Can JWST See Oumuamua, Why Go to The Moon, DART Images | Q&A 194
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so this story has been making the rounds for the last couple of days. And this was a presentation was made at the IAC, the International Astronautical conference. I mean, this is where Elon Musk originally proposed the idea of the Interplanetary Transport System that eventually became the BFR, which eventually became starship. So a lot of really
cool announcements happen there. And this idea of sending humans to Venus is is a pretty good one, I think. Now, obviously, you don't want to go to the surface of Venus, that's death, it's hot enough to melt? I don't know, cotton candy down there, lead, what else could you melt on the surface of Venus? Anyway, I gotta come up with a list of things that you can melt on the surface of Venus anyway, you don't go down to the surface of Venus, you stay in orbit. But it is relatively quick to get to me, it's just a couple of months, it is relatively quick to get home from Venus, just a couple of months. And so all of
the things that you would be doing on your way to Mars, you would also be doing on your way to Venus. But if there's any problem, you could abort the flight, you can take a return trajectory to get yourself back to earth, there are ways to rescue it's just closer and more feasible. And so for a lot of the logistics issues, it makes a ton of sense to go to Venus. But if you're going to follow on that, like it makes the most sense to go to the Moon, fully explore the Moon, spend a lot of time getting accustomed with that, go to an asteroid, they're a little farther, a little tougher to get to practice there, go to Venus practice, and then go to Mars. But, you know,
there's a lot of people out there who just they want their boots on Mars, and they want it now. And no amount of doing a flyby of Venus is going to make them happy. Now what's really cool. And I've said this many times, and I'm gonna, I feel like I need to write this as a story or something. But like
every good idea that has been proposed these days, was originally thought of back in the 60s, there is a paper that proposes that there be a human flyby of Venus, this was suggested to be a follow on to the Apollo missions that you would have a couple of astronauts that fly past Venus, take a bunch of pictures of the surface, fly back to Earth, and you would have just more practice and experience in flying farther away, you're going to deal with the radiation of deep space, you're going to deal with supplying material for the trip, you're going to find out how your toilet is going to behave, you're going to find out what kinds of food and water the astronauts are going to go through, what are the stressors, what are the kinds of technologies are going to go wrong? So I'm a fan of the idea. You know, there have been other proposals, obviously, that you can go into the atmosphere of Venus. And so when you're in like around 75 kilometers altitude on Venus, the temperature of the atmosphere and the pressure are the same as Earth. And so you could stand outside in a short sleeve shirt with a breathing apparatus and you would be comfortable on Venus, apart from the self, your grant, but you might be above the sulfuric acid rain. So
really, you just can't breathe a carbon dioxide. So I do like the idea, but I think that for a lot of people just it seems like a waste. You fly past Venus or your orbit Venus for a little while you take some pictures Then you come home, that is not the same as setting foot on the surface of Mars, another planet the second best place that we could go beyond Earth that feels the most like humanity's future second home. And it feels like you're just putting this the idea off, but I think it's a great idea. I mean, I think, go to the Moon, get good at it, go to an asteroid, get good at go to Venus, get good at that, then go to Mars. If you can wait, do you? Are you patient? I am.
Music cassette, what is the point of bringing humans down to the lunar surface? So whenever we talk about this idea of human beings flying in space in general, people will say why? What is the point? And there is no reason. Like there is no logical reason to send humans to space. I mean, yes, if you had an astronaut on the surface of the Moon, or an astronaut on the surface of Mars, they would be vastly more capable than a robotic mission in doing various kinds of science operations, but they are vastly more expensive, it's more dangerous, got to keep them alive, etc, etc. While you could just fly a robot to do the specific kinds of science that you want. And if you have new scientific questions, you send another raw, you do more science. So there's no good reason to send humans to space, there's no argument that can be made. For it being the rational
best thing to do that humans are the best for this job. But we still want to go, we still want to leave Earth and fly to space. And that's because that's what human beings do. We want to leave the comforts of where we are, and we want to explore and we want to keep exploring for ever, and we can't stop it. It's the way we feel like why do people climb Mount Everest? Because it's there? Why do people want to go to the Moon because it's there? Why don't want to go to Mars? Because it's there. Because our future is to become a spacefaring civilization that we will eventually live across the entire solar system and eventually live across the Milky Way and live across the Universe. And how do we get there, we get there by taking it one step at a time. And the
first step is the Moon, the Moon is close. And so we go to the Moon. And there's an argument to be made, that it's too soon to go to the Moon that you wait. And it was definitely back in the 1960s and 70s, when they first went to the Moon, it was a huge chunk of their gross domestic product was a lot of money. It's significantly less today, if you waited 20 years,
50 years, 100 years, it would be significantly less than, but you have to go sometime, at some point between now and our solar system spanning civilization, we took the various steps and learned all the lessons one step at a time. And so the only reason to go to space is to go to space. The only reason send humans to the Moon is to send humans to the Moon. Because how can you send humans to the Moon if you haven't sent humans to the Moon? See, it's a tautology. It's self reinforcing here, and
and we go to explore. And so I think like whenever anyone tells you that there's some reason like we're gonna go to the Moon because we're gonna get out and dig up helium three are, we're gonna go to the Moon, because then we can just like crunch rocks in our geology kit. We're gonna go to Mars because I don't know we can find life there. Maybe. But robots can do that, too. No, we go to these places, because we want to go to these places. Stan man, since we've never spent any time in Lagrangian points around Earth until just recently, and they purportedly have unique gravitational properties that we plan to make use of for parking instrument structures, how can we assume them as devoid of space meteorites, as General space is the Lagrangian points, in case people have never heard about them here on my channel, which I know is impossible, are these places of gravitational interaction between two large bodies in the Solar System? So the Sun and the Earth is going to have five Lagrangian points, the Earth and the Moon will have five Lagrangian points, the Sun and Jupiter, the Sun and Venus, etc, etc, etc. There are Lagrangian points between large
objects and small objects. And the way the Lagrangian points work is that three of them are unstable, the three that line up so the one on the other side of the Sun, the one between the Earth and the Sun and the one on the other side of the Earth, those are unstable. You can teeter at one of these Lagrangian points and use very little fuel but the moment you start to drift away from it, you're going to fall away and you're not going to be stuck in that Lagrangian point. And then there are the stable Lagrangian points, those are the ones that are the L four and the L five, they're 60 degrees ahead and 60 degrees behind the Earth in its orbit. And there are objects trapped in the Lagrangian points. Not many, and they're
not very big. And relatively speaking for another object that is in that Lagrangian area. They're not very dangerous, because your various micro meteorites and stuff that's in that area are not moving very fast compared to you. So just like like flying through the asteroid belt, like you have to go way out of your way to even find an asteroid. It's not like you're going through the asteroid belt in an episode of Star Wars. It's much sparser. And so like, how do we know that like, where James Webb is, doesn't have any trapped objects, because that's how gravity works like, like we couldn't have gotten James Webb to that place, if we didn't understand how gravity worked. The same gravity that predicts
that this balance place exists also predicts that there won't be anything stuck in there because it is unstable, nothing can remain there without a thruster on board. And so the only reason that James Webb can be where it is, is because it is about once a month firing its thrusters to maintain position. The second it runs out of propellant, it'll drift away, and the Lagrange point will be relatively empty again, I'll be some other spacecraft that have flown there. But anyway, you get my point. Series K. Lee, did those last pictures, some dark look familiar? Alright, this isn't a question about space.
More of a comment, but I'm still going to tackle it because it gives me a chance to talk about the dark mission. And about 30 minutes before I went live with this episode, we saw NASA's dark mission crash into asteroid dimorphic, which is the Moon of asteroid giddiness. People call it DD moon. And it was incredible. It was one amazing thing. And hopefully, Chad will show off the video as I'm talking right now. But we saw over the course of an hour, this tiny little dot, and then doc got bigger and bigger and bigger. And it resolved into an asteroid and its moon. And it got bigger and bigger and
bigger. And then DD Miss flew past. And we got closer and closer and closer. And then the asteroid filled the screen. And then the feed went loss of signal. And that was it. And it was amazing. I mean, we've never seen one of these flybys impact missions covered in essentially real time, like the time delay was about 45 seconds from when the spacecraft was sending this signal back home to Earth. And we were actually seeing it. And, you know, series comment here is like, Did it look familiar? Yeah, truly familiar. Like when you look at the surface of
asteroid Bennu from the OSIRIS REx mission, and you look at the surface of Ryugu. From the Hayabusa two mission, you're seeing something that looks really familiar, which is this rubble pile of rocks, boulders jumbled together, it's going to be really interesting to see once the data is finally in, what did it hit? And how does that compare? Are we going to find that asteroids are very different from one another? Or are all the little asteroids out there going to be these jumbled up piles of debris that are collected together through mutual gravity? So take that asteroid. Mr. 2d is saying in the comments that Darche avenge the dinosaurs. I like that dinosaurs, we did this one for
you. And we will now know what it takes to shift an asteroid in its orbit. And we will be better prepared when a killer asteroid is on its way to Earth. And we'll know what it takes to shift and asteroid into a safer trajectory. So congratulations
to everyone on the Dart team. What an amazing mission to actually watch and see this happen in the in the final phase of this and yeah, so great. Alberto DC could web seek Oumuamua Maybe pictures. Unfortunately, web can't see OMO more, it's too dim even for web. So at the time I'm recording this video. The brightness of Oumuamua is about magnitude 37 which is incredibly faint. You know, you can see magnitude five
objects with the unaided eye. And then deeper than that, you need a telescope and most telescopes top out around magnitude 12 Maybe 15. Webb can see magnitude 34 which is incredibly faint. It's a space telescope. It's one of the biggest telescopes. I mean, it is the biggest telescope ever launched into space. And so you can see maybe 234 But a Momo is still too faint for Webb even to be able to see. Now that said We
know where Oumuamua is and where it's going, we know the trajectory. And so in theory, we can still chase down or more or more, if anyone was willing to do it in probably the next 10 years or so, you could still launch a spacecraft with a Falcon Heavy rocket are on an SLS on a intercept trajectory that could catch up with Oumuamua. In the next 50 years or so, land on the asteroid, take pictures, send images home, and give us more information about what a Momo is, you could even theoretically, with an even more advanced propulsion system, retrieve a sample of a Momo and bring it home, although you probably would be looking at like 100 years from now. And so
instead of chasing down an object that is already on its way outside of the Solar System, scientists are going to wait for the next one, and they're going to pounce. And so we know that in 2028, they're going to launch a new spacecraft called the comet interceptor, the interstellar interceptor mission. And this is going to be a spacecraft that's going to loiter at the Lagrangian point, it's going to hang out with the European Space Agency's aerial mission, which is launching in 2028. This is a spacecraft that's going to be looking at the atmospheres of exoplanets. And it's going to wait for another interstellar object to pass through the Solar System, or a really long period comment. And then it's going to fire its
rockets. And it's going to intercept with that and take some pictures as it flies past. So do you build this gigantic spacecraft that's designed to chase down this object that we know is out there? Or do you wait with a much simpler spacecraft and wait for something that you know is going to you know, we've had a Momo we've had Borisov, we've had interstellar objects before, there are likely 1000s of them passing through the Solar System right now, we just need to find the next one. And hopefully with something like say the Vera Rubin Observatory, which is going to be cataloging everything that moves in the Solar System, we're going to find out another one of these interstellar objects, you're going to have this, the interceptor of spacecraft ready to go and you're going to get those images. Now that's not going to solve the like what a full moon was a alien spacecraft problem, but it's probably not an alien spacecraft. It's probably just a rock, and more rocks and balls of ice are on their way through the Solar System all the time. More
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see it in the daytime. But like, you know, it's like a star. We've looked at the Sun, we know what a star looks like. Yeah, sure. It would be bright. You'd be like, Oh, it's daytime. And
yet there's that star? No, the thing that would be amazing. would be that we know that comets have come so close in the past, that they've passed through the upper atmosphere of the Earth. don't happen very often every few million years. But it does happen. And can you imagine looking up as this giant comet is flying right through the atmosphere like at night with its long tail glowing? It would be incredible. And that would be something that I would love to see. Oh, it'd be
terrifying because this thing that potentially could end life on Earth is passing through the atmosphere of your planet. But But wow, that would be absolutely incredible to see. So that's the thing that I would love to be able to see. But then
there's I mean, there's lots of other things out there. That would be incredible, really powerful auroras like the Carrington Event, when you could see auroras down at the equator of the Earth. Really powerful Meteor storms like the one we saw in 1966, but I'm sure have happened even more. So in the past. I'm sure there's times when there have been hundreds of 1000s Millions of meteors an hour it looks like the sky is truly falling. That would be incredible. But yeah, I think
I'd like to see a comet pass through the atmosphere of the Earth. Samuel garlin house is your what do you think is the most influential image of or from space? Well, I think that obviously, images of some of the planets across the Solar System like when you think about when Galileo was the first person to take his telescope, and look at the Moon, look at Jupiter look at Saturn. And see these features that no human being had ever seen before he looked at the Milky Way saw that what seemed like clouds were actually stars. He saw a craters on the Moon, he saw the crescent of Venus. And suddenly these things that were just bright dots in the sky, were revealed to be worlds all on their own. And that must have just been mind
blowing. So it's not an image, except in Galileo's brain. And yet, it is so influential because it began this kind of inexorable path towards us realizing that we're not the center of the Universe. Beyond that, in terms of photographs, I mean, you've got the first photographs from other worlds when you've got the flybys of the Moon from the Soviet spacecraft. You've got flybys of Mars from NASA missions, you've got flybys of Venus, you've got the flybys of Jupiter and Saturn from the pioneers. And then the voyagers, you got the images of Pluto. So
all of those first, there's nothing compares to a spacecraft sending a picture, the pictures from the surface of Mars from the Viking spacecraft, pretty amazing stuff. But I would say, like the most one of the most influential images has got to be some of those first images of planet Earth taken from space, that for the first time in human history, we could see the spherical shape of our own planet. See it hanging out in the cosmos is just this single.of light. And of course, the famous words from Carl Sagan that everybody you know, lives on that planet that everyone has ever lived and died is right there. And I think it's hard not to get a sense of our own insignificance, and also potential when you look at these pictures of planet Earth, seen from space. And it's incredible
to think that this stuff all came in, within a human lifetime. I mean, there are people who are watching this video right now who were born before those first images were made available to human beings. And yet here we are today, with satellites that are watching yours continuously predicting our weather, and so on. And astronauts in space, we're looking out the window right now and seeing the curvature of the Earth and getting the overview effect and all that. So I would say the most influential image that we have is the picture of Earth. The one from Apollo, the blue marble image, I would say
is probably the greatest image, in my opinion ever taken. James L. A Fraser, what would be the advantages and disadvantages of a veer Rubin in space. You imagine, like the Vera Rubin is an eight meter telescope. It's essentially the same size telescope as the very large telescopes, individual four telescopes, but it has this incredibly wide field of view.
And it works really fast. It will image the entire night sky over the course of three days. And it will be able to see supernova and asteroids and comets and Planet Nine and then weird things we didn't even know we're out there. Like nothing else has ever been produced to this point. And it's one of the
telescope and I've been going on and on and on about it for years now. And yet, we are now just probably about a year away from seeing first light from this telescope. It's gonna change everything. What did you put in space? I mean, so the downside of Vera Rubin is that it's located in the southern hemisphere. And so it can only map the sky that is visible from its vantage point in the southern hemisphere, you won't see stuff that's happening in the northern hemisphere. In a
perfect world, we would have a northern Vera Rubin observatory as well. And the two will be working in concert and the images will be stitched together. And we would have this all eyes on space. But can you envision a space based veer
Rubin that is working its way through the entire cosmos every single night and maybe avoiding the Sun. But apart from that it is taking pictures of everything in space night after night after night, you could probably get a by a factor of 10. Again, in terms of sensitivity, in terms of catching things that are happening very quickly. Imagine if you got faster, like you're
maybe taking images every few hours, every few minutes, so there's plenty of room to go. Now the disadvantages are that it's crazy expensive. Like you You wouldn't need to launch this enormous telescope into space and have it be able to do this kind of function very quickly. But the other big issue is the data, the Varun observatory is going to be producing an outrageous amount of data, more data that would fit on anyone who's watching these hard drives by a factor of 1000s. It's just too much data. And so as soon as you send this thing off to
space, you're gonna have to try and get this data from space back to Earth. With Earth, you just got fiber optic cables, enormous server arrays, the internet, and you can scale it up. But once you've got this thing out in space, you're having to send your your data back in this tiny little straw, of, of bandwidth. And you would have to figure out ways to compress and manage all that data on the telescope, and then send interesting things back home, and you wouldn't be able to get the same kind of fidelity, I don't know, maybe you could like, send a bunch of hard drives back home and it would fly through the atmosphere, I don't know we need we need better communications technology for that to really work. So for now, we don't have the technology to handle the data that a telescope like Vera Rubin would be doing from space. We need more infrastructure, bigger radio dishes, a much more capable Deep Space Network. Lasers. That's the answer lasers. Now a whole
bunch of lasers just pointing back at Earth, sending data nonstop. Cool. Love, peace and respect. Why don't they use the Sun for a gravity assist for faster speed. On the one hand, you can't really use the Sun as a gravity assist, because you are already in orbit around the Sun. So when you think about how a gravity assist works, like say you want to fly past Jupiter, and you want to use the gravity of Jupiter to pull you forward. So what you do is you fly towards Jupiter. And as you're
getting closer and closer to Jupiter, Jupiter's gravity pulls you in, and pulls you up to its orbital speed around the Sun, which is actually slower than you were going. But the point is you gain orbital momentum, it's essentially reaching down a hand and it's pulling you up to its level. And then you fly past Jupiter. And now you've got additional velocity, that allows you to go a lot faster, you also slightly slow down Jupiter, but not enough anyone can notice. But you, you know, if you're going to try to gain the orbit of the Sun, it wouldn't really work. Now, if we wanted to go to another star system, say there was a black hole out there something we could do a flyby of that black hole, we could get a gravity system of some other star system, but because you're already in orbit around the Sun.
Now that said, there is a very specific maneuver. And I'm sure a lot of people who are watching this video is like screaming in their mind, but the Oberth maneuver. So there is this orbit that you can take where you fall towards and heavy object like the Sun and you fire your thrusters. And just as you just miss it, you reach kind of your maximum velocity, and then you have this multiplier that accelerates you farther out into the Solar System. And you can totally use that as a gravity assist. It's just like a gravity system in a different way. And
this idea has been proposed that I did an interview with Les Johnson talking about solar sails that solar sails works the best when they are really close to the star. And so you could fly really close to the Sun, fire some, like ion engines or something takes you really, really close. And then just as you reach the closest point in the Sun, engage the solar sail, your maximum amount of radiation falling on your solar sail and then use that to slingshot yourself out. And we talked to earlier on in this episode about being able to maybe chase down or uomo and if you were willing to use this technique, you could actually get to a more and more quicker and so after a while pretty much the only way that we could reach a Momo is to use this Oberth Effect to be able to fly past the Sun and get out there. So So there are definitely some options on how you could use a heavy object like the Sun to speed up your your flight. Griffin, is it possible the Planet Nine hasn't been found because the Sun is blocking our view of it? No.
Like, like if there was a planet on the other side of the Sun, it would absolutely be blocked from our perspective by the Sun, but it would have to be on the same orbit as the Earth essentially in the Lagrangian point the L three Lagrangian point the one that's on the other side of the Sun and an object could absolutely be there but only if it has thrusters to maintain itself and perch at that position at the L three point this Second, it runs out of propellant, it starts to drift away from the L three point and it becomes visible. And over time you see it more and more and eventually it crashes into the Earth. It's not stable. And so if you had another planet Earth, something on the other side of the Sun, we would crash. Now, once you get farther away, then when you think about the way the planets work, right, Earth takes one year to go around the Sun. Mars takes two years to go around the Sun.
Jupiter takes 12 years to go around the Sun. And so Earth goes around 12 times for every time that Jupiter goes around. And so yeah, there's definitely times when Jupiter is on the other side of the Sun, but only for a month or two every year and then it pops out the other side of the Sun from our perspective, and the same thing would happen with Planet Nine.
If Planet Nine is on the plane of the ecliptic, like the Earth, then yeah, for one or two months every year. Planet Nine is hidden behind the Sun, but for the other 10 months. We could see it and we don't see it. Greg me? Where are we as a spacefaring race in 50 years. I'm currently a 45 year old space guy. What will I be seeing around my last years? I'm a
little older than you but sure, you know, what will we see? I mean, I don't know about you. I was there for the launch of the space shuttle in 1981. Not bare there. But you know, I was watching my television and lived through the the Viking missions, the Voyager missions, the Magellan mission to Venus, the flybys of Saturn. I mean, my professional career began just before the year 2000, I saw the construction of the International Space Station, the development of SpaceX, the missions to Pluto, Cassini, the Mars Rovers, curiosity, perseverance. What does the future hold? Unfortunately, the really interesting places are really far. And so when you
think about missions to Neptune, Uranus, like just to get a spacecraft out there, you're looking on the order of a decade, to get like a good mission out there, not a quick flyby plus construction time design time, you're looking at 20 years, like if someone said, Let's send a mission to Neptune, it would take about 20 years before we started to see those first images coming back home. But I do think that in the near term, we're going to see a permanent presence on the Moon. And I would say by 50 years, we will have a permanent presence on Mars, we'll have a permanent presence on the Moon, a permanent presence on Mars, and a permanent presence on an asteroid or two. By the time we die, and obviously 200 years from now, or 100 years from now, humanity all the way across the Solar System everywhere in every nook and cranny. And we will have a very robust solar system infrastructure. It's just that it's a compounding interest thing. So we're here right at
the very beginning of this process. I know for a lot of people who watched the Apollo missions 50 years ago felt like you were right there at the beginning. That was a false start. Now it's the beginning. And now we're there, we're going to be going back to stay. So I think it's going to feel fairly similar, there's going to be a bigger version of the space telescopes, there's going to be more exploration of the various places in the Solar System, there's going to be a permanent moon base, probably a permanent Mars base. But not that kind of
really thrilling space future science fiction future like the expanse where people are everywhere, give it another few decades, 100 years after that, bravo, Owen, what would happen if you suddenly arrived, the black hole, the center of the galaxy doesn't really hold the galaxy together, nothing would happen. A black hole supermassive black hole even though it can be millions, or even billions of times the mass of the Sun is a fraction of the mass of the galaxy. It's about 1%. So if you take a hole, the mass of the entire Milky Way, and you take the supermassive black hole and you pluck it away, then the mass of the Milky Way is now 99% of the mass of the Milky Way. And nothing really changes except for stuff that was in the environment around the black hole, you've got the stars that are orbiting like comets around the black hole, they fling off into deep space, but the rest of the galaxy doesn't even notice. People always think of these supermassive black holes as the anchor that they're the, the center of the of the galaxy, but really, they're just the densest about the place where a black hole sunk down to the very middle. The thing that really holds the galaxy together is the
dark matter halo that we what we see is this visible galaxy, the spiral galaxy is actually just this tiny portion of this much larger blob of dark matter that is rotating in space and the galaxies inside rotating with it. So no, if you remove the black hole, nothing would change and that 1% That's just the visible matter. Like it's not even the dark matter Halo, which is more you know, set of all times more than the mass of the Milky Way itself, so no problem. All right, those are all the questions that we had this week. Thank you, everyone who asked them in the YouTube comments, and everybody who joined me for the live show. Super fun. Remember, we do this every
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