Hubble Detects Glow Between Galaxies But It Shouldn't Be That Bright

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[fearthehoneybadger]

With all the success of the Webb telescope, it's nice to see that Oldman Hubble still has his mojo.

[verdi]

Anton is the champion of interesting videos. Zero boring subjects.

[rtoun]

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[stargazer]

Thx Anton. Good topic for conversation... Occam's razor >>> You recently did a segment covering a paper that suggested that galaxies 'evaporate' by constantly losing stars to the intergalactic medium, although they are obviously replaced through new star creation and mergers, otherwise galaxies wouldn't continue to grow over time. This process probably starts during the earliest years of a galaxy's formation and continues throughout it's lifetime. It is also known that galaxies have very extended halos containing all manner and variety of things such as dust, gas, cometary debris, asteroids, etc. Large galaxies are especially known to be very messy in the way they rip apart their neighbors while consuming Maybe the authors are overthinking this just a wee bit, hoping to find a single underlying source for this phenomenon, when the solution is simply that galaxies naturally like to splash around a lot, muddying up the water so to speak. Maybe.

[noxh]

Patreon list has grown so much. Anton had to had an extra song in the end.

[uuuuuuuhhhhhhhh]

I love your channel and the informative approach, its always a pleasure to learn something new from you and thank you for taking the unbiased style approach of here is the information we have. Its refreshing

[Curry-tan-]

These mysteries are great! What a time to be alive. ICL reminds me of lens effects, like light bloom / the glowing artifact from lenses pointed at the edges of bright objects, the blur of streetlights through a damp window, or even accumulated layers of light halos. ...But known optical and electromagnetic lensing from clusters of tiny objects seems to be ruled out for many reasons so ICL only resembles accumulated lensing effects.

[sookendestroy]

What if the glow is essentially a intergalactic Aurora, caused by the collision of disparate energetic particles coming in from all sides into voids, either that or being expressly an electromagnetic phenomena caused by the intermingling of fields created by galactic scale dynamos

[garyfilmer]

Maybe dark matter enhances inter-cluster light, and if dark matter has something to do with gravity, it could be amplifying light, by some means, nothing to do with gravitational lensing, of course, but in some other way we haven’t figured out. Thank you for this intriguing video, Anton.

[lucifiaofthefreecouncil]

Thank you for making these videos. I've really enjoy them and definitely need me some cool science stuff. I like the excitement in your tone your quite soothing.

[lordjezus]

Everyday Top news and Accurate Discribings, You are a Wonderfull Person, we need more Guys like you to get somewhere in this Life. We Love You King Anton, Thanks for everyday of Your Hard Work, we appriciate it

[speederscout]

This is one of those mysteries where the questions, and answers, are so intriguing that the curiosity to know and find out makes my brain hurt.

[djdrack]

We're used to looking up and seeing stars with human eyes limited to Vis spectrum (and some people, the upper part of UV spectrum).
Imagine that the sky may seem entirely different to aliens if for some reason their eyes can see a different or wider range. The universe looks vastly different at different bandwidths: and the 'awe' of the endless expanse above their planet could be felt different, causing a different drive to get 'out there'.

[markhuebner]

Thanks Anton! Another wonderfully informative and insightful perspective on our Universe! Thanks for all you do and all the best to you and your family and friends!

[galenbywater]

"And the light shined in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." Thanks for your enlightening videos.

[RadicalTrivia]

Thanks for all the interesting videos, Anton!

[i.am.not.herbert]

A thing we learned from the Voyager probes when they finally exited our solar system, if I recall correctly, was that the interstellar medium was full of like hot plasma right? Heating up the vast black.

Okay so something I'm wondering is.... does that burning hot plasma which fills the interstellar medium not glow? Doesn't all hot plasma glow?
Shouldn't that be out there lighting up the black a little also?

[内田ガネーシュ]

Mother galaxy: James...
--yeah?
Mother galaxy: TURN THE LIGHT OFF! How many time I have must say this to you, young man? You leave the room, you turn the lights off.

Human: yo I wonder what that light mean.

[michaelcasey]

I just know someone is going to discover something that’s really going to help us all, I can kinda feel it, great channel, thx

[stevenkarnisky]

Yesterday we were looking for the sun's siblings. Today we are trying to stare back into the early universe and discover why it looks similar to the present universe.
How can "dark matter" produce light? I know that is just a convenient label for all the mass out there that we cannot detect directly, but still a name change would help.

Thank you, wonderful Anton, for keeping us informed!