Musings and more…
First, a great video from Sixty Symbols describing the work of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics winners:
Next, an update from John Michael Godier on the latest interstellar visitor, Comet Borisov:
Follow-up note: Here is extra footage about the work of Dr. James Peebles. If you found the first video above interesting, you will want to watch this too.
Well over budget and well behind schedule, The James Webb Space Telescope passed a crucial milestone on the way towards launch.
The Nobel Prize in physics for 2019 was awarded to three scientists on Tuesday for groundbreaking work on the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in it. Their discoveries have forever “transformed our ideas about the cosmos” and helped answer fundamental questions about existence, said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
A more complete story is here.
A team discovered a haul of 20 new moons orbiting the ringed planet, bringing its total to 82; Jupiter, by contrast, has 79 natural satellites.
The moons were discovered using the Subaru telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii. See the full story here.
As the title states, I have a new addition to my list of favorite video channels. Created by Dr. Becky Smethurst, the Dr. Becky channel is a weekly show about astrophysics. Here is this week’s episode:
I first saw Dr. Becky in her appearances in Brady Haran’s YouTube channels Sixty Symbols and Deep Sky Videos – which are both great and you should subscribe to all three.
