WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:04.919 This is Spacetime Series twenty six, episode seventy seven, for broadcasts on the 2 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:10.599 twenty eighth of June twenty twenty three. Coming up on Spacetime, the mysterious 3 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:16.239 arc discovered in Andromeda, new observations suggesting not all stars have made the same 4 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:21.719 and a new study shows that Tonga's hung of volcanic eruption produced the most intense 5 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:30.239 lightning ever recorded. All that and more coming up on Spacetime Welcome to Spacetime 6 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:52.560 with Stewart Gary Citizen scientists. Astronomers have discovered a mysterious arc that appears to 7 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:58.240 be close to the M thirty one galaxy and Andromeda. The mystery observation reported 8 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:03.280 in research notes of thea were detected in the light of double ionized oxygen, 9 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:07.640 but doesn't seem to radiate it any other wavelength. Located just southwest of the 10 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:12.760 Andromeda galaxy nucleus, the arc extends over one and a half degrees across the 11 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:19.840 sky. Professional astronomical surveys hadn't previously detected the arc because of its large angular 12 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:25.519 size and extremely low surface brightness. Exactly what it is remains a mystery. 13 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:30.480 Cytostone ivenov. It's associated with the Andromeda Galaxy. Some speculate it may be 14 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:37.599 part of an old nearby planetary nebula supernova and within the Milky Way. However, 15 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:42.719 it lacks the usual hydrogen alpha emissions expected from such a nebula. It's 16 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:46.359 also been suggested that this could be a Bower shock and the still a halo 17 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:49.719 of M thirty one caused by its interaction with the galactic halo of the Milky 18 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:55.959 Way as the two galaxies interact with each other in prelude to the reventual merger 19 00:01:56.040 --> 00:02:00.200 in three point seven billion years from now. Another suggestion involves still a tide 20 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:05.920 streams within the Andromeda halo. Jonathanally, the editor of a Strain Sky and 21 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:12.800 Telescope magazine, says follow up spectroscopic observations will provide more details about its distance 22 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:15.439 and its composition. Andromeda, Well, when you mentioned the word Andromeda, 23 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:20.800 hopefully in most people's minds, in astronomer's minds, that means Andromeda Galaxy, 24 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:25.199 the famous Andromeda galaxy from which many many marauding aliens have come in various science 25 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:30.000 fiction novels and pulp magazines and things over the years. But it is actually 26 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:32.879 a real galaxy out there. The Andromeda Galaxy, and these French and German 27 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:40.960 amateur astronomers have stumbled across previously unknown and unseen dim arc of faint light close 28 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:46.879 to the direction towards the Andromeda galaxy. And the Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest 29 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:50.120 large galaxy to our own. It's about two and a half million light years 30 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:52.199 away. I think it's at least the same size as the Mookie Way. 31 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:53.680 It's a big galaxy. Now, two of these amateurs, we're looking at 32 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:58.240 images taken by the third when they spotted this arc. It hadn't been seen 33 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:00.560 before. Because it is very large, you need to get like a very 34 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:06.479 wide angle view of the night sky. So the third amateur used a pretty 35 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:09.800 high tech backyard telescope and camera to take multiple images and put them together to 36 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:14.360 get this big wide angle view. And these other people have to look at 37 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:15.800 it though, what's that a very faint thing we can see there? So 38 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:21.759 a total of fifty hours of exposure time, you know, to produce this 39 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:24.639 big wide angle view in which they spotted it. What's not yet known with 40 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:29.840 this arc, this unknown arc, what it is or where it is, 41 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:32.159 whatever is, what it's made of, and more importantly, how far away 42 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:36.319 is it, is it fairly close? Is it within our Milky Way and 43 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:39.479 it just happens to be in the direction towards the Andromeda Galaxy? Or is 44 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:43.199 it as far as the Andromeda Galaxy. Is it all the way out there 45 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:46.280 about two and a half million light years away, or is it somewhere in 46 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:49.439 between, because maybe it's on the outskirts of our galaxy or in between us 47 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:53.439 and the Andromeda galaxy. Nobody knows, So follow up observations will be coming 48 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:57.199 long to help answer this question and reading up about this. The amazing thing 49 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:00.560 to me is that amateurs are making these sorts of discoveries because the kind of 50 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:05.919 backyard telescopes and camera gear they've got now is just unbelievable compared to even thirty 51 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:11.199 years ago. They can just do the sort of science that even professional astronomers 52 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:14.680 would have loved to have done thirty years ago or even twenty years ago. 53 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:17.040 So there's a lot of good stuff that amateur astronomers can do. Amateur astronomers 54 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:21.959 actually quite involved in many aspects of astronomers in society. Yeah, yeah, 55 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:25.560 well they are, because if you're a professional astronomer and you want to do 56 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.360 some work and you want to take some observations or something. You've got to 57 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:32.199 apply for time on a professional telescope at a professional observatory, and hundreds of 58 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:35.120 other people are also applying for the time on that same thing, And there's 59 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:39.439 a time allocation committee that looks at all the proposals and decides which one is 60 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:42.160 they going to hand out some time. And it might be an hour, 61 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:45.560 it might be six hours, it might be three consecutive days, it might 62 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:47.959 be a few hours around the time of new moon, over several months. 63 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:51.000 Whatever, you get what you're given, and if it happens to be cloudy 64 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:55.480 that night, while you're out of luck. So they have limited resources in 65 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:59.439 a way, whereas amateur astronomers are spread all around the globe. They've got 66 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:01.920 really great year now and they know what they're doing, and professional astronomers really 67 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:06.079 rely upon them for making discoveries, for instance, of comets or asteroids or 68 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:11.800 supernovy And when something does pop up that is quite significant, the alerts go 69 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:15.560 out to the professional astronomers and they can then swing their telescopes into action. 70 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:20.639 There's always provision made for when something sudden or fleeting happens that they can get 71 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:26.199 access to telescopes to quickly get some data on whatever the amateurs have discovered. 72 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:30.720 So yeah, citizen science in the sky sphere is really big stuff these days. 73 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:34.160 And that's interesting because in the old days, saying, you know, 74 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:36.680 hundreds of years ago, though even maybe a couple of hundred years ago, 75 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:42.240 one hundred and fifty years ago, the tradition was that you had called the 76 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:45.759 gentleman astronomer. Of course, very few women were allowed to do astronomy back 77 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:48.160 then, so you had the gentleman astronomer, often of independent private means. 78 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:53.439 They would set up their own observatory and they were, in effect the professional 79 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:56.639 astronomers of their day. They were doing the cutting leading edge sort of work 80 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:00.519 and discoveries flooring the night sky. And we sort of still had that in 81 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:03.480 a way these days with the amateur astronomers and the citizen scientists. So good 82 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:05.560 on them, more power to them all. There are plenty all around the 83 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:09.920 world's stacks here in Australia doing really really good work, and the astronomers, 84 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:13.680 the professional astronomers, really are light upon them for their discoveries and follow up 85 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:17.480 observation. That's Jonathan Nally, the editor of Australian Sky and Telescope magazine, 86 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:25.079 and this is spacetime still to come. Observations suggest that not all stars are 87 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:29.879 made the same way, and tonguas hung a volcanic eruption a peace to have 88 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:34.240 produced the most intense lightning ever recorded. All that and more still to come 89 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:55.759 on space time. A new study suggested the universe's most massive stars are being 90 00:06:55.800 --> 00:07:00.560 formed through a different process compared to other low mass stars like our Sun. 91 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:05.360 The new findings are reported in the Astrophysical Journal, defied the traditional consensus that 92 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:10.399 all stars form the same way, it's just a matter of how much material 93 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:15.279 they have to work with. It suggests the formation of really high mass stars 94 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:18.680 is fundamentally different from the formation of low mass stars like the Sun, and 95 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:23.959 it's not just a case of scale. High mass stars play an important role 96 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:28.240 in the evolution of the universe because the amount of heavy elements they release and 97 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:32.079 the shock waves produced when these massive stars explode in supernervay at the end of 98 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:38.959 their lives. Despite their importance, the way massive stars form remains poorly understood 99 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:44.360 due to their rarity. Now. These new observations came about when astronomers noticed 100 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:48.639 the difference while mapping thirty nine large interstellar molecular gas and dust clouds where high 101 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:54.720 mass stars were expected to form. The team we're using ALMA, the Atacama 102 00:07:54.839 --> 00:08:00.319 Large Millimeter submillimeter Array radio telescope in CELLI in order to appear deep in side 103 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:05.720 these dense molecular clouds. The clouds they selected belonging to a category known as 104 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:11.399 infrared dark clouds. Infrared dark clouds are massive, cold, and very dense, 105 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:15.160 with lots of gas and dust, and are thought to be the sites 106 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.920 of massive star formation. The team focused on a bunch of clouds showing no 107 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:24.000 signs of star formation in order to understand the beginnings of the formation process before 108 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:28.680 the young stars actually ignite. In the thirty nine clouds they're examined, the 109 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:33.639 team found more than eight hundred stellar seeds, referred to as molecular cloud cares, 110 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:39.919 which astronomers think will eventually evolve into stars. But of these, ninety 111 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:45.399 nine percent lacked enough mass to become high mass stars. That's assuming that high 112 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:50.000 mass stars evolve in the same way as they're better understood low mass counterparts do. 113 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:54.320 The lack of high mass stellar embryos suggest that the formation mechanism for high 114 00:08:54.320 --> 00:09:00.440 mass stars must somehow be different from low mass stars. The studies or then 115 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:05.799 went on to measure the distribution of cause instillar clusters. High mass stars are 116 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:09.639 grouped together, while low mass stars are more widely distributed. However, the 117 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:16.320 new observations revealed that the locations of high mass cause exhibited no preference compared to 118 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:20.039 the position of low mass Cause. On the other hand, dens coors tended 119 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:26.240 to be locally concentrated. This suggests that dens coors, rather the more massive 120 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:30.000 cause, may be the progenitors of high mass stars, and that the dens 121 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:35.000 cous may grow more efficiently than less dense worms, resulting in the creation of 122 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:39.720 larger stars. This is space time still to come. A new study has 123 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:45.559 found that Tonga's hung of volcanic eruption produced the most intense lightning ever found on 124 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:50.759 Earth, and later in the Science report discovery of a new anchylos or dinosaur 125 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:54.360 species on the Isle of Wight. All that and more still to come on 126 00:09:54.440 --> 00:10:15.559 space time. A new study has found that Tonga's Homo volcanic eruption produced the 127 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:20.679 most intense lightning ever recorded. The eruption and January the fifteenth, twenty twenty 128 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:24.279 two produced some two thousand and six hundred flashes of lightning every minute at peak 129 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:30.639 intensity. The findings were reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Shows there 130 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:35.159 were nearly two hundred thousand lightning flashes in the volcanic plume during the eruption, 131 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:41.480 creating a supercharged thunderstorm that produced the most intense lightning ever seen. Scientists were 132 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:45.559 using the lightning to peer into the ash cloud, teasing out new details about 133 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:50.120 the eruption's timeline. When the submarine volcano erupted in the Southern Pacific Ocean, 134 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:56.279 it generated a massive plume of ash water magmatic gas at least fifty eight kilometers 135 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:03.120 high. This towering plume gave scientists useful information about the scale of the eruption, 136 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.279 but it also obscured the vent from satellite view, making it more difficult 137 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:13.600 to track changes in the eruption as it progressed. But high resolution lightning data 138 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:18.200 from four separate sources never previously used altogether, have now let scientists pee deep 139 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:24.000 into the plume, teasing out new phases of the eruption's life cycle and gaining 140 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:28.000 fresh insights into the weird weather that it created. The studies lead author Alexe 141 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:33.399 Van Eaton from The US Geological Survey says the eruption triggered a supercharged thunderstorm, 142 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:39.720 the likes of which had never previously been seen. The lightning storm developed because 143 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:45.279 the highly energetic explosion of magma happened to blast through the shallow ocean. Molten 144 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:48.320 rock vaporized in the sea water, which then rose up in the plume and 145 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:54.279 eventually formed electrifying collisions between volcanic ash, super cooled water, and hailstones, 146 00:11:54.480 --> 00:12:01.240 the perfect storm for lightning. Combining data from senses that measure and radio waves, 147 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:05.559 SITIS track the lightning flashes and estimated their heights. The eruption produced just 148 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:09.840 over one hundred ninety two thousand flashes, made up of nearly five hundred thousand 149 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:15.480 electrical pulses, peaking at two thousand, six hundred and fifteen lightning flashes per 150 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:20.519 minute. Some of this lightning reached unprecedented other dudes in Earth's atmosphere between twenty 151 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:26.120 and thirty kilometers high. Van Eaton says this eruption shows that the volcanic plumes 152 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:31.639 can create the conditions for lightning far beyond the realms of meteorological thunderstorms. It 153 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:37.279 turns out volcanic eruptions can create more extreme lightning than any other kind of storm 154 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:43.279 on Earth. The lightning provided insights not only into the duration of the eruption, 155 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:48.320 but also its behavior over time. Turns out the eruption lasted much longer 156 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:52.399 than the hour or two initially observed. The new observation showed that the January 157 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:58.399 fifteenth event created volcanic plumes for at least eleven hours. Citters saw four distinct 158 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:03.519 phases of eruptive activity, defined by plume heights and lightning rates as they waxed 159 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:09.320 and waned. The authors were also puzzled by concentric rings of lightning centered on 160 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:13.879 the volcano that expanded and contracted over time. See nothing like this that ever 161 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:20.440 been seen before, and there's nothing comparable in meteorological storms. Single lightning rings 162 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:24.440 had been observed, but not modiples, and the single events were tiny by 163 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:31.679 comparison. Intense high altitude turbulence was again responsible. The plumes injected so much 164 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:35.120 mass into the upper atmosphere that it sent out ripples and the volcanic cloud like 165 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:41.480 dropping pebbles in a pond. The lightning appears to assurfed these waves moving outwards 166 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:45.639 as two hundred and fifty kilometer wide rings and as if all that weren't enough 167 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:48.919 to make the eruption fascinating, it also represents the style of volcanism known as 168 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.919 fret of filion, which occurs when large volumes of magma erupted through water. 169 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:58.360 Previously, this type of eruption was only known from geological records and had never 170 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:05.399 actually been observed using modern instrumentation. The tongue or hung of volcanic eruption changed 171 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:26.120 all that. This space time and time that to take another brief look at 172 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:28.840 some of the other stories making news in science this week with a science report, 173 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:35.759 A new study analyzing data from the Landmark Aspiry trial has found that prolonged 174 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:39.919 daily use of aspirin increases the risk of anemia by about twenty percent in people 175 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:46.159 mostly aged seventy and over. The results report on the journal Anmals of Internal 176 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:50.559 Medicine, have prompted researchers to suggest that regular monitoring for anemia be considered for 177 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:56.879 older adults to take low dose aspirin. The authors suggests that if older adults 178 00:14:56.919 --> 00:15:00.879 have concern about their health or their medication, they should discuss it with their 179 00:15:00.919 --> 00:15:05.440 family doctor. A new species of frog has just been identified in New South 180 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:13.279 Wales, but concerningly, scientists say it's disappearing distribution warrants it's listing as endangered. 181 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:18.159 A report in the journal Zutaxia says the newly discovered species Mixophilus estrallis is 182 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:24.320 a cousin of the existing species Mixerphiles balbots, the stuttering frog. The two 183 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:28.399 species have a strikingly similar appearance and very similar meeting calls, likened to a 184 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:35.200 starter, but genome testing revealed that the two frogs are from different species. 185 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:39.879 A new and kylas or dinosaur has been described on the Aisle of Wight. 186 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:46.960 Worktpelder Baretti was discovered in the Wessex Formation and represents the first time a dinosaur 187 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:50.039 from this area to be discovered in one hundred and forty two years. A 188 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:56.480 report of the Journal of Systematic Paleontology describes the find as important because it sheds 189 00:15:56.519 --> 00:16:00.480 new light on in chilos or diversity in the Wessex Formation early Cretaceous England. 190 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:06.519 The ten meter long herbivores estimated to have weighed around nine to ten tons. 191 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:11.960 The fossilized remains showed differences in the neck and back vertebrae a very different structure 192 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:15.679 to the pelvis and more blade like spiked armor than other incolosaurs discovered on the 193 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:22.039 island. Alretty's most closely related to Chinese and carlosaurs, suggesting these dinosaurs were 194 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:27.039 able to move between Asia and Europe during the early Cretaceous. At that time, 195 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:30.320 the Isle of Wine would have had a climate similar to that of the 196 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:37.519 Mediterranean and it was a floodplain covered with large meandering river systems. Floods would 197 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:41.720 have then washed organic materials such as plants, logs, and even dinosaur bodies 198 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:45.399 together, and as the waters receded, this organic matter would have been isolated 199 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:49.679 in ponds on the floodplain that eventually dried out, and they were then buried 200 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:56.000 in the clay, so preserving the organic materialist fossils. Google has finally released 201 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:00.320 the new twenty twenty three Pixar tablet, powered by the company's tensor G two 202 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:04.960 chip. It functions as a photo album, a home controller, a smart 203 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:11.039 assistant, and an entertainment device. With all the details which joined by technology 204 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:15.920 editor Alexahara Roid from Tech Advice Start Live. It's the Google Pixel tablet, 205 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:18.359 so it's the first tablet in a while they have had some tablets in the 206 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:21.599 past, but this is their latest tablet and it's using the trick that most 207 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:25.480 people aren't aware of or haven't seen before. They actually ask some tablets that 208 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:27.160 have done this, but they're not mainstream in the same way that the Google 209 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:32.759 Pixel tablet is, and that's by having a base that acts as the speaker. 210 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:36.720 So you dock your tablet onto your space. It then looks a bit 211 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:41.200 like an Amazon Echo or Google Nest device, so it's got the smart screen 212 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:45.160 that can display large images of the time and your photos another snackable information that 213 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:49.039 can just glance at that. You can then just pull the tablet off its 214 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:52.720 base, and the base is obviously plugged into power. You can pull the 215 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:56.319 tablet off its base and it's then an Android tablet. I was like a 216 00:17:56.359 --> 00:18:00.319 Giant Pixels microphone, for example, with an eleven in screen, and has 217 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:03.200 made a lot of efforts to make a lot of apps the tablet specific, 218 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:06.559 so you can carry this around and use it as a tablet. It is 219 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:11.079 compatible with the Stylus, although Google doesn't sell one at least not in Australia. 220 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:14.279 That it's compatible and it is also compatible with your breach as keyboards, 221 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:18.000 but there is no keyboard dock, unluck with the iPad. But the whole 222 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:21.119 idea is that during the launch of this thing, people will say that many 223 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:22.920 people use their smartphones more than their tablets, and so when they do go 224 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:26.960 to their tablets, the tablets flat and this way you can just attach the 225 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:32.559 tablet to magnetize us onto the speaker dock and it's at the correct angle for 226 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:36.920 letting you ease or do streaming or what YouTube videos whilst you're doing cooking some 227 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:40.359 sort of cooking video or video calls. But then you can easily just pull 228 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:41.640 it off, just like pulling at it. It just easily snaps off. 229 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:45.160 And there's also a taste that sits on the back obviously of the tablet, 230 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:48.799 and the case has this the oval shaped ring which is a kickstand. And 231 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:52.839 the cool thing about this oval shaped ring is that it's just bigger than the 232 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:57.200 size of the area where you dock it magnetically onto the dock, so it's 233 00:18:57.240 --> 00:19:02.400 designed to never need to remove the case. But when you take the tablet 234 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:06.039 off in the dock, you can then just pull the kickstand out. And 235 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:10.559 we've seen similar sort of kickstands on Microsoft surface devices. One criticism is that 236 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:12.640 the speaker dock isn't also a Google Nest. It would have been a cool 237 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:15.839 thing if it was, but it would have added to the cost. And 238 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:18.720 it's got the long lasting adaptive batteries and depending on what apps you're using, 239 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:22.559 it will intelligently go through your battery life and try and give you as longer 240 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:26.160 battery life as you need. Got the tents or G two chip, the 241 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:29.680 same chip that's in the picks of devices the thing you're printing unlock and you 242 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:32.240 know the tablet. I've been using it for the past few days. It 243 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:34.880 is a nice, smooth tablet. It doesn't start or it's not a cheap 244 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:38.200 tablet. You can find really cheap ones and office works for like nineteen nine 245 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:41.759 dollars. This is definitely on the more premium end of the scale. And 246 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:48.440 good to see that Google is taking tablets seriously and working on making sure that 247 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:52.920 as many of its apps as possible work smoothly on the tablet size screens and 248 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:56.400 are not blown up phone apps, which was the case for many years with 249 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:00.200 many of the previous Android tablets out there. I mean always been making iPad 250 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:03.920 size stapps. They will call them HD apps. At the touch it's twenty 251 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:07.640 ten. Google has only really started to optimize its absolute tablet size screens this 252 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:11.480 year. I don't know why it took them thirteen years to really do this, 253 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:15.480 but it hasn't. But they're in the game and they've got a different 254 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:18.920 and sort of an edge something. Hopefully Apple will do something similar to allow 255 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.359 its tablets to be in more of a smart display mode, just like we 256 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:26.319 saw with iOS seventeen, where you can have all these widgets and you can 257 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:29.480 turn your phone into like a smart display. I'm sure that's something that'll launch 258 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:30.839 for the iPad, and Google has managed to vis them to the punch and 259 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:33.680 I've done a good job. Eight hundred and ninety dollars in Australia for the 260 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:40.039 tablet and four in the US with the base. The tablet kisdown cases extra. 261 00:20:40.240 --> 00:21:00.319 That's Alexahara Royd from Tech Advice, Start Life, and that's the show 262 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:04.839 for now. 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