Six new vents on Kīlauea, and a dinosaur question that keeps drawing viewers
Astrum Earth's only upload of the week went to Hawaii's restless volcano, while a 24-day-old film on the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs passed three million views.
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Hawaii’s Kīlauea Volcano Just Opened Up 6 New Vents
Among the science channels near Astrum Earth in size, none gathered more views over the week, with NileRed Extra the closest behind. That leaves the channel in an unusual spot: busier than its neighbors, yet running at about half its own usual daily pace.
One new video went up, and it went to Hawaii. "Hawaii's Kīlauea Volcano Just Opened Up 6 New Vents" is a short dispatch by Astrum's standards, built on what the description calls something strange, the volcano opening fresh vents. It passed 650,000 views in six days. The comments read like a geology seminar with locals in the back row: people debating whether venting means less pressure or more, others pointing to Iceland's sill systems, a few who live beside the volcano, and one longtime park worker sharing decades of memories. Several viewers also take friendly issue with the narrator's handling of a Hawaiian place name, and one helpfully spells it out phonetically.
That narrator is James Stewart, the voice of Astrum's space channel too, and the steadiest earner here is his telling of "This New Evidence Could Rewrite the Dinosaur Extinction." Posted three and a half weeks ago, it still draws more viewers each day than the volcano, with chapters running from Chicxulub crater to a 15-year winter, a possible double impact and fungi taking over afterward.
Behind them sits the oddest story in the catalog: Oklo in Gabon, where uranium ran its own nuclear chain reaction some two billion years ago, no humans required. The channel added about 5,000 subscribers over the week and sits at 489,000.
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What viewers say
This is the kind of thing I imagined the news would cover when I was a kid
@13nwafflesSee it on YouTube"Inflating and deflating rapidly"
Seeing that and in the end finding it only opens up a few new vents would have been a great relief.@Secret_MoonSee it on YouTubeIt’s crazy if you actually think how much of Hawaii’s land mass has come from magma flowing out and cooling considering how many islands there are
@josephmiller5402See it on YouTube
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Madame Pele is feeling kinda playful I see.
@HONGKELDONGKEL1888See it on YouTubeIceland is a good example of a huge sill system, crisscrossing beneath the surface. It would be on a massive scale for this volcano.
@outlawbillionairez9780See it on YouTubeGeology is fascinating!
@EM2theBeeSee it on YouTubeA scoria cone has formed inside the crater.
@小泉隆志-m2rSee it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on Astrum Earth right now
- Channel
- Astrum Earth
- Subscribers
- 489,000 ▲ 5,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,452,751
- Videos published this week
- 1
- Video published
- October 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 656,918
- Views on its first day
- 168,134
The numbers
Here is how Astrum Earth's week looks in figures.
💡 Test your knowledge
The Chicxulub crater, linked to the dinosaurs' extinction, lies beneath which Mexican peninsula?
The buried Chicxulub crater is centered near the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
