Universe Today Podcast

Those aren’t Dyson Spheres they’re hotDOGs, the best gravitational lens in the Universe, new Starlinks are really bright in the radio, and SpaceX recovers its SuperHeavy.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:14 HotDOGs, Not Dyson Spheres
  • https://www.universetoday.com/168678/those-arent-dyson-spheres-theyre-hotdogs/
• 03:27 Best gravitational lens
  • https://www.universetoday.com/168672/this-might-be-the-best-gravitational-lens-ever-found/
• 04:44 Starlinks light pollution
  • https://www.universetoday.com/168658/second-generation-starlinks-are-32-times-brighter-in-radio-wavelengths/
• 07:07 SuperHeavy from a water grave
  • https://www.universetoday.com/168691/spacex-recovers-the-super-heavy-booster-from-flight-4/
• 08:08 Zebra rock on Mars
  • https://science.nasa.gov/blog/a-striped-surprise/
• 09:14 Vote results
• 09:53 Supernova and Earth life
  • https://www.universetoday.com/168687/how-a-nearby-supernova-left-its-mark-on-earth-life/
• 11:59 Two Chinese rocket hops
• 14:16 Guide to Space
• 14:35 Dyson sphere homework

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Are we alone in the Universe? Probably, one of the most important questions one can ask. So, how are we currently trying to answer it and what happens when we finally do?

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• 00:00 Intro
• 01:24 Searching for extraterrestrial life
• 19:35 Agnostic methods of searching for life
• 26:20 What happens if we find life
• 29:38 Life as we don't know it
• 34:36 Searching for interstellar life
• 46:38 Which method will give results first
• 50:46 What if we don't find life
• 55:05 Current obsessions
• 58:59 Final thoughts

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What happens if astronauts throw stuff from orbit? Can we travel through a black hole? What is our Sun's place in the Milky Way? How can human spaceflight become profitable? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show.

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00:00 Start
00:34 [Alaris] What is the place of our Sun in the Milky Way?
05:00 [Ardena] How to find communities that care about space?
09:34 [Asuria] What happens if an astronaut throws something towards Earth?
12:23 [Belote] How big is the void we live in?
15:20 [Belsa] Can you travel through a black hole to another Universe?
18:38 [Cartego] How is Mercury closer to Earth than Venus?
19:52 [Chulak] Did different arms of the Milky Way come from different mergers?
22:16 [Dakara] How would we see the farthest galaxies disappear?
25:15 [Edora] How can human space flight become profitable?
27:24 [Goronak] Which human-made thing will be first to get to another star?
32:16 [Hadante] What are my favourite telescopes?
34:23 [Hebridan] Could supermassive black holes be made of lost anti-matter?
37:39 [Jenev] Can we reuse parts of ISS?

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Could we repair missions like JWST and Gaia? Polaris Dawn returns to Earth, did Earth once have rings? and a peanut-shaped asteroid just drifted past Earth.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:16 Repairing missions at L2
  • https://www.universetoday.com/168584/there-could-be-a-way-to-fix-spacecraft-at-l2-like-webb-and-gaia/
• 03:10 Polaris Dawn returns to Earth
  • https://polarisprogram.com/polaris-dawn-crew-returns-to-earth-achieving-major-objectives-during-their-five-day-mission/
• 05:22 Peanut-shaped asteroid flyby
  • https://www.universetoday.com/168616/nasa-watches-a-peanut-shaped-asteroid-drift-past-earth/
• 07:20 Earth might have had rings
  • https://www.universetoday.com/168579/earth-might-have-had-rings-half-a-billion-years-ago/
• 08:56 Earth's temporary moon
  • https://www.universetoday.com/168574/earth-will-have-a-tiny-new-mini-moon-for-a-few-months/
• 10:13 Vote results
• 10:54 Mission to Neptune
  • https://www.universetoday.com/168559/an-ambitious-mission-to-neptune-could-study-both-the-planet-and-triton/
• 13:22 Building a global light pollution map
  • https://gaia4sustainability.eu/gaia-4-sustainability/
• 14:35 Flying to Alpha Cen
  • https://www.universetoday.com/168534/new-video-shows-how-tiny-spacecraft-will-swarm-proxima-centauri/
• 16:19 More space news
• 16:58 Getting involved in science

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This is an unusual interview for my channel. It's mostly about AI, our current developments and the threats it poses to us.

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00:00 Intro
01:51 Arrival of LLMs
06:30 Alignment of AI
17:35 Existential dangers
18:58 The Pause AI movement
23:47 Safety
32:42 Wake-up calls and red lines
39:12 Possible response
41:43 AI as part of evolution
44:25 Simulation hypothesis and the Fermi Paradox
49:52 How to get involved
51:48 Current obsessions
57:19 Final thoughts

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What's the maximum speed you can get from a gravity assist? Can we have a double gravitational lens? What do you need to do to a phone to sent it to space? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show.

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00:00 Start
00:25 [Alaris] Can phones survive in space?
06:10 [Ardena] Asteroid vs meteorite
07:27 [Asuria] What happened to Orion, Meade, and Coronado telescope companies?
09:51 [Belote] Can we learn something about a supernova that the Sun was created from?
13:35 [Belsa] Can there be double gravitational lenses?
15:16 [Cartego] Favourite thing to observe visually?
17:41 [Chulak] Can we make a 2 AU interferometer?
21:21 [Dakara] Why are black holes different in size and mass?
24:20 [Edora] What does Starliner's return mean?
27:31 [Goronak] Thoughts on Starlink polluting the sky?
32:34 [Hadante] Are public funds on space wasteful?
36:30 [Hebridan] Can NASA vs China space race boost exploration?
40:11 [Jenev] What is the speed limit that can be achieved by sling-shot around planets?

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Polaris Dawn launches and completes the first private spacewalk, the surface of a giant star is resolved with incredible detail, Starliner comes home empty, and amazing new images of Mercury from BepiColumbo.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:16 First ever spacewalk
• 02:30 A star with incredible resolution
• 03:57 Mars spiders
• 06:04 Starliner returns
• 07:49 New Glenn delay
• 10:00 Starship updates
• 12:57 Mercury flyby
• 14:14 Vote results
• 15:07 Formation of Sag A
• 16:58 Iron winds on WASP-76b
• 18:15 Water on exoplanets
• 19:58 Guide to space
• 20:39 Asking for a favour

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Stars oscillate. Even the Sun does. And we can learn a lot about them by studying those oscillations. How is it done and what can we learn? Finding out in this interview.

🟣 Guest: Dr. Marc Hon
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00:00 Intro
01:39 What is Astroseismology
07:07 Measuring the oscillations of the Sun
12:45 Age of stars
24:17 The technique
36:03 Future instruments
49:32 Current obsessions
54:46 Final thoughts and more interviews

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What would it take to bring the Voyagers back to Earth? When will we see a true deep field by Webb? Why is Europa Clipper solar-powered? Why do black holes rotate? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show.

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• 00:00 Start
• 00:37 [Alaris] Can we bring Voyagers back?
• 04:50 [Ardena] JWST deep field wen?
• 08:40 [Asuria] Why Europa Clipper uses solar panels instead of an RTG?
• 11:55 [Belote] How do we know aliens don't exist?
• 13:51 [Belsa] Do black holes really merge?
• 16:19 [Cartego] How to choose a tripod for a pair of binoculars?
• 20:08 [Chulak] How do black holes rotate?
• 21:39 [Dakara] Were there any civilizations that just died?
  
• 24:59 [Edora] What happens when the Earth's magnetic poles flip?
• 28:12 [Goronak] When will the first child be born off Earth?
• 30:43 [Hadante] What kind of radiation is there in space?

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Another asteroid hit exactly where astronomers predicted, a monster asteroid rolled Ganymede over onto its side, strange sounds coming from Starliner, and China announces when it’ll try to grab a piece of Mars.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:13 Asteroid Over Philippines
• 02:04 Giant Ganymede impact
• 03:28 Strange sounds from Starliner
• 04:48 China's impressive space plans
• 07:54 Vote results
• 08:30 Primordial black holes
• 10:12 Drill for the Moon
• 11:25 Accretion disk
• 12:49 Guide to Space
• 13:32 Interferometers

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Interferometers are a great tool for getting incredible resolution without building giant mirrors. Why don't all telescopes use it? What projects should we expect and what could we get from them? What are the challenges? Finding out in this interview!

🟣 Guest: Dr. Gerard van Belle
https://lowell.edu/people/gerard-van-belle/

📜 Big Fringe Telescope:
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📜 MoonLITE: a CLPS-delivered NASA Astrophysics Pioneers lunar optical interferometer for sensitive, milliarcsecond observing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01392

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• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:02:05 What is an interferometer
• 00:13:50 Interferometers in space
• 00:19:37 Interferometers on the Moon
• 00:39:03 Detecting exoplanets with interferometers
• 00:46:28 The bonkers idea
• 00:53:48 BFT
• 01:03:41 Current obsessions
• 01:08:02 Final thoughts

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Could entangled electrons be used for FTL communications? Will Starship enable better satellites? Could we detect radiation on another world? Are there alternative explanations for black holes? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Overtime Q&A.

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• 00:00 Start
• 00:31 Could entangled electrons be used for FTL communications?
• 01:50 Will we ever detect planets at Alpha Centauri?
• 03:37 Will Starship enable better satellites?
• 06:32 Could we detect radiation on another world?
• 07:24 Will New Horizons visit other dwarf planets?
• 07:49 Where did IFT-4 land?
• 09:08 What will it do for a heat shield?
• 11:35 Are we closer to discovering new physics?
• 13:23 How do large scale structures affect our understanding?
• 15:00 Any upcoming near-Earth asteroid missions?
• 15:36 How close are we to detecting life?
• 16:32 Will Roman go to L2?
• 17:01 What are some alternatives to black holes?
• 17:54 Favorite lifeform?
• 18:12 Will missions go to Mars polar caps?
• 18:42 Could telescopes have free floating components?
• 19:38 Could Venus be terraformed?
• 21:04 Are white holes real?
• 22:32 What is the hardest part for Starship?

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Is Betelgeuse a binary star? Starliner is coming home empty. New Glenn is on schedule to launch NASA’s next mission to Mars. NASA’s solar sail unfurls.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:14 Betelgeuse could be a binary star
• 02:08 No crew for Starliner
• 04:04 New Glenn launch date
• 06:07 Europa Clipper gets solar panels
• 09:06 NASA Solar sail deployed
• 11:12 Vote results
• 11:48 China's Moon plans
• 15:00 Cool images
• 17:29 More space news
• 18:05 Livestreams return

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Why does the Sun have an 11-year cycle? Would I rather have a Venus mission or a Jovian moon mission? Do black holes attract other black holes? Can Chinese astronomers use Hubble/Webb? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Overtime Q&A.

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• 00:00 Start
• 00:46 Why does the Sun have an 11-year cycle?
• 02:13 Do all stars have a stellar cycle?
• 02:57 Why no probe to Oumuamua?
• 03:56 What got me into space in the first place?
• 08:13 Is that my real name?
• 08:56 Would I rather have a Venus mission or Jovian moon mission?
• 09:21 How does China do space science?
• 13:37 Can Chinese astronomers use Hubble/Webb?
• 14:25 Do I play video games?
• 18:30 What color are neutron stars?
• 19:10 Could Starship lower flight times?
• 19:55 Do black holes attract other black holes?
• 21:23 Have I ever seen a moose?
• 22:20 Is AI proceeding too quickly?
• 26:57 Do I use a special space ChatGPT?

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The DART mission is going to create a meteor shower on Earth, an explanation for the Wow! Signal, big problems with New Glenn, and JUICE completes a flyby of both the Earth and Moon.

👉 Plato Interview:
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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:14 DART Debris coming to Earth
  • https://www.universetoday.com/168109/debris-from-dart-could-hit-earth-and-mars-within-a-decade/
• 02:14 Water on Psyche
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• 04:56 Wow! signal
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• 08:09 New Glenn setback
  • https://futurism.com/the-byte/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-rocket-explodes-testing
• 10:14 Star escaping the Milky Way
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• 11:48 Vote results
• 12:33 JUICE flyby
  • https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_rerouted_to_Venus_in_world_s_first_lunar-Earth_flyby
• 14:07 Black hole feast
  • https://www.universetoday.com/168146/we-know-when-a-black-hole-will-have-its-next-feast/
• 16:02 Get ready for Polaris Dawn launch
  • https://polarisprogram.com/dawn/
• 18:13 Even more space news
• 18:50 Plato mission

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Have I ever messed up a recording? Are there plans for new space stations? Is there a limit to the size of an orbital rocket? Will humanity survive the next mass extinction event? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Overtime Q&A.

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• 00:24 Can a software engineer help astronomers?
• 05:03 Do galaxies have ripples?
• 07:03 Can we build a telescope to study a specific planet?
• 09:14 Did I see the Apple ad?
• 15:15 Does AI hallucinate?
• 16:51 Is there a limit to the size of an orbital rocket?
• 17:57 Will humanity survive the next mass extinction event?
• 21:40 How would an electromagnetic cannon work?
• 24:56 Would Gaia work well at the orbit of Jupiter?
• 26:58 Will I get a new telescope?
• 28:10 Have I ever messed up a recording?
• 31:05 Are there plans for new space stations?

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The quest to find an Earth-sized planet around a Sun-like star continues. One of the telescopes that could achieve it is ESA's Plato mission. How will it be able to do it and what should we expect from it? Finding out it this interview.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 02:06 Kepler Telescope
• 06:00 Plato telescope
• 27:33 What will PLATO find
• 35:15 Astroseismology
• 38:39 Follow-ups
• 41:46 A better PLATO
• 46:38 Current obsessions
• 52:39 Final thoughts

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Vast amounts of water found on Mars, but there’s a catch, Milky Way and Andromeda might not merge after all, a planet found before it gets destroyed, and an easier way to terraform Mars.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:16 Water found on Mars
• 02:55 Huge lake on Mars
• 04:20 Terraforming Mars
• 08:05 VIPER might be saved
• 09:38 Milkdromeda might not be happening
• 10:53 Vote results
• 11:28 Planet on the verge of destruction
• 13:09 New way of detecting supermassive black holes
• 14:21 Vera Rubin's secondary mirror
• 15:40 More space news
• 16:11 Livestreams and Q&A

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The final parsec problem is a mystery that is yet to be answered by cosmology. On paper, supermassive black holes shouldn't merge. But yet they do. Why is it happening? What helps them slow down? Could it be dark matter? Looking for answers in this interview.

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• 10:46 Proposed solution
• 21:55 Dark matter
• 26:46 What if it's wrong
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What's the most challenging part of Astronomy? What happened to Uranus? Which telescope to get for $200? Could we detect Voyager-like spacecraft flying through the solar system? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A.

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00:47 What's challenging about astronomy?
01:48 What do I think about Planet 9?
04:02 Thoughts on Project Lyra?
07:02 What priorities would I give NASA?
10:13 Any recommendation on a $200 telescope?
11:43 What's most important in binoculars?
14:52 Why is Uranus on its side?
15:34 Do I want to see missions to Uranus and Neptune?
17:18 Are there any resources for learning astronomy math online?
18:24 Why is it harder to explore the inner Solar System?
19:51 Where do supermassive black holes come from?
22:04 Would we detect the Voyagers passing through the Solar System?
23:09 Does civilizations need the metals from kilonovae?
23:45 Could the Solar System make a new planet?

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Interstellar travel might not be as impossible as most people think. Especially if we adopt the multi-stage approach that we already use in everyday rockets. How can we do it and what results we can expect? Finding out in this interview.

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• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:01:54 Sail close to the Sun
• 00:12:34 Interstellar velocities
• 00:28:03 Transferring power to spacecraft
• 00:33:09 Data transfer
• 00:43:31 Multi-stage interstellar ship
• 00:47:06 How will a realistic mission look like
• 01:09:51 Current obsessions
• 01:12:49 Final thoughts

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It’s time for the Perseids meteor shower, Gaia has found hundreds of asteroid moons, Starliner is still in question, and where does the Moon’s atmosphere come from?

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:14 It's time for the Perseids
• 03:03 GAIA finds asteroids with moons
• 05:30 Graphene on the Moon
• 07:26 Starliner still at the ISS
• 09:52 Polaris Dawn Launch Date
• 10:32 Planets forming around binary stars
• 13:02 Vote results
• 13:42 China created a lot of space junk
• 15:54 Moon atmosphere
• 17:38 More space news
• 18:25 TRAPPIST-1

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Future telescopes like Vera Rubin and Nancy Grace Roman will generate a lot of data. This will be a big challenge. To get ready for it astronomers use simulated observation data. Why is it important and how is it done? Finding out in this interview.

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01:46 Simulations of the cosmos
13:51 Measuring dark matter
19:11 What to look for in the data
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What happens to the stuff that falls into black holes? Do supergiants have sunspots? How can you do a gravitational slingshot from the Sun? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Overtime Q&A.

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• 00:00 Start
• 00:50 Could we do a gravitational slingshot around the Sun?
• 03:10 Does everything that goes into a black hole get converted into dark matter?
• 03:33 How has my perception of the Universe changed as I learn more about it?
• 07:44 What is beyond science?
• 11:04 What do I think about Starship?
• 12:07 Is dark energy decreasing?
• 13:48 Does our gravity well distort our measurement of the Universe?
• 15:52 Is the movements of interstellar medium a risk to space travel?
• 16:43 Could dark matter be explained by black holes?
• 17:26 Is there enough mass in the Solar System to make a black hole?
• 18:22 Could you restart Venus's dynamo?
• 21:32 Do supergiants have sunspots?
• 22:18 What do I think about UAPs?
• 24:11 Why didn't the Moon have water?
• 25:59 If we can't see black holes, what would they look like?
• 27:22 How do they land on an asteroid?
• 28:32 What questions do I hate?
• 30:29 Should we stop teaching that gravity is a force

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TRAPPIST-1 is one of the most interesting systems out there. JWST did observe them but we still don't have the results from all of them. Why is that and when can we expect to know something about their atmospheres? Finding out in this interview.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 02:00 Looking at TRAPPIST-1 with JWST
• 05:21 Planets around TRAPPIST-1
• 14:10 TRAPPIST-1d
• 23:28 Premature announcements
• 32:21 Alternatives to TRAPPIST-1
• 37:16 Other detection methods
• 43:19 The next gen instruments
• 51:44 Current obsessions
• 58:01 Final thoughts

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We’ve learned much more from the DART mission, dark oxygen is being generated at the bottom of the ocean, Starliner is almost ready to come home, and we might not need to dig deep to find life on Europa.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:15 DART findings
• 04:06 Dark Oxygen
• 06:53 Kepler and the Solar Cycles
• 08:36 Starliner suspense
• 09:37 SpaceX returns
• 10:56 Vote results
• 11:45 Europa and Enceladus
• 13:49 Starship hot fire test
• 14:14 Astroscale's ADRAS-J
• 15:13 More space news
• 16:01 Future of Universe Today

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John Michael Godier and Universe Today's Fraser Cain discuss the exciting developments in space exploration, focusing on Spacex and the upcoming fifth test launch of Starship. Join us as we discuss the details, analyzing the performance, challenges, and future implications of SpaceX's ambitious project.

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What happened at the earliest stages of the Universe and what is it expanding into? Can they just put a telescope inside a Starship? Why do I like the NIAC program so much? Answering all these questions and much more in this week's episode of Overtime Q&A.
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• 00:00 Start
• 00:35 What happened in the earliest stages of the Universe?
• 02:56 What is the Universe expanding into?
• 03:57 Did it happen now or in the past?
• 07:48 Could we put big telescopes in Starship?
• 08:52 What was the source of energy of the Big Bang?
• 09:44 Is a quasi-star a good explanation for black holes?
• 12:35 Will the ELT do infrared?
• 13:57 What would a starquake do to Earth?
• 15:49 Does Io have tectonic plates?
• 16:29 Why do I like NIAC so much?
• 18:13 How do we get JUMBOs?
• 19:59 Why can't we see beyond the CMB?
• 21:07 Could you ride a black hole's polar jets?

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Fluids behave very differently in space. We can make good use of it. For example, a recent NIAC grant was awarded to investigate a Magnetohydrodynamic Drive for Hydrogen and Oxygen Production in Mars Transfer. This is a system that should provide breathing oxygen for a journey to Mars made out of water with no moving parts in it.

🟣 Guest: Dr Alvaro Romero-Calvo
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• 00:00 Intro
• 01:39 Water in space
• 09:18 The NIAC project
• 28:31 Nightmares in space
• 35:56 Propulsion
• 44:19 Current obsessions
• 51:53 Final thoughts

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Gaia was hit by a micrometeoroid and a solar storm, mapping a lunar lava tube from space, both Mars rovers found fascinating rocks, and a direct image of the closest exo-jupiter.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:17 Gaia hit by a micrometeoroid
• 01:52 Moon lava tubes
• 03:27 Curiosity finds yellow crystals on Mars
• 04:53 Possible signs of life from Perseverance
• 06:46 ExoJupiter Seen by Webb
• 08:27 ESA's Mission to Apophis
• 10:26 Vote results
• 11:05 Mercury is full of diamonds
• 12:27 New Horizons detects background light
• 14:17 More space news
• 14:59 Chandra's anniversary
• 16:03 Carbon emissions
• 16:46 Webb's second year

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What are those lasers shooting out from telescopes? Can we build a space elevator? Could we grow plants in Mars regolith? Why not assemble telescopes in space? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Overtime Q&A.

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• 00:00 Start
• 00:50 Could we plant in Mars regolith?
• 02:35 What is the bright laser coming out of telescopes?
• 06:08 Will telescopes be assembled in space?
• 07:59 Would we have our money's worth if JWST broke?
• 08:45 Any updates on space elevators?
• 12:52 Will Breakthrough Starshot happen soon?
• 15:24 What about a low-mass black hole?
• 16:37 Could Gemini North and South do optical interferometry?
• 19:06 Thoughts on Europa?
• 21:46 How do galaxies collide if the Universe is expanding
• 22:45 Could an LCD screen be a coronagraph?
• 26:46 How does light travel farther than 13.8 billion light-years?
• 28:19 Are we looking for machine civilizations?

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It's already been two years of JWST operations. In this episode we accumulated all the major science results, all the amazing images and graphs, all the important discoveries and controversies. Enjoy the ULTIMATE GUIDE to the second year of James Webb.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 01:29 Jupiter's Moons
• 04:26 Uranus and its faintest rings
• 05:58 Exoplanets
• 06:24 TRAPPIST-1 system
• 09:04 Exomoon around a brown dwarf
• 11:01 Asteroid collisions
• 12:15 Hycean world
• 16:00 Methane on an exoplanet
• 17:00 Exoplanet weather
• 19:15 Water delivery to exoplanets
• 20:33 Sand clouds on an exoplanet
• 22:00 Rogue planets
• 24:12 Key molecule for life
• 25:53 Lobster nebula
• 27:07 A very young star
• 28:11 Horsehead nebula
• 29:24 Binary young star
• 30:40 Ring nebula
• 31:52 Pillars of creation in 3D
• 33:05 Crab nebula
• 34:02 Cassiopea A
• 34:49 Heart of the Milky Way
• 36:02 Extragalactic
• 36:19 Supernova 1987a
• 37:51 Triangulum galaxy
• 39:38 Spiral galaxies face on
• 40:51 Whirlpool galaxy
• 42:21 El Gordo and gravitational lenses
• 43:45 Erindel
• 45:08 Cosmic web
• 46:19 Most distant active black hole
• 48:16 Most distant galaxy
• 49:25 Epoch of Re-ionization
• 51:24 What's next

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Europa Clipper might be delayed. NASA is cancelling its VIPER lunar rover mission. Mapping the dark matter in a dwarf galaxy. And a real-life stillsuit.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:14 Europa Clipper in serious danger
• 03:11 NASA cancelled VIPER
• 04:56 Dune-style suit for space
• 06:58 Falcon 9 failure
• 08:17 SpaceX's ISS de-orbit vehicle
• 09:24 Flight 5 SuperHeavy static fire
• 10:05 New Glenn Legs
• 10:48 Vote results
• 11:25 Why is the Great Red Spot shrinking
• 12:34 Mapping dark matter
• 14:16 JWST updates
• 17:32 Weird state of the launch market

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Oumuamua and Borisov were the first interstellar visitors found by humanity. There should be many more of them. How can we find it and what will it mean for Astronomy? Finding out the answers.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 01:52 Oumuamua and Borisov
• 12:30 Interstellar meteorites
• 19:22 How are interstellar objects born
• 27:53 Better detection methods
• 34:40 Missions to interstellar objects
• 42:53 Active asteroids
• 56:07 Current obsessions
• 01:00:05 Final thoughts

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This is an episode of our Patreon-exclusive Q&A show that I do with my producer Anton.

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• 0:00:00 Intro
• 0:01:12 Summer break
• 0:04:46 Another Einstein
• 0:09:52 Detecting nuclear wars on exoplanets
• 0:11:22 Planets at Proxima Centauri C
• 0:13:38 Eclipses on other planets
• 0:16:03 Upcoming big missions
• 0:22:22 Rotating black holes
• 0:27:25 Abiogenesis
• 0:31:08 Dark matter interactions
• 0:33:02 Orbital collisions
• 0:36:19 Antimatter in the magnetosphere
• 0:37:40 SGL alternative approach
• 0:40:34 Colonizing space
• 0:45:07 Sources of gravitational waves
• 0:47:01 Accretion disks
• 0:49:43 Galactic Lagrange points
• 0:52:30 Starship and interstellar missions
• 0:58:06 Why doesn’t Super Heavy and Starship float
• 1:04:31 Inside of black holes
• 1:06:46 Astronauts in permanently shadowed Moon regions
• 1:11:03 Gravitational waves from dark matter
• 1:12:53 Docking in space
• 1:16:09 Starship mittens
• 1:20:15 Age of light
• 1:23:42 Sun’s magnetic field flipping
• 1:25:14 Earth-size Moon around a Super Duper Jupiter
• 1:27:26 Hollow black holes
• 1:29:47 Dark matter and antigravity
• 1:31:10 Starliner
• 1:34:17 Ancient astronomical constructions
• 1:39:13 Questions from Q&As
• 1:41:45 Regolith problem
• 1:43:53 Mirror Universe
• 1:48:03 Fastest approaching star
• 1:50:04 Refraction of gravitational waves
• 1:51:30 Distance to Voyagers
• 1:52:57 Panspermia
• 1:55:48 SpaceX independence
• 2:00:46 Capitalism in space
• 2:03:38 Cosmic horizons
• 2:06:44 Orion VS Starliner
• 2:09:51 Effects from supernovae
• 2:12:11 Private streaming services
• 2:17:26 Starting fusion in Jupiter
• 2:22:32 Returning Starship
• 2:28:28 ZZ Top songs
• 2:30:12 Meteorites from Venus
• 2:31:16 Pioneer 6

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Can Iron kill stars like poison? Will a Moon telescope be better than JWST? Can a fast-moving star be fatal for the Solar System? Which worlds are the best to extract resources? Answering all these questions and more in this week's episode of Overtime.

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• 00:00 Start
• 01:07 Did I discover that Triton is a star?
• 02:24 Best worlds for extracting resources
• 03:38 Would a telescope on the Moon see farther than JWST?
• 04:36 How would humans evolve on other worlds?
• 06:02 Planet orbiting binary red dwarf stars
• 06:52 Could a high-velocity star destroy the Solar System?
• 07:35 Is astronomy research only sustainable through taxes?
• 09:27 Can I recommend binoculars?
• 11:36 Is iron poison for stars?
• 12:41 Is the Universe 26 billion years old?
• 14:39 Does a planet need a magnetic field to be habitable?
• 15:52 Could there be a planet between the Sun and Mercury?
• 16:35 Could we dive into gas giant?
• 17:04 Opinion on naming exoplanets
• 17:48 Is JWST rewriting cosmology?
• 18:50 Am I sad that I won't see the story of humanity?

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Previously the only way to image black holes was with the Event Horizon Telescope, a combination of many radio telescopes across the globe. It is complicated and time-consuming. But with Vera Rubin going online soon, there might be a simpler way to observe black holes with a single telescope using a really clever method.

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📜 Resolving the Vicinity of Supermassive Black Holes with Gravitational
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• 00:00 Intro
• 01:45 Observing gravitationally lensed quasars
• 12:58 Why Vera Rubin
• 19:04 Best case scenario
• 23:22 What do we know about black holes
• 38:21 Current obsessions
• 44:31 Final thoughts

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This is an interview with me on the Pale Blue Pod podcast. We did talk about publishing in the space and astronomy sector. Enjoy!

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A strange eye ball world seen by Webb, did ancient astronomers see a kilonova in the sky, extreme moss that could handle Mars, and Ariane 6 flies successfully to space (mostly).

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:15 Eyeball planet
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167735/exoplanet-could-be-an-enormous-version-of-europa/
• 02:53 Habitable zones
  • https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slae064/7709457
• 05:04 Ancient kilonova
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167721/ancient-people-saw-a-kilonova-light-up-the-sky/
• 07:26 Moss to terraform Mars
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167715/the-rugged-desert-moss-best-equipped-to-survive-on-mars/
• 09:19 Vote results
• 10:02 Smelly planet
• https://www.universetoday.com/167728/webb-detects-the-smell-of-rotten-eggs-in-an-exoplanets-atmosphere/
• 11:11 Gravitatiionally lensed quasar
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167700/webb-looks-at-one-of-the-best-gravitationally-lensed-quasars-ever-discovered/
• 12:08 Intermediate size black hole
  • https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Hubble_finds_evidence_for_rare_black_hole_in_Omega_Centauri
• 14:58 China's DART mission
  • https://www.planetary.org/articles/china-targets-its-first-planetary-defense-test-mission
• 16:18 Ariane-6
• 17:47 Reusability

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Can stars be born without a parent galaxy? Can quasars destroy life in an entire galaxy? Is there another planet in our Solar System after all? Did the Sun have a sibling star at some point? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show.

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• 00:00 Start
• 00:51 Are there stars without a parent galaxy?
• 04:43 Can quasars sterilize their galaxies?
• 08:57 Did we find Dyson spheres?
• 13:04 Will I consider using LLMs in my work?
• 16:32 Is there a ninth planet?
• 19:19 If no Planet X is found, are black holes the only explanation?
• 21:25 If nothing spun, would there still be gravity?
• 23:41 Can telescopes at L2 see on the other side of the Sun?
• 27:07 Do we have a second star?
• 29:49 Is going to the Moon before Mars the right idea?
• 33:21 How do we know single pixel images aren't just noise?
• 36:44 Can the Sun switch its axis?

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Seeing an Earth-like planet around a Sun-like star isn't possible with current telescopes. The difference in brightness is just too big. But future space telescopes will have multiple tricks up their sleeve specifically for that. Which ones? Finding out in this interview.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 01:16 Resolving Earth-size world around a Sun-like star
• 08:13 Coronagraphs and Adaptive optics
• 21:10 Other ideas
• 34:59 Nulling
• 39:00 Nancy Grace Roman
• 43:19 Unlimited budget telescope
• 49:58 Current obsessions
• 53:33 Final thoughts

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Plate tectonics could be incredibly rare, LEGO bricks made from actual space rocks, mapping the Milky Way’s dark matter halo, and Perseverance’s SHERLOC instrument is fully operational again.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:17 Rare plate tectonics
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167659/plate-tectonics-might-only-occur-on-0-003-of-planets-that-makes-earth-very-special-indeed/
• 02:44 Findings from OSIRIS-REx samples
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167594/asteroid-samples-were-once-part-of-a-wetter-world/
• 04:21 Fast internet for the ISS
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167625/the-space-station-now-has-blisteringly-fast-internet/
• 05:43 Space LEGO bricks
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167675/lego-bricks-printed-out-of-space-dust/
• 07:10 Vote results
• 08:06 Mapping Milky Way's dark natter halo
  • https://kiaa.pku.edu.cn/info/1031/9340.htm
• 10:21 Mars meteorites
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167645/basketball-sized-meteorites-strike-the-surface-of-mars-every-day/
• 11:49 Lunar swirls
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167646/mysterious-swirls-on-the-moon-could-be-explained-by-underground-magma/
• 13:02 Mars recovery
  • https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/detective-work-enables-perseverance-team-to-revive-sherloc-instrument/
• 14:49 Kuiper belt might be bigger than we thought
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167661/more-evidence-that-the-kuiper-belt-is-bigger-than-we-thought/
• 16:22 Polars Dawn launch date
• 17:18 Amazing images and videos
• 19:23 More space news
• 20:06 Amazing rescues

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China returns samples from the far side of the Moon, SpaceX will be de-orbiting ISS, could you surf the methane waves on Titan, and who knows when Starliner is coming home

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:14 Samples from the far side of the Moon
• 01:41 China test a reusable rocket booster
• 02:41 SpaceX will deorbit ISS
• 05:13 Map of nearby stars
• 06:51 Vote results
• 07:40 Primordial black holes and dark matter
• 10:11 Waves on Titan
• 11:51 Garbage in the Mediterranean
• 13:05 Starliner still at the ISS
• 14:08 More space news
• 15:07 Awesome space images
• 16:32 Why don't they just

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Not every new space mission needs a separate launch and dedicated hardware. With this proposal, there's a huge potential for finding signals from primordial black holes by just using signals from a spacecraft flying to Uranus or Neptune. No additional hardware required.

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• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:02:39 Gravitational waves detector on a Uranus mission
• 00:15:05 Gravitational wavelengths
• 00:22:54 How could the mission be better
• 00:35:25 Direct collapse of black holes
• 00:50:37 Observing black hole accretion disks
• 00:58:59 Current obsessions
• 01:05:35 Final thoughts

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How often do objects fall into the Sun? Why do some stars explode as novae, not as Type 1a supernovae? Can the US Army just donate NASA a Hubble 2? Will humans be living underground on Mars? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A.

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• 00:00 Start
• 00:37 [Andoria] Why nova, not a Type 1a supernova?
• 05:15 [Vulcan] How often objects fall into the Sun?
• 06:42 [Risa] Can US army gift NASA a Hubble 2?
• 09:55 [Aeturen] What findings can prioritize their colonization?
• 12:36 [Vendikar] What are the chances that NASA will abandon Artemis?
• 15:06 [Remus] Would lunar dust be an issue for lunar telescopes?
• 17:07 [Janus] Will humans on Mars live underground?
• 20:10 [Cait] Are there plans to visit Uranus?
• 23:42 [Betazed] How do black holes keep up with the conservation of angular momentum?
• 25:43 [Cheleb] What is the most exciting discovery in astronomy in recent years?
• 27:52 [Nimbus] Did efforts to search for life outside planet Earth have intensified over time?
• 32:18 [Belos] Do all neutron star collisions create black holes?
• 35:08 [Lyar] What is the slowest speed in the Universe?
• 36:25 [Zalcon] Can we see the back of own head with a no-limits-telescope?
• 37:56 [Arret] Does anyone think our loudness in space will attract a dangerous civilization?

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AI is practically everywhere right now. But what practical use does it have in science? How can machine learning and large language models help in Astronomy and Cosmology? What can they look like and what use can we get out of them?

🟣 Guest: Dr Mike Smith
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👉 AstroPT on GitHub: https://github.com/Smith42/astroPT
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• 01:40 AI in modern science
• 05:33 Astronomy data for AstroPT
• 10:50 How does it work
• 17:15 How people can use AstroPT
• 19:58 Training data
• 22:45 Better understanding of Physics
• 28:58 What's next
• 38:51 The perfect data to feed AI
• 43:55 Current obsessions
• 47:40 Final thoughts

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How old is Jupiter’s Red Spot, watching a supermassive black hole wake up, the earliest merging quasars, and Starliner still hasn’t come home.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:13 Great Red Spot
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• 02:18 Supermassive Black Hole Awakening
  • https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2409/
• 04:11 Earliest merging quasars
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167446/the-earliest-merging-quasars-ever-seen/
• 05:23 Crab Nebula by JWST
  • https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/investigating-the-origins-of-the-crab-nebula-with-nasas-webb/
• 07:07 Vote results
• 07:51 Surviving the lunar night
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167429/a-new-way-to-survive-the-harsh-lunar-night/
• 09:51 Fish on Mars
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167408/fish-could-turn-regolith-into-fertile-soil-on-mars/
• 11:20 More delays for Starliner
• 12:48 Cool images
  • https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-releases-hubble-image-taken-in-new-pointing-mode/
• 16:04 More space news
• 16:49 Air-breathing ion engines
  • https://youtu.be/Lz4O6AzLofQ

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What are primordial black holes and how are they different from all the other kinds of black holes out there? How could we possibly detect them and what would it mean for Cosmology? Can primordial black holes be a solution for dark matter? Finding out the answers in this interview.

🟣 Guest: Jason Kristiano
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• 02:27 Formation of primordial black holes
• 11:25 The impact on the Universe
• 15:45 How can we observe black holes
• 20:30 Constraints on dark matter solution
• 22:56 Research
• 35:11 Further observations
• 44:18 Current obsessions
• 51:49 Final thoughts

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Satellites run out of fuel and have to de-orbit and end their missions. But what if they had access to a practically infinite amount of fuel? What if they could scoop air from the atmosphere and use it as propellant? That is exactly the research that Dr Mansur Tisaev is doing!

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👉 Dr Andrea Lucca Fabris
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• 02:04 Ion engines
• 15:32 Effects of the solar activity
• 19:35 Advantages of air-breathing engines
• 28:13 What's next
• 32:05 Non-Earth applications
• 36:26 Interstellar applications
• 38:35 Current obsessions
• 41:03 Final thoughts

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What percentage of stars live in binary systems? Are there Lagrange points all the way down? Can there be a rogue gravitational wave? Why do stars twinkle? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show.

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• 00:00 Start
• 00:24 [Andoria] Do most stars really live in binary systems?
• 05:44 [Vulcan] Which events could be galaxy-killers?
• 08:20 [Risa] Is it Lagrange points all the way down?
• 10:48 [Aeturen] Do binary stars have Lagrange points?
• 13:29 [Vendikar] Star Wars planets vs Star Trek planets
• 14:20 [Remus] Why some galaxies are "inactive"?
• 17:19 [Janus] What is the meaning of life?
• 18:19 [Cait] Is AI just overhyped marketing?
• 22:43 [Betazed] How big is the observable Universe?
• 25:57 [Cheleb] Could life exist on a tidally locked planet around a red dwarf?
• 29:25 [Nimbus] Why do stars twinkle?
• 31:01 [Belos] How to study astronomy as a hobby?
• 35:07 [Lyar] Can rogue gravity waves exist?
• 37:15 [Zalcon] Would aliens also have the scientific method?

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Mars is full of toxic perchlorates that can be very harmful for future human missions. So, when people go to Mars, they will need to fix it. NASA has awarded a NIAC grant for a project that can help solving this problem. It's called Detoxifying Mars: the biocatalytic elimination of omnipresent perchlorates.

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🟣 Guests: Dr. Lynn Rothschild, Dr. Garrett Roberts Kingman

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• 02:31 Perchlorates on Mars
• 10:48 The NIAC proposal
• 35:09 What's next
• 49:18 Current obsessions
• 53:35 Final thoughts

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We’re now weeks away from a nova, NASA is looking for new Mars Sample Return mission ideas, there’s frost on Olympus Mons, and watching asteroids collide in another star system.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:15 A nova's coming
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167320/were-now-just-weeks-away-from-a-stellar-explosion-you-can-see-with-your-own-eyes/
• 04:08 Alternative Mars Sample Return architectures
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167361/nasa-is-considering-other-ways-of-getting-its-mars-samples-home/
• 06:34 Chandra confirms exoplanet habitability
• 08:06 Euclid sees rogue planets too
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167326/euclid-is-finding-free-floating-planets-in-orion-too/
• 09:17 Frost on Olympus Mons
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167358/frost-seen-on-olympus-mons-for-the-first-time/
• 11:03 Vote results
• 11:51 Free lunch for satellites
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167366/next-generation-satellites-might-skim-the-atmosphere-using-air-as-a-propellant/
• 13:57 JWST sees asteroi collisions in another star system
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167344/webb-sees-asteroids-collide-in-another-star-system/
• 15:28 Starliner has 5 leaks
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167381/starliner-has-five-leaks/
• 17:03 More space news
• 17:36 Moon-based astronomy

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What kind of science can we do with telescopes on the Moon? Giant radio dishes in craters, gravitational wave detectors, UV-interferometers and much more. How Starship will completely change this field and enable new opportunities.

🟣 Guest: Dr. Martin Elvis
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• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:02:11 Why put telescopes on the Moon
• 00:10:00 Unique things for the Moon
• 00:18:01 What a telescope should look like
• 00:27:31 Gravitational waves observatory
• 00:37:12 History of the Moon
• 00:41:00 What's next
• 00:49:43 How Starship will change the game
• 00:54:29 Current obsessions
• 01:02:37 Final thoughts

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What is the coldest place in the known Universe? Which object that has a name is the most distant in the Solar System? What would be the best use for SpaceX Starship? How do satellites avoid collisions? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show.

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• 00:24 [Andoria] What's the furtherest named object in the Solar System?
• 04:48 [Vulcan] How do satellites avoid collisions?
• 09:00 [Risa] Where did all the pictures of the Milky Way come from?
• 12:17 [Aeturen] Can astrophotography hobby be turned into something serious?
• 18:59 [Vendikar] Why does gravity work across vast distances?
• 20:11 [Remus] What's the coldest place in the Universe?
• 21:18 [Janus] What are my current obsessions?
• 25:56 [Cait] Why is space black will all the stars in it?
• 28:28 [Betazed] Did JWST disprove the all previously known astronomy?
• 30:20 [Cheleb] Is the Great Attractor moving away from us?
• 32:37 [Nimbus] Best use for SpaceX Starship?

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Another Test of SpaceX Starship Superheavy combo, another analysis of the flight with Scott Manley and Marcus House! Super Heavy soft-landed in the ocean. Starship survived re-entry. What does it mean for SpaceX?

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🚀 IFT-3 Analysis: https://youtu.be/EVic941kQ44
🚀 IFT-2 Analysis: https://youtu.be/ReXZvXPak4U
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• 00:00 Intro
• 01:30 Starship IFT-4 Liftoff
• 06:19 Booster separation and landing
• 15:51 Ship coast and reentry
• 32:52 Failure or success?
• 45:41 What it means for Artemis
• 49:10 Starliner and Chang'e-6
• 59:14 Final thoughts

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Starship is successful on its fourth flight, Starliner reaches the station, carrying people, Hubble is only using one gyro, and Chang’e-6 scoops samples from the Moon and heads for home.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:14 Starship IFT-4
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167296/success-starship-makes-a-splash-in-fourth-flight-test/
• 07:10 Starliner First Crewed Launch
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167277/starliner-finally-launches-carrying-two-astronauts-into-orbit/
• 09:28 Chang'e-6 Lands, Scoops, Launches back
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167243/chinese-probe-collects-moon-samples-and-heads-for-earth/
• 10:53 dearMoon gets cancelled
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167211/japanese-billionaire-calls-off-his-starship-trip-around-the-moon/
• 12:19 SLIM is dead
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167242/japans-lunar-lander-fails-to-check-in/
• 13:03 Vote results
• 13:34 Hubble goes into single gyro mode
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167294/its-time-for-hardworking-hubble-to-slow-down-a-little/
• 16:09 Moon spacesuits integrated test
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167278/astronauts-are-practicing-lunar-operations-in-new-space-suits/
• 17:11 Support our work
• 18:27 Habitable worlds observatory
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167280/research-work-begins-on-the-habitable-worlds-observatory/
• 20:20 Dark matter updates
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167236/evidence-of-dark-matter-interacting-with-itself-in-el-gordo-merger/
• 24:24 More space news
• 25:06 What Starship success means

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How much water will a proper Moon base need? Where can we get it from? How can we manage and maintain the water? How will this approach work on Mars and beyond? Finding out the answers with Dr Jeffrey Lee.

🟣 Guest: Dr. Jeffrey Lee
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dX5MnbUAAAAJ&hl=en

📜 Water Management Considerations for a Self-Sustaining Moonbase
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• 00:00 Intro
• 01:56 How much water do humans need
• 05:10 Additional water requirements
• 09:32 Extracting water from the regolith
• 15:49 Managing the water
• 23:38 What comes next
• 26:16 Going to Mars
• 32:07 Current obsessions
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How would they get a 14-meter mirror to space? Are we sure there's no life on the Moon? Can there be Lagrange points around Lagrange points? How much mass does Earth gain and lose to space? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A.

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• 00:00 Start
• 00:26 [Andoria] Are we sure there's no life on the Moon?
• 06:53 [Vulcan] 14-meter space telescope. How?
• 10:53 [Risa] Why are there plumes on Enceladus?
• 14:59 [Aeturen] Is there a telescope planned to directly image exoplanets?
• 18:47 [Vendikar] Lagrange points around Lagrange points?
• 22:37 [Remus] Can you grind your own glass for a telescope?
• 25:12 [Janus] How much mass does Earth gain/lose?
• 28:11 [Cait] How much does time on JWST cost?
• 28:46 [Betazed] Can Earth remain habitable when the Sun expands?
• 33:01 [Cheleb] Does Hawking radiation travel faster than light?
• 34:12 [Nimbus] Did JWST find a Dyson sphere?
• 38:27 [Belos] How to keep up with space news?

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Lava tubes are one of the most interesting places on the Moon. They can be a great place for a potential lunar base, but they also can be a time capsule that can tell us about the entire history of the Moon. And there's a very interesting mission in development that could explore lava tubes. It's called Lunar Leaper.

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• 03:08 Lava tubes
• 07:31 Lunar Leaper
• 13:11 Hopping on the Moon
• 24:04 Going inside a lava tube
• 27:28 Mars lava tubes
• 30:44 Mars magnetosphere
• 36:45 Why don't they just ... crash things into Mars
• 39:34 Current obsessions
• 45:15 Final thoughts

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Starship is ready for its 4th flight, Webb finds the most distant galaxy ever seen, a new way to detect Hawking Radiation, and fresh volcanoes on Venus.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:14 Starship Flight 4 Coming Soon
• 01:55 Starliner might finally fly humans to space
• 02:47 James Webb sees the most the distant galaxy
• 04:58 New way to measure black hole rotation
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• 06:44 Possible way to see Hawking radiation
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• 08:32 Giant stars disappearing
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167171/hundreds-of-massive-stars-have-simply-disappeared/
• 10:42 Vote results
• 11:18 China's about to land on the Moon
• 13:07 Sorry, Spock! Vulcan is not a planet
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167161/sorry-spock-but-vulcan-isnt-a-planet-after-all/
• 14:28 Volcanos on Venus
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• 15:39 Akatsuki lost connection
• 16:32 Cool images and videos
• 18:10 Newsletter
• 19:15 Missions to Venus

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Where can we observe the effects of dark matter? How did all satellites survive the recent solar storms? Why auroras can show different colours? If we found Planet X, could we even observe it? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show.

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• 00:24 [Andoria] Where can we observe dark matter?
• 08:02 [Vulcan] How good are MOND theories?
• 11:21 [Risa] Why did we survive all the recent solar storms so well?
• 15:23 [Aeturen] Can we even see Planet X if it actually exists?
• 20:43 [Vendikar] Can multiple scientists use JWST at the same time?
• 24:23 [Remus] Can neutrinos be dark matter?
• 28:15 [Janus] Why some auroras are pink and not green?
• 29:50 [Cait] What is the Drake equation?
• 32:58 [Betazed] Falling into a black hole

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NASA selected the Agnostic Life Finder (ALF) for Phase 1 in 2024. It will be studying a possibility to search for existing and past life on Mars alongside the in situ resource utilization process. How will this device work and what potential implications could it have? Finding out with Dr Jan Spacek.

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• 02:23 The NIAC Proposal for ALF
• 17:25 Life as we don't know it
• 23:31 What's next for the NIAC project
• 27:45 The Morning Star mission to Venus
• 35:37 IMPRESS mission to Mars
• 43:55 Europa and Enceladus
• 50:19 Finding life
• 53:50 Current obsessions
• 55:33 Final thoughts

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A proposal for a giant new space telescope, a Venus-sized world in a star’s habitable zone, Vera Rubin gets its camera, and the first data release from Euclid.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:14 SALTUS: Giant 14m space telescope proposal
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• 03:32 New ExoVenus planet found
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167096/a-new-venus-sized-world-found-in-the-habitable-zone-of-its-star/
• 05:07 Massive Protoplanetary disk
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167038/this-is-the-largest-planet-forming-disk-ever-seen/
• 06:24 Voyager-1's Back for Real
  • https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/05/22/voyager-1-resumes-sending-science-data-from-two-instruments/
• 07:27 China's space aquarium
  • https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-05-19/Aquatic-antics-Fish-exhibit-disorientation-in-China-Space-Station-1tJt4wprXMY/p.html
• 09:11 Vote results
• 10:27 More Evidence for Gravitational Wave Background
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167058/more-evidence-for-the-gravitational-wave-background-of-the-universe/
• 13:09 Vera Rubin Got Its Camera
  • https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2413/
• 14:25 Euclid data release
  • https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/ESA_s_Euclid_celebrates_first_science_with_sparkling_cosmic_views
• 16:23 More space news
• 17:32 ExoVenus

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Getting to Enceladus is cool. However, it's not yet possible because there isn't enough budget for it. How can we make missions like that happen despite the budget limitations? Finding out the answers with Dr Manasvi Lingam.

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• 02:17 Why Enceladus
• 03:46 How can NASA cut costs
• 08:24 Mission profile
• 15:06 The science
• 24:23 Alternative approaches
• 31:21 Practical demonstration
• 37:44 Out of the box ideas
• 52:57 Current obsessions
• 58:41 Final thoughts

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A new answer for Mars methane, BepiColumbo is having thruster problems, three of the oldest stars in the Universe found nearby, and the best auroras in decades.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:14 Mars Methane Mystery
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• 02:50 BepiColombo in Trouble
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• 04:40 Oldest Stars in the Universe
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• 06:19 Crazy Auroras
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166955/what-a-weekend-spectacular-aurora-photos-from-around-the-world/
• 07:35 Vote results
• 08:14 Supermassive Black Holes' Origin
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166947/supermassive-black-holes-got-started-from-massive-cosmic-seeds/
• 10:12 Bright star mystery
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• 11:36 Amazing Hubble images
• 12:59 More space news
• 13:57 How to see an aurora

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How exactly does Gaia operate? What should we expect from it in the near future? When and why will it come to an end? And what comes after Gaia? Finding out the answers with Dr Berry Holl.

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• 02:48 Meet Dr Berry Holl
• 05:02 How Gaia works
• 12:56 Measuring the speed of stars
• 22:14 Limits of Gaia
• 32:10 Anomalies from Gaia
• 40:25 When will Gaia end
• 48:48 What comes next
• 01:01:33 Current obsessions
• 01:02:56 Final thoughts

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SpaceX announces their new spacewalking suit, China is off to the Moon again, progress on Vera Rubin, and take a one-way trip into a black hole.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:12 SpaceX EVA suit
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• 02:15 New evidence for Planet 9
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• 03:57 Vera Rubin's Mirror is done
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166842/vera-rubins-primary-mirror-gets-its-first-reflective-coating/
• 05:35 China's Chang'e-6 Moon mission
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166876/china-is-going-back-to-the-moon-again-with-change-6/
• 07:20 Vote results
• 08:13 NIAC phase 2
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166883/nasa-takes-six-advanced-tech-concepts-to-phase-ii/
• 10:18 Dinkinesh's moonlet is young
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166855/dinkineshs-moonlet-is-only-2-3-million-years-old/
• 11:31 Why white dwarf stars have so much metal
  • https://jila.colorado.edu/news-events/articles/hungry-hungry-white-dwarfs-solving-puzzle-stellar-metal-pollution
• 12:56 Dive into a black hole
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• 13:51 More space news
• 14:40 How science works

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How can we improve ALMA? What are the benefits of having a single big submillimeter telescope? What could we discover if the AtLAST telescope project goes through? Figuring out the answers with Dr Claudia Chicone.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 01:51 Submillimeter wavelength
• 06:42 ALMA
• 16:53 AtLAST telescope project
• 32:16 Submillimeter maps of the sky
• 36:30 What's next?
• 43:17 Final thoughts and more interveiws

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How can we let aliens know we're here? What does a lunar eclipse look like as seen from the Moon? Can we record a supernova in real time? Why aren't coronagraphs just circles? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show.

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• 00:00 Start
• 00:37 [Andoria] Can we signal to aliens with green glass?
• 06:39 [Vulcan] Lunar eclipse seen from the Moon
• 11:24 [Risa] Can we record a supernova appearing in real-time?
• 16:05 [Aeturen] Why aren't coronagraphs just circles?
• 20:53 [Vendikar] How do astronomers determine distances to other galaxies?
• 25:02 [Remus] Who was my favourite interview?
• 28:01 [Janus] How do astronomers determine the age of stars?
• 31:11 [Cait] Can we move Earth by the time the Sun will die?
• 34:31 [Betazed] Why does the Moon look bigger and yellow sometimes?

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When humans will return to the Moon they will need a lot of assistance to set up a settlement and carry out all the missions. They will need a lot of robots to do that. How exactly will it pan out? Figuring out with Professor Yang Gao from King's College London.

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• 02:48 Future Moon equipment
• 13:57 Autonomous robots
• 23:46 Machine learning revolution
• 32:25 Self-replication
• 38:09 Current obsessions
• 46:13 Final thoughts and more interviews

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Webb sees weather on an exoplanet, takes a new image of the horsehead nebula, and a satellite takes a close up image of a piece of space debris.

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• 00:17 Weather on an exoplanet
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• 02:26 JWST in interferometry mode
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166757/jwst-uses-interferometry-mode-to-reveal-two-protoplanets-around-a-young-star/
• 04:02 One step closer to space debris removal
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• 05:26 Hubble goes in and out of safe mode
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166780/uh-oh-hubbles-having-gyro-problems-again/
• 07:03 Black holes can halt star formation in galaxies
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166763/black-holes-can-halt-star-formation-in-massive-galaxies/
• 08:44 Vote results
• 09:29 SLIM just refuses to die
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• 10:32 Great images
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166802/first-light-from-einstein-probe-a-supernova-remnant/
• 13:08 More space news
• 13:59 Hubble's gyros

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What are the limits of James Webb when it's looking for Earth-like atmospheres? What can we possibly find out? Is there any hope for red dwarf stars and their planets to have a potential for habitability? Finding out the answers with Evelyn Macdonald.

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01:39 Current observations with Webb
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12:08 What do planets actually look like
17:41 Future telescopes
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24:55 Current obsessions
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How can we protect antimatter-powered rockets from space dust? Will curing cancer solve deep space travel? What happens when planets align? Does dark matter lose angular momentum? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A.

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• 00:00 Start
• 00:28 [Andoria] How can we protect antimatter-powered spaceships from space dust?
• 06:34 [Vulcan] What will happen if all planets aligned?
• 09:59 [Risa] Does dark matter lose angular momentum?
• 15:09 [Aeturen] Are there any advantages to non-Dobsonians for rookies?
• 21:03 [Vendikar] Why are JWST's deep field images not dramatically better than Hubble's?
• 23:52 [Remus] Will space still be dangerous when we cure cancer?
• 25:38 [Janus] How realistic is the concept of sophons from the Three Body Problem?
• 27:36 [Cait] Do gravity waves come in different flavours?
• 30:51 [Betazed] How big can a space telescope be if it's assembled in space?
• 34:36 [Cheleb] Could aliens have created black holes?
• 37:45 [Nimbus] What's the deal with Sedna?

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Juno sees a lava lake on Io, Voyager 1 isn’t spouting nonsense any more, Titan Dragonfly gets the greenlight from NASA, and TESS finds its first rogue planet.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:14 Giant Lava Lake on Io
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166716/juno-reveals-a-giant-lava-lake-on-io/
• 01:52 Voyager-1 restores communication
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166733/nasa-restores-communications-with-voyager-1/
• 03:39 NASA Greenlights Titan Dragonfly
• 06:03 TESS finds its first rogue planet
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166755/tess-finds-its-first-rogue-planet/
• 08:13 Vote results
• 08:57 Nancy Grace Roman gets reaction wheels
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Mgt2iwYgY&ab_channel=NASAGoddard
• 10:28 NASA's solar sail goes to space
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166759/nasas-new-solar-sail-has-launched-and-deployed/
• 12:10 Two incredible timelapses from Chandra
• 13:16 Downscale for Artemis III?
  • https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/nasa-may-alter-artemis-iii-to-have-starship-and-orion-dock-in-low-earth-orbit/
• 15:58 More space news
• 16:52 Capabilities driven exploration
  • https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/nextstep-virtual-industry-forum_6nov2014_final.pdf

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Why don't they just build a bigger version of James Webb for Starship? What's the pressure inside Europa's oceans? How can you measure a day on a planet without a surface? Answering all these questions and more in this week's question show.

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00:26 [Andoria] What's the pressure in Europa's ocean?
04:45 [Vulcan] Should they build another JWST for the Starship?
09:53 [Risa] How long is a day on a gas planet?
13:45 [Aeturen] How does a total solar eclipse look like from the Moon?
16:17 [Vendikar] Suggestions for backyard telescope hobbyists
24:16 [Remus] Who are the real science gatekeepers?
28:05 [Janus] What would I do differently for the next eclipse?
30:55 [Cait] Phone apps with sky overlay
33:12 [Betazed] How will Japan's pressurised rover keep dust from the inside?
37:06 [Cheleb] What effects can a gamma ray burst have on Earth?

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A piece of the ISS smashed into a house in Florida. Evidence for the first stars in the Universe. NASA is having to rethink its Mars Sample Return mission.

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• 00:14 Chunk from ISS hits a house in Florida
  • https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2024/04/15/nasa-completes-analysis-of-recovered-space-object/
• 01:45 Did JWST find Pop III stars?
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00953
• 04:46 Problems with Mars Sample Return
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166658/the-current-mars-sample-return-mission-isnt-going-to-work-nasa-is-going-back-to-the-drawing-board/
• 07:00 Closest black hole
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166669/the-milky-ways-most-massive-stellar-black-hole-is-only-2000-light-years-away/
• 08:26 Vote results
• 09:20 Moon dust shield
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166615/nasa-is-building-an-electrodynamic-shield-to-deal-with-all-that-dust-on-the-moon-and-mars/
• 11:18 Patreon
• 12:29 Hint for an exomoon
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1041117
• 14:27 Mind-blowing eclipse video
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166677/the-solar-eclipse-like-weve-never-seen-it-before/
• 15:16 More space news
• 16:07 Mars sample return

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New measurements show dark energy may be evolving, Japan is joining Artemis with a pressurized rover, why the Moon has two different faces, and my experience with the total solar eclipse.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:16 Dark Energy might be evolving
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166508/a-new-map-shows-the-universes-dark-energy-may-be-evolving/
• 04:44 JAXA's Moon rover
  • https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-japan-advance-space-cooperation-sign-agreement-for-lunar-rover/
• 06:52 Moon's two different halves
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166588/finally-an-explanation-for-the-moons-radically-different-hemispheres/
• 08:57 Ice-melting probe
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166548/testing-a-probe-that-could-drill-into-an-ice-world/
• 10:51 Vote results
  • https://youtu.be/zuuo1O93kMY
• 11:24 Rainbows on exoplanets
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166535/the-first-atmospheric-rainbow-on-an-exoplanet/
• 13:21 Small black hole
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166566/a-neutron-star-merged-with-a-surprisingly-light-black-hole/
• 14:30 Solar eclipse 2024
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166596/here-are-the-next-three-total-solar-eclipses-coming-up/
• 16:44 Two cool videos
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166612/watch-a-satellite-reaction-wheel-melt-in-a-simulated-orbital-re-entry/
• 18:24 Even more space news
• 19:09 JAXA is so cool

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What engine type will the first manned interstellar mission use for propulsion? Will AI help solve any mysteries of space? Why do we have exoplanet types named after Neptune but not Uranus? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show.

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• 00:00 Start
• 00:24 [Andoria] What will happen to the orbits of planets when the Sun expands?
• 03:54 [Vulcan] What can we learn from the dust in the Solar system?
• 08:05 [Risa] How does Venus keep its atmosphere?
• 12:09 [Aeturen] What does the Unruh effect mean?
• 14:30 [Vendikar] Why exoplanet types aren't called after Uranus?
• 16:14 [Remus] How will the first interstellar manned mission look like?
• 21:07 [Janus] What do JWST observations of organics around protostars mean?
• 25:26 [Cait] Are aliens limited by the transit method?
• 30:16 [Betazed] Will AGI help us solve the mysteries of space?
• 35:19 [Cheleb] Did JWST really find city lights 7 trillion miles away?

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Vera Rubin’s Camera is complete, where are rogue planets coming from, NASA chooses suppliers for its new lunar rover, and an earlier formation for the Moon.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:14 Vera Rubin's camera is ready
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• 01:39 Where do rogue planets come from
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• 03:44 NASA gives contracts for new Moon rovers
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166500/nasa-teams-lunar-terrain-vehicle/
• 05:32 SLIM's still alive
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166431/against-all-odds-japans-slim-lander-survived-a-second-lunar-night-upside-down/
• 06:48 Hopping on the Moon
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166473/a-robot-hopper-to-explore-the-moons-dangerous-terrain/
• 08:54 Vote results
• 09:45 Earliest possible Moon formation
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166479/whats-the-earliest-the-moon-could-have-formed/
• 11:54 Simulating a neutron star surface
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166434/it-takes-a-supercomputer-to-properly-simulate-a-neutron-stars-surface/
• 13:19 Newsletter
• 13:59 How to watch the eclipse

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Does gravitational lensing affect the CMB? Can the Great Attractor solve the Hubble tension? Why don't we put a Deep Space Network antenna in space? What's the difference between a nova and a supernova? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show.

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• 00:00 Start
• 01:31 [Andoria] How does gravitational lensing affect the CMB?
• 05:31 [Vulcan] What's the difference between a nova and a supernova?
• 11:25 [Risa] Can the Great Attractor be the reason for the Hubble tension?
• 13:55 [Aeturen] Orientation of the Moon in different places on Earth
• 15:52 [Vendikar] Why not put the Deep Space Network in space?
• 21:11 [Remus] Should we build a space station to travel to Mars?
• 23:47 [Janus] Is there a limit for the periodic table elements?
• 26:52 [Cait] What was my early life experience in Astronomy?
• 30:54 [Betazed] What is the best thing to see from a southern latitude?
• 33:38 [Cheleb] Why were stars in the early universe so much larger than stars today?
• 37:56 [Nimbus] Would I go to Mars?
• 40:13 [Belos] Do we know about moons orbiting other moons?

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The Fermi paradox has many solutions. Many explanations for the fact that we don't see any signs of intelligent life in the Universe. We ranked all the major ones and put them into tiers from S to D.

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• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:01:33 Fermi paradox
• 00:02:25 Zoo Hypothesis
• 00:06:19 Prime Directive
• 00:11:10 Simulation Hypothesis
• 00:16:54 Dark Forest
• 00:25:48 The Great Filter
• 00:33:54 Self-Destruction
• 00:40:16 We're The First
• 00:44:15 Rare Intelligence
• 00:49:00 We're Alone
• 00:56:00 Communication Barrier
• 01:04:35 Post-Biological Life
• 01:12:16 Hibernation Hypothesis
• 01:16:31 Our Tech Isn't Good Enough
• 01:20:49 We're Searching In Wrong Places
• 01:24:08 Aliens Are Among Us
• 01:27:01 Interstellar Travel is Impossible
• 01:36:19 Reapers
• 01:42:03 Expansion is Inefficient
• 01:47:48 There Is a Better Way

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See the magnetic fields twisting around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, a supernova was seen in almost real time, NASA announces its planetary science goals for Artemis III and Gaia finds two ancient building blocks of the Milky Way.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:18 New EHT image of Sag A
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• 02:45 Supernova caught in almost real time
  • https://keckobservatory.org/sn2023ixf/
• 04:55 Artemis 3 planetary science goals
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166321/nasa-reveals-its-planetary-science-goals-for-artemis-iii/
• 07:12 Gaia finds ancient streams of stars
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166303/gaia-finds-ancient-streams-of-stars-that-formed-the-milky-way/
• 08:29 Veritas mission is back in business
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166299/nasas-veritas-mission-breathes-new-life/
• 10:11 Vote results
• 10:53 China's Moon relay satellite
• 12:18 Hubble sees two newly born stars
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166359/hubble-sees-a-star-about-to-ignite/
• 14:32 Live Starlink map
  • https://www.universetoday.com/166319/watch-a-real-time-map-of-starlinks-orbiting-earth/
• 15:39 More news
• 16:28 Venus

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