The Boundary Between Black Holes & Neutron Stars - YouTube - PBS Space Time - astrophysics

Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.On 14 AUG 2024,a signal was received consistent with a gravitational wave traveling at the speed of light at the Hanford LIGO in Washington State,the Livingston LIGO in Louisiana,and the Virgo LIGO in Italy.A neutron star is what's left over after a supernova.About 1.5 Suns of matter is compressed into an area the size of a small city,making the gravity 100 billion times stronger than the gravity of Earth's surface.The signal was consistent with a neutron star being in close proximity to a black hole.*Presented and written by Dr.Matt O'Dowd,an Australian astrophysicist.

‘Sorry, Donald! Her crowd was bigger’: Trump accuses PA of voter fraud after Harris claims 75k crowd - YouTube - MSNBC - political science

with Joy Reid,Eugene Robinson.Washington Post columnist and MSNBC political analyst,and Tony Schwartz,co-author of Trump:The Art of the Deal,who knows Trump very well.Commentary:Stalinist Trump is down for the count,and he knows it.After his disastrous rally at Madison Square Garden,he will get few if any Puerto Rican votes.They number half a million in Pennsylvania and a cool million in New York City.He's already making false accusations of voter fraud in Pennsylvania.Sound familiar?He had the temerity to claim the vile,racist rally was a Love Fest,the same thing he said of the violent January 6 Insurrection.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Endorses Kamala Harris In SEARING Message - YouTube - Access Hollywood - political science

Arnold Schwarzengger,the Austrian American former Governor of California and action film star,has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

Comet's spooky death dive into sun captured by spacecraft - YouTube - Space.com - planetary science

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) has met its demise after traveling too close to the Sun on 28 OCT 2024.Images aboard the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured its fateful dive from 26-28 OCT 2024.*Text by Space.com and edited by Andrew Taylor

Puerto Ricans angered, hurt, by insults hurled at Trump rally - YouTube - CBC News - political science

with Monica Perilla,a Puerto Rican community leader in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania*After the offensive remarks,Puerto Rican musicians Bad Bunny,Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.*Commentary:It could have a massive impact at the ballot box.

Tour: Supernova 1987A Pulsar Wind Nebula - YouTube - astrophysics/cosmology

NuStar,the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array is a space observatory operated by NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-California Institute of Technology.Its mission is to study the universe in high energy X-rays to better understand the dynamics of black holes,exploding stars and extreme active galaxies.Together with the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array,a network of 60 radio telescopes in Chile,it has been studying SN 1987A,one of the most studied objects in recent times.SN 1987A is only about 170,000 light years from Earth,so is right next door.Within SN 1987A,a neutron star,the densest object in the universe,has been ascertained that is also a pulsar,the twin bursts of energy coming out of each end being detected as pulses.*Cosmology is the study of the origin,evolution and structures of the universe.*space observatories

LIVE: Michelle Obama rallies with Harris for first time in Michigan - YouTube - there is a pause from 4:38-14:08 - MSNBC - political science

Commentary:The MAGA politics of darkness,hatred and division must be brought to an end.Ronald Reagan wouldn't recognize today's Republican Party.It's been hijacked by far right extremists and their Trump cult of personality.

Neutron Stars: The Most Extreme Objects in the Universe - YouTube - PBS Space Time - astrophysics

Neutron stars have the strongest magnetic fields in the universe.They actually have a solid,crystalline surface and tiny subsurface mountains.Then there is nuclear spaghetti,which is the strongest substance in the universe,as it stands up to the crushing gravity of neutron stars.*Dr.Matt O'Dowd is an Australian astrophysicist and the host and writer or co-writer of PBS Space Time.

VP Kamala Harris in Atlanta: 'You have the power' | FOX 5 News - YouTube - Clarksburg,Georgia - political science

Commentary:No one who calls for the termination of the Constitution of the United States should ever again stand behind the Seal of the President of the United States.

Fireball Update

It turns out the fireball is part of the Orionid meteor shower,which is comprised of fragments of Halley's Comet.

Fireball lights up skies over Ohio, Pennsylvania and Toronto - YouTube - Space.com - planetary science

The American Meteor Society recieved several reports of a fireball in the skies over Ohio,Pennsylvania and Ontario on 21 OCT 2024.Credit:Space.com | footage courtesy Ryan Conner,North Royalton,Ohio;John Oelschager,West Mifflin,Pennsylvania;Walter White,Lancaster Pennsylvania;Brad Hague,Toronto,Ontario*Hopefully fragments of the fireball will be recovered for analysis.*Text by Space.com and edited by Andrew Taylor

Donald Trump: ‘I need the the kind of generals that Hitler had’ - YouTube - MSNBC - political science

with Nicolle Wallace,Representative Jim Himes (D-Connecticut),Miles Taylor-former Chief of Staff Department of Homeland Security,and former Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri)*Commentary:Trump also said that Hitler did some good things.

Artemis II Astronauts Get Hands On with Orion - YouTube - Lockheed Martin - Orion Program Update

Lockheed Martin Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (LMT)*The Artemis II mission is slated for a November 2025 launch on the Space Launch System Rocket,supported by the European Service Module.It will take humans farther from Earth than ever before.

'It is there': The path Trump could take to claim power if he loses - YouTube - MSNBC - political science

with Mika Brezezinski,Kyle Cheney-Senior Legal Affairs Correspondent for Politico,Margo Gay-Editorial Writer for The New York Times,and Rev.Al Sharpton*Commentary:It's chilling-another attempted coups.

Ave Air - You Want Dark Tunes (Royalty Free Music) - YouTube - Epidemic Sound - from the album Twin Solar Sunrise

Watch the R Aquarii binary star system evolve in Hubble imagery time-lapse - YouTube - Space.com - astrophysics

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the R Aquarri binary star system from 2014-2023.The images have been time-lapsed to show the evolution of the region.R Aquarri is a symbiotic star system in the constellation Aquarius.It is believed to be a coupling of a white dwarf star with a Mira-type variable star,a red giant.The orbital period is about 44 years.It has a distance of about 218 parsecs/711 light years,so is right next door.By its gravitational pull,the white dwarf draws in material from the red giant and sometimes ejects some of the surplus in loops to form the nebula seen in the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images.The red giant star both pulsates and changes temperature,causing a very large change in brightness.Its brightness has a total range of 750 times.The pulsations occur every 390 days,give or take some days.*Material by Space.com and edited and augmented by Andrew Taylor

'Why aren't people more alarmed?': As Trump becomes more extreme, Americans get used to it - YouTube - MSNBC - political science

with Ali Velshi sitting in for Alex Wagner,Ruth Ben-Ghiat,New York University Professor and expert on fascism,and Jason Stanley,Yale University Philosophy professor*Commentary:Trump is channeling the fascism of Hitler,Stalin and Mussolini.

Do Neutron Stars Shine In Dark Matter? - YouTube - PBS Space Time - new video - astrophysics

Neutron stars may produce the exotic Axion,a dark matter candidate.Axions can turn into the packets of light called photons.*Neutron stars have strong magnetic fields.Axions may or may not exist,but,if they do,neutron stars produce vast quantities of these dark matter particles and are cloaked in a cloud of them.*The neutron stars that are pulsars may be the source of the mysterious Fast Radio Bursts that puzzle astronomers.Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars that blast out pulses of radiation at regular intervals ranging from seconds to milliseconds.Pulsars have strong magnetic fields that funnel particles accelerating to relativistic speeds,which produces two powerful beams of light.*Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921,especially for his discovery of the photoelectric effect.Einstein's work on the photoelectric effect demonstrates that light consists of quanta,or packets of light,which we now call photons.This was a pivotal contribution to the development of quantum theory.*PBS Space Time is presented and written or co-written by Dr.Matt O'Dowd,an Australian astrophysicist.

Kamala Harris full speech at La Crosse, WI campaign event (Oct. 17, 2024) - YouTube - political science - University of Wisconsin La Crosse

Commentary:This was a great place to hold a rally as she is very popular with young people.

Euclid’s 208-Gigapixel glimpse into the Universe - YouTube - ESA - astrophysics/cosmology

The ESA Euclid spacecraft has released the first page of a large cosmic atlas it is photographing,amounting about 1% of the total.The ultimate purpose of the atlas and Euclid spacecraft is to explore the role of dark matter and dark energy in the universe.The first page of the atlas is a huge 208-gigapixel mosaic.The images were collected from 260 observations collected in just two weeks.It was released on 15 OCT 2024 at the International Aeronautical Congress in Milan,Italy by ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and Director of Science Carole Mundell.*Text by ESA and edited by Andrew Taylor*Cosmology is the study of the origin,evolution and structures of the universe.*Dark matter is about 27% of the universe,while dark energy is about 68% of the universe.

Ex-Trump official fears he would try to use military against US citizens - YouTube - CNN - political science

with Caitlyn Collins and CNN Political Commentator and former Trump Defense Secretary Mark Espers

SpaceX deploys NASA's Europa Clipper after launch, signal acquired! - YouTube - Space.com - astrobiology Part II

The Europa Clipper spacecraft was built by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.It is controlled by NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-California Institute of Technology.Europa Clipper called home and executed its roll program.

Blastoff! SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches Europa Clipper to Jupiter's ocean moon - YouTube - Space.com - astrobiology

The Europa Clipper spacecraft will ascertain whether Jupiter's moon Europa is habitable.

Did JWST Discover Dark Matter Stars? - YouTube - PBS Space Time - astrophysics/cosmology

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Teslescope may have discovered a new class of objects called dark stars,which are actually very bright,bright enough for the JWST to detect them at their enormous distances,having existed just 400,000,000 years after the Big Bang.* Rules for dark matter particles to create dark stars:1.Particle cannot interact strongly with itself 2.Must have weak self-interaction 3.Must be able to annihilate each other*The self-annihilation of dark matter particles is what makes dark stars so bright.*Dark stars may have given rise to the supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies.*Dr.Matt O'Dowd is an Australian astrophysicist who is the presenter and writer or co-writer of PBS Space Time.*Cosmology is the study of the origin,evolution and structures of the universe.

Trump has ‘running start’ to steal 2024 election, warns Chris Hayes - YouTube - MSNBC - political science

with Chris Hayes,Franita Tolson,Law Professor at the University of Southern California,and Ian Bassin,Co-founder and Executive Director of Protect Democracy

Io-like volcanic moon may have been discovered orbiting exoplanet WASP-4b - YouTube - Space.com - planetary science

Scientists believe they may have discovered a volcanic exomoon orbiting the exoplanet WASP-4b 635 light years from Earth (right next door).The discovery was made at the European Southern Observatory's 3.6 m/11.81 ft telescope at La Silla,Chile.A large cloud of sodium gas,typical of volcanic eruptions,was observed near the exoplanet.Although we lack the technology to observe exomoons directly,their existance can be ascertained by deduction.*Credits:NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-California Institute of Technology

'No evidence that this man thinks about anybody but himself': Obama roasts Trump at Harris rally - YouTube - MSNBC - political science

Commentary:Trump is a narcissist like Fidel Castro.Trump economics are dumb economics.While giving tax breaks to billionaires and driving up the deficit,his 20% tariffs are the equivalent of a national sales tax,costing the average household about 4,000 a year.He'll send inflation through the roof.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Shaking - YouTube - NASA Goddard - planetary science

Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot,a storm larger than Earth,has fascinated scientists for over 150 years.But thanks to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope,we're now seeing this legendary storm in a whole new light.Recent observations show that the Great Red Spot is wobbling and fluctuating in size.Captured in high resolution images over 90 days,Hubble's data reveals the storm speeding up,slowing down and changing shape-surprising even seasoned scientists.The team predicts that the storm will continue to shrink and eventually stabilize,but right now,it's still full of dynamic surprises.Credit:NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt,Maryland*Material by NASA Goddard and edited by Andrew Taylor

‘Stupid politics’: GOP strategist blasts Trump over FEMA false claims - YouTube - CNN - political science

with Anderson Cooper,former Trump White House aide Alyssa Farrah Griffin,Repubican strategist Doug Heye,and CNN National Correspondent Kristen Holmes*Commentary:Trump's a dumb bunny.His lies are harming Republicans.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS captured in amazing time-lapse from space - YouTube - Space.com - planetary science

Like all comets,Tsuchinshan-Atlas (c2023 a3) originated as a planetesimal in the Oort Cloud in the early years of the solar system.Some planetesimals coalesced to form planets,while others are dwarf planets or comets.The Oort cloud is a theoretical construct devised by the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort in 1950 as the origin of comets.It hasn't been directly observed for lack of adequate technology.It is a vast cloud of icy planetesimals surrounding the Sun at distances ranging from 2,000 to 200,000 astronomical units (0.03-3.3 light years) and is in interstellar space.Planetesimals formed the four terrestrial planets:Mercury,Venus,Earth and Mars.We don't yet know if Tsuchinsan-ATLAS will be visible to the naked eye.Credit:NASA Commander Matthew Dominick photographed the comet from the ISS.

What's behind the alliance between Donald Trump and Elon Musk? Reporter weighs in - YouTube - CNN - political science

with Anderson Cooper,Ryan Mack of The New York Times,author of "Character Limit:How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter,"and Philip Bump,National Columnist for The Washington Post*Commentary:Two fascists in a pod.

Justice and the Law:Another Trump supporter, caught up in election lies, is sent to prison - YouTube

with Alex Wagner and Joyce Vance,former U.S. Attorney and Professor of Law at the University of Alabama*Tina Peters,former County Clerk of Mesa,Colorado,was so convinced of Trump's big lie abot the 2020 election that she tried to prove that voting machines had been used to rig the election,and for this was convicted of felonies.Commentary:Another life ruined by Trump,who has yet to face accountability.

Hubble Spots Black Hole Beam Causing Stellar Eruptions - YouTube - NASA Goddard - astrophysics

In a surprise finding,the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that the jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of M 87,a huge spiral galaxy 54 million light years away,seems to cause stars to erupt along its trajectory.The stars,are called novae,are not caught inside the jet,but are in a dangerous spot near it.A nova explosion occurs when an aged,swollen normal star spills hydrogen onto a burned out white dwarf companion star.When the white dwarf has collected a big enough layer of hydrogen,it explodes into space.The white dwarf survives to resume the cycle.*Credit:NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,Maryland*Text by NASA Goddard and edited by Andrew Taylor

Harris campaigns with Liz Cheney - YouTube - The Washington Post - program begins at 44:54 - political science

Commentary:True conservatives support the Constitution of the United States.Trump is a fake conservative and an authoritarian leader of a cult of personality who attempted a coups on 6 January 2021.

🌎 LIVE Oumuamua Interstellar Object ☄️ NASA's Eyes - WorldCam

As of 2024,only two interstellar objects have been discovered:Oumuamua in 2017 and Comet 21/Borisov in 2019.Some say Oumuamua is an asteroid,while others say it is a comet.Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration suggests it is a chunk of a Pluto-like planet.Oumuamua is headed out of the Milky Way forever.In four years,it will pass Neptune's orbit on its way back to interstellar space.

Justice and the Law:Special counsel gives fullest picture yet of 2020 election case against Trump - YouTube - CNN

with Brianna Keilar,Boris Sanchez,Paula Reid,CNN Chief Legal Affairs Correspondent,and Katelyn Polanz,CNN Crime and Justice Reporter With his co-conspirators,Trump launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results.Trump was aware he lost the election,but said the facts don't matter and actively participated in the fake electors scheme.Trump used deceit to target every stage of the electoral process and resorted to crimes to stay in office,according to the evidentiary filing.

🌎 Incredible NASA's Curiosity Rover Roams Mars with Martian Sounds - YouTube - planetary science - WorldCam

New exoplanet discovered orbiting closest single star to our Sun -YouTube - ESO - planetary science

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT),astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting the closest single star to our Sun,Barnard's star,a red dwarf variable star,at about 6 light years from Earth.The exoplanet,which has a mass at least half that of Venus,has a surface temperature of 125 C/257 F,which is too hot to sustain liquid water.It was discovered by the gravitational pull it has on Barnard's star.*The VLT is part of the Paranal Observatory on Cerro Paranal,Mt.Paranal,with an altitude of 2635 m/8645 ft.It is in the Atatcama Desert of Northern Chile.The VLT is capable of both visible and infrared observation.The VLT consists of four individual telescopes,each with a primary mirror of 8.2 m/26.9 ft in diameter.They are generally operated separately,but can also be combined.*Barnard's star has the designation V2500 Ophiuchi.It is named for the American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard,who measured its motion in 1916.Barnard's star is not visible to the naked eye.At 7-12 billion years of age,it may be one of the most ancient stars in the Milky Way.Note:Alpha Centauri is a star system,not an individual star.*Material by ESO and edited and augmented by Andrew Taylor