Good News From The Kuiper Belt: Nothing Is As Expected

Billions of kilometers from Earth, beyond Neptune's orbit, lies perhaps the most forbidding part of our solar system, a vast realm so cold and dark it sends a shiver of dread through even the most daring space explorers. There, the Sun, so cheerful and warm here on Earth, appears merely as the brightest star in the night sky, and it's so cold that Pluto's atmosphere, the only one of nine planets orbiting so far from the Sun, remains frozen to the ground most of the time. A spacecraft, be it from Earth or alien origins, exploring the outer edges of our solar system might spend a lot of time wandering in seemingly empty space, barely seeing anything but stars and the occasional passing ice mountain. Indeed, for most of the last century, astronomers thought there was little to see out there, just a small icy planet Pluto and its odd moon Charon. Perhaps it was better to move on and head towards a distant star. But wait, maybe the outer solar system isn't so dull after all. Recently, astronomers have discovered that the frontier beyond Neptune, far from being empty, might actually be teeming with thousands of objects. This is being revealed to us by New Horizons, the same probe that took us to Pluto in July of 2015.

In this video, we'll first get acquainted with what we know today about what lies beyond Neptune and then we'll try to grasp the revolutionary scope of the new discoveries. What do you say, guys? Are you leaving, or will you keep watching?
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00:00 Introduction to the Kuiper Belt
01:22 The New Horizons Mission
04:21 Current Knowledge and Discoveries
06:26 Binary Systems in the Kuiper Belt
08:23 The Kuiper Belt as a Comet-Forming Zone
11:09 New Discoveries by New Horizons
12:02 Unexpected Increase in Dust
12:57 Challenges in Detecting Kuiper Belt Objects
13:33 Conclusion
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[Aslowfade]

So Pluto is a Planet again... According to you. Good to know.

[ValOrphey]

You make complex topics so easy to understand. 📚 Thank you for being an incredible educator!

[SuperHone]

How do I get there my light speed space-ship needs fixing..I'll have to telaport ...Love this the frontier beyond Neptune

[theoweny]

I remember when u was at 40k subs u rlly blew up

[mikeburkhart]

Beyond Neptune? The Kuiper Belt, the Oort Cloud, Interstaller Space, other Galaxies...there's lots of things beyond Neptune. Maybe you should have worded the question a little better.

[alexhigginbotham]

What lies beyond Neptune? Rocks. Lots of rocks.

[popthiccle]

2:24 its called the kuiper-what worth belt???

[colinbarnard]

If a traveller outside the solar system were to try to see the it from the Plane of the Ecliptic, would s/he be able to see Earth? Or, are we invisible from outside view?

[Caravaggio]

Fred Whipple? Seriously? I guess the ice ball comet theory still stands. So sad and so many fools fall for it.

[frankhoffman]

The visual representations of the Kuiper Belt are wrong. As in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, objects are rarely visible from other objects. Likely the average distance between rocks is between 100, 000 and one million miles - that would be 40x the circumference of the Earth - BETWEEN EACK ROCK. Forget this movie nonsense of rocks bouncing off each other like billiard balls.

[karlthemel]

If Pluto is a planet, then Eris is a planet, too.

[mansionbookerstudios]

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[bramolini]

Pluto isn't a planet ...I'm out .