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Sarah Rugheimer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
163 total appearances

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The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

And then that eventually through gravity coalesced into stars and dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, you get galaxies.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

But this is just hanging out in space.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

And that's kind of weird.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

No, our galaxy is 100,000 light years.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

Well, the observable universe is about 92 or 93 billion light years in diameter.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

All right, fine, okay.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

The universe itself has been expanding.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

It's pretty close.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

Exactly.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

No, it's pretty close, yeah.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

100%.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

That is totally fine.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

I'll send you my exam that I give my first year undergrads and then you can you can give it a try.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

Please don't.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

You know, my husband did that.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

He actually got a 50 percent, which was the average of the class, despite not having taken my class, which I don't know, tells you something about our generation or a new generation.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

We can use telescopes to look for neutral hydrogen.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

It's just usually we're not looking in parts of the sky for these sorts of objects that don't have light from stars.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

We definitely can see neutral hydrogen in other parts of the universe or in our galaxy, and we try to map that out.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Sarah Rugheimer: Galactic Discovery We're 'On Cloud 9' With - January 9, 2026

And I think in this case, it was just, uh, they were, it kind of was just found by accident.