Why Searchlights Suddenly "STOP" in the Sky 🌌🤔 #neildegrassetyson #shorts

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-15

[00:00:00]So, have you ever looked at one?

[00:00:03]A searchlight?

[00:00:04]>> Yes. No. No, not directly in it.

[00:00:06]>> Oh, okay.

[00:00:07]>> [laughter] >> From the side.

[00:00:08]>> From the From the side, yeah, they're You You look from the side.

[00:00:11]And it goes up and up and up, then it stops.

[00:00:14]Yes. Have you ever noticed this?

[00:00:17]Yeah, even from a distance, what happens is cuz they do it every year for 9/11.

[00:00:22]Yes, we do. Yes.

[00:00:23]>> Yes. What they do is, for people who don't know, on 9/11, in honor of 9/11, cuz this is New York City, we're here at my office at the Hayden Planetarium.

[00:00:32]Uh we're now four or five miles north of Ground Zero.

[00:00:38]They have two huge spotlights. Yes. And each go vertically up. Right. Creating >> Creating a ghost of the towers that went down.

[00:00:47]>> Yes, yes. And so, just as as an homage As an homage. to each of the towers. And so, I live in Jersey, and I live pretty much on the river where you can see the the the installation.

[00:01:02]And what's cool is there's these two shafts of light that go up. Uh-huh. But then, they disappear into nothing at the very top.

[00:01:14]>> What, there is a top to the column of light?

[00:01:15]>> column of light.