The Boomerang Nebula: The Coolest Place in Outer Space
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The Boomerang Nebula is colder than space! And it's not really shaped like a boomerang! ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Accalia Elementia, Kathy & Tim Philip, Kevin Bealer, Justin Lentz, Fatima Iqbal, Thomas J., Chris Peters, Tim Curwick, Lucy McGlasson, Andreas Heydeck, Will and Sonja Marple, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Charles George, Christopher Collins, and Patrick D. Ashmore. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Planck/Planck_and_the_cosmic_microwave_background http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/releases/97/coldspot.html http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/310897/meta;jsessionid=6B97958663BF120B17FC7F91C11073A8.c1 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic0301/ http://phys.org/news/2013-10-alma-reveals-ghostly-coldest-universe.html http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20140916-the-coldest-place-in-the-universe Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boomerang_nebula.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Constellation_Centaurus.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Silla_Aerial_View.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boomerang_HST_big.jpg http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA17551
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Australian astronomers named it the Boomerang nebula? It's nice when people conform to stereotypes.
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if you think about it photons are filling nearly every point of space.
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Hey man, can't tell if you lost weight or that shirt just fits really well, but ya look in better shape than times past. Whatever you're doing, keep it up.
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There are stranger names for a nebula. Remember that time a bunch of otaku petitioned for nebula NGC 6357 to be named after their anime goddess, Madoka?
https://www.change.org/p/international-astronomical-union-change-the-official-name-of-nebula-ngc-6357-to-the-madokami-nebula
Hey, I'd support it. It'd give me something to giggle at whenever I gaze towards the heavens. Or attempt to pierce them with my drill. Whichever. -
Okay but consider this: 11 decided he wanted a galaxy to be shaped like a bowtie because it would be cool, and then 12 had to go change the galaxy back a few years later because his past self was ridiculous
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if it's so cold, why does it radiate light ? How come we see it ?
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has this man ever seen a t shirt?
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If light speed is the fastest speed on the universe
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They where gonna call it the Vegemite Nebula, but decided on boomerang...
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Based off of that description of Kelvin, does that mean that a very dense, non-moving object would be warmer/have greater temperature than a less dense, non-moving object? Like, does granite have a greater base temperature than pumice? I think my concept of molecular motion is shaky here.
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I still don't understand how it can be colder than empty space.
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Who else thought that this nebula actually spins and goes to a certain distance and comes back ?
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bang my brain went to goo
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I love space. I love scishow. I don't particularly like this guy selling it.
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Absolute zero, 0K, is not a possible temperature. You fail, try again. -
WHATS COOLER THAN BEING COOL?
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the coldest temperature "possible" is not 0K, it's impossible to achieve 0K.
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I'm actually shocked -270 degrees Celsius is the coldest place in the universe. I was expecting something like - 245,000. imagine that
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the hottest place in the universe is around 300 million degrees Celsius but the coldest place is only - 270 degrees Celsius. that's an interesting thought.
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If the nebula only lasts a couple thousand years. And it is 5000 light years away... It means it's already a white dwarf right now :O and since we have been observing it for 1500 years... Does it mean we will "see" it transforming about 500 yrs later?
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