Like Father Like Son - Deep Sky Videos

The Herschel family was a dynasty of space "fathers" - but every astronomer has a father of their own!

In this video Mike Merrifield and Meghan Gray (astronomers at the University of Nottingham) discuss the "like-father-like-son" Herschel family, but also discuss heir own science heritage.

William Herschel, John Herschel and, to a lesser extent, Alexander Herschel are some of astronomy's biggest names.

Videos by Brady Haran

[QuantumPolagnus]

I really like these occasional videos giving insights into the lives of the people you interview for all of your channels.  You've also struck a good balance of keeping to the science with only the occasional bit of fun where you can chat up the scientists.

Keep up the good work, Brady.

[Palifiox]

The beer bottle at 4:20 has a connection to astronomy. They are sometimes called Bellarmines, because of Cardinal Robert Bellarmine's opposition to alcohol. Bellarmine prosecuted Galileo.

[MsDaudur]

So cute to see them light up when asked about their children! xx

[mrpaddingtonn]

great video! I’ve probably watched all messiser’s objects and sixty symbols, and pleased to see some insights on these speakers. thanks for putting them online!

[pdxyarnho]

HOLY COW! I had some of Mr. Merrifield's books when I was a kid! Neato :)

[Discipe]

Nice video. At the end i capture myself smiling for no reason... gosh her smile is so contagious :)

[rovandahl]

"Astronomy is not really a proper science." - Mike Merrifield, 2012

[loge]

I love these... Interesting science presented by highly intelligent people who are interesting and personable just as people.

[raydredX]

Now I want someone to take a screenshot of this and put it somewhere.

[SubscribedToLife]

John Herschel looked so worried in the photograph.

[Marvin]

To add onto that, a video of VY Canis Majoris would be pretty great or the star R136a1, both really interesting.

[mignik]

ha ha nice one. you had me laughing for a while

[trailkeeper]

If you can't be an astromomer, you can always be a telescope maker.

[traog]

One of Einstein's sons, Hans Einstein, became Professor of Hydraulic Engineering at Berkeley. Thanks Google 8)

[KimCarlssonRoger]

"The moon and the stars are in the sky", Is it that easy? I guess Im a astronomer to. Or maybe not.
"The car goes brruuommm brumbrum, I am a mechanic!"

[puppetgrimm]

whats wrong with YouTube I cant get any videos to play

[Subparanon]

Delete your cookies. Sometimes flash cookies are not deleted even when you delete all cookies so if that fails try something like firefox plugin 'Close n forget'

[NexusEden]

Yeah - my father was a plumber, my mother a hairdresser - me...a bio-chemical engineer. lol Go figure.

[SStefanovski]

I was pretty sure that I had read somewhere that he had no children but I guess that info wasn't reliable, thanks! =)

[Mekratrig]

"Which one?" Cool story, Professor, I mean DOCTOR Mike.