AD | Join me in reading Nautilus in 2025, by heading to joinnautilus.com/drbecky you can get 15% off a membership to Nautilus, a perfect new years treat for any science enthusiast. | 2024 has seen a LOT of big astrophysics and astronomy news announced, and while I’ve tried to cover as much as I can on this channel, I could never keep up with the pace of work of my colleagues because over 31,000 astronomy research papers have been published in 2024 alone! Some of those made a bigger impact than others though, so as is becoming tradition on this channel, I figured since we’re nearing the end of the year, let’s count down my Top 5 biggest space news stories of 2024…
00:00 – Introduction
00:40 – NUMBER 5
02:57 – NUMBER 4
05:25 – NUMBER 3
07:40 – NUMBER 2
09:34 – Honourable mentions
10:49 – NUMBER 1
14:32 – Nautilus | AD
16:05 – Bloopers
Irwin et al. (2024; Neptune is a different colour of blue) – https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/527/4/11521/7511973
Mummery et al. (2024; first evidence for plunging reasons around black holes – Einstein was right!) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.09175
Carniani et al. (2024; JWST’s breaks most distant galaxy known record, JADES-GS-z14-0) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.18485
Wolf et al. (2024; the fastest growing SMBH ever found) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.15101.pdf
Riess et al. (2023; cepheids with JWST) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04773.pdf
Anand et al. (2023; TRGB with JWST) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04776.pdf
Li et al. (2023; JAGB stars with JWST) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04777.pdf
Freedman et al. (2024; JWST’s look at the crisis in cosmology from CCHP) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.06153
Lee et al. (2024; JAGB stars used to calculate the Hubble constant CCHP) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.03474
Bellazini et al. (2004; TRGB stars used to calculate Hubble constant) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0404572
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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.
