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AD - Click this link https://boot.dev/?promo=DRBECKY and use my code DRBECKY to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev | Hello and welcome to this episode of Night Sky News for February 2026 with me, astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst. This is the show where we chat about what you should look out for in the night sky in the next month, and what’s been happening in space news in the past month. In this episode we’re chatting about the delay to NASA's Artemis mission, the drastic cuts proposed to UK astronomy funding, whether JWST’s little red dots mystery can be explained by direct collapse black holes, and whether the centre of the MW is a clump of dark matter rather than a black hole. This is astronomy and astrophysics direct from an astrophysicist. My previous video on the "little red dots" - https://youtu.be/KuTVjuXu7uE?t=1167 My previous video on the evidence for dark matter - https://youtu.be/nbE8B7zggUg?si=ShSkZSMI2sgurK6W Timings for the lunar eclipse on 3rd March for your location: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2026-march-3 Template letter to write to your MP opposing cuts to UK astronomy funding - https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/ras-fellows-urged-lobby-against-unprecedented-cuts UKRI letter explaining funding cuts - https://www.ukri.org/news/open-letter-from-ian-chapman-to-research-and-innovation-community/ Pacucci et al. (2026; little red dots are direct collapse black holes?) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.14368 Crespi et al. (2026; the centre of the Milky Way is dark matter not a black hole?) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.19087 Matthee et al. (2024) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.05448 Kocevski et al. (2023) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.00012 Kocevski et al. (2025) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.03576 Simmons, Smethurst & Lintott (2017) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.10793 Guia, Pacucci & Kocevski (2024) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.11890 Yue et al. (2024) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.13290 Inayoshi et al. (2025) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.07805 Baggen et al. (2024) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.07745 00:00 Introduction 00:55 Planetary parade 28th Feb 03:29 Saturn and Venus conjunction 7th March 04:07 Lunar eclipse 3rd March 05:20 Different colours of stars 08:14 Artemis II launch delayed 09:32 UK astronomy research budget cuts 11:06 Are JWST's "little red dots" direct collapse black holes? 17:16 Is the centre of the Milky Way dark matter or a black hole? Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV Video edited by Martino Gasparrini: https://www.fiverr.com/mgs_editing --- 📚 My book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky --- 👕 My merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): https://dr-becky.teemill.com/ --- 🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive --- 🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video! --- 👩🏽‍💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars. http://drbecky.uk.com

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