Decade long mystery of supernova 1987A solved? | Night Sky News August 2020

Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/epTy30r36xo. In this video, find out what you can look for in the night sky in the next month, plus catch up on all the latest space news. From solving the mystery of what was left behind by supernova 1987A, to another fast radio burst detected from a magnetar at the same time as a gamma-ray burst, to the first direct image of a two-planet star system. #nightskynews #stargazing #spacenews

Plot your own brightness curve for Betelgeuse (or any other star!): https://www.aavso.org/LCGv2/

Alexander Bohn’s academic webpage: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/alexander-bohn
Alexander’s social media: https://twitter.com/ajbohn

00:00 - Introduction
00:52 - Orion & Venus before dawn
01:23 - Moon, Jupiter & Saturn
01:57 - Moon & Mars
02:26 - Toenail Moon & Venus!
02:59 - SpaceX Dragon
03:25 - Perseverance Mars Rover launch
04:25 - Betelgeuse dimming again
05:49 - Supernova 1987A mystery solved?
10:29 - FRB & GRB from a magnetar
12:11 - First direct image of two exoplanets
15:22 - Interview with Alexander Bohn
24:51 - Bloopers

Cigan et al. (2019) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.02960.pdf
Page et al. (2020) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.06078.pdf
Mereghetti et al. (2020) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.06335.pdf
Bohn et al. (2020) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.10991.pdf

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