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Astrum explains sideways Uranus with a football on a skewer

Michael Brightmore helps unpack the planet's unusual rotation in a remastered guide that has passed 625,000 views.

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Uranus: The Weirdest Planet In The Solar System

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4:18Uranus's extreme axial tilt makes it rotate on its side; Brightmore demonstrates the geometry with a football.
11:30The sideways rotation produces extreme seasons during the planet's long journey around the Sun.
21:24Interior models explored here suggest Uranus and Neptune could contain more rock than their ice-giant label implies.
24:14An off-centre magnetic field creates an unusual magnetosphere and corkscrewing magnetic tail.
32:05The moon survey includes major icy satellites that may harbour subsurface oceans.
36:51Proposed missions offer possible routes back to a planet explored by only one spacecraft.

Astrum puts a decidedly down-to-Earth prop to work in its planetary deep dive: Michael Brightmore of the Cleethorpes Astronomical Society uses a football on a skewer to explain how Uranus ended up rotating on its side.

"Uranus: The Weirdest Planet In The Solar System" was the most watched of the channel's two new uploads. It brings earlier Uranus episodes together with updated material, remastered pictures and newly recorded narration. Alex McColgan follows the sideways rotation into extreme seasons, unexpected storms, dark rings and the possibility of oceans beneath some of the planet's moons. The documentary also includes a promotional segment for a smart telescope.

There is more here than a collection of planetary oddities. McColgan examines competing explanations for the tilt and research questioning whether the familiar "ice giant" label tells the whole story about the interior. Meanwhile, the comments have their own predictable gravitational pull: viewers discuss pronunciation and their inability to approach the planet's name with complete seriousness.

The other new release, "The Impossible Reality Inside a Black Hole", takes a theoretical journey beyond the event horizon towards the stranger Cauchy horizon inside a spinning black hole. It attracted a larger first-day audience than the Uranus guide and is currently the channel's fastest-moving upload. September's detailed Sun-image Short also remains active.

Across the catalogue, Astrum collected roughly 3.1 million views over the week. Subscribers were unchanged, although daily viewing is now more than twice its usual level. Nearby science channels have plenty happening too: CrunchLabs and Dr Ben Miles recorded larger weekly audiences, while Technology Connections had a smaller week than Astrum. For Astrum itself, the new pair offers two very different destinations: a planet visited only once, and a boundary no spacecraft could report back from.

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The facts

Channel: Astrum
Subscribers: 2,900,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 3,146,185
Videos published this week: 2
Video published: October 27, 2026
Video views so far: 626,839
Views on its first day: 249,564

The numbers

Here is how Astrum's two-release week looks across views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

15,690,929

7,025,764

6,983,012

4,903,650

3,586,445

3,146,185

1,532,918

Technology Connections

1,139,441

Branch Education

663,007

subscribers

2,900,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

637,312,498

views per day

892,581

typical day: 419,644

first-day views of each video posted this week

Uranus: The Weirdest Planet In The Sola…

249,564

The Impossible Reality Inside a Black H…

277,240

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Technology Connections

3,220,000

3,220,000

3,200,000

3,200,000

3,200,000

2,900,000

2,770,000

2,750,000

2,660,000

As of October 31, 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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