The Spirograph Nebula | Space is Weird

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It doesn't get much better than the Spirograph Nebula. Everyone remember playing with spirograph as a kid making those amazing shapes? They're called hypotrochoids and epitrochoids and you even seem to find them in space... #spaceisweird #weirdisagoodthing Willson & Aller (1951) - http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1951ApJ...114..421W Ramos-Larios et al. (2012) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.5816.pdf Dopita et al. (2017) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.03974.pdf Hubble Space Telescope image: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0028a/ -- The artwork in the background is a scientifically accurate map showing the orbits of more than 18000 asteroids in the Solar System, created by Eleanor Lutz. Find out more and buy one here: https://eleanorlutz.com/mapping-18000-asteroids ---- Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video! --- Pre-order the illustrated version of my book in the USA & Canada - out June 2nd 2020! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635406/space-at-the-speed-of-light-by-dr-becky-smethurst/ For anywhere else in the world you can buy it now on amazon here: http://bit.ly/SpaceDrBecky --------- RAS podcast that I’m co-hosting 😱 🥳- podfollow.com/supermassive --------- Dr. Becky also presents videos on Sixty Symbols: https://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols and Deep Sky Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/DeepSkyVideos Dr Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist researching galaxies and supermassive

Published 2020-05-06 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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