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@ainsleychance3052

Жыл бұрын

How bout one on Diego Columbus.. did he really blackmail a king?

@StfuFFS

Жыл бұрын

17:00 "It was so big [that] God, Himself, couldn't mess with it" Oh Simon. That's not how That works. He is within and without.

@victoriaeads6126

Жыл бұрын

Please, PLEASE ask the writers to consistently use BCE/CE!

@meesalikeu

Жыл бұрын

@@victoriaeads6126 o stop with the wokey woke BC/AD is traditional canon

@steveshoemaker6347

Жыл бұрын

Thank you....Shoemaker🇺🇸

Imagine being so respected by your colleagues that they send your ashes into space with that quote. That got me tearing up.

@serephita

Жыл бұрын

I'm definitely not crying over that.

@kevinsteele2773

Жыл бұрын

No tears at all after that

@the_once-and-future_king.

Жыл бұрын

I'm not crying, you're crying.

@williamchamberlain2263

Жыл бұрын

I'm not crying I've got space dust in my eyes.

@Hardbass2021

Жыл бұрын

I came here to learn about Shoemaker-Levy 9, not to feel.

I teared up hearing about Eugene and Caroline and his final resting place. Honestly pretty awesome to be buried amongst the stars.

@CinHotlanta

Жыл бұрын

I thought wouldn't it be great for the first mission to return to the moon to find the impact crater and place Caroline's ashes with her husband's and leave them a telescope pointed out to the sky, together keeping a vigil on NEOs forever :D

@aran5033

Жыл бұрын

@@CinHotlanta it must be raining today...

@resileaf9501

Жыл бұрын

@@aran5033 So it is.

@katerinadlouha2196

Жыл бұрын

check out Nightwish - Shoemaker, its a tribute song to Eugene Shoemaker

@jacquelynsmith2351

Жыл бұрын

I'm not crying. It's space dust...

I set up my 8" telescope in the back yard on that first night. The impacts were on the far side, but I watched as the rotation of Jupiter brought the impact scars into view. Sciencegasm indeed. You know, when you get older you start maintaining a mental list of the cool things you have done or seen in this life. For me, seeing SL-9 slamming into Jupiter real time is pretty high on that list.

@Life_42

Жыл бұрын

You are so lucky!!!

@rubiconnn

Жыл бұрын

Wow, I wish I was old enough to watch it. I journeyed to Idaho to see the 2017 Solar Eclipse and that was life changing for me. Recently I found an 8" Meade LX200 for sale for dirt cheap and I picked it up but I'm still learning how to use it.

@Svensk7119

Жыл бұрын

I saw that eclipse. I remember Shoemaker-Levy 9. I regret not seeing Halley's Comet. Everyone was saying, "Y'gotta see it, gotta see it, gotta seeit, gotta seeit!" So of course, I said, "No!" How human is that?

@MrTexasDan

Жыл бұрын

@@rubiconnn Good for you! We went to Ste. Genevieve, MO for that eclipse, right in the center of path, at point of longest totality. What a great experience! The next one is coming through central TX about 10 miles from my house in April 2024. That Meade LX200 is decent. Suggest investing in some nice 2" eyepieces (pre-owned Naglers are a great option), find a nice dark place with open horizons on a moonless night. Enjoy!

@MrTexasDan

Жыл бұрын

@@Svensk7119 Honestly, Halley's was kind of a dud. Instead, a few years later, we got 2 amazing comets Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp, then Neowise in 2020. There will be more.

Thanks Jupiter, for taking the hit on that one.

@Life_42

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Jupiter!

@Zaluskowsky

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Thanks Jupiter ❤️

@ziegfeld4131

Жыл бұрын

We only exist bc Jupiter takes so many hits for us

@Cludensyo

Жыл бұрын

Jupiter the real one

@satanicmicrochipv5656

10 ай бұрын

There's a Uranus joke in there somewhere.

Man, Eugene Shoemaker has the most badass resting place in the entire human existence.

@memoochoaprime

Жыл бұрын

GG

I've been lucky enough to see Hale-Bop and this comet. Also, very glad Jupiter is out there, hoovering up lots of debris that might kill us instead.

@Dragrath1

Жыл бұрын

Sadly Jupiter also flings stuff at us too which based on simulations roughly cancels out any net reduction in impact events.

@nicholashylton6857

Жыл бұрын

I was really bummed out when that cult of web page designers killed themselves - thinking that there was a spaceship in the comet's tail. I was like, "WTF? Seriously??"

My cousin was on that Hubble team (data processor) during the impact. You can see his face in the doorway of the famous (non-cropped version of the) picture of the Hubble team's reaction.

@judethaddeus9856

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing that cool story!!! It’s AMAZING how social media can introduce you to almost everyone

@Julia-uh4li

Жыл бұрын

Neat!!

@sasharae99

Жыл бұрын

Oh that's too cool! 😲

@kreiner1

Жыл бұрын

Very cool 😎

@balinchainly420

Жыл бұрын

Moo

"Now you've been tucked in For eternal earthrise and wonder A sailor through aeons Story unheard, howling at the earth Yours is the whole graveyard of heavens A ship that sailed home" Shoemaker-Nightwish

@Fuchswinter

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps one of the most beautiful songs about the topic

@Julia-uh4li

Жыл бұрын

Dang, that gave me goosebumps. Loved it. Thank you 🌟🌟🌟💙

@TheNewOrder121

Жыл бұрын

Bunkem

@andraschbrommow5802

Жыл бұрын

The best part of this song though, is the Shakespeare-line:^^ "And when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars. And he will make the heavens so fine, that everyone will be in love with night. And pay no worship to the garish sun"

I love these “Astrographics” segments. They are some of my favorites from Simon.

@DesiGalCrochet

Жыл бұрын

That's a great name! He should make a spin-off channel and just do space stuff! I'm going to find a way to suggest this to him and I will credit you with the original idea!

@toluwanimirobinson

Жыл бұрын

Here comes another channel.

@jj201183

Жыл бұрын

Astrographics..... This is an amazing idea for a new channel!!!!

@emmettgeraghty3044

Жыл бұрын

I genuinely hope so. I’m such a space nerd, I love these explorations and stories from our species history exploring the final frontier.

I actually met David Levy a few times the year the comet hit! He came to visit our elementary school's astronomy club, and we took a field trip to his house once. I remember him being a pretty cool guy, and he had an awesome telescope in his back yard! I even got to see part of the comet hit using the huge telescope at the Tucson observatory for my birthday that year! It wasn't as good as the pictures, but you could clearly see it happening.

He was a candidate to go to the moon. Could not pass physical. He did train the astronauts I believe. At least he finally made it.

1:25 - Chapter 1 - A line in space 4:45 - Chapter 2 - Destination, Jupiter 8:40 - Mid roll ads 10:15 - Chapter 3 - Days of impact 13:35 - Chapter 4 - Sky falls 17:50 - Chapter 5 - Doomsday defense - Chapter 6 -

Rest in peace, Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker. Thank you for all of your hard & valuable work to save the whole planet!

@benmartin6181

10 ай бұрын

Your aware that the Shoemakers work was to identify potential near Earth passes by comets?... Had one taken a collision course we could of done nothing about it.

@calci2679

Ай бұрын

@@benmartin6181did you watch the video at all?!

Talk about a great second act for Carolyn Shoemaker: comet hunter.

Really appreciate Simon thinking of us Americuns and using non metric units to describe the size of things. Describing something as "bigger than long Island" really paints a picture

@Julia-uh4li

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but with that said I still had to Google the distance of impact being felt from the Tunguska impact since Simon said it in kilometers. Simons audience is primarily American for all his channels. So we got lucky!!

@owenshebbeare2999

Жыл бұрын

So...cave-man units!

@scipio109

Жыл бұрын

You americans have to get used to the metric system once and for all they are the ones that almost the entire world including the scientific comunity uses so deal with it 😈

@crhu319

Жыл бұрын

You could just learn measurement. Really.

@xyz7572

Жыл бұрын

@@Julia-uh4li why would Simon’s audience be mainly American? Where did you get that information from?

What irony it would be if Dimorphos were knocked out of orbit, and toward Earth.

My friend and I saw the Shoemakers when they came to Canberra Australien after the comet strike, in 1996 I think. We got to meet them and chat with them afterwards. A very sad day when Eugene was taken from us, out in the middle of nowhere. The biography of them by David Levy is tops.

@JayJay-ex6yo

Жыл бұрын

check out the tribute song "Shoemaker" the Finnish band Nightwish made for Eugene Shoemaker

If we ever try and tackle a comet, it'll be more like 'Deep Impact' than the laughable 'Armageddon'.

I remember I was 11 and I was soooo excited my mother let me stay up late to watch the SL9 impact coverage LIVE on the news. Galileo was a wonderful era, as was the 90s 🥰

@rarebird_82

Жыл бұрын

PS I was 14>15 when I saw Hale Bopp in 1997, the 90 was the best decade of my life. All downhill after 2010 sadly, now hurtling towards 40 faster than SL9 on its final descent 😭🪐☄️

I had no idea Eugene and Caroline were in the car together when the fatal crash happened in Australia. Eugene was well known for studying craters made by nuclear bomb testing and confirming that baranger crater in AZ was an impact crater. Carolyn was a giant in NEO detection

Incredible to think that we caught this once-in-a-timeline event at the exact right time in history to watch it happen in real time and gain so much vital information from it.

They came to the Carnegie Institute in DC that summer and showed their "home movies" (essentially) - they were so excited and so down to earth (ha ha) at the same time.

Shoemaker Levy IX came from a long line of Shoemaker Levys, of the Newport Levys. His father, Shoemaker Levy VIII, had finally brought the family back to prominence by slamming into Venus.

Rest In Peace to the Shoemakers.

I remember being able to go to the local community college and use their Observatory during this. Thank you for bringing back some fond memories.

Does thinking about space giving anyone else existential dread?? Just me??? 😂

I love this type of biographics on different space stuff. Do more please.

I will _never_ forget that awesome week. Day after day, new impact "scars" appearing in Jupiter's clouds I got to see through my little refractor & the 60 cm(?) reflecting telescope at York University in Toronto.

Was 10yo when SL9 Impacted, was such a huge event back then! fascinating & scary, one of the things that got me hooked on space 👾

So glad I was born in 77 and got to see Haley's Comet , Hale Bopp and being around for this .

Great video, do listen to Nightwish's tribute to Eugene Shoemaker, the song is called Shoemaker

@mangalover0149

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad people are mentioning this. Especially listen to the live version. It's a fantastic song.

@bujin1977

Жыл бұрын

I only discovered Nightwish a month or so ago. It's great to see that my new favourite band are a bunch of science geeks like me! 😁

This video is literally my favorite that I've seen from Simon. Not only is the topic of major interest to me, but his delivery throughout is absolutely perfect and both keeps your interest and peaks your sense of intrigue. That said, Shoemaker Levy 9 was much more than I ever realized, as I was only 5 when the impact happened.

I remember when this happened. I'm a long-time amateur astronomer, and I remember that Astronomy Magazine had an impressive spread of pictures about it.

Loving these space videos Simon. Keep up the good work.

I remember Shoemaker Levy 9, my goodness 1994 really? Thanks for making me feel really old Simon LOL

I was in my mid 20's and an amateur astronomer member of the Ballaarat Astronomical Society (in Victoria, Australia). It was great mid-winter excitement amongst 4 buildings housing their own telescope (one was computer-aided) along with about 10 member's personal telescopes (some home-made from lessons at the Society!) set up around the grounds! Looking through the eyepieces of each telescope was eye-opening to say the least - with a range of field depth and magnifications (that I don't understand about in the slightest) offering various perspectives! They generally only opened for Friday night meetings and observations, but they were open Sat and Sun nights as well to cope with the streams of general public, along with a reporting crew. I helped out over the weekend as tour guide around the grounds, installing red cellophane coverings on people's torches (flashlights) so they wouldn't disturb people's night vision, and selling and instructing the use of planispheres and other merch. I believe this event was nicely profitable for the Society! I moved away about 4 years later, and was distracted by life: married, family, etc. I'm looking forward to becoming an empty-nester so I can re-immerse myself again. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!

I had (still have) a Celestron 8" scope, and my daughters and I watched the holes in Jupiter go around. I found a downloadable PC program that tracked which was which. It was some of the best time I had with my daughters and my scope.

It’s really crazy just how much that one comet made…. Our entire planetary defence initiative from that one comet….

I remember when this happened and at the time the prevailing theories were that the impacts wouldn't affect Jupiter all that much.... yeah we learned after seeing impact marks larger than the Earth itself that we were VERY wrong. Amazing to see the power of potential and kinetic energy in such a spectacular way.

Wow, this was a particularly great time 20 minutes with Simon. I've seen quite a few of these now and SL9 is really top 5 stuff.

We could see it with our 4 inch telescope. It was very cool.

I remember Patrick Moore stating that the comet impact on Jupiter was like trying to destroy a freight train with a baked bean.

@just_kos99

11 ай бұрын

Speaking of Patrick Moore.... in a first season new Doctor Who episode, the Doctor asks Rose, his companion, "WHO knows more about aliens than I do?" She pauses a minute and says, "Sir Patrick Moore?" He pauses, too, then says, "Okay, besides him!" (Sorry, couldn't resist!)

I witnessed the 5th (if I recall correctly) impact from the national obsevatory in the Botanical Gardens in Wellington, NZ while I was a uni student. It took approximately 40 minutes from impact before you could see the spreading spot on the planet's surface. Something I'm sure I will never witness again.

The light over your shoulder reminds me of the movie 2010, when the monolith changed Jupiter into a second sun 😁

I was only 4 years old when Shoemaker Levy 9 hit Jupiter, but I still remember the buzz in the news it made and even at that young age I had a strong fascination with astronomy, so I get almost a nostalgic feeling seeing videos and documentaries about it.

Comet : here I come to deliver death Jupiter : Bring it on, puny rocks, I can take it.

And a special "thank you" to Jupiter, the vacuum cleaner of the solar system.

Barely cover the topic of ‘space’ but you cover it better than 90% of channels that do! No clickbait! Just straight up facts, or what we know this far. No bs, love it!

I still occasionally think back to those photos and how it highlighted the importance of investing resources in newer telescope generations and object tracking systems and WHY.

this was important because at the time there were a lot of people who thought nothing would happen and Jupiter wouldn't even notice the impacts. When they were on the scale they were people suddenly took the idea of an asteroid wiping out the dinosaurs seriously and considered it happening again!

My grandmother may she RIP knew about my deep love for astronomy and as I was 17 and had to be at school as the impact was televised she recorded the event for me on vhs. That vhs has sense been lost in one of my many moves but I will be forever grateful to her.

@just_kos99

11 ай бұрын

I could see my grandma doing this, too. Aren't grandmothers great?

I was privileged to meet David Levy earlier this year and had a brief conversation with him. An amazing man and his telescope, which I had seen a few days prior was massive as it was being shipped to a museum in Montreal. Won’t soon forget that conversation.

Ah your space videos always make me tear up

"as surely as a bug in the hands of a sadistic kid" well that got dark...

Thanks for your great content. Ill keep watching all your channels as I have been for years.

I remember when this happened. Bloody hell, didn't think it was that long ago....

Shoemaker Levy 9 was actually a pop culture topic for a couple of years too. I remember a lot of sitcoms at the time like The Nanny worked mentioning it into their scripts to make the families feel more real to life living in our world.

I remember when this comet ☄ break up and hit Jupiter. A day or two later all the news on TV were saying that it caused the "storm" on Jupiter to stop, yet I've tried searching for it many times and it doesn't seem to be anywhere and astronomers still insist that the storm has been raging nonstop for at least hundreds of years, so weird... 🤦

16:42 in this image jupiters polar jet stream creates octagon or heptagon. (like the hexagon on saturn north pole)

"Sciencegasam" is my new favorite word.

The Palomar Observatory is in the backyard of my adopted home town of San Diego, California. I visited it during my Camp Palomar sixth grade camp. ☄️🔭

"Howling through the void"??? In space no one can hear you howl!

something that was always my fave thing about jupiter was how often we use metrics from our world to identify mere blotches and smears on a planet

I remember this, but only very vaguely, so thank you for this detailed vid. Weren't NEO's formerly known as ECOs? but Earth-Crossing Orbit sounded too Doomsday; just because it crossed Earth's orbit didn't mean it'd hit us. The prob with diverting a comet is predicting where it'll end up; like putting spin on a pool ball, what other balls is it going to interact with and interfere with, and what effects with they have on yet other balls?

Hello Simon great video I'm having being a amateur astronomer for some 40 years now I was fortunate enough to be able to set up my telescope and watch the action happening the first night I actually set it up on three different occasions but it was still pretty fascinating to see and unfortunately I was not able to see any of the actual impact I just saw the scars afterwards the one night that it had an impact which produce that flash of light happened to be a night that we were completely clouded out so I couldn't watch it through my scope now I had a pretty large scope ( 11" ) so it was pretty easy for me to see things I'm really glad that you put this video up because there are just so many people out there that really don't realize what can happen in space

I remember watching this happen live on TV when I was a kid.

Loving these outer space Geographics Simon (& writers/editors)! Keep it up!

I was 11, and wishing I had a telescope and a good place to set it up to watch. This was one of hte most amazing things to happen in my childhood.

😄" Jupiter to Shoemaker Levy..... " " Hit Me With Your Best Shot " - Pat Benatar

That nearly made me cry. That tribute is so beautiful...

Especially enjoying all these new space-related videos

I'll say again great channel , more space documentary would be appreciated, thanks 👍

Super cool! I remember this event well. Great video Simon and team! Thanks...

Hi Simon 👋☺️

21:35 That is so freaking awesome, good on NASA for making that happen.

I remember watching the news stories about this. I didn’t know about Mr.Shoemaker almost going to the moon with an Apollo mission and then his ashes buried there later.

11:54 for everybody who saw how scientists treated Saturns rings, the idea that the fragments where named a, b, c isn't as obvious as that.

Big up to Jupiter for protecting earth from the rogue asteroids and other killer debris. And great planetary lesson as always Simon. :)

I recall the excitement generated by SL 9. IT DID NOT DISSAPOINT THE EXPECTATIONS!

Dart was a success. It was able to change it's targets orbit by 30 minutes.

Great job on this one, Simon and team. While I got to enjoy this event right after high school, there is a ton of stuff I didn't know about regarding the backstory, or other details.

@Beryllahawk

Жыл бұрын

Same here, that was the summer after I graduated, and I remember it very vividly. In fact when I saw this video pop up I was VERY excited! I wasn't aware of the passing away of the Shoemakers, though. That was one hell of an endnote to a great video.

@RobDucharme

Жыл бұрын

@@Beryllahawk Yeah that was news to me as well.. I had a 4" refractor telescope at that time and I remember watching Jupiter but I wasn't patient enough to see any flashes.

AWESOME awesome video. Thank you to all who had a hand in the making of this great video. One of your best Mr. Whistler.

I vaguely remember this happening. Not any details but the fact that it was a thing in the news. Man I was only 11; I thought I was like 14 or something. Didn't realize it was so long ago.

Sod's Law in the UK is known as Murphy's Law in the US. It's pure irony.

@owenshebbeare2999

Жыл бұрын

Yet DeMorgan, the most likely person to have been misremembered as "Murphy" was British. American myth says it was named after an American, from the 1950's, or possibly 1948, but the term pre-dates that.

I watched this live at the time as a teen. It was completely feckless. Like rocks hitting toothpaste. Don't let this bald man fool you.

I love the fact that NASA decided to crash a multi-million dollar probe to send Gene's ashes to the moon. That's like the most epic funeral ever.

Something fun, the explosion caused by Fragment "G" of the Shoemaker-Levy comet crashing into Jupiter remains to this day the largest explosion to ever occur inside the solar system.

Thank you Jupiter for protecting planet Earth!

I remember learning about Tunguska years ago, scared the shit out of me. The idea that it doesn't have to impact just the steam exploding off a comet is devastating.

@SaoGage

Жыл бұрын

The asteroid itself exploded in the atmosphere due to tidal forces as it traveled through the atmosphere. Basically it was ripped apart by increasing gravity, and the moment it disintegrated triggered the explosion.

@bigjay875

Жыл бұрын

There's nothing us little people can do but enjoy the ride and like all road trips it's gotta end some point

I remember looking at that with my 4" scope from my balcony :)

It blows my mind how little the general public and media talks about these things. What a wild time to be alive

I remember learning about this growing up, I think it was in late 1997 or late 1998. I was 6 or 7 at the time. Always thought it was really cool.

Give the Writers a raise.

@arjanzweers6542

Жыл бұрын

Why would you give slaves bound in your basement a raise?

@rickc2102

Жыл бұрын

@@arjanzweers6542 Only a raise in Blaze.

Amazing story and timing of the events!

I love the space videos Simon and team! Keep up the good work!

One of my favorite videos of yours ever. Thank you!!!!

Great story. I don’t remember it happening so this is good to watch and learn.

"Sadly, while David Levy is still alive..." He must be like, "What the?"

I remember watching this on TV as a kid.