It's Night Sky News time again where we recap everything that's happened in space news this past month and everything to look out for in the sky in the coming month. This month a paper was published which really cemented the crisis in cosmology none of the data agreed on the age of the Universe before, but now it just got a whole lot worse. #stargazing #spacenews #astronomy

00:00 Introduction
00:27 Moon with Spica, Mars & Mercury
01:27 Venus and Jupiter conjunction
02:24 Venus and Saturn close in the sky
02:51 Geminids Meteor Shower ❤

04:31 The smallest black hole ever discovered https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02751.pdf
09:08 A planet engulfed by a red giant star? https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.05961.pdf
14:22 A crisis in cosmology the shape, age and content of the Universe https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02087



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‍ Dr Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist researching galaxies and supermassive black holes at Christ Church at the University of Oxford.
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