Dr. Becky | Observing Jupiter & Saturn through a telescope in the Maldives #short @DrBecky | Uploaded 10 months ago | Updated 1 minute ago
What do Jupiter and Saturn look like to your eyes when you look through a telescope? Well I tried to capture just that on my recent trip to Soneva Fushi in the Maldives where they have an observatory with a 14” telescope tucked away in the jungle far from light pollution @discoversoneva #ad #gifted

The telescope reveals stripes on Jupiter and its four biggest moons. And of course Saturn’s rings 💛🪐

👩🏽‍💻 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.