SPACE MOG: DR MAGGIE LIEU

On 20th September 2019, the operation Storm Area 51: They Can't Catch Us All facebook event begins. If you were really considering attending this event, I'd strongly suggest you check out my video before you do so! In this video I talk about area 51, the Bob Lazar claims and aliens! Extra reading: The Roswell Report: case closed: https://apps.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA326147 The U2 program: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/the-cia-and-the-u-2-program-1954-1974/ Drake equation: https://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lareport/LA-UR-88-1000-04 Drake recalculation 1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02404.pdf Drake recalculation 2: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab31a3#ajab31a3s5 Joe Rogan Experience with Bob Lazar: https://youtu.be/BEWz4SXfyCQ If you enjoyed the video, please help me by liking, sharing and subscribing! I'm also on: twitter: https://twitter.com/space_mog instagram: https://instagram.com/space_mog/ facebook: https://facebook.com/spacemog/ Media credits: Giphy ESA US gov

The US space command was officially reestablished on August 29, 2019. But what exactly is it and why do we need one? Find out this and more in this weeks video. If you enjoyed the video, please help me by liking, sharing and subscribing! I'm also on: twitter: https://twitter.com/space_mog instagram: https://instagram.com/space_mog/ facebook: https://facebook.com/spacemog/ Extra reading material: US space command: https://www.spacecom.mil/ The outer space treaty: http://disarmament.un.org/treaties/t/outer_space Space debris statistics: https://discosweb.esoc.esa.int/web/guest/home Russian gun-wielding robot FEDOR: http://en.roscosmos.ru/20909/ Anti-satellite weapons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon Article on cyber defence of space assets: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/116/archive/fall2016/rhutchins.pdf NASA's donated military satellites: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/nasa-gets-military-spy-telescopes-for-astronomy/2012/06/04/gJQAsT6UDV_story.html?noredirect=on Media credits: ESA NASA ROSCOSMOS US space command pexels giphy AAVFX wh.gov

When stars die, they usually turn into white dwarves, neutron stars or black holes. But the lowest mass black hole is much larger than the heaviest neutron star, this mass gap has been boggling astronomers for years. So let's discuss! Special thanks to Dr Christopher Berry for helping me out on some of this week’s topic. For more info on mass gaps, be sure to check out Christophers blog, http://cplberry.com he’s also on twitter @cplberry. For further reading, you might want to check out some of the following papers: Pair instability supernova SN2016iet: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab2f92 Mass gap X-ray binaries: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1459 Proposed SN mechanism: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1635 Microlensing showing no mass gap: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07789 Xray binaries showing no mass gap:https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1805 Core-collapse supernova instabilities: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07996 If you enjoyed the video, please help me by liking, sharing and subscribing! I'm also on: twitter: https://twitter.com/space_mog instagram: https://instagram.com/space_mog/ facebook: https://facebook.com/spacemog/ Media credits: ESA NASA Space telescope Giphy LIGO/VIRGO Knox/Ozgrav - NS-BH merger image ESO/Calcada Ramirez/Lovelace/SXS collaboration/LIGO/VIRGO - gravitational wave mergers

Hi! Spacecat Emma wanted to know my path to science research. So in this video, we do draw my life!. Please excuse the awful drawing 🙁 its a good thing I'm a scientist and not an artist huh? If you enjoyed the video, please help me by liking, sharing and subscribing! I'm also on: twitter: https://twitter.com/space_mog instagram: https://instagram.com/space_mog/ facebook: https://facebook.com/spacemog/

Andromeda galaxy is the biggest thing in our night sky and often overlooked, but inside this galaxy is hiding lots of mysteries and unexplored science. In this week's video, as requested by @hellvampiria, I disclose all on the Andromeda galaxy. Media credits: Andromeda: Gendler, M32 collision Dierickx various ESA/NASA References: Link to D’souza’s article on merger with M32: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08819 Paper on Andromeda's double nucleus, P1 & P2: https://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993AJ....106.1436L Paper on the third nucleus P3: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/432434/meta If you enjoyed the video, please help me by liking, sharing and subscribing! I'm also on: twitter: https://twitter.com/space_mog instagram: https://instagram.com/space_mog/ facebook: https://facebook.com/spacemog/

Everyone has wanted to be an astronaut at one point in their lives. We've wanted to go to the moon or to Mars, or maybe even the next nearest star, Alpha Centuri. But this is thinking too small.... we need to aim higher. We should try to get out of our solar system! and I have just the plan. In this week's video I will be talking about how we can use ultrafast outflows from black holes and tidal disruption events to surf out of our galaxy. Special thanks to my amazing colleague Gabriele Matzeu who is an expert on UFOs for helping me out on this episode! Media credits: Alpha centuri: Bardon, NASA/CXC/UColorado/Ayres et al. Sagittarius A*: NASA/UMass/STSCI/D.Wang Various: ESA/NASA Other: Pexels, pixabay, giphy If you enjoyed the video, please help me by liking, sharing and subscribing! I'm also on: twitter: https://twitter.com/space_mog instagram: https://instagram.com/space_mog/ facebook: https://facebook.com/spacemog/

Climate change is the biggest risk to humanity right now but have you ever wondered what the impact of the space industry is on our environment? In this week's video I discuss the space and climate change. Media credits: Ice cores image: British antarctic Survey Various: ESA/NASA If you enjoyed the video, please help me by liking, sharing and subscribing! I'm also on: twitter: https://twitter.com/space_mog instagram: https://instagram.com/space_mog/ facebook: https://facebook.com/spacemog/

I'm a research fellow at the European Space Agency, in this week's video, I take you for a tour of our European Space Astronomy centre in Madrid and show you a day in the life of me. What kind of things I do, as well as some of the things other employees are doing here. Hopefully this will inspire you to join the team at ESA and work in the ever growing space industry. Enjoy! If you enjoyed the video, please help me by liking, sharing and subscribing! I'm also on: twitter: https://twitter.com/space_mog instagram: https://instagram.com/space_mog/ facebook: https://facebook.com/spacemog/

This week marks the 20th launch anniversary of NASA's Chandra Space telescope, an observatory that is still observing the X-ray high energy Universe. In this week's video, I talk about what Chandra is and its legacy and science highlights so far. photo/video credits: NASA/ESA/CXC If you enjoyed the video, please help me by liking, sharing and subscribing! I'm also on: twitter: https://www.twitter.com/space_mog instagram: https://www.instagram.com/space_mog/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spacemog/

Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20th 1969. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, made history and inspired humanity. But 50 years later, humans have not been on the moon for the last 47 years. Why is this so? In this video I talk about the 1969 landings and what the prospects we have of doing it again photo/video credits: NASA/ESA/ROSCOSMOS/CNSA/CAST/Apollo archives

In this week's video, during my visit to Bern in Switzerland we talk about Einstein's life and in particular Special relativity, which Bern played a major role.

Hello from Ovronnaz, Switzerland! In preparation for this weeks total solar eclipse in Chile, this week I talk about the different types of solar eclipse, and why this is a particularly important one for the anniversary of 100 years of gravitational lensing! Furthermore, turn of events is what made Einstein who he is today. The total solar eclipse will be occurring on 2nd July. Check out ESA's CESAR page for more info on where you can observe and how to do so more safely. They will also have a live stream set up: http://cesar.esa.int/index.php?Section=Total_Solar_Eclipse_2019_plans&ChangeLang=es If you enjoyed the video, please help me by liking, sharing and subscribing! I'm also on: twitter: www.twitter.com/space_mog instagram: http://instagram.com/space_mog/ facebook: http://facebook.com/spacemog/

Almost everyone at one point has dreamt about being an astronaut! But what does it take to make it? This week I talk about the requirements of being an astronaut in each of the national space agencies and how likely you really are to make it. If you like this video, please help me by sharing with your family and friends! Also I'm on all the social media outlets: facebook: Maggie Lieu twitter: space_mog instagram: space_mog Also check out my friend Andgies blog for more tips on how to be an astronaut: https://quokkaspace.wordpress.com/how-to-become-an-astronaut/

In this video I talk about the upcoming e-ROSITA mission on board of Spekr-RG due to launch Friday 21st June 2019. How X-ray detectors work, what they are good for looking at and how this mission will tear the skies apart. If you want more content like this make sure you follow me on instagram: space_mog twitter: @space_mog credits: videos: MPE/IKI images: yuzhny (protonM), CHANDRA/NASA (supernova remnant), ROSAT (several), MPE (several), MPE/Friedrich, ESA/GAIA, Buchner (CCD), ESA/XMM

ESA is the European Space Agency, composed of 22 Member States. Its mission is to develop space missions and to carry them out. The objective of these top-class programmes is to learn more about Earth, its near-spatial environment, our Solar System and the Universe. Our missions also help to conceive state-of-the-art technologies and satellite services, as well as promoting European industry. So that space discoveries benefit the whole of humankind, ESA works in cooperation with other space organisations beyond Europe. ESA also wants to share the knowledge of space and its everyday applications with everyone and invite you to share in the conversation. That’s why ESA initiated the My Space Dream contest: to hear the dreams and expectations of European space programmes so we can work on them every day. The videos will help to shape ESA for the space19+ ministerial meeting. This is my entry for the contest. Make sure you get yours in too at: https://www.myspacedream.com for a chance to train as an esa astronaut for the day!

In this week's video, I want to apologise for missing soapbox science Brighton by talking about dark matter. What is it? Why is it important? What do we know about it so far? Find this out and more by staying tuned. For more great content like this, follow me on: instagram: www.instagram.com/space_mog twitter: @space_mog facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spacemog/ Credits: LHC & particle smash: CERN ICECUBE asteroid: JAXA/ESO/Calcada/Kornmesser/Rissinger

Is it possible to swim in outer space? On the ISS? or on another planet or moon? Find out in this weeks video.

Big data is the next biggest challenge for astronomers and we are absolutely not prepared for it. We saw how the event horizon telescope generated a tiny image of the 1st ever super massive black hole, but in the near future, Euclid will be generating images of 1/3 of the entire sky - and they have to download it all the way from outer space! LSST will be imaging the entire sky every 3 nights and SKA will be generating more data than 10x the global internet does! Its scary times, so let's talk about it!

Blue Origin unveiled this week a lunar lander that they have been working on for the past 3 years. They call it Blue Moon but who is Blue Origin? and why is what they are doing so cool? Find out in this video Credits: blue origin, esa

Following last week's asteroid impact drill at the IAA planetary defence conference, I discuss what is an asteroid and how we can prepare for an impact. At the end of the video we see how the hypothetical scenario played out for the scientists involved. Thanks for watching and make sure you like, share and subscribe if you enjoyed the video. Credits: various videos and images: NASA, HERA, ESA flyeye: ESA/Baker meteor: Mikaelyan perseids: VLT Tunguska: Getty images

Aurora are bright colourful displays of light seen near the northern and southern poles, but what causes them? and are there aurora on other planets too? Let's talk about it in this video. Credits: aurora and the beast image: Megararider Aurora - the beauty and the beast image: APOD/Juan Carlos Casado Red aurora: Antonio Paris Blue aurora: Todd Salat Green Aurora: Soojeh Purple aurora: lis norman solar flare video: SOHO/ESA/NASA Galileo: European GNSS Agency Earth magnetic field video: ESA Everest image: Worldatlas Mars aurora: ESA Proton aurora: NASA Saturn aurora: CASSINI Jupiter aurora: JUICE telegraph image: vintage.es

Have you ever wondered what the Universe tastes like? or even what it smells like? Astronomers with the help of science have answered just that. Watch the video to find out the answer, and at the end of the video I'll be showing you how make an out of this world, cosmic cocktail! CREDITS TO: Milkyway picture: ESA/GAIA Jack sparrow photo: Disney Olympic pool: Tim Wimborne/REUTERS Space tea: Spacetea Sagattarius B2: Winkler Astronaut pic: NASA References: Belloche et al 2008 Jørgensen et al ‎2012 Li et al 2017

Following up after the release of the first ever image of a super massive black hole. What did you guys think of it? Let me know in the comments below! Credits to: Black hole video: https---www.youtube.com-watch?v=XmvpKFSvB7A Black hole video: ESO/EHT/NSF Black hole jet: Lia Medeiros, Chi-Kwan Chan, Feryal Özel, Dimitrios Psaltis Hubble image: NASA/ESA/hubble_heritage/Cote/Baltz XMM image: ESA/XMM P. Rodriguez Chandra image: CHANDRA - NASA/CXC/VillanovaUniversity/Neilsen

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) with the Event Horizon Telescope will be holding an important press conference on Wednesday 10th April 2019 at 3pm CET supposedly revealing the first ever image of the black hole at the centre of galaxy. But what does that even mean? Watch to find out more!