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In this month’s Night Sky News episode we’re chatting about how to spot Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF, the plan to collect Perseverance’s rock samples off the surface of Mars, the threat of light pollution to astronomical observatories, and of course two new JWST discoveries of distant galaxies!

See an up-to-date position for Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) for your location: https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.ph...
Check the timings for the Mars-Moon occultation for your location: https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20...

Read all the press releases from the American Astronomical Society meeting (scroll down this page to find them): https://aas.org/meetings/aas241/press...

Falchi et al. (2023; light pollution affecting major observatories) - https://academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
Rhoads et al. (2022; “green peas” found with JWST) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.13020.pdf
Guo et al. (2023; barred galaxies at high redshift with JWST) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.08658.pdf
Simmons et al. (2014; bar fraction with Hubble) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.1214.pdf
Smethurst et al. (2019; my research using the Lick observatory) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.01355.pdf
Smethurst et al. (2021; my research on merger-free growth of black holes) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.05361.pdf

JWST observing schedules: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-ex...
JWST data archive (with public access!): https://mast.stsci.edu/portal/Mashup/...
Twitter bot for JWST current observations:   / jwstobservation  

00:00 Intro
00:54 Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF (how to spot and why it's green)
07:12 Mars/Moon Occultation
08:19 Venus + Neptune Conjunction
09:08 Jupiter + Venus + Toenail Moon!
09:37 CuriosityStream
10:50 Space News
10:54 AAS Meeting
11:51 Insight's Dusty Death
14:36 - Perseverance has dropped rock samples on Mars
18:03 Observatories and Light Pollution
26:36 Barred galaxies seen by JWST
32:43 "Green Peas" in the early universe!
37:44 Outro
38:06 Bloopers

Video edited by Jonny Hyman:    / @thehumanverse  

Video filmed on a Nikon D5300

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👩🏽‍💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.


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