Space Superlatives of 2022

As we wrap up 2022, we'd like to celebrate a few of the cosmic “winners” discovered this year, at least while they still hold their titles.

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[LeoAngora]

Coolest space show of 2022: you, guys. Thanks for everything.

[kidmohair]

"stay tuned for 2023" (barring unforeseen circumstances)

[jmanj]

How is the cluster shown at 5:25 Not named the Smiley Face cluster?

[zouyan]

Almost there... in 75 mil years. Sounds like my kid getting ready for school.

[criskity]

1:07 Show beautiful photo of a nebula and immediately obscure it with text. Why??? We can hear you, and if we have hearing problems we can turn on CC. I want to see the photo!

[samwill]

The scale of space and the cosmic wonders already messes with my head
The most, biggest, least, fastest of ANY of them is only going to make my head spin like a top

[denmaroca]

I hadn't previously heard of the situation where a white dwarf is stealing mass from a stellar companion but won't eventually go supernova once it reaches the Chandrasekhar limit - the two stars together having less than half the required mass! But, thinking on it, this is probably a very common scenario as the vast majority of stars are small.

[ColeDedhand]

Since the observable universe is a tiny fraction of the whole, the odds are that we will never see the most extreme anything.

[Beanedict_C]

“That’s no star, that’s my dad!” -Elrond

[richardlanglois]

Hi SciShow. Earendel was named so after Tolkien's Eärendil. As such, the "ea" are in hiatus, not a dipthong. It's not 'eh-rendel, ' but 'ee-ay-rendel."

[simrivite]

Could you guys please teach us about Phoenix A

[dj_laundry_list]

0:49 Actually, they discovered Gordon Lunas

[jasonwilson]

What happens to time in the centre of the earth?

[FloozieOne]

So weird to think that the star we are looking at doesn't even exist anymore yet we can image it. Sort of like a stellar ghost story. I wonder what it looks like today, is there anything left of the nebula after all those years?

[osmosisjones]

We look for sun like stars not binary stars. What if a planet is tiddly locked but pass in between both suns and the second farther but brighter orange star gives light to the other Star

[myrmatta]

Awe man. I was hoping this video would tell me what "superlative" means.

[kuntamdc]

Would have expected there'd be more.

[Swanke]

I'll make an assertion, you argue why it is wrong (or why it is right, if you choose to): Murphy's law extends to this situation in that the principle of "if something can go wrong, it will, " given an infinite universe (observation of which is limited by perception of various possible temporal configurations), implies ALSO that there is always a "new record" that displaces every possible current "victor, " (in the context of recent space observations), given enough time.

GO! (Consider pinning to get a robust argument for fun!)






If I see anyone making a heat death argument for something like the size of a star and there not being a future broken record I'll just laugh at you. :D

[AstroWolfGaming]

I must be tired. I read the title as "Space Superlaxatives"

[Snowmunkee]

Just a tiny nitpick, but Earendel is pronounced with the first a making a separate sound. Ay-ah-ren-dil. It is rumored that the name of this star as written in an old English text, is what I soured Tolkien to begin to write his entire legendarium