Space Superlatives of 2020!

2020 wasn't ALL bad news. This year scientists found ludicrously fast stars, ancient galaxy clusters, and developed a camera that could change how we study the night sky. 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: Marwan Hassoun, Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- 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.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/astronomers-spot-distant-galaxy-group-driving-ancient-cosmic-makeover https://insideucr.ucr.edu/stories/2020/01/13/astronomers-find-farthest-galaxy-group-identified-date https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.04764.pdf https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-fastest-star-in-the-galaxy-has-been-found-and-yeah-its-really-really-fast https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/black-hole-SagittariusA.html https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2020-09-08-sensors-world-largest-digital-camera-snap-first-3200-megapixel-images-slac.aspx https://docushare.lsst.org/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-13936 https://gallery.lsst.org/bp/#/search/51675580?q=focal%20plane&filters=%257B%257D https://www.lsst.org/science/transient-optical-sky/supernovae


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