If you’re struggling, consider therapy with BetterHelp #ad. Click https://betterhelp.com/drbecky for a 10% discount on your first month of therapy with a credentialed professional specific to your needs. In this month’s Night Sky News we’re chatting about the Chandrayaan-3 mission to the South Pole of the Moon, evidence of wet-dry cycle of water on early Mars which gives the right conditions to form the molecules for life, and the latest evidence for JWST which has added fire to the “crisis in cosmology” (aka the Hubble Tension). Plus what you should look out for in the night sky in the next month.

My previous videos on the “crisis in cosmology”:
   • JWST just made the "Crisis in Cosmolo...  
   • How we plan to solve the "Crisis in C...  
   • The current crisis in Cosmology - it ...  

Rapin et al. (2023; wet-dry cycles on Mars BEHIND PAYWALL) - https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
Byrne et al. (2009; impacts expose sub-surface ice on Mars) - https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~shane/pu...
Goehring (2013; wet-dry cycles and mud cracks recreated in the lab) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.6762.pdf
JWST proposal 1726 to observe SN1987A - https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-pub...
Arendt et al. (2019; Spitzer observations of SN1987A) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.12207.pdf
Reiss et al. (2023; JWST and the crisis in cosmology) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.15806.pdf
Yuan et al. (2022; JWST first look at cepheids) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.09101.pdf
JWST proposal 1995 to tackle the Hubble tension - https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-pub...

00:00 Intro
00:55 15th September - New Moon + Milky Way!
01:46 16th September - Toenail Moon + Mars!
02:06 19th September - Neptune opposition!
02:52 How to spot Jupiter + Saturn into October!
03:58 Early Oct. Venus + Toenail Moon
04:35 BetterHelp Partnership
06:31 Chandrayaan-3 & Luna 25
12:07 Water cycles on early Mars!
18:15 JWST images Supernova 1987A
20:23 JWST deepens the "Crisis in Cosmology"
27:30 Conclusion
28:08 Bloopers


Video edited by Jonny Hyman:    / @thehumanverse  

Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV

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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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