I remember when I was a kid, it was news when a few more icy rocks past Pluto were found; and now we know there's thousands and thousands of them out there. Wild how much I've seen the model of the solar system change over the years, from something so orderly and neat to something so much more complex and chaotic.
It's probably too late now, but I thought a separate channel: Astrographics would have been nice. He even sort of name drops it in this video, but some way to sort on that would be nice.
I've always been fascinated by the concept of a lost, lonely, frozen asteroid belt and frozen dwarf planets. Only the harshest and most extreme people could live there. I was working on a science/space fantasy book where the inner system is a powerful empire, but the outer system is a cold, harsh and sparsely populated area ruled by nomadic asteroid mining and pirate tribes, living in a lawless void in the expanse of the Outer System. They're called the 'Sky People.'
Now what about a Rogue Planet? Imagine like..Earth, but flung out of the solar system. Forever to roam the depths of interstellar space. With the technology, an underground society could survive and occasionally venture to the surface.
@@TheScrubExpress I actually thought about having a rogue gas giant with moons being a part if a plot. It might make for a unique environment when the protagonists go in hiding.
Speaking of the Thirty Meter Telescope, an episode on Mauna Kea, the observatories on its summit, and the controversy surrounding their construction on the sacred mountain would be nice!
Me too, dude. But these videos are still interesting, probably because I like space so much. Have you tried PBS Space Time? Veritasium has some interesting stuff too (not just space based), the World Science Festival has astronomers and physicists having group discussions and whatnot. I know I'm forgetting some of my favorites right now, but those are a few I like. 🙂
@@BruceBoyde Oh wow, if you like space, PBS Space Time will blow your mind! It's definitely higher level than most other places; you may not need to, but sometimes I have to rewind or rewatch several times to grasp the concepts. I hope you enjoy!!!
AND he's not even wrong. The Earth, in addition to being an oblate spheroid, is also slightly bigger on the "bottom" than the top. Our planet really is a fat bottomed girl. 🤣🤣🤣
I've been watching Simon's various channels for years but I must say this one is like a culmination of a perfect, informative, engaging video. The lighting, the superb script, Simon's chill voice and understated wry humor, plus a fascinating well-researched subject. Well done to all!
These videos are the grownup version of me finding a new article about something in space in the World Book Encyclopedia. Thanks for letting me be an 8-year-old again and being in awe of what is way out there in the night sky.
Honestly, I’d love to see the Vera C Rubin Observatory on your mega projects channel. Even though it is not online yet, it interested me a lot and I’d love to watch it on your mega projects channel. Love your videos Simon!!
One of my favorite pet peeves is people that consistently portrays 'a' TARDIS as an old British telephone box xD that particular TARDIS got stuck at some point as that camouflage, it's not the actual portrayal of one, and more certain than not, it's one of the absolutely least used TARDIS Gilly suits! Since the Doctor's stolen TARDIS is, as far as we know, the only one presenting this way, at least on a long term basis. As said it's my favorite pet peeve, so thanks for giving me an opportunity to ramble about it ❤
It would be stellar if someone made a playlist of all the Geographics videos related to space and put any relevant Megaprojects, Sideprojects, TIFO, TopTenz, or even Biographics videos following each planet/moon/asteroid. Start with Mercury and head out.
@@nomdeguerre7265 Kinda sorta. It really does have to exist. But we know nothing about it really. The reason it has to exist is because they've mapped out the orbits of quite a few long duration comets, and the other end of the orbit works out to the exact area that the Oort cloud was worked out to probably be.
@@lordgarion514 there are enough observations (1-2 thousand more or less substantial) the available evidence is consistent with the theory. And frankly that’s about it. Given the density of objects we know of, it’s speculation to what extent it actually is anything like a ‘cloud’ at all. Are there a large number of smaller objects? There might be. There might not be too. Unless a large population of smaller objects persists, which do not know at all, it’s a pretty tenuous ‘cloud’ - more like a relict scattering of a few objects in a very huge space. I certainly hope our observational capability grows and allows a more exacting understanding as I find the solar neighborhood fascinating.
Only thing I was sure of were the words “Ivy Mike”, but that was enough for Google. To quote from Wikipedia: “Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first full-scale test of a thermonuclear device, in which part of the explosive yield comes from nuclear fusion.[1][2][3] Ivy Mike was detonated on November 1, 1952, by the United States on the island of Elugelab in Enewetak Atoll, in the now independent island nation of the Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Ivy. It was the first full test of the Teller-Ulam design, a staged fusion device.”
I think Neptune went wild with KBO’s in the early days and it yanked a major planet-sized giant out of the KB and threw it at Uranus knocking it on it side then one of three things happened: 1. Uranus tipped and then threw it out of the solar system or 2. Uranus tore apart the invader and shredded it making the moons and ring system or 3. Uranus tipped and absorbed the Mini planet
Fascinating video! I’d love to see a video on the Oort Cloud. Did you do a video on Neptune already or did I miss it? I’ve been loving these videos.. just fascinating! Excellent job Simon and team! 😊🙌🏻💯👏🏻
Hi, Simon & Co.; long-time viewer, first-time poster. Really nice videos here on Geographics about all these other celestial bodies! Now you just need to also include Saturn and Neptune, and you'll have done all the major planets in the solar system (aside from Earth, of course). :)
I'm most impressed with space discoveries in our own solar system. There's so much here that it makes the rest of space look like a waste of time. There's so much to learn here that it almost seems that our own backyard was custom created to help us reach the stars.
15:22 quick correct, Eris' radius is *only 20 km (12.4 mi) more than Pluto.* (Pluto being 2,376 km wide, Eris 2,326 km wide: width *20 km radius in difference*)
Despite having "only" an 8 meter mirror (which is huge!), the advantage the Vera C. Rubin observatory will have is that it is dedicated to scanning all of the sky all of the time. It will be constantly catching, discovering, new objects and providing continuous data for calculating orbits and trajectories, observing objects with varying brighness, etc. Almost all major observatories, especially with leading edge large telescopes, split their time between scientists and projects who want to look at something specific, and so provide a very spotty coverage of "everything".
I would love to hear Simon and the team explore the Oort Cloud. Going from the bizarre Kuiper Belt to comets, Proto planets, and a host of stellar building blocks and leftovers.
Simon is one of the best presenters on UA-cam, and his work on visual politik was a masterpiece, but I try to only learn astronomy from real astronomers, none the less, well written, well presented, but I still am loyal to Phil Plait
9:20 A video in English with illustration titled "Pluto y Caronte" when talking about the Pluto-Charon system? Is that its name in English as well, or the name of the illustration? I'm not an astronomer, though. 15:20 Illustration of Eris, with "20km" and an arrow pointing to it. Misleading, since its radius is 20km smaller than Pluto's, rather than its radius being 20km.
15:17 He says Eris has a radius 20 km smaller than that of Pluto. However TWO things are going wrong here: #1 the ''20 km arrow'' is just awkward, and at that moment #2 people forget to actually listen to what he is saying.
A 1200 AU aphelion? Holy moly - that's 110 BILLION miles! Hard to imagine Sol having gravitational influence at that far a distance. I thought the heliopause was something like 150 AU. Wonders! Cheers....
The Oort cloud is even wilder. Believed to reach out to up to 2 light-years, it's possible our Oort cloud has traded rocks with that of Proxima Centauri at 4.2 light-years.
@@cortos_9733 I had heard one light year, but two seems perfectly reasonable. "Wonders of the Universe" is not a phrase that will go out of style for a very long time. Cheers....
I hope New Horizons surprises us by finding planet X. I consider Pluto a regular planet no matter what they say considering Pluto's properties in regards to distance from the Sun and it's relative distance from it's neighbor compared to other planets distance from their neighbors.
@Dark Lizzy oh definitely I'm all for the demotion of Pluto.. a dwarf planet is what it is for many reasons a big one is the eccentricity of its orbit brings it into neptunes orbit.. Pluto ain't even the king or its own orbit..
I hade those belt visualisations so much, it makes it look like you can hop from one object to the next in reality there is mostly empty space too you would not see the next rock/ice lump
Keeping a straight face after fat bottomed beauty comment, well done. Note that there is a cut immediately after, so I wonder if he was only able to get it out before laughing
People still complaining about Pluto getting downgraded to Dwarf Planet. As Dr Tyson said: Pluto had it coming. I mean... the more looks we got at it, the smaller it got. By the time Nyx and Hydra were discovered, too much of what we thought was Pluto turned out to be other stuff.
Nobody is complaining about Ceres being reclassified as a dwarf planet! Instead they prefer to wine about a small object you can only watch with large telescopes. Something of about the same size as the other solar objects depicted on your child's colorful school lunch box.
Digging into these exoplanets and use thorium to heat and provide light would be perhaps a permanent settlement for humanity, beyond the destructive reach of an expanding sun.
Colonists could live in the dwarf planet's icy crust or mantle, using fusion or geothermal heat and mining the soft-ice of liquid inner ocean for volatiles and minerals. Given the light gravity and resulting lower pressure in the ice mantle or inner ocean, colonizing the rocky core's outer surface might give colonists the largest number of mineral and volatile resources as well as insulating them from the cold. Surface habitats or domes are another possibility, a background radiation levels are likely to be low.
In any advanced space faring civilization, fusion power would be crucial for any faster-than-an-ant pace of acceleration. The best place to obtain hydrogen is to get it from water, and since mining the limited water on our planet is not smart, the best solution would be mining it from comets and icy planetoids, as well as other important elements. Kuiper belt mining would likely be important, and abundant fusion power would allow for the construction of large rotating habitats to simulate 1G gravity and keep the astronauts healthy.
I wish I worked for your team, What a fantastic series of channels and videos. I feel like my life is less fulfilled by seeing such grand entertainment and education. Bravo.
Brother I have bin a viewer for many years now and like any great works (OZ) we all like to see behind the curtain, I'd love to see a behind the scenes episode showing how many people you have on your team I'm sure you have. If not and your on your own even cooler but I think not. Lets see the teem man.
Fun fact about the Solar system's outer Dwarf planets: While observing the Alpha Centaury triple star system, it was found that both Alpha Centauri A and C; have between 3 and 5 dwarf planets orbiting each one of them. Being that Alpha Centauri A as 2 inner scorched dwarf planets, orbiting it, plus Alpha Centauri B (Proxima Centauri) middle orbiting it; and Alpha Centauri C; outer orbiting it. Meanwhile Alpha Centauri C has around 5 dwarf planets orbiting it; with the 3rd less inner orbital dwarf planet resembling and being called Makemake II; and the 5th most outer dwarf planet, being called Ceres II; and still showcasing signs of water steam being poured onto the outer space; mainly when it's going through a double or triple star, "celestial Kettle effect," two month conjunction. Also being that Ceres II is bound to lose up to 95% of all its water; along and up to 21 years, from nowadays. So It's probably still good for some frogy leaping & swimming; for the time being.
Proxima Centauri is Alpha Centauri C and way out from the others. Alpha Centauri A and B are the double star where both components are somewhat sunlike.
@@sydhenderson6753 Try to spin a bowling ball, while a short chord is attached to its "side;" and while another bowling ball is attached to that same chord, from its centre. And then try to see, how not long; it takes for both bowling balls to just collide. Nasa and its grovellers; are insulting your ignorance, about the neighbouring Alpha Centauri triple star system. Let alone, if were actually intelligent.
TBH, I'm pretty sure the belt has a strange sort of "shared gravity" among the many objects that travel the main planetary disk, and that shared gravity is what's making folks think there's another planet we can't pinpoint.
I like that these videos about space stuff keep getting recommended to me. I'm sure it's algorithm stuff, but I've been interested more in things in the solar system that have been discovered or made famous since I was a kid, like the kuiper belt. Not to mention the countless planetoids... dwarf planets, whatever you wanna call them that have been discovered. Or the fact that Pluto has 4 more moons. Poor school kids, though. Kids had enough trouble remember 9 planets.
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I remember when I was a kid, it was news when a few more icy rocks past Pluto were found; and now we know there's thousands and thousands of them out there. Wild how much I've seen the model of the solar system change over the years, from something so orderly and neat to something so much more complex and chaotic.
I think a channel called astrographics is needed. Doing deep dives on all things space
Ohhh! That would be a great idea. 👍
Agreed
Another channel, why not 😂😂
And a channel called Channelgraphics, where they discuss channels
@@sagenod440 one of the channels of all time
You should put together a playlist of all your space/planet videos!! I would love to just bingewatch all of them
agreed
Same, I love space.
I agree with this
I would love the. To do the serial killers as well. No idea why that fascinates me
It's probably too late now, but I thought a separate channel: Astrographics would have been nice. He even sort of name drops it in this video, but some way to sort on that would be nice.
I've always been fascinated by the concept of a lost, lonely, frozen asteroid belt and frozen dwarf planets. Only the harshest and most extreme people could live there. I was working on a science/space fantasy book where the inner system is a powerful empire, but the outer system is a cold, harsh and sparsely populated area ruled by nomadic asteroid mining and pirate tribes, living in a lawless void in the expanse of the Outer System. They're called the 'Sky People.'
Now what about a Rogue Planet? Imagine like..Earth, but flung out of the solar system. Forever to roam the depths of interstellar space. With the technology, an underground society could survive and occasionally venture to the surface.
You can get some inspiration from The Expanse since they have a similar premise too
@@TheScrubExpress I actually thought about having a rogue gas giant with moons being a part if a plot. It might make for a unique environment when the protagonists go in hiding.
@@Mediocreinput I've heard about the Expanse, but I haven't had time to watch it yet, sadly. Maybe one day.
@@Mediocreinput Goes back at least as far as "The Outcasts of Heaven's Belt".
Speaking of the Thirty Meter Telescope, an episode on Mauna Kea, the observatories on its summit, and the controversy surrounding their construction on the sacred mountain would be nice!
I'm a big enough space nerd that I know 99% of the stuff in these videos, but I end up watching every single one at least twice anyway.
That's how you got to know 99 percent of it. Anything I learned during school is long gone, it's what we learn outta curiosity that really sticks
@@MikeTheD heck the last daily-use skill school taught me was keyboard typing in 8th grade. School had nothing to do with most things I’ve learned
Me too, dude. But these videos are still interesting, probably because I like space so much. Have you tried PBS Space Time? Veritasium has some interesting stuff too (not just space based), the World Science Festival has astronomers and physicists having group discussions and whatnot.
I know I'm forgetting some of my favorites right now, but those are a few I like. 🙂
@@bethanygee6939 I have not, but I have to check them out later today!
@@BruceBoyde Oh wow, if you like space, PBS Space Time will blow your mind! It's definitely higher level than most other places; you may not need to, but sometimes I have to rewind or rewatch several times to grasp the concepts. I hope you enjoy!!!
"...the fat bottom this beauty we call Earth is rocking..." For some odd reason, that phrase made an entire day better.
AND he's not even wrong.
The Earth, in addition to being an oblate spheroid, is also slightly bigger on the "bottom" than the top.
Our planet really is a fat bottomed girl. 🤣🤣🤣
I've been watching Simon's various channels for years but I must say this one is like a culmination of a perfect, informative, engaging video. The lighting, the superb script, Simon's chill voice and understated wry humor, plus a fascinating well-researched subject. Well done to all!
These videos are the grownup version of me finding a new article about something in space in the World Book Encyclopedia. Thanks for letting me be an 8-year-old again and being in awe of what is way out there in the night sky.
I'm 52, born in 1970, and I had the entire set of World Book encyclopedias, including the yearly updates.
Loved that set in the 80's.
introvert heaven
Yes, the most densely populated area in the solar system is for introverts
Well said 👏🏼 Fly away now 👏🏼
@@Wildrichfull gladly
Enjoy the radiation.
@@Battle_Beard barely any
Honestly, I’d love to see the Vera C Rubin Observatory on your mega projects channel. Even though it is not online yet, it interested me a lot and I’d love to watch it on your mega projects channel.
Love your videos Simon!!
One of my favorite pet peeves is people that consistently portrays 'a' TARDIS as an old British telephone box xD that particular TARDIS got stuck at some point as that camouflage, it's not the actual portrayal of one, and more certain than not, it's one of the absolutely least used TARDIS Gilly suits! Since the Doctor's stolen TARDIS is, as far as we know, the only one presenting this way, at least on a long term basis.
As said it's my favorite pet peeve, so thanks for giving me an opportunity to ramble about it ❤
One day, I shall be mature enough to hear Simon refer to Uranus in one of his videos without giggling. One day. Maybe.
It would be stellar if someone made a playlist of all the Geographics videos related to space and put any relevant Megaprojects, Sideprojects, TIFO, TopTenz, or even Biographics videos following each planet/moon/asteroid. Start with Mercury and head out.
Love to see something similar about the Oort cloud
The Oort Cloud remains a purely theoretical concept at this point. It would be almost entirely speculative. But it would be fun anyway.
@@nomdeguerre7265
Kinda sorta.
It really does have to exist.
But we know nothing about it really.
The reason it has to exist is because they've mapped out the orbits of quite a few long duration comets, and the other end of the orbit works out to the exact area that the Oort cloud was worked out to probably be.
@@lordgarion514 there are enough observations (1-2 thousand more or less substantial) the available evidence is consistent with the theory. And frankly that’s about it. Given the density of objects we know of, it’s speculation to what extent it actually is anything like a ‘cloud’ at all. Are there a large number of smaller objects? There might be. There might not be too. Unless a large population of smaller objects persists, which do not know at all, it’s a pretty tenuous ‘cloud’ - more like a relict scattering of a few objects in a very huge space. I certainly hope our observational capability grows and allows a more exacting understanding as I find the solar neighborhood fascinating.
What an ending. Goosebumps.
Interesting as always.
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As a Belgian, that reference came out of left field, made me laugh ànd made sense. Well done, writers for the overlord of the internet.
Bravo Simon! Loved all your commentary! Backed with very scientific detail! You Enlightened my Brain & Lightened my day!!
12:52 Absolutely no idea what Simon is saying, but admittedly impressed by his ability to morph “extremely British” into novel languages.
Only thing I was sure of were the words “Ivy Mike”, but that was enough for Google. To quote from Wikipedia: “Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first full-scale test of a thermonuclear device, in which part of the explosive yield comes from nuclear fusion.[1][2][3] Ivy Mike was detonated on November 1, 1952, by the United States on the island of Elugelab in Enewetak Atoll, in the now independent island nation of the Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Ivy. It was the first full test of the Teller-Ulam design, a staged fusion device.”
Love the turtle neck/ blazer combo your rocking Simon👍
Serious topics,demand serious wardrobes.
Good video, Simon. Keep up the good work.
Have you done a video on the Oort Cloud and the Sun's heliosphere? I feel like they'd be good topics for your video style
I think Neptune went wild with KBO’s in the early days and it yanked a major planet-sized giant out of the KB and threw it at Uranus knocking it on it side then one of three things happened: 1. Uranus tipped and then threw it out of the solar system or 2. Uranus tore apart the invader and shredded it making the moons and ring system or 3. Uranus tipped and absorbed the Mini planet
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Fascinating video! I’d love to see a video on the Oort Cloud. Did you do a video on Neptune already or did I miss it? I’ve been loving these videos.. just fascinating!
Excellent job Simon and team! 😊🙌🏻💯👏🏻
You could sell ice to the Eskimos Simon. You make everything so interesting and always so well presented.
Hi, Simon & Co.; long-time viewer, first-time poster. Really nice videos here on Geographics about all these other celestial bodies! Now you just need to also include Saturn and Neptune, and you'll have done all the major planets in the solar system (aside from Earth, of course). :)
I'm most impressed with space discoveries in our own solar system. There's so much here that it makes the rest of space look like a waste of time. There's so much to learn here that it almost seems that our own backyard was custom created to help us reach the stars.
“Fat bottomed beauty we call Earth is rocking…”
Well done team 👏 👏 👏
Script, as always impeccable, and Simon, perfect delivery again.
just to add my vote and my voice to the applause you and the team richly deserve
Excellent video. My 4 year boy is fascinated with the dwarf planets and loves this video especially haumea
So was I as a kid. Continue to nurture that curiosity friend :)
15:22 quick correct, Eris' radius is *only 20 km (12.4 mi) more than Pluto.*
(Pluto being 2,376 km wide, Eris 2,326 km wide: width *20 km radius in difference*)
Ive wanted a video on this for so long. Thank you geographics team. 😊
Astro graphics sounds like a channel id subscribe to 👀
Despite having "only" an 8 meter mirror (which is huge!), the advantage the Vera C. Rubin observatory will have is that it is dedicated to scanning all of the sky all of the time. It will be constantly catching, discovering, new objects and providing continuous data for calculating orbits and trajectories, observing objects with varying brighness, etc. Almost all major observatories, especially with leading edge large telescopes, split their time between scientists and projects who want to look at something specific, and so provide a very spotty coverage of "everything".
It nice having an 8 metre mirror, I had to divide it up around the house though
I would love to hear Simon and the team explore the Oort Cloud. Going from the bizarre Kuiper Belt to comets, Proto planets, and a host of stellar building blocks and leftovers.
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Simon is one of the best presenters on UA-cam, and his work on visual politik was a masterpiece, but I try to only learn astronomy from real astronomers, none the less, well written, well presented, but I still am loyal to Phil Plait
Great video, I love all things space related! However; I could not take my eyes off that piece of lint on your right lapel. Drove me crazy.
Oops, you said “Astrographics”, now you gotta make the channel.
Gotta say it.
Love your work Simon.
I am SO HERE for all of these astrographics videos!!
Astrographics . . . I think we now know the name of Simon’s next channel
I'd never heard of the scattered disk before. Awesome video!
9:20 A video in English with illustration titled "Pluto y Caronte" when talking about the Pluto-Charon system? Is that its name in English as well, or the name of the illustration? I'm not an astronomer, though.
15:20 Illustration of Eris, with "20km" and an arrow pointing to it. Misleading, since its radius is 20km smaller than Pluto's, rather than its radius being 20km.
15:17 He says Eris has a radius 20 km smaller than that of Pluto. However TWO things are going wrong here: #1 the ''20 km arrow'' is just awkward, and at that moment #2 people forget to actually listen to what he is saying.
@@Emdee5632 Yes. Both things I pointed out are IMHO about the video editing, not the script or narration.
Having both the Asteroid belt and Kuiper Belt makes the sun the largest ringed celestial object in the solar system
A 1200 AU aphelion? Holy moly - that's 110 BILLION miles! Hard to imagine Sol having gravitational influence at that far a distance. I thought the heliopause was something like 150 AU. Wonders! Cheers....
The Oort cloud is even wilder. Believed to reach out to up to 2 light-years, it's possible our Oort cloud has traded rocks with that of Proxima Centauri at 4.2 light-years.
@@cortos_9733 I had heard one light year, but two seems perfectly reasonable. "Wonders of the Universe" is not a phrase that will go out of style for a very long time. Cheers....
9:20 _"Pluto y Caronte"_ ... Spanish-speaking video editor confirmed!
Please make an astrographics channel I love the space videos so much
Perhaps a video on the Van Allen Belt?
I hope New Horizons surprises us by finding planet X. I consider Pluto a regular planet no matter what they say considering Pluto's properties in regards to distance from the Sun and it's relative distance from it's neighbor compared to other planets distance from their neighbors.
”Lovable underdog Ceres" made me laugh. So accurate
Society: How is Pluto a planet but this other similar ball isnt??
Scientists: Fine Pluto isn't a planet..
Society: t-thats not what we meant😦
I feel like that is easier than learning the names of 266 planets.
@Dark Lizzy oh definitely I'm all for the demotion of Pluto.. a dwarf planet is what it is for many reasons a big one is the eccentricity of its orbit brings it into neptunes orbit.. Pluto ain't even the king or its own orbit..
Pluto is a planet. I'll die on this hill
You forgot to mention that Makemake is the site of the Hydra's wormhole, and the launchpad for their invasion of earth and the solar system.
"was" you mean *laughsinresistance*
Nice close. Very well said my friend
IMO, the future of astronomy is in space telescopes. When the Starship is making regular flights, I think we will be seeing many more of them.
'ate belters, 'ate ceres, 'ate eros, luv me earth, luv me mars. simple as
Call Pluto a dwarf planet one more time fact boy!
You'll be a weird bald snowman shaped object in the KBO.
A Kuiper expression of at least partially-racked pool balls
I really hope you keep making these type of videos
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I hade those belt visualisations so much, it makes it look like you can hop from one object to the next
in reality there is mostly empty space too you would not see the next rock/ice lump
Loved it! There needs to be a video on the Oort Cloud.
The Oort Cloud remains a purely theoretical concept at this point.
As opposed to the Keebler belt, home of cookie baking elves...
I like the way he said "big duaddiees.🤣🤫
Astrographics! Now Simon! In a nice, calm, sleep-inducing read.
Beautifully written script 👏
Keeping a straight face after fat bottomed beauty comment, well done.
Note that there is a cut immediately after, so I wonder if he was only able to get it out before laughing
People still complaining about Pluto getting downgraded to Dwarf Planet. As Dr Tyson said: Pluto had it coming.
I mean... the more looks we got at it, the smaller it got. By the time Nyx and Hydra were discovered, too much of what we thought was Pluto turned out to be other stuff.
Nobody is complaining about Ceres being reclassified as a dwarf planet! Instead they prefer to wine about a small object you can only watch with large telescopes. Something of about the same size as the other solar objects depicted on your child's colorful school lunch box.
Great video! Waiting for the update video in 10 years 🙂
Not me looking for astrographics 😭 we need yet another channel!
This channel should do an episode about the la brea tar pits!!!!
Yes! I would like to see that.
Digging into these exoplanets and use thorium to heat and provide light would be perhaps a permanent settlement for humanity, beyond the destructive reach of an expanding sun.
Pluto's orbit is expected to stabilize once humanity unlocks the Charon relay sometime in the next few centuries.
the graphical editing of the video makes it look like Eris has a radius of "only 20 km" and not "only 20 km smaller than pluto"
The Dwarf Planets are cool.
If it becomes a successful multirole-heavy lift booster yhe SLS could throw some probes pretty far pretty quick.
Colonists could live in the dwarf planet's icy crust or mantle, using fusion or geothermal heat and mining the soft-ice of liquid inner ocean for volatiles and minerals. Given the light gravity and resulting lower pressure in the ice mantle or inner ocean, colonizing the rocky core's outer surface might give colonists the largest number of mineral and volatile resources as well as insulating them from the cold. Surface habitats or domes are another possibility, a background radiation levels are likely to be low.
In any advanced space faring civilization, fusion power would be crucial for any faster-than-an-ant pace of acceleration. The best place to obtain hydrogen is to get it from water, and since mining the limited water on our planet is not smart, the best solution would be mining it from comets and icy planetoids, as well as other important elements. Kuiper belt mining would likely be important, and abundant fusion power would allow for the construction of large rotating habitats to simulate 1G gravity and keep the astronauts healthy.
“Albion isn’t all that in and of itself…” 😂 Very similar to Albion, Michigan where I went to college!
I just love an extended metaphor!
I wish I worked for your team, What a fantastic series of channels and videos. I feel like my life is less fulfilled by seeing such grand entertainment and education. Bravo.
Brother I have bin a viewer for many years now and like any great works (OZ) we all like to see behind the curtain, I'd love to see a behind the scenes episode showing how many people you have on your team I'm sure you have. If not and your on your own even cooler but I think not. Lets see the teem man.
Astro graphics. Probably the next channel
Could you imagine the images taken from an observatory out here in the Kuiper Belt region facing inward of the solar system?
Simon you cannot say you do not like fantasy and then quote Dr freaking Who. Damn it Simon. Lmao
Wow 30m telescope. I remember when the 5m scope up on Mt Graham was the largest.
Setting the alert for 10 years from now to watch this video again
2/3 of the way through without using the LIFE ! word - you just couldn't resist
Fun fact about the Solar system's outer Dwarf planets:
While observing the Alpha Centaury triple star system, it was found that both Alpha Centauri A and C; have between 3 and 5 dwarf planets orbiting each one of them. Being that Alpha Centauri A as 2 inner scorched dwarf planets, orbiting it, plus Alpha Centauri B (Proxima Centauri) middle orbiting it; and Alpha Centauri C; outer orbiting it. Meanwhile Alpha Centauri C has around 5 dwarf planets orbiting it; with the 3rd less inner orbital dwarf planet resembling and being called Makemake II; and the 5th most outer dwarf planet, being called Ceres II; and still showcasing signs of water steam being poured onto the outer space; mainly when it's going through a double or triple star, "celestial Kettle effect," two month conjunction. Also being that Ceres II is bound to lose up to 95% of all its water; along and up to 21 years, from nowadays. So It's probably still good for some frogy leaping & swimming; for the time being.
Proxima Centauri is Alpha Centauri C and way out from the others. Alpha Centauri A and B are the double star where both components are somewhat sunlike.
@@sydhenderson6753 Try to spin a bowling ball, while a short chord is attached to its "side;" and while another bowling ball is attached to that same chord, from its centre. And then try to see, how not long; it takes for both bowling balls to just collide.
Nasa and its grovellers; are insulting your ignorance, about the neighbouring Alpha Centauri triple star system. Let alone, if were actually intelligent.
I love Star trek references
TBH, I'm pretty sure the belt has a strange sort of "shared gravity" among the many objects that travel the main planetary disk, and that shared gravity is what's making folks think there's another planet we can't pinpoint.
You should definitely do the Oort cloud.
Pluto has abundant life under its ice, like Antarctica
I love the Kuiper Belt.
Imagine your traveling through the solar system at the speed of light. It would still take you over 4 hours to get out to Pluto from the Earth.
I like that these videos about space stuff keep getting recommended to me. I'm sure it's algorithm stuff, but I've been interested more in things in the solar system that have been discovered or made famous since I was a kid, like the kuiper belt. Not to mention the countless planetoids... dwarf planets, whatever you wanna call them that have been discovered. Or the fact that Pluto has 4 more moons. Poor school kids, though. Kids had enough trouble remember 9 planets.
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