Let's Find Out - Top 25 Astronomy & Space Educational GIFs | soft-spoke ASMR | reddit

Episode Date: August 21, 2020

I often browse r/educationalGIFs and have found some great astronomy related ones over the years. Here I've compiled my top 25(-ish) GIFs that illuminate space travel, cosmic phenomena, our solar system, or just fascinating space themed ideas. And thank you patrons for your continued support. There are no hard feelings if you feel it's no longer worth it, but a million thanks as many of you continue to keep giving. It means the world to us. "I never let schooling interfere with my education" -Mark Twain #ASMR #space #astronomy Keywords: light speed, light year, science, astronomy, space, astronauts, ISS, space station, futurism, technology, cosmos, interstellar, galaxy, milky way, andromeda, orbit, planets, mars, jupiter, juno, nasa, esa, satellite, hubble, telescope, crab nebula, super nova, stars ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Intro tune: Boards of Canada - 5d Equipment used: (mic) Rode NT1-A https://amzn.to/2Da4CBa (other mic used sometimes) Blue Yeti https://amzn.to/33jNrYA (USB interface) Scarlette 2i2 https://amzn.to/316c7kG (computer) MacBook Pro 16" https://amzn.to/3jXRuzT (camera) iPhone 11 (1080p, sometime 60 fps) https://amzn.to/2PjT2pz (mic mount) Desk-mounted mic boom https://amzn.to/33kMK1s (mouse) silent-click mouse https://amzn.to/3jZMrit ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ►Support for the channel... ▸Shop on Amazon here (kick-backs at no cost to you): https://amzn.to/2LnNXd6 ▸PayPal ......... https://www.paypal.me/LetsFindOutASMR ......... [e-mail] ▸Patreon ........ https://www.patreon.com/LetsFindOutASMR ▸📩 Wishlist (for the channel): http://a.co/9vUJ8eF ▸📪 If you'd like to mail me something: Let's Find Out ASMR (Rich) P.O. Box 1582 Palm City, FL 34991 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ►socials... ▸📧 Discord.................https://discord.gg/pMXp3Dj (* I'm not very active here yet) ▸📧 Email................... [e-mail] ▸📧 Instagram........... https://www.instagram.com/lets_find_out_asmr/. @lets_find_out_asmr ▸📧 Twitter................. https://twitter.com/letsfindoutasmr @LetsFindOutasmr The podcast (audio versions) of my content: ▸🎧 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2u11T58 ▸🎧 iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/letsfindoutasmrs-podcast/id1448116527?mt=2 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ►my ASMR playlists... ▸Space: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVojBLpecXuXY66IZixixYf8aE-FOozO1 ▸History: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVojBLpecXuV3POreugMZyg9XTgxUZgGx ▸Science: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVojBLpecXuU3-fEgM4V1T5P8U6l2_p2D ▸Philosophy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVojBLpecXuU5kJPgNLyObyNQwyjmxOgy

Good evening everybody. Just gonna be a real casual episode tonight. I've been saving some space, some educational gifts, astronomy-themed space-oriented gifts in my Reddit saved folder through these very informative gifts. Light these off, show you the radar. It looks like we got quite a few. Got to set the moon, you know.

Yeah, you know, it's a periodically browse Reddit, billions of view out there, and I find a lot of, there's actually a lot of really information dense gifts. Here we go. I'm just north of where you see Palm Beach right there. I actually write down and see you really quiet outside, so you might hear some cracks, cracks of thunder out there as we, some of these. heads storm heads start developing out there might hear some rain and some really good lightning cracks yesterday actually a few days ago this whole week's been pretty intense with storms I actually had to buy a new surge protector protect my new electronic equipment all right so I've saved probably, man, over a hundred of these.

So we got plenty of material to sift through. And that's exactly what we're going to do. And we'll just comment on each one. See if we can't find something interesting about the universe. Through watching educational gifts. And work through an idea, sketch something out and also brought my book, my research book of ideas which magically makes me get to about 70 or 80% of an idea and just saps all my

motivation to finish it. I'm blaming my procrastination on this book for sure. We got plenty of paper here if we want to sketch some things out later and we got plenty of them so enjoyed this one. right here this is footage of the ISS orbiting the earth as far as I know I think it's on the ISS atmosphere to be just how I guess you see I guess we're seeing the glow of the upper most the last dentist bit of the atmosphere and it's just revealing how in much of a a bubble we really exist. Now that is our ocean, that is the thin little layer that we all lie upon to breathe in and out and sustain us. Minute, minute to minute and second to

second. And next is they're just low resolution to begin with. This is actually a prototype Project Orion. I think was from the 70s. Carl Sagan talked about it in his Cosmos series. It was a prototype for propulsion by pulses of this nuclear energy here, but the final idea was to equip a very, very large spaceship with nuclear energy and do set off kind of micro detonations nuclear blasts to propel it and gain acceleration in space here's just a it's just a really cool but it's also for me it's pretty pretty cool to think about what it's going to be like once we actually get back on the moon and maybe our children, our children's children,

will be able to be freely, you know, making cheap flights to the moon, like we'd fly across the United States where the world oversees these days. You see when he kicks the sand out, just how slow the gravitational acceleration, the force on objects is. Yeah, that was just, I thought this was pretty cool because it's the moon blocking the sun for certain sections of the earth. Here it's in North America going from kind of Alaska to Florida right here. Here, this for me is really, really interesting because you never, objects in the cosmos are so large.

You never on human timescales are even. able to see any movement generally unless it's a very relatively small fast-moving object like the planets or comets or advanced telescopes we can see stars orbiting very rapidly around the center of the Milky Way galaxy of the black hole Sagittarius A just because those their velocities are their velocities are so high But here, this is the crab nebula, a supernova remnant. I guess this gift is to take a picture a year and compile 10 different pictures to create this one. But you can see by Detleff Hartman.

Hartman, we can see a very, very slight movement. of the gases expanding and you see right in the middle here you see some uh you know use my pen use my pen see some aberrations in the the gaseous remnants I guess I don't know if those are shock waves still kind of reverberating outward but it's pretty amazing to think that this thing this whole thing let's see how This is a thousand years old. So gas and plasma or superheated gas. And by the explosion from the supernova is a thousand years old.

Almost a thousand years old. See if it tells us. Note observatory. One decade time lapse. 368 frames. With a total integration time of 32 hours. 100 years? Yeah.

hundred projected really start to grow out there let me look up crab nebula I gotta know how far how large it really is 7,500 light years from us radius is about five and a half light years and start winding up but yeah it's pretty amazing to think that a thousand years ago that thing erupted and we can still watch it expanding where actually we saw it a thousand years ago and 7,500 light years away, that means it erupted 100 light years, 8,500 years ago. And then here is a before and after of Neil Armstrong's footprint, so that that was pretty cool space, like, you know, 200 years from now or whatever.

We're going to go back and find that and, you know, probably put it. some sort of transparent barrier around it so it never gets disturbed. I have Elon Musk's Tesla in orbit around Earth here. I just think that's amazing. He's able to allow humans to set foot on Mars. This right here I enjoyed because it's my home state but from Cape Kennedy, Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center. Weather, geostationary weather satellite, which means that geostationary just means that it's orbiting so far away from Earth. It stays fixed.

It's able to monitor continuously, you know, this same region, especially during hurricane season right now where we have a lot of activity coming off the coast of Africa. I don't know why I was just trying to show the zone that it monitors, but yeah, lots of hurricanes out there. Maybe we'll make this into a hurricane. Never seen wind this big in our lifetimes, lifetimes. That'd be the perfect storm right there. It was weird, though, the other day that something I've never seen before is a tropical storm formed off the coast of Virginia. Usually they form very long on the equator and then they up the coast in that general direction.

But one formed all the way up kind of in the, it's called the Mid-Atlantic, mid-Atlantic region. It's pretty interesting. But yeah, most of the time, most satellites that are in low, these guys will, they orbit the Earth, like the ISS, it orbits the Earth much faster than the Earth's actual rotation. So like every 90 minutes, the ISS goes around the Earth. But these geostationary satellites, at the exact, by design, they orbit at the exact rotation of the Earth, so that they always stay over the same spot. It's pretty cool.

Anyways, and that this is a geostationary satellite that is watching the launch of another weather satellite. It's a sister satellite. It goes east of its sister satellite goes south from Cape Canaveral on Thursday. We got... Okay, yeah, sorry. I hadn't read this. Um, before I started fooling around with it.

I started fooling around with the focus and exposure. These are exoplanets and this is amazing. So we artificially, on one of our satellites, we artificially blocked out the sun and being HR 8799. And this is just a low resolution gif, so we're not gonna be able to see too much detail, but speed it up.

You can actually see three different, and maybe even four and five. So it looks like we have five different exoplanets, meaning extra solar planets, planets that do not orbit our sun, our star, or outside of our solar system. And that's just amazing. Absolutely. This, here we are looking at a shock wave on the surface.

Speaking of the sun, on the surface. surface of our star. And right here, a solar flare erupts there and you see the shockwave, reverberate, reverberate along the star's surface out there. Remember that the sun, the very source of life, this massive gravitationally bound ball of nuclear reactions. It's cool to think that our sun, unlike what we see from the sun, Earth as this unchanging ball of light is actually this very dynamic luckily gravitationally corralled it's a very dynamic thing with this ball of light seems

like a unified body but it's really this somehow stable just nuclear reactions continually exploding atoms gravitation bound by such a tight, under such tight pressure and compression that they get squeezed together. Even though it doesn't happen very often, it's pretty interesting. It takes millions of atoms that miss each other for one atom, one set of atoms, usually hydrogen to hit at just the right angle and to, uh, to, uh, create a nuclear reaction synthesize into its nuclei into two from one two separate single proton nuclei into nuclei with either heavier hydrogen or a heavier element with two protons

The second lightest element, helium, two hydrogen atoms, with one singular proton. But the nucleus can also have subatomic particle called a neutron. And a neutron, at least one way of a neutron occurring is that it results from a transformation of a proton losing its positive charge. and by a proton, a hydrogen proton, and then this electrically neutral particle, if it combines with another hydrogen atom, then these two will, and these two will combine a hydrogen atom with two. atomic nucleic particles It's essentially a heavier a heavier

Hydrogen atom Hydrogen atoms nuclear fusion they fuse together And the gray one represents a Electrically neutral particle and the reds are positive Electrically positive So it's just a heavier atom Neutron positron So a neutrino and a positron is what happens when two regular hydrogen atoms combine.

And then once you have two heavier hydrogen atoms combining, they will have a form a helium nucleus, which is defined by having two protons. and in this case helium three means that it has three nucleic particles in there that's not the right anyways subatomic particles we can at least call them approaching out there but we have yeah the initial reaction that the most popular most common reaction that takes place in stars is the universe is overwhelmingly made up of hydrogen and then secondly second most universe is the result of chain reactions the fusions the hydrogen isotope isotope just means a an atom with a

subatomic neutron so the proton just the proton in the nucleus now it has a neutron in there but it doesn't change the the atoms essential characteristics, I guess. It just makes that that element hydrogen here in this case a little heavier. We got helium can even have up to as, I guess helium could have its variations, its different types of isotopes are having two protons, two protons with

and then two protons with a neutron or two protons with a neutron or two protons with two neutrons even. But anyways. Through, this is the Hubble deep field. So it zooms out to give you an idea of just how small of a region, how small of an angular region. The moon is like, what do they say? The moon's like six degrees across, I think, normally.

So if the moon is six degrees across, I think, normally. So if the moon is six degrees across, cross. If we zoom into where the Hubble deep field is, very, very small region of the sky. And this is, this right here is just a really cool view of the pollution that most cities, one major cities, so I can see an average amount of stars, but you actually see the sky like that. if you are from a city just so you know you got to before you die at some point at some point you got to go out there in the country and really look up at the night sky it's a beautiful really really beautiful sight and here we go for exploding star time

lapse far as the crab nebula the radius is estimated to be about 380 times the sun and larger one point almost 1500 times that of the Sun just about the orbital distance of Jupiter 838 monosuratus V8 38 38 38 Mon I should say V8 treat mom there's a red star in the constellation of Monoceros about 20,000 light years six kiloparsecs from the sun and previously unknown star was observed in early 2002 experiencing a major outburst and was possibly one of the largest known stars for a short period following the eruption well the next one I'm sure you guys have all seen it's made news back in the day a couple years back

or maybe it was just a year or two ago but this is the view that a spacecraft has sitting on an actual asteroid it's amazing that it's on an asteroid so amazing you think like what if we like how much force

would it take what's the escape velocity of that asteroid but picked up one of those rocks and just threw it in the air, would it just not come back? Let's see, what is this? Saturn's Moon. Mimus. I just like this one because I like that. The crater from obviously a really huge asteroid impact at some point in the past.

It's so big that it went into the planet and the center of the crater. flew back out, you know. You got Saturn emerging from behind the moon. And I'm not sure, I guess this was taken from the Earth. Because you get a lot of, you know, atmospheric aberrations, a lot of distortion in the light rays. That's just a really beautiful picture. Lunar modules, one of the lunar modules taking off from the moon.

just blowing things away and look you can see the low gravity of the moon is just all to the ground much more slowly than they would on our flag getting blown out and you can see the fast forward 50 years I guess here's an astronaut doing a typical what's called a EAV extra or EVA extra vehicular activity, hooking themselves up and just going on a walk. Take a little stroll. How many miles up are they? 150 miles up. This guy is 250 miles up. That's a long fall. And this, everybody interested in space has already seen this one from a much better

version of this one from the movie interstellar. This is a visualization of a black hole. And apparently these on the bottom are simply the light. So the accretion disk, all this matter, just outside the event horizon, which is where the last bit of light is able to escape. So anything beyond closer to the the black hole then the radial distance of the event horizon does not make it back out even its light to escape the gravitational pull of this black hole these so just like a just like a planet like Saturn with with its rings so we have so if we have a review the rings You know, just as the rings are a conglomeration of particles that are orbiting the planet in a roughly the same plane.

So you don't have too many objects floating way up here, you know, like 20 miles or 20,000 miles above the plane. Most of the objects are, have settled into the same plane. So even with the black hole, which is creating the same effect of whether it's a companion star, the companion star's mass falling into it or just by nebulas or whatever, it has a ton of stuff orbiting it sometimes, at least in this picture. Oh, look at that. Yeah, this front side of the ring stays untouched, optical. but the back side of the ring is the light so if we were standing right here

without a tell it ridiculously long arms front side right here would look like this but these top and bottom would be the light rays bending over the top and the top and from under the bottom at least the way I understand is that this black hole the singularity of you know super massive amounts of matter creating the distortion in space-time which again I don't I don't actually know what that means but I understand that it just bends it bends space so that the path of least resistance that light you know typically wants to from a typical star I typically wants to follow a straight line path of least resistance to its black hole is bending space around it so much that the path of

least resistance is no longer straight so it's no longer straight but it's this radically trajectory but I gotta do more research on that how you know it would look from behind it I guess it's just equally distributed it's just bent so much

that you can't really hide the object because it bends light so much that you're seeing everything that exists physically behind the black hole so everything that is over here

to an observance on the other side of the black hole is transparent, although it's very distorted, but it's still, as long as it's luminous, as long as it's giving off radiation and not completely in the dark, observers on either side are going to be seeing at least a distorted view of what's going on on either side. So if someone's over here, they're going to see the light for. from this side doing the same thing above and below. Do you any more standing of it? Next is just a beautiful picture of the Juno spacecraft

orbiting Jupiter and doing a really, really close. Although it's a little low resolution here, fly by direction. It actually looks menacing, minus the skipping and lagging. But that's amazing. This 1965 during a test of the Apollo launch escape system Little Joe

The Little Joe 2 booster begins to roll uncontrollably and breaks up An anticipated failure provided for an excellent test of the launch escape system In this I just thought was cool watching the astronauts sleep Look out their arms are just weightlessly he's in his fighting stance. That's funny. And SpaceX, of course. We got the boosters sped up just a little bit, but I mean, this is such a feat of engineering right here. So encouraging to see that humans are so innovative. Curious how much of a part, how much of this, of that particular aspect of the, the Rockets Land.

was Elon's idea so cool great image and this one's actually pretty high high res of the little corpuscles corpuscles corpuscules whatever the granulation highest resolution video of the sun ever taken of the individual cells on the sun look out there just slow morphing and the sun is um what's the sun's width so if the earth is almost 13,000 kilometers across the sun is 1.3 almost 1.4 million kilometers across so that's uh probably about a hundred a hundred fold increase in the diameter of the sun that's 864 8664 8664 for a thousand miles of car in diameter. This is just some falconine boosters being put together.

This is another fly-by, I think by Juno of Jupiter. And this, this is, you know, we're not riding around on flying cars yet, but... I mean, come on, that looks like something out of a movie. And that's real footage. footage of our star system's largest planet, our largest planet, our gas giant, Jupiter, and we sent a spacecraft to fly that. Think about is that at this distance, I would bet that we'd be able to see pretty much the whole Earth right there, just to give you an idea of how how large Jupiter actually is.

We'd probably be seeing the entire sphere, one entire side of the sphere of the Earth. Jupiter over here is just this, this massive wall of clouds to us. Oh, this is cool. Speed of light. That's the inaccurate gift. graphic of how long it takes light to actually reach the moon with accurate

sizes of the earth and the accurate distance average because the moon's orbit is elliptical but look at that 225,000 miles or 384,000 kilometers between the Earth and the Earth and the moon It takes two, five, five seconds for light to get from the Earth to the moon, surface to surface in real time. All right guys, I think I'm going to call it quits. I've got to go let the dogs in before it really starts to rain out there. Hope you guys enjoy this as always. I hate that phrase.

I'm glad I got to share these with you. I've been saving these for some of these at least. for a while and I just thought it was kind of cool a little bit insightful about the the nature of the universe and scales and speed and velocities and You know what we know some of the space technology that we have going on whether it's SpaceX or you know the ISS and Yeah, my week attempts that trying to try to explain random things

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