Ben Shapiro REACTS to New NASA Facts! (#243)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In July NASA released the first images and data from the James Webb Space Telescope. Here's my discussion with @Ben Shapiro on this treasure trove of data including: Carina Nebula. The Carina Nebula is one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the sky, located approximately 7,600 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. Nebulae are stellar nurseries where stars form. The Carina Nebula is home to many massive stars, several times larger than the Sun. WASP-96 b (spectrum). WASP-96 b is a giant planet outside our solar system, composed mainly of gas. The planet, located nearly 1,150 light-years from Earth, orbits its star every 3.4 days. It has about half the mass of Jupiter, and its discovery was announced in 2014. Southern Ring Nebula. The Southern Ring, or “Eight-Burst” nebula, is a planetary nebula – an expanding cloud of gas, surrounding a dying star. It is nearly half a light-year in diameter and is located approximately 2,000 light years away from Earth. Stephan’s Quintet: About 290 million light-years away, Stephan’s Quintet is located in the constellation Pegasus. It is notable for being the first compact galaxy group ever discovered in 1877. Four of the five galaxies within the quintet are locked in a cosmic dance of repeated close encounters. Don't miss my exclusive LIVE Q & A with JWST Project Scientist, and Nobel Prize winner, John Mather! https://youtu.be/vC77uaWYd44 Please join my mailing list to get the latest news in the Universe and win cool prizes like meteorites, books, and more! briankeating.com/list 📝 Subscribe to The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast for exclusive audio interviews https://briankeating.com/podcast.php Watch my Ben Shapiro Sunday Special: https://youtu.be/9YC5vjD4Ypg Be my friend: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast.php A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Producer and Writer Stuart Volkow P.G.A. Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:10.4	Open the pod bay doors, please help.
0:16.0	Joining us on the line is Professor Brian Keating,
0:18.0	cosmologist at the University of California,
0:20.0	San Diego, which means he studies the stars.
0:22.0	He's not a cosmetologist, which is he studies the stars.
0:22.6	He's not a cosmetologist, which is like the person who does make up.
0:25.2	He's also the author of the best-selling memoir,
0:27.0	losing the Nobel Prize.
0:28.4	His latest book is his newest book,
0:30.2	Think Like a Nobel Prize winner.
0:32.2	Brian, thanks so much for joining the show.
0:33.2	Great to talk to you.
0:34.2	Yeah, it's good to see again about it.
0:35.9	So let's talk about this amazing stuff that we are getting now from the Web Telescope.
0:40.6	So first of all, what is the Web Telescope and why should we care other than it makes pretty pictures?
0:46.0	Well, it does a lot more than that. It's a $10 billion investment, probably the most complicated
0:51.2	object human beings I've ever shot off into space and it's
0:54.6	located a million miles away from Earth. It's actually four times a distance to the
0:58.8	moon and its job is really to peer back almost to the beginning of time, not quite to the beginning of time.
1:04.1	That's my domain. They're not allowed to go back all the way to the beginning, but they're allowed to look at
1:09.2	and their goal is to look at the earliest structures that ever formed in the universe.
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