There was so much time between times 2 and 3, along with a switch to using "the star", that I was really hoping they were gonna make the joke. But oh well.
Hank: It doesn’t have anything to do with the energy beings that control our universe! Everyone else: Who said anything about energy beings? Hank: *sweats nervously*
Dammit. I just made pretty much the same comment about star farts, scrolled down and saw yours, and realized I was beaten. I concede your victory and have deleted my own. Kudos to you.
Also in the movie "Contact." My wife and son and I had the good fortune of meeting Angel Vazquez (WP3R) and getting a grand tour of the facility. Even got to go down under the giant dish and stare up at the transmitter antenna system.
Hubble would’ve already been de-orbited if it wasn’t for public support. And that led to the final repair mission reinstated after having been canceled. Fix Arecibo!!
The follow up for Hubble isn't making progress either (forgot name), isn't it time to delay the launch again soon though? Until then they better keep Hubble working!
I’m very sorry about what happened in Arecibo but am grateful that it seems like no one got hurt. Here’s hoping the place gets fully up and running, again, soon!
True, who knows when that day might come. Btw your collab with Isaac Arthur and your interview by John Godier in Event Horizon were really interesting. Keep it up!
Public Notification for anyone around Sol: If you pick up radio interference, it is from those primitives on the third rock from Sol. Please do not try to contact them to make them stop, this in our simulations will just motivate them to send ven more air wave pollution, ignoring seems to be the best policy in it. We are progressing nicely with our filter for them, until then just ignore it as good as you are able -Interstellair air wave management
What's weird is that there is a multiplayer map in Battlefield 4 very similar to Arecibo called "Rogue Transmission", the dish in it even has a giant hole just like that. Battlefield 4 is a 2013 video game set during WW3 between Russian, US, and China in... 2020. It also features a map related to a viral outbreak, called "Operation Outbreak".
5:23 regarding Arecibo, "Keep your fingers crossed for a speedy recovery" 2021 Announcer: "Arecibo did not, in fact, have a speedy recovery." RIP Arecibo
Right, our scientists are too arrogant to say they don't know. They enjoy making up answers about the unknown. I love when scientists use primitive technology to search for technically advance civilization that could be thousands of years ahead of us. Then when the aliens don't respond, then we are alone in the universe.
because we are sad and insignificant specks in a desolate galaxy, living on a rare jewel of a planet created by incredibly specific conditions but yes I too would like some hope that there is something else out there if only to hope that they might save us from ourselves c':
Hank: Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Beetlejuice: Oops, I forgot. I was busy watching the video.
What I read is that Arecibo can still be used even with partial panels missing, just not as effectively, but what's more is the cable actually struck the instruments hanging over top and even took out a section of catwalk to get to it. As for why the cable failed, my dad worked for GM and his job was analyzing things (like failure) and how you can have a car with all parts in spec, but because those parts might be in spec on one side of the spectrum or the other, you can actually have a catastrophic failure, even in a new car. These things can happen, even if you have everything perfect.
@keith moore I guess that you have never heard of Non-Destructive Testing before (NDT). Just because there were failures in the past, it doesn't mean that science hasn't kept up.
Actually seeing Arecibo is a sight every astronomer should hope to see one day. It's amazing and I hope they can repair and maybe upgrade to keep it going! It's done so much and still has a lot of potential for even more discoveries.
PaleGhost69 i was gonna say that but it’s too long ago. I’d put it next to the museum that burned down in South America(?) a few years back. That might actually beat the cathedral.
PaleGhost69 aaa the museum was such a loss tho. Notre dame was a loss to art history, and the museum was a lost to history in general. The library will always hurt
hooo! that artist's impression was just - O-M-G- phenominal. Such a graceful dust cloud surrounding that stunning image of betelgeuse. That artist best not quit their dayjob.
Love it when we get the latest updates! 🙌. Rather then re-explaining you guys should replay parts of your previous videos in black and white and with an echo-y sound effect - A literal flashback to your actual video explaining the science up to that point.
What are you doing here Gavin? Still watching ytube video's about farting stars. Go and find your friend, he is getting anxious in his search for you, screaming your name all over the place.
@@waltp3373 Hey,Walt,I was born in 1952 on Easter. April 13th. Next time Easter falls on April 13th is in the year 2071. I fit into that minuscule minority - don't I.???
OMG , yes I too am that old 🤠, a Saturday morning on a black & white tv , this little boy had BIG dreams , wow such innocent times , Thanks for the Memory Take Care . R .
@@paoloviti6156 Not quite yet, it's gonna take a bit longer to repair the whole thing. I think I read that they're planning on getting it back online by 2021.
Poor Arecibo, it's done such amazing work over the decades. As I kid loving astronomy in the 70s that was one of my favorites to admire. Maybe there will be enough interest into saving it that they can update it with the latest technology? I'm being optimistic but it's good to have dreams.
Everyone else went Goldeneye 007, and you went Contact. In the hierarchy of nerds, where everyone else sits in the natural earthen sinkhole, you sit lofty atop the radio telescope.
As soon as the picture came up I thought, "huh, dust cloud?" Now I feel smart 😁 I'm going to avoid all physics videos for the rest of the day so I can continue to do so 😂
I would say they are right in saying there is nothing similar, although visually they may look alike the capabilities of each have big differences. Plus Arecibo's can do radio astronomy and only 2 facilities can in the world and nope FAST isn't one of them.
"The night sky may look like it never changes, but If you look close enough, there's always something happening out there". Dude, half of all the things that happen in the universe are there if you look closely to the night sky. The other half is just behind.
I'm a space nerd now and would love to visit it.... Again. I visited the observatory back in 2003 and really didn't appreciate it. My brother and I kept saying lines from the movie throughout the visit lol.
How awful about Arecibo :( That was the first radio telescope I ever learned about, one of the first things in astronomy I ever went out and looked up information on, by myself Granted it was because of the movie Contact but look it was still a big deal to me I certainly hope that the damage can be repaired asap and that it receives the funding it ought to have surely that telescope is more valuable to humanity than a celebrity athlete....?
It's not that special, your mum once farted. And there you where... Little Chrissie, so full of life, so many new things learn, so many farting stars to gaze at.
While repairing Arecibo they could upgrade it in the same run. Basically whatever they can do to improve it while they have to replace a major part of the dish anyway.
I think Betelgeuse ate a gas giant sometime back and now it's just gassy. It's just big because it's bloated. Also I think the one we should be watching to go supernova is Sirius B. It's almost twice the size of all the other white dwarfs we've found and it's 8 to 9 light years away.
"The star dimmed by a factor of three." Does that mean it was 1/3 as bright, 1/10³ as bright, or ...? I expect my science reports to be free of ambiguity.
I welcome you, believer in love! It seems I have indeed looked at a wrong translation for his name. How very sloth full of me and the translator. Please forgive us the sloth that has led us to this mistake. (Idk what I’m doing. it’s 4AM. don’t judge)
@@fish3977 pretty sure it's supposed to be with a B and they translated with a P because japanese can't pronounce B that well. same as the L/R situation.
So funny this video popped up today. Just this morning, I was headed to work, looking up at the Orion constellation, wondering what was up with Betelgeuse.
That Cable failing thing is exactly what happened to the in game version of the dish. In battlefield 4, you can put C4 on the cables and blow them up, the results? Yea, the dish is kaput ;p
Betelgeuse is dimming again this month of August, but not to the same extent as back in January. Interesting hypothesis that you presented for the dust cloud blocking the light.
Fear not, the distance is not precisely known, and estimates have varied widely throughout the last 100 years, with several revisions in the last 20 years. So it depends on which study/source Google decides to display first for a given query text (or other factors)
shoved to the right? Dude just scroll down on the results. Different sources cite different numbers. The reason is interesting. For distant objects we can get pretty good estimates (though still not that precise) with how much their light is red shifted, since everything in the distant universe is moving away from us. But for closer stars, that doesn’t work and we basically use binocular vision like our eyes. We take a picture of the sky and then compare to a picture 6 months later. The more a star shifts, the closer it is. However, the stars are so far away, the shifts are basically non-existent except for very precise images. There are also a ton of other factors which can cause error on that measurement that they have to factor in. This is why there is disagreement. Science is always throwing out old knowledge and replacing with new, but this is happening too fast for lay people and Google to keep up.
I find it interesting that you post this video today when just a few days ago it began dimming again and once again, they are not sure why (specifically saying it may not be dust after all)
Conspiracy theorists: "So, this proves that an advanced alien species, regretting have ever made contact with humans, travel to their past to sabotage the scientific station where humans first learned about their existence."
"Our neighboring star"? Proxima Centuri at 4.25 light years and Alpha Centuri A&B at 4.35 are our neighbours. In fact Betelgeuse isn't even in the top 100 closest neighbours.
Yup. And the explanation for the dimming is a hypothesis not all astronomers agree on. Dr. Becky has recently made a video explaining the issues at some length. Videos made by actual scientists give generally better info than videos made by science “communicators” that run their channel as a business.
@@pansepot1490 You're right, although at least Hank et. al. actually _try_ to represent things accurately because they also love science. (also, aren't some of the presenters on here actually doing scientific work? Aren't they based out of the college in Missoula?)
Can I mention my intense joy at the fact that I learned this (Betelgeuse) from a public television news show for kids 5-12 a couple of days ago. I like my country.
Title: "Mystery SOLVED: We finally KNOW Why Betelgeuse Suddenly Faded" Video: "Now, thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope we finally have an IDEA of what MIGHT have happened." Very scientific. So respectable. Wow.
Yeah the current competing theories are dust and a sunspot that obscures most of the southern hemisphere. What's interesting is that I got a notice from the Telegram and the AAVSO that Betelgeuse appears to be dimming again.
@@StormsandSaugeye I was going to comment about that, too, but I didn't know enough that I felt confident in talking about it. xD But yeah, I had heard about the potential re-dimming, too.
@@Alexrider02 I *JUST* made a more in depth comment on the video. But I have it right here: Here's some basics on the newest round of dimming: scitechdaily.com/nasa-stereo-spacecrafts-lone-view-of-betelgeuse-reveals-more-strange-behavior-is-supernova-imminent/ Here's a great paper on the sub millimeter dimming and starspot theory: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab9ca6 Astronomers telegram on the event: www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=13901 And the dataset: www.aavso.org/LCGv2/
@@StormsandSaugeye Wow! Thanks! I follow Anton Petrov here on TH-cam, which is where I heard of both the original round of dimming and this new round. I'm so fascinated to see what happens next, be it more dust burps or something else.
@@Alexrider02 I stumbled across an interesting paper once which put forth the theory that as time goes on, Betelgeuse will continue to lose mass. arxiv.org/abs/1308.4681 I like checking in on anton petrov on occasion because while I have a subscription to the astronomers telegraph (Available for astronomy people in the professional sector) and am a member of the AAVSO and the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers along with a few others, I do occasionally miss interesting events and sometimes he provides some good breakdown and links to research I might not have seen.
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Glad to know that our current observations can confirm that Betelgeuse is still safe in 1377
Nice comment 👍🏻
Was.. it might have already went
"Just wait for the light"
we are merely looking at photographs from the past..
And because Betelgeuse is 642.5 light years away, this event actually occurred somewhere around 1377-1378. That's trippy
That is super trippy lol
That's far out.
Scientists say a Magnetar's gamma ray burst 3.2 BILLION LIGHTYEARS away shut down the North American power grid in 2012. That blew my mind also.
@@dr.ofdubiouswisdom4189 Happened in 1859 ,also. Wrecked, telegraphs.
Imagine now.. It's probably not even there any more
Everyone: "Oh boy, oh boy, it could be a supernova!"
Betelgeuse: *rips the galaxy's biggest fart*
So that's what a nebula is.
LoL ok that made me chuckle
Betelgeuse : "Hold my broccoli"
Or you could say it was passing gas?
Smelled like dark matter
“Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be a star-shattering kaboom!”
DBZA?
Drendex DBZA referenced a line from a Looney Tunes character (the Martian, I think was his name) when he tried to blow up Earth or something.
Marvin! Me and my coworker love doing his impression.
Tyler Slagel oooh I see my apologies
Marvin martian
He said Beetlejuice exactly 7 times. You're playing a dangerous game my friend
There was so much time between times 2 and 3, along with a switch to using "the star", that I was really hoping they were gonna make the joke. But oh well.
@@jefferyrockey5353 same. Lol. Zoomers...
Soulife same lol boomers
Jeffery Rockey me too 😂
Also, For the curse to go into effect, it must be said three times unbroken
That's exactly what a universe-controlling energy being that had a glitch would say
100th
I had a stroke reading this
*WHO TOLD YOU!?*
@@samweber3205 No one cares
Hank: It doesn’t have anything to do with the energy beings that control our universe!
Everyone else: Who said anything about energy beings?
Hank: *sweats nervously*
TL;DR Betelgeuse farted and an incredibly important radio dish done broke itself.
Great summary. XD
10/10 would like again.
Dat dere rayder done gone n brooked!
And Betelgeuse just did a follow through as it dips again.
My brain trembles
Dammit. I just made pretty much the same comment about star farts, scrolled down and saw yours, and realized I was beaten. I concede your victory and have deleted my own. Kudos to you.
TV Weatherman: "Elsewhere in our galaxy, Betelgeuse will be partly cloudy for the next several months."
The Arecibo observatory is one of the greatest places on earth.
Arecibo matters.
Fix Arecibo.
2020: "Let's just get rid of that telescope that would have seen the asteroid coming. No reason, no reason."
Yep.
You mean the president?
Aricebo was a backdrop for a James Bond film as well, even tho in the movie, they were in Cuba
Golden Eye. One of the best Bond flicks.
Also in the movie "Contact." My wife and son and I had the good fortune of meeting Angel Vazquez (WP3R) and getting a grand tour of the facility. Even got to go down under the giant dish and stare up at the transmitter antenna system.
Someones got to kill the babysitter!
It's so far away the fact we can speculate about it is awesome.
Hubble would’ve already been de-orbited if it wasn’t for public support. And that led to the final repair mission reinstated after having been canceled.
Fix Arecibo!!
The follow up for Hubble isn't making progress either (forgot name), isn't it time to delay the launch again soon though? Until then they better keep Hubble working!
NegativeZero James Webb Telescope
@@joermnyc Also, JWT will be more concentrated in the IR part of the EM spectrum. Its mission/purpose differs a bit from HST's.
Fred
We didn't say his name three times spoken unbroken.
You know better!
So basically, she farted, and everyone in the general vicinity had to smell it for a few months
It smelled like a black hole
Or a really tight wormhole meteor entering the ring of uranus
stars are they not she or he
@@lionobama1397 oh that's right Betelgeuse is a non binary star system lmfao
I’m very sorry about what happened in Arecibo but am grateful that it seems like no one got hurt. Here’s hoping the place gets fully up and running, again, soon!
It's never aliens until..
one morning someone wakes you up in a hurry to show you the breaking news.
True, who knows when that day might come. Btw your collab with Isaac Arthur and your interview by John Godier in Event Horizon were really interesting. Keep it up!
plot twist, the alien is the one who wakes you up and the breaking news is about Trump ordering a hit on Kim Jong Il
Public Notification for anyone around Sol:
If you pick up radio interference, it is from those primitives on the third rock from Sol. Please do not try to contact them to make them stop, this in our simulations will just motivate them to send ven more air wave pollution, ignoring seems to be the best policy in it. We are progressing nicely with our filter for them, until then just ignore it as good as you are able
-Interstellair air wave management
Next month: BREAKING NEWS!! Aliens invade earth!!
Like the last time when someone woke us the showed us the breaking news. But no aliens, sorry.
Friend: Betelgeuse is getting dimmer. I wonder if it's aliens.
Me: Probably just dust.
Friend: Yes but, ali--
Me: IT'S NEVER ALIENS!
Which is why every official says "We're not saying it's aliens..."
Us aliens are already here stealing your wifi so it's fine.
Maybe it never is aliens but for sure there are aliens -- we are arrogant to think that in an infinite universe there is only us.
@@parkersnowe There could be LOTS of alien activity, but we cannot recognize it because it is part of our normal world.
Arecibo is having. a 2020 like year with the rest of us
@TheCyberShark you're mixing up Betelgeuse star and the Arecibo observatory
What's weird is that there is a multiplayer map in Battlefield 4 very similar to Arecibo called "Rogue Transmission", the dish in it even has a giant hole just like that. Battlefield 4 is a 2013 video game set during WW3 between Russian, US, and China in... 2020. It also features a map related to a viral outbreak, called "Operation Outbreak".
@@WarpScanner Thank you wikipedia very cool
@@skena76 I just thought it was an interesting set of coincidences. No need to get meanspiritedly sarcastic.
@@WarpScanner Yeah I was kinda rude sorry about that.
Never thought I'd hear of a sink hole being used as a support. Sounds like an oxymoron.
oxymoron is Spanish for sink hole.
I"m more intrigued that he found a giraffe shirt or that someone already made a giraffe shirt
Macy's, Kohl's and a bunch of other stores have men's versions.
Camelopardalis. It's a north circumpolar constellation. Although it nothing directly to do with anything in this episode.
Fred
His mom turned his PJs into a shirt.
Nice info. Thanks
@@michaelriehl7206 It does kinda look like re-purposed PJs, doesn't it?
Fred
5:23 regarding Arecibo, "Keep your fingers crossed for a speedy recovery"
2021 Announcer: "Arecibo did not, in fact, have a speedy recovery."
RIP Arecibo
its always space dust, why can't it be aliens for once
Right, our scientists are too arrogant to say they don't know. They enjoy making up answers about the unknown. I love when scientists use primitive technology to search for technically advance civilization that could be thousands of years ahead of us. Then when the aliens don't respond, then we are alone in the universe.
because we are sad and insignificant specks in a desolate galaxy, living on a rare jewel of a planet created by incredibly specific conditions
but yes I too would like some hope that there is something else out there if only to hope that they might save us from ourselves c':
It's freezed dried aliens ,and their pocket change.
@@JS-tt7xp 40 years of silence , we are prolly alone
No.
NO.
Have you SEEN 2020? Do NOT call down aliens on us, this is NOT our year!
Hank: Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse
Beetlejuice: Oops, I forgot. I was busy watching the video.
Haha
The sixth time he went away. Just one more......Betelgeuse!
Boooooooooooo 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It was a damn good try though. Michael Keaton would be proud
i mean. hank didn’t say it three times _consecutively._
I mean, he said "Betelgeuse," not "Beetlejuice," so....
The Arecibo cable snapped because we were trying to get the snipers out of the middle part of the map
I was looking for that Battlefield reference haha, shame it was irl tho. Big loss
@@Kenijamaru I thought it was a Goldeneye 007 reference. :(
The final showdown with Trevlan happens there plus it is a multiplayer map.
@@emmettturner9452 that's true too
@@emmettturner9452 Friendly reminder you're old. Sorry, habit. My wife is turning 30 in a week and I've been poking her
@@PaleGhost69 Hence, the frowny-face emoticon.
...and my use of an emoticon instead of an emoji. ;)
What I read is that Arecibo can still be used even with partial panels missing, just not as effectively, but what's more is the cable actually struck the instruments hanging over top and even took out a section of catwalk to get to it. As for why the cable failed, my dad worked for GM and his job was analyzing things (like failure) and how you can have a car with all parts in spec, but because those parts might be in spec on one side of the spectrum or the other, you can actually have a catastrophic failure, even in a new car. These things can happen, even if you have everything perfect.
Me: Comes to comments for Goldeneye references.
Comments: Beetlejuice! (Man that’s old) Battlefield 4! (Man I’m old).
Its an exclusive kind of pain
I’m sad about Arecibo, but at least we can grimly joke about it a bit...
“For England, James?”
“No. For me.”
Ah I see, you are a man of culture as well.
Yesss
I blame Oddjob!
@@Secret_Takodachi Jaws
I live near the telescope
it breaks my heart, wish I could have visited it more 😥😥😥
I wish you could fix it.
Let's see now, the cost for repair of Arecibo is way more than the cost of regular inspections and maintenance. Who could have seen that coming?
Repairs cost more than upkeep? What kind of crazy world do we live in?
Meeeeee! [jumping up and down, waving frantically] Me me me ME me *me me ME ME ME!!!*
I could have seen that coming.
@@stevejordan7275 Good one! You made me smile. Thanks.
@keith moore One of us is a maintenance engineer and the other doesn't have a clue about preventative maintenance.
@keith moore I guess that you have never heard of Non-Destructive Testing before (NDT). Just because there were failures in the past, it doesn't mean that science hasn't kept up.
Actually seeing Arecibo is a sight every astronomer should hope to see one day. It's amazing and I hope they can repair and maybe upgrade to keep it going! It's done so much and still has a lot of potential for even more discoveries.
:(
The last time I was this sad about the loss of a great structure was the cathedral of Notre dame
Eh, I'd put it closer to Library of Alexandria
PaleGhost69 i was gonna say that but it’s too long ago. I’d put it next to the museum that burned down in South America(?) a few years back. That might actually beat the cathedral.
@@rainbowbutterflyfanI wasn't too concerned with those. The library still hurts so it's more relevant to me.
PaleGhost69 aaa the museum was such a loss tho. Notre dame was a loss to art history, and the museum was a lost to history in general. The library will always hurt
Science, religion, art, scholarship: all have honored sites, built for the good of all.
The scientists on Betelgeuse are truly diligent, my brain trembles
Ah, I see you're a man of Coulter as well.
Looked for it, found it, have a like.
And my fingers hurt IMMENSELY
hooo! that artist's impression was just - O-M-G- phenominal. Such a graceful dust cloud surrounding that stunning image of betelgeuse. That artist best not quit their dayjob.
Aricebo was, I thought, a major player in our link to the Voyager probes also. The fix - won't be cheap or quick.
So, did aliens break it with their clever weather manipulation?
no, Voyagers communicate with the deep space network, not arecibo.
*Reads the title:* It's ALIENSS!!!!
*Sci Show:* It's a cloud of dust
*Me:* -.-
Cloud of dust made by aliens
We humans just wanted Betelgeuse to explode spectacularly, but we were very disappointed.
3:54 That's the Cradle from Golden Eye!
scrolled for this. surprised its not higher
Sooo... ...Betelgeuse sharted.... ...in our general direction...
Well, at least it didn't fire arrows into the tops of our heads or make castanets out of our testacles. YET.
That sounds like something Betelgeuse would do, doesn't it?
Did it call our mother a hampster?
The aliens who just destroyed the telescope watching: 👄👁👄
hmmm
👁️👄👁️
🏃🏿♀️🏃🏿♂️☠👽
LMAOOOO
👁👁👁
Love it when we get the latest updates! 🙌. Rather then re-explaining you guys should replay parts of your previous videos in black and white and with an echo-y sound effect - A literal flashback to your actual video explaining the science up to that point.
1:01 Great, now you've summoned him. Get ready for some wacky 80's hijinks!
I love the unbiased approach of SciShow. It is my go to for legitimate science information.
So, basically Betlequese just farted essentially...
What are you doing here Gavin? Still watching ytube video's about farting stars. Go and find your friend, he is getting anxious in his search for you, screaming your name all over the place.
A cloud of dust, and a hearty "High ho Silver !" For anyone old enough to have watched The Lone Ranger, on TV.
8 people out of 205K are that old. Talk about a minuscule minority.
@@waltp3373 Hey,Walt,I was born in 1952 on Easter. April 13th. Next time Easter falls on April 13th is in the year 2071. I fit into that minuscule minority - don't I.???
OMG , yes I too am that old 🤠, a Saturday morning on a black & white tv , this little boy had BIG dreams , wow such innocent times ,
Thanks for the Memory
Take Care . R .
I used to watch it whilst ridding a horse (suspended from springs at the corners) and wearing my trusty six-shooter cap gun
@@waltp3373 -Seems that some of the minuscule minority, seek out new knowledge on channels such as this.
The cable that snapped must have been damaged when James Bond was fighting
Or the russians are planning on sending aliens to take us out
So that is why I recognised this place because of James Bond! A dumb question, has it been repaired?
@@paoloviti6156 Not quite yet, it's gonna take a bit longer to repair the whole thing. I think I read that they're planning on getting it back online by 2021.
@@Kafen8d thanks for the info 👍👍👍
I'm delighted to see this comment, and dismayed to see it buried this far... Seems like Golden Eye is slowly fading into obscurity.
Poor Arecibo, it's done such amazing work over the decades. As I kid loving astronomy in the 70s that was one of my favorites to admire. Maybe there will be enough interest into saving it that they can update it with the latest technology? I'm being optimistic but it's good to have dreams.
"We finally have an idea of what might have happened". Then the title says "Mystery Solved" 😆
love the videos! pls keep them up!
How am I supposed to contact my dead father and meet him in a beach, now?
Everyone else went Goldeneye 007, and you went Contact.
In the hierarchy of nerds, where everyone else sits in the natural earthen sinkhole, you sit lofty atop the radio telescope.
Small moves, @Junos88, small moves.
But, she was actually working out of the Very Large Array in New Mexico when she heard the signal.
@Tohur right, but she worked at this radio telescope at the beginning of the film, until her funding was cut.
Looking forward to seeing it again this fall.
As soon as the picture came up I thought, "huh, dust cloud?"
Now I feel smart 😁
I'm going to avoid all physics videos for the rest of the day so I can continue to do so 😂
Me too. Takin' the A-train to Gloatsville. LoL
Neat video! Thanks for uploading!
"And there is no other radio telescope like it"
FAST: Am I a joke to you?
American show. When they say 'the world' they really mean in the US. The rest of the world is a howling waste filled with ghosts.
@@Micklemoose Isn't it?
@@Micklemoose It kind of is though...
I would say they are right in saying there is nothing similar, although visually they may look alike the capabilities of each have big differences. Plus Arecibo's can do radio astronomy and only 2 facilities can in the world and nope FAST isn't one of them.
Didn’t China just build a bigger radio telescope?
Thanks for the vid. Always great.
3:29 I feel like this happens in Battle Field 4
Betelgeuse *coughs star-dust*
Scientists: "You good?"
"The night sky may look like it never changes, but If you look close enough, there's always something happening out there". Dude, half of all the things that happen in the universe are there if you look closely to the night sky. The other half is just behind.
Betelgeuse suddenly faded because he realized how slothful he really is, hiding behind a cloud of dust.
Was looking for a comment like this lol
Nice comment... hope they don‘t find out he has invisible hands too
"For England, James?"
"No. For me."
I'm a space nerd now and would love to visit it.... Again. I visited the observatory back in 2003 and really didn't appreciate it. My brother and I kept saying lines from the movie throughout the visit lol.
@@Antoine7881 Do you enjoy a good squeeze as well?
@@masterimbecile from Xena? Any day of the week.
@@Antoine7881 Nyet! Xenia Onatopp!
I am inwinsable!
How awful about Arecibo :(
That was the first radio telescope I ever learned about, one of the first things in astronomy I ever went out and looked up information on, by myself
Granted it was because of the movie Contact but look it was still a big deal to me
I certainly hope that the damage can be repaired asap
and that it receives the funding it ought to have
surely that telescope is more valuable to humanity than a celebrity athlete....?
"Was betelgeuse about to explode?"
"Nope, it just farted."
It's not that special, your mum once farted. And there you where... Little Chrissie, so full of life, so many new things learn, so many farting stars to gaze at.
What
Frickin' amazing what we can do nowadays with instrumentation- big improvements since I was a wee grasshopper
Betelgeuse , Betelgeuse, BETELGEUSE!
Oh wait, it's not dead, yet.
It may have already died we wont know for decades.
That cable could have been stressed from the hurricanes that went through and it never got detected it was developing a weak spot.
Meanwhile: 2020 could have a supernova on the list of things to keep you up at night.
When you think something serious happened so you go in closer to inspect, and after a moment you realise Betelgeuse just farted. Lol.
Well, it was a Fart of cosmic proportion.
Worth it.
I thought someone just said it's name 6 times...
8*
@@PaleGhost69 well that ghost keep coming and going. One more time and I'll be back
Fun fact: Beetlejuice's name is Betelgeuse.
@@michaelbuckers Yeah I'm pretty sure everyone here knew that. Doesn't mean it isn't fun to play with the names' phonic similarities.
While repairing Arecibo they could upgrade it in the same run. Basically whatever they can do to improve it while they have to replace a major part of the dish anyway.
Mystery Solved = We finally have an IDEA (pause) of what MIGHT have happened.
Well, that's scientific and truthful.
Judging by some photos, it looks more like the ancorpoint failed; rather than the cable.
I think Betelgeuse ate a gas giant sometime back and now it's just gassy. It's just big because it's bloated.
Also I think the one we should be watching to go supernova is Sirius B. It's almost twice the size of all the other white dwarfs we've found and it's 8 to 9 light years away.
Love that they mentioned the Aricebo message
Nothing about the Chilbolton reply though?
"The star dimmed by a factor of three." Does that mean it was 1/3 as bright, 1/10³ as bright, or ...? I expect my science reports to be free of ambiguity.
It means it was 1/3 as bright. If it had become 1/10³ as bright, he should have said "the star dimmed by three orders of magnitude."
@@tiagorodrigues3730 Then why not just say one third as bright?
Clarity!
Factor is different from orders of magnitude
@@sdspivey He might have, but that is a question of style. There is no ambiguity in saying "dimmed by a factor of three."
@@tiagorodrigues3730 Obviously if I didn't understand it, then there was ambiguity.
so... the whole world was watching in fascination as a star essentially farted.
FANTASTIC!!
Exact thought I had too. 😄
Betelgeuse’s brain was just trembling guys, nothing special.
the trembly one is spelled with p
I welcome you, believer in love! It seems I have indeed looked at a wrong translation for his name.
How very sloth full of me and the translator.
Please forgive us the sloth that has led us to this mistake.
(Idk what I’m doing. it’s 4AM. don’t judge)
@@fish3977 its still the same. Its only p due to the way western words are pronounced in japan
@@fish3977 pretty sure it's supposed to be with a B and they translated with a P because japanese can't pronounce B that well. same as the L/R situation.
@@GraveUypo nope, it is translated with P for apparently incoming plot reasons
Anyone else get reminded of the battlefield 4 map ‘Rogue Transmission’? The location and destruction of that exact dome!
Or the fact it was in the James Bond movie/game Goldeneye
News from last week: Betelgeuse is getting dimmer again.
cmon just blow up already
Aliens are playing with the dimmer switch.
So funny this video popped up today. Just this morning, I was headed to work, looking up at the Orion constellation, wondering what was up with Betelgeuse.
That Cable failing thing is exactly what happened to the in game version of the dish. In battlefield 4, you can put C4 on the cables and blow them up, the results? Yea, the dish is kaput ;p
Why is that a mission in the game?
Betelgeuse is dimming again this month of August, but not to the same extent as back in January. Interesting hypothesis that you presented for the dust cloud blocking the light.
This actually happened almost 643 years ago. Your kinda late to the show.
shoved to the right? 430 years is wrong too the link you pasted says 600 years😂
shoved to the right? Bro swear to god it said 643 when I looked it up
The top comment was the first comment to post the distance to Betelgeuse, so I have no idea what you all are arguing about. lol
Fear not, the distance is not precisely known, and estimates have varied widely throughout the last 100 years, with several revisions in the last 20 years.
So it depends on which study/source Google decides to display first for a given query text (or other factors)
shoved to the right? Dude just scroll down on the results. Different sources cite different numbers.
The reason is interesting. For distant objects we can get pretty good estimates (though still not that precise) with how much their light is red shifted, since everything in the distant universe is moving away from us.
But for closer stars, that doesn’t work and we basically use binocular vision like our eyes. We take a picture of the sky and then compare to a picture 6 months later. The more a star shifts, the closer it is. However, the stars are so far away, the shifts are basically non-existent except for very precise images. There are also a ton of other factors which can cause error on that measurement that they have to factor in. This is why there is disagreement. Science is always throwing out old knowledge and replacing with new, but this is happening too fast for lay people and Google to keep up.
I find it interesting that you post this video today when just a few days ago it began dimming again and once again, they are not sure why (specifically saying it may not be dust after all)
That giraffe shirt. I couldn’t take my eyes off of it.
Puerto Rico has vowed to rebuild the observatory. PR has some pretty messed up financials, but that'd be awesome if they achieve that goal!
For how long light takes for light to get from there to here, it's probably already been a supernova.
About 650 Yrs.
They should crowdfund some of Arecibo's repairs if it's a matter of keeping the Observatory or not. It's too important to lose.
Why did I think that this was about Betelgeuse from re zero lol
Dude!! Me too!!
I guess you can say your Brain was trembling.... des
Hank Green is back!
Conspiracy theorists: "So, this proves that an advanced alien species, regretting have ever made contact with humans, travel to their past to sabotage the scientific station where humans first learned about their existence."
We can make a religion out of this...
We can make a religion out of this...
What's up with Beetlejuice?
Oh nuttin, he's here for the wedding, just havin a good time.
My guess - It was the filming of a James Bond movie that weakened the Arecibo cable.
Except Betelgeuse is dimming again, inexplicably. This was also reported in a recent paper.
*Damm it just keeps on farting*
We’ve had many earthquakes and a cat 5 hurricane in the past years. Most probably that cause the failure of the cable.
"Our neighboring star"? Proxima Centuri at 4.25 light years and Alpha Centuri A&B at 4.35 are our neighbours. In fact Betelgeuse isn't even in the top 100 closest neighbours.
Betelgeuse actually started to dim again on August 18th 2020 (3 days ago), so don't think this mystery is truly solved or over you guys
Could be the foreshock of the real thing. Keep watching.
What's mind bending to think about is how long ago the actual event took place, the star is 642, roughly, light years away.
The STEREO telescope pair have discovered Betelgeuse is dimming again.
Yup. And the explanation for the dimming is a hypothesis not all astronomers agree on. Dr. Becky has recently made a video explaining the issues at some length. Videos made by actual scientists give generally better info than videos made by science “communicators” that run their channel as a business.
@@pansepot1490 You're right, although at least Hank et. al. actually _try_ to represent things accurately because they also love science. (also, aren't some of the presenters on here actually doing scientific work? Aren't they based out of the college in Missoula?)
Can I mention my intense joy at the fact that I learned this (Betelgeuse) from a public television news show for kids 5-12 a couple of days ago. I like my country.
Title: "Mystery SOLVED: We finally KNOW Why Betelgeuse Suddenly Faded"
Video: "Now, thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope we finally have an IDEA of what MIGHT have happened."
Very scientific. So respectable. Wow.
Yeah the current competing theories are dust and a sunspot that obscures most of the southern hemisphere. What's interesting is that I got a notice from the Telegram and the AAVSO that Betelgeuse appears to be dimming again.
@@StormsandSaugeye I was going to comment about that, too, but I didn't know enough that I felt confident in talking about it. xD But yeah, I had heard about the potential re-dimming, too.
@@Alexrider02 I *JUST* made a more in depth comment on the video. But I have it right here:
Here's some basics on the newest round of dimming:
scitechdaily.com/nasa-stereo-spacecrafts-lone-view-of-betelgeuse-reveals-more-strange-behavior-is-supernova-imminent/
Here's a great paper on the sub millimeter dimming and starspot theory:
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab9ca6
Astronomers telegram on the event:
www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=13901
And the dataset:
www.aavso.org/LCGv2/
@@StormsandSaugeye Wow! Thanks! I follow Anton Petrov here on TH-cam, which is where I heard of both the original round of dimming and this new round. I'm so fascinated to see what happens next, be it more dust burps or something else.
@@Alexrider02 I stumbled across an interesting paper once which put forth the theory that as time goes on, Betelgeuse will continue to lose mass.
arxiv.org/abs/1308.4681
I like checking in on anton petrov on occasion because while I have a subscription to the astronomers telegraph (Available for astronomy people in the professional sector) and am a member of the AAVSO and the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers along with a few others, I do occasionally miss interesting events and sometimes he provides some good breakdown and links to research I might not have seen.
Oh HST, how amazing you are.