SciShow Space: This Hot Jupiter Is Leaking Metal! | SciShow News

Teacher or professor: SciShow Space
Subject: Astronomy, Astronautics, Astrophysics
Content of the Lesson: Astronomers have found a Hot Jupiter - WASP-121b - that is leaking metal, and put together a new 3D map of the Milky Way showing that our galaxy is actually a bit twisted! Get the Curiosity pin here! https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow/products/scishow-pin-of-the-month-curiosity-rover-august SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.00619.pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2986 https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/nsfc-hua080119.php https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6909 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/458/4/4025/2613815 https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/3281/wasp-121-b/ https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6452/478 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/08/milky-way-galaxy-has-warped-disk-star-map-confirms/ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/01/most-detailed-ever-3d-map-of-milky-way-shows-warped-shape-cepheid https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-3d-map-shows-milky-ways-big-twist-180972797/ Image Sources: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/3281/wasp-121-b/ https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-h-p1919a-f-3840x2160.png https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA22565 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HD189733b.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WASP_121b_02.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magnesium_crystals.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jupiter.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iron_spectrum_visible.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magnesium_spectrum_visible.png https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/191749.php https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/191750.php?from=419312 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warped_galaxy.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andromeda_Galaxy_(with_h-alpha).jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010100/a010145/Cepheidin_HD_LARGE_QT_Video_1.mp4 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heic1323a_-1243686232.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leavitt_aavso.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leavitt_henrietta_b1.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/pia15819.html


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