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"Why neutrino astronomy won the Nobel Prize | Night Sky News October 2026 /

-> "Welcome back to Night Sky News for September 2026 with me, astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst. In this episode we’re chatting about how to see the upcoming planet parade, the Nobel Prize in physics and why it went to a detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos, plus how JWST has measured the distance to the most distant fast radio burst ever found...."

- 00:00​ - Introduction
- 01:00​ - Stargazing
- 06:20​ - ESA & IAU dark skies agreement
- 10:30​ - Roman Space Telescope commissioning update
- 13:47​ - Nobel Prize Physics 2026 neutrino astronomy
- 26:13​ - Most distant fast radio burst
- 31:46​ - Bloopers

(Via #DrBecky ) #Stargazing #Nobelprize
https://youtube.com/watch?v=i7YzzE6A26g

On this day in 1986: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Nagyrapolt died, won 1937 #NobelPrize for isolating vitamin C #ThisDayInBiotech

On this day in 1903: George Wells Beadle born, won 1958 #NobelPrize for showing how genes regulate biochemical events within cells #ThisDayInBiotech