Mind the (Solar System s) Gap

This episode is sponsored by Wren, a website where you calculate your carbon footprint. Sign up to make a monthly contribution to offset your carbon footprint or support rainforest protection projects: https://www.wren.co/start/scishowspace Giant disks around baby stars filled with gas and dust provide the material to make all sorts of planets, and new evidence proves that our solar system’s had a massive gap in it! And the water vapor in Jupiter’s moon, Europa, might not all be coming from the massive geysers on its surface! Hosted By: Hank Green SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ---------- Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SciShowSpace ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: GrowingViolet, Jason A Saslow, Andy Griffith, and Heriberto Bustos! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: http://www.scishowtangents.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/931422 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abj6928 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-finds-evidence-of-persistent-water-vapor-in-one-hemisphere-of-europa https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL094289 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01426-9 (paywall, free version at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.03570.pdf ) Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_System_Objects_in_Scale.jpg https://nasaviz.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pitch_perfect_in_DSHARP_at_ALMA.jpg https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/2258/black-beauty-mars-meteorite/?category=small-bodies_meteors-and-meteorites https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-researchers-track-slowly-splitting-dent-in-earth-s-magnetic-field https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia20645/protoplanetary-disk/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astronomical_unit.png https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/picturing-the-sun-s-magnetic-field https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/methanol-detected-for-first-time-around-young-star/ https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21390/approaching-jupiter https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Protoplanetary-disk.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-finds-evidence-of-persistent-water-vapor-in-one-hemisphere-of-europa https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1339.html https://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/europa20130305.html https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-finds-evidence-of-persistent-water-vapor-in-one-hemisphere-of-europa https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ganymede.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_Space_Telescope_Grappled_by_Shuttle_Arm_(27512134324).jpg https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-finds-first-evidence-of-water-vapor-at-jupiter-s-moon-ganymede https://europa.nasa.gov/resources/71/water-vapor-plumes-over-europa/