AD | To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/DrBecky and you’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. | Hello and welcome to this episode of Night Sky News for August 2024. This is the show where we chat about what to look out for in the night sky over the next month, and what’s been happening in space news this past month. In this episode, we have to talk about JWST’s long-awaited look at the crisis in cosmology (aka the Hubble Tension) that it turns out hasn’t been resolved the way we thought earlier this year, plus how NASA astronauts are currently stuck aboard the International Station, along with the installation of the Rubin Observatory’s secondary mirror, AND chat about the new evidence that there are water reservoirs underground on Mars! And of course, we'll discuss how to spot the planets in the sky over the coming month, including the crescent moon merging with Mars, Jupiter and the Pleiades star cluster in late August.

Lunar eclipse times at your location – https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2024-september-18

Previous video on Freedman's research group's claims about the crisis in cosmology in April – https://youtu.be/yKmPJmaeP8A
Previous videos on the crisis in cosmology – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd19WvC9yqUf5TRqYoMYxEwjT6JIDW4Zn
Previous video about the Rubin Observatory – https://youtu.be/X3N-DjVXh44
Previous video about the Roman space telescope – https://youtu.be/-EiTby2Lku8

Wright et al. (2024; Underground water reservoirs on Mars) – https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409983121
Freedman et al. (2024; JWST's look at the crisis in CCHP's cosmology) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.06153
Lee et al. (2024; JAGB stars used to calculate the Hubble constant CCHP) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.03474
Bellazini et al. (2004; TRGB stars used to calculate the Hubble constant) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0404572
Planck collaboration (2015; best model of the universe from the CMB) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.01589
Yuan et al. (2022; first look at Cepheids with JWST, no crowding) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.09101
Riess et al. (2024; JWST observations of Cepheids to calculate the Hubble constant, no crowding) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04773
Anand et al. (2024; JWST observations of TRGB stars used to calculate the Hubble constant, SHoES) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04776
Li et al. (2024; observations of TRGB stars used to calculate the Hubble constant, SHoES) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.00065

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00:00 Introduction
00:52 Six planets visible in late August
02:16 Orion returns
02:34 Saturn opposition
03:12 Supermoon in September
04:26 Partial Lunar Eclipse September
05:38 AD | Brilliant
07:07 Boeing Starliner Update
09:05 Vera Rubin Observatory secondary mirror installed
10:27 Water reservoirs underground on Mars
13:34 Crisis in Cosmology: Summary
21:48 JWST and the Crisis in Cosmology – New Research from Freedman et al.
30:56 Blunders

Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV
Video edited by Jonny Hyman

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