SciShow Space: Get Ready for a New Star in the Night Sky! | SciShow News

Teacher or professor: SciShow Space
Subject: Astronomy, Astronautics, Astrophysics
Content of the Lesson: Astronomers are predicting that two stars are likely to merge and explode, and it may happen soon... on a cosmic timescale. Plus, scientists break up a meteorite and find the oldest solid matter ever discovered on earth. Hosted By: Caitlin Hofmeister 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: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, 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://www.lsu.edu/physics/v_sagittae.php https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/lsu-bsv010620.php https://www.lsu.edu/physics/files/v_sagittae/vsge_technical-details.pdf https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/cataclysmic_variables.html https://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1904573117 https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2020-01/fm-mct010820.php https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2020-01/potn-aoi010820.php https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=16875 https://www.pnas.org/content/116/47/23461 Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sagitta_IAU.svg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11641 https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1919a/ https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_793.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Luna_y_Venus_al_amanecer_desde_Popay%C3%A1n.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/spitzer-20090513anim.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oriented_Taza_Meteorite.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Murchison_crop.jpg https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/221026.php?from=451989


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