JWST discovers NEW PLANET - it's the coldest, oldest exoplanet ever imaged

Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV

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👩🏽‍💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.

[kenbattor]

Back in the '70s, I would go out to look at the stars and wonder what was going on around those points of light. I'm glad to have lived long enough to start getting the answers.

[GlassDeviant]

I love the "Urgent Warning" headline in the ground news list about how Andromeda is heading straight for the Milky Way. Because 4.5 billion years is such an immediate threat. :)

[ResourcefulNomad]

Never get tired of your updates on the latest discoveries! I believe this was the first star to have its parallax accurately measured.

[dtalert]

your stomach calling and the ice cream truck answering was outstanding

[Astronist]

David Kipping will no doubt be examining this planet for exomoons.

[fwd]

The audio and video has *finally* settled down in new adobe, making it a great watch. So celebrate that please have a pizza on me and keep up the good work 👍

[bobbieknowlson]

£2 for the ice cream van lol, love your content Becky really great work, I get absolutely mesmerised i really wish I had a job like yours.

[blair]

Milky Way-Andromeda collision. Oh boy! I can't wait to see that.

[jamielondon]

Calling the possible collision with Andromeda "urgent" in any sense of the word is just hilarious. :-D

[silentwilly]

4:50 This raises a huge question. Why is this planet wildly different from the expectations both in size and location and what does this mean for all the other planets we think we have detected? Would love to see a video about that. With respect to the size, I can see that the same wobble can be explained with different mass at different distances, though not sure how easy this would be as distance impacts orbital speed and consequently the wobble frequency. But I'm really flabbergasted by it being at the other side of the star then expected. Is their an explanation for this discrepancy between expectation and observation? And if we are so wrong with this one, how can we have confidence that all the other planets that we detected in a similar way are correct? Maybe it is too technical for this channel, but I would love to see a video explaining this.

[SamHuxley]

I am just learning that you're from Chorley, as am I. You're an incredible communicator. THE best thing to come out of our town! Keep doing us proud.

[Dewey_Cheatum_and_Howe]

What's pitiful is that while watching this video, all I think about are the flat earthers saying "Nope, CGI, don't believe it" and missing out on all this cool stuff.

[swgfanatiker]

Dr. Becky - I love your work! Thank you so much for the insights you bring over to us on YouTube and communicate them so wonderfully and with such a contagious excitement! :)

[ldbarthel]

~12 light years away? We should be able to image Vulcan fairly soon then... (40 Eridiani A, ~16 light years away...) 🖖

[nichen]

Thanks for the news site recommendation.

[michaelgalea]

Thank You DR. Becky, for the fabulous report. The Universe is truly amazing.

[anthonyshiels]

In 1966 our Schoolmaster Mr. Michael Gearty, aka "Sir" asked a random question in class:
Is there any life out there?
No one reacted except for me.
I raised my hand and when Sir acknowledged that situation I blurted out:
Please Sir, there HAS to be.
Sir pondered this statement for a moment and replied:
Maybe you are right. It's big enough anyway.
I was 10 years old then and now we are getting close to finding the Answer.

[ronprince]

Thanks for REAL CHECKABLE information. Much appreciated.

[luudest]

3:50 Intresting: Jupiter is just 0.1% of the mass of the Sun, very far away and still able to have such a pull on the Sun that their baryonic center is outside the Sun. Impressive!

[ehsnils]

My consideration about galaxy collision is that it takes a very long time to happen and the edges of the galaxies aren't distinct.
We don't live long enough to really be able to perceive the full extent of a galaxy merge.