MU69 is Flat, and No One Knows Why | SciShow News

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MU69 seems to be much flatter than we thought and the Gaia space telescope can tell us where galaxies have been and, maybe, where they're going. Host: Caitlin Hofmeister SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Greg, Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- 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://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20190208 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nasa-new-horizons-ultima-thule-mu69-pancakes https://twitter.com/Alex_Parker/status/1093953928557809664 http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2019/looking-back-at-mu69.html https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-horizons-ultima-thule-mu69-first-image-snowman https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.04079.pdf http://sci.esa.int/gaia/61116-gaia-clocks-new-speeds-for-milky-way-andromeda-collision/ http://sci.esa.int/gaia/ http://sci.esa.int/gaia/47354-fact-sheet/ ------ Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UltimaThule-Approach-3D-20190101.jpg http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Galleries/Featured-Images/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=592 http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Galleries/Featured-Images/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=591 http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/UltimaThule-Encounter/ http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Galleries/Featured-Images/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=590 https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA17206.html https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA08233.html http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Galleries/Featured-Images/image.php?page=1&gallery_id=2&image_id=586&keyword=136&search_cat= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Local_Group_and_nearest_galaxies.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andromeda_Galaxy_(with_h-alpha).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M33.jpg http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2004/05/Gaia_mapping_the_stars_of_the_Milky_Way http://sci.esa.int/gaia/61118-stellar-motions-in-the-andromeda-galaxy/ http://sci.esa.int/gaia/61117-future-motions-of-the-milky-way-andromeda-and-triangulum-galaxies/ https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1220b/ http://sci.esa.int/gaia/60243-data-release-2/


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