Space Fan News #2: Echoes From a Quasar That No Longer Exists

[MultiPaulinator]

"Space Oddity" sounded more like a David Bowie reference to me.

[ve2zzz]

Do ypui know what is the Distance between the Earth and the gas cloud ?

If the hole is only 20 000 LY across, it seems that the gas cloud is MUCH closer to us than the Quasar.... It is surprising to see that a quasar can ignite stars so far away...

[MrAwesomesauce101]

It's a mini lymon alpha blob! I love those things they're usually allot bigger being as big as 6.5 million light years from Sid to side. This right here is basically a galactic nebula seeing a galaxy form.

[epiksonik]

Excellent video however you're self deprecation over a dutch word was mildly jarring.

[epiksonik]

Excellent video however you're self deprecation over a dutch word was mildly jarring.

[Liacgi]

Good and very informative video :)

That green gas massed looked like a dragon/godzilla head :D or maybe i'm just looked a little too much ink tests.....

[nucliosis]

Cool. Thanks for the informative vid

[backfire357]

Thats a good cartoon! i get it... the quasar is mad because it doesn't emit a red spectrum of photonic radiation. so it forms some stars. am i reading into things to much? HA!

[okkedulle]

kudos tony for trying the dutch it was quite good !

nice vid as usual

[londonblock]

David Bowie rocks!

[benblij]

i love it when people try to speak dutch.

it's like listening to a carcrash

but well tried :)

[IudiciumInfernalum]

No prob tony nice video, greetings from the netherlands ;)

[Amuppet]

Oh the torture! Don't pronounce "Voorwerp" again please.

Anyways, I've got a question: Many years ago (1996?) me and my parents where driving home, we saw this multicolored cloud behind the clouds (@ night).

Even today my father calls it a "Gas cloud in space", yet it sounds a bit strong for me since Jupiter is a Gas "cloud" Giant aswell.

Do you got a explanation for this?

Next to that! Keep up your fantastic work!

[SlayerNL1982]

Dear Tony,

That was pretty good pronounced!

Keep up the good work, love your video's

gr. Lars from The Netherlands

[sawyez]

Dutch is most hard langueage in the world, still haven't masterd it after 2 decades...

[ncry]

Hi, You should make a vid and show us what telescope(s) you got for yourself. Would be fun to know imo.

[mikehawktv]

A while ago my buddy was messing around on Google Earth and he took a look at his favorite Galaxy, NGC 1365 and he noticed a weird green blob by the galaxy, we had no idea what the hell it was... but now it all makes sense!

[johnjohn1985]

Awesome Movie!!! Thanks Darnell

[passengerplanetearth]

thank you, your vids are awesome!

is there somewhere I can download your desktop wallpaper image please?

[oleHABSole]

I love this format, thank you.

[colt2016]

looks like a space monster or some thing huge that couldd eat up a galaxy lol

[gekkegerrieee]

4 whereP :D

[quinndiesel1977]

Ground Control to T. Darnell......love your videos.  Keep them coming.

[quinndiesel1977]

Ground Control to T. Darnell....."Space Oddity," is a david bowie song.

[Ralfst3r]

Hey Tony, your pronounciation was pretty good. :) Another interesting vid!

[komikero]

Hello Tony! I was was wondering... Hubble takes so many awesome photos of things so far away... why does it have difficulty taking a clear picture of say... Pluto?

[RyuDarragh]

Yes, a "Space Oddity" is a pun and was used as an album title by David Bowie in 1969. Oh, and you are close on voorwerp. Say the V almost like an F and the werp part like the word "where" with a "p" replacing the "e" and roll the "r" a bit.

[billp1955]

You are dead on...that it was cool HOW it was found!

[Prophiscient]

@tdarnell

"Honey's vore-ware'p" should sound right.

A "voorwerp" is literally a "(be)fore-throw," so it undoubtedly has the same Latin origin as "object." It just got loosely translated, even though "object" is also a good Dutch word.

The only difference is that a "voorwerp" is usually just one little thing, while an "object" is usually much larger, so I guess that Hanny initially only saw a little thingamabob without realizing that it was something much bigger and more complicated.

[Yamahaphone]

Hey Tony, I have a quick question about visible light, as most types of radiation emit some forms of subatomic particles such as gamma and beta radiation, does visible light emit any type of subatomic particle?

[MrDanielHoffmann]

BIG thanks!

[darkskyva1234]

looks like a green dragon lol

[tsjoencinema]

Thanks for your work on your vids. It is appreciated.

[itsasin1969]

Please Sir,, may I have some more?

[irishmonkey640]

talk slower please but good vid

[dragonfirefoxx]

wow that is just amazing a school eacher just checking things out and BAM! she discovers this! Awesome!! Thank you for taking the time to share this and explaining it to us. I always find this fascinating :)

[questionsleadtotruth]

Thanks for this, I've joined that website. :)

[nybotheveg]

hello mr. t...darnell i was wondering if you work with astronomy or if it's "just" a hobby?

[tdarnell]

@nybotheveg It's both. I'm a science technologist and software engineer at the Space Telescope Science Institute and I have several telescopes at home I use as often as time permits.

[nybotheveg]

@tdarnell that sounds pretty cool (: btw i was thinking that dark matter might be the energy lost through cosmic redshift (expanding universe gives the photons longer wave length, longer wave lenght=lower frekvens= less energy(E=h*f)) do you think it's possible that dark matter is that lost energy being converted to electromagnetic resistant matter?

[silversobe]

@tdarnell What telescope would you recommend for fellow observers?

[scottohscott]

@tdarnell What kind of telescopes do you have? Do you ever do astrophotography?

[XclanLanDi]

@tdarnell You pronounced it very good, its always hard to talk in other languages. If you hear a dutch person talk English you nearly always can hear that he or she is dutch.

Great videos, always looking forward to it!!

[hukt0nf0nikz]

tdarnell you rock!

[JadeChaos]

That is great

[goldenairstrike]

Tony, you were on a dutch TV show yesterday. They showed your video of the distant galaxies you made in December.

[edstar83]

Who the hell would thumb this down? Seriously?

[CyberNeticRodent]

Ive been using Galaxy Zoo for years... its awsome.

ive found nothing thats has given me fame though.

but i might be the only human alive to see some of these distant objects first.

[dutchbhproduction]

hey, i am from the netherlands, and you speak "voorwerp" quite nice for a american that does not speak dutch at all :D

[bshieldsbb01]

If only I could submit this video in lieu of my tax returns, inspiring them to consider just how incredible our universe is, and how insignificant and ultimately futile in the great cosmic scale their demands for more accurate records of my annual takings and expenditure were,and hopefuly blowing their minds long enough for me to be forgotten in their data-base for another few years.

[handplanty]

I just read the article yesterday, and yesterday was the day after I signed up for Galaxy Zoo. Coincidence?! :D Nice video :)

Also, as a Dutchman, I can assure you that there's almost no American that pronounces our words well. Hell, they confuse our language with German most of the time xD "Object" is a way to general name anyway.

[SGresponse]

I'm still not a space fan. But I love every minute of the "Space Fan News" videos... Hope to see them real often. And now the audio is perfectly on cue which makes it all the awesomer that you were willing to get that minor detail corrected just for us viewers.

I wouldn't mind if you devoted all of your youtube time to Space Fan News. Or make segments similar to this (in terms of production) with answers to some question that more educated Space Fans might ask.

[retskni]

Thanks Ted. I share your opinion of what the real story is of this discovery. When I first read this news release my thoughts went straight there - an amateur astronomer made the first sighting. Fantastic!! And thanks for the Galaxy Zoo tip.

BTW, I'm getting a kink in my neck from all the looking up. Gonna get me an all weather recliner...

Two thumbs up, Ted. Keep 'em coming, space amigo.

[Drew11189]

That really is amazing, and the shape of the gas really does look like a man; I was in awe xD

[thomaswk8]

i no longer like the videos since he puts his face on them !

[tman383]

Anybody ever wonder if the time scales in which these events happen aren't really in millions of years?

I mean don't you think that there is a chance that something like this could happen in say 8 months?

lol just a thought xD

[Netanel17]

I really like this format! Please make more videos!

[sorry8140]

you seemed so avid about getting the pronunciation correct. it doesn't offend any1.

[labobo]

@tdarnell Gorgeous images ! and a cool story too :)

Only one thing that annoys me slightly is the grain in the image.

What causes the grain ?

Is a limitation of the hubble ?

I can't wait until the new telescope system is launched into space, even higher detailed pictures, mmm eye candy

[Silkenos]

@labobo I think those telescope image sensors use a high ISO speed, otherwise they wouldn't be able to catch the light so far away

[USADominiRican]

There you are! I thought you were black.

[SomedaysDreamersBC]

Brilliant... this new space news segment you do is absolutely fantastic.

[goreziad]

V's in German or Dutch are pronounced as F :)

[novelist10]

i just spent an hour classifying galaxies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh thats too cool.

[totallyfreeenergy]

post2.. Can we know more about the origin of the universe by looking at the orientation of galaxies. Is any particular angle and plane of inclination favored. Looking at oldest galaxies, ones formed at big-bang and the way they are spatially oriented and distributed ... No matter how big an object, the physical laws governing them are the same simple ones ! We see aggregation effects...

[tdarnell]

@totallyfreeenergy Those question are precisely some of the ones they're trying to answer over at Galaxy Zoo. They've published papers about this, even noticed biases in the people doing the classifications. You really should check it out, it's really interesting!

[CerisePsyche]

I appreciate and enjoy your videos very much. It, also, seems a few of us here want to know more about the void.

[totallyfreeenergy]

Interesting! My attention was caught by another image (I dont say I haven't seen it a thousand times before!). There is this large galaxy on the top above the green thingammy. Then there is this speck of a galaxy which seem to be oriented at right angles to the large galaxy. Most galaxies have spiral shape as expected with a central black hole energising it. What determines the orientation of the galaxy? There is no up/down. If big bang started it all from a point.. continued in next post :)

[peha2]

Loving the amount of Vids your pumping out T! Keep it up!

[blazak]

Maybe it's a giant Dutch Oven!

[MegaTouchy]

Loving this series.

[innersancthum]

what happened 3 videos in 1 week.......nice

[tdarnell]

@innersancthum Heh, heh. Yeah... Well.... It's because of the AAS meeting. Lots of interesting news coming out this week and I wanted to share it. I can't do this all the time ;-)

[filthyfun]

@innersancthum yea dude I'm down awsome!

[k1awdttt]

Somehow I'm more interested in that void spot...

[MegaTouchy]

@k1awdttt Same...

[BGenerous]

I think I heard this mentioned on Science Friday, but it is cool to see what they were talking about, and have it explained in detail. Thanks!

[MrGunnnah]

You have helped me with so much homework and assignments.

`THANK YOU and keep making vids! :D

[pantheratigris86]

Hey mr tdarnell, never expected to hear some Dutch from you =)

your pronunciation of "voorwerp" is actually quite good, though the e in "werp" is pronounced a bit sharper, as in "bed". Great videos, love the format!

Greetings from Holland!

[tdarnell]

@pantheratigris86 What a relief! Thanks. I wish there was something on the web I could use to hear pronunciations of words in other languages. I'll make sure to get it right next time

[tdarnell]

@pantheratigris86 What a relief! Thanks. I wish there was something on the web I could use to hear pronunciations of words in other languages. I'll make sure to get it right next time

[esamiga]

@tdarnell

Hi Tony,

You could try 'Google Translate'. It's available as a tool and it will give you both the equivalent word in English and the pronunciation in the original language.

[GMSlash]

@tdarnell I speak Dutch and I'm actually glad you pronounced it in American Dutch, because you would never be able to satisfy the whole Dutch speaking community. Since there are so many dialects. Well, mostly in Belgium, where I live.

Keep up the good work and don't worry about the pronounciations ^^

[MrSnowCore]

@GMSlash As long as he didn't pronounce it in West-Flemish, no one is going to complain :).

[GMSlash]

@MrSnowCore That's where the arguing starts, doesn't it? ^^ I suppose you live in Antwerp? ;D

[MrSnowCore]

@GMSlash As long as he didn't pronounce it in West-Flemish, no one is going to complain :).

[Apache3619]

ZOMFG ALIEN GALAXY !!!

[evoGage]

I'm really liking these Space Fan News segments, hope its here to stay!

[TeapTemple]

@evoGage agreed

[tdarnell]

@evoGage I want to produce what people want to see, so this is all driven by your feedback. These seem to be well-received, so after this week (where I'm putting out one per day), I'll make a commitment to getting them out once per week.

Probably on Friday or Saturday as a recap of the week's astronomy news. Not sure yet. I should put up a poll on my channel...

Thanks for watching and your feedback!

[deathVANQUISHED]

Mr. Darnell, Space Oddity is a song. So I am pretty sure it is more on a play on the song than a play on odyssey. :P

Ground control to Major Tom...

[tdarnell]

@deathVANQUISHED Oh of course! I love that song, but it never even occurred to me. Thanks!

[skyward148]

i really really love these. keep them up.

[dvaplustripet]

nice story at the end!!

[LegioRulez]

Even tho I'm not english, your videos are easy to understand, even if they're about an hard subject like Astronomy. Maybe its the love i have for it that makes it easy to understand :).

You're awesome, keep posting videos please, they're interesting.

[SuperiorApostate]

5 billion years from now there's going to be people standing on a rocky planet near one of those starts thinking "God did it."

[scharfy]

Oh, I'd always thought the Quasar was just a massive black hole... good to be educated that it's just a consequence of a black hole and is not a constant.

Although, are black holes are constants? Urghh.... so much to learn.

Thanks for the updates :)

[hugediablo666]

Im sure others have mentioned it, but "Space Oddity" is a song by David Bowie

[UCunningRunt]

that galaxy looks weird

[mrtecno99]

I like your video !!!!

[ratnick]

There will soon be a galaxy called, "RatNick's Object" Yesss!

[DasGuntLord01]

FYI "Space Oddity" is the David Bowie song.

[isdykusii]

if i will find something, will they name it by my name? :D

[SuperiorApostate]

@isdykusii taip :)

[Adam12088]

How many Light years across is that region?

[musli4brekkies]

Yay space! :D