SciShow Space: The Solar System Might Have a New Dwarf Planet! | SciShow News

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Content of the Lesson: After observing what we thought was just a big asteroid in the asteroid belt, a team of astronomers now thinks this might qualify as a dwarf planet. And scientists had the chance to directly observe the collision of two neutron stars for the first time. 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: Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, 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://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0915-8 https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1918/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?id=11268 https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2000010#content https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/seaice/processes/albedo.html https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf006 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1676-3.pdf https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/some-universe-s-heavier-elements-are-created-neutron-star-collisions https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/physics/ntg/6805/slides/rprocess.pdf http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Astro/nucsyn.html#c1 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/merging-neutron-stars-generate-gravitational-waves-and-celestial-light-show www.cambridge.org/9781108422161 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-55054-0_3 Images: https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/cute-planets-gm1179271747-329918350 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AnimatedOrbitOf10Hygiea.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SPHERE_image_of_Hygiea.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ceres_-_RC3_-_Haulani_Crater_(22381131691)_(cropped).jpg https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1918c/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Neutron_Star_gravitational_lensing.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FusionintheSun.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Keplers_supernova.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/asteroid-in-space-gm535404027-57415452 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/atom-gm187566822-28714872


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