Athena Brensberger YouTube Stats

@astroathens · Science & Education · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Athena Brensberger channel overview

Athena Brensberger (@astroathens) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2013. It has 15K subscribers and 1.2M total views across 575 videos, an average of 2.1K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 4.5K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 2K views. Over the last 12 months, Athena Brensberger published 21 videos (100% Shorts), and 1 of them (5%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 12 days, Athena Brensberger gained 0 subscribers and 3.5K views, about 289 views a day.

How much does Athena Brensberger make?

Returbe doesn't have enough recent views to estimate Athena Brensberger's monthly revenue. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.04 to $0.13, typically $0.08, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $80.

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Upload schedule

Based on its last 50 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (26% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Apr 29, 2026.

Athena Brensberger's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Athena Brensberger's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Why do we see the same side of Moon all the time?42K views · Mar 12, 20268.5× typical views
• Best photo of Earth ever taken?!10K views · Apr 10, 20262.1× typical views
• Earth rise image by Artemis II6.6K views · Apr 10, 20261.3× typical views
• Earth’s second Moon?! Asteroid 2025 PN76.2K views · Oct 31, 20251.2× typical views
• Where is the end of the solar system?3.4K views · Sep 9, 20251× typical views
• The Future of Citizen Astronomy | Stellar Collective 2025883 views · Oct 23, 20251× typical views
• Black holes spin… and what happens to space around them is insane. #blackholes1.6K views · Oct 20, 20251× typical views
• Stellar Collective: Citizen Astronomy Conference1.2K views · Sep 8, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

2 of Athena Brensberger's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• What would happen if the moon disappeared??1.6K views · Apr 29, 20260.3× typical views
• The moment astronauts realize they’re in space1.5K views · Apr 28, 20260.3× typical views
• Earth is spherical2.2K views · Apr 28, 20260.4× typical views
• Space questions: gravity, emptiness, universe1.9K views · Apr 27, 20260.4× typical views
• Astronomy changed how I think1.8K views · Apr 27, 20260.4× typical views
• Solar halo1.2K views · Apr 13, 20260.2× typical views
• The Artemis rocket is a BEAST of engineering #SLS3.9K views · Apr 13, 20260.8× typical views
• NASA live ARTEMIS II3.2K views · Apr 10, 20260.6× typical views
• Artemis II recap & what’s next2.7K views · Apr 10, 20260.5× typical views
• Artemis II crew became the farthest people have traveled in space1.9K views · Apr 10, 20260.4× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 2.4K videos from 349 channels in this niche. 10.7% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 9.8K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Wonderism HQ (51K subs, best video 400.5×), ClipPodcast (29K subs, best video 25×), The Scale Room (1.3K subs, best video 288.8×), Past the Blue (34K subs, best video 16.9×), The Why Side (47K subs, best video 194×), Disasters Explained (28K subs, best video 78.6×).

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Frequently asked questions

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