Dr. Becky | ⚠️ The ISS looks a lot like Santa's sleigh ✨ #shorts #astronomy @DrBecky | Uploaded 8 months ago | Updated 1 day ago
The International Space Station could be passing over your house on Christmas Eve or Christmas day morning. It's incredibly bright and moves very fast, so a lot of people can confuse it for Santa Claus' sleigh. Luckily, @NASA have a website where you can double check what time and where to look for it for your location: https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/

👩🏽‍💻 I’m Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don’t know. If you’ve ever wondered about something in space and couldn’t find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.