SciShow Space: Cosmic Shear: Revealing the Invisible Universe

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Subject: Astronomy, Astronautics, Astrophysics
Content of the Lesson: This video was sponsored by Skillshare. The first 1000 people who click the link will get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium: https://skl.sh/scishowspace2 What exactly are the invisible things out there, and how did they help form the universe as we know it? To explore and understand the most spectacular structures out there, scientists have been using cosmic shear to indirectly detect dark matter, and map out and how it’s distributed around the universe. 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 Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg, Lehel Kovacs, Bd_Tmprd ---------- 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://newatlas.com/dark-matter-filaments-found/23281/ https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005MNRAS.364..433B/abstract https://www.space.com/40255-hubble-telescope-einstein-ring-photo.html https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0003338 https://physicsworld.com/a/cosmic-shear-reveals-dark-matter-in-new-high-resolution-map/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0032 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0034-4885/78/8/086901 https://phys.org/news/2018-03-unprecedentedly-wide-sharp-dark.html https://academic.oup.com/pasj/article/70/SP1/S25/4774314 https://academic.oup.com/pasj/article/72/1/16/5732415 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa33880-18.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1044-0 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/02/aa36512-19/aa36512-19.html https://www.lsst.org/science/dark-energy/cosmic_shear https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/C/Concordance+Model https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/03/scientists-observe-mysterious-cosmic-web-directly-for-first-time Images: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12314 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20244 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bullet_cluster_lensing.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12599 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/dark-matter-map-gallery.html https://subarutelescope.org/en/results/2018/03/01/2251.html https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10663 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10118 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10135


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