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Please keep the History of the Universe coming. Best science show on TRshow.

After 4 years of hard work next week I'll graduate in environmental engineering and I wanna say that it's also thanks to you. You gifted me with nights of deep sleep when the stress of studying overwhelmed me. Thanks for all you do and shout-out to this whole community :)

It is both amazing and humbling to know that "old age" eventually catches up with everything, including galaxies and the myriad stars that make them up. Another outstanding video with top notch production values, thank you. I wish I had access to content like this 40 years ago when I was star gazing with my dad on a rural 165 acre cattle farm under a dark, night sky!

I'm in constant fear that each release will be the last. This series is so bloody good.

This is a beautifully told story. It helps provide a bit of understanding about why someone might desire to spend a significant part of their career in science trying to unravel the mystery surrounding these earliest stars.

Glad to see this channel doing well and hope to see it grow. Some of the best quality documentaries with excellent writing and editing. Thanks for all the hard work.

I'm always impressed at how important a science Spectroscopy is. Even more impressive is how simple tricks are used by Astronomers like the transit method to find exoplanets. It also gives me faith in our species seeing just how many people are genuinely entertained by education!

Simply the best videos on the universe. Nothing pushed down your throat. A wonderful narrator who is only asking you to think, see, and wonder. Very well done.

I was waiting for this!! Thank you for all the hard work every time you put in the video's! Your voice is so calming!❤ You have the one of the best channels out here about astronomy.

Your videos are educational, entertaining, calming, and fulfilling. Thank you for your hard work, and please, keep at it. As the internet decays with the strides of popular ignorance, we need good sources of information and education.

Thank you for creating such interesting and beautifully crafted content. Truly an excellent work you are doing.

When I was a teenager I was consumed by the field of physics, fascinated beyond comprehension; life got in the way over the years and interest dwindled. The discovery of your videos has made me a child again. Every thought process seems to circle back to the history of the universe, and the unanswered questions in physics. It’s both my favourite channel on TRshow, and the last channel I’d want to find, because curiosity to that extent can make a person mad.. I’m still going to watch them all multiple times though 🤣

I just can't get enough of this channel!... Sterling work as always. Thank you 👍

I loved this one! I’m actually half way through Emma’s book too! It’s so good to see it visualised.

History of the universe is absolutely amazing. Please keep this going. I recommend your videos to everyone i know and meet. Pure intelligence, captured and regurgitated in a simple effective way so that even i can understand. Absolutely brilliant

I look forward to these videos so much. I love them. You always do such fantastic work.

This channel is one of a kind, keep the pristine work, and shout out to the narrator who does an incredible work

I wonder if the visible spectrum is an adaptation to the star that we ended up with. Like, if you were born on a planet with a more red star, I wonder if eyes on that planet had evolved to see a different snippet of the spectrum, like what we would consider as IR vision, meanwhile on Earth, they would think everyone has UV vision. It’d be kinda funny if there was some alien who’s weakness was getting sunburnt by blue light 😂

Idk why you don't have 2 million + subscribers!!! By far, the best science/ space documentaries out there!!!! Also, great to listen to when having trouble sleeping. Hats off to the narrator along with the writer. Everything is of the highest quality!!!! ❤

As always, astonished at the quality of these documentaries, thank you so much for the production of these amazing programs!

These video's are a welcome change in a time where we are all relentlessly pushed to be succesful at everything. They gives us, next to a great insight to the world of astronomy, the opportunity to put ourselves into perspective and maybe make us realize it doesn't matter all that much. We're here just for a blink of an eye, try to do things that make you happy, it's too short not to. Thank you History of the Universe for your content.

Thank you guys for yet another fantastic episode. Thank you for helping me understand how we search for gen 3 stars and where they might still be around. This channel is one of the best for astronomy and science history that I know of. God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

Finding an ancient star (Earendel) , caught in the Gravitational Lens of surrounding Galaxies...WOW what an unbelievably rare and utterly FANTASTIC find...I need more adjectives, This video is so brilliant, filled with exceptional information and content...it leaves me speechless. I cannot imagine what Herculean Effort you put into this content Emma, Fantastic Work.

I’ve had a hard time sleeping for years. Between suffering from PTSD for almost 20 years since my deployments to war, also getting sober in 2016 after an overdose, and throw in your common daily stresses & anxieties, let’s just say it’s been difficult to get a good nights sleep…. I’ve tried all sorts of remedies to no avail… UNTIL I found your channel (being a big lover of astronomy, astrophysics & cosmology etc..). It’s completely changed my life (sounds hyperbolic to some I get it), but every night your videos put me at ease and eventually to sleep, good sleep too. I’ve watched/listened to all of them multiple times. I want to thank you for what you do. You’re not just educators, but so much more.

I feel so lucky I can watch these videos every night to relax and unwind. I remember in the early 2000s every now and then the science channel would play a full day of universe stuff and it was the coolest thing ever. Now it's amazing to have that anytime I want.❤

"....while most Stars are enjoying their best life..." Such a simple, yet really quite relatable description of these unfathomably innumerous entities that require us to engage before potentially "zoning out" looking at pretty pictures. You content is virtually peerless, and I like to think it is less comparable to other channels, rather more an original place that thankfully makes what is usually ivory tower surrounded hard physics. You literally bring it all down to earth for the likes of me. Thanks.

This channel is going to be the greatest educational portal on TRshow. Do not stop the hustle you guys.. ❤ from India

I'm never disappointed in your choice of background music, my friend. Always excellent choices that match the energy of the information you're so perfectly laying out for us to absorb and understand. Thank you for your dedication and amazing work. Still my favorite channel on TRshow.

So many audiences already said almost everything I wish to say! Although I, as a layman, have no point to add, I would like to express my profound gratitude and appreciation to the producers of this wonderful program! "History of the Universe" is one of TRshow's BEST science educational programs. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤❤

This was outstanding! Even got my GF interested in mammoth stars. So well explained and bautifully made. Please, keep them coming.

This was utterly refreshing! I was blown away the whole time! Thanks for the hard work!❤

I love how he manages to relate massive concepts such as the universe to evolution that happens on our planet. The universe rhymes all the time. On the most massive scales to the most tiny.

As soon as i finished I immediately replayed it. I'm so thrilled when you release these, but I feel sad or anxious about the ending.

I love this whole series of videos that help explain the universe and the way the think those processes work together. 🎉

It's crazy to think that if every single star disappeared from the universe now that we wouldn't even start to notice until roughly 4.25 years from now and we wouldn't see the last light from a star for another roughly 13 + billion years from now it's kind boggling how big the known universe is

The GOAT of narrators and Oxfordian english in general: David Kelly Thank you sir, for teaching a young aspiring generation about the marvels of the kosmos in such an eloquent way.

Best science channel out there! The highlight of my month is when new videos comes out. Thank you for your hard work! Btw, you should get a patreon or some other way for us to support you, other than donations here.

This Show Helps People Deal With Crippling Anxiety and Depression. Keep Them Coming. ❤️

I love this channel. I only wish new videos came out weekly instead of monthly. Thanks and keep up the good work. I'm already looking forward to next months video.

Your ability for writing partnered with your intellect in physics is a rare combination. Your poetic presentation of the universe does it justice. It created us after all, that means you too =)

everyone else has already said, but I'll say it again to help with the algorithm... I cannot get enough of these videos! they are superb, with the right blend of science history, facts and speculation. I only wish there were more HOTE videos as well ;)

I love the history of the universe I thought of the channel a couple of days ago when I was watching the hurricane in the Atlantic. It looked just like a galaxy.

The thought has crossed my mind that the original “stars” were so large that they went right from hydrogen cloud to black hole, and became the seeds for galaxies.

It might be worth pointing out that starquakes are extremely rare. Three have been observed. "Starquake" is also a hard sci-fi novel and the sequel to Dragon's Egg.

Please keep making more, excellent stuff

I simply love your movies. Truly the best science channel on TRshow. Thank you.

I remember reading about Quasi Stars, which are hypothetical, but the size they possibly were, made our Hypergiant’s look tiny

This is absolutly amazing. I have so many other questions. Thank you for being the inspiration of my further education.

Thanks to you now I'm interested in learning about the universe. Thank you!

Their energy would still be in the universe somewhere so it’s definitely possible, I would say we should check the most radioactive and luminous galaxies they seem to have a very good chance of having the biggest stars we never discovered yet.

Love this show. Its so chill its like getting a brain massage lol. The narrator is the sh*t! He loves the dramatic pause 😂

I think I speak on behalf of most when I say, FINALLY, THANK YOU for the new video!! Keep up the awesome work...

Thank you for such a great educational video. Star gazing fan here.

Keep up the great content. Always interesting and always entertaining

It’s all in the narration …. Perfect !

lots of respect for this channel, lots to learn!

Amazing cosmological content, with excellent narration!

I was born with many difficulties in my life. Although I am not fully educated, I have a strong love for science and the universe. Thank you for bringing it to me. Love you

Amazing content on this channel. Hopefully more people than me watch each video several times otherwise I am a bit slow to learn...

I understand that the first start where usually huge but I guess some smaller, and thus longer lived ones must have been created as well. As such it is likely that some of these ancient first generation starts still are around.

Another brilliant video. Thank you! Love your channel!

You guys are the best!!!! Please keep it coming ❤

I was so excited to see this in my notifications! Awesome! I love to take little tidbits that I see in your videos and do my own further research.

I didn't expect you to use kingdom two crowns osts... 1:04 you played that game haven't you? It fits pretty well indeed.. Not only a space enjoyer, but also one of simple yer remarkable pixe art games.

The quality of these videos is astonishingly good. Thank you.

Hey again a verry good video keep it going it’s so nice to get sleeping and just to learn things about the universe and history. Maybe one tip : get a little more bass in the mic, there is a difference in the audio from quantum dream and this video and I think that if you add a little bass you might get that crispness back but overall really nice video keep it up

Yes!! I honestly expecting a new episode. What a pleasant surprise 💯

Im never as excited for new releases on TRshow as i am for HOTU and the Earth channel :)

It depends on the size and temperature. It's reasonable to assume that some of the first stars were big and hot, and others were not so big and not so hot. Bigger, hotter stars will burn through their fuel in hundreds of millions of years, some even quicker, so yes, those ones are definitely gone.

16:00 yes I'm sure these scientists certainly named this star for and old English word, and certainly NOT for Elrond's father, as he sailed across the skies of Arda with a Silmaril on his brow, and whose light was later gathered into a phial gifted to Frodo by Lady Galadriel.

Whoop! I just hit the duvet as this landed. Best bedtime stories ever ❤❤❤

How about primordial supermassive black holes? Were they formed by stellar size black holes of pop 3 stars? Or did they form through some different process without stellar size blach holes?

Love you videos!!! Keep them coming!!

Excellent content, excellent production, just beautiful.

His voice is the voice that i wanna hear when someone reads me a tale. Just incredible content

Thanks in advance for another great video. I'm working tomorrow, so this is a great way to unwind after a day of gardening and getting ready for work.

So could these first giant stars be the super giant black holes we have in the centre of out Galaxy?

What an amazing episode, THANK YOU!

The first massive stars were surrounded by planetary systems made of - stars. Hilarious! 😊

Not only the first stars are still visible, but the universe is so large that the light of some of most of the farthest ones still hasn't reached earth.

That was unbelievably great session.

These are my go to for space-time science! Thanks

This was very awesome episode!!!! I love this channel😍

Thank you for these. I always feel a little sad when it's over.

Love these, keep them coming

Your work is outstanding!

One notion that I have always had from the moment I first heard about it, is that dark energies physical effect of expanding the universe is simply a direct consequence of all those virtual particles popping into and out of existence, of course the illogical part of that assumption is why should they have any effect at all if any energy they borrow is taken back in full. The so called Casimir force on steroids...but then perhaps somehow an exceedingly tiny percentage of that borrowed energy for their initial creation isn't paid back, leading to the expansion we see. Perhaps that energy is paid back, but on a different time scale than the Planck time we might expect it to be, maybe it is only paid back at the very end of matter's existence, when the universe is at maximum entropy , it catalyzes a snapping or inversion caused by countless eons of energy transfer from space time to another space time, or just time itself starts to reverse, or perhaps the moment of the big bang is simply the explosion of the last, and most massive black hole, that is the accumulated mass of all the mass from all black holes..

This is the best channel on Cosmology ever!

I feel it's good to point out that early universe hyper giants are only theoretical at the moment. We haven't found any so far.

I think I like the symbolism even more, but this is good too.

This is a great one! Thank you! Poems in Science

so happy to see another new video from this channel! 👍👍👍

This was fantastic, thank you.

Unfortunately, the first stars were galaxy-sized and thus were so unstable, they either exploded or experienced entropy and so created the galaxies we see today, including our own. We may be able to see images of the very last of the first stars if we look far enough away, which is essentially looking backward in time. It's wild, but there it is - the farther away we peer, the farther back in time we peer.

It's always a treat finding a new one of these

Great documentary as always thanks 🙏

Excelent Chanel! One of the best narration and images!! Keep growing

Ive wondered, if the universe is in fact 13+B yrs old, then it's possible the universe at it's center died already, and it may be quite awhile before it hits Earth.

Oh how much I wait for these!! Thanks @HistoryoftheUniverse what a show!!