Jupiter's interior is like if it's atmosphere is hundreds of kilometers thick? Can the space probes we send really see far enough past its atmosphere?
Edit: spelling
Golgiapparatus2 Speculation, mostly, and a big deal of observation. Remember that there are multiple theories about if the planet even has a core! (we don't know if it does, but it might).
Satellites with beams that can measure thickness and distance
Golgiapparatus2 well, there is spectroscopy that can be used to study that outer gas. Also, Galileo Orbiter was crashed into the Jupiter that stayed active for about 80 min and conducted few experiments before it was shut down.
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: We have had space probes and the like which work on wavelengths of light that penetrate all the way through the center. Think of hooking up an infrared camera to a space probe and crashing it into Jupiter. This gives us a fuzzy idea of what the core may be made out of. There is also the methods we use to determine the composition of atmospheres of pretty much everything. Just like we can tell that there is hydrogen in the sun, spectrometers can detect even the faintest amount of light produced in Jupiter's core (and there is a lot, heat energy mostly) and can tell by the wavelengths produced what its made out of.
always_hopeful It might not be spectroscopy actually. I always get confused with that but it is possible to study the atmosphere or other planets from Earth. In fact, currently, many are trying to study the atmosphere of exoplanets.
Very impressed with the neutrality of the series and this video. constantly giving both hypothesis, and admitting we don't know. what got me was the fact we don't know if Jupiter is good or bad for earth, i was thinking the exact same thing just before he gave the other opinion. fantastic videos!
This is the 4th time I watched this video, you guys did/are doing an awesome job. love your videos, please give us more!
another hardy episode!
i really learned a lot! not sure if my schools sucked or if scientists just learned that much in the last.... i dont wanna say how long :P ...since i graduated.
Seriously, I love this show so much. I would be interested in the topic anyway, but Phil Plait makes it so much better. P.S. Never heard people calling Jupiter a failed star ._.
4Nn1E People say it a lot. Trust me, it gets annoying.
I see your Kerbal Shapeways there, Phil :)
Thanks as usual to the Crash Course crew!
You don't really need 80 Jupiters, just a buttload of monoliths.
Which would mean that they at least equal the mass of 80 Jupiters.
mustang6172 Only one, actually. They self-replicate.
sion8 To create fusion you either need more mass, or more density. The monoliths were able to link up and artificially shrink the size of Jupiter, thus increasing its density, pressure, and temperature. So no mass needed, just some fancy monoliths.
drewmandan Well, while you accurately describe the way it is depicted in the movie, it is never explained how the thermal and radiation pressure from the fusion reaction is countered in the absence of sufficient gravity. One has to assume the involvement of a fifth fundamental force of nature called "handwaving."
Penny Lane I'm completely guessing here, but presumably the monoliths themselves are permanently held in place to form a structure of some sort, similar to how humans try to create artificial fusion using tokamaks and whatnot. In other words, Jupiter is not a star at all, rather it's a completely artificial fusion machine that happens to look like a star from the outside
At the very least, the concept of turning Jupiter into some sort of star makes for good science fiction ;)
By far my favorite of the Astronomy video series. Great work Mr. Plait :)
I feel like this guy was really hurt by 2010: Odyssey Two.
Phil Plait, you sir have been one of my favorite astronomers, just saw you on the universe, 2nd season I believe. First you write code for THE FREAKIN HUBBLE, then you appear on all my shows I watch, I'm a HUGE space dude, then you pop up here on youtube. With this bad astronomy genus, now CC space. Thank you for all your knowledge you share, thses educational videos are a great water to get my kids into astronomy. And also good job to all the CC team for all these videos, love the Big History set.
"Yeah keep calling me a failed star, let's see what will happen when I don't protect you from these asteroids"
Can I just say you're the best person EVER! I don't learn anything in my astronomy class and these videos teach me so much. I have an A in class right now bc of you.... THANK YOU.
P.S why can't you be my professor?
I went here many times in Warframe! ^_^
this series gets better with every episode
yo science notes tho this man talKS ALOT
That was great! And I'm so so looking forward to the next episode. I wrote a paper in school once about Jupiter's moons and it fascinated me immensly.
Hydrogen is technically an alkali metal, it's just that we hardly ever see it in its solid form on Earth.
Nillie It isn't really an alkali metal. It shares properties of alkali metals and of Halogens. It's somewhere in between and you can't count it to one of the groups alone.
Nillie are you sure about that? -I think the s and p orbitals behave differently- [oops, that makes no sense], and from that logic it could be considered a halogen just the same (a free proton and a hydride ion are both one electron away)... Anyway, seems to me like this is a bit of an overgeneralization
Yea, it is an oversimplification, and you're right in that its gas phase has just as much in common with the halogens. Come to think of it, the entire grouping of the periodic table is an oversimplification. For example, all of the 4th period transition metals have an equal claim on the "eka-aluminium" spot, but in the traditional way of presenting the elements, only gallium is obviously directly below aluminium.
I wish they had taught us in high school about alternative periodic tables... I actually managed to graduate without understanding what "periodic" means =(
Nillie Nope. Hydrogen is by itself. It is the weirdest of all elements. That's why it's my favorite.
I love CrashCourse and this has to be the best course!
I don't get how a comet can impact a gas giant. Wouldn't it just sail thru the gas?
TheDecimater1000 Chemical reactions.
Ghost7856 Completely cleared up my confusion, thanks for your very detailed answer.
TheDecimater1000 I think it's that going from empty space to smacking into a thick gas can be quite an impact. Like how objects can easily pass through water but if you belly flop into it off a cliff then you're gonna have a bad time.
Most meteorites on Earth impact our higher atmosphere which then proceeds to burn them up. Yet it is 'only' a gas. Hitting a gas at a very high velocity won't save you.
TheDecimater1000 A gas that very quickly gets up to thousands of degrees and has pressures higher than the bottom of the oceans on Earth, all within a few hundred kilometers of the cloud tops.
Grade school science class, learning about Jupiter was what made me think the solar system is an ecosystem. If not for Jupiter, life in this solar system would probably be impossible. This is also why I think the Rare Earth theory is probably the right solution to the FERMI paradox.
edumacation is cool!
I hope you never stop making these videos :)
"when we first...spotted it" pun intended
congratulations to the juno team...id be amazing to see an update to this video in a couple years...you know we're gonna learn some awesome stuff...great time to be a space geek : )
Speaking of planets I really hope we find some cool people out there cause I'm kinda getting tired of humans xD
Jamie Wu you’re so cool dude. Look how progressive, intelligent, and better you are than the rest of us lower humans. If I were a super awesome progressive human like you, I’d hate the rest of humans too. I bet you’re so smart that you will never see this comment because aliens have already noticed you are way ahead of your kind and they’ve likely abducted you and initiated you into the cosmos cool kids club.
@@ryanisacuc8381 you seem a lot like the sarcastic description of a person that you're aiming at this fellow human, human.
Sara Ferguson thank you. I still wonder why the aliens haven’t noticed me yet. It makes me angry.
have you travel around Earth, a lot kind of human has been found there
@@ryanisacuc8381 I agree
Our whole family loves your show!
8:06 ALIENS
I was just returning home and the sky was amazing. It's summer down here and I got outside with my camera. Find out jupiter was one of the brighter lights in the sky. Zoomed in and boom, the galilean moons!! Amazing stuff.
thumbs up if you want Jupiter to be president 2015
TheAAbck I dunno, looks a bit too RED for me...
BA-DUM-CRASH
+TheWildCardA Readig this comment in 2016 and really wishing Jupiter ran for prez insead of trump
Still hella better than Trump and Hillary
Ha-ha. Thumbs up if you want Jupiter to be a god.
@@@SiddharthPullabhatla Not as if the alternative was any better. A distant planet would have made a better president than either of them. In fact my plastic shoe horn would have made a better president than them. Less corrupt, less insane and less stupid. It's a no-brainer.
I waited all week to see this video, I love learning about Jupiter! Thanks Phil!
who's here just to pass their college class
I would love to know more about binary star systems, how they form, how stable they are, what kinds of planets are around them, that sort of thing.
Jupiter is like harambe's twin brother, he protecta us and is our savior
Les druzes?
I absolutely love these. Great work!
I wonder if it is even possible to say "head honcho" and not follow it with "big cheese".. I'm sure that if they are not paired, the universe will rip itself apart trying to find one in any of the parallel universe, destabilizing the whole multiverse.. Well, it was poor invention to start with so.. Head honcho......
SquidCaps He forgot "Grand Poobah"
this series has been my study guide for my astronomy final!!!!
Jupiter is a Jew named Peter :) :)
he saw Saturn liked it and put a ring on it
wow this is SUPER interesting! cant wait for next episode of the moons, plz do more on plants etc
Ha ha ha Jupiter just got hit on March 17, 2016
👌Excellent explanation!
DAN DURDA! You are on the show the planets and beyond!
Thank you very much for making this video, Phil Plait and your other colleagues at _CrashCourse_ Astronomy! Jupiter is definitely not a failure, but a really successful planet; the big gorilla in our neighbourhood.
Why is Jupiter called Jupiter? All the other planets are named after Roman gods, right? And Mercury is the swifty god, Venus the goddess of love etc. What god is Jupiter?
Also, where were the planets located when they formed in the Solar system? Which planet formed were? Did Earth really form so close to the Sun as we are now or did it get dragged closer by the Sun? Where did Pluto form?
Jupiter is the Roman equivalent of Zeus. Like Venus is the Roman version of Aphrodite. Etc. Jupiter/Zeus was the god of lighting and storms and the such. Fitting, as Jupiter has that never ending storm.
James Madison Thank you for responding!
(Don’t +CrashCourse respond to comment and questions any more?)
Robert Andersson I don't know, in all honesty.
Don't understand why you call yourself bad astronomer. Your awesome