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Издатель Jul 27, 2026

Welcome back to Night Sky News for July 2026 with me, astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst! In this episode we’re chatting about 3 new exciting scientific discoveries, from a new planet spotted by JWST around the star Beta Pictoris, to the most distant quasar ever found, spotted by Euclid, and the first “missing black hole” found in a star cluster in the Milky Way by Hubble. And of course we’ll also chat about how to see the total solar eclipse and the Perseids Meteor Shower which are both coming up on Wednesday 12th August.

Papers mentioned:
Yang et al. (2026) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.03432
Whitaker et al. (2026) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.18350
Sutlieff et al. (2026) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.23801v2
Gibbs et al. (2026) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.23789

Previous videos:

Intermediate mass black hole found in Omega Cen - https://youtu.be/tOUWrBy0a4c?t=984
Intermediate mass black holes: fact or fiction? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr8CJAOlGVc
Why you should believe the hype for Roman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EiTby2Lku8

Eclipse links:

http://ukeclipse.com
https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/safety/

00:00 - Introduction
01:40 - Total solar eclipse 12th August
03:25 - Perseids Meteor shower 12th August
05:32 - Saturn in the evening skies
07:24 - UK funding cut reversal
09:25 - Reflect Orbital’s sunlight satellite
12:50 - JWST's Β Pictoris d discovery
15:57 - Euclid finds 2 new most distant quasars
18:30 - Black hole finally found in Omega Centauri by Hubble
24:47 - Bloopers

Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV
Video edited by Martino Gasparrini: martino.freelance@gmail.com
Video produced by Marina Hui & Dr Becky Smethurst

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