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  • JUPITER IS THE PROTECTOR OF EARTH TAKING IN ALL THE DEBREES OF SPACE JUNKS

  • Jupiter saved us from a comet. Evidence that Jupiter is the true god?

    This "yahweh" guy is a complete joke.

  • Daft question, but can you still see the impact?

  • awesome!!!

    

  • Tnx Jupi, you're the man!

  • that motherfucker is so big you can see the clouds of jupiter from earth

  • What are your thoughts on an asteroid hitting Earth and causing aggravation?

  • Thanks a lot :D

  • What is the proper pronunciation of "Uranus"? Is it ur anus or something else? This has been nagging me recently :\

  • @TheMikeyR It's properly pronounced Ura-nus. :)

  • @TheMikeyR urnus

  • @TheMikeyR Yer-Aw-Nuss is how I heard it in science videos. Although original pronunciation is Ur-Anus, but they're trying to change it.

  • so jupiter is a fat dad and the four inner planets are his sons. hmmmmmmm interseting. "Daddy jupiter, can you go get me a solar sandwich from McGalaxys?"

  • Jupiter got a pimples after all.

  • awesome, thx for posting this =) i plan to visit one of these major telescopes one day, cant wait 

  • 0:55 Höwly Shäowt

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  • Can you see Jupiter all year round, and with way should I be looking?

  • @imagineas1 It depends on what side of the sun the Earth is on. So in other words you cna see Jupiter every 6 months I believe and it will be one of the brightest objects in the night sky.

  • Due to Jupiters massive field , he has saved us many times when it comes to these

  • How big of a telescope would I need to see URANUS? Will it require more than 8 inches?

  • @benthemiester

    Uranus is very hard to find because it's so far from the sun. As a result not much light is reflected from it which means viewing it is much more difficult. I'm not a scientist though and have never viewed it through a telescope so my actual knowledge is limited. I just found your question interesting I guess.

  • @davitodude Yep, it's 20x further from the sun than the Earth, so it receives (20^2) 400 times less sunlight. You can however see it if you have great eyesight and are in a dark location and know where to look. (I fit into NONE of those categories!)

  • @virtualpilot45 its not 20x further it would be outside of the solar system. Earth is 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) away from the sun which is about 150 million km for us and jupiter is around 5.2 AU away from the sun so its safe to say jupiter is around 5x further then earth from the sun as opposed to 20x further :P

  • @vellowfilms2 Agreed, but I was replying to someone's comment asking about Uranus (which is definitely 20AU from Earth)! Thanks anyway!

  • @vellowfilms2 Actually, the border of the Solar System is I think half a lightyear out, or more. one AU is about 8.5 light minutes.

  • @davitodude I only saw it once, and it was only because it was in conjunction with Jupiter. Being the amateur I am, it would take me weeks to find it outside a conjunction.

  • @benthemiester I have been observing the planets since 1984, I have seen this elusive distant green planet through many telescopes, including mine. As little as a 3" refractor can resolve Uranus into a disc. Of course, to see markings on it would usually require a moderate aperture, and excellent seeing conditions. I never saw markings on Uranus, even with a 20" refractor!

  • @twombonu Thanks for the info. I heard that astromonist were thinking of changing the name of that planet because of all the dumb jokes.

  • @twombonu Not even Voyager didn't see any marks on Uranus. It looks like a fat blue photoshopped ball.

  • @LesPaul2006 I beg to differ. Voyager did see markings on Uranus, but only at closest approach. The famous French Astronomer Audouin Dolfuss did see markings through a 60" reflector at 1000 power, but noted that they are always fuzzy and inconspicuous.

  • @twombonu couldnt help but laugh at the first line of ur comment... just sayin

  • is jupiter supposed to be tipped like that

  • HOLY SMOKES xD

  • Other planets: oh crap we are all gunna die!

    Jupiter: Chill the fuck down guys I got this..

  • DUDE THANKS! I WAS WONDERING WHAT THAT SHINEY THING WAS FOR AGES ;) but thats so cool, thanks for showing us this video, subbed ;)

  • He sounds a lot like the double rainbow guy

  • how an asteroid can impact in jupiter .. i mean jupiter is a planet made of gases 

  • Jupiter is like the Solar Systems' "Vacuum Cleaner!" If comets or asteroids are headed our way, and Jupiter is nearby, you can count of Jupiter to save our planet! It's amazing that Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter! Jupiter may be big, but the planets are SO spread out! A collision like that in our lifetime must mean the Solar System is quite active! We need to send missions to the moons! What if something were to hit Europa? What if it was even larger? We need to explore the moons ASAP!

  • i didn't se anything,,, i must have blinked

  • for the size of Jupiter that musta been quite huge comet and impact. I wonder wheres the great red spot though, its usually visible.

  • @CreedChrist It's tough to see through this makeshift, camcorder/telescope eyepiece combo. Its still there though, and hopefully won't go away anytime soon.

  • Ahh that's awesome, I used to live right near Mt. Wilson. Fun place to visit. There's something ... powerfully humbling...about being able to look outside of our entire planet and peer into the void of space...despite those massive globes hanging there alongside us.

  • I remember hearing about the shoemaker comet when I was young. Well, that was another cosmic celebrity we lost. Id hate the day we hear Haley's comet just happens to get in Jupiter's or Saturn's path.

  • how powerful is that telescope?

  • Astonishing view. Knowign that your eye is much much more HD quality device - I bet everything looks just amazing! I wonder how Saturn would look like...

  • Fantastic !!!!

  • Looks like the air was a bit unsteady that night. You should have used the Mt Wilson 16 inch telescope instead.

  • How can Jupiter have a scar when it is a planet made of gas? science misteries?

  • @LaEspriella

    Did you notice that Jupiter has stripes and bands, those are different gases and pressure system. The interactions between them can create storms (as the red dot indicates) When you distrupt those they mix differently and can take a while (decades or sometimes hundreds) of years to fade.

    Not a scientific mystery at all.

  • Ok, but can you explain to me how a s car can be formed in a gas?

  • @LaEspriella basically darker clouds mix with the lighter clouds on top, and because this is over an area that can be larger than the earth, can take weeks or months to fade.

  • @LaEspriella To put it a little simpler, how do you scar water? You put a ripple in it. If its cloudy water it'll churn the area and either make a thicker cloud in one spot or some clearing hole in the top layer of clouds. Remember that Jupiter is immense and its immense gravity makes those gases more dense and that any ripple would make a large lasting mark.

  • Thanks Jupiter for saving our ass.

  • Beautiful! 

  • gut video

  • Try and focus the damn camera dolt!

  • Danke!!

    vg

    Achim

  • i never knew it was possible to see Jupiter like that with any publicly available telescope! So beautiful, think ill get into learning about the solar system again, was always my favorite subject in science class.

    Thanks for the upload,! All of your video content is good stuff.

  • @xXLloydMagnusXx The universe is abso-fucking-lutely awesome!

  • wow... you always see pictures of jupiter, but to be able to look at it directly like that would be absolutely mindblowing

  • 0:45 he jizzed in his pants

  • Great video!! totally stunning

    At those people saying it's fake because there was no explosion sound:

    The speed of sound is 343 Metres a second, the distance between Earth and Jupiter is is 964 Million kilometres apart, calculate that into metres: 964.000.000x1000=964,000.000.0­00 Metres, now calculate that further, and it would take thousand, maybe even millions of years to get to Earth.

    BUT, Sound = Air Vibrations, Space doesn't contain any air, so no air, no sound in space (:

  • it's a pitty it wasnt JUSTIN BIEBER colliding with jupiter

  • vary nooiiicee

  • awesome man thanks for posting!

  • Wow, jupiter looks so soft! i want to hug it if i were a GIANT 8D

  • I love astronomy!

  • Hmmmmmmm I wonder if you point it at the sun and record it with a camcorder what it would look like :P.

  • @EducateTheAtheists what more of a name could you possibly choose that screams "IM IGNORANT AND CLOSED MINDED" piss off.

  • Its funny to see the atheist always watch the stars and planets. Like if proves anything.

  • @EducateTheAtheists why generalize people like that?

  • @EducateTheAtheists its so nice to see christians at church/reading bibles/playing the faith card/trolling videos about astronomy.... like it proves anything

  • @EducateTheAtheists Why are you getting mad for? Is it because heaven isn't in the sky like you were told by a HUMAN who wrote the bible? There is no god stop living in a fairytale world, and come back to reality.

  • @Monkerr Amen

  • Define god =P

  • @EducateTheAtheists Prove to me that god exists and i wil believe. But until then i think i sill believe in the people that actually study things and realise that there is more evidence to suport the big bang the theory of creation seriously just get the fuck off your religious paedophilia, take a step back and realise that god doesn't exist and it is fake fairytales made by drunk people 2000 years ago seriously. Fuck me christians are stupid. -.-

  • wow!!!!

  • really? you can just go up there and take a look into the telescope? how fukkin cools that?

  • If Planet Nibiru really exists and gonna hit Earth on 2012 then it would actually be seen in our naked eyes because of its size and nearness to Earth. Fortunately, It is fake.

  • @penpen125

    I agree 100000000%

  • Just imagine what would it be like, if you could spend a night there!

  • Thanks Jupiter for taking that one! You can also see at the beginning of the video one the jovian moons in the lower left. 

  • Jupiter the slut loves a deep impact!

  • now that is a good telescope

    for the love of god where can i get one of these?

  • love to hear you excited like a kid in a candy shop :D:D

  • Grow up man havnt you even seen a planet before? lol

  • @geniusjas87

    Many of us haven't seen a planet with a fresh impact through our own eyes before.

  • science RULES

  • @Youmakemefart it's Astronomy, not science xD

  • @Fowtowsjop

    Are you dumb or just trying to be funny?

  • @Youmakemefart neither, this is Astronomy, not fucking science u dipshit

  • @Fowtowsjop

    I quote Wikipedia:

    "Astronomy is a national science that deals with the study of celestial objects..."

    Must be real hard being a retard

  • @Fowtowsjop everything is science.

  • @LonelyPineapple ya but science can only go so far it has a limit.

  • @Fowtowsjop Google "define:astronomy"

    "the branch of physics (SCIENCE!!!!!!) that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole"

    "An astronomer is a SCIENTIST who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars, and galaxies."

    I suggest you open a fucking book before you try to educate people twice your age ;) Lolz

  • @loveatfirstsound Look at the date when i posted this, and the other people that replied on it, obviously i know the difference now, so no reason for you to act like a smart ass.

  • @Fowtowsjop Aside from the sheer joy of it? :) Besides, your original comment was the result of YOU being a smart ass, so no reason to be a hypocrite.

  • @Fowtowsjop Dude astronomy is a branch of science. Dude if you say astronomy is not science then you are saying Physics is not, chemistry is not dude all of those are branches of what evidently is science -.- Astronomers are scientists seriously dude just because you are too fucking stupid to realise that just because we arn't studying chemicals it isn't science. Dude just admit you are wrong.

    Or is you retard senses getting in your way? Life must be hard being a retard.

  • Excellent vid TF

    Who are the nearly 500 assholes that gave a thumbs down? Thumbs down for looking at Jupiter through a telescope? Another bot campaign or simply members of the anti-TF club? What a bunch of douchbags!

    ps: more space stuff TF ;)

  • Stunning! Beautiful and pure fucking stunning!

  • Jupiter is the Tank of the Galaxy XD

  • @hiro661

    LMAO

    Zomg healz??!

  • I'm surprised that they didn't line-up the 100 inch Hooker for the view.. I'm lost here in Canada now and the closest thing we have to a scope is at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta... ooowoo a think the dome is about 14 foot diameter? I miss being able to drive to Mt Wilson and more so, hiking up from the northside, on the 'Rattlesnake trail'. Great vid clip, Nice skyline (Mt Badden-Powell in foregrnd). lat'r Buzz

  • i think jupiter is a failed star.

  • @ROMAN167 Scientist though so, but they were prooven wrong, i saw your comment and looked it up on nasa gov

  • Interesting to see what it looked like through the 60 in. scope. My 8" practically had the same image. I wonder if it's because of the optics or just poor seeing conditions that night. Thanks for the video!

  • light pollutions pissed me off!

  • lol filming a picture-.-

  • I just thought of something... Since Jupiter is made up of helium gas, what if when we entered the planet (I know we'd die instantly, but WHAT IF) our voices got all high pitched. It would be a good laugh before you died.

  • actually is mostly hydrogen.

  • i want by lols before im squashed, frozen, suffocated, and killed in all possible ways

  • so cool

  • Bible says something about "the thing that fell from jupitor"

  • THAT is why science kicks religions ass!

  • I'm not religious, but what a silly comment.

  • Wait, how could there be a scar on Jupiter if it's a gas giant?

  • @Zerginfantry well its referred to as an "impact scar" my guess is that its not really damage so much as the gas or remains of the meteor is stuck there causing a very noticeable discoloration

  • HA HA!! AWESOME question. And I have to share something that will help answer:

    Robert Miles, producer of the excellent doc 'Fastwalkers' has been to Jupiter and shares ALL the nitty gritty details in his interview with Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM, on utube now. Robert's description of the colors on the surface of the planet is EXTRAORDINARY. Radiant, vibrant, flourescent pinks, blues, and lavenders, with a silvery ocean.

    Thank you Robert!

  • @PositiveKinetik

    He can't have been to Jupiter. One, there is no Surface he would simply pass through until he met the liquid metallic core, and two the immense gravity would squish him until he is no more.

  • He'd probably incinerate long before he got to the core...

  • Hey, I would like to know what a good beginners telescope is. I have been using those stretch out ones sailors use to look at the moon, but when i use it for like mars All i can see is dots

  • in my experience, i've come to the conclusion there is no such thing as "starter telescope" to have "for the beggining until you buy a better one", i recommend buy the best you can with whatever budget you have. Don't listen to crap like "well you should buy a smaller one for starters", you'll just be dissapointed cause you won't see what you expect to.

    My only advice is buy a reflector with as big an aperture (mirror diameter) as you can afford DON't look for big focal length telescopes

  • Thanks for that Thunderf00t. That WAS impressive.

    And thanks to the good people at the Mount Wilson Observatory. =)

  • thats amazing!

  • i wish i could buy a telescope! thank you fo this video!

  • build one :)

  • lol im too poor for that !

  • you just need the glass to polish the mirrors, so this is the cheapest way :)

  • I have to say that was an amzing video.

    The amount of details visible blew me away.

    There is nothing better than abserving planet live and be rewarded with such amount of details.

    Cheers

  • I live in California. Is Jupiter visible at 6:30 at this time?

  • man, when i was younger my mum bought me a massive expensive telliscope for my christmas, sadly i was too young to understand the books that told me where the planets were.

    I never found any planets :(.

  • It's not too hard to find them, look for what looks like an orange star. They really stick out from the regular stars and are usualy very bright. Jupiter, Saturn and Mars look bright orange, Murcury and Venus can't uaualy be seen as they are close to the sun during the day. Neptune and Uranus are hard to spot but if you ever see a greenish star then that is probably one of them. Pluto is just hard to see at all.

  • If you would like, when ever you want to see a planet. Tell me which part of the world you live in and ill tell you what planets can be seen and where to look.

  • wow amazing!!

  • omg! nice !!! that is just amazing!!

  • wow that's awesome

  • very nice!

    btw, in my experimental novel "Bugzilla!" my two "heroes" go to Mt. Wilson to use the 60-inch Hale telescope. the scene contains a history of Mt. Wilson beginning at about page 89 (bookmark = Mt_Wilson_Trail) ...

    yahoo group bugzilla-novel ... files -> Bugzilla-4-Nov-2009.doc

  • Jupiter is a very nice planet. Its atmosphere visibly distorts its non-transparent features. It IS an atmosphere that is liquid to solid the deeper one 'watches'. :)

  • im looking at jupiter later on tonight with my new reflector :) best thing is that the red spot is in view at the moment too :)

  • WOW. I would have loved to have been there to see that. I have a nice size telescope, nothing like Mt. Wilsom obviously, however I live in a city and don't really have anyplace in the country I could take it.

  • That's so cool!!! Would be great to so it myself.

  • HOLY CRAP!

    That view is amazing. Jesus. I would kill to see something like that.

  • silly humans fighting over silly stuff just enjoy the view and liv and learn :D

  • I watched this in 1994 with my 6 year old son through a 10" dobsonion and as the planet turned the shockwave came into view looking like a huge donnut with a black center. The ripple could be seen clearly on the outer edge ! Many times the size of the earth ! spectacular.

  • This makes my 4" refractor images look like toy pictures... still, it's around 22,000km closer than Mt Wilson.

  • aah I wish i could see the planets like that where i live :(

  • WOW!!!

  • Thunderfoot, that is an absolutely fantastic view! I think the camera fuzzed it up a bit, but I can only imagine how it looked in person! I'm so jealous, man! The only detailed object I've ever seen with my own eyes is our moon.

  • Had no idea there was an observatory like this in the LA area..... Cool video

  • ahh good ol' jupiter

    taking those meteorites for us like a man

  • @XxGreenDayzxX Well, I'd say that's not really a valid metaphor, since a man would've been instantly killed by any meteor large enough to make it down to the surface.

  • Great video !

  • for those who question this, yes it's possible to look through the scope with a camera

    i've recorderded a military exercise same method

  • Just a videocam pointed at the eyepeice? That's also amazing!

  • Indeed, Phill. Ingenuity ftw! :D

  • Completely amazing.

  • awesome!

  • "Though, it is interesting why lightening doesn't cause it to go up like the Hindenburg...LOL "

    ..probably because its atmosphere only has trace amounts of oxygen.

  • You have a moon as well. Not bad for a camcorder. You should try again when Saturn and its rings are visible, now that is impressive. Welcome to the wonderful universe of astronomy. Member: Observers Group, Norman Lockyer Obs, England

  • I was wondering... since Jupiter is just composed of a bunch of gases, how come the lightning storms and other forms of energy don't cause it to light on fire and become like the Sun? I mean isn't that how the Sun formed, because the gas caught on fire? Why doesn't this happen with Jupiter?

  • I'm sure someone else could expand on this, but I can tackle a bit of it...

    "since Jupiter is just composed of a bunch of gases"

    To clear this up, observations and calculations suggest that Jupiter is much more likely to be a solid core with an enormous atmosphere.

    "how come the lightning storms and other forms of energy don't cause it to light on fire"

    It doesn't quite have the right combination of elements for that to happen or to sustain a fire if it did happen.

  • cont...

    "and become like the Sun?"

    While Jupiter has a lot of mass and density (to cause pressure), it's not enough for fusion to occur and turn it into a star.

    I hope that helped some. :)

    Phil Plait's site 'Bad Astronomy' (which is to say he debunks bad astronomy) is one of the great sources for investigating and answering these burning (yeah, bad pun, I know) questions.

  • Actually Jupiter is consider as a fail sun

    It was about to be a sun but then it wasn't

  • Still too small to be considered a failed star. A brown dwarf would be closer to what you're thinking...

  • @rachman1noff Yeah now that I think of it your right

  • The sun is not on fire. There are nuclear reactions in the core which heat up the surface to about 6000C/10000F. At this temparature it glows.

    Jupiter is simply not big enough to sustain a nuclear reaction.

  • Why do you have to go and insult someone asking a decent question?

    Is it to prove to yourself how superior you are to the rest of us?

  • No, because he clearly is being a smartass and acting like science doesn't have any merit, all these people think "God" did it, and science threatens that. So yeah why the fuck doesn't Jupiter form into a star, I doubt he really cares.

  • It seems to me just a question from someone seeking knowledge. Even if he were suggesting "god" did it.. it is generally a good idea to approach the passing of knowledge with as little spewing of venom and insult as possible. This is part of the problem. If you have the knowledge but are unwilling to share it, or you make people take a self-esteem hit in order to grasp it, then you will do nothing but push them away.