A midnight photo of the Sun, taken through the Earth, for AstroKobi

Kobi Brown's one new video follows the neutrino from a physics crisis to an image shot with the camera pointed at the ground.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

This Photo Should Not Be Possible

Among the science channels nearest AstroKobi in size, most are running above their usual pace right now, PBS Eons, Technology Connections and Physics Girl among them, while CrunchLabs and Astrum are a touch quieter than normal. AstroKobi sits right beside Hank Green at around 3.2 million subscribers.

Kobi Brown posted one video, and its premise is a good one: a picture of the Sun taken at midnight, with the camera aimed straight down. The description says a physicist of a century ago would have called it impossible, and the chapters walk the long way round to explain it. Physics in trouble, the birth of a ghost, three flavors, a new messenger. The tags give the ghost away: it is the neutrino, the particle that passes through the whole planet almost untouched, which is exactly how sunlight of a kind can arrive from below your feet. Malte Ullrich and Mikael Jutbo did the animation, and Brown is credited with everything else.

It went up only hours ago and already has more than eleven thousand views. The channel's real momentum belongs to older work, though. "The Fastest Star Ever Discovered", a month old, is closing on two million views and still draws the most each day, with the dark matter video about half its pace and "The True Scale Of The Universe" not far behind that.

A star, dark matter, the scale of the universe and now a ghost particle: the last month on this channel has been a tour of the things that are hardest to see.

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The videos drawing views on AstroKobi right now

The Fastest Star Ever Discovered1,966,147 views Scientists Might Have Finally Found Dark Matter945,038 views The True Scale Of The Universe210,188 views

The numbers

Here are the figures behind AstroKobi's week.

subscribers

3,190,000

total views

1,607,113,921

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Physics Girl

3,550,000

PBS Space Time

3,530,000

Smart Nonsense

3,520,000

PBS Eons

3,220,000

Technology Connections

3,210,000

AstroKobi

3,190,000

Hank Green

3,190,000

CrunchLabs

3,140,000

Astrum

2,880,000

As of October 1, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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