Crazy that 30 years ago we didn't know that the Kuiper belt was even real but now we can detect alien Kuiper belts.

@LaunchPadAstronomy

Жыл бұрын

That’s a pretty cool thing!

@AfricanLionBat

10 ай бұрын

​@@LaunchPadAstronomyit's cool you have all these friends that are actually working on this stuff

yooo, good editing!! awesome video! it was not boring and easy to follow/understand! 😸

@LaunchPadAstronomy

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I've found that editing interviews to be a lot tricker than I thought they would be. Figuring out what to show to support what they're saying is a dark art :)

I love when you have these interesting guests on your show breaking down all of the new information from JWST as well as other telescopes ! It’s the perfect way to start your day. 👍🏻🔭

I'm really excited for the Vega and E Eri observations.

I find it facinating that one of the key features in a novel published in 1981 (The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh) was a solar system exactly like this. She likened it to a 'fried egg' and spent a great deal of time describing what travel through this system would be like

This is exactly the video that I wanted to watch!!

@LaunchPadAstronomy

Жыл бұрын

Great! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

Another fantastic video!

@LaunchPadAstronomy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

We are so fortunate to be living in theses times, so many new technological discoveries. Think what’s yet to come, amazing.

Thanks a lot for this interesting interview! I personally wouldn't expect all the stellar systems to have the same composition of planets and belts, with the same distances as our own. Not all families have the same children ages...

Oh how fantastic to see this video. I took Dr. Riecke's Astronomy 101 at the UofA.... a bit ago lol.

@LaunchPadAstronomy

Жыл бұрын

Cool! I would have liked to have been his student, he seems like a great guy!

So cool to hear from the authors of the paper thank you!

Thank you for the share! Never gets old watching these informative videos!

@LaunchPadAstronomy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Fomalhaut is Arabic for "Mouth of the Fish" and is the mouth part of the constellation of the Southern Fish (Piscis Austrinus) Since there are fishes with several layers of teeth/fangs, I wonder if these asteroid belts coincidentally represent the layer of fangs of the fish constellation

@LaunchPadAstronomy

Жыл бұрын

That's a pretty cool thought!

@dogcarman

Жыл бұрын

Oooh! The fish is actually a shark then. Nice.

@EvaFuji

Жыл бұрын

well ancient astronomers didn't know about the asteroid belts so no but from a modern perspective its a call observation even though its not the only star with asteroid belts

@cykkm

Жыл бұрын

Literally فم الحوت, “mouth of the whale.” حوت generally meant “whale;” in the modern literary language the baleen whale, specifically. Ancient Arabic-speaking peoples weren't very much into fishing, considering the geography, and there had been relatively few words for different kinds of sea creatures. And no, of course they didn't see the ring.

@VikingTeddy

Жыл бұрын

"Rings of Fomalhaut" sounds like a great name for a scifi epic. I really want to read it now.

You just got yourself a new subscriber! Just saw your Beetlejuice video and wow was I impressed with how you explained and documented and put that video together anything space science especially to do with this stuff I'm all over it thank you for making these videos I cannot wait watch the rest of them seriously Round of Applause for you 👏👏👏👏💜

@LaunchPadAstronomy

11 ай бұрын

Wow thank you, and I'm glad to have you along for the ride!

@dextercampbell796

11 ай бұрын

@@LaunchPadAstronomy you are very welcome. like seriously the way you approach things so calmly and go about presenting these videos is really refreshing, wherever you might be Greece from Southern California!(:

Thank you for making these videos!

looks like sunshine daydream...... Thanks Christian, every one of your videos is fascinating and informative, keep 'em coming for as long as you can man!

@LaunchPadAstronomy

Жыл бұрын

As long as I can keep the days between videos as short as possible.

It really hammers home just how vulnerable we are here.

Visually it looks like there are peaks and troughs in the dust. So the light emitting from the sun is being block, similar to a shadow being casted by a whirlpool in a water body.

Hey there, could you do a video of the early galaxies that were discovered, that are too close to the "big bang" and what your thoughts are? Maybe you could even talk with someone about it. That would be an interesting video to watch

@LaunchPadAstronomy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion!

What is a temperature of disks' material? What about theirs density and chemical composition? Does distribution of temperature correspond with any good model? Good point: we see objects with size >= wave length. It's pretty obvious, but it's worth remembering.

It's very impressive.

thanks for the video

@LaunchPadAstronomy

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Thank you Christian. Thats awesome

@LaunchPadAstronomy

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate it!

So, Sauron´s eye has a ring under it, he must be tired 🙂

0:19 SOFIA has both entered and left the chat.

I don't know if I'm actually recording you. You may come to regret this

Is there a chance the intermediate ring is just an optical artifact?

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If Fomalhaut is a star, then why is its shape so odd? Rocky looking with what I'll call Tabs on top and bottom with the top one much taller? Don't stars usually appear to be a globe?

So 😎 if that doesn't get people into astronomy nothing well

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These rings are planets in formation. There's probably more.

سبحان الله و بحمده سبحان الله العظيم

What I'm curious about (both from this and earlier observations) is why the star appears to be well off-center from the disks.

Images that NASA didnt released? I wonder how many more that they didnt release? An the purpose behind those actions

@LaunchPadAstronomy

Жыл бұрын

All of the images are freely available to the public on the MAST archive. However, processing those images for public release requires a fair amount of time and effort. Fortunately, the science team did their own image processing on the data which we discussed in the video.

@Tom-vx5eq

6 ай бұрын

NASA is obligated to release to the public. Everything they do is public. However, do you know how to process imagery in wavelengths other than visual? Probably not. Those who do aren't going to make every single piece of data that comes through into something you can understand. Learn about wavelengths and GIS before you say they aren't releasing photos. They aren't even photos. Just pieces of information the general public can't even comprehend.

@Tom-vx5eq

6 ай бұрын

To clarify. Every piece of data that comes from a NASA satellite is available. You just need to be smart to translate it, and they don't translate their garbage data.

Alot of us want Webb to be looking for Life. Not Rocks. Lets Go !

Sorry Scott Manley...

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Thumb down for spelling Fomalhaut wrong in the thumbnail. Names matter, more than most other words. And it's trivial to check this online.

@LaunchPadAstronomy

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, great catch. Thanks!

@ronaldgarrison8478

Жыл бұрын

@@LaunchPadAstronomy Wow, that's unusually gracious. Enough so that I flipped it to a like. I don't know when I've ever done that.

@AttilaTheHun333333

Жыл бұрын

@@ronaldgarrison8478 The man has class. According to your comment, something you don’t have or understand.

@ronaldgarrison8478

Жыл бұрын

@@AttilaTheHun333333 I see you don't like my attitude, but I don't see you telling me I'm wrong. Take a moment to notice, and you may see that the owner of the channel handled this much better than you have.

Cool images. Far too much blatant conjecture about how the rings form stated basically as fact. There's clearly a lot we haven't seen and don't understand about stars and solar system formations. No one is just willing to say "we don't know". More scientists need to stick with science and make it clear when they are saying things that are guesses and not facts.