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Radioactive Spacedust In Antarctic Ice Means We're Inside a Massive Space Cloud

2026-06-01 Science & Technology
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about discoveries of Iron-60 inside the Antarctic ice Links: https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/nxjq-jwgp https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2007/06/Tracing_massive_stars_in_the_Galaxy Other videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIEhn10_dzc 0:00 Discoveries from the ice in Antarctica 0:55 What is Iron-60 though? 2:55 Recent ice discovery 3:40 Major new analysis and comparison 4:30 What this means for our location - Local Bubble and 7:25 Local Fluff 9:10 New mystery and additional questions 10:05 Implications and conclusions #antarctica #iron60 #spacedust Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF The hardware used to record these videos: New Camera: https://amzn.to/4pCVINS CPU: https://amzn.to/4qXIaxC Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: Mark Garlick www.markgarlick.com Kevin Jardine at galaxymap.org CC BY 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Interstellar_Cloud#/media/File:Galaxymap.com,_map_10_parsecs_(2022).png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Bubble#/media/File:Galaxymap.com,_map_100_parsecs_(2022).png https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHOAxMVjLgo Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@Erny_Module 2026-06-02

So much more interesting than the antics of celebrities or the rantings of politicians, or, God forbid... football! Thank you Anton - so glad I found your channel!

37 1 replies
@NextToToddliness 2026-06-01

There's something metal about drifting through the corpse of a dead sun and being sprinklred by the ash.

201 16 replies
@theunlearnedmind7374 2026-06-01

Tomorrow will be cloudy with a chance of iron 60

98 7 replies
@Alice-m7e 2026-06-01

Anton is the no-nonsense guy! Thanks, Anton.

56 2 replies
@GuardianOfUltima 2026-06-02

Were already on a cool space ship really exploring the galaxy

38 6 replies
@Mad_Cool 2026-06-02

All we are is, like, dust in the wind, dude - Ted Theodore Logan

63 8 replies
@murraybartley4467 2026-06-01

We discovered we were in a cloud in the 70's, confirmed by Voyager and Ulysses in the 90's, but iron 60 has now verified how long we've been there.

147 24 replies
@Thoran666 2026-06-01

We're all traveling through gas clouds in a bubble on a warm, wet rock.

84 12 replies
@Revenant_Knight 2026-06-02

In a gas cloud, in a void, in a black hole, that’s in a simulation.

27 3 replies
@timothy8428 2026-06-02

Quilters rejoice! The whole universe is made of scraps of old stuff.

72 4 replies

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