We know that stars start with a cloud of gas and then turn into a glowing ball. But how exactly does this process happen? How do stars turn on? Astronomers have been using JWST to find out. 🟣 Guest: Adam Rubinstein 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 02:39 Young stars 11:55 Going from not-a-star to a star 14:22 JWST data 33:51 Working with JWST 45:54 Current obsessions 50:12 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/T_tHtWngvTA 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Can there be Dark Energy detectors? When will Sgr A start shrinking? Should the Prime Directive apply to Mars? Can we bring a proper observatory in space? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:29 [Alaris] What about Dark Energy detectors? 08:40 [Ardena] Why don't we see different constellations during the year? 11:15 [Asuria] When will Sagittarius A start shrinking? 13:42 [Belote] Can we build a space station observatory? 18:44 [Belsa] How do we see objects falling into black holes? 20:14 [Cartego] How will interstellar communication work? 21:48 [Chulak] Should the Prime Directive apply to Mars? 26:18 [Dakara] Does Mars have meteors from Earth? 27:32 [Edora] Why do comets leave tails? 29:03 [Goronak] Can black holes explode? 30:43 [Hadante] Does liver damage make Mars trips impossible? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/KFsIuE4BiaQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Starship takes its fifth test flight, Europa Clipper launches successfully, China’s science plans from now until 2050, and Jupiter’s jiggly Great Red Spot. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 Starship IFT-5 03:11 Europa Clipper launch 06:41 Uranus seen from both sides 08:41 China's space plans 11:06 Jiggling Great Red Spot 13:08 Vote results 13:56 Possible Volcanic exomoon 15:41 Giant cluster spitting out stars 17:37 Axiom's spacesuit design 18:44 Guide to Space 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/IIT-n9-HlfA 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What's the best way to do science communication? Will Jupiter expand when the Sun dies? How would aliens experience their environment? Can New Horizons get new targets in future? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Overtime Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:59 How can Hawking radiation escape a black hole? 03:47 Will Jupiter also expand when the Sun expands? 05:08 Why don't astronomers use the exoplanet names? 07:05 Will the Indians beat everyone to the Moon? 08:11 Do I feel threatened by ChatGPT? 10:28 What's the best way to do science communication? 11:48 How would aliens experience their environment? 14:19 Is the surface of the Moon littered with minerals? 15:43 What is the Universe orbiting? 16:03 Will New Horizons find new targets? 16:44 Would I go back to school to become an astronomer? 17:31 What are China's plans for the Moon? 20:07 Thoughts on the newer aerospike engines? 21:53 Should we spread life in the Solar System? 23:16 What are my favorite moons? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/32_zjx-dHRw 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

SpaceX caught Super Heavy with Mechazilla. Starship survived re-entry and did a precise landing in the ocean. How did they do that? What does it mean for SpaceX? What to expect from IFT-6 now? 📺 Scott Manley: https://www.youtube.com/@scottmanley 📺 Marcus House: https://www.youtube.com/@MarcusHouse 🚀 IFT-4 Analysis: https://youtu.be/ecMlV4W_CLU 🚀 IFT-3 Analysis: https://youtu.be/EVic941kQ44 🚀 IFT-2 Analysis: https://youtu.be/ReXZvXPak4U 🚀 IFT-1 Analysis: https://youtu.be/RGcdjJj-f4g 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:05 Flight 5 02:25 Initial plan for the test 03:54 Liftoff 05:50 Hot staging 10:04 Super Heavy catch 16:01 What were the odds 20:38 Future versions of Starship 23:42 Starship's re-entry and splashdown 37:38 The aftermath 42:28 Flight 6 58:11 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Flv1W6AR-cU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

A new spacecraft is going to look at the aftermath from the DART mission, the Milky Way is part of a much, much larger structure, an early galaxy that’s similar to the Milky Way, and Starship test flight five could be just around the corner. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:16 Nancy Grace Roman tests 02:09 Hera mission launched 04:02 Milky Way part of a much larger structure 06:12 Earliest spiral galaxy 07:19 JWST looks at Charon 09:50 Vote results 10:29 Water on the Moon 12:44 Super compact triple star system 14:02 Starship Flight 5 coming soon 16:22 Guide to Space 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/LI7R-LM3Ifw 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How old is the Universe? Why do no missions go to Mars' ice poles? What does X-37B actually do? Why not abandon the SLS? Can Starship solve the problems Starlinks create? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:39 [Alaris] How old is the Universe? 08:12 [Ardena] Why do no missions go to Mars' ice poles 11:04 [Asuria] What's the distance limit of a black hole's influence? 13:37 [Belote] What does X-37B actually do? 16:06 [Belsa] Why not abandon the SLS? 21:37 [Cartego] Is the Universe infinite or finite? 23:49 [Chulak] What's going on with Europa clipper? 27:45 [Dakara] Can Starship solve the problems Starlinks create? 31:53 [Edora] How often does the Earth capture another moon? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/ZUw7HvtRZfc 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Planets at Bernard’s Star, Chinese lunar spacesuits, Voyager 2 Has to power down one of its instruments, and a comet seen from space. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:12 Planets found around the Barnard's star 02:13 Asymmetrical exoplanet 03:26 Crew Dragon's propulsive landing 04:29 Views from Polaris Dawn 05:11 China's new lunar spacesuits 06:25 ISS leaks. Again. 07:51 Vote results 08:26 Voyager-2 turns off one more instrument 10:10 Space balloon test 11:41 Black hole jet 13:07 Comet from space 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/BID90zOyZA4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What are the limits for the telescopes of the future? Can you play disk golf on Mars or the Moon? Will all galaxies eventually fade away? When will we launch Voyagers v2.0? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:27 [Alaris] What are the limits for future telescopes? 06:47 [Ardena] Can you play golf on Moon or Mars? 09:21 [Asuria] Why don't all rockets launch from the equator? 12:21 [Belote] Which telescopes should we be launching on Starship? 16:16 [Belsa] Will all galaxies eventually fade away? 19:01 [Cartego] Does Hawking radiation affect dark matter? 21:38 [Chulak] Will there be another Voyager mission? 24:55 [Dakara] Do we live forever? 28:12 [Edora] Have we seen Oort clouds of other solar systems? 30:54 [Goronak] Will earth resources be enough for SpaceX? 35:13 [Hadante] Will I cover theories that don't have a Big Bang origin? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/5wnrAo_RmC8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/2ipIUL64gLc 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/2_buH0GXFx8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/LE-0sY1tEjg 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/hm44Blv5Y0k 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This is an unusual interview for my channel. It's mostly about AI, our current developments and the threats it poses to us. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/A4M3Q_P2xP4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/hSrp6VHjHbo 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🌞 Asteroseismology interview: https://youtu.be/pfbo4Ffzf9I 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/gwWYzlXOIsw 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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 https://mtyhon.github.io/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/pfbo4Ffzf9I 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/BlMjWphwRr4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/We9w0o-_zuo 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01386 📜 MoonLITE: a CLPS-delivered NASA Astrophysics Pioneers lunar optical interferometer for sensitive, milliarcsecond observing https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01392 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/wcR6gs0Up6k 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/9ugsq2mY1u0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Lblcc3jtEW4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/j248ozTEujs 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TofP5yeqNLg 👉 JMG's Wow! Signal Interview: https://youtu.be/4ck9IsczPNU 👉 Everyday Astronaut's Blue Origin Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsuqSn7ifpU 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 https://www.universetoday.com/168189/there-might-be-water-on-the-surface-of-the-metal-asteroid-psyche/ 04:56 Wow! signal https://www.universetoday.com/168176/the-wow-signal-deciphered-it-was-hydrogen-all-along/ 08:09 New Glenn setback https://futurism.com/the-byte/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-rocket-explodes-testing 10:14 Star escaping the Milky Way https://www.universetoday.com/168167/citizen-scientists-find-a-star-escaping-the-milky-way/ 11:48 Vote results 12:33 JUICE flyby https://www.esa.int/ScienceExploration/SpaceScience/Juice/JuicereroutedtoVenusinworldsfirstlunar-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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/4ck9IsczPNU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/QEikPnzrMoo 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🟣 Guest: Dr. David Brown https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/people/dbrown/ 🔭 Plato Telescope: https://www.esa.int/ScienceExploration/SpaceScience/Plato 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/TofP5yeqNLg 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 👉 Submit Your Questions for Patreon Q&A: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110229335 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/oBfoM3TnYUE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🟣 Guest: Dr. Gonzalo Alonso Álvarez 📜 Self-Interacting Dark Matter Solves the Final Parsec Problem of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.021401 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 02:33 Final parsec problem 10:46 Proposed solution 21:55 Dark matter 26:46 What if it's wrong 37:10 Current obsessions 39:09 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/zAyoAtUUtug 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/72VaI5kkf38 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 👉 Interstellar Travel Without Breaking Physics with Andrew Higgins: https://youtu.be/SkGRVvA23qI 🟣 Guest: Jeff Greason https://www.el-sky.com 📜 Sunbeam: Near-sun statites as beam platforms for beam-driven rockets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576524003837?via%3Dihub 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/E74Kg8NpCyE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/DmgqT9CQSf8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:46 Simulations of the cosmos 13:51 Measuring dark matter 19:11 What to look for in the data 25:52 Simulations VS real data 38:54 Current obsessions 45:50 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/nn7BbFeVQ4o 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/mvDCKJdvRWc 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/SSjERIwnTl4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/HYC4HJjTkbI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. ⚫️ JMG's Event Horizon: https://www.youtube.com/@EventHorizonShow 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hemEcdEOlxw&ab_channel=EventHorizon 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/NRjn9KYzPGE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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 https://ae.gatech.edu/directory/person/alvaro-romero-calvo 👉 More about the NIAC project: https://www.nasa.gov/general/magnetohydrodynamic-drive-for-hydrogen-and-oxygen-production/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/fnKwzi7nvOU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/vfyuM6ynIyA 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/CB5JBkDqmu0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/wh4G1Wh79Ck 🥇 All the JWST discoveries from YEAR 1 https://youtu.be/nbDQEo0uA0Q 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/9ahZM6xTRkk 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/w-ykiXXGuCo 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This is an episode of our Patreon-exclusive Q&A show that I do with my producer Anton. Join our Patreon. Here's the call for questions for this month's Q&A: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patrons-send-in-108268455 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 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/I6r92Qm3Nns 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🟣 Guest: Dr Matt O'Dowd https://www.mattodowd.space/ 📜 Resolving the Vicinity of Supermassive Black Holes with Gravitational Microlensing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.10500 👉 PBS Spacetime https://www.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/m2xtVfpfeWQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This is an interview with me on the Pale Blue Pod podcast. We did talk about publishing in the space and astronomy sector. Enjoy! 🔵 Pale Blue Pod: https://palebluepod.space/ 📺 Video with Moya McTier: https://youtu.be/DFPfG413F58 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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). 👁️ Anton Petrov's video about the Eyeball planet: https://youtu.be/SQv5yso1CXQ?si=n7FVm-E59YmXLv91 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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/ScienceExploration/SpaceScience/HubblefindsevidenceforrareblackholeinOmega_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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/NmYdOVbUWeY 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/9CsBzBMfPu0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🟣 Guest: Dr Bertrand Mennesson https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/mennesson/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/pk9dLIw3IEM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/YGlT8I3IE94 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/1jS8khbMNO0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/XfOxNJvSvf4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/tq6OIzSmeKg 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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 https://www.mjjsmith.com/ 👉 AstroPT on GitHub: https://github.com/Smith42/astroPT 👉 AstroPT Discord: discord.gg/MNEVegvfJq 📜 AstroPT: Scaling Large Observation Models for Astronomy https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14930 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/SexDIF__8l4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:13 Great Red Spot https://www.universetoday.com/167417/the-great-red-spot-probably-formed-in-the-early-1800s/ 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/i12SZ7tiu0o 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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 https://jkristiano.github.io/ 📜 Generating large primordial fluctuations in single-field inflation for PBH formation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12149 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/8UVsNMS3Pzs 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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! 🟣 Guest: Dr. Mansur Tisaev https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mansur-Tisaev 👉 Dr Andrea Lucca Fabris https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/andrea-lucca-fabris 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Lz4O6AzLofQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/s0C-OmBlIiQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 👉 More about the NIAC project: https://www.nasa.gov/general/detoxifying-mars/ 🟣 Guests: Dr. Lynn Rothschild, Dr. Garrett Roberts Kingman 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 02:31 Perchlorates on Mars 10:48 The NIAC proposal 35:09 What's next 49:18 Current obsessions 53:35 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/GitfDWpm6UU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/yPGGi1-yAUE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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 https://cfa.harvard.edu/people/martin-elvis 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Cz511HLQynM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/OOFT6u7tR2M 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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? 📺 Scott Manley: https://www.youtube.com/@scottmanley 📺 Marcus House: https://www.youtube.com/@MarcusHouse 🚀 IFT-3 Analysis: https://youtu.be/EVic941kQ44 🚀 IFT-2 Analysis: https://youtu.be/ReXZvXPak4U 🚀 IFT-1 Analysis: https://youtu.be/RGcdjJj-f4g 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/ecMlV4W_CLU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/JLQ-6s3G5gM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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 https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14100 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 41:21 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/nLqL_lZIkiI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/3OW9PaNm03Y 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. Guest: Dr Anna Mittelholz 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/TJIcpl9sk8E 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 https://www.universetoday.com/167127/a-new-way-to-measure-the-rotation-of-black-holes/ 06:44 Possible way to see Hawking radiation https://www.universetoday.com/167112/merging-black-holes-could-give-astronomers-a-way-to-detect-hawking-radiation/ 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 https://www.universetoday.com/167156/volcanoes-were-erupting-on-venus-in-the-1990s/ 15:39 Akatsuki lost connection 16:32 Cool images and videos 18:10 Newsletter 19:15 Missions to Venus 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Rta_pbpGAGM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/WDFW_-dWT8A 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 👉 Dr Jan Spacek: https://www.alfamars.org/team/jan-spacek/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/dcf87fYciXM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 SALTUS: Giant 14m space telescope proposal https://www.universetoday.com/167083/astronomers-propose-a-14-meter-infrared-space-telescope/ 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/ScienceExploration/SpaceScience/Euclid/ESAsEuclidcelebratesfirstsciencewithsparklingcosmic_views 16:23 More space news 17:32 ExoVenus 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/JPFx3yBDQxg 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 👉 Manasvi Lingam's Google Scholar Page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XLPj80AAAAAJ&hl=en 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/GxGl80RDrkI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 Mars Methane Mystery https://www.universetoday.com/167003/new-answers-for-mars-methane-mystery/ 02:50 BepiColombo in Trouble https://www.esa.int/EnablingSupport/Operations/GlitchonBepiColomboworkongoingtorestorespacecrafttofull_thrust 04:40 Oldest Stars in the Universe https://www.universetoday.com/167001/three-of-the-oldest-stars-in-the-universe-found-circling-the-milky-way/ 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 https://www.universetoday.com/167007/a-star-became-1000-times-brighter-and-now-astronomers-know-why/ 11:36 Amazing Hubble images 12:59 More space news 13:57 How to see an aurora 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/6z9RV-dm7eU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 👉 Gaia Black Hole 3 discovery seminar at the Department of astronomy Geneva https://mediaserver.unige.ch/play/218992 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/RyEVmDH5Cdk 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:12 SpaceX EVA suit https://polarisprogram.com/eva-suit-unveil/ 02:15 New evidence for Planet 9 https://www.universetoday.com/166889/new-evidence-for-our-solar-systems-ghost-planet-nine/ 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 https://www.universetoday.com/166903/fall-into-a-black-hole-with-this-new-nasa-simulation/ 13:51 More space news 14:40 How science works 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/_OIfxkBc4-8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/5AMfpLUidC4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/mz-DcU2VaAs 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/j4K75MIlRz0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:17 Weather on an exoplanet https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-maps-weather-on-planet-280-light-years-away/ 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 https://astroscale.com/astroscale-unveils-worlds-first-image-of-space-debris-captured-through-rendezvous-and-proximity-operations/ 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 https://www.universetoday.com/166765/japans-lunar-lander-survives-its-third-lunar-night/ 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/BcHNl64vEN8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:39 Current observations with Webb 06:14 What could we see in exoplanet atmospheres 12:08 What do planets actually look like 17:41 Future telescopes 19:50 Is there hope for red dwarf star planets? 24:55 Current obsessions 26:34 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/mtx72I1r3T4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/3P0H5AKuExw 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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-forum6nov2014final.pdf 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/KxfqQYY-h-U 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/fkF_BJTCjiA 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Bf_KmyRyw-0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/8U7MbLGbArE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/5GTXejI-StE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 Vera Rubin's camera is ready https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2407/ 01:39 Where do rogue planets come from https://www.universetoday.com/166406/where-are-all-these-rogue-planets-coming-from/ 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/zuuo1O93kMY 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Mweexhwpu5g 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 70,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🔵 Pale Blue Pod: https://palebluepod.space/ 👉 Dr Moiya McTier: https://www.moiyamctier.com/ 👉 Dakotah Tyler: https://www.dakotahtyler.com/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/DFPfG413F58 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:18 New EHT image of Sag A https://www.universetoday.com/166327/new-view-reveals-magnetic-fields-around-our-galaxys-giant-black-hole/ 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/ogTvHqhUfXQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Can we harvest energy from the Moon's temperature difference? Why don't we just launch multiple telescopes like Hubble? Why is the Moon grey? Why are sunspots black? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:27 [Andoria] Can we extract energy from Moon's temperature difference? 05:19 [Vulcan] Constellation of "Almost Hubbles" 08:40 [Risa] Why do sunspots look black? 10:26 [Aeturen] Will we still be 'alone' if we find life on Europa? 14:52 [Vendikar] Why do black holes shrink? 20:22 [Remus] What lifeforms can survive on Jovian moons? 25:01 [Janus] Why is the Moon grey? 26:44 [Cait] Why not build a very big spacecraft in orbit? 31:06 [Betazed] Will humans ever fly on solar sails? 33:09 [Cheleb] What does a lunar eclipse look like on the Moon? 35:03 [Nimbus] Will we ever see a Venus rover? 37:56 [Belos] Could Enceladus have life during the Sun's red giant phase? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/coZQpmMKJ90 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Planning trains on the Moon, Chandra is getting shut down, the future of Mars helicopters, and an update on exomoons with Dr. David Kipping. 👉 Interview with Dr. Kipping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umiMtQU3bMU&t=1317s&ab_channel=FraserCain 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:12 Trains on the Moon https://news.northropgrumman.com/news/releases/northrop-grumman-to-develop-concept-for-lunar-railroad 02:29 Chandra in trouble https://www.universetoday.com/166247/nasa-is-planning-to-shut-down-one-of-the-great-observatories-to-save-money/ 05:33 De-icing Euclid https://www.esa.int/ScienceExploration/SpaceScience/Euclid/Operationsbegintode-iceEuclidsvision 07:30 More helicopters on Mars https://www.universetoday.com/166212/the-mars-science-helicopter-could-be-an-airborne-geologist-on-mars/ 09:44 Vote results 10:33 Explanations for SN 1987a https://www.universetoday.com/166188/finally-an-explanation-for-the-string-of-pearls-in-supernova-1987a/ 13:03 One hit, a billion craters https://www.universetoday.com/166223/one-impact-on-mars-produced-more-than-two-billion-secondary-craters/ 14:19 Shape of Dimorphos https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-study-asteroids-orbit-shape-changed-after-dart-impact 16:03 Exomoons update with Dr David Kipping 22:32 Newsletter 23:28 Defunding telescopes 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/y2tY3y5rEm4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How heavy are the biggest stars in the Universe and how do they compare to the Sun? Why would aliens be grabby? Is there more space for science communicators? What's the minimum size for an object to have an atmosphere? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:28 [Andoria] How big are the biggest stars? 05:35 [Vulcan] How fast should colonising the Universe happen? 10:27 [Risa] Why would aliens be grabby? 13:51 [Aeturen] The difference between humans and aliens 16:14 [Vendikar] A star approaching us from the Large Magellanic cloud? 20:27 [Remus] Is the scientific discovery process slow? 24:06 [Janus] How do we know what happened before recombination? 28:19 [Cait] Is there more room for science communicators? 33:13 [Betazed] What are my interest outside of space and science? 36:17 [Cheleb] How fast do different galaxies move away from us? 37:38 [Nimbus] How much dark matter is there in our solar system? 38:31 [Belos] How big does an object need to be to hold an atmosphere? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/i8lzID14HEs 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Another Test of SpaceX Starship Superheavy combo, another analysis of the flight with Scott Manley and Marcus House! 📺 Scott Manley: https://www.youtube.com/@scottmanley 📺 Marcus House: https://www.youtube.com/@MarcusHouse 🚀 IFT-2 Analysis: https://youtu.be/ReXZvXPak4U 🚀 IFT-1 Analysis: https://youtu.be/RGcdjJj-f4g 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:44 The plan for IFT-3 02:18 Liftoff and hot staging 04:34 Booster return 10:38 Starship in orbit 17:26 Starship's re-entry 28:22 More interesting stuff 33:25 What's next 36:58 Artemis 3 plans 43:18 Scott and Marcus 45:11 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/EVic941kQ44 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What did NASA learn from setting their Cygnus spaceships on fire? Is fire more dangerous in space than on Earth? Finding out with Dr. David Urban, Branch Chief from NASA Glenn Research Center. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:41 Fire in space 03:56 Saffire Experiment 11:55 Conclusions 15:50 Firefighting in space 20:16 Future experiments 26:46 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/haOm94GJOwM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What drives NASA's most successful projects like James Webb, Perseverance, Parker Solar Probe, etc? What's going on with international cooperation? How will future missions be planned and executed? Finding out with Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, former Associate Administrator of NASA Sciecne Mission Directorate. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 02:00 JWST 09:25 Parker Solar Probe 15:55 Future missions 25:58 International projects 40:06 New job at Zurich Space 41:45 Current obsessions 54:16 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/An0M5Za0U-M 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Starship reaches orbit in a new test, NASA regains contact with Voyager 1 (sort of), are the Milky Way and Andromeda already exchanging stars, and two new incredible images to replace your desktop wallpaper. 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER https://universetoday.com/newsletter 👉 Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmnK1xmCRad_8bn0uOcmLiIE 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:18 Starship IFT-3 https://www.universetoday.com/166137/starship-orbit-spacex-third-test-breaks-up/ 06:38 Voyager-1 not dead yet https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2024/03/13/nasa-engineers-make-progress-toward-understanding-voyager-1-issue/ 08:03 Did Milkdromeda already start forming? https://www.universetoday.com/166116/are-andromeda-and-the-milky-way-already-exchanging-stars/ 10:30 White Dwarfs https://www.universetoday.com/166082/white-dwarfs-might-be-less-dead-than-we-thought/ 13:15 Vote results https://youtu.be/RozsR3TWvH8 13:58 Painting telescopes black https://www.universetoday.com/166119/ultrablack-coating-could-be-ideal-for-telescopes/ 16:50 Amazing images https://www.universetoday.com/166129/webb-sees-a-star-forming-region-blowing-vast-bubbles/ https://www.universetoday.com/166152/this-is-a-1-3-gigapixel-image-of-a-supernova-remnant/ 19:36 Cyborg jellyfish https://www.universetoday.com/166096/cyborg-jellyfish-could-help-explore-oceans-autonomously/ 21:26 Even more space news 22:24 Distances and time 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/767SgId7MW4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How cold does it get in the shadows on the Moon? What's going on with dark matter research? Can we chase Oumuamua with a solar sail spacecraft? Will we ever face a war for the Moon? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:29 [Andoria] How cold do shadows on the Moon get? 05:34 [Vulcan] Why are dark matter halos spherical? 08:48 [Risa] Are we alone in the Universe? 12:26 [Aeturen] Will there be a war for the Moon? 15:40 [Vendikar] Current obsessions 19:58 [Remus] What's going on with dark matter? 23:52 [Janus] Can we catch Oumuamua with a solar sail? 29:07 [Cait] What are the Hawking radiation particles? 29:52 [Betazed] What caused the Big Bang? 29:57 [Cheleb] How to transfer energy from space down to Earth? 33:49 [Nimbus] Will dark energy eventually decline? 36:44 [Belos] Is the risk of solar flares overblown or unappreciated? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/f3JrIf3Lu_U 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

White dwarf stars should be cooling down practically till the end of the Universe. But yet, they don't. They stop cooling at some point. Why does this happen? Figuring out the answers with Dr Simon Blouin from the University of Victoria. 📜 Buoyant crystals halt the cooling of white dwarf stars https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07102-y 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:16 What are White Dwarfs 08:59 Why white dwarfs stop cooling 23:03 Pollution of white dwarfs 29:29 Perfect white dwarf telescope 35:59 Current obsessions 38:25 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/nkXR7bpmy7Q 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How do we plan a mission that can go to Enceladus and grab a sample of its plumes? How fast does it need to go? Will it bring samples to Earth or analyse them on the spacecraft? Figuring out the answers with Professor Mark Burchell from the University of Kent. 📜 Hypervelocity impact induced light flash experiments on single and dual layer Kapton targets to develop a time of flight space dust and debris detector https://kar.kent.ac.uk/104841/ 👉 We Must Go Back To Enceladus! Here's Why https://youtu.be/Q3W-0LecU5k 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 02:07 Firing tardigrades from a gun 05:32 Enceladus 13:14 How fast can we go 21:07 Optimal mission to Enceladus 32:35 Exploring Io 41:43 Sampling interstellar objects 47:55 Dust in interstellar space 51:19 Current obsessions 01:01:04 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/xB1Tr3MWKKw 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Understanding the surface of Betelgeuse, James Webb’s third observing cycle has been announced, Starship’s upcoming third test, and the most massive pair of black holes ever seen. 👉 Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmnK1xmCRad_8bn0uOcmLiIE 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 Betelgeuse is boiling https://www.universetoday.com/166044/betelgeuses-surface-is-boiling-furiously/ 02:55 JWST Cycle 3 https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news/jwst/2024/stsci-announces-the-jwst-cycle-3-general-observer-program 04:43 Where Hubble and JWST are looking https://spacetelescopelive.org/ 05:57 Starship OFT-3 Launch Date https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-3 07:37 Asteroids falling on white dwarves https://www.universetoday.com/165997/astronomers-can-see-the-impact-site-where-an-asteroid-crashed-into-a-white-dwarf/ 09:03 Vote results 09:51 ISS Surgery Robot 11:27 Oxygen on Europa https://www.universetoday.com/166005/juno-measures-how-much-oxygen-is-being-produced-by-europa/ 13:27 LIFE telescope https://www.universetoday.com/166002/the-life-telescope-passed-its-first-test-it-detected-biosignatures-on-earth/ 16:02 Biggest black hole pair ever found https://www.universetoday.com/166002/the-life-telescope-passed-its-first-test-it-detected-biosignatures-on-earth/ 17:44 Carbon emissions reach 420 https://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152519/emissions-from-fossil-fuels-continue-to-rise 18:44 Newsletter 19:55 JWST time allocation 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/RozsR3TWvH8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Why won't NASA send a copy of Perseverance to the Moon? Can life exist on a planet around a blue giant star? How do satellites stay safe in orbit and don't collide with each other? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 👉 Ad Astra Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@adastraspace 👉 Oxygen Bottleneck paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01160 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:26 [Andoria] Why won't NASA send Mars-style rovers to the Moon? 05:15 [Vulcan] How to get your discovery to the scientific community? 09:56 [Risa] Can life exist near blue giant stars? 13:41 [Aeturen] Can fire be the solution the Fermi paradox? 16:13 [Vendikar] Should you study journalism in a university? 19:26 [Remus] Robin Hanson's grabby aliens 24:21 [Janus] How do satellites stay safe in orbit? 28:39 [Cait] How do supermassive black holes form? 32:56 [Betazed] Will we become a Kardashev Type I civilization? 37:20 [Cheleb] Shape of the Universe 39:43 [Nimbus] Why some planets have no surface? 41:59 [Belos] Should we preserve Earth or find another home? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Pu_4G76Jp4s 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Self-replicating space robots seems as an obvious way to explore the Universe. How close are we to such a scenario and what do we need to fill outer space with Von Neumann probes? Figuring out with Professor Alex Ellery. 👉 Realistic Scenario of Interstellar Travel https://youtu.be/SkGRVvA23qI 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 02:07 How sustainable is the Moon 07:44 Self-replicating robots 32:11 How would a mission look like 39:14 Going beyond the Moon 45:19 Realistic future scenario 59:28 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/vo8630SIo 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What is cosmic dust? What is it made of and what can it tell us about the Universe? Could cosmic dust be responsible for life starting on Earth? Figuring it all out with Dr Craig Walton from Cambridge University. 👉 Dr Craig Walton: https://craigwaltongeosci.wordpress.com/ 👉 How Did Early Earth Get The Ingredients for Life? https://youtu.be/SkWNmkoCelY 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:43 What is dust 00:08:43 Dust falling on Earth 00:16:05 Dust and the origin of life 00:46:30 Dust on other worlds across the Universe 01:03:29 Current obsessions 01:08:16 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/GeuxmuzZ_xs 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

We’ve learned what happened to the Odysseus Lander. SLIM survived the lunar night. Experience a fiery trip from orbit to the Utah desert. James Webb completes one of its major science goals. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:15 What really happened with Odysseus https://www.universetoday.com/165896/odysseus-moon-lander-pictures/ 03:19 SLIM woke up! https://www.universetoday.com/165890/surprise-japan-slim-moon-lander-wakes-up/ 04:56 JWST big discovery https://www.universetoday.com/165936/dwarf-galaxies-banished-the-darkness-and-lit-up-the-early-universe/ 08:57 Vote results https://youtu.be/i9DTgdR2vtc 09:43 Three new moons https://www.universetoday.com/165910/new-moons-found-at-uranus-and-neptune/ 10:52 New space telescope https://www.universetoday.com/165825/a-new-space-telescope-will-map-the-universe-and-help-protect-the-earth-from-asteroids/ 12:40 Support what we do 13:16 NASA test Starship docking system https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-spacex-test-starship-lunar-lander-docking-system/ 14:20 Last pics of Ingenuity https://www.universetoday.com/165931/ingenuity-wont-fly-again-because-its-missing-a-rotor-blade/ 15:33 Varda's descent from space https://www.universetoday.com/165935/watch-the-varda-capsules-entire-fiery-atmospheric-re-entry/ 16:32 Success of failure 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/qUahxtDwe8I 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How serious is the threat from space weapons? How should we handle the situation with international treaties? Is there a way to ensure the enforcement of them and what are the risks if somebody breaks them? Figuring out the answers with Dr Matthew Powell from the University of Portsmouth. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:49 How serious is the threat from Russia 08:37 Weapons in space 13:13 Consequences 18:12 Space-based anti-satellite weapons 25:58 The next version of outer space treaty 48:00 Current obsessions 52:55 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/XQikGtRUEdc 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Where do auroras come from on rogue planets? Can we refuel the Sun to make it last longer? What's going on with space nuke tests? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:25 [Andoria] Where do auroras come from on rogue planets 05:54 [Vulcan] How can we get water on the Moon? 09:37 [Risa] What about space nukes? 13:35 [Aeturen] What happens with space laser communication? 17:05 [Vendikar] Are we alone in the Universe? 17:11 [Remus] Why is it so difficult to get to the Sun? 20:26 [Janus] How will Starship change space probes? 25:46 [Cait] Could we refuel the Sun? 29:05 [Betazed] How the Webb and Hubble pics are made? 36:25 [Cheleb] Could we detect life at the nearest star? 40:41 [Nimbus] Is the dark forest solution for the Fermi paradox any good? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/BvcymmjVwbg 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Odysseus lands successfully on the Moon, China is planning to build bricks on the lunar surface, James Webb finds the neutron star at the heart of supernova 1987 A, and Blue Origins finally rolls out New Glenn. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:17 USA's first Moon landing in 21st century https://www.universetoday.com/165834/intuitive-machines-odysseus-lander-moon/ 05:01 Lunar bricks from China https://www.universetoday.com/165771/chinas-change-8-mission-will-try-to-make-bricks-on-the-moon/ 06:39 Perseverance has a problem https://www.universetoday.com/165742/nasa-is-trying-to-fix-a-problem-with-one-of-perseverances-instruments/ 08:32 JWST finds a neutron star https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-112 10:40 Kuiper Belt might be bigger than we thought https://www.nasa.gov/missions/new-horizons/nasas-new-horizons-detects-dusty-hints-of-extended-kuiper-belt/ 13:07 Vote results 13:48 Space-grown drugs return to Earth 15:34 OSIRIS-REx sample mass https://www.universetoday.com/165748/osiris-rexs-final-haul-121-6-grams-from-asteroid-bennu/ 17:16 Interviews 17:54 New Glenn goes vertical https://www.universetoday.com/165850/finally-blue-origins-new-glenn-goes-vertical-on-the-launch-pad/ 19:07 Euclid begins its mission https://www.universetoday.com/165755/euclid-begins-its-6-year-survey-of-the-dark-universe/ 20:40 Moon landings 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/i9DTgdR2vtc 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Why doesn't JWST look at Apollo landing sites? What happened to TRAPPIST-1 atmospheres? What's the biggest thing we can measure our velocity relative to? Will the Universe ever start bouncing back? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:27 [Andoria] What's the biggest thing we can measure our velocity relative to? 02:40 [Vulcan] Why doesn't JWST look at Apollo landing sites? 05:12 [Risa] How can we make Moon regolith safer? 09:13 [Aeturen] What do I think about smart telescopes? 13:25 [Vendikar] When is the Universe expected to bounce back like an elastic band ? 15:56 [Remus] Thoughts on the samples from OSIRIS-REx? 19:29 [Janus] What is dark matter? 20:10 [Cait] Can they still fly Ingenuity? 21:45 [Betazed] What happened to atmosphere of the TRAPPIST-1 planets? 23:43 [Cheleb] What comes next after satellites in space economy? 27:01 [Nimbus] Can we create an atmosphere on the Moon? 29:00 [Belos] Thoughts on the achievements of the Chinese space program? 33:02 [Lyar] Is dark matter just dust and gas we can't see? 36:04 [Zalcon] Will the public be informed if JWST suffers more damage? 39:07 [Arret] Is a nuclear ion engine a thing? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/zVOkhTi88kM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Huge Kuiper Belt discovery! With James Webb astronomers were able to see that Eric and Makemake show signs of geothermal activity. How exactly did that happen? Figuring out with Dr Christopher Glein, Lead Scientist at Southwest Research Institute. 👉 Dr Christopher Glein https://www.christopherglein.com/ 📜 Measurement of D/H and 13C/12C Ratios in Methane Ice on Eris and Makemake: Evidence for Internal Activity https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05085 📜 Moderate D/H Ratios in Methane Ice on Eris and Makemake as Evidence of Hydrothermal or Metamorphic Processes in Their Interiors: Geochemical Analysis https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05549 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:10 JWST's images of Eris and Makemake 05:46 Unique flavours of methane 12:21 Findings 21:16 Implications for other worlds 24:45 What's next 26:21 Current obsessions 32:51 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/eIO69E3Rqoo 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Solar sails aren't just a tool to send tiny spacecraft to Alpha Centauri. They can also be used to optimise exploration of the Solar System. How can we do that? Figuring it out with Alexander Alvara. 📜 BLISS: Interplanetary Exploration with Swarms of Low-Cost Spacecraft https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11226 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:08 Thousands of tiny solar sails 03:58 Deployment plan 10:28 Timeframe 11:58 Communication with Earth 15:15 How far can you go 17:58 Long-term potential of solar sails 26:37 Current obsessions 29:10 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/5p6Ur7V4ZVM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

More oceans across the Solar System. The Event Horizon Telescope zooms into an active galactic nucleus. Another lunar lander sets off to the Moon. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:13 Mimas has an ocean https://www.universetoday.com/165722/saturns-death-star-moon-mimas-probably-has-an-ocean-too/ 02:37 Eris and Makemake geothermal activity https://www.swri.org/press-release/swri-scientists-find-evidence-of-geothermal-activity-within-icy-dwarf-planets 04:02 Water on asteroids https://www.universetoday.com/165696/water-found-on-the-surface-of-an-asteroid/ 05:45 Intuitive Machines Odysseus lander launch https://www.universetoday.com/165738/intuitive-machines-odysseus-moon-lander/ 07:29 Testing spacesuits https://www.universetoday.com/165698/next-generation-spacesuit-gets-tested-in-weightlessness/ 09:28 Vote results https://youtu.be/q0XKwvuK8pk 10:11 Confirmation of JUMBOs https://public.nrao.edu/news/astronomers-discover-jupiter-sized-objects/ 12:16 Lasers for the Deep Space Network https://www.universetoday.com/165700/one-of-nasas-radio-dishes-can-now-track-space-lasers-too/ 14:02 Weekly email newsletter https://universetoday.com/newsletter 14:34 A new image from EHT https://www.universetoday.com/165669/the-event-horizon-telescope-zooms-in-on-a-black-holes-jet/ 17:09 What happened after DART https://www.universetoday.com/165690/what-happened-to-all-those-boulders-blasted-into-space-by-dart/ 18:39 More moons thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/bGnxKXD8USE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What are the main problems of modern-day science? Why there's a growing trust gap between the scientists and the public? How can we fix those problems and restore the trust? Figuring out with Dr. Paul M. Sutter. 📖 Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt https://www.pmsutter.com/store/yourplace-zrd55 👉 Paul M. Sutter's website: https://www.pmsutter.com/ 👉 Paul M. Sutter's YouTube: @PaulMSutter 👉 Ask A Spaceman podcast: https://www.pmsutter.com/shows/askaspaceman 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:57 What's wrong with modern science 00:04:14 Fraud in publications 00:11:40 Funding 00:16:01 Careers 00:23:38 Politics 00:39:19 Know-it-alls 00:42:15 Science communication 00:50:42 Diversity 00:54:20 How to fix that 01:02:14 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/517Msi3wDJ4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How sure can astronomers be when estimating asteroid strikes? Why is Jupiter so radioactive? What happened to the methane on Mars story? Are black holes 2D or 3D? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:24 [Andoria] Can you prove that there's no life in the Universe? 04:14 [Vulcan] How certain ca we be about asteroid strikes? 08:52 [Risa] Why is Jupiter so radioactive? 10:36 [Aeturen] Is there gravitational lensing for planets from their own stars? 13:45 [Vendikar] Wouldn't it be cheaper to send multiple satellites to deep space at a single time versus one at a time? 18:10 [Remus] What's my opinion on the shape of the Universe? 22:01 [Janus] What happened to methane on Mars? 24:27 [Cait] Will a major propulsion breakthrough happen soon? 28:26 [Betazed] Does Jupiter protect us from asteroids? 30:08 [Cheleb] Are black holes 2D or 3D? 32:28 [Nimbus] What's the most important resource on the Moon apart from water? 34:37 [Belos] How do gravitational wave detectors know where the signal came from? 37:50 [Lyar] Do Sun-like stars with tidally locked planets make sense? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/kuTkg9d9u6E 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Big layoffs at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Testing spacesuits for the Moon. Another flyby of Io. And our final look at Ingenuity. 🎙️ INTERVIEWS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmnK1xmCRad_8bn0uOcmLiIE 👉 NASA Layoffs: https://youtu.be/yFuHdZNZ6-Y 👉 Io Exploration: https://youtu.be/3YpbDZQHkCk 👉 Measuring Space Distances: https://youtu.be/hmJOz9qCk0M 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:12 NASA JPL Layoffs https://www.universetoday.com/165651/nasas-jpl-lays-off-hundreds-of-workers/ 01:25 Testing Artemis Spacesuits https://www.universetoday.com/165611/nasa-continues-testing-its-new-lunar-spacesuits/ 03:38 JWST Did It Again https://www.universetoday.com/165572/the-jwst-discovers-a-galaxy-that-shouldnt-exist/ 04:35 Berlin meteor found https://www.universetoday.com/165625/fragments-from-that-asteroid-that-exploded-above-berlin-have-been-recovered-and-theyre-really-special/ 06:30 Vote results 07:09 Mass of the Milky Way https://www.universetoday.com/165598/astronomers-measure-the-mass-of-the-milky-way-by-calculating-how-hard-it-is-to-escape/ 08:35 Dust Ruins Another Way to Measure Distances https://www.universetoday.com/165627/dust-ruins-another-way-of-measuring-distance-in-the-universe/ 11:00 Interview streak! 12:27 Juno's Io Flyby https://www.universetoday.com/165585/nasas-juno-probe-makes-another-flyby-of-io/ 13:51 Dreamchaser Test https://www.universetoday.com/165648/nasa-gives-dreamchaser-the-shakedown/ 15:43 Final look at Ingenuity https://www.universetoday.com/165641/perseverance-gives-us-one-last-look-at-the-damaged-ingenuity-helicopter/ 16:57 Meteorites 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/q0XKwvuK8pk 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

BREAKING NEWS. JPL is laying off about 530 people. Why did that happen and what it means for major NASA missions like Artemis and Mars Sample Return? Figuring it out with Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society. 🎙️ Planetary Radio Podcast: https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/space-policy-edition 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:10 JPL layoffs and NASA budget cuts 00:21:05 Effects on Artemis 00:36:50 Mars Sample Return in Danger 01:03:41 Planetary Society's plans 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/yFuHdZNZ6-Y 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

We all know the Hubble Deep Field as one of the most important astronomy images of all time. But when will we get a similar attempt from Webb? What will we be able to get from it and what are the limits of JWST? Finding out with Dr Viraj Pandya from NASA. 👉 Nobel Prize Winner Explains JWST vs The Crisis in Cosmology https://youtu.be/hmJOz9qCk0M 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:43 Galaxy classification 08:20 Hubble's observations and biases 19:53 Breadstick galaxies 31:07 Wen JWST Deep Field 43:58 What is the limit of Webb 52:03 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/WdTkH1v2NqI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Could we detect life on Earth from Neptune's orbit? Is the Moon shrinking over time? Why don't we send an orbiter the the Kuiper belt? What should we call Planet 9 if we find it? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:24 [Andoria] Could we detect Earth life from Neptune's orbit? 04:47 [Vulcan] Will we ever send an orbiter to the Kuiper belt? 07:57 [Risa] Is the Moon shrinking? 11:23 [Aeturen] Plans for the April eclipse? 13:25 [Vendikar] What happens when gravitational waves collide? 14:18 [Remus] Do photons experience time? 16:04 [Janus] What would be considered an unequivocal biosignature? 21:13 [Cait] What should we name Planet 9? 22:07 [Betazed] How soon can we recycle space junk? 25:04 [Cheleb] Did sci-fi become less compelling? 27:22 [Nimbus] How did Moon effect evolution on Earth? 30:28 [Belos] Are event horizons most perfect spheres in the Universe? 32:14 [Lyar] Is it possible to move from our current universe to the previous one? 35:36 [Zalcon] Why can't dark matter be objects? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/WZUhtAPPbg0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

If exoplanets exist, so should exomoons. However, to this day we still did not find any. Even more than that, there's a pretty big controversy regarding the potential discovery of exomoons. What's going on and what can we do about it? Finding the answers with Dr David Kipping. 👉 Dr David Kipping's channel https://www.youtube.com/@CoolWorldsLab 👉 Previous interview with Dr Kipping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx1276dpHe4 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:22 Catch-up after previous interview 00:02:25 Searching for exomoons 00:10:23 Counterarguments 00:15:34 Taking it to the next level 00:28:54 Alternative detection methods 00:37:27 Ideal time for observations 00:39:19 SETI and technosignatures 01:03:28 Science communication 01:28:23 Obsessions 01:37:17 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/umiMtQU3bMU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Whenever we search for life, we're searching for 'life as we know it". But are there alternative options? Non-carbon based life? Or life that doesn't use water as a solvent? It turns out, things like that can be as close as on Venus. Figuring it out with Dr William Bains. 📜 Venus' Atmospheric Chemistry and Cloud Characteristics Are Compatible with Venusian Life https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371507931 More interviews: 👉 When Did Evolution Start on Earth https://youtu.be/MeVvreDPI6c?si=8yfmEPE4ZNu2PGxK 👉 Finding Alien Life. A Step-By-Step Instruction https://youtu.be/1KKOAaG1Kg8?si=DdlkXO0tSXe1wsxu 👉 How Did Early Earth Get The Ingredients for Life? https://youtu.be/SkWNmkoCelY 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:26 Life as we don't know it 03:27 Defining life 11:44 Evolution 14:02 The role of solvents 18:22 Other fluids 23:33 Venus 29:55 How to look for life on Venus 48:01 Obsessions 56:30 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/wK9LWHNHuF4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Science fiction taught us that Mars cities are inevitable. That we will sooner or later have those cool looking glass domes with spaceports and stuff. But the world is a cruel place and reality is unforgivable. So, how will a realistic Mars habitat of the future will look like? Discussing it with Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:10 Space sucks. The Reality of living in space 00:09:35 Why go to space 00:22:28 Minimum size of the population 00:30:30 Fascination with the apocalypse 00:33:51 Simulating Mars missions 00:38:12 Childbirth is space 00:40:24 Technological progress 00:44:32 Economical growth 01:01:38 Current obsessions 01:05:21 More thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/OQ8sZtg-Kdc 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Understanding dark matter is one of the most interesting challenges in modern cosmology. Upcoming new telescopes, such as Nancy Grace Roman, can help us solve this mystery. How exactly will it happen? Finding out with Dr Christian Aganze from Stanford University. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:48 How Do We See Dark Matter 08:30 Shape of Milky Way's Dark Matter Halo 15:40 What NGR will change 22:01 Possible conclusions 29:16 Current obsessions 33:27 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/wFguCzi8wLU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

SLIM woke up but briefly., Turning a forest into a giant particle detector. Another explanation for that hycean world. And some stunning new pictures from Webb. 🏅 Nobel Prize Winner Explains JWST VS Hubble Tension: https://youtu.be/hmJOz9qCk0M 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:13 SLIM woke up briefly https://www.universetoday.com/165552/japan-moon-lander-sleeps-after-sending-science-will-it-wake-up-again/ 01:44 Turning a forest into a telescope http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14454 04:43 Another explanation for the hycean world https://www.universetoday.com/165399/another-explanation-for-k2-18b-a-gas-rich-mini-neptune-with-no-habitable-surface/ 07:24 Vera Rubin vs Space Junk https://www.universetoday.com/165511/space-junk-is-going-to-be-a-problem-for-vera-rubin/ 09:56 Vote results 10:36 Spiral Galaxies by JWST https://www.universetoday.com/165474/feast-your-eyes-on-19-face-on-spiral-galaxies-seen-by-webb/ 12:03 N79 by James Webb https://www.universetoday.com/165392/new-webb-image-of-a-massive-star-forming-complex/ 13:02 Tsunami of interviews https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmnK1xmCRad_8bn0uOcmLiIE 13:44 Green Light for LISA https://www.universetoday.com/165483/the-space-based-gravitational-wave-observatory-lisa-gets-the-green-light/ 15:39 Starlab to launch on Starship 16:57 Thoughts on YouTube Retirement 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/8ONk73fNMJE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Recently astronomers made an unexpected discovery. They found a planet called WASP-69b with a giant comet-like gas tail that was bigger than ever. What's causing such behaviour and what can we learn about hot Jupiters? Finding out with Dakota Tyler from the University of LA. 📜 WASP-69b's Escaping Envelope Is Confined to a Tail Extending at Least 7 Rp https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad11d0 👉 Weekly Space Hangout playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSzmIOQZ9aanpwIW74qBHypy2nBIe54 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:24 Planet with a tail 13:14 Hot Jupiters 18:13 What's next for planets with tails 26:15 Current obsessions 32:24 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/0RSZCNVskcQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Solar energy is simple the best energy source we have access to. But how can we make it even better? With space tech, of course! In this interview I'm talking about a project that suggests putting giant solar reflectors in orbit to extend daytime for solar farms on Earth with my guest, Dr Onur Celik. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:19 Space reflectors 14:59 Reflectors vs more traditional ideas 20:21 How it will look from the ground 30:25 Applications outside of Earth 37:40 Current obsessions 38:30 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/5r2nxkhOqic 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Why can't Starship reach the Moon without refuelling? How big can black holes get? What space station will replace the ISS? How big do Lagrange points get? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:26 [Andoria] What are my thoughts on panspermia? 06:02 [Vulcan] Which upcoming Earth-based telescopes are most exciting? 09:54 [Risa] What would it take to send a telescope to the SGL focus? 12:36 [Aeturen] Do supermassive black holes have a max size limit? 12:58 [Vendikar] Should money spent on habitable planets be spent elsewhere? 16:07 [Remus] What are my thoughts on China vs ESA and NASA? 21:07 [Janus] How did science communication change over last 30 years? 26:16 [Cait] How big is a Lagrange point? 30:00 [Betazed] How to communicate with Proxima Centauri probes? 31:24 [Cheleb] How will we replace the ISS? 33:33 [Nimbus] Can we achieve interstellar travel if we really want to? 34:55 [Belos] How accurate is the habitable zone around stars? 37:32 [Lyar] Starship vs Saturn V 41:31 [Zalcon] Does international rivalry produce real space progress? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/CubthfREhIg 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

The Hubble Tension is one of the most exciting mysteries in modern day science. Different methods give different results for the expansion of the Universe. So, how can we solve this and can James Webb help us with that? Or will it make things even worse? Finding out with Physics Nobel Prize laureate, Dr Adam Riess. 🏅 Nobel Prize Winner John Mather Explains JWST https://youtube.com/live/S1dOwht6D30 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:40 Cepheid variables 00:10:47 Hubble Tension 00:18:14 Calibrating the results 00:22:19 James Webb 00:33:34 Plank results 00:38:27 Potential solutions 00:46:18 Back to familiar objects 00:50:36 Most effective kinds of searches 01:01:08 Current obsessions 01:03:19 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/hmJOz9qCk0M 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Ingenuity is over. SLIM landed on the Moon, but it’s upside-down. Webb sees planets orbiting white dwarf stars. And we finally know why Starship exploded. 🎈 Sierra Space inflatable habitat interview: https://youtu.be/C3bd4fdY3DY 🚀 Starship IFT-2 discussion with Marcus House and Scott Manley: https://youtu.be/ReXZvXPak4U 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 Ingenuity is OVER https://www.universetoday.com/165382/nasa-lost-contact-with-its-ingenuity-helicopter-briefly-but-its-back/ 01:48 SLIM landed upside down https://www.universetoday.com/165340/japans-moon-lander-touches-down-power-problem/ 04:32 Explosive Sierra Space LIFE test https://www.sierraspace.com/newsroom/press-releases/sierra-space-advances-its-revolutionary-commercial-space-station-technology/ 06:44 Dangers of Space Salad https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2024/january/harsh-bais-kali-kniel-noah-totsline-spacegrown-plants-foodborne-infections/ 08:23 JWST sees planets around white dwarf stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13153 10:12 Mystery of the ancient light https://www.universetoday.com/165310/the-jwst-solves-the-mystery-of-ancient-light/ 12:23 Vote results https://youtu.be/F12KfPkrjuk 12:57 Planets around Proxima Centauri https://www.universetoday.com/165383/what-could-the-extremely-large-telescope-see-at-proxima-centauris-planet/ 15:10 Patreon Club Exclusives 15:58 Why Starship Exploded https://www.universetoday.com/165353/now-we-know-why-starships-second-flight-test-failed/ 17:17 China's reusable booster test https://www.universetoday.com/165401/chinese-firm-successfully-tests-a-new-reusable-booster/ 18:47 Inflatable space habitats 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/3vRpI80sbv8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How can we possibly know how does the Milky Way look like? Is Marth worth further exploration after not finding any life there for years? How can we realistically settle on the Moon? All this and more in the week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:43 [Andoria] Multiple rogue planets discovered by JWST 04:58 [Vulcan] How did we take a photo of our own galaxy? 08:10 [Risa] Why did The Big Bang not collapse under gravity? 10:13 [Aeturen] Why waste money on Mars? 17:23 [Vendikar] Realistic ways to settle on the Moon? 20:58 [Remus] How to interest kids in space? 23:59 [Janus] Any updated on Artemis? 27:25 [Cait] How can galaxies move away faster than light? 28:30 [Betazed] Black hole naming problem 31:22 [Cheleb] Is Moon better than the ISS? 34:38 [Nimbus] The Zoo hypothesis VS dinosaurs 37:28 [Belos] Will we ever see a proper Neptune mission? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/GbPaytLhCoM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

When we'll be sending probes to other stars, getting there will be only one part of the challenge. How do we get the data back? So, NASA just funded a research that will be aiming to solve this problem through the NIAC program. 👉 NIAC Award "Swarming Proxima Centauri: Coherent Picospacecraft Swarms Over Interstellar Distances" https://www.nasa.gov/general/swarming-proxima-centauri/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:56 Applying for NIAC 02:54 The Idea 25:43 Imaging planets 30:06 Using tech in the Solar System 38:24 Laser technology 45:30 The reality of NIAC 51:19 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/M-qhm04XoBM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

News about two lunar landers, Webb helps rule out one explanation for the Hubble Tension, NASA’s new quiet supersonic plane, and lots of exoplanet news. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 Two Lunar Landers 02:20 Hycean or Lava https://www.universetoday.com/165263/is-k2-18b-covered-in-oceans-of-water-or-oceans-of-lava/ 04:19 Two-face world https://www.universetoday.com/165216/half-of-this-exoplanet-is-covered-in-lava/ 05:31 Plomet? Conet? https://www.universetoday.com/165251/a-hot-jupiter-with-a-comet-like-tail/ 06:50 Vote results 07:31 Two giant structures https://www.universetoday.com/165223/two-giant-structures-have-been-found-billions-of-light-years-away/ 09:41 One fewer explanation for Hubble tension https://www.universetoday.com/165266/astronomers-rule-out-one-explanation-for-the-hubble-tension/ 12:41 Support us 14:03 NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic plane https://www.universetoday.com/165239/shhh-nasa-reveals-its-new-quiet-supersonic-aircraft/ 15:30 Milky Way's magnetic fields https://www.universetoday.com/165297/astronomers-have-mapped-the-milky-ways-magnetic-fields-in-3d/ 16:30 Exoplanet discovery chaos 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/F12KfPkrjuk 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Why it's easier for James Webb to observe TRAPPIST-1 than Alpha Centauri? Is a lunar space elevator possible at all? What would my ideal space mission look like? Can we build a telescope the size of a solar system? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:47 [Andoria] Why it's easier for JWST to see Trappist-1 rather than Alpha Centauri systems? 07:16 [Vulcan] Is lunar space elevator possible? 12:09 [Risa] What would my dream space mission be? 16:28 [Aeturen] Any update on JWST's TRAPPIST-1 observations? 20:54 [Vendikar] Are we building a solar system sized telescope any time soon? 23:06 [Remus] Can we catch up to Voyagers if we need to? 27:03 [Janus] What will Artemis-2 be doing at the Moon? 29:38 [Cait] Can sub-surface oceans be a source for life on planets around red dwarfs? 32:55 [Betazed] How can we predict Betelgeuse exploding? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/lF2wihXk58o 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This is an episode I did with Brian Dunning, host of The Skeptoid podcast and Richard Saunders, host of The Skeptic Zone podcast. Enjoy! 👉 The Skeptic Zone: https://skepticzone.tv 👉 Skeptoid: https://skeptoid.com 🛸 THE UFO MOVIE THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE: https://www.briandunning.com/ufo/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This is an episode I did with Brian Dunning, host of Skeptoid and producer and director of THE UFO MOVIE THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE and Richard Saunders, host of The Skeptic Zone. Enjoy! 🛸 THE UFO MOVIE THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE https://www.briandunning.com/ufo/ 📺 YouTube version: https://youtu.be/iz3NowaMuPU?si=ljrDYFmKh9-VdwKP 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

We finally learn the true color of Neptune. Vulcan succeeds while Peregrine fails. Delays for Artemis missions. A rocket that eats itself for more thrust. 🚀 Interview with Tory Bruno: https://youtube.com/live/WKVv9hasAyY?feature=share 🚀 I Finally Watched a Rocket Launch: https://youtu.be/XpQ_MbwNdQA 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 True Color of Neptune https://www.universetoday.com/165118/uranus-and-neptune-are-actually-pretty-much-the-same-color/ 01:52 Diamond Rain on Ice Giants https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2024-01-08-diamond-rain-icy-planets-offers-clues-magnetic-field-mysteries 03:20 Vulcan succeeds, Peregrine fails https://www.universetoday.com/165127/the-first-launch-of-ulas-vulcan-goes-smoothly-but-theres-a-problem-with-its-lander-payload/ 05:42 Artemis 2 and 3 officially delayed https://www.universetoday.com/165158/nasa-is-pushing-back-its-moon-landings-to-2026/ 07:50 MMX got delayed too 09:13 OSIRIS-REx samples unboxing is over https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/2024/01/11/nasas-osiris-rex-team-clears-hurdle-to-access-remaining-bennu-sample/ 10:15 Self-eating rocket https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline1033908en.html 11:52 Vote results https://youtu.be/GlvqhST1wOs 12:36 The faintest galaxy https://greenbankobservatory.org/astronomers-accidentally-discover-dark-primordial-galaxy/ 13:40 Titan's "magic" islands https://www.universetoday.com/165108/titans-magic-islands-could-be-floating-blobs-of-organic-solids/ 14:53 Support Universe Today 15:39 Brown dwarf aurora https://www.universetoday.com/165156/a-solo-brown-dwarf-found-with-auroras/ 16:57 Giant star eruption https://www.universetoday.com/165154/a-giant-star-is-fading-away-but-first-it-had-an-enormous-eruption/ 18:27 How to see a rocket launch https://youtu.be/XpQ_MbwNdQA?si=eU-zHGk8QMBMRISg 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/fyZUQxnnbXg 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This is a bonus episode from John Michael Godier's Event Horizon podcast. We discussed JWST, Artmeis, Parker Solar Probe and many other things to be excited about in 2024. 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/U4Oa94Ln3yU?si=8ivCeGFhzeIkUUW8 👉 John Michael Godier's Event Horizon https://www.youtube.com/@EventHorizonShow 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Juno’s closest flyby of Io, Hubble studies an exoplanet atmosphere for 3 years, astronauts test out Starship’s elevator, and more evidence for quark stars. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:16 Juno's Closest Flyby of Io https://www.universetoday.com/165047/juno-makes-its-closest-flyby-of-io/ 02:31 Hubble studies exoplanet atmosphere for 3 years https://www.universetoday.com/165088/hubble-watches-an-exoplanet-atmosphere-change-over-three-years/ 04:56 An Ancient Stone With An Accurate Sky Map https://www.universetoday.com/165037/an-ancient-stone-found-in-italy-is-an-accurate-map-of-the-night-sky/ 06:30 Solar Flares https://www.universetoday.com/165033/the-sun-just-blasted-its-strongest-flare-in-6-years-get-ready-for-auroras/ 07:38 NIAC Awards 2024 https://www.nasa.gov/general/niac-2024-selections/ 08:17 Vote results https://youtu.be/gUMKJayKYDU 09:08 Canadarm hit by meteorite https://www.universetoday.com/164960/ouch-canadarm2-took-a-direct-hit-from-a-micrometeorite/ 10:24 Lunar Starship's Elevator Test https://www.universetoday.com/164983/nasa-astronauts-are-trying-out-the-starship-lunar-elevator/ 11:25 2023 in review 12:49 Quark Stars https://www.universetoday.com/165045/the-most-massive-neutron-stars-probably-have-cores-of-quark-matter/ 14:26 Gorgeous Images https://www.universetoday.com/164928/youll-need-all-the-internet-to-download-the-full-resolution-of-this-new-running-chicken-nebula-image/ 16:41 How to see an aurora 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/GlvqhST1wOs 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Where are the limits of James Webb's capabilities? What can we expect from it in terms of exoplanet research and how can we get there? Finding out with Dr Luis Welbanks. More interviews: 👉 Real Science Results Behind JWST's First Year https://youtu.be/rsZzLzixd-E 👉 JWST, LUVOIR and Mind-blowing Future Projects https://youtu.be/eXchT7mtEao 👉 Dr Luis Welbanks: https://luiswelbanks.com/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:35 Why is JWST so good 05:45 How to use JWST 14:54 Limits of JWST 17:02 TRAPPIST-1 data 24:14 The future of the field 35:56 Biosignatures 44:18 Habitable worlds observatory 53:04 Current obsessions 58:08 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Zn1t9c2mLJY 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

There’s toxic gas flowing out of Enceladus that could be the key to life. Could there be black holes inside stars? NASA tight beams a cat video from space. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:15 Toxic plumes from Enceladus https://www.universetoday.com/164849/toxic-gas-is-leaking-out-of-enceladus-its-also-a-building-block-of-life/ 01:38 JWST spies Uranus https://www.universetoday.com/164914/a-new-view-of-uranus-north-pole-from-jwst/ 02:54 Game-changing Psyche test https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-tech-demo-streams-first-video-from-deep-space-via-laser 05:51 Hawking Stars https://www.universetoday.com/164864/could-there-be-a-black-hole-inside-the-sun/ 08:06 Vote results 08:44 Breakthrough Starshot https://www.universetoday.com/164851/photonic-crystals-could-be-exactly-what-breakthrough-starshot-is-looking-for/ 12:37 Thank you, patrons! 14:21 Blue Origin Are Back https://www.universetoday.com/164905/blue-origins-new-shepard-completes-24th-flight-new-glenn-hopefully-on-the-horizon/ 15:40 Starship Hot Fire Test 16:47 Fermi Timelapse https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14399 17:48 Space Christmas Tree https://www.universetoday.com/164919/enjoy-the-holiday-themed-christmas-tree-cluster/ 18:25 Space communication 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/gUMKJayKYDU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Io is the by far the most volcanically active place in our Solar System. However, there were not too many missions studying it. What could we learn about Io if we did launch a mission to it? Finding out the answers with Dr Ashley Davies from NASA JPL. 🎙️ More interviews: Fusion Reactor To Melt Through Europa's Ice https://youtu.be/7Idm53V687I?si=zw9nnz2dUpx83SKr 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:47 What is Io like 12:40 Global magma ocean 20:55 Magma ocean VS under-ice water oceans 25:02 How to explore Io 36:08 From moons to exoplanets 42:00 Current obsessions 44:16 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/3YpbDZQHkCk 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

One of the discoveries done by James Webb was the presence of methane in the atmosphere of an exoplanet WASP-80b. How exactly did they do it and what will JWST be able to do with similar cases in the future? Looking for answers with Dr Taylor J. Bell from NASA Ames Research Center. 🎙️ More interviews: The Mysterious Gap In Exoplanet Population https://youtu.be/MuH2BlHdAyw The Future of Exoplanet Research https://youtu.be/6b377MO20uE 📜 Methane throughout the atmosphere of the warm exoplanet WASP-80b https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06687-0 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:05 What is WASP-80 b 04:32 How to find methane 12:23 Where does the methane come from 15:19 Was it a fluke 22:35 Diversity of exoatmospheres 28:30 TRAPPIST-1 system 39:29 Biosignatures 50:38 Current obsessions 57:26 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/cyKDqNCUm68 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Hubble’s Back, but Voyager 1 is Down. An absolutely stunning supernova picture from Webb. How talking whales will teach us to talk to aliens. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:12 Voyager-1 is down https://www.universetoday.com/164791/voyager-1-has-another-problem-with-its-computer-system/ 01:49 Hubble is back online https://www.universetoday.com/164754/hubble-returns-to-science-operations/ 03:19 Giant steam of stars https://www.universetoday.com/164718/a-giant-stream-of-stars-is-flowing-in-deep-space/ 04:34 No exomoons https://www.universetoday.com/164738/exomoons-defy-discovery/ 06:49 Cassiopeia-A by JWST https://www.universetoday.com/164739/jwst-delivers-a-fantastic-new-image-of-supernova-remnant-cassiopeia-a/ 08:56 Vote results 09:45 Amateur astronomer finds planet collision https://www.universetoday.com/164731/amateur-astronomers-found-planets-crashing-into-each-other/ 11:23 Tiny telescope big science https://www.universetoday.com/164839/a-tiny-telescope-is-revealing-hot-jupiter-secrets/ 13:04 Interviews 14:24 Nearby kilonova https://www.universetoday.com/164716/scientists-found-evidence-of-a-nearby-kilonova-3-5-million-years-ago/ 16:08 SETI talking to whales https://www.universetoday.com/164832/trying-to-communicate-with-whales-is-like-talking-to-extraterrestrials/ 18:35 End of Voyagers 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/B2TzsNVdQto 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What is a realistic scenario of finding life outside Earth? What steps to we need to take to get there and how can we prove it's there. Looking for answers with Dr Harrison Smith and Dr Cole Mathis. 🎙️ More interviews: Abiogenesis. No Life to Life: https://youtu.be/MeVvreDPI6c Are we truly alone in the Universe: https://youtu.be/6OKTkm7wCuI 📜 The Futility of Exoplanet Biosignatures https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07921 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:06 What is a biosignature 15:34 Incremental approach 23:42 Prejudice against technosignatures 33:26 Future telescopes 47:20 Gaining progress 51:22 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/1KKOAaG1Kg8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Where do the galaxy bars come from and how do they stay stable? Will humanity ever become a Type-II civilization? When will we get more info about the TRAPPIST-1 system from JWST? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:58 [Andoria] Where do the galaxy bars come from? 04:46 [Vulcan] Wen TRAPPIST-1 system info? 09:13 [Risa] Will we become a Type-II civ? 12:58 [Aeturen] What can I look at with a telescope? 17:28 [Vendikar] Is the Solar system tilted compared to galactic plane? 21:08 [Remus] Could extremophiles survive on Mars? 25:32 [Janus] Does gravity go to infinity at the event horizon? 26:53 [Cait] Will Artemis continue to the Moon? 31:26 [Betazed] Do we have UAP tech already? 33:16 [Cheleb] What could grabby aliens possibly eat? 35:50 [Nimbus] What is the ideal planet type for a spacefaring species? 39:27 [Belos] Will competition with China advance the US space program? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/LBWPEa7RFKU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

We still don't know how did life start on Earth. But in order to do so, Earth had to have all the building blocks for life, such as organic molecules. How could they get to Earth? Looking for a solution to this problem with Dr Richard Anslow. 🎙️ More interviews: Finding exoplanets via magnetospheres: https://youtu.be/p1PnoSoH0ys Direct imaging of exoplanets: https://youtube.com/live/aMPz1pSeDyo?feature=share 📜 Can comets deliver prebiotic molecules to rocky exoplanets? https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2023.0434 👉 Dr Richard Anslow's website https://richard17a.github.io/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:19 Why the mystery? 05:32 Traditional ideas 09:52 Comets 16:18 Delivery mechanism 21:17 Why not on Earth 25:12 How often can comets come in 31:13 What evidence can we have 33:23 Current obsessions 39:26 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/SkWNmkoCelY 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What Will Starship Test on its Next Flight? A 6-Planet System in Perfect Resonance. And Betelgeuse Might Not be Rotating at all. ⛽️ Orbital refuelling video: https://youtu.be/5EXvEXfY1ts 🚀 Starship IFT-2 Special: https://youtu.be/ReXZvXPak4U 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:11 Starship refuelling test https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/12/nasa-wants-to-see-gas-stations-in-space-but-so-far-its-tanks-are-empty/ 02:28 Perfect resonance https://www.universetoday.com/164579/a-planetary-system-with-six-sub-neptunes-locked-in-perfect-resonance/ 04:02 Hypernebula's FRB https://www.universetoday.com/164642/another-fast-radio-burst-is-coming-from-a-hypernebula-also-hypernebulae-are-a-thing/ 05:57 Chandrayaan's final surprise https://www.universetoday.com/164664/for-its-final-trick-chandrayaan-3-brings-its-propulsion-module-to-earth-orbit/ 07:22 Does Betelgeuse even rotate https://www.universetoday.com/164602/does-betelgeuse-even-rotate-maybe-not/ 08:53 Vote results 09:31 Intergalactic star in Milky Way's heart https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/science/2023/20231204-subaru.html 10:44 Hubble tension explanation https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/231-2023 12:07 Newsletter 12:44 Red Sprites from space https://www.universetoday.com/164626/red-sprites-are-best-seen-from-space/ 14:21 Largest iceberg on the run https://www.universetoday.com/164594/after-stalling-out-for-40-years-the-largest-iceberg-in-the-world-is-on-the-move/ 15:18 Orbital refuelling https://youtu.be/5EXvEXfY1ts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/6CtZnxFyHKE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How did life begin on Earth? It's one of the most important questions ever. Clearly, we don't have an answer yet, but how can we even approach it? What methods and studies can we use to come closer to the answer? Figuring all this out with Dr Sukrit Ranjan, Assistant Professor at University of Arizona. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:33 Where does the Theory of Evolution start 06:21 The earliest organism 08:26 Testing the theories 16:41 Biosignatures 28:41 Where to look 37:50 Technosignatures 39:50 Inhabited Universe 46:14 Current obsessions 50:22 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/MeVvreDPI6c 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Black holes are defined by only three parameters: mass, charge and spin. We know that black holes spin. But how can we measure that? What tools and methods are at our disposal? Answering these questions with Dr Ruth Daly, Professor of Physics at Penn State University. 📃 New Black Hole Spin Values for Sagittarius A* Obtained with the Outflow Method https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12108 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:11 Black Holes' mass 06:22 Jets from Quasars 09:00 Being near a black hole 10:35 Measuring the Sgr A 18:56 Spinning black holes 26:41 Orientation of Sag A 29:02 Energy of black holes 32:33 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/9ArfZdNDtzY 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What is the farthest object you can see with the unaided eye? Do galaxies have Lagrange points like stars or planets? What does NASA think about Starship's last flight attempt? Which future space telescopes are the most exciting? How will Starship fly without a crew escape system? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 01:01 [Andoria] How will Starship fly humans without a crew escape system? 07:03 [Vulcan] Do galaxies have Lagrange points? 10:43 [Risa] What do I hope JWST discovers next? 12:41 [Aeturen] What's the farthest unaided-eye object? 13:53 [Vendikar] Is life common in the Universe? 15:17 [Remus] How accurate was The Martian? 20:13 [Janus] Are Von Neumann probes doable with current level of technology? 23:11 [Cait] What's the shape of the known Universe? 25:07 [Betazed] Can aliens see dinosaurs? 25:17 [Cheleb] Will the next Starship reach orbit? 26:52 [Nimbus] What will be the next big space telescopes? 30:25 [Belos] What does NASA think about Starship's IFT-2? 📺 VIDEO VERSION #TODO_LINK 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Hubble is down right now. JWST sees the first protoplanetary disk in another galaxy. Titan Dragonfly’s delay. The first full image of the Chinese Space Station from orbit. 🚀 Starship IFT-2 Special: https://youtu.be/ReXZvXPak4U 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:17 Artificial contact binary https://www.universetoday.com/164541/contact-binary-asteroids-are-common-but-weve-never-seen-one-form-so-lets-make-one/ 02:12 Hubble is down https://www.universetoday.com/164574/hubble-is-offline-because-of-a-problem-with-one-of-its-gyros/ 04:25 Double protostar https://www.universetoday.com/164514/jwst-reveals-a-newly-forming-double-protostar/ 06:05 Protoplanetary Disks in a Nearby Star Cluster https://www.universetoday.com/164470/jwst-reveals-protoplanetary-disks-in-a-nearby-star-cluster/ 07:17 Protoplanetary disk in another galaxy https://www.universetoday.com/164546/a-protoplanetary-disc-has-been-found-in-another-galaxy/ 08:39 Vote results https://youtu.be/tEdSYwSN7NE 09:32 Second most powerful cosmic ray https://www.universetoday.com/164485/the-second-most-energetic-cosmic-ray-ever-found/ 12:13 Double planets https://www.universetoday.com/164456/where-are-all-the-double-planets/ 13:43 Interviews https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmnK1xmCRad_8bn0uOcmLiIE 14:35 Dragonfly's Delayed https://www.universetoday.com/164532/titan-dragonfly-is-go-for-phase-c/ 15:52 Horizon of Mars https://www.universetoday.com/164517/odyssey-gives-us-a-cool-new-view-of-mars/ 17:08 Tiangong from orbit https://www.universetoday.com/164513/chinas-space-station-seen-from-orbit/ 17:33 Starship reactions 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/KRuBzkHCkJs 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What was it like to fly on the Space Shuttle? What made this vehicle so important for the history of spaceflight? What stories can it tell? Answering all these questions with NASA Space Shuttle Astronaut, Tom Jones. 📖 Space Shuttle Stories: https://astronauttomjones.com/product/space-shuttle-stories/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:43 Why Space Shuttle was so great 04:47 Precursors of full reusability 10:05 RS-25 Engines 14:21 The book 20:28 Overview effect 33:38 Constructing the ISS 35:35 Servicing the Hubble 38:25 New era of spaceflight 50:31 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/mH2AF2ZpQsQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How bad can a solar flare really be for the Earth? What would evolution in an isolated star system look like? What damage can a rogue planet flying through the Solar System cause? When will we have Lagrange point interferometers? What's the speed limit for gravitational assists? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:53 [Andoria] What damage would a rogue planet cause for the Solar System? 05:37 [Vulcan] How bad would evolving in an isolated star system be? 09:12 [Risa] How bad can solar flares really be? 13:56 [Aeturen] Lagrange point interferometers. Wen? 17:00 [Vendikar] Do stars go up and down the galactic plane? 19:47 [Remus] How can amateur astronomers contribute to science? 23:58 [Janus] Speed limit from gravity assists? 27:18 [Cait] Can we solve interstellar communication? 31:36 [Betazed] Top 5 science YouTube channels? 34:00 [Cheleb] What's my favourite aspect of cosmology? 35:46 [Nimbus] How bad is air pollution from launches? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Z8Cn0piSKEU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

It happened! Starship and SuperHeavy Did Launch for the second time. All 33 raptors were working. Hot staging went as planned. But then both the Booster 9 and Ship 25 were lost. What exactly went wrong and what does it mean for the future of Starship? Finding out with Scott Manley and Marcus House. 📺 Scott Manley: https://www.youtube.com/@scottmanley 📺 Marcus House: https://www.youtube.com/@MarcusHouse 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:02 Before IFT-2 00:08:35 The Launch 00:14:19 Hot Staging 00:16:20 What went wrong with SuperHeavy 00:25:00 What went wrong with Starship 00:32:00 What's next? 00:45:58 What it means for Artemis 01:03:00 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/ReXZvXPak4U 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

SpaceX Starship launches again. Webb finds methane in the atmosphere of an exoplanet and reveals a star forming region near the center of the Milky Way. The overwhelming logistics of dealing with an asteroid threat. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:16 Starship Second Flight https://www.universetoday.com/164331/spacex-tested-its-starship-again-successful-launch-but-both-vehicles-were-destroyed/ 04:36 JWST finds methane on an exoplanet https://www.universetoday.com/164405/wow-jwst-just-found-methane-in-an-exoplanet-atmosphere/ 06:27 JWST looks into Milky Way's center https://www.universetoday.com/164355/webbs-infrared-eye-reveals-the-heart-of-the-milky-way/ 08:11 Secret Chinese payload https://www.universetoday.com/164379/a-chinese-booster-and-additional-secret-payload-caused-a-double-crater-on-the-moon/ 10:02 Vote results https://youtu.be/tqsRBKgpJsI 11:00 More plutonium for NASA https://www.universetoday.com/164407/nasa-is-getting-the-plutonium-it-needs-for-future-missions/ 13:29 Missing Spiral Galaxies https://durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2023/11/supergalactic-planes-missing-spiral-galaxies/ 15:01 Q&A Show https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmm6bfexWT6vSK9Jc4zgep 16:50 Zone of Avoidance https://www.universetoday.com/164328/the-universe-cant-hide-behind-the-zone-of-avoidance-any-longer/ 18:21 Real Danger of an Asteroid Threat https://www.universetoday.com/164378/if-youre-trying-to-prevent-an-asteroid-impact-the-technical-and-political-challenges-are-staggering/ 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/tEdSYwSN7NE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Did James Webb already reach its full potential or is there more to come from it? How does TESS compare to Kepler? Can we use Starlinks as a giant space-based interferometer? Can we rip a black hole apart to see what's inside? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:54 [Andoria] Were primordial gravitational waves stretched? 07:15 [Vulcan] Are black holes the same with very early Universe? 09:28 [Risa] TESS vs Kepler 12:18 [Aeturen] Can starlinks be used as an interferometer? 15:23 [Vendikar] Can meteors from Venus be on Moon or Mars? 17:40 [Remus] Bogus discoveries 21:38 [Janus] Will a Dyson sphere be unstable? 25:51 [Cait] Have we found aliens yet? 25:57 [Betazed] Did JWST show its full potential? 28:46 [Cheleb] Can we rip a black hole to see what's inside? 30:39 [Nimbus] Can we mine a neutron star? 32:35 [Belos] Rogue exoplanets found in the Orion nebula 35:12 [Lyar] Do I get bored of my job? 38:13 [Zalcon] Triton 40:29 [Arret] Biggest missed opportunity in space? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Tx3kl2sycHE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

China is planning a Mars Sample Return Mission. James Webb tracks water moving towards planets. The Hubble Tension has gotten even more tense. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:12 China's Mars Sample Return Mission https://www.universetoday.com/164186/china-wants-to-retrieve-a-sample-of-mars-by-2028/ 02:36 Active Oort Cloud https://www.universetoday.com/164213/the-oort-cloud-might-be-more-active-than-we-thought/ 04:40 Amateur supernova discovery https://www.universetoday.com/164136/an-amateur-astronomer-discovered-one-of-a-kind-supernova-remnant/ 06:54 Vote results 07:29 JWST sees water transfer https://www.universetoday.com/164249/jwst-shows-ice-covered-pebbles-delivering-water-to-new-planets/ 09:13 Lunar swirls https://www.universetoday.com/164277/the-lunar-swirl-mystery-deepens/ 10:42 Regolith landing problem https://www.nasa.gov/general/rocket-exhaust-on-the-moon-nasa-supercomputers-reveal-surface-effects/ 11:55 Support us on Patreon 12:48 Hubble Tensions gets worse https://www.universetoday.com/164198/if-you-account-for-the-laniakea-supercluster-the-hubble-tension-might-be-even-larger/ 14:24 Starship Launch https://www.universetoday.com/164220/starship-could-be-ready-to-launch-on-friday/ 15:03 More on interstellar objects 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/tqsRBKgpJsI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How large surveys of our galactic neighbourhood can help us better understand dark energy? What more can we learn from them? What instruments and techniques are used for this? Answering all these question and more with Dr John Moustakas. More interviews: 👉 Understanding Dark Energy https://youtu.be/2Y6KK94GaXc?si=twg4yVmpxDSBJFgA 👉 Time-Domain Astronomy Dr James Davenport https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCWrrL4fP5c&ab_channel=FraserCain 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:14 Understanding our extra-galactic environment 05:58 Siena Galaxy Atlas 10:38 New Era in Astronomy 16:10 Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument 31:06 How can we solve Dark Energy 51:01 Obsessions 55:31 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/3h6dwiPN0Fc 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Can dark energy be just empty space and nothing else? Is there a new space race going on? Why is NASA so slow with its Moon plans? Is there an upper limit for a star? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 01:07 [Andoria] Is dark energy just empty space? 06:29 [Vulcan] Canadian accent 08:48 [Risa] What if a nebula collapsed back on its central neutron star? 12:11 [Aeturen] Why not use a satellite on a cycler orbit for high-bandwidth data transfer? 16:25 [Vendikar] Is a new space race on? 21:20 [Remus] How can NASA be so slow? 23:57 [Janus] Can space voids actually be Dyson spheres? 26:25 [Cait] What's the upper limit of star mass? 28:42 [Betazed] How can we protect against solar flares? 32:14 [Cheleb] Controversial topics among science discoveries 36:46 [Nimbus] What is the latest news about life on Europa? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/D6y0xNGmDUc 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

The so-called Crisis in Cosmology didn't go anywhere. Different methods are giving different values for the Hubble Constant creating one of the most interesting mysteries in Astronomy. What possible solutions do we have? Discussing them with Dr Sunny Vagnozzi. 📄 Seven hints that early-time new physics alone is not sufficient to solve the Hubble tension Sunny Vagnozzi https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16628 More interviews: 👉 A Big Problem with Modern Science Communication https://youtu.be/zGV6mZuULj8 👉 Understanding Dark Energy With Most Detailed Supernovae Survey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y6KK94GaXc&ab_channel=FraserCain 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 02:00 What is the Hubble Tension 06:56 Implications of Early Dark Energy 10:45 Consistency of Lambda-CDM 17:37 Early ISW effect 28:17 Relative ages of old galaxies 33:22 Descending trends 35:46 How will we know it's right or wrong 43:10 What might be the answer 48:03 Current obsessions 51:14 More thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/XRKX9ElmOQk 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Lucy made an incredible discovery. One of the strangest exoplanetary systems ever seen. Understanding the Universe with slime mold. And the most powerful ion engine passes the test. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:15 Dinkinesh's contact binary moon https://www.universetoday.com/164152/what-wow-that-new-asteroid-image-from-lucy-just-got-even-more-interesting/ 01:36 Polar Circumbinary Planet Disk https://www.universetoday.com/164077/this-is-a-first-an-exoplanet-in-a-polar-circumbinary-disc-surrounding-two-stars/ 03:37 JWST sees CO2 on a centaur https://www.universetoday.com/164066/jwst-detects-carbon-dioxide-in-a-centaur-for-the-first-time/ 05:28 Slime mold and the Universe https://www.universetoday.com/164120/what-can-slime-mold-teach-us-about-the-universe/ 07:23 Vote results https://youtu.be/xubOa8xR2lw 07:54 Can Gaia detect gravitational waves http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03474 09:37 Most powerful ion engine test https://www.universetoday.com/164072/the-most-powerful-ion-engine-ever-built-passes-the-test/ 11:30 Newsletter https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter 12:13 Euclid's first images https://www.esa.int/ScienceExploration/SpaceScience/Euclid/Euclidsfirstimagesthedazzlingedgeofdarkness 13:46 Water Map 15:00 Apple Podcasts reviews 17:22 More on asteroids and space exploration 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/c6z1octUAak 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

You asked for it, so it's here. A big interview about a proposed mission called LIFE that could help us revolutionise planet hunting. My guest is Dr Daniel Angerhausen from EHT Zurich. More interviews: 👉 Weird Gap in Exoplanet Sizes https://youtu.be/MuH2BlHdAyw 👉 JWST as a Planet Hunter https://youtu.be/6b377MO20uE 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:26 Search for habitable planets 06:19 The LIFE mission 07:45 Nulling 19:44 Biggest challenges 21:16 What can we expect 32:46 Technosignatures and Biosignatures 38:21 Current status of LIFE 43:55 Obsessions 46:36 More thoughts and more interviews to watch 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/BtSn_PTQtds 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How do we know that Psyche is a metal asteroid? Did primordial gravitational waves stretch when inflation happened? When do we finally get more Trappist-1 data from JWST? Can a dead star possibly reignite? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:53 [Andoria] Why is the Ice Cube Observatory at the South Pole? 05:49 [Vulcan] Can a dead star reignite? 09:51 [Risa] What about asteroid mining? 15:18 [Aeturen] How do we know Psyche is a metal asteroid? 17:40 [Vendikar] Are there different types of black holes? 21:13 [Remus] How to monitor auroras? 24:30 [Janus] How fast do gravitational waves go? 26:23 [Cait] How many black holes are there? 29:40 [Betazed] What if you go too close to a gravitational wave event? 31:45 [Cheleb] Astronomy bucket list? 35:13 [Nimbus] Trappist-1d and 1e from JWST. Wen? 37:41 [Belos] From how far away can you detect life on Earth? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/aUyevaUmAbo 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

A new system found with 7 Earth and Super-Earth Sized planet, the remains of another planet inside the Earth, and it’s time to replace your wallpaper again with this new image of the Crab Nebula from JWST. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:18 Sun-like star system with 7 planets https://www.nasa.gov/general/scorching-seven-planet-system-revealed-by-new-kepler-exoplanet-list/ 02:54 Ancient planet inside Earth https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/the-remains-of-an-ancient-planet-lie-deep-within-earth 04:11 Cannibal Betelgeuse https://www.universetoday.com/163998/did-betelgeuse-consume-a-smaller-star/ 06:16 Crab nebula by JWST https://www.universetoday.com/163977/the-crab-reveals-its-secrets-to-jwst/ 07:54 Vote results https://youtu.be/nQXPuYTMAoM 08:26 SagA spinning as fast as possible https://www.universetoday.com/163924/the-milky-ways-black-hole-is-spinning-as-fast-as-it-can/ 10:17 Rogue planet factories https://www.universetoday.com/163940/misaligned-binary-star-systems-are-rogue-planet-factories/ 12:19 Support us on Patreon 13:02 Lucy flyby https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-lucy-spacecraft-discovers-2nd-asteroid-during-dinkinesh-flyby/ 13:46 Map of ice on Mars https://www.universetoday.com/163937/a-new-map-shows-where-mars-is-hiding-all-its-ice/ 15:01 Collapsed lava chamber https://www.universetoday.com/164015/a-collapsed-martian-lava-chamber-seen-from-space/ 16:08 Lava tubes for Mars exploration 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/xubOa8xR2lw 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Plate tectonics might be the key to why Venus had become the hell it is right now. Some think that it just never had it. But recent studies suggest that Venus did have plate tectonics at the same time Earth did. Why is it important? Figuring it out with Dr Matt Weller. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:23 How bad Venus really is 04:44 Plate tectonics 17:05 Will Earth follow Venus' fate 18:40 When was Venus habitable 20:54 How can we learn more 28:00 Finding similar things in exoplanets 32:35 Current obsessions 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/R18W6VVZMhc 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Could another Big Bang happen in our existing Universe? Is dark matter theory falsifiable? Should we allow AI to control spacecraft? How many things can you put in a Lagrange point? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 01:50 [Andoria] Should we put satellites on a supersynchronous orbit? 06:23 [Vulcan] Should we use AI to pilot spacecraft? 08:02 [Risa] Could another Big Bang happen in our Universe? 11:11 [Aeturen] Where did the Weekly Space Hangout go? 15:00 [Vendikar] Is dark matter falsifiable? 22:47 [Remus] What's going on with phosphine on Venus? 25:50 [Janus] Can you fit multiple spacecraft in a Lagrange point? 28:16 [Cait] Can a supernova destroy its star companions? 32:31 [Betazed] Where's the future the futurists of the sixties promised us? 34:57 [Cheleb] Is the L3 point good for anything? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/9cu3O0TNihU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

We got two images of supermassive black hole with the Event Horizon Telescope. But can we make it better? How can we take the telescope to the next level and resolve a photon ring of a black hole? Finding out with Ben Hudson, System Engineer from KISPE Space. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:50 What is a photon ring 04:56 Structure around black holes 08:36 How can we resolve the photon ring 12:51 Making the Event Horizon Telescope bigger 44:28 What can we learn from the photon ring 53:10 Final thoughts and more interviews More interviews: 👉 Far infrared interferometer: https://youtu.be/3N03G9WbYqo 👉 Giant space interferometers https://www.youtube.com/live/RSPpakbgUS0?si=zi9XTHXS-7ur0q9v 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/O6hX70YvPms 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Three stars mysteriously vanished. So much JWST new. Hundreds of volcanoes on Io. Starship is ready to fly again. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:53 Three Stars Vanished https://www.universetoday.com/163820/in-1952-a-group-of-three-stars-vanished-astronomers-still-cant-find-them/ 04:34 Fomalhaut's companions http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15028 06:28 Jupiter's new weather feature https://www.universetoday.com/163817/a-new-weather-feature-was-hiding-in-jwsts-picture-of-jupiter/ 07:59 Detailed look at Ganymede http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13982 10:34 Planet debris found in a stellar disk https://www.universetoday.com/163832/jwst-looks-at-the-debris-disc-around-a-white-dwarf/ 12:35 Vote https://youtu.be/whE6wd-cXEc 13:12 Global magma ocean on Io https://www.universetoday.com/163811/io-has-266-active-volcanic-hotspots-linked-by-a-global-magma-ocean/ 14:43 Lagest simulation of the Universe https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/astronomers-carry-out-largest-ever-cosmological-computer-simulation 16:26 Interviews https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmnK1xmCRad_8bn0uOcmLiIE 17:37 JWST and the galaxy core https://www.universetoday.com/163810/astronomers-want-jwst-to-study-the-milky-way-core-for-hundreds-of-hours/ 19:04 Starship WDR https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1716979479845953646?t=n1pJe6mEeu7yW_Z-hxeVQA&s=19 20:01 Jupiter's Halloween face https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/just-in-time-for-halloween-nasas-juno-mission-spots-eerie-face-on-jupiter/ 21:07 More on Io 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/nQXPuYTMAoM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Are we alone in the Universe? How can we approach this question with a real scientific perspective? What would life even look like if it existed somewhere? Answering all these questions and more with Dr Adam Frank. 📕 Adam Frank's book 'Little Book of Aliens' https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-little-book-of-aliens-adam-frank 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:15 When did we start thinking of aliens 03:47 Misunderstanding of the Fermi Paradox 10:44 End state of alien civilisation 28:33 Are aliens here 32:14 How to properly explore UFOs 36:02 Accepting that we might be alone 39:42 Best way to search for technosignatures 47:54 Current obsessions 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/6OKTkm7wCuI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Can you reconstruct an image that was gravitationally lensed? How dark can outer space become? Will we ever be able to mine an asteroid? Answering all these questions and much more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 01:27 [Andoria] How dark can space be? 05:42 [Vulcan] Can you reconstruct gravitationally lensed images? 09:58 [Risa] How big does a parallax need to be for a meaningful improvement? 13:12 [Aeturen] Will we ever be mining Psyche? 15:30 [Vendikar] Which planet would I be spending my last seconds on? 18:02 [Remus] How long does it take a nebula to become a star? 20:53 [Janus] What do amino acids on asteroids really mean? 23:15 [Cait] Are rogue planets a threat for Earth? 25:28 [Betazed] What will be the first entirely space-based manufacturing industry? 26:40 [Cheleb] How with the Starship be refuelled on Mars? 29:31 [Nimbus] Why there was no warfare in space yet? 32:07 [Belos] Was I surprised finding out that antimatter falls down with gravity? 33:51 [Lyar] Do all solar systems have an Oort cloud? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/XNe-f1K8WxM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Red Dwarfs will be the longest living stars in the Universe. Many of them have planetary systems, like the famous Trappist-1. But there is a big problem, as red dwarfs can emit mega-flares which could render planets uninhabitable. Finding out, if there is any hope for finding life and how can we study red dwarfs better with Dr Ward Howard. 👉 Ward Howard's website: https://www.wardshowardastronomer.com/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:31 How bad are red dwarf flares 16:28 How to solve the flares problem 21:43 Lifecycle of red dwarfs and their planets 30:02 Any hope for life? 35:25 Brown dwarfs 36:40 Our place in the Universe 41:21 Future of explanatory research 48:58 More interviews and final thoughts More interviews: 👉 With Dr Jessie Christiansen https://youtu.be/MuH2BlHdAyw 👉 With Dr Ben Hord https://youtu.be/6b377MO20uE 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/6ihLo5sRyNQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

See the latest solar eclipse from space. A future supercontinent will wipe out the mammals. Juno makes a close flyby of Io. A planet with clouds made of sand. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:13 Eclipse from space https://www.universetoday.com/163767/nasa-mission-had-the-perfect-view-for-the-recent-solar-eclipse/ 03:30 Deadly supercontinent https://www.universetoday.com/163694/in-250-million-years-a-single-supercontinent-will-form-wiping-out-nearly-all-mammals/ 05:57 Juno's flyby of Io https://www.universetoday.com/163766/juno-completes-its-closest-flyby-of-io-yet/ 07:54 Planet with sand clouds https://www.universetoday.com/163749/an-exoplanet-so-hot-it-has-clouds-made-of-quartz/ 09:26 Vote https://youtu.be/Zc8W77btzA8 10:30 Possible supervolcano on Pluto 13:40 JWST looks at Kuiper Belt https://www.universetoday.com/163483/jwst-observes-the-kuiper-belt-sedna-gonggong-and-quaoar/ 15:57 Newsletter 16:56 Powerful solar storms https://www.universetoday.com/163712/a-monster-solar-storm-struck-earth-14300-years-ago/ 19:55 Cosmic rays https://www.universetoday.com/163711/air-showers-ruin-astrophotos-but-they-could-be-a-new-method-for-studying-the-universe/ 21:31 More on solar storms 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/whE6wd-cXEc 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Dark matter is one of the most exciting mysteries in Astronomy. We can see its effects but we don't know what exactly it is. One of the proposed solutions is dark photons. What are they and what do we need to find them? Finding the answers with Nicholas Hunt-Smith. 👉 Global QCD analysis and dark photons: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP09(2023)096 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:52 What is a dark photon 06:35 Importance of naming 08:00 What properties should it have 14:59 How dark matter fits into the standard model 20:20 How we could find dark photons 24:38 What's next 40:07 Current obsessions 42:34 More interviews More interviews: 👉 Axions with Dr Keir Rogers https://youtu.be/SruXU-Owz_M 👉 Axions with Dr Amruth Alfred https://youtu.be/M7IO6FkHRhE 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/g_eaYxt5DuE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How can we know that a star is about to go supernova? Can we create a pet black hole in our Solar System? What if all our star data is just wrong? How common are red dwarf binaries? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 01:21 [Andoria] How can we know how soon will a star go supernova? 07:14 [Vulcan] How common are red dwarf binary stars? 08:41 [Risa] Can we create a pet black hole? 12:41 [Aeturen] How would aliens harvest stars? 17:24 [Vendikar] Could dark matter be just normal matter? 21:46 [Remus] How can computer scientists support astronomy? 25:42 [Janus] Could panspermia occur from Earth to other worlds? 29:55 [Cait] Will New Horizons be able to put to rest? 31:46 [Betazed] What if all our stars data is wrong? 36:03 [Cheleb] Can UFOs be from another dimension? 40:21 [Nimbus] How can JWST look back in time? 41:36 [Belos] Will satellites take over our night sky? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/XEt974WYbN8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Which things can go faster than light and what does it mean for Physics. Can quantum entanglement provide interstellar communication. Why NASA didn't believe in websites during the early internet era. How should scientists approach controversial ideas. Answering all these questions with Dr Robert Nemiroff. More interviews to watch: 👉 Advanced Propulsion Systems with Dr. Sonny White https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDURVz31N1k&t=1s 👉 Interstellar Travel Without Breaking Physics with Andrew Higgins https://youtu.be/SkGRVvA23qI?si=sT2KHhEUuJ8KvZkR 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:15 How APOD came together 00:13:21 "Faster Than Light" 00:21:33 Faster than light galaxies 00:27:53 Outrunning light 00:36:59 Gravitational lensing 00:40:06 Quantum Entanglement and communication 00:47:00 Cosmic Inflation 00:53:39 Creative ideas 01:10:32 Further recommendations 📺 VIDEO VERSION #TODO_LINK 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Astronomers see ice giants colliding. We peek into the OSIRIS-REx sample collector. Even more evidence that the Big Bang hasn’t been overturned. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:17 Two ice giants collide https://www.universetoday.com/163615/astronomers-see-the-afterglow-where-two-ice-giant-planets-collided/ 01:58 OSIRIS-REx samples opened https://www.universetoday.com/163636/osiris-rex-returned-carbon-and-water-from-asteroid-bennu/ 04:45 Psyche finally launched 06:14 Size of early galaxies https://www.universetoday.com/163648/more-jwst-observations-are-finding-fewer-early-massive-galaxies/ 10:47 Vote 11:59 Gaia data https://www.esa.int/ScienceExploration/SpaceScience/Gaia/NewGaiareleaserevealsrarelensesclustercoresandunforeseenscience 14:14 Euclid problems https://www.universetoday.com/163579/euclid-recovers-from-a-navigation-problem-and-finds-its-guide-stars-again/ 15:54 Support what we do 16:47 Another russian ISS leak https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2023/10/09/international-space-station-operations-update/ 18:06 Flight over Mars https://www.esa.int/ESAMultimedia/Videos/2023/10/FlyacrossMarsslabyrinthofnightwithMarsExpress 19:31 Are we alone 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Zc8W77btzA8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will launch in 2027. It will have a best-in-class coronagraph that should revolutionise exoplanet astronomy. How exactly will it work? Finding out with Dr Vanessa Bailey from NASA JPL. More interviews to watch: 👉 Coronagraphs with Dr. Lucie Leboulleux https://youtu.be/sLK1W0EGu8A 👉 Future Telescopes with Lee Feinberg https://youtu.be/eXchT7mtEao 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:04 Nancy Grace Roman Telescope 06:59 Coronagraph 21:06 What will Roman see 28:05 Direct observations of exoplanets 31:25 Best-case scenario 38:08 Not just planets 40:56 Future coronagraphs 51:03 Current obsessions 55:21 More interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/HXZMRagv66M 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How can neutrinos arrive faster than light? How did OSIRIS-REx get samples of an asteroid? Can we extract energy from gravitational waves? When will we be able to discover our first exomoon of an exoplanet? How can we measure the mass of Jupiter's core? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 01:03 [Andoria] Can a star "fizzle out" due to a companion stealing its material? 05:45 [Vulcan] Are neutrinos travelling faster than light? 08:50 [Risa] Can there be vast swatches of annihilated nothingness? 12:33 [Aeturen] Can Earth be the only planet to produce life? 13:55 [Vendikar] If I could travel anywhere/anytime in space, where/when would you go? 16:02 [Remus] How did OSIRIS-REx collect asteroid samples? 17:06 [Janus] When was the last time I got out to have some eyepiece time for myself? 19:43 [Cait] Which place is most likely to host life? 21:28 [Betazed] Can Hubble and JWST see the same gravitational lens? 24:35 [Cheleb] Can the Universe be inside of a black hole? 26:13 [Nimbus] What are my expectations about OSIRIS-REx samples? 27:53 [Belos] What's the mass of Jupiter's core? 30:00 [Lyar] Can we use energy from gravitational waves? 30:38 [Zalcon] How do we detect rogue planets? 35:45 [Arret] Did we discover any exomoons yet? 38:15 [Cheron] How fast can a nuclear rocket get us to Mars? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/y95sEzkWvqk 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Exoplanets are great. There are hycean worlds, super-dense iron planets, super light planets, ones with potential biosignatures and much more. Catching up on all the latest discoveries with Dr Jessie Christiansen. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:52 Latest exoplanet discoveries 10:40 The Gap 14:49 Iron planets and super light ones 19:33 Surprising exoplanets 22:01 Future of exoplanet research 30:20 Is Earth normal? 32:52 Jessie's Podcast 37:07 Current obsessions 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/MuH2BlHdAyw 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

A mind-bending JWST image of the Orion Nebula, filled with rogue planets. Seeing the cosmic web. An explanation for a massive star that just disappeared. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 Orion Nebula is Full of Rogue Planets https://www.universetoday.com/163479/incredible-new-images-of-the-orion-nebula-from-jwst/ 04:19 Old Stars Don't Have Hot Jupiters https://www.universetoday.com/163488/old-stars-dont-have-hot-jupiters/ 06:08 Cosmic Web https://www.universetoday.com/163425/seeing-the-web-connecting-galaxies-across-the-universe/ 08:24 A Star That Disappeared https://www.universetoday.com/163473/astronomers-watched-a-massive-star-just-disappear-now-jwst-might-have-some-answers/ 10:26 Vote https://youtu.be/nh9gl_kCbcs 11:11 Mass of the Milky Way https://www.universetoday.com/163471/new-horizons-is-funded-through-the-decade-enough-to-explore-another-kuiper-belt-object/ 14:36 More questions for the Q&A 15:43 Two Supernova Struck Earth https://www.universetoday.com/163458/supernovae-struck-the-earth-3-million-and-7-million-years-ago/ 17:58 Supernova timelapse https://www.universetoday.com/163428/astronomers-have-been-watching-a-supernovas-debris-cloud-expand-for-decades-with-hubble/ 19:05 Book Club 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/lVQMBANcrQU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

If we want to send an interstellar probe to the nearest stars, getting there isn't the only problem. We explore non-trivial problems like getting the signal back from the probes, communicating within the swarm, choosing which data to send back and much more with Marshall Eubanks. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:29 Megaprojects in the Solar System 00:13:09 Chasing Oumuamua 00:23:17 Breakthrough Starshot 00:33:59 Swarms 00:50:52 How do we start practicing 01:00:39 Current obsessions 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/gH73Gwt1crU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Is our galaxy's black hole still consuming stars? When will we finally figure out dark matter? Can James Webb last until it exhausts its fuel and not break before that? How should we name exoworlds? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:51 [Andoria] Why are we so close to the Big Bang? 04:56 [Vulcan] Can JWST look through the zone of avoidance? 08:25 [Risa] Will we be able to move moons? 12:49 [Aeturen] Is the CMB uniform everywhere? 15:03 [Vendikar] When will we figure out dark matter? 22:32 [Remus] How long will SLS last? 26:50 [Janus] Will JWST survive as long as its fuel lasts? 28:52 [Cait] Thoughts on OSIRIS-REx sample return. 31:47 [Betazed] How should we name exoworlds? 33:25 [Cheleb] Did children stop wanting to become astronauts? 36:16 [Nimbus] What's an outlandish hypothesis I hope comes true? 38:35 [Belos] Can we solve water crisis by capturing a comet? 40:28 [Lyar] Why aren't we in the center of the Universe? 43:17 [Zalcon] Is SgrA still consuming stars? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/X8vCQR0JdlQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

JWST has shown us what the modern infrared telescope is capable of. But it's not far-infrared. There are no space telescopes operating in that spectrum at the moment. But why? And what would we be able to see if we had one? Let's find out with Dr David Leisawitz, Chief at NASA Science Proposal Support Office. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:08 What is far infrared 00:10:24 How is far infrared useful for Astronomy 00:24:56 Space-based interferometers 00:44:43 What will we be able to see 00:52:55 What's next 01:00:56 Current obsessions 01:04:59 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/3N03G9WbYqo 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

OSIRIS-REx delivers its asteroid samples back to Earth. India is losing hope to contact its lunar mission. James Webb is finally seeing baby galaxies coming together in the early Universe. 🚀 Watching OSIRIS-REx Launch: https://youtu.be/XpQ_MbwNdQA 💡 Interviews Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmnK1xmCRad_8bn0uOcmLiIE 😍 1 Year of JWST Special: https://youtu.be/nbDQEo0uA0Q 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:16 OSIRIS-REx brought samples of Bennu https://www.universetoday.com/163354/the-osiris-rex-capsule-has-landed-asteroid-samples-returned/ https://www.universetoday.com/163390/nasa-opens-the-lid-on-osiris-rexs-sample-capsule/ 03:13 JWST spies baby galaxies https://www.universetoday.com/163357/finally-astronomers-are-starting-to-see-the-first-galaxies-coming-together-with-jwst/ 06:29 No signal from Chandrayaan-3 https://www.universetoday.com/163394/day-has-returned-but-indias-lander-and-rover-have-failed-to-wake-up/ 07:51 What hides in the shadows https://www.universetoday.com/163363/the-darkest-parts-of-the-moon-are-revealed-with-nasas-new-camera/ 09:49 Moon base in lava tubes https://www.universetoday.com/163371/chinese-astronauts-may-build-a-base-inside-a-lunar-lava-tube/ 12:12 Vote https://youtu.be/qjSIwq6hBZM 12:45 M87 black hole's spinning https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1002773 14:40 Galaxies and machine learning https://www.universetoday.com/163350/machine-learning-algorithms-can-find-anomalous-needles-in-cosmic-haystacks/ 16:59 Interviews 17:35 No more Arecibo. For sure https://www.universetoday.com/163385/its-official-no-more-astronomy-at-arecibo/ 18:56 Final mirror for GMT https://giantmagellan.org/2023/09/26/the-giant-magellan-telescopes-final-mirror-fabrication-begins/ 20:32 Watching a rocket launch https://youtu.be/XpQ_MbwNdQA 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/nh9gl_kCbcs 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What's the best way to use telescope time to search for exoplanets? How many will we be able to find in a best-case scenario? What future missions will help us with that? Answering all these questions and more with Dr Ben Hord from NASA Goddard. 👉 Identification of the Top TESS Objects of Interest for Atmospheric Characterisation of Transiting Exoplanets with JWST https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.09617.pdf 🐦 Ben Hord on Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/benhord 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:49 Deciding which exoplanets to observe 09:56 Getting the masses 15:13 Using telescope time 19:28 What do we really know about exoplanets 26:40 Exhausting our search capabilities 31:10 Studying hot Jupiters 35:00 Perfect exoplanet searching mission 40:34 Current obsessions 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/6b377MO20uE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How big will the successor of James Webb and Hubble be regarding Starship faring? Can we communicate using something else from radio waves? How can a rogue planet have a liquid ocean? Could aliens look similar to creatures on Earth? How can we detect plate tectonics on exoplanets? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A with Fraser. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:28 [Andoria] How rogue planets can retain liquid oceans? 05:24 [Vulcan] How gravitational wave detectors separate signal from noise? 07:55 [Risa] Alternative communication methods? 12:32 [Aeturen] Does JWST give wrong results? 16:07 [Vendikar] What's Betelgeuse doing right now? 20:31 [Remus] How will the Big Rip rip the Black Holes? 23:49 [Janus] Advice for future Mars colonists? 27:04 [Cait] How to detect plate tectonics on exoplanets? 30:46 [Betazed] Could aliens look similar to Earth biology? 35:22 [Cheleb] How big will the successor of Hubble and JWST be? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/77Is1UB8EQc 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This is a sneak peek into our monthly Patreon-exclusive podcast we call Shareholders Meeting. Patreon is the reason we don't have ads and sponsor integrations in our podcast and YouTube videos. So, if you want to help us keep it this way and get additional perks, like a cool exclusive podcast in addition to all our other content – join our Patreon. 👉 Full episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/shareholders-5-89644670 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

James Webb detects carbon dioxide on the surface of Europa. A full metal exoplanet. Searching for tiny dyson spheres. And learning how black holes eat so quickly. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:15 Fullmetal exoplanet https://www.universetoday.com/163291/this-exoplanet-is-probably-a-solid-ball-of-metal/ 02:29 JWST sees CO2 on Europa https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasa-s-webb-finds-carbon-source-on-surface-of-jupiter-s-moon-europa 04:50 Technosignatures and biosignatures https://www.universetoday.com/163240/if-astronomers-see-these-chemicals-in-a-planets-atmosphere-theres-likely-an-advanced-civilization-there/ https://www.universetoday.com/163201/we-should-be-looking-for-small-hot-dyson-spheres/ 08:49 GRB passing through the Solar System https://www.universetoday.com/163222/a-2022-gamma-ray-burst-was-so-powerful-it-was-detected-by-spacecraft-across-the-solar-system/ 10:05 Vote results 10:45 Colliding galaxy clusters too big too early https://www.universetoday.com/163273/a-collision-between-gigantic-galaxy-clusters-too-big-too-early/ 12:20 Supermassive black holes affecting host galaxy chemistry https://www.universetoday.com/163229/strong-evidence-that-supermassive-black-holes-affect-their-host-galaxys-chemistry/ 14:06 How fast can black holes eat https://www.universetoday.com/163305/gluttonous-black-holes-eat-faster-than-thought-does-that-explain-quasars/ 16:15 Q&As are back 18:22 Lunar Starship engine test https://www.universetoday.com/163257/spacex-test-fires-a-raptor-engine-simulating-a-lunar-landing/ 19:56 Hottest summer on record https://www.universetoday.com/163216/nasa-confirms-that-2023-was-the-hottest-summer-on-record/ 20:46 Osiris-Rex bringing asteroid samples to Earth https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-finalizes-coverage-for-first-us-asteroid-sample-landing 21:44 Rant of the week 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/qjSIwq6hBZM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Have astronomers found the first signs of life on an exoplanet? So much James Webb news. The closest black hole to Earth. NASA gives its report on UAPs. 😍 1 Year of JWST Special: https://youtu.be/nbDQEo0uA0Q 😱 JWST image quiz: https://youtu.be/96POynVOcWc 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:15 Hycean World Found by JWST https://www.universetoday.com/163123/jwst-might-have-imaged-a-hycean-world-for-the-first-time-with-a-hydrogen-rich-atmosphere-and-a-deep-planet-wide-water-ocean/ 04:40 JWST Images A Young Star https://esawebb.org/news/weic2322/ 06:21 What Will Come After JWST https://www.universetoday.com/163165/planning-is-underway-for-nasas-next-big-flagship-space-telescope/ 08:43 Closest Black Hole to Earth https://www.universetoday.com/163116/the-closest-black-holes-to-earth-are-probably-hidden-in-this-nearby-star-cluster/ 10:29 Vote 11:37 DART’s Impact Had Stronger Effects Than Originally Measured https://www.universetoday.com/163089/dart-had-a-surprising-impact-on-its-target/ 13:56 Dark Matter Blobs 30,000 Light-Years Across https://www.universetoday.com/163143/astronomers-observe-blobs-of-dark-matter-down-to-a-scale-of-30000-light-years-across/ 16:20 NASA's UAP Report https://www.universetoday.com/163181/report-nasa-ufo-uap-research/ 18:47 Weekly Email Newsletter https://www.universetoday.com/138303/universe-today-weekly-email-newsletter-fraser-cain/ 19:26 Small Universe https://www.universetoday.com/163112/the-case-for-a-small-universe/ 20:58 Rant of the Day 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/bPXjskJyIwk 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What's going on with the Hubble Tension and does it really imply a Crisis in Cosmology? How to stay sceptical but at the same time keep an open mind? What big discoveries should we expect in the coming future? Looking for answers to all these questions with Dr Ethan Siegel. 👉 Ethan Siegel's blog at Big Think: https://bigthink.com/people/ethansiegel/ 👉 New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/jwst-confirms-worsens-hubble-tension/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:54 Big Questions 00:03:18 The Crisis in Cosmology 00:16:49 Problem with modern science communication 00:28:17 How to keep an open mind 00:37:02 Next big discoveries 00:46:52 Theory vs Practice 00:52:10 Iterative approach in science 01:03:55 What's next 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/zGV6mZuULj8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Starship could be almost ready to fly. The smallest possible Mars colony. Three more space missions launched this week. And a new look at China’s next-generation crew capsule and lunar lander. 😍 1 Year of JWST Special: https://youtu.be/nbDQEo0uA0Q 😱 JWST image quiz: https://youtu.be/96POynVOcWchttps://youtu.be/skjGrObdE1E 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:16 Starship is ready (according to Musk) 02:16 How small can a Mars Colony be https://www.universetoday.com/163069/whats-the-bare-minimum-number-of-people-for-a-mars-habitat/ 04:35 100 minutes of flight for Ingenuity 05:52 Two new missions from Japan 07:51 Vote 08:39 India lands on the Moon for the second time https://www.universetoday.com/163045/as-night-falls-indias-lunar-lander-rover-goes-to-sleep-probably-forever/ 11:23 India's Sun mission https://www.universetoday.com/163060/india-follows-its-lunar-mission-by-sending-a-spacecraft-to-study-the-sun/ 12:48 Most distant galactic field lines https://www.universetoday.com/163075/the-most-distant-galactic-field-lines-ever-seen/ 14:16 Q&As are coming back! 14:50 China's next gen Moon vehicles https://www.universetoday.com/163047/china-reveals-its-lunar-lander-design/ 16:18 Self-suffucient Mars colony 📺 VIDEO VERSION #TODO_LINK 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

The center of our Galaxy is a mystery. It is full of dust which most telescopes can't see through. But with James Webb we can look into it. What hides deep in the middle of the Milky Way? Finding out with Dr Adam Ginsburg. 👉 Dr Adam Ginsburg's website: https://www.adamgginsburg.com/ 👉 JWST reveals widespread CO ice and gas absorption in the Galactic Center cloud G0.253+0.015 https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16050 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:27 Skies at the center of the Milky Way 05:31 Using JWST to see our galaxy 07:07 What is there to learn 19:49 How different is the center 24:50 How to get better results 29:52 What's next 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/rKG9PIrQnnM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Which JWST image is the best so far? To answer that, we did a series of polls among our community with a quarter-final round, semi-final and the final. Can my fellow space YouTubers guess which one turned out to be the winner? Do they agree with your decision? Let's find out! 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/96POynVOcWc GUESTS 📺 Joe Scott https://www.youtube.com/@whatdamath 📺 Anton Petrov https://www.youtube.com/@joescott 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 😍 1 Year of JWST Special: https://youtu.be/nbDQEo0uA0Q 🚀 Lee Feinberg Interview: https://youtu.be/eXchT7mtEao 🔭 Judy Schmidt Interview: https://youtu.be/iiXzfeE5EjI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

An exoplanet denser than steel. The Whirlpool Galaxy from JWST. We finally learn where the solar wind comes from. The ISS is getting gigabit internet. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:15 Exoplanet As Dense As Steel https://www.universetoday.com/162982/a-neptune-sized-exoplanet-is-denser-than-steel-the-result-of-a-catastrophic-collision/ 03:05 Whirlpool Galaxy by James Webb https://www.universetoday.com/162955/the-whirlpool-galaxy-seen-by-jwst/ 04:41 Iconic Supernova SN 1987A by JWST https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/webb-reveals-new-structures-within-iconic-supernova 06:03 Trouble for New Horizons https://www.universetoday.com/162934/nasas-new-horizons-mission-still-threatened/ 07:59 Vote Results https://youtu.be/PQlgWrrpDes 08:37 Detecting Supermassive Black Hole Mergers with Pulsars https://www.universetoday.com/162925/pulsars-detected-the-background-gravitational-hum-of-the-universe-now-can-they-detect-single-mergers/ 11:02 Source of the Solar Wind https://www.universetoday.com/162952/is-the-solar-wind-coming-from-these-tiny-jets-on-the-sun/ 13:32 Gigabit Internet for the ISS https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasa-to-demonstrate-laser-communications-from-space-station 15:31 Support us on Patreon 16:34 More Starship Tests 17:50 Chandrayaan-3 Update https://twitter.com/stim3on/status/1697179139592032298 18:42 Luna-25 Crash Site https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/lro-luna-25-impact 18:56 Why New Horizons Needs Saving 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/YHEmHYI3hCQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

There is a disagreement in measurements of the Hubble constant often referred to as The Crisis in Cosmology. One way to solve it is to observe redshift drift. However, it requires lengthy observations. But my guest, Dr Geraint Lewis, has a hack up his sleeve — gravitational lensing. 👉 Redshift Drift story on Universe Today: https://www.universetoday.com/162845/a-new-way-to-measure-the-expansion-rate-of-the-universe-redshift-drift/ 👉 The Redshift Difference in Gravitational Lensed Systems: A Novel Probe of Cosmology: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07529 👉 Dr Geraint Lewis' website: https://www.geraintflewis.com/ 👉 Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Cosmic_Horizons 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:41 Understanding the expansion of the Universe 00:03:10 Hubble Tension and Crisis in Cosmology 00:05:53 Cosmic ladder of distances 00:17:30 CMB measurements 00:24:47 The Boring Solution 00:31:10 The Exciting Solution 00:37:25 Red Shift Drift 00:48:05 Time machine for free 00:54:14 Perfect solution with unlimited funds 00:57:05 Advice for young astronomers 01:03:44 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/JGYHwpsMQ1w 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

India lands on the Moon. Another Ring Nebula image from JWST. One of the coolest exoplanet videos you’ve ever seen. New images of Neptune. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 India's Chandrayaan-3 lands on the Moon https://www.universetoday.com/162884/chandrayaan-3-lands-successfully-on-the-moons-south-pole/ 02:59 Russia's Luna-25 crashed https://www.universetoday.com/162856/russias-luna-25-lander-crashed-into-the-moon/ 03:44 Ring Nebula from James Webb https://www.universetoday.com/162872/when-the-sun-dies-it-could-produce-a-fantastic-ring-in-space-like-this-new-image-from-jwst/ 06:14 Space Junk hit by Space Junk creating Space Junk https://www.universetoday.com/162885/the-irony-clearspace-1-couldnt-clean-up-space-debris-because-its-target-already-got-hit-by-space-debris-creating-even-more-space-debris/ 09:18 Red Shift Drift https://www.universetoday.com/162845/a-new-way-to-measure-the-expansion-rate-of-the-universe-redshift-drift/ 13:14 Vote https://youtu.be/c_Sr5ID4wog 13:42 Neptune Clouds Disappeared 16:08 Support What We Do 17:11 Actual Exoplanet Orbiting a Star https://www.universetoday.com/162895/watch-an-actual-exoplanet-orbit-its-star-for-17-years/ 19:15 Why the Hubble Tension is a good thing 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/PQlgWrrpDes 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

The farthest star and the farthest galaxy seen by JWST. Measuring the darkness of the Universe from deep space. New evidence for MOND vs dark matter. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 Farthest Known Star Seen by Webb https://www.universetoday.com/162741/jwst-turns-its-gaze-on-the-farthest-known-star-earendel/ 02:06 Farthest Galaxy by JWST https://www.universetoday.com/162794/youre-looking-at-the-farthest-confirmed-galaxies-found-by-jwst/ 04:28 SETI Symposium https://www.universetoday.com/162744/the-2nd-annual-penn-state-seti-symposium-and-the-search-for-technosignatures/ 06:18 New evidence for modified gravity vs dark matter https://www.universetoday.com/162749/evidence-for-modified-gravity-found-in-the-motions-of-binary-stars/ https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/binary-stars-prove-modified-gravity/ 10:18 Measuring the darkness of the Universe https://www.universetoday.com/162805/new-horizons-is-so-far-away-it-can-measure-the-true-darkness-of-the-universe/ 12:52 Vote https://youtu.be/z-wpbHns6Sc 14:01 New results from Muon g-2 experiment https://www.universetoday.com/162758/new-muon-g-2-result-improves-the-measurement-by-a-factor-of-2/ 15:28 SLS will get bigger cubesats 17:14 Support us on Patreon 18:07 Antarctic ice https://www.universetoday.com/162797/weve-never-seen-antarctic-sea-ice-this-low/ 20:00 Does MOND make sense 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/c_Sr5ID4wog 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Superconductor update. Contact re-established with Voyager 2. Two stars orbiting so closely they could hide inside the Sun. A field of gravitational lenses in a new JWST image. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:16 LK-99 Update 02:35 Fusion Breakthrough Done Again 03:45 Voyager-2 is Back 05:00 Wolf Pack of NASA Moon Rovers https://www.universetoday.com/162676/nasa-plans-to-unleash-a-wolf-pack-of-rovers-onto-the-lunar-surface-in-2024/ 07:10 Chandrayaan-3 Enters Lunar Orbit 08:02 Unscheduled Landing for Ingenuity https://www.universetoday.com/162709/nasas-mars-helicopter-had-an-unscheduled-landing-but-flew-again/ 10:03 Two Stars Very Close To Each Other https://www.universetoday.com/162692/two-stars-orbiting-each-other-so-closely-they-could-fit-inside-the-sun/ 12:17 Vote 13:12 JWST Sees El Gordo https://www.universetoday.com/162674/jwst-sees-multiple-gravitational-lenses-in-a-massive-cluster-the-fishhook-and-the-thin-one/ 14:30 Best Year for Perceids https://www.universetoday.com/162607/why-2023-is-a-great-year-for-the-perseid-meteors/ 15:52 Booster 9 Hot Fire Test 17:38 Starship Capabilities 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/z-wpbHns6Sc 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Classical space telescopes have their limit. You can't simply build bigger mirrors all the time. Instead, you can build more mirrors and combine them into a telescope array. That's the concept behind the Nautilus Array which we discuss with Prof. Daniel Apai from The University of Arizona. 👉 The Nautilus Array https://nautilus-array.space/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:45 Future Space Telescopes and their Limits 09:11 Nautilus Telescope approach 15:21 Flat Lenses 23:33 Quality VS Quantity 29:52 Capabilities of the Nautilus Telescope 37:00 Earth-size planets around Sun-like stars 39:41 Current state 48:32 When do we see one fly 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/P7e3DaBBM44 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

NASA Loses Contact with Voyager 2 because of a mistake. Euclid sends its first images. Finally, The Ring Nebula from JWST. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:13 NASA Lost Contact with Voyager 2 https://www.universetoday.com/162610/oops-nasa-accidentally-points-voyager-2s-antenna-away-from-earth-temporarily-losing-contact/ 01:54 LK-99. Possible room temperature superconductor 06:00 Euclid's First Images https://www.universetoday.com/162631/euclid-reaches-l2-shares-its-first-test-image/ 08:44 Vote! https://youtu.be/l2hYSn411vs 09:43 Possible Sag A companion https://www.universetoday.com/162636/does-the-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole-have-a-companion/ 11:34 PLATO - best future planet hunter https://www.universetoday.com/162538/the-plato-mission-could-be-the-most-successful-planet-hunter-ever/ 13:26 Support Us https://www.patreon.com/universetoday 14:27 Io and Ganymede by James Webb https://www.universetoday.com/162617/jupiters-moons-get-the-jwst-treatment/ 16:06 Ring Nebula by JWST https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/manchester-astronomer-captures-stunning-images-of-the-ring-nebula-on-james-webb-space-telescope/ 17:51 Mars Sample Return engine test https://www.universetoday.com/162627/watch-the-mars-sample-return-mission-test-the-rocket-thatll-leap-off-the-surface-of-mars/ 19:19 Does Mars Sample Return mission make sense 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Tf7WuEuw3ys 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Dealing with space debris is an increasingly important aspect of spaceflight. Can we take it under control? What technical challenges will we need to overcome? What will it mean for the future of space infrastructure? Answering all these questions with Alex Godfrey from Astroscale. 👉 More about Astroscale ELSA-m: https://www.universetoday.com/162029/a-new-mission-will-grab-dead-satellites-and-push-them-into-the-atmosphere-to-burn-up/ 👉 More about Astroscale: https://astroscale.com/ https://twitter.com/astroscale_HQ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:19 How bad is space debris problem 07:39 Different orbits. Different treatment 11:21 Potential solutions 15:33 Technical challenges 20:45 ELSA-d and ELSA-m 23:38 How big is the potential market 26:10 Junk cleanup as part of space infrastructure 34:03 Future of space in 30-40 years 37:00 Regulating orbits 📺 VIDEO VERSION #TODO_LINK 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What will it take to ditch chemical rockets and make space launches fully electric? What tech will it require and when will it be reasonable to use such a system? What technical challenges are associated with it? Answering all these questions with David Dillon, the founder of Electromagnetic Launch. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:38 The idea behind electromagnetic launch 07:40 Quech launcher 14:45 How the system will could like 24:03 Recent partnerships and applications 33:09 Space infrastructure 36:13 What's next 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/3uMmVYYMcXU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

NASA reveals nuclear rocket partnership with Lockheed Martin. Witnesses claim there’s a UAP coverup. There could be trillions of rogue planets wandering the Milky Way. 😍 1 Year of JWST Special: https://youtu.be/nbDQEo0uA0Q 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:12 2027 Nuclear Rocket by Lockheed Martin https://www.universetoday.com/162560/nasa-and-darpa-award-contract-for-a-nuclear-engine-to-lockheed-martin/ 03:56 UAP hearings https://www.universetoday.com/162544/witnesses-alien-congress-uap-ufo/ 05:58 Trillions of Rogue Planets https://www.universetoday.com/162522/there-could-be-trillions-of-rogue-planets-wandering-the-milky-way/ 07:43 Enormous Cosmological Simulation https://www.universetoday.com/162506/an-enormous-cosmological-simulation-wraps-up-recreating-even-more-of-the-universe/ 09:27 Galaxy With Almost No Dark Matter https://www.universetoday.com/162441/a-massive-galaxy-with-almost-no-dark-matter/ 11:27 Vote Results https://youtu.be/t-LrlFJTaNw 12:37 New JWST Image 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/l2hYSn411vs 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

It's already been one year 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 first year of James Webb. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 👉 More James Webb Videos * Scientist's Perspective on Webb's First Year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsZzLzixd-E * Universe-Breaking Galaxies Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPK9kF2tqfk * JWST and the Future of Telescopes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXchT7mtEao * Image Processing with Judy Schmidt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiXzfeE5EjI * John Mather Explains JWST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1dOwht6D30 00:00 Intro 01:34 Amazing Images 13:52 Early Universe 22:26 Exoplanets 29:10 Solar System 36:32 Problems 39:24 What's Next 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/nbDQEo0uA0Q 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

A white dwarf was found that literally has to sides. One is Hydrogen. The other one is Helium. And it constantly rotates and changes those two sides. What's going on and how could this possibly happen? We're figuring it out with Dr Jeremy Heyl from the University of British Columbia. 🧐 More about the Two-Face star: https://www.universetoday.com/162481/one-side-of-this-white-dwarf-is-covered-in-hydrogen-while-the-other-side-is-helium/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:47 What? How? 05:02 Chemistry of white dwarfs 11:05 What could be the mechanism 20:25 Tools behind the discovery 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Y5E0FmN-8tY 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Is the Universe twice as old as we thought? China updates its lunar exploration plans. Astronomers might have found an exoplanet in a Lagrange Point. 🦌 The deer story: https://www.patreon.com/posts/shareholders-3-q-85994340 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 Is the Universe twice as old https://www.universetoday.com/162394/the-universe-could-be-twice-as-old-if-light-is-tired-and-physical-constants-change/ 04:10 China's Moon plans https://www.universetoday.com/162392/china-will-use-two-rockets-to-put-humans-on-the-moon/ 06:23 Lagrange point planet https://www.universetoday.com/162439/is-this-the-first-exoplanet-trojan-or-the-result-of-an-epic-collision-between-worlds/ 08:20 Last week's vote https://youtu.be/0V1RqK1Hynk 08:53 JWST sees very old organic checmicals https://www.universetoday.com/162470/carbon-based-molecules-seen-just-a-billion-years-after-the-big-bang/ 10:46 Two-Face White Dwarf https://www.universetoday.com/162481/one-side-of-this-white-dwarf-is-covered-in-hydrogen-while-the-other-side-is-helium/ 12:58 AI expansion to space news sector 14:19 Non-circular Mars crater 15:53 Lightning over Europe https://www.universetoday.com/162410/a-satellite-is-now-continuously-watching-lightning-strikes-in-europe/ 16:43 Deer update 17:22 Book Club 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/t-LrlFJTaNw 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Enceladus is the most interesting world in our Solar System in terms of exploration potential. It just is. But at the moment there are no approved missions to come back there. In this interview I'm discussing a New Frontiers class mission concept, the Astrobiology eXploration at Enceladus (AXE) with Dr Marshall Seaton from NASA JPL. 🪐 Astrobiology eXploration at Enceladus (AXE) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/acd119 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 02:27 How does Enceladus feel like 04:45 Why go back to Enceladus 15:20 AXE mission concept 23:10 How should we search for life 29:03 Building a New Frontiers class mission 46:46 Other icy ocean worlds 51:08 How special is Enceladus 54:37 What's next for the mission concept 58:40 Career path for young scientists 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Q3W-0LecU5k 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

James Webb recently celebrated its first anniversary at work. What science results did it bring? Why graphs of spectra are as great as the nice pictures? How did JWST change Cosmology? What to expect from the next year of observations? All the answers in this Special Episode. 👉 Dr Jessie Christiansen https://web.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/christia/ 👉 Dr Maggie Lieu https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceMog 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:22 Webb as a planet hunter 03:49 JWST from the Cosmology perspective 06:30 Spectra vs Images 10:53 Most significant results 23:36 Data access to Webb's results 29:46 Exciting targets for Cycle 2 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/rsZzLzixd-E 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

JWST celebrates its first year of operation. The Extremely Large Telescope is half-built. A black hole suddenly roars into life. 🦌 The deer story: https://www.patreon.com/posts/shareholders-3-q-85994340 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:13 Webb Celebrates 1 Year of Operations https://www.universetoday.com/162357/celebrate-a-year-of-jwst-with-this-ludicrous-image-of-rho-ophiuchi/ 03:15 ELT Is Half-Way There https://www.universetoday.com/162343/the-biggest-telescope-in-the-world-is-half-built/ 05:09 Black Hole Rapidly Switching On https://www.universetoday.com/162326/a-black-hole-switched-on-in-the-blink-of-an-eye/ 07:13 Ancient Stars Close To The Galaxy Center https://www.universetoday.com/162328/ancient-stars-somehow-survived-close-to-the-center-of-the-milky-way/ 08:58 Last Week's Vote https://youtu.be/sLRqFmgi3Zk 09:31 Spiral Arms Around Stars https://www.universetoday.com/162323/a-planet-has-whipped-up-spiral-arms-around-a-young-star/ 11:29 Chandrayaan-3 launches to the Moon 12:44 Support us on Patreon 14:18 The Methane Race to Orbit is Over 15:21 Mars Dunes https://www.universetoday.com/162291/amazing-video-takes-flight-across-the-dunes-of-mars/ 16:33 Oh, Deer! https://www.patreon.com/posts/shareholders-3-q-85994340 16:57 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/0V1RqK1Hynk 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Before finding out what is dark matter we might first need to find what it isn't. In this interview Dr Keir Rogers explains what do we currently know about dark matter, what can we find in the near future and how the upcoming astronomy instruments might help us with all that. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:22 What are axions 07:25 How to look for axions 16:25 What dark matter isn't 22:56 Future telescopes 35:05 Best possible instrument to search for dark matter 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/-6Yn3ajT6_A 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

So much James Webb discoveries. A planet survives after being consumed by a red giant star. Euclid successfully launches. And gravitational lensing gravitational waves. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:15 Big Webb Spies The Big Web https://www.universetoday.com/162267/jwst-sees-the-beginning-of-the-cosmic-web/ 02:53 JWST Finds Dust Reservoirs of Two Supernovae https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/webb-locates-dust-reservoirs-in-two-supernovae 04:29 Most Distant Active Supermassive Black Holes. Again https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/webb-detects-most-distant-active-supermassive-black-hole-to-date 05:52 James Webb Is GO for Cycle 2 https://www.universetoday.com/162237/james-webb-is-a-go-for-cycle-2-observations/ 09:35 Euclid Launched https://www.universetoday.com/162271/esas-euclid-mission-is-off-to-explore-the-dark-universe/ 10:53 Last week's vote https://youtu.be/YpxJQcr2YPI 11:36 Dark Matter via Gravitational Waves https://www.universetoday.com/162261/next-generation-gravitational-wave-detectors-could-pin-down-dark-matter/ 13:40 Gravitational Lenses of Gravitational Waves https://www.universetoday.com/162273/gravitational-waves-can-be-gravitationally-lensed-and-this-could-provide-another-way-to-measure-the-expansion-of-the-universe/ 16:37 Q&As with Fraser Cain https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmm6bfexWT6vSK9Jc4zgep 17:15 Planet coming back from hell https://www.universetoday.com/162262/a-planet-was-swallowed-by-a-red-giant-but-it-survived/ 18:53 Ingenuity Went Silent for 63 Days https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-phones-home 20:12 Mars Donut https://www.universetoday.com/162256/mmm-perseverance-finds-a-doughnut-shaped-rock-on-mars/ 21:34 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/sLRqFmgi3Zk 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

When does a Lagrange point stop being one? Can we make LIGO even bigger? Do planets change their size over time? Can we build a submarine to go to Titan? What's next for the TRAPPIST-1 system? All this and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 01:21 [Tatooine] Gravitational waves from The Great Attractor? 04:57 [Coruscant] Can LIGO's arms be even longer? 11:37 [Hoth] Can planets change their size over time? 15:17 [Naboo] Can we build a sub for Titan? 17:26 [Kamino] Most surprising discoveries from JWST? 20:37 [Bespin] Could we detect technosignatures from the Star Wars Galaxy? 23:21 [Mustafar] What's the core of Jupiter made of? 25:38 [Alderaan] What's next for the TRAPPIST-1 system? 28:19 [Dagobah] How much mass can a Lagrange point have? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/8G2mh15Uaf4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This is an episode of John Michael Godier's show Event Horizon. We explore the extraordinary idea of robo-eels, groundbreaking aquatic automatons designed to unlock the mysteries of water worlds like Enceladus and Europa. Then, we shift gears to discuss NASA's riveting UAP study, exploring unidentified aerial phenomena and their implications for our understanding of the universe. Finally, John and Fraser get into the ever changing realm of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and contemplate its potential impact on our future. ⚫️ Event Horizon: https://www.youtube.com/@EventHorizonShow 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/xhA-tBfg-gw 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Gravitational wave background of the Universe. A map of the Milky Way in neutrinos. More new discoveries from JWST. A major update for Starship. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:13 Gravitational Waves Announcement https://www.universetoday.com/162188/after-decades-of-observations-astronomers-have-finally-sensed-the-pervasive-background-hum-of-merging-supermassive-black-holes/ 04:12 IceCube maps the Milky Way https://www.universetoday.com/162239/icecube-makes-a-neutrino-map-of-the-milky-way/ 06:12 Ancient quasars seen by James Webb https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06345-5.epdf 08:31 Key element for life in Orion Nebula https://www.universetoday.com/162140/another-key-molecule-for-life-found-in-space-by-jwst/ 10:06 Saturn by JWST https://www.universetoday.com/162208/here-come-jwsts-first-images-of-saturn/ 11:11 Last week's vote https://youtu.be/5jw_cHqT8QU 11:46 Euclid ready for launch https://www.universetoday.com/162127/two-new-space-telescopes-will-bring-dark-energy-into-focus/ 13:36 Possible planets in Oort cloud https://www.universetoday.com/162077/there-could-be-captured-planets-in-the-oort-cloud/ 15:40 How to support what we do https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/ 16:43 Another way to measure space distances https://www.universetoday.com/162098/a-new-way-to-measure-distances-in-the-universe/ 18:50 Starship hot staging 20:07 Virgin Galactic completes first commercial flight 20:46 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/YpxJQcr2YPI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

The Vera Rubin Observatory will soon come online. It will be a game-changer for Astronomy. How exactly will it happen and how it will help SETI? We're trying to find the answers with my guest, Dr James Davenport from The University of Washington. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:56 How to search for ETs 10:20 What should we be looking for 19:31 Being a SETI researcher 24:02 Technosignatures are biosignatures 29:57 Rise of UFO talk 35:00 Vera Rubin Observatory 39:06 How Vera Rubin Telescope will change astronomy 44:05 Technical details 50:13 Vera Rubin and SETI 52:34 What else should we do with it 56:56 Next milestones 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/nNafANY48vg 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Will LIGO detect gravitational waves when Betelgeuse explodes? Why are scientists so sure about dark matter? Could Betelgeuse become a black hole after it goes supernova? Why is the Oort cloud a sphere, not a disk? What determines the size of Lagrange points? All this and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:49 [Tatooine] Why is the Oort cloud a sphere? 06:25 [Coruscant] Could field stars have no metals? 11:00 [Hoth] Will Betelgeuse become a black hole? 12:32 [Naboo] Why the Universe didn't become a black hole? 14:45 [Kamino] Why are scientists so sure about dark matter? 20:56 [Bespin] Will LIGO detect Betelgeuse's bang? 25:02 [Mustafar] Will Earth's polarity flip break all compasses? 26:21 [Alderaan] How big are Lagrange points? 28:45 [Dagobah] What science discovery do I anticipate the most? 29:57 [Yavin] Can we safely go through heliospheric termination shock? 32:03 [Mandalore] How big must the accretion disk be for Sgr A to be visible from Earth? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/NvQOatYAmIw 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

JWST Looks at the Next Planet in the TRAPPIST system. Could we detect colliding supermassive black holes. Hot Jupiters that flew too close to their stars. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 Second planet in Trappist-1 system by Webb https://www.universetoday.com/162014/the-suspense-is-killing-us-the-next-planet-in-the-trappist-system-gets-the-jwst-treatment/ 02:53 Detecting supermassive black holes collisions https://www.universetoday.com/162004/astronomers-have-never-detected-merging-supermassive-black-holes-that-might-be-about-to-change/ 06:02 Echo from Sgr A activity https://www.universetoday.com/162040/the-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole-had-a-burst-of-activity-200-years-ago-we-just-saw-the-echo/ 08:21 Starlinks are getting dimmer https://www.universetoday.com/162002/even-though-theyre-bigger-generation-2-starlinks-are-fainter-than-gen-1/ 11:44 Dealing with space junk https://www.universetoday.com/162029/a-new-mission-will-grab-dead-satellites-and-push-them-into-the-atmosphere-to-burn-up/ 13:20 Last week's vote results https://youtu.be/yadpJxWOX8U 13:58 Hot Jupiters too close to their stars https://www.universetoday.com/161967/this-hot-jupiter-is-leaving-a-swirling-tail-of-helium-in-its-wake/ 16:19 Unexpected discovery from Parker Solar Probe 18:30 Interviews https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmnK1xmCRad8bn0uOcmLiIE 19:40 Lightning on Jupiter https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/nasa-s-juno-mission-captures-lightning-on-jupiter/ 20:45 Flyby of Mercury https://www.esa.int/ScienceExploration/Space_Science 21:57 CO2 Map 23:28 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/5jw_cHqT8QU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Supercomputer simulations of the Universe are a huge part of modern astronomy. In this interview with Dr Andrew Pontzen we discuss, how exactly are these simulations done, what's the future of this industry, how it will shape the James Webb era and is it possible that we live in a simulation after all. 📖 Andrew's book "The Universe In a Box": https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669774/the-universe-in-a-box-by-andrew-pontzen/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:23 Supercomputers 07:02 History of simulations 10:30 How to simulate the Universe 21:50 "Impossible" galaxies by JWST 30:28 Large simulations of the Universe 36:30 How will the JWST era go 40:33 How tech will change simulations 43:43 Can we live in a simulation 49:40 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/FlM1A9QY_qU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Which astronomical events can only be seen with gravitational waves? Is there enough water on the Moon for a permanent colony? Can we use stars other than the Sun as gravitational lenses? Does the present even exist or are we always living in the past? All this and more in this week's Q&A session. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:40 [Tatooine] Which things we can see only with gravitational waves? 10:38 [Coruscant] How can the Universe be larger than 13.8 billion light years? 13:26 [Hoth] Are we all living in the past? 16:04 [Naboo] How's the search for Planet 9 going? 18:57 [Kamino] Are there rare elements on Mars? 20:34 [Bespin] Is there enough water on the Moon for a permanent colony? 22:11 [Mustafar] Can we use other stars as gravitational lenses? 25:01 [Alderaan] Are strange isotopes and rare elements created in supernovae? 27:01 [Dagobah] Worst space-related movie regarding Physics? 28:49 [Yavin] Do gas giants have solid cores? 29:59 [Mandalore] What would I do if I met aliens? 33:29 [Geonosis] What would I do as a NASA Chief? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/GwXi4F7xnJU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

We still don't know what is Dark Matter. We can see its effects but we don't know what it's made of. However, with their latest publication, Dr Amruth Alfred suggests that dark matter should be made of axions (which are one of the candidates among other particles). Paper by Dr Amruth Alfred and his team: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01943-9 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 02:19 WIMPs vs Axions 06:35 Observations 15:54 Implications for Cosmology 18:54 Where axioms come from 23:57 Difficulties with observations 27:54 How can the results be confirmed or debunked 31:13 Open-mindness in science 36:50 Gravitational lenses 54:35 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/M7IO6FkHRhE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

A white dwarf is starting to turn into a diamond. Another key element for life found in the plumes at Enceladus. The Parker Solar Probe discovers the source of the fast solar wind. All this and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:17 White Dwarf Turns Into Diamond https://www.universetoday.com/161929/a-white-dwarf-is-starting-to-crystallize-into-diamond/ 03:34 Parker Solar Probe Confirm The Source of Solar Wind https://www.universetoday.com/161891/parker-solar-probe-flies-close-enough-to-the-sun-to-see-the-source-of-the-fast-solar-wind/ 06:14 Fighting Satellite Trails https://www.universetoday.com/161932/astronomers-have-figured-out-clever-tricks-to-reduce-the-impact-of-satellite-trails/ 10:16 Phosphorous Discovered at Enceladus https://www.universetoday.com/161954/an-element-critical-for-earth-life-is-spewing-out-of-enceladus/ 12:31 Vote Results from last week https://youtu.be/5Qxo3MhhInA 13:06 What’s Going On With The Tarantula Nebula https://www.universetoday.com/161885/the-tarantula-nebula-shouldnt-be-forming-stars-whats-going-on/ 15:27 19-hour long day https://www.universetoday.com/161937/a-day-on-earth-used-to-only-be-19-hours/ 18:14 ISS Transit in front of the Sun https://www.universetoday.com/161902/thierry-legaults-stunning-views-of-the-space-station-with-spacewalking-astronauts-crossing-in-front-of-sunspots/ 19:53 Curiosity's Postcard https://www.universetoday.com/161945/curiosity-takes-one-final-postcard-image-of-a-picturesque-valley-before-moving-on-to-its-next-destination/ 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/yadpJxWOX8U 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Is nuking the Sun a good way to disarm the Earth? Should they rebuild the Arecibo observatory? How will SpaceX Starship change spaceflight? Could we see a reflection of an exomoon in a planet's ocean? Can a heavy suit help fight lower gravity effects on Moon and Mars? All this and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:50 [Tatooine] Are cosmic ray observatories a thing? 05:03 [Coruscant] Can we see a reflection of an exomoon? 08:01 [Hoth] Does solar wind slow down planets? 09:55 [Naboo] Can solar systems exist outside of galaxies? 11:38 [Kamino] What's up with Boeing Starliner? 13:24 [Bespin] What would happen if we nuke the Sun? 15:34 [Mustafar] Should Arecibo be rebuilt? 17:18 [Alderaan] How can we detect electromagnetic poles of exoplanets? 18:23 [Dagobah] Will wearing a heavy suit help fight the lack of gravity? 20:12 [Yavin] How Starship will change the future? 22:59 [Mandalore] AI changing science videos? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/xv4JFvvEXN8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Betelgeuse is unexpectedly bright, and update of JWST’s Deep Field program, and more problems with the Boeing Starliner. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:13 Betelgeuse Is Acting Weird Again https://www.universetoday.com/161751/betelgeuse-is-almost-50-brighter-than-normal-whats-going-on/ 03:15 Webb Deep Field https://www.universetoday.com/161792/jwst-shows-how-the-early-universe-was-furiously-forming-stars/ 06:25 Organic Molecules Seen Farther Than Ever Before https://www.universetoday.com/161793/jwst-sees-organic-molecules-ludicrously-far-away/ 07:59 Last Week's Vote https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/community 08:33 Why Jupiter Stripes Change Color https://www.universetoday.com/161767/jupiters-stripes-change-color-now-we-might-know-why/ 10:14 Things Are Not Looking Good for Boeing https://www.universetoday.com/161776/starliner-faces-new-delays-for-crewed-flights-to-iss/ 12:09 NIAC Interviews https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmmM_Ft5DzAbrwzXHB8ED0rf 13:22 Satellite Beams Power To Earth https://www.universetoday.com/161759/new-satellite-successfully-beams-power-from-space/ 15:44 Cool Space Videos https://www.universetoday.com/161760/20-years-of-mars-express-images-helped-build-this-mosaic-of-the-red-planet/ 18:48 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/5Qxo3MhhInA 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Was the Universe ever the size of an orange or a basketball? Can life exist on planets that cannot be escaped? Can the asteroid belt ever produce a new planet? Is the CMB slowly changing over time? What happens at the very edge of the observable Universe? All this and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:41 [Tatooine] Was the Universe ever the size of an orange? 05:40 [Coruscant] Is the CMB changing over time? 07:49 [Hoth] What happens at the edge of the Universe? 09:38 [Naboo] What are the chances for a habitable moon at Alpha Cen? 12:16 [Kamino] What happened to SOFIA's plane? 15:00 [Bespin] Is magnetic pole reversal a thing? 17:34 [Mustafar] What's the current state of orbital refuelling? 21:35 [Alderaan] Can a planet orbit binary stars? 23:47 [Dagobah] How can we use gravitational waves? 25:59 [Yavin] Does the ISS need refuelling? 26:45 [Mandalore] Can life exist on inescapable planets? 29:43 [Geonosis] Can what happens inside very dense neutron stars be extended to black holes? 31:58 [Corellia] Can the asteroid belt produce a new planet in our solar system? 33:13 [Crait] Can a simulated Universe become indistinguishable from a real one? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/wXUHnkbj_z0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Lots of new discoveries from JWST. How a software bug killed HAKUTO-R. Kepler’s last ever exoplanets. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:12 JWST Spies Huge Water Plumes on Enceladus https://www.universetoday.com/161655/jwst-spies-a-gigantic-water-plume-at-enceladus/ 02:15 Ultra-Hot Jupiter Mapped by Webb https://www.universetoday.com/161719/jwst-scans-an-ultra-hot-jupiters-atmosphere/ 04:28 A Bug That Crashed Hakuto-R https://www.universetoday.com/161661/hakuto-rs-software-got-confused-at-the-last-minute-causing-it-to-crash-into-the-moon/ 06:35 New Spaceflight Record 08:22 Ingenuity Went Silent. But It’s Back https://www.universetoday.com/161667/nasas-mars-helicopter-went-silent-for-six-agonizing-days/ 10:15 Kepler’s Last Planets https://www.universetoday.com/161680/the-kepler-missions-final-three-planets/ 11:55 Best Space Bite from Last Week 12:37 The Soot Zone https://www.universetoday.com/161593/a-new-place-to-search-for-habitable-planets-the-soot-line/ 14:45 Support Us on Patreon 15:49 LIGO’s Fully Operational Again https://www.universetoday.com/161553/after-three-years-of-upgrades-ligo-is-fully-operational-again/ 17:59 Fire in Space https://www.universetoday.com/161724/esa-is-testing-how-iron-burns-in-weightlessness/ 19:41 James Webb teams up with Chandra and Hubble https://www.universetoday.com/161551/chandra-and-jwst-join-forces-in-a-stunning-series-of-images/ 20:52 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/OEFciqSNmOk 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

NASA chooses another lander for Artemis V. The first radiation belt ever seen outside the Solar System. And those impossible galaxies might be even more massive than we thought. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:15 Blue Origin wins NASA Moon Landing Contract https://www.universetoday.com/161484/artemis-v-is-going-to-the-moon-with-blue-origin/ 03:12 Hakuto-R Landing Site https://www.universetoday.com/161554/nasa-may-have-found-hakuto-rs-crash-site/ 04:26 First Ever Radiation Belt Outside Our Solar System https://www.universetoday.com/161403/an-astronomical-first-a-radiation-belt-seen-outside-the-solar-system/ 06:19 How ESO Allocates Telescope Time https://www.universetoday.com/161486/eso-is-using-a-new-system-to-allocate-telescope-time-its-working-well/ 08:03 “Impossible” Galaxies May Be Even Impossiblier https://www.universetoday.com/161457/remember-those-impossibly-massive-galaxies-they-may-be-even-more-massive/ 11:56 Last Week's Best Space Bite https://youtu.be/kGDXuP4bvqQ 12:33 FRB That Went Through A Star https://www.universetoday.com/161507/astronomers-watched-a-fast-radio-burst-go-right-through-a-stars-atmosphere/ 14:16 Q&As with Fraser Cain https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmm6bfexWT6vSK9Jc4zgep 15:25 Strange Matter Cores for Neutron Stars https://www.universetoday.com/161514/the-heaviest-neutron-stars-could-have-strange-matter-cores/ 16:54 Polar Cyclone on Uranus https://www.universetoday.com/161541/theres-a-polar-cyclone-on-uranus-north-pole/ 18:26 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/mARazyCYFEY 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

It's already been five years since NASA's TESS mission was launched. Now it completed its first full mission observing the sky and hunting for exoplanets. In this interview, I'm talking with Nicole Colon from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center about the results from TESS and what can come next for the mission. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:12 How's TESS doing 06:52 Results from TESS 10:30 TESS VS Kepler 20:16 Most exciting planets 30:42 TESS and Earth-like worlds 39:53 Super TESS 48:46 What's next 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/YB7imAuEZco 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Could stars and planets be living organisms? Is LHC dangerous for the Earth? How do neutrino detectors work? Does the Big Bang suggest that everything around us came from nothing? What will happen if we create a black hole on Earth? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 👉 Ultimate Solar System https://planetplanet.net/2018/05/30/the-black-hole-ultimate-solar-system/ 00:00 Start 01:03 [Tatooine] How does something come from nothing? 07:07 [Coruscant] Could stars be alive and conscious? 12:18 [Hoth] Is the LHC dangerous for the Earth? 15:26 [Naboo] What if we create a black hole on Earth? 18:57 [Kamino] How neutrino detectors work? 22:15 [Bespin] What's the maximum number of planets a star can have? 26:47 [Mustafar] How Universe Today changed over the years? 30:29 [Alderaan] Favourite nebula? 30:50 [Dagobah] What's the largest milestone we can live to see? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/lLcvFFpK-MI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

If an extra-terrestrial civilisation saw the Earth, what technosignatures could they pick up? What could they learn about life on our planet and human civilisation in particular? I'm discussing that with Dr Michael Garrett who is the Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 Simulation of the Earth’s radio-leakage from mobile towers as seen from selected nearby stellar systems: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/522/2/2393/7028804 00:00 Intro 02:11 Biosignatures in modern Astronomy 06:46 Technosignatures VS biosignatures 13:07 Loudest technosignatures of Earth 18:27 Earth from the perspective of aliens 32:31 Satellite constellations 38:00 Going into wires 42:49 Leaked transmissions 46:09 Becoming an alien hunter 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/rkZM9yHY8z0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

NASA tests out a snake bot that could explore difficult terrain. An independent way to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. JUICE successfully deploys its radar antenna. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 Happy End for JUICE https://www.universetoday.com/161383/hurray-juice-deploys-its-stuck-antenna/ 02:09 A Warning Before A Solar Storm Disaster https://www.universetoday.com/161355/nasa-thinks-they-can-give-us-30-minutes-of-warning-before-a-killer-solar-storm-hits-earth/ 04:42 Limit-Breaking Ultra-Luminous Bursts https://www.universetoday.com/161364/confirmed-ultra-luminous-x-ray-sources-are-really-that-bright/ 06:44 NASA's Snake Robot Explorer https://www.universetoday.com/161387/nasa-tests-a-robotic-snake-that-could-explore-other-worlds/ 09:12 Raptor V3 10:58 Support us on Patreon 11:53 Epic Photos from Mars https://www.universetoday.com/161353/new-photos-show-collapsed-chains-of-craters-on-a-martian-volcano/ 13:35 New Way to Measure the Expansion of the Universe https://www.universetoday.com/161419/astronomers-have-a-new-way-to-measure-the-expansion-of-the-universe/ 16:06 Is Building Things In Space The Future https://www.universetoday.com/161375/nasa-is-getting-serious-about-building-and-assembling-future-missions-in-space/ 18:37 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/kGDXuP4bvqQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

In the second part of my conversation with Dr Christopher Morrison we discuss his second NIAC award. It suggests creating a power source that can also be a science instrument. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 Interstellar Sample Return with Dr Chris Morrison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsON8yF5Rjo 👉 Part I with Dr Chris Morrison: https://youtu.be/FIZHGDyN-7E 👉 More about the NIAC grant: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/EmberCore_Flashlight/ 00:00 Intro 00:36 What is the EmberCore Flashlight 12:39 Perspectives for deep space missions 17:33 Who will buy such Flashlights 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/jfyRp3GjUXc 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How can we get artificial gravity in space without rotating a spacecraft? Will there be bigger Mars helicopters in future? How exactly will they deorbit the ISS? Who will be selecting the crew for the Mars mission? Where are the Voyagers today and how can we find them? Answering all that and more in this week's Q&A episode. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📕 Book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:49 Book Club: Accelerando by Charles Stross 03:15 [Tatooine] Which way to look to see the Voyagers today? 05:47 [Coruscant] How to turn Moon craters into telescopes? 08:25 [Hoth] Can we pull of artificial gravity on space stations? 12:44 [Naboo] Do we need to stop for the gravitational lens focal point? 15:11 [Kamino] Will there be bigger Mars helicopters? 19:13 [Bespin] Are smart telescopes worth it? 23:03 [Mustafar] How will they deorbit the ISS? 25:18 [Alderaan] Are there non-rotational artificial gravity options? 27:34 [Dagobah] Why do we need a sample return from Mars? Why not study everything there? 30:42 [Yavin] How will the crew selection go for Mars missions? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/M7xy6LYyH6k 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Moon Dust will be a major problem once people will return and settle there. We need to find ways to clean it from space suits, equipment, etc. In this interview I'm talking with Ian Wells, who is a cryogenics researcher suggesting a way to battle Moon dust with liquid nitrogen. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 Interview with Dr Christine Hartzell: https://youtu.be/LfigUsu7V2Q 00:00 Intro 01:13 How bad is lunar dust 09:34 Liquid nitrogen spray 13:31 How can it be used 19:09 Mars dust 24:55 Risks for humans 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/tWartKovuxw 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

There could be liquid oceans in the moons of Uranus. Saturn takes the lead for the most moons in the Solar System. James Webb gazes into the Eye of Sauron aka Fomalhaut. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmnK1xmCRad_8bn0uOcmLiIE ⚫️ Universe-Breaking Galaxies Interview: https://youtu.be/xPK9kF2tqfk 00:00 Intro 00:14 Uranus' moons might have oceans under the ice https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/new-study-of-uranus-large-moons-shows-4-may-hold-water/ 02:21 Even more moons for Saturn https://phas.ubc.ca/saturn-re-takes-moon-crown 03:34 Webb stares into the Eye of Sauron https://www.universetoday.com/161280/webb-examined-an-asteroid-belt-and-found-more-than-it-bargained-for/ 06:07 JWST Fails to disprove the Big Bang https://www.universetoday.com/161265/jwst-fails-to-disprove-the-big-bang/ 08:49 Space Station with artificial gravity https://www.vastspace.com/updates/vast-announces-the-haven-1-and-vast-1-human-spaceflight-mission-launched-by-spacex-on-a-dragon-spacecraft 11:40 Water-powered engine raises its orbit 13:14 Interviews 14:55 China's secret space plane https://spacenews.com/chinas-mystery-reusable-spaceplane-lands-after-276-days-in-orbit/ 16:24 Beautiful space videos https://www.universetoday.com/161236/watch-a-spacex-fairings-fiery-re-entry-through-the-atmosphere/ 17:49 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/NMmi78YsiQ8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This is the first part of my interview with Dr Cristopher Morrison. In this one, we're discussing the concept of a propulsion system that should allow things like catching up with an interstellar visitor or delivering a telescope to the outer part of the Solar System. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday Previous Interview with Dr Chris Morrison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsON8yF5Rjo 👉 More about the NIAC grant: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/RadioisotopeElectricPropulsionSystem/ 00:00 Intro 01:16 Intersecting interstellar objects 09:39 Which technical challenges are solved 17:20 Spacecraft design 20:05 Finding captured interstellar objects 28:05 One more thing 35:00 What's next 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/FIZHGDyN-7E 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Gravitational waves can reveal things we would never detect otherwise. But different events require different sizes of detectors. In this interview, I'm talking with Waldemar Martens from ESA about a proposed LISAmax mission that will have 259 million kilometer arms and should be able to detect collisions of supermassive black holes. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday More about LISAmax: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08287 00:00 Intro 01:38 What's the status of LISA 10:18 What could LISA detect 20:45 What would LISAmax be 34:57 What could LISAmax discover 40:10 LISA VS LISAmax 48:25 What's next for LISAmax 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/2OykvNV8zuw 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How can James Webb disprove The Big Bang Theory? Where are we at the search of life as we DON'T know it? Can we somehow test if Hawking radiation even exists? What do Space Force use the X37 secret space shuttle for? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:49 [Tatooine] How can Webb disprove The Big Bang Theory? 06:21 [Coruscant] Does Hawking radiation even exist? 12:10 [Hoth] Where are we at the search of life as we DON'T know it? 17:56 [Naboo] How do we study the wobble of stars? 20:24 [Kamino] How to protect humans from radiation in space? 25:46 [Bespin] Why don't they send telescopes to L4 and L5 Lagrange points? 30:33 [Mustafar] What do we know about secret space shuttle missions? 33:09 [Alderaan] Most exciting thing about the JUICE mission? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/B_64LBRDyss 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Microgravity is dangerous for humans. But if we want to conquer space, we need to know how to mitigate the negative effects. Join my discussion with Dr Danail Obreschkow from UWA. We talked about studying the effects of microgravity on human body, particularly eyes, and potential ways to deal with them. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:35 Flying on parabolic flights 08:49 What does weightlessness do to human body 14:17 Things we can't fix 17:44 Studying eyesight in space 25:01 Will artificial gravity solve it? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/mSz_F82LPGI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

JUICE is having problems extending its radar antenna. Astronomers watch a star eat its planet. A design for a space station with artificial gravity. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:14 JUICE Has Problems https://www.universetoday.com/161180/esa-cant-deploy-juices-radar-antenna-it-needs-it-to-scan-under-the-ice-at-callisto-europa-and-ganymede/ 01:39 A Sun-Like Star Eats its Planet https://news.mit.edu/2023/astronomers-spot-star-swallowing-planet-0503 02:53 Space station with artificial gravity concept https://www.universetoday.com/161112/airbus-designs-a-space-station-with-artificial-garavity/ 05:52 Starship update from Elon Musk 09:09 Rule-Breaking Exoplanet https://www.universetoday.com/161146/bizarre-exoplanet-breaks-all-the-orbital-rules/ 11:33 Black hole eats a star https://www.universetoday.com/161142/a-black-hole-tore-a-star-to-pieces-the-closest-weve-ever-seen/ 13:20 Interviews 14:31 China finally admits what happened to Zhurong https://www.universetoday.com/161136/china-finally-tells-us-whats-going-on-with-its-mars-rover/ 17:11 Permanently shadowed craters https://www.universetoday.com/161166/we-can-now-see-into-the-permanently-shadowed-craters-on-the-moon/ 19:05 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/KqUzpUHDGYM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Space missions will become longer. It will inevitably become impossible to pack every medication you need and take it from Earth. This means that we'll need a way to produce them in space. Which is the goal of the NIAC award developed by Dr Lynn Rothschild. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday More about the NIAC award: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/Astropharmacy/ 00:00 Intro 02:15 Printing medicine in space 17:17 Evolution VS Engineering in Biology 36:30 Risks involved 50:50 What's next for the NIAC grant 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/jvHEKqrdP9k 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Can solar sails change the way we explore the Solar System and beyond? Dr Slava Turyshev definitely thinks so! He assembled an all-star team of researchers in a recent paper about potential science opportunities of using solar sails. In this interview, we talk about the technology behind it, what's its current state, what perspectives it has and much more. 🌟 All-star paper "Science opportunities with solar sailing smallsats": https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14917 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🌞 Interview with Dr Turyshev about the Solar Gravitational Lens https://youtube.com/live/lqzJewjZUkk 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:55 Updates on the Solar Gravitational Lens 00:08:04 All-star paper 00:16:20 Sun Diver 00:26:09 How fast will it go 00:34:50 Potential science objectives 00:39:48 Paradigm shift in space exploration 00:47:22 Timeframes for potential missions 00:55:13 Funding for the project 01:02:10 Where to find more 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/W-E83lC-eN0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How can we possibly know everything about exoplanets from just a single pixel? Will Mars be a good place for old people? Where does more emptiness come from if the Universe is expanding? Can we ever get to explore Betelgeuse? Answers to all these questions and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:43 [Tatooine] How do we know so much about exoplanets from single pixel images? 11:43 [Coruscant] Side windows on Mars greenhouses? 13:09 [Hoth] Is low gravity good for old people? 14:31 [Naboo] How can a planet's dynamo restart after stopping? 16:42 [Kamino] How to explore Betelgeuse? 19:35 [Bespin] Are we expanding with the expansion of the Universe? 21:41 [Mustafar] Does Universe expand or do we shrink? 22:58 [Alderaan] Will far away galaxies fade out of existence? 26:01 [Dagobah] Do solar storms affect the borealis and australis equally? 30:41 [Yavin] What is the Great Attractor? 34:57 [Mandalore] Newest water origin explanation? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/jUfTNxk_n2Y 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

When we fly to Moon and Mars, how hard will it be to deal with dust. It can be a much more difficult problem when most of us think. And why is it so hard to clean it off solar panels on Mars. We discuss all that with Dr Christine Hartzell. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:35 What is Moon dust 07:55 What damage can dust do 12:57 What can we do about it 20:19 How big the problem really is 22:08 Why don't they just... 30:11 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/LfigUsu7V2Q 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

iSpace's Hakuto R fails to land safely on the Moon. China wants to have people on the Moon by 2030. Another problem with James Webb. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 Starship discussion with @scottmanley and @MarcusHouse https://youtu.be/RGcdjJj-f4g 00:00 Intro 00:12 iSpace Hakuto-R Moon Landing Failed https://www.universetoday.com/161051/hakuto-r-spacecraft-just-captured-its-own-stunning-version-of-earthrise/ 03:10 China’s Going to the Moon by 2030 https://www.universetoday.com/161106/china-is-planning-to-land-humans-on-the-moon-by-2030-to-go-with-its-ambitious-lunar-agenda/ 06:36 Aftermath of Starship Launch https://youtu.be/RGcdjJj-f4g 09:16 Support Us on Patreon 10:25 Yet another James Webb problem https://www.universetoday.com/161117/jwsts-miri-instrument-is-having-problems-again/ 11:38 Close-up of Deimos by UAE's Hope https://www.universetoday.com/161077/new-high-resolution-photos-of-deimos-from-the-hope-mission/ 13:43 Percy lost its pet rock https://www.universetoday.com/161009/the-perseverance-rover-has-lost-its-pet-rock/ 14:49 Ingenuity's 51st flight 16:39 UFOs aren't breaking Physics https://www.universetoday.com/161040/ufo-office-fails-to-find-anything-that-defies-the-laws-of-physics/ 18:22 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/ymM6IuAeOTQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

The FarView Observatory is a NIAC project that's a giant self-building radio telescope on the far side of the Moon. In this interview, I'm discussing the details of the project with Dr Ronald Polidan who's managing the project. We also talk about the role of the Moon in the future of lunar exploration and how close we are to sending Von Neumann probes all over the Universe. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 More about the FarView Observatory NIAC Award: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/FarView_Observatory/ 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:16 Current state of lunar exploration 00:03:22 What is the FarView Observatory 00:11:20 Step-by-step procedures 00:22:40 Limits of the project 00:35:08 Science objectives of FarView 00:47:17 Role of the Moon in future exploration 00:51:29 Von Neumann probes 01:00:55 What's next 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/a99QXRIO1g4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

SpaceX finally tested a fully stacked Starship system on April 20th. Why did they blow it up? What exactly went wrong with the test? How can they fix it in future tests? Discussing all these questions with Scott Manley and Marcus House. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📺 Scott Manley: https://www.youtube.com/@scottmanley 📺 Marcus House: https://www.youtube.com/@MarcusHouse 00:00 Intro 00:46 How did the launch go 02:46 Stage Zero problems 09:39 Flight analysis 19:36 How can SpaceX fix things 25:08 Flying Starship to Moon and Mars 27:38 Wen next launch 31:52 Conclusions 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/RGcdjJj-f4g 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Did Webb prove the Big Bang Theory wrong? Why did nobody test artificial gravity in space yet? What's the purpose of other planets other than Earth? How would eyes evolve under a different star? All this and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:04 [Tatooine] Did James Webb prove Big Bang wrong? 11:07 [Coruscant] What is the purpose of other planets? 17:32 [Hoth] How big does a star need to be to become a black hole? 21:01 [Naboo] Favourite science fiction book? 25:20 [Kamino] How large can cloud cities on Venus be? 28:23 [Bespin] Do telescopes see the past? 30:01 [Mustafar] Can you see Moon's rotation from Earth? 32:42 [Alderaan] Why so few cubesat telescopes? 37:05 [Dagobah] How would eyes evolve under a different star? 38:58 [Yavin] Why don't we experiment with artificial gravity? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/xn4ruU5CyEA 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Starship launches but fails to reach orbit. JUICE looks back at Earth one last time. GAIA helps find an exoplanet. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:11 Starship Launch https://www.universetoday.com/160951/starship-spacex-flight-test/ 03:53 NASA Threaten the Future of New Horizons https://www.universetoday.com/160935/nasa-plans-threaten-new-horizons/ 06:33 JUICE Looks Back at Earth https://www.universetoday.com/160992/juice-looks-back-earth-jupiter-moons/ 07:56 Neutron Star Acts Like a Mini-Quasar https://www.universetoday.com/160978/neutron-star-behaves-like-a-mini-quasar/ 09:56 Webb Sees a Galactic Merger https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/webb-captures-the-spectacular-galactic-merger-arp-220 11:43 Q&A with Fraser Cain 12:38 Gravitational Waves from Pulsars Could Be Used to Probe the Interior of the Sun https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08220 13:47 Tornado from the Sun https://www.universetoday.com/160969/watch-a-dramatic-tornado-rise-from-the-surface-of-the-sun-captured-by-andrew-mccarthy/ 15:09 An exoplanet in GAIA data https://www.universetoday.com/160962/astronomers-find-a-planet-using-gaia-data/ 18:41 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/2xXehJ4IJNQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Magnetospheres seem to be a very important factor when considering how habitable a planet is. So it was really exciting when it was announced that an Earth-size exoplanet's magnetosphere was detected using radio telescopes. It can also be a method to look for exoplanets by detecting their magnetic fields. I'm discussing this discovery with Dr Joe Pesce who is the Program Director at National Science Foundation. More about the discovery: https://www.universetoday.com/160864/do-repeating-radio-signals-indicate-an-exoplanet-with-a-magnetosphere/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:19 An exoplanet with a magnetosphere 06:10 Alternative explanations 11:38 Detecting magnetospheres with existing telescopes 17:30 Scaling up the method 21:38 Big surveys with radio telescopes 25:38 What's next 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/p1PnoSoH0ys 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How big can iron planets get before collapsing into black holes? Why is the Moon floating away from Earth? Will Mars bases have glass domes? How will the asteroid mining race unfold? Will we create rings of satellites around the Earth? All this and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:00 [Tatooine] How big can rocky planets get? 03:51 [Coruscant] How big can an iron planet get? 08:13 [Hoth] Why is the Moon floating away? 11:43 [Naboo] What happens if you jump in artificial gravity? 14:56 [Kamino] Will glass domes on Mars ever be real? 17:31 [Bespin] Are they still looking for Planet 9? 19:33 [Mustafar] Are there more galaxies than stars? 21:23 [Alderaan] Return to British Columbia? 24:02 [Dagobah] Missions to explore Europa? 25:51 [Yavin] When will we see the next images from Webb? 28:42 [Mandalore] How will the asteroid mining race go? 30:14 [Geonosis] Will Earth have rings? 33:48 [Corellia] How big is the expansion of the Universe? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/bdhNhTdk9LI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

JUICE launches to Jupiter and its moons. A new JWST image of supernova remenant Cassiopea A. Machine learning cleans up the Universe, and improves images of a black hole’s event horizon. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:17 JUICE Launch to Jupiter 02:13 JWST's view of Cassiopea A https://www.universetoday.com/160883/its-time-for-supernova-remnant-cassiopeia-a-to-get-the-jwst-treatment/ 04:02 AI helping Astronomy https://www.universetoday.com/160913/machine-learning-tidies-up-the-cosmos/ 07:54 Flexible telescope mirrors https://www.universetoday.com/160845/a-new-membrane-could-lead-to-space-telescopes-with-flexible-mirrors/ 09:46 Support us on Patreon 11:27 Terran-1 is dead. Long live Terran R 13:28 Dawn Aerospace spaceplane test https://www.universetoday.com/160915/a-rocket-powered-spaceplane-completes-a-successful-test-flight/ 15:58 Lego Moon https://www.universetoday.com/160872/an-amazing-new-map-of-the-moon-in-lego/ 16:57 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/yzx5nnrTTK4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Active volcanism. Plate tectonics. Retaining the atmosphere without a magnetosphere. There's so much to learn about Venus! In this interview I'm discussing all these things with Dr Paul Byrne, Planetary Evangelist and Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at Washington University in St. Louis 🐥 Professor Paul Byrne on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePlanetaryGuy 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:14 Why Venus? 00:05:32 The big questions 00:08:03 Why so underexplored 00:20:13 Problems with the VERITAS mission 00:30:05 Vulcanism on Venus 00:46:07 Data for the future 00:47:50 No Magnetosphere but with atmosphere. Why? 00:54:20 Plate tectonics 00:58:59 Venus as an exoplanet 01:04:13 Venus sample return 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/VXuhaJu-GNM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What are the risks of returning samples from Mars? What happens if you bring two stars together? Which galaxies can be seen with the naked eye? What is the system behind naming stars and exoplanets? All this and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:19 [Tatooine] Can we bring viruses from Mars? 07:42 [Coruscant] What is the maximum size limit for black holes? 12:03 [Hoth] What happens when two stars come together? 15:26 [Naboo] What to expect from Artemis 2? 17:32 [Kamino] What are my thoughts on Artemis 2 crew? 20:57 [Bespin] How are stars and planets named? 23:43 [Mustafar] Which galaxies can be seen with a naked eye? 25:53 [Alderaan] What it feels like standing on an asteroid being destroyed? 28:38 [Dagobah] Will NASA land on an asteroid? 30:58 [Yavin] How cold is it in space? 33:25 [Mandalore] Can we bring our sun to another star? 37:03 [Geonosis] Lunar probe flying with springs? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/TAx9s_idIpI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What are Fast Radio Bursts? Did we get a step closer to answering this question by associating some of them with a Kilonova event? What Cosmology questions can we solve by studying FRBs? Discussing all these things with Dr Clancy James from Curtin University. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:41 Second Kilonova event 03:37 FRB connection to neutron star collisions 13:13 Mechanism behind Fast Radio Bursts 23:12 How to observe and study FRBs 29:12 Repeating FRBs 32:30 How FRBs are useful for Cosmology 38:10 When will we solve FRBs 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/o8uTWGBSLcU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Meet the crew of Artemis 2, we might have the perfect date for a Mars mission, and astronomers discover an ultramassive black hole. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:14 Meet the Crew of Artemis-2 https://www.universetoday.com/160806/meet-astronauts-fly-around-moon-artemis-ii/ 02:14 A Perfect Year to Go To Mars https://www.universetoday.com/160753/2033-is-the-perfect-year-to-send-humans-to-mars-with-a-bonus-venus-flyby/ 05:37 An Ultra-Massive Black Hole https://www.universetoday.com/160755/astronomers-think-theyve-found-one-of-the-biggest-black-holes-ever-seen/ 07:10 James Webb Sees Uranus https://www.universetoday.com/160858/the-rings-of-uranus-shine-bright-in-stunning-new-jwst-image/ 08:39 Clouds on Mars https://www.universetoday.com/160825/perseverance-sees-drifting-clouds-on-mars/ 09:38 Starship OFT is almost here 11:05 China Tests a Stirling Engine in Orbit https://www.universetoday.com/160816/china-tests-a-stirling-engine-in-orbit/ 13:23 Water-Based Propulsion https://www.universetoday.com/160781/pale-blue-successfully-operates-its-water-based-propulsion-system-in-orbit/ 14:21 Support us on Patreon 15:13 Virgin Orbit Files for Bankruptcy 16:48 How a Solar Storm Killed Starlinks https://www.universetoday.com/160761/now-we-know-how-a-solar-storm-took-out-a-fleet-of-starlinks/ 18:17 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/bg9OPAIc4BI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

There's an effect called photophoretic propulsion. You could have seen it in a Crookes radiometer. One of the NIAC awards of 2023 was granted to a team that hopes to use this effect to develop a propulsion system. This can allow flying in altitudes nothing else can fly and possibly even explore other worlds. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 More about the NIAC grant: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/PhotophoreticPropulsionEnablingMesosphereExploration/ https://bargatin.seas.upenn.edu/ 00:00 Intro 01:19 Levitation in science 05:47 Coming up with a design 11:33 Testing the design 15:34 Potential applications 23:10 Challenges 28:03 Other worlds 33:18 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/BzG64g4UEHo 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How complex must a telescope be to use the solar gravitational lens? How would we approach mining asteroids? How to detect magnetic fields outside the solar system? What is the size limit for a planet? All this and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:52 [Tatooine] What is the size limit for a planet? 03:51 [Coruscant] How complex must a telescope be to use the solar gravitational lens? 08:19 [Hoth] How would we approach mining asteroids? 10:42 [Naboo] How to detect magnetic fields outside the solar system? 13:49 [Kamino] Which telescopes did China fund? 15:56 [Bespin] Will we discover what's outside of our Universe? 19:06 [Mustafar] Oumuamua: artificial or natural? 21:39 [Alderaan] Planets caught in binary stars' Lagrange points? 26:12 [Dagobah] What's my take on artificial versus organic intelligence? 28:31 [Yavin] What is my preferred answer to the Fermi Paradox? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/zLCwPNbm6WY 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

We finally got JWST data about TRAPPIST-1. An Earth-sized rogue planet was found. More information about China’s plans for the Moon. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:13 JWST reveals Trappist-1 data https://www.universetoday.com/160716/finally-jwsts-data-on-the-first-trappist-1-planet-survey-says-it-sucks/ 02:02 Kazakhstan Seizes Russia’s Facility at Baikonur https://www.universetoday.com/160720/kazakhstan-seizes-russias-launch-facility-at-baikonur/ 03:53 Rogue Planets Found in Older Data https://www.universetoday.com/160695/a-rogue-earth-and-neptune-might-have-been-found-in-older-data/ 05:55 China’s Moon Plans https://www.universetoday.com/160719/china-hints-at-its-goals-for-a-lunar-base/ 07:50 Water in lunar Regolith https://www.universetoday.com/160723/china-beads-glass-moon-water/ 09:46 3D Printing batteries on the Moon https://www.universetoday.com/160703/dont-take-batteries-to-the-moon-or-mars-3d-print-them-when-you-get-there/ 11:54 Support us on Patreon 12:55 Europe's rotation https://www.universetoday.com/160740/europas-ice-rotates-at-a-different-speed-from-its-interior-now-we-may-know-why/ 14:54 Delays for Starliner and Vulcan 17:30 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/G0o8S-T13Do 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

The United Arab Emirates are making good progress in space exploration. Their Hope mission is orbiting Mars since 2021. Their Rashid rover is on its way to the Moon. They are also planning a mission to the Asteroid belt. In this interview, I'm discussing UAE's current progress as well as future missions with Mohsen Al Alwahdi, the Director of the Space Missions Department at UAE Space Agency. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:50 UAE's Hope mission at Mars 03:22 Science goals and results 07:14 Current state of the spacecraft 10:17 Tech for future missions 14:02 Rashid Moon rover 15:11 Next missions 18:55 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Svtn9WACg8A 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

In this interview, I'm talking with Theresa Benyo and Lawrence Forsley from NASA. They are authors of a Lattice Confinement Fusion Reactor that got a NIAC award this year. A reactor like this could help us melt through the ice on Europa and Enceladus and have other interesting applications in space missions. The extended version also includes additional questions from Matt Williams: https://youtu.be/decKMi2FBxk 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 More about the NIAC project; https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/AccessingIcyWorld_Oceans/ 00:00 Intro 02:30 How tough is Europa's ice 04:31 Lattice confinement fusion 14:43 How the probe will look like 22:54 What's next for the NIAC project 25:57 Other applications for the reactor 31:55 Where's the upper limit for the project 37:15 Going interstellar 41:10 Behind the scenes and additional questions 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/7Idm53V687I 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Why don't we send microscopes on space probes to search for life? How do black holes even form? Can Chat GPT or similar systems help Astronomy? How will we use Starship when it starts to fly? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:04 [Tatooine] How can black holes even exist? 04:43 [Coruscant] How to dock to a spinning space station? 08:12 [Hoth] Why not send microscopes on space probes? 11:18 [Naboo] Where's the green screen? 13:25 [Kamino] Why didn't Mars get a Moon like the Earth? 17:04 [Bespin] How hard is it to get interviews or talk with NASA? 21:32 [Mustafar] Can Chat GPT help Astronomy? 25:24 [Alderaan] Why don't we go under to the icy moons' subsurface oceans? 28:39 [Dagobah] What will drive public interest in space in the coming years? 31:43 [Yavin] How will we use Starship? 34:46 [Mandalore] How to travel faster than light? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/rdUbuioi2TA 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

We know about thousands of exoplanets by now. But it's still a mystery, whether there are planets in the Alpha Centauri binary system, which is just next door to us. My guest today, Professor Peter Tuthill, is the Mission Leader for the TOLIMAN Telescope mission, which is designed to find those answers. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:29 Are there planets at Alpha Centauri 08:22 How can we know they are there 11:20 TOLIMAN Telescope 30:04 JWST experiments 37:34 Next big telescopes for planet hunting 48:38 Discovering many more exoplanets 51:50 Next generation of instruments 59:05 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/jKDu4I0cLHE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

iSpace reaches the Moon, Relativity Space’s 3D printed rocket fails to reach orbit, a mission will search for habitable worlds at Alpha Centauri. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday ☄️ EARLY ACCESS: Searching for Habitable Planets at Alpha Centauri with the TOLIMAN Mission https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/811359865 👉 NIAC 2023 Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmmM_Ft5DzAbrwzXHB8ED0rf 👉 More interviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmnK1xmCRad_8bn0uOcmLiIE 00:00 Intro 00:14 iSpace at Moon Orbit. Landing Comes Next https://www.ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=4460 02:27 Relativity Space Terran-1 Launch 05:18 More Science from DART https://www.universetoday.com/160683/another-look-at-the-aftermath-of-darts-impact-into-dimorphos/ 07:02 Looking For Habitable Planets in Alpha Centauri https://www.universetoday.com/160625/a-new-mission-will-search-for-habitable-planets-at-alpha-centauri/ 09:36 1,179 Previously Unknown Star Clusters https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10380 11:21 Interviews 12:27 Moons Orbiting Rogue Planets Could be Habitable https://www.mpe.mpg.de/7938315/news20230320 15:42 Mars Sunset by Ingenuity https://www.universetoday.com/160621/nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-sees-a-beautiful-sunset-on-mars/ 17:08 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/ZmDk2XxDh4g 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

There are radio wavelengths that we can't see from Earth. And to observe them from space, we need a truly huge telescope. Mary Knapp and her team proposed a project that can allow us to build such a telescope and they just recently got a NIAC grant for it. 👉 More about the NIAC award: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/GreatObservatoryforLongWavelengths/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:20 Haystack Observatory 02:48 NIAC proposal for 100-km telescope 14:23 What Science Can the Telescope Do 30:36 New Approach to Space Telescopes 39:21 What's Next 41:55 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/l8NZDimTlwM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Scientists came up with a method to produce concrete on the Moon and Mars using potato starch. In this interview, I'm talking with Dr Aled Roberts, who is the Principle Investigator of this research. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:06 Building materials from biomaterials 07:06 Challenges of building on the Moon and Mars 10:20 From human blood to potato starch 19:02 How to implement the tech 26:46 DNA manipulation 32:36 Alternative applications 38:00 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/xC7jFJYodIY 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Can we build star-tram-like launch facilities in space? What will JWST see next? Can red or brown dwarfs be the source of dark matter? Should SpaceX just be the only launch service for the USA so they can save money? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:51 [Tatooine] Can we build star-tram-like launch facilities in space? 09:34 [Coruscant] Can red or brown dwarfs be the source of dark matter? 13:09 [Hoth] Can we see an Earth-sized planet orbiting a Sun-like star? 19:12 [Naboo] How to know JWST's plans? 21:37 [Kamino] How much more energy does it take to launch something in Nova Scotia versus the equator? 24:08 [Bespin] Will China own the Moon? 29:45 [Mustafar] Should SpaceX just be the only launch service for the USA? 31:39 [Alderaan] What would you ask to an alien if you meet one as a science reporter? 33:34 [Dagobah] Could a balloon on Venus use the temperature differences in the atmosphere for power? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/H0Ww_T2u94c 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

James Webb recently found six examples of galaxies that are too big too early. This discovery can significantly change our understanding of the early Universe. In this interview, I'm talking with Dr Joel Leja, who is a part of the team behind the research. 👉 More about the discovery: https://www.universetoday.com/160243/six-galaxies-that-are-too-big-too-early/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:35 What it's like using JWST 02:40 Universe-Breaking Galaxies 07:02 If true, how does it change Cosmology 13:52 How the research can be wrong 18:18 Community response 22:00 "Rewriting" Astronomy 27:09 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/xPK9kF2tqfk 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Venus has active volcanoes, we get a glimpse of NASA’s new lunar exploration suits, and scientists build a completely flat telescope lens. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:13 Active Volcano Found On Venus https://www.universetoday.com/160579/potentially-active-volcanoes-have-been-found-on-venus/ 02:56 Vulcan Is No More https://www.universetoday.com/160579/potentially-active-volcanoes-have-been-found-on-venus/ 04:09 $1B to Deorbit the ISS https://www.nasa.gov/news/budget/index.html 06:40 New Axiom spacesuits for the Moon https://www.universetoday.com/160553/nasa-and-axiom-space-do-a-partial-reveal-of-the-spacesuit-that-will-be-worn-on-the-moon/ 09:39 Malapert Massif http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/1294 10:38 What time is it on the Moon https://www.universetoday.com/160453/what-time-is-it-on-the-moon-it-may-get-its-own-timezone/ 12:03 Amazon Project Kuiper terminals revealed https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/innovation-at-amazon/heres-your-first-look-at-project-kuipers-low-cost-customer-terminals 13:28 DART. Spinning asteroids throw rocks into space https://www.universetoday.com/160574/didymos-is-spinning-so-quickly-that-rocks-are-detaching-at-its-equator-and-going-into-orbit/ 14:49 More science results from New Horizons https://www.universetoday.com/160547/new-horizons-pluto-team-updates-science/ 16:01 Q&A Show 16:55 Flat Lens Telescope https://www.universetoday.com/160510/researchers-build-a-telescope-with-a-flat-lens/ 18:16 Violent Red Dwarfs https://www.universetoday.com/160508/even-the-calmest-red-dwarfs-are-wilder-than-the-sun/ 19:48 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/wUHr_zvYacw 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

In this interview, I'm talking with Heidi Newberg. Her team won a NIAC grant that will investigate building a telescope that will be hunting for Earth-like worlds. The project is called DICER, which stands for Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🌌 Milky Way @ home: https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ 👉 More about the NIAC project: https://www.universetoday.com/160089/if-an-earthlike-planet-is-within-30-light-years-this-space-telescope-will-find-it/ 00:00 Intro 01:22 How hard it is to observe the Milky Way 05:28 Mindset shift in Astronomy 07:56 NIAC idea: Telescope Design 16:00 Fancy Physics 22:50 Targets for the telescope 39:10 Next steps 42:38 Milky Way @ home 47:35 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/VLsWeMYh7fQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How does Venus hold its atmosphere without a magnetosphere? Is the Sun moving to the Milky Way's centre? What happens when the space elevator cable snaps? Can we solve the Hubble Tension? All this and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:47 [Tatooine] How does Venus hold its atmosphere without a magnetosphere? 03:58 [Coruscant] Which is the best target for the Solar Gravitational Lens telescope? 06:40 [Hoth] Why aren't there more launch complexes near the equator? 10:00 [Naboo] Should you use 'microgravity' instead of 'zero gravity'? 11:37 [Kamino] How does the Milky Way look from the ISS? 13:03 [Bespin] Why doesn't Jupiter catch fire if it's flammable gas? 15:28 [Mustafar] Will I ever go to space? 18:33 [Alderaan] Is the Sun moving to the Milky Way's centre? 20:55 [Dagobah] What happens when the space elevator cable snaps? 22:58 [Yavin] How does time dilation change interstellar flights? 25:18 [Mandalore] Why don't we make space probes more definitive? 29:43 [Geonosis] What is my favourite recent Sci-Fi novel? 31:30 [Corellia] Have I ever seen a UFO? 32:23 [Crait] Can we solve the Hubble Tension? 34:39 [Endor] How weight changes on top of Mount Everest? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/iZVuydCw5qc 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Can there be habitable planets orbiting around red dwarfs? My guest, Mariano Battistuzzi, performed experiments to check it! So, can life survive in the conditions created by red dwarf stars? Let's find out in this interview. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:55 How bad are red dwarfs for life 04:20 Experiments to test habitability 13:10 Potential ecosystems near red dwarfs 18:57 Biosignatures to look for 21:20 Other extreme places 24:10 What's next 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/p8X_qrtxPm8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

The official verdict on Artemis 1. Canadian kids discovered something NASA didn’t know. Was there a Dark Big Bang? The next bright comet for 2024. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:11 SLS Good For Humans. Artemis 2 in 2024 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/analysis-confirms-successful-artemis-i-moon-mission-reviews-continue 02:23 Canadian Kids Discover Things About Space NASA Didn’t Know 03:58 Dark Big Bang https://www.universetoday.com/160285/the-universe-may-have-started-with-a-dark-big-bang/ 07:05 China’s Huge 10-meter Fuel Tank https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ANBmxXUY74JlmhFDmc5cwQ 08:45 Japan’s H3 Failure 09:59 Space Balloons https://www.universetoday.com/160415/want-to-soar-to-the-stratosphere-japan-joins-the-balloon-tourism-race/ 11:03 Mysterious Blob https://www.universetoday.com/160318/a-mysterious-blob-near-the-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole-might-finally-have-an-explanation/ 12:20 Support us on Patreon 13:14 Hubble Drops Below Starlink https://www.universetoday.com/160405/hubbles-orbit-has-dropped-so-far-that-starlink-satellites-are-photobombing-its-images/ 15:01 Hubble VS Roman https://www.universetoday.com/160387/it-would-take-hubble-85-years-to-match-what-nancy-grace-roman-will-see-in-63-days/ 16:43 Juno’s Flyby of Io https://www.universetoday.com/160400/just-dropped-new-close-up-images-of-io-from-juno-with-more-to-come/ 17:44 A Bright Comet for 2024 https://www.universetoday.com/160400/just-dropped-new-close-up-images-of-io-from-juno-with-more-to-come/ 19:08 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/4_u2xxfZ8Vs 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Making habitats from available materials will be a big part of Mars missions. One of the 2023 NIAC awards explored the possibility of growing structures on Mars with the help of fungi and bacteria. We're discussing this project with Dr Congrui Jin. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 More about the NIAC award: https://www.universetoday.com/159635/instead-of-building-structures-on-mars-we-could-grow-them-with-the-help-of-bacteria/ 00:00 Intro 01:21 Growing Structures on Mars 08:37 Self-healing materials 10:40 Using this tech on Earth 12:36 Next steps 17:44 When can we expect it 22:02 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/roSoBS0qo1g 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How long can a modern spacecraft last on Venus? How to develop electronics, batteries and other things that can survive these harsh conditions? What could the lifespan of such a mission be? We discuss all that with Dr Tibor Kremic from NASA Glenn Research Center. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:17 How bad Venus really is 03:27 What it takes to last on Venus 06:40 Chips that can survive on Venus 13:59 Batteries for Venus 18:45 Time-based measurements of Venus 23:03 Moving on the surface of Venus 26:32 Clockwork rovers 30:30 High-temperature solar cells 33:00 Advantages of Venus 42:29 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/iVtquFgZ2pQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How many stars did our radio signals reach? How to visualize the expansion of the Universe? Can we save the Earth from the Sun's red giant phase? How can we tell that an object has interstellar origin? All this and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:02 [Tatooine] If the Sun is white, are sunspots really black? 05:19 [Coruscant] How many stars did our radio signals reach? 08:51 [Hoth] How do gravitational assists work? 11:43 [Naboo] How to visualize the expansion of the Universe? 13:35 [Kamino] How will the Mars sample return mission find all the dropped tubes? 16:27 [Bespin] Can Earth survive the Red Giant phase of the Sun? 20:16 [Mustafar] What effect will a supernova have on nearby stars? 21:51 [Alderaan] Should the US continue to explore space? 24:16 [Dagobah] Can we time travel with a wormhole? 26:59 [Yavin] What killed the Chinese Mars rover? 29:32 [Mandalore] How does light pollution work? 33:04 [Geonosis] How can we tell that an object is interstellar? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/izgLlgeJH-0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How do you plan a trip through the Solar System? What are the orbital mechanics tools that can be used for that? How can all that be used to intercept an interstellar visitor like Oumuamua? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:15 Orbital mechanics 00:08:50 Planning missions to outer planets 00:11:15 Special orbits 00:14:40 Gravitational assists 00:20:45 Going to the Sun 00:24:40 Lowest energy highways 00:27:44 Going to asteroids 00:34:10 Intercepting interstellar objects 00:41:07 Propulsion systems 00:52:40 What would a realistic mission look like 01:00:30 Interstellar sample return 01:03:14 Galactic orbits 01:07:37 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/PxYecl2QvT0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Hubble shows us exactly what happened after DART’s impact, a new way to clean off lunar regolith, seeing the same supernova at three different times in a gravitational lens, and a new version of Starlink launches. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:15 Hubble's View of DART https://www.universetoday.com/160346/remember-the-dart-impact-hubble-made-a-movie-of-the-debris/ 01:54 Fixing Moon's Dust Problem https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2023/02/28/liquid-nitrogen-spray-could-clean-up-stubborn-moon-dust/ 04:39 Astronomers Saw an Exoplanet Exactly Where Expected https://www.universetoday.com/160247/astronomers-suspected-there-should-be-a-planet-here-and-then-they-took-a-picture-of-it/ 06:23 JWST and the Epoch of Reionization https://www.universetoday.com/160288/the-james-webb-is-getting-closer-to-finding-what-ionized-the-universe/ 08:34 Webb's Triple Gravitational Lens https://www.universetoday.com/160353/jwst-sees-the-same-supernova-three-times-in-an-epic-gravitational-lens/ 09:58 The Planet That Shouldn’t Exist https://www.universetoday.com/160278/the-planet-that-shouldnt-exist/ 11:44 NIAC Month on the Channel 12:44 Starlink V2 Mini 13:55 Crew-6 Launch 14:55 Replacement Soyuz Reaches ISS https://www.universetoday.com/160292/a-replacement-soyuz-arrives-safely-at-the-international-space-station/ 16:23 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/mRs7Xh1mDqU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

In this interview, I'm talking with Shawn Buckley who is the Senior Director of Engineering at Sierra Space. We talk about the development of their LIFE module, discuss how inflatable habitats can change space exploration and what part they play in humanity's space future. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:32 Burst tests 02:50 What is the LIFE Module 08:00 Working with NASA 09:11 Risks of inflatable habitats 15:33 Inside the module 18:39 Deployment in space 25:14 Project timeframe 27:20 Future applications 39:29 Humanity in space 41:06 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/C3bd4fdY3DY 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Could black holes collapse directly in the early Universe? How do two galaxies become one after they collide? How would you communicate time units to aliens? How much will Starship change the prices of space launches? All this and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:50 [Tatooine] How do direct collapse black holes work? 06:20 [Coruscant] How can two galaxies form one? 08:34 [Hoth] How to communicate time units to aliens? 11:07 [Naboo] What Astronomy research areas don't get to the news? 16:15 [Kamino] How do I come up with questions for interviews? 21:42 [Bespin] How can we claim exoplanets non-habitable? 25:19 [Mustafar] Does humanity have a chance at all? 27:56 [Alderaan] How much cheaper will space travel be after Starship? 31:35 [Dagobah] Why do science communicators not emphasize the impossibility of faster-than-light travel? 35:34 [Yavin] Best places for stargazing? 37:32 [Mandalore] How do we know black holes are spinning? 📺 VIDEO VERSION #TODO_LINK 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Dr Michael Way explains how we can explore Venus, study its atmosphere and understand what hides underneath. It's also a crucial part of astrobiology and studying exoplanets. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 Dr Michael Way on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Hag4ZAIAAAAJ 00:00 Intro 01:32 Venus. Earth gone wrong 04:20 Exploring Venus with future missions 23:23 Surviving on Venus for longer 28:22 Pushing the limits with Venus 34:20 Venus as an exoplanet 37:25 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/ZBaWdbIE5UU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Perseverance has been on Mars for two years, are black holes the source of dark energy?, Universe-breaking galaxies found, and an early warning system for asteroids. ⚫ Breakthrough In Dark Energy? Here's What The Researchers Have To Say: https://youtu.be/-8CIUzPkigQ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:15 Mars Anniversary https://www.universetoday.com/160201/follow-perseverance-on-its-mars-journey-with-this-two-year-timelapse/ 03:42 Too Big Too Early https://www.universetoday.com/160243/six-galaxies-that-are-too-big-too-early/ 05:51Source of Dark Energy https://www.universetoday.com/160139/are-black-holes-the-source-of-dark-energy/ 08:20 Moon’s permanently shadowed craters https://www.universetoday.com/160038/new-spacecraft-can-see-into-the-permanently-shadowed-craters-on-the-moon/ 09:50 Lunar Flashlight problems 10:40 Support Us on Patreon 11:34 Europe’s Early Warning System for Asteroids https://www.universetoday.com/160181/esa-is-building-an-early-warning-system-for-dangerous-asteroids/ 13:20 500-meter long asteroid https://www.universetoday.com/160212/a-500-meter-long-asteroid-flew-past-earth-and-astronomers-were-watching/ 15:08 Mercury Transit from Solar Orbiter https://www.esa.int/ScienceExploration/SpaceScience/SolarOrbiter/MercurysblackdischelpssharpenSolarOrbitersview 15:56 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/3Ll5WGrY-uU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What effect would a rogue gas giant have if it flew through the Solar System? Can fish survive in microgravity and go to space? Do hypervelocity stars leave a wake we could detect? How much do we actually know about Proxima Centauri? All this and more in the week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:08 [Tatooine] Can life exist on an Earth-sized moon of a gas giant? 06:42 [Coruscant] Do hypervelocity stars leave a wake we could detect? 10:50 [Hoth] What's the thickness of the event horizon of a black hole? 13:16 [Naboo] What is the speed of gravity? 18:34 [Kamino] What would be the consequences of a rouge Jupiter? 21:44 [Bespin] Can fish go to space? 23:34 [Mustafar] What are the temperatures of black holes? 25:53 [Alderaan] How much do we actually know about Proxima Centauri? 27:29 [Dagobah] Can rogue planets have an atmosphere? 31:44 [Yavin] How to track possible primordial black holes? 35:44 [Mandalore] Does red/blue shift include all frequencies? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/gLGx7l_Q4yk 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

A recent research paper suggests that supermassive black holes can be the source of dark energy. It's a big potential breakthrough in Astronomy. So, here's what the co-author of the study, Dr Chris Pearson from STFC RAL Space, has to say about it. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 More about the research: https://www.universetoday.com/160139/are-black-holes-the-source-of-dark-energy/ 00:00 Intro 01:36 How did the paper come together 03:36 Connection between Dark Energy and Black Holes 06:48 Observations behind the research 14:37 Causation or just correlation? 21:20 Redefining what black holes are 25:27 Dark Energy core of a black hole 27:53 Nature of dark energy 35:35 Will Dark Energy tear the Universe apart? 38:30 What's next 40:11 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/-8CIUzPkigQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Blue Origin wants to build solar panels on the Moon, out of the Moon, SpaceX sold its floating landing pads, and another asteroid hits Earth exactly where and when astronomers predicted. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🔴 Mars Mission Interview with Rick Davis: https://youtu.be/tujL0xrQ2Os 🟡 JWST Interview with Lee Feinberg: https://youtu.be/eXchT7mtEao 🔵 Interstellar Travel Interview with Andrew Higgins: https://youtu.be/SkGRVvA23qI 🟣 Interview Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmnK1xmCRad_8bn0uOcmLiIE 00:00 Intro 00:15 Blue Origin's Blue Alchemist https://www.blueorigin.com/news/blue-alchemist-powers-our-lunar-future/ 02:01 SpaceX Sold Phobos and Deimos 03:36 Asteroid Hits Over English Channel https://www.universetoday.com/160098/another-meteoroid-discovered-right-before-it-hits-the-atmosphere/ 05:58 A Galaxy Almost Entirely Made Of Dark Matter https://www.universetoday.com/160105/a-galaxy-has-been-found-thats-almost-entirely-dark-matter/ 08:28 Russia Causes Yet Another Problem in Orbit https://www.universetoday.com/160126/another-russian-spacecraft-is-leaking-coolant/ 10:12 Interviews 12:26 Rogue Supermassive Black Hole https://www.universetoday.com/160072/astronomers-spot-a-rogue-supermassive-black-hole-hurtling-through-space-leaving-star-formation-in-its-wake/ 14:27 Mass Migration of Stars in Andromeda https://www.universetoday.com/159995/astronomers-uncover-mass-migration-of-stars-into-andromeda/ 15:58 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/co4ylLWvVtQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Why don't we just combine all telescopes into a single one that will have a crazy resolution? Can we simply replace old ISS modules with new ones? How long will it take to cool down Venus? How much mass can the Earth afford to lose? Why blue shift exists if the Universe is expanding? All this and more in this week's Q&A 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:04 [Tatooine] How much mass can the Earth lose? 04:23 [Coruscant] Can a Dyson sphere be stable? 08:36 [Hoth] How long till we cool Venus down? 14:34 [Naboo] How many atoms are there in the Universe? 15:46 [Kamino] Can you combine all Earth telescopes into one? 22:47 [Bespin] Will we ever see self-replicating probes? 25:51 [Mustafar] Wen LUVOIR? 28:22 [Adleraan] Can we save Hubble? 30:09 [Dagobah] Why blue shift exists if the Universe is expanding? 32:16 [Yavin] Why not just replace old modules of the ISS? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/7nVVlC-jBkg 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This is an interview with me that we did with the Wiser Tomorrow Podcast. We talked about covering space news at Universe Today, how I run the company and what's my perception of some stories I cover. Enjoy! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 Wiser Tomorrow Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2011629 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/dzvT7YRPa1s 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

SpaceX tests all 33 engines on super heavy, the worst-case scenario for space debris actually happened, a kilonova is coming, and a new map of all the matter and dark matter in the Universe. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📰 Email Newsletter: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 00:00 Intro 00:15 SpaceX Conducts 33-engine test of Super Heavy https://www.universetoday.com/160008/spacex-sets-new-record-with-successful-test-firing-of-31-raptor-engines/ 01:28 Bad things happened in orbit https://www.universetoday.com/159997/a-russian-satellite-has-broken-into-pieces-littering-debris-in-space/ 03:59 Ion beam sheparding https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576523000553 07:24 Google's AI costly mistake about James Webb https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-ai-chatbot-bard-offers-inaccurate-information-company-ad-2023-02-08/ 09:35 A kilonova is coming https://www.universetoday.com/159910/this-binary-system-is-destined-to-become-a-kilonova/ 12:20 Email newsletter 13:20 A massive black hole in a very young Universe https://www.universetoday.com/159914/hungry-black-hole-was-already-feasting-800-million-years-after-the-big-bang/ 15:42 A new map of the Universe https://www.universetoday.com/159982/astronomers-make-a-new-map-of-all-the-matter-and-dark-matter-in-the-universe/ 18:05 More destruction tests from Sierra Space https://www.universetoday.com/159968/sierra-space-tests-another-inflatable-space-station-module-to-destruction/ 20:16 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION #TODO_LINK 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Lava tubes can be a solution to a lot of our space problems. They can provide habitat space on Moon, Mars and even beyond. But how do we prepare to explore them? That's what we're discussing with Professor Francesco Sauro. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 Prof. Francesco Sauro: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/francesco.sauro2/en 👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/cescosauro 👉 La Venta Association: https://laventa.it/ 00:00 Intro 01:16 Getting into caves 02:32 Why lava tubes are interesting 04:00 Challenges associated with caves 08:10 How to train astronauts for lava tubes 15:15 What can we find in lava tubes on Moon and Mars 20:32 Lava tubes as habitats 27:57 Ice caves on Europa, Enceladus and Mars 32:15 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/-iJ2ui2-BFU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Is there a habitable zone around a black hole? Can you get stuck in the middle of a big space station? How will Starship get human-rated? Why is the Fermi Paradox even a paradox? All this in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:03 [Tatooine] Can you get stuck in a space station? 06:07 [Coruscant] How is Fermi Paradox even a paradox? 09:33 [Hoth] Is there a habitable zone around a black hole? 14:46 [Naboo] What are the highest velocities stars have been recorded travelling? 16:55 [Kamino] Will galaxies fall apart? 20:34 [Bespin] Why is there a Crisis in Cosmology? 23:06 [Mustafar] Is Starship good for humans? 26:41 [Alderaan] What will investment in space look like in the future? 30:07 [Dagobah] How to observe dark matter? 32:56 [Yavin] What's the origin of our Solar System? 36:44 [Mandalore] How long till the sports on other planets? 38:52 [Geonosis] Is there oil on Mars? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/plsdJVOyw0I 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Webb is fully operational again, Rolls-Royce is building a nuclear reactor for the Moon, and the space debris worst-case scenario almost happened. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:14 James Webb is fully operational again https://www.universetoday.com/159897/good-news-webb-is-fully-operational-again/ 01:46 Rolls-Royce Nuclear Reactor for Space https://www.universetoday.com/159859/rolls-royce-reveals-a-nuclear-reactor-that-could-provide-power-on-the-moon/ 03:46 Very Nasty Space Collision Almost Happened https://twitter.com/LeoLabs_Space/status/1619057013992071168 07:09 Drag Sail Success https://www.universetoday.com/159903/drag-sail-success-this-satellite-wont-turn-into-space-junk/ 08:47 Destroying Rubble Pile Asteroids https://www.universetoday.com/159766/dont-bother-trying-to-destroy-rubble-pile-asteroids/ 11:10 Q&A with Fraser 12:11 Extremely Heavy Early Stars https://www.universetoday.com/159800/the-first-stars-may-have-weighed-more-than-100000-suns/ 14:46 12-Year Exoplanets Timelapse https://www.universetoday.com/159875/watch-this-12-year-timelapse-of-exoplanets-orbiting-their-star/ 18:33 Measuring the Mass Of A Dead Star With Microlensing https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/light-bending-around-star 21:48 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/ZBbumv6-kLA 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How will a human Mars mission play out? Where exactly should it go? What unexpected challenges will we face? We're discussing all these aspects with Rick Davis. He is the Assistant Director for Science and Exploration, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🐦 Rick Davis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/redplanetrick 👉 NASA Blog Article on choosing the landing site on Mars: https://blogs.nasa.gov/redplanetdispatch/2022/12/13/criteria-for-landing-site-selection/ 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:29 Training for Mars on Earth 00:07:11 Choosing a landing site 00:20:37 Unexpected challenges of Mars 00:52:38 Planetary protection 00:56:51 Exploring lava tubes 00:59:49 What's next? 01:09:24 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/tujL0xrQ2Os 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Can you maintain a stable orbit with just a solar sail? Will a Dyson sphere or swarm kill all life inside of it? Can you protect yourself from a solar flare? What's the oldest ice in the Universe? All this and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:48 [Tatooine] Can you maintain orbit with just a solar sail? 06:44 [Coruscant] Does a Dyson sphere kill all life inside of it? 11:04 [Hoth] Can a Faraday cage protect from a solar flare? 13:52 [Naboo] Can there be a stable irregular-shaped planet? 17:45 [Kamino] How small can a rocket be? 19:35 [Bespin] Can we detect artificial light on Proxima b? 22:54 [Mustafar] How old was the Universe when first ice was able to form? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/YfiyXH6vqDQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Starship completes its wet-dress rehearsal, another problem for Webb, a nuclear rocket test is coming, and more cool NIAC grants. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 First NIAC Interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/growing-mars-77829316 00:00 Intro 00:14 Starship Wet Dress Rehersal 03:18 JWST's NIRISS problems https://www.universetoday.com/159790/webb-niriss-instrument-has-gone-offline/ 04:57 Webb's first occultation 07:46 Extremely Close Asteroid Flyby https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-system-predicts-small-asteroid-to-pass-close-by-earth-this-week 09:37 DARPA Nuclear Rocket Test by 2027 https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-darpa-will-test-nuclear-engine-for-future-mars-missions 12:05 How to Miniaturize Nuclear Batteries https://www.universetoday.com/159692/exploring-the-outer-solar-system-takes-power-heres-a-way-to-miniaturize-nuclear-batteries-for-deep-space/ 14:26 Tiny tiny tractor beam https://www.universetoday.com/159695/scientists-build-a-teeny-tiny-tractor-beam/ 15:56 Support us on Patreon 16:44 Growing Structures on Mars https://www.universetoday.com/159635/instead-of-building-structures-on-mars-we-could-grow-them-with-the-help-of-bacteria/ 18:30 Light Pollution Is Getting Worse https://www.universetoday.com/159704/light-pollution-is-obscuring-the-night-sky-rip-stargazing/ 21:27 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/QUmep9cZwkw 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What if two black holes with opposing spin merge? Can we use the Moon's L2 Lagrange point? How habitable are Mars's lava tubes? Can Starships compensate for satellite light pollution? All this and more in this week's episode Q&A with Fraser Cain. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:09 [Tatooine] What if two black holes with opposing spin merge? 06:16 [Coruscant] When will the first person be born in space? 10:24 [Hoth] Can we use the Moon's L2 Lagrange point? 15:39 [Naboo] Can a captured planet lurk in the Oort cloud? 18:51 [Kamino] What about the dark forest hypothesis? 23:06 [Bespin] How habitable are Mars lava tubes? 27:15 [Mustafar] Can we use radars to identify asteroids? 29:36 [Alderaan] Can Starships compensate for satellite light pollution? 34:28 [Dagobah] Why does NASA never show us the spacecraft travelling in space? 38:18 [Yavin] Where would I time travel? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/cSDQa4GCIic 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

The Titan Dragonfly is coming together, NASA is considering a new kind of nuclear rocket, getting more warning for solar flares, and pinpointing carbon emissions from space. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:15 Titan Helicopter Starts to Come Together https://www.universetoday.com/159611/nasa-is-continuing-to-build-the-titan-dragonfly-helicopter-here-are-its-rotors/ 02:38 New NIAC Nuclear Rocket Design https://www.universetoday.com/159599/new-nuclear-rocket-design-to-send-missions-to-mars-in-just-45-days/ 05:57 Lunar Flashlight Has Propulsion System Problems 07:25 Solar Flashes and Flares 09:36 CO2 from Space https://www.universetoday.com/159580/nasa-satellites-can-pinpoint-the-exact-locations-of-excessive-co2-emissions/ 11:21 Support us on Patreon 12:40 Orphaned Protostar https://www.universetoday.com/159539/astronomers-spot-an-orphaned-protostar/ 14:27 Measuring the Universe with Shadows https://www.universetoday.com/159543/using-the-shadows-of-clusters-to-measure-the-universe/ 16:26 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/FneksoJUCh0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Should we change "Dark Matter" to "Dark Curvature"? How do you navigate through dense asteroid fields? What's the future of space toilets? Do aliens block their outgoing signals? All these and more in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:58 [Tatooine] How do you navigate through dense asteroid fields? 04:02 [Coruscant] Should we change "Dark Matter" to "Dark Curvature"? 07:57 [Hoth] How far can we communicate? 10:49 [Naboo] How can we solve the Fermi paradox? 17:35 [Kamino] What's the future of space toilets? 19:51 [Bespin] Can we avoid the great filter? 22:53 [Mustafar] Why the CMB doesn't go away? 25:35 [Alderaan] Do aliens block their outgoing signals? 27:33 [Dagobah] Can we create a magnetic shield for our spaceships? 30:39 [Yavin] Can aliens detect Earth as a habitable world? 31:44 [Mandalore] Does gravity extend forever? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/5RIXRVr3Dg8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Keep your eyes on the sky for a comet, another Mars rover has died, the leaky Soyuz is going to be replaced, JWST dominates the American Astronomical Society meeting, and is Starship just around the corner? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:17 A Good Comet is Coming https://www.universetoday.com/159454/comet-e3-ztf-brightens-as-the-first-good-comet-of-2023/ 02:47 Another One Bites The Martian Dust https://www.universetoday.com/159553/china-unable-to-reestablish-contact-with-its-zhurong-mars-rover/ 06:36 The Leaky Soyuz Needs to Be Replaced 08:36 James Webb Finds Its First Exoplanet https://www.universetoday.com/159581/the-webb-has-confirmed-its-first-exoplanet-and-its-the-same-size-as-earth/ 10:57 Star Disk from JWST 12:49 Early Galaxies from James Webb https://www.universetoday.com/159567/the-james-webb-links-modern-oddball-galaxies-to-ancient-galaxies-in-the-cosmic-dawn/ 14:55 Support us on Patreon 15:55 NIAC Awards 18:03 Starship Gets Closer to First Orbital Test 19:29 Build your own ELT https://universetoday.com/159565/need-a-project-you-can-build-a-paper-model-of-the-extremely-large-telescope/ 20:41 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Ca6FHZDu5v0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Mapping out all the space objects and understanding their orbits is the key to avoiding problems in orbit. What are the technical challenges and what's the current state of affairs? We're discussing it with Dr. Moriba Jah. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:28 Current state of the orbit 07:04 Kessler Syndrome 14:57 Risks on Different Altitudes 17:41 Access to the Night Skies 22:33 An Ideal Solution 31:57 Future of Humanity 34:30 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/dft7-yNSabc 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How do we determine the velocities of objects in distant space? Can we use a laser a space engine on a spaceship? Can we find stars with rings? Is it possible to see the same star at different stages of its life? All this and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 02:21 [Tatooine] Can stars have rings? 07:59 [Coruscant] Can we see stars at different life stages with gravitational lensing? 11:29 [Hoth] Why not launch payloads from orbit? 14:30 [Naboo] What would happen if time stopped? 16:20 [Kamino] Does Elon/Twitter impact spaceflight confidence? 18:28 [Bespin] How can there be life on cold moons? 22:49 [Mustafar] What if a meteor hits the Moon while astronauts are there? 25:58 [Alderaan] Shouldn't ETs be benevolent like Vulcans and not malevolent like Klingons? 27:51 [Dagobah] How do we determine the speeds of objects in space? 30:06 [Yavin] Why go back to the Moon? 32:08 [Mandalore] Do you ever get tired of speculating and not lending your intellect to progress? 34:14 [Geonosis] Wen JWST Deep Field? 35:20 [Corellia] Why is Sag A disk not aligned with the galaxy? 37:23 [Crait] Will there be a Mars colony this century? 39:43 [Endor] Could we use a laser as an engine on a spaceship? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/DM4pfPHS_R0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

NASA is looking for dangerous asteroids, Io is blasting lava into space, the solar wind could be creating water on the Moon, space power is finally getting a test. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:15 NASA Makes Asteroid Defence a Priority https://www.universetoday.com/159395/nasa-makes-asteroid-defense-a-priority-moving-its-neo-surveyor-mission-into-the-development-phase/ 02:49 Io Is Having a Major Vulcanic Outburst https://www.universetoday.com/159466/io-is-having-a-major-volcanic-outburst/ 04:57 Solar Wind Might Create Water on the Moon https://www.universetoday.com/159420/the-solar-wind-is-creating-water-on-the-surface-of-the-moon/ 07:04 Structures on the Moon Could Be Build With Microwaves https://www.universetoday.com/159427/want-to-build-structures-on-the-moon-just-blast-the-regolith-with-microwaves/ 09:14 How to Navigate on the Moon https://www.universetoday.com/159409/navigation-could-be-done-on-the-moon-just-by-looking-at-nearby-landmarks/ 11:00 South Korea’s Lunar Photos https://phys.org/news/2023-01-south-korea-lunar-orbiter-photos.html 11:55 Support us on Patreon 13:07 China’s Considering Where to Build Lunar Station https://www.universetoday.com/159429/china-is-considering-where-to-build-a-lunar-research-station/ 15:07 Space-Based Power Test 16:57 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/4l7XS18pHHw 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This is part 2 of an interview I did with John Michael Godier on his show called Event Horizon. We talked about the Fermi Paradox and possible solutions to it. ⚫ Event Horizon Show https://www.youtube.com/@EventHorizonShow 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/_Cr9TSRe71E 🦄 Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/universetoday 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

We can build space habitats from asteroids by spinning them fast enough. That's what Professor Adam Frank suggests in a recent paper he co-wrote. In this interview, we discussed the idea, how realistic it is and what technology will be needed to achieve it, what applications it can have and when we can expect something like that. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:35 Meet Professor Adam Frank 02:27 Building space habitats from asteroids 13:16 Materials required to achieve that 18:00 Generation ships 24:52 Asteroid mining 27:29 Exponential technological progress 34:45 Great Realistic SciFi 35:56 Outro Professor Adam Frank on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdamFrank4 Habitat Bennu: Design Concepts for Spinning Habitats Constructed From Rubble Pile Near-Earth Asteroids https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2021.645363/full The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: Exo-civilization Settlement, Expansion, and Steady States https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab31a3/meta 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Z-hH3-z56cg 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

2022 has definitely been one of the best space years ever. James Webb, SLS, DART and many other major successes. So, let's turn around and remember what did 2022 bring us. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:52 James Webb 04:27 Artemis 1 07:15 Milky Way's black hole by EHT 08:39 DART 10:53 Decadal Survey 12:43 China's progress 14:58 InSight mission ended 16:47 SOFIA telescope discontinued 18:30 Things that didn't happen 19:16 ExoMars delay 20:00 Universe owes us 20:43 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/N-KZicegrh0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How can we know whether the Universe is infinite or not? Can something hide behind the Sun in Earth's L3 Lagrange point? Should we start with terraforming the Moon before Mars? Will humans ever visit a lander on Mars? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:47 [Tatooine] Can we terraform the Moon 05:36 [Coruscant] How long current science will stand? 09:01 [Hoth] How can we know if the Universe is infinite or finite? 12:54 [Naboo] Can something hide in Earth's L3 Lagrange point? 14:24 [Kamino] What if Jupiter falls into the Sun? 18:34 [Bespin] Does Milky Way look different from space? 20:37 [Mustafar] How long is a Universe year? 21:23 [Alderaan] Why doesn't Mercury fall into the Sun? 23:40 [Dagobah] Will we ever visit a Mars lander? 25:23 [Yavin] How will Mars colonization happen? 27:30 [Mandalore] Why there are no ups and downs in space? 30:16 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/uoMA5_3bNNU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Interstellar travel can be real. And you don't need to break the laws of Physics to do it. In this interview, I discuss a realistic way we can send missions to nearby stars in our lifetimes. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:06 How hard is interstellar travel 00:13:19 Ride solar wind like a bird 00:23:15 How a realistic mission can look like 00:40:20 Exploring the Solar System 00:46:50 Fastest gun in the world 00:55:39 Best way to get off planet Earth 01:01:08 Interstellar Symposium 01:04:00 First interstellar mission. When? 01:13:53 How to become an interstellar engineer 01:19:17 Outro Interstellar Symposium https://irg.space/irg-2023/ Andrew Higgins' group web page: https://interstellarflight.space/ Twitter https://twitter.com/McGill_AdAstra Jeff Greason’s idea for a “Reaction Drive powered by External Pressure” (the so-called q-drive). https://tauzero.aero/wp-content/uploads/JBIS-May-2019-Greason.pdf New paper on Dynamic Soaring https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frspt.2022.1017442/full RC gliders reaching nearly 900 km/hour by performing dynamic soaring on wind shear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nyYaL0dGAA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eFD_Wj6dhk&t=0s 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/SkGRVvA23qI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

It’s official, InSight is gone. Perseverance is putting samples onto the surface of Mars. More scientific results from James Webb, and using gravitational wave observatories to detect warp drives. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:17 InSight Mission is over https://www.universetoday.com/159339/this-will-probably-be-insights-last-picture-before-it-runs-out-of-power-forever/ 01:52 Percy Deposits First Sample on Mars’ Surface https://www.universetoday.com/159365/perseverance-places-its-first-sample-on-the-surface-of-mars-one-day-this-will-be-in-the-hands-of-scientists-on-earth/ 03:48 The Aftermath of the Soyuz Leak Last Week 05:19 DART Science Results https://www.universetoday.com/159314/what-kind-of-an-impact-did-dart-have-on-dimorphos-the-science-results-are-here/ 07:58 Exoplanet is Falling onto a Star https://www.universetoday.com/159312/giant-exoplanet-is-spiraling-inward-to-its-doom/ 10:26 Support us on Patreon 11:17 JWST Sees Star Formation https://www.universetoday.com/159282/jwst-sees-furious-star-formation-in-a-stellar-nursery/ 13:23 New Engine for Future Moon Missions https://www.universetoday.com/159315/nasa-just-tested-a-new-engine-that-will-launch-artemis-v-and-beyond/ 16:07 Detecting Warp Drives https://www.universetoday.com/159218/gravitational-wave-observatories-could-search-for-warp-drive-signatures/ 18:34 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION #TODO_LINK 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Does the Black Knight satellite really exist? Can JWST explore the Oort cloud? Did we hopelessly contaminate Mars with life? Would I fly on the dearMoon mission without the abort system? Should we do crewed missions to near-earth asteroids? Answers to all these questions and more in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:46 [Tatooine] Does the Black Knight satellite really exist? 04:00 [Coruscant] Should we do crewed missions to near-earth asteroids? 06:41 [Hoth] Can we put a really good camera around the Moon? 07:39 [Naboo] Patreon announcements 09:31 [Kamino] Can JWST explore the Oort cloud? 11:48 [Bespin] Can there be Dark Antimatter? 12:36 [Mustafar] Did we hopelessly contaminate Mars with life? 16:13 [Alderaan] How do we track the movements of distant galaxies? 20:05 [Dagobah] Is there a specific direction to look at the Big Bang? 21:10 [Yavin] Does propellant contribute to Kessler Syndrome? 22:06 [Mandalore] Should we use different fuel to propel rockets? 24:37 [Geonosis] Can JWST detect Population 3 stars? 27:30 [Corellia] What size is the observable universe? 28:41 [Crait] Would I fly on the dearMoon mission without the abort system? 30:24 [Endor] Do rockets cause global warming? 32:20 [Exegol] Is it ethical to terraform Mars? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/AsNnbGxgIOU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Space madness is a common concept in science fiction. But how it works in reality? How dangerous are mental health breakdowns and what can we do to prevent them? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 Logan Smith on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vmcyhr4AAAAJ&hl=en 00:00 Intro 01:13 What is space madness 05:25 How does space compare to other activities 13:01 Monitoring and treatment for mental health in space 19:30 How private missions will differ 21:32 Can "mental toughness" harm mental health 24:00 Problems we will face in the future 29:28 The upside of space travel for mental health 37:21 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/1yiTQVonsTY 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This week we got an announcement that a historical milestone was achieved. Fusion Ignition. But what it really means for the future of energy production, what most stories don't say and should you be excited after all? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:41 The IGNITION announcement 02:21 How fusion works on Earth 04:24 How the breakthrough was made 06:05 Problems with NIF's approach to fusion 08:38 Fusion applications in space 10:52 Should you be excited? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/HIkYzfk8BvM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Splashdown! Artemis I has returned home. Webb has made its first Deep Field survey. Listen to the sound of a dust devil on Mars. Space journalist is going to the Moon. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🌕 Artemis 1 Overview video: https://youtu.be/u5wNXtlZH_Q 00:00 Intro 00:16 Orion splashdown https://www.universetoday.com/159146/orion-splashes-down-in-the-pacific-ocean-completing-the-artemis-i-mission/ 02:54 Hakuto-R and Lunar Flashlight launch 05:21 Accident on the ISS. Soyuz coolant leak https://www.universetoday.com/159240/a-soyuz-capsule-on-iss-is-leaking-coolant-into-space/ 07:18 JWST's first proper deep field https://www.universetoday.com/159149/webb-completes-its-first-deep-field-with-nine-days-of-observing-time-what-did-it-find/ 10:07 Percy heard a dust devil on Mars https://www.universetoday.com/159193/perseverance-heard-a-dust-devil-on-mars-and-now-you-can-too/ 11:57 Support us on Patreon 13:01 BANG! Sierra Space inflatable module test https://www.universetoday.com/159222/sierra-space-inflated-a-habitat-to-destruction-testing-its-limits-before-going-to-orbit/ 14:27 Asteroid as a space habitat https://www.universetoday.com/159224/rubble-pile-asteroids-might-be-the-best-places-to-build-space-habitats/ 16:14 Everyday Astronaut is going to the Moon! https://www.universetoday.com/159099/japanese-billionaire-reveals-his-round-the-moon-crew/ 18:17 Breakthrough in fusion https://www.universetoday.com/159166/fusion-ignition-breakthrough-raises-hopes-questions/ 18:42 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/yVcPzz5arb8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

It’s been 50 years since humans set foot on the Moon. Entire generations were born after this historic accomplishment. But humanity has kept its eyes on the sky and vowed to return. This week marks the end of the beginning of that journey, the completion of Artemis I, sending a human-rated capsule around the Moon and back again. With Orion safely back on Earth, let’s look back at this amazing accomplishment and ponder what comes next. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:07 Constellation Program 03:47 Artemis Program Begins 05:50 SLS first flight. Artemis 1 07:15 To the Moon and back again 11:59 Orion returns to Earth 14:00 Ups and downs of Artemis 1 16:06 What's next? Artemis 2 and beyond 18:48 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/u5wNXtlZH_Q 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How far away do constellations start to change? What if The Big Bang was more energetic? Which textbooks are good to learn astronomy? Is a university degree worth it? Why don't we travel through the solar system in straight lines? All this and more in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:35 [Tatooine] How far away do constellations begin to change? 04:36 [Coruscant] Can we see beyond the observable Universe? 10:37 [Hoth] What if the Big Bang was more energetic? 13:22 [Naboo] What will Vera Rubin observatory see? 16:58 [Kamino] Why not release JWST data immediately? 20:51 [Bespin] How far out can we see that is in the present-ish? 23:35 [Mustafar] Is a University degree worth it? And which books are good to start learning astronomy? 26:37 [Alderaan] Can rockets with reusable rocket fuel exist? 30:16 [Dagobah] Is straight-line travel possible in the solar system? 32:11 [Yavin] Is Astronomy as exciting as it used to be? 35:22 [Mandalore] What will Astronomy look like in 100 years? 38:30 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/a7Y93r6A8WA 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This is an interview I did with John Michael Godier on his show called Event Horizon. We talked about bringing people back to the Moon. With also discussed the latest space missions, such as JWST and DART, and looked back at how well did 2022 go for NASA. ⚫ Event Horizon Show https://www.youtube.com/@EventHorizonShow 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/_Cr9TSRe71E 🦄 Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/universetoday 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Construction Begins on the Square Kilometer Array. Artemis I’s iconic crescent Earthrise picture. A gamma-ray burst that breaks all the rules. SpaceX launches a new service. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:14 Square Kilometer Array Telescope begins construction https://www.universetoday.com/159011/construction-begins-on-the-square-kilometer-array/ 04:38 Iconic Earthrise image from Artemis 1 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/52548807997/ 06:49 SpaceX launches Starshield https://www.universetoday.com/159051/spacex-launches-starshield-a-quiet-announcement-with-a-huge-potential/ 08:42 Blue Origin and Dynetics bid for new lunar landing contracts https://www.blueorigin.com/blue-moon/sld-national-team/ https://www.dynetics.com/newsroom/news/2022/leidos-dynetics-team-and-northrop-grumman-to-collaborate-on-nasa-human-landing-system-bid 10:13 Support us on Patreon 11:09 GRB that broke Astronomy https://www.universetoday.com/159057/colliding-neutron-stars-can-generate-long-gamma-ray-bursts/ 13:39 Evidence of a mega-tsunami on Mars https://www.universetoday.com/159035/evidence-of-a-megatsunami-on-mars/ 15:42 Launch an asteroid wherever you want https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/ 17:11 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/chD-vHeYpI4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Can there be habitable worlds around black holes? Where did Mars get its perchlorates from? How are iron meteorites formed? How will the Sun die? Will China succeed with their Moon landing? All this and more in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:10 Book Club: Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson 03:21 [Tatooine] What happens during Sun's black dwarf stage? 07:26 [Coruscant] Is climate engineering a good idea? 11:24 [Hoth] Can we see city lights of exoplanets? 15:42 [Naboo] Can there be habitable worlds around black holes? 21:01 [Kamino] How are iron meteorites formed? 24:27 [Bespin] How did Mars get its perchlorates? 26:03 [Mustafar] How do we measure sea level when there are constant waves? 28:45 [Alderaan] Will SSTOs ever become a thing? 33:54 [Dagobah] Is China landing on the Moon in five more launches? 38:05 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/EiBjG477zRE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

The best images from Artemis so far. More spacecraft are going to the Moon. Researchers have simulated a wormhole. China now has six people on board its space station 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:15 Artemis 1 Images https://www.universetoday.com/158874/nasa-releases-a-stunning-new-supercut-of-the-artemis-i-launch/ https://www.universetoday.com/158945/nasa-releases-another-supercut-of-the-artemis-i-mission-showing-the-launch-and-flight-past-the-moon/ 03:37 More flights to the Moon https://www.universetoday.com/158746/tiny-cubesat-will-shine-an-infrared-flashlight-into-the-moons-shadowed-craters-searching-for-water-ice/ 05:51 Moon infrastructure 07:10 Quantum Wormhole Simulation https://www.universetoday.com/158896/scientists-send-quantum-data-through-a-simulated-wormhole/ 09:55 More JWST images https://www.universetoday.com/158820/gaze-slack-jawed-at-the-haunting-beauty-of-galaxy-ngc-1566-captured-by-jwst-processed-by-judy-schmidt/ https://www.universetoday.com/158941/new-images-of-titan-from-jwst-and-keck-telescopes-reveal-a-rare-observation/ 12:41 Support us on Patreon 13:33 Black Hole Consumes a Star https://www.universetoday.com/158919/a-black-hole-consumed-a-star-and-released-the-light-of-a-trillion-suns/ 16:17 China's continuous space presence 17:45 Another SpaceX SuperHeavy test https://www.universetoday.com/158905/spacexs-super-heavy-fires-11-of-its-engines-in-a-long-duration-test/ 18:46 Q&A 200 https://youtu.be/vNGEXWZsTmY 19:37 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/ew9n4um5K8k 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Which ones are more invisible: black holes of brown dwarfs? Which cheap telescope should you get? Will the Artemis program start a new era in astronomy? What will happen when Andromeda crashes into the Milky Way? All this and more in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:21 [Tatooine] Will Andromeda stars get younger as it approaches us? 03:54 [Coruscant] How far apart are the stars? 06:53 [Hoth] Can we see the death of a black hole? 11:09 [Naboo] Is it more difficult to find a black hole or a brown dwarf? 17:56 [Kamino] Which cheap telescope to get? 21:34 [Bespin] What happens during the Andromeda collision? 26:14 [Mustafar] When we'll see data from Earendel? 30:53 [Alderaan] Will Artemis bring lunar-based astronomy? 34:29 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/xe_GZwScafU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This time it's different. As always, it's your space questions, but not my answers. I invited my fellow space YouTubers to give their answers to help me with the Q&A. Enjoy! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday Thanks to everyone for joining. Here are all the links to their channels: Scott Manley https://www.youtube.com/c/szyzyg Marcus House https://www.youtube.com/@MarcusHouse Launchpad Astronomy https://www.youtube.com/c/ChristianReady Sabine Hossenfelder https://www.youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder Joe Scott https://www.youtube.com/c/joescott Space Mog https://www.youtube.com/c/SpaceMog Dylan O'Donnell https://www.youtube.com/c/DylanODonnell Isaac Arthur https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g John Michael Godier https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnMichaelGodier 00:00 Start 01:21 [Scott Manley ] Can Starship save fuel by aero-braking on Mars? 06:28 [Marcus House] Will we see nuclear spaceships? 08:26 [Launchpad Astronomy] Will supermassive black holes collide as galaxies come together? 12:21 [Sabine Hossenfelder] How quantum entanglement works? 15:04 [Joe Scott] What weird things is the Universe still hiding? 21:05 [Space Mog] Is dark matter just hidden ordinary matter? 24:10 [Dylan O'Donnell] How to democratize astronomy? 26:51 [Isaac Arthur] Is building space colonies the way to go? 29:16 [John Michael Godier ] What's the most low-tech techno-signature we can hope to find? 31:49 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/vNGEXWZsTmY 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Updates on Artemis I. Predicting an asteroid strike with stunning accuracy. Webb’s view of Titan. New adaptive optics for the Very Large Telescope. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:14 Artemis I updates https://www.universetoday.com/158739/artemis-i-has-completed-its-first-flyby-of-the-moon/ 03:29 NASA predicted an asteroid hit https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-program-predicted-impact-of-small-asteroid-over-ontario-canada 06:55 Webb sees Titan https://www.universetoday.com/158722/with-jwst-fully-operational-again-we-get-images-like-this-saturns-moon-titan/ 09:07 Europe’s Mars rover to fly with NASA 11:11 More details on WASP-39 https://www.universetoday.com/158761/jwst-detects-signs-of-active-chemistry-and-clouds-in-the-atmosphere-of-exoplanet-wasp-39-b/ 14:21 Support us on Patreon 15:13 Very Large Telescope improvements https://www.universetoday.com/158765/a-new-instrument-gives-the-very-large-telescope-an-even-sharper-view-of-the-cosmos/ 17:19 Map of the entire Universe https://www.universetoday.com/158735/scroll-through-the-universe-with-this-cool-interactive-map/ 19:58 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/SC9g6WPcm54 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Is there a chance for life to continue after the Sun eventually explodes? Can we find evidence of potentially habitable planets near white dwarfs, remnants of dead stars? How can future telescopes helo with that? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🐦 Dr Andrew Vanderburg on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/amvanderburg 🕸️ Dr Andrew Vanderburg's Website: https://avanderburg.github.io/ 00:00 Intro 01:30 Exoplanets around white dwarfs 10:06 Dynamics of planetary systems as their star dies 12:51 Habitable zone around white dwarfs 15:28 Search for exoplanets 26:05 A perfect telescope for the task 30:28 Biosignatures 34:37 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/w8guDh1M25g 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

SLS finally launches to the Moon. SpaceX get another contract from NASA. James Webb gets a protection plan from micrometeoroids. China continues to trash the orbit. Secret space plane returns. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:35 NASA’s plan to protect JWST https://www.universetoday.com/158663/nasa-has-a-plan-to-minimize-future-micrometeoroid-impacts-on-jwst/ 03:06 Firey Hourglass by James Webb https://www.universetoday.com/158673/the-latest-jwst-image-shows-a-star-in-the-earliest-stage-of-formation/ 04:39 Artemis 1 Launch https://www.universetoday.com/158654/artemis-i-is-on-its-way-to-the-moon/ 09:48 CAPSTONE arrives at Moon orbit 10:22 More Lunar Starships for NASA https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-spacex-second-contract-option-for-artemis-moon-landing-0/ 12:15 14-Raptor test of SuperHeavy 13:04 Support us on Patreon 13:47 China continues to trash orbit 14:58 Brightest Satellite Deployed https://www.space.com/bluewalker-3-satellite-deploys-largest-commercial-array 16:25 The X-37B is Back After 908 Days in Orbit https://www.universetoday.com/158647/the-x-37b-is-back-after-908-days-in-orbit-what-was-it-doing-up-there-thats-classified/ 18:01 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/9mFUZcn_aqg 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How trees can tell us a story of previous solar storms? What are the chances of having another Carrington-scale event and what would it mean? How can we understand solar storms better? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🐦 Dr Benjamin Pope on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fringetracker 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:49 Meet Dr Benjamin Pope 00:02:53 Tree rings and solar storms 00:20:28 What other ways can we study solar storms 00:24:48 Can lunar samples give an answer 00:26:48 Our place in the Universe 00:35:44 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/5xPBonKpHIM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How hard is it to escape the gravity wells of massive planets for other civilizations? How hard is it to make your own telescopes? How do gas clouds become stars? Can we harvest dark energy after the Heat Death? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📖 Book Club Group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 02:43 [Tatooine] Can we use dark energy after heat death? 07:37 [Coruscant] How close are the stars in the Pillars of Creation? 09:39 [Hoth] How long does light from star cores take to get out? 13:22 [Naboo] Did NASA solve the solar panels problem with the Lucy mission? 15:32 [Kamino] Does matter expand as spacetime expands? 18:32 [Bespin] Do you subscribe to the Big Bang Theory? 23:13 [Mustafar] Can you escape the gravity wells of massive planets? 25:57 [Alderaan] How to make your own telescope? 29:18 [Dagobah] What is the Great Attractor? 33:11 [Yavin] How stable is Jupiter's L1 Lagrange point? 36:30 [Mandalore] How gas becomes a star? 39:43 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/8-Yl27UHKCU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

JWST’s MIRI is fully operational again, have astronomers found the first strange star?, the first test of an inflatable heat shield, and SLS just got hit by a Hurricane. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 Anton Petrov's channel https://www.youtube.com/c/whatdamath 📖 Book Club Group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:10 JWST is fixed https://www.universetoday.com/158588/woohoo-jwsts-mid-infrared-instrument-is-fully-operational-again/ 03:34 First strange star found? https://www.universetoday.com/158331/the-smallest-lightest-neutron-star-ever-seen-could-be-a-strange-star/ 06:56 NASA and ULA test an inflatable heat shield test 10:49 Artemis I delayed again 13:23 InSight's last image https://www.universetoday.com/158553/this-is-probably-the-last-picture-well-see-from-insight-on-mars/ 15:06 Support us on Patreon 15:53 China's space station is complete https://www.universetoday.com/158540/china-launches-mengtian-the-last-major-module-to-its-space-station/ 17:18 Black hole's jets https://www.universetoday.com/158513/a-black-holes-jets-are-coming-from-a-region-2000-km-away-from-the-singularity-itself/ 19:53 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/KyRvKxu8Mf0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This in an interview with Dr Brian Keating that happened on his YouTube channel. We talk about how Universe Today runs, what do I want to achieve with it, how science journalism works in general and much more. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📺 VIDEO VERSION and Dr Brian Keating's channel https://youtu.be/YKdBJlw60vQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Can we catch the next interstellar visitor? Why do black holes' accretion disks glow? Can we make spaceships out of asteroids? How do we know that dark matter and dark energy actually exist? All that in this week's episode of Q&A with Fraser Cain. And we've started the Book Club! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📖 Book Club Group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 01:39 [Tatooine] Why do accretion disks glow? 06:19 [Coruscant] Can redshift create a light trail? 10:13 [Hoth] Can we turn asteroids into spaceships? 13:45 [Naboo] Book Club: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 18:03 [Kamino] What's the current state of quantum computers? 22:54 [Bespin] Can we catch the next Oumuamua-type object? 27:53 [Mustafar] How do we know dark matter and dark energy exist? 34:12 [Alderaan] How can there be something beyond the observable universe? 36:51 [Dagobah] How will AI affect astronomy? 39:26 [Yavin] Would I freeze myself to see the future? 41:24 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/WSt1AqPYdkM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Historical data about solar storms carved in trees, and it's a bit worrying. Falcon Heavy's back after 40 months of absence. There's a meteor shower and a total lunar eclipse in the coming days. And JWST gave us yet another version of Pillars of Creation. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:33 Even more Pillars of Creation by Webb https://www.universetoday.com/158384/another-version-of-the-pillars-of-creation-from-webb/ 03:20 Meteor shower and Total Lunar Eclipse https://www.universetoday.com/158356/possible-taurid-meteor-outburst-for-2022/ https://www.universetoday.com/158196/our-guide-to-tuesdays-total-lunar-eclipse/ 06:38 Star Storms in Tree Rings https://www.universetoday.com/158351/the-most-devastating-solar-storms-in-history-are-scoured-into-tree-rings/ 09:30 Heavy Elements from Neutron Stars Merger https://www.universetoday.com/158379/not-just-gold-colliding-neutron-stars-forge-strontium-lanthanum-and-cerium/ 11:23 Support us on Patreon 12:18 InSight Felt a Meteor Strike on Mars https://www.universetoday.com/158390/insight-felt-the-ground-shake-from-a-meteorite-impact-on-mars/ 14:09 Falcon Heavy flies again https://www.universetoday.com/158447/falcon-heavy-launches-for-the-first-time-in-over-three-years-carrying-military-satellites-to-orbit/ 15:12 Psyche mission is back on track https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-continues-psyche-asteroid-mission/ 16:32 Channel updates 18:12 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/l95ADb_Jx2c 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

What's the current state of James Webb? What were the main technical difficulties and what does the future look like? What comes after JWST and LUVOIR? Will it be possible to ever build a quantum telescope? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 💯 100 Days of Webb: https://youtu.be/lpJ5x4rcH-k 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:36 Current state of JWST science 00:08:42 JWST data release mechanisms 00:16:34 Evolution of the Periodic table 00:19:03 Technical challenges of JWST 00:24:06 Expectations VS reality of operating Webb 00:31:52 Damage and current health of JWST 00:45:14 Architecture for the next telescopes 00:59:37 Non-conventional concepts of future telescopes 01:03:47 Quantum telescopes 01:17:16 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/eXchT7mtEao 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

If Moon was created with a big collision, where's the crater? Can we fix the space trash problem? Is doing Astronomy just a waste of money that can be better spent elsewhere? What will come after DART? All this and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 02:01 [Tatooine] Is Astronomy just a waste of money? 07:17 [Coruscant] How do scientists react to being wrong? 09:25 [Hoth] Where's Theia's crater? 11:22 [Naboo] If no Big Rip, what's left? 14:52 [Kamino] What about returning to the Moon? 17:22 [Bespin] Is life everywhere? 20:34 [Mustafar] Will there be DART successors? 24:23 [Alderaan] How to fix space debris? 28:53 [Dagobah] EHT but in space? 34:26 [Yavin] Dark energy after heat death? 37:29 [Mandalore] Viking missions controversy? 42:39 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/gLlzt0Vwn1A 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How do we know that certain organisms can survive for millions of years in the conditions of Mars? What do we know about them? And where should we be looking for them on Mars? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:36 What is Deinococcus radiodurans 07:54 How can it live for hundreds of millions of years 15:41 Mars contamination 18:52 Where should we look on Mars 25:45 Panspermia from Mars 29:00 What’s next 32:03 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/SVjydQEKbEA 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

There’s a monster black hole in our backyard (astronomically speaking). Life could survive underground on Mars for hundreds of millions of years. Starlink was hacked to work as GPS. Bad news for Arecibo. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:39 The closed black hole ever discovered https://www.universetoday.com/158176/a-monster-black-hole-has-been-found-right-in-our-backyard-astronomically-speaking/ 03:28 Life can hide deep within Mars https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/10/ancient-bacteria-might-lurk-beneath-mars-surface/?fj=1 06:24 Life could have killed Mars in the past https://www.universetoday.com/158167/early-life-on-mars-might-have-wiped-out-life-on-mars/ 09:50 Starlink got “hacked” and can be used as GPS alternative 11:38 Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/universetoday 12:19 Lucy gets a portrait of the Earth and the Moon https://www.universetoday.com/158323/lucy-took-this-picture-of-earth-as-it-was-making-its-gravity-assist-maneuver/ 14:13 Star blasts away the atmosphere from a planet https://www.universetoday.com/158217/a-nearby-star-has-completely-blasted-away-the-atmosphere-from-its-planet/ 16:38 Arecibo won’t be rebuilt https://www.universetoday.com/158125/arecibo-wont-be-rebuilt/ 19:01 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/lgfd8kX6M 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

All the nice space images you see on the web are processed. It's a complex process that takes the raw data from the instruments and turns them into a picture. Judy Schmidt is one of the best in this, so I talked to her about how she does it. Enjoy! 👉 Judy's Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/ 👉 Judy's Twitter: https://twitter.com/spacegeck 👉 Judy's Tutorial: https://youtu.be/8kGPGhbefhI 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 02:44 How did Judy get into space image processing 10:47 Pipeline for astronomical images 14:34 Astronomers and processed images 19:45 What is the image processing pipeline 25:43 Working with raw data 40:22 Scientific discoveries made while processing images 48:49 How to get into image processing 53:32 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/iiXzfeE5EjI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How do you clean up astronomy images and what part does Photoshop play in it? Can you make spaceships out of ice found in space? When will SpaceX carry people to Mars? What pet will be the best companion for a long space trip? And even more questions in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:41 [Tatooine] How do you "clean up" astronomical images? 06:41 [Coruscant] Why Moon spin is synced with Earth? 09:31 [Hoth] How many habitable worlds are out there? 13:35 [Naboo] Wen hop? 18:57 [Kamino] Best space pet? 20:46 [Bespin] Can a planet pierce through an accretion disk? 22:56 [Mustafar] Remote telescopes? 27:12 [Alderaan] Mars mission by 2029? 30:20 [Dagobah] Spaceships made of ice? 33:08 [Yavin] Why do they sit on data? 36:47 [Mandalore] How Q&As are made? 39:34 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/gVRKuZKjk9g 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Dark Energy will determine how the Universe will die. With the help of Pantheon+, the most detailed survey of Type 1A supernovae, astronomers can understand more details about Dark Energy and the expansion of spacetime. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:50 What is Pantheon+ 13:47 Can we predict Type 1A supernovae 17:07 How to use Type 1A supernovae 23:33 Dark Energy and the Big Rip 27:35 Crisis in Cosmology 42:01 What comes next 45:05 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION #TODO_LINK 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

We continue to introduce the team behind Universe Today. In this episode meet Matt Williams. Fraser and Matt discussed long format writing, stories about the future of space exploration, science fiction novels Matt has written, how not to be too cynical and how to write fast and write good. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 03:33 - Writing science fiction novels inspired by Universe Today 09:12 - Future exploration of the Solar System 12:44 - Fighting cynicism 19:15 - Writing fast. And writing good 28:08 - Writing routines 30:55 - Matt's podcast and website: https://storiesbywilliams.com/ 34:16 - Outro 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

The Pillars of Creation revealed by JWST. It seems like Big Rip isn't happening after all. Black holes twisting spacetime into knots. Jets that seem to be going faster than the speed of light. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 00:38 Pillars of Creation by Webb https://www.universetoday.com/158161/heres-webbs-view-of-the-pillars-of-creation/ 03:41 Big Rip? Maybe Not! https://pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/news/most-precise-accounting-yet-dark-energy-and-dark-matter 08:56 Black Holes Tie Spacetime into knots https://www.universetoday.com/158086/shortly-before-they-collided-two-black-holes-tangled-spacetime-up-into-knots/ 11:35 Most Powerful Gamma Ray Burst Ever Recorded https://www.universetoday.com/158132/astronomers-just-saw-the-most-powerful-gamma-ray-burst-ever-recorded/ 13:26 Support us on Patreon 14:17 Jet faster than the speed of light from a 2017 Kilonova https://www.universetoday.com/158119/hubble-examines-the-wreckage-from-the-2017-kilonova/ 16:14 A warning sign for supernovae https://www.universetoday.com/158116/astronomers-think-they-have-a-warning-sign-for-when-massive-stars-are-about-to-explode-as-supernovae/ 19:21 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/hNTZ6Cvil0Y 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

It has been exactly 100 days since we got the first images from JWST. Here's an overview of all the most important discoveries that the James Webb Space Telescope did since then. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:07 Science objectives for JWST 02:01 Galaxy formation and star evolution 09:15 Exoplanets 13:13 Solar system observations 17:10 Nebulae 19:54 Problems with JWST 22:02 What's next for James Webb 24:13 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/lpJ5x4rcH-k 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

We continue to introduce the team behind Universe Today. In this episode meet Andy Tomaswick. Fraser and Andy talked about Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’, interest in Astronomy and how to deal with haters and trolls. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 03:50 - What kind of stories Andy prefers and why 12:47 - How UT the stories are made 16:47 - What started Andy's interest in Astronomy 19:47 - What's next 24:34 - Advice for future writers 25:46 - Dealing with haters 29:17 - Outro 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

DART’s results are in, it hammered Dimorphos, the Moon might just be a big chunk of the Earth, Webb sees bizarre rings around a star, and SLS gets a new launch date… at night. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 00:33 - NASA’s huge mistake on DART results https://www.universetoday.com/158049/success-dart-impact-shortened-asteroids-orbit-time-by-32-minutes/ 02:34 - How did the Moon form https://www.universetoday.com/157958/the-moon-might-be-one-large-chunk-that-was-blasted-off-the-earth-billions-of-years-ago/ 06:32 - Not an optical illusion https://www.universetoday.com/157385/these-bizarre-concentric-rings-in-space-are-real-not-an-optical-illusion-new-data-from-jwst-explains-whats-happening/ 09:16 - SLS got a new launch date https://www.universetoday.com/158081/a-new-launch-date-for-artemis-1-november-14th-at-night/ 10:35 - Starship got fully stacked again https://www.universetoday.com/158075/starship-and-super-heavy-are-stacked-up-again-how-long-until-they-fly/ 12:01 - Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/universetoday 12:55 - CAPSTONE is back https://www.universetoday.com/158025/phew-nasas-capstone-is-no-longer-tumbling-in-space/ 14:25 - SpinLaunch performs its 10th test https://www.universetoday.com/158014/spinlaunch-completes-its-10th-test-hurling-payloads-for-nasa-and-other-companies-into-the-air/ 16:24 - If Europa has lakes, we will find them https://www.universetoday.com/158053/if-there-are-shallow-lakes-under-the-ice-on-europa-clipper-will-find-them/ 18:46 - Channel updates 20:26 - Outro Interviews * Colin Stuart https://youtu.be/H8EtjYANPjY * Dr. Lucie Leboulleux https://youtu.be/sLK1W0EGu8A 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/SYdmszEG-Og 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How understanding the Sun can change our view of all the other stars in the Universe. What will current instruments and future mission will bring. And what are the mysteries that are waiting to be solved in this field. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 01:09 - Meet Colin Stuart 04:00 - Modern studies of the Sun 17:03 - How new solar telescopes will change our understanding of the Sun 25:40 - Biggest mysteries of the Sun 33:01 - Public reaction to science achievements 44:39 - Detective work in Astronomy 53:53 - Science communication 58:30 - Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/H8EtjYANPjY 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Are there alternatives to CMB? Will we ever build a space elevator? How can we see radiation coming from a black hole when nothing can escape it? Can you heat something with gravitational waves? Why JWST can look lame to the laymen? All this and more in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:32 [Tatooine] Neutrino Background Radiation and CMB alternatives 08:56 [Coruscant] Can gravitational waves heat a planet? 10:39 [Hoth] Why do stars seem to change colour? 13:00 [Naboo] How can radiation escape black holes? 16:18 [Kamino] How to pass through the Van Allen belts? 20:07 [Bespin] How do wormholes work? 22:55 [Mustafar] Is JWST really worth its $10B? 28:15 [Alderaan] Misconseptions about telescopes 31:49 [Dagobah] Will we ever build a space elevator? 36:34 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/z49OlAynODM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Coronographs will soon be in every major telescope. They can block the light from the star and reveal things around it, like exoplanets. There's so much amazing science behind them. Like, did you know coronographs can be adaptive? We dive into all that with Dr Lucie Leboulleux. Enjoy the interview! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 01:58 - Meet Dr Lucie Leboulleux 02:59 - What is a coronagraph and how it works 24:41 - Adaptive coronographs 39:28 - Coronographs in future telescopes 48:23 - What would a perfect telescope look like 59:23 - Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/sLK1W0EGu8A 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Dimorphos grows a tail. More Europa pictures from Juno. The horrifying possibility of ads in night sky. Why Jupiter’s atmosphere is surprisingly hot. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 00:31 - Didimoon’s new tail https://www.universetoday.com/157939/after-getting-slammed-by-dart-asteroid-dimorphos-has-grown-a-tail/ 02:50 - More of Europa’s flyby of Jupiter https://www.universetoday.com/157961/here-are-the-high-resolution-images-of-europa-captured-by-juno-during-its-recent-flyby 05:16 - Horrifying idea of ads in space https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/10/russian-space-scientists-have-the-worst-idea-ever-space-based-advertising 08:13 - Crew-5 goes to the ISS https://www.universetoday.com/157968/while-sls-is-delayed-crew-5-zips-in-and-launches-to-the-international-space-station 10:38 - Why Jupiter is surprisingly hot https://www.universetoday.com/157817/jupiters-atmosphere-is-surprisingly-hot 12:36 - Support us on Patreon 13:36 - More Debris on Mars https://www.universetoday.com/157925/a-small-piece-of-foreign-object-debris-fell-off-ingenuitys-leg-during-its-33rd-flight 15:27 - World Largest Steerable Telescope Construction https://www.universetoday.com/157909/construction-begins-on-the-worlds-largest-steerable-radio-telescope 17:40 - Best JWST image and other channel updates https://youtu.be/EdwiNnWIuKo 19:30 - Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/PNyR0K_5GGY 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

In this interview, Professor Peter Vickers and I talk about the scientific method, its true nature and its place in modern society. We talk about the philosophy of science, how scientific consensus works and how it can be made better. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:10 - Meet Peter Vickers 00:03:35 - Philosophy of Science. What is it and how it's done 00:06:04 - End of Science 00:08:10 - Demarcation between good and bad science 00:16:33 - "I don't know" as a valid answer 00:12:37 - Facts VS Theories 00:31:03 - Scientific consensus 00:40:33 - Skepticism 01:00:38 - Can we make scientific consensus better 01:05:32 - Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/EdwiNnWIuKo 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

In this week's questions and answers show, I explain why a crewed mission to Venus or the Moon makes sense, if there's debris in the Lagrange Points, and why the photos from DART look so familiar. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:16 [Tatooine] Does it make sense to send a crewed mission to Venus? 05:31 [Coruscant] Why send humans to the Moon? 08:54 [Hoth] Is there debris in the Lagrange Points? 11:28 [Naboo] Do the DART photos look familiar? 14:04 [Kamino] Could Webb see Oumuamua? 18:02 [Bespin] What astronomical event would I like to see? 19:58 [Mustafar] What is the most influential image from space? 23:03 [Alderaan] Would Vera Rubin work in space? 26:32 [Dagobah] Could you use the Sun as a gravity assist? 29:24 [Yavin] Could the Sun be blocking Planet 9? 30:55 [Mandalore] Where will be in the next 50 years? 33:35 [Geonosis] What if the Milky Way's black hole disappeared? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/rv9rUH6BXns 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

We continue to introduce the team behind Universe Today. In this episode meet Evan Gough, who is the author of more than 1400 articles on the website. Fraser and Evan talked about the way that stories for UT are born, which traps can a writer fall into, and whether to take a university degree or not. Enjoy! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 01:10 - How did Evan become a part of Universe Today 05:49 - What kind of stories are the most interesting 08:30 - Degree VS No Degree 10:38 - How a story on UT is made 14:57 - Traps for space writers and how to avoid them 19:05 - Balance of mainstream and 'underground' 22:19 - What are the growth paths 28:27 - Outro 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Humanity moved an asteroid on purpose for the first time in history. Juno flies past Jupiter. A possible mission to boost Hubble, and a mysterious blob is orbiting Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 00:39 - DART successfully smashed into asteroid Dimorphos https://www.universetoday.com/157794/this-is-the-last-thing-dart-saw-as-it-smashed-into-its-asteroid-target/ 05:05 - SpaceX wants to boost Hubble's orbit https://www.universetoday.com/157844/nasa-spacex-hubble-reboost/ 06:30 - SLS launch delayed. Again https://www.universetoday.com/157806/as-hurricane-ian-bears-down-on-florida-nasa-decides-to-roll-artemis-1-back-to-the-assembly-building/ 08:38 - Mysterious blob orbiting Milky Way's black hole https://www.universetoday.com/157730/theres-a-blob-of-gas-orbiting-around-the-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole/ 11:11 - Webb Sees Sand in Brown Dwarf’s Atmosphere https://www.universetoday.com/157617/webb-scans-a-nearby-brown-dwarf-and-finds-it-has-clouds-made-of-sand/ 12:43 - Support us on Patreon 13:28 - Zhurong Looks Beneath Utopia Basin https://english.cas.cn/research/highlight/astronomy/202209/t20220926_320768.shtml 15:24 - Enceladus Is Even More Habitable Than Expected https://www.universetoday.com/157703/it-appears-that-enceladus-is-even-more-habitable-than-we-thought/ 16:46 - Juno’s Flyby of Europa https://www.universetoday.com/157855/europa-extreme-closeup-nasa-juno/ 18:01 - Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/TASLAfXhP18 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This is a bonus from my friend Paul Sutter. It is an episode from his podcast ''Ask A Spaceman'. He explains possible alternatives to Dark Matter, which is a very popular question in my Q&A episodes. Enjoy! 🎧 Ask A Spaceman on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ask-a-spaceman/id958825741) 📺 Paul Sutter on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/PaulMSutter) 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain what would happen when an antimatter black hole collides with a regular black hole, I try to estimate when Starship is going to make an orbital launch, and wonder if there could be life around brown dwarf stars. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain what would happen when an antimatter black hole collides with a regular black hole, I try to estimate when Starship is going to make an orbital launch, and wonder if there could be life around brown dwarf stars. 00:00 Start 00:44 What will happen with New Horizons now? 04:20 What lies beyond the Cosmic Microwave Background? 08:12 When will we see an actual picture of an exoplanet? 10:59 Could there be life around a brown dwarf? 13:47 When will the SpaceX orbital test happen? 15:28 Will we find gravitational waves in the CMB? 19:49 How could we know if the Universe collided with another universe? 22:04 Is Titan moving away from Saturn? 24:09 Could there be antimatter black holes? 26:04 Could we fly into Jupiter? 28:20 Will gas giants die? 30:45 Is there an edge to the Universe? 31:55 When will the CMB no longer be detectable? 33:26 How will we block radiation on the Lunar Gateway? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/i_HhYPIezeI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This week's behind the scenes interview is with Universe Today's senior editor, Nancy Atkinson. Nancy has been writing for Universe Today since the early days and has contributed thousands of articles. She's also a mentor to newer writers on the team. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:04 - Meet Nancy Atkinson 00:06:29 - How space writing changes one's life 00:09:00 - Writing books 00:13:28 - Favourite people to interview 00:20:54 - Drawing a line between being factual and casual 00:24:59 - Advice for future journalists 00:28:46 - Outro 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

James Webb has a problem with one of its most important instruments, SLS completes a crucial test before the next launch attempt, Europe wants to rival Crew Dragon and Starliner, and a new quasar is about to be born. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 00:32 - SLS Passes Important Tanking Test https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/09/21/artemis-cryogenic-demonstration-test-concludes-all-objectives-met 02:37 - Starship Updates. Booster 7 Hot Fire with 7 Engines 03:50 - James Webb Has Problems with MIRI https://www.universetoday.com/157695/jwst-partially-stops-observations-after-suffering-instrument-problem/ 05:19 - JWST looks at Neptune and its rings https://www.universetoday.com/157709/neptune-and-its-rings-glow-in-webb-telescopes-portrait/ 06:17 - Webb also looks at Mars https://www.universetoday.com/157675/webb-turns-its-infrared-gaze-on-mars/ 07:54 - SUSIE. Europe's take on crewed capsules https://www.universetoday.com/157666/is-europe-building-its-own-starship-not-exactly/ 09:23 - A quasar about to be born https://www.universetoday.com/157596/a-galaxy-with-ten-times-the-mass-of-the-milky-way-is-preparing-to-become-a-quasar/ 10:40 - Sun-like star orbiting a black hole https://www.universetoday.com/157655/astronomers-find-a-sun-like-star-orbiting-a-nearby-black-hole/ 11:53 - Detecting exoplanets with Lagrange points https://www.universetoday.com/157651/a-new-way-to-discover-planets-astronomers-detect-an-exoplanet-by-seeing-its-trojan-belts/ 13:20 - Get ready for DART impact https://www.universetoday.com/157509/dart-sees-asteroid-didymos-for-the-first-time-in-two-weeks-itll-crash-into-the-moon/ 15:01 - Channel updates 16:32 - Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/BY1bmmezlJw Interviews: * Dr Brian Keating https://youtu.be/NpopOD2DcX8 * Lee McIntyre https://youtu.be/DrlsuLMnQ2I * Les Johnson https://youtu.be/vZhDbzdqAWQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Les Johnson is the Principle Investigator with NASA's upcoming Near-Earth Asteroid Scout mission that will fly on the SLS and test solar sail navigation. But at the same time, he's a science fiction author. So, in this interview, we discussed both these sides of his life. 📖 Les Johnson's Books: https://www.lesjohnsonauthor.com/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 01:01 - Meet Les Johnson 02:19 - Working at NASA and being a science fiction writer at the same time 06:50 - Solar sails proplusion 10:29 - Flying towards the Sun with solar sails 14:32 - Near-Earth Asteroid Scout mission flying on the SLS 21:07 - Why so few solar sails are used now 27:07 - What's the future of solar sails 39:07 - Methods of interstellar exploration 53:02 - Role of science fiction in modern space exploration 01:00:10 - Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/vZhDbzdqAWQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This week I'm joined by Dr. Brian Keating, a cosmologist who studies cosmic microwave background radiation and leads the BICEP, POLARBEAR2, and Simons Array experiments. He also has a successful YouTube channel and podcast. We'll be discussing the evidence for the Big Bang and the impact of James Webb on our current understanding of the Universe. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/NpopOD2DcX8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain the difference between the observable universe and the Hubble sphere, how satellite megaconstellations will affect smartphones and other consumer devices, and what impact Jupiter's radiation might have for life on Europa. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:36 What's the difference between the observable universe and the Hubble sphere? 03:57 Will smartphones get satellite access? 08:07 Could Jupiter's radiation impact Europa's life? 11:02 Information about the lunar poles? 13:19 What do I think about Starlink? 22:09 Are asteroids or comets more dangerous? 23:43 How will climate change affect the space industry? 26:17 Should we build a lunar gateway or moon base? 30:00 Will we see nuclear rockets soon? 32:56 Why do conspiracy theorists point at NASA? 38:02 Will NASA run out of shuttle engines for SLS? 39:47 Can regular people do SETI? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Q_55JfVctUo 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Today I'm talking to Lee McIntyre, philosopher of science and the author of a recently released book 'How to Talk to a Science Denier'. We talked about the problems with science communication in modern society, the challenges that misinformation poses, and how we can possibly fight it. 📖 Lee McIntyre Books: https://leemcintyrebooks.com/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro. Meet Lee McIntyre 00:47 - Where does science denialism come from 09:12 - Climate change, Moon Landing, Shape of the Earth 13:28 - How to fight it 18:41 - Double standard of reasoning 20:22 - The only thing that will work 26:58 - Changing your mind: weakness or strength? 32:56 - Uncertainty in science 40:12 - How to do it better 44:26 - Immune system for the mind 59:53 - Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/DrlsuLMnQ2I 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Uh oh, NASA’s CAPSTONE mission is having problems, A New Shepard Flight fails, Betelgeuse was recently yellow, and of course, another amazing new image from Webb. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 00:33 - CAPSTONE Missions Has More Problems https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/09/12/capstone-teams-continue-work-to-resolve-spacecraft-issue/ 02:17 - Blue Origin Had an Anomaly in Flight https://www.blueorigin.com/news/ns-23-mission-updates/ 04:20 - Betelgeuse Was Yellow, Not Red, Just 2000 Years Ago https://www.universetoday.com/157533/just-2000-years-ago-betelgeuse-was-yellow-not-red/ 07:28 - Raining Space Diamonds. But In A Lab https://www.universetoday.com/157527/its-thought-to-rain-diamonds-on-uranus-and-neptune-and-now-scientists-duplicated-it-in-the-lab/ 09:25 - Solar Orbiter Hit By a Coronal Mass Ejection https://www.universetoday.com/157574/solar-orbiter-was-hit-by-a-coronal-mass-ejection-as-it-was-about-to-make-a-flyby-of-venus/ 11:40 - Wow! Super-Detailed Images of the Sun https://www.universetoday.com/157516/insanely-high-resolution-images-of-the-sun-show-its-chromosphere-in-vivid-detail/ 14:05 - Traditional Webb Treat for Desert https://www.universetoday.com/157576/the-webb-image-youve-been-waiting-for-the-orion-nebula/ 17:47 - Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/G-7N7-HbHsw 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

We're back from hiatus! In this week's Questions and Answers show, I talk about what will happen when the expansion of the Universe reaches the speed of light, how I feel about SLS delays, what's happening with James Webb, and more... 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:41 What happens when the expansion of the Universe reaches the speed of light? 03:27 Thoughts on SLS delays? 05:38 What's new with JWST? 08:44 Will NASA stick with the Gateway? 11:44 Could we build an engine to catch particles in space? 14:35 Why is the private sector more efficient than government? 19:43 Will SpaceX have humans on Mars before Artemis gets to the Moon? 21:14 Can a black hole eat itself? 22:08 How can we know the age of the Universe? 24:51 Will politics break the space industry? 26:30 Should we explore other places than the Moon, Mars and Venus? 29:37 How is AI being used for space science? 31:53 Could returning astronauts be put into simulated Mars gravity? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlKIoPtOgdE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How iPhone 14 will connect to satellites. Why SLS didn’t launch and when it might. Growing rice in space. And a new incredible image from James Webb. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 00:29 - Amazing Tarantula nebula by JWST https://www.universetoday.com/157463/wow-heres-webbs-view-of-the-tarantula-nebula/ 02:07 - Another SLS delay but hopes for a September launch https://www.universetoday.com/157503/theres-still-hope-for-sls-to-launch-in-september/ 05:16 - iPhone 14 will have satellite connection. How it will work https://www.universetoday.com/157474/iphone-14-will-have-satellite-connectivity-how-exactly-it-will-work/ 07:49 - China grows rice in space https://www.universetoday.com/157453/chinese-astronauts-successfully-grow-rice-in-space/ 09:54 - Green sand on Mars https://www.universetoday.com/157449/some-sand-on-mars-is-green-showing-that-it-was-once-wet/ 11:52 - Rocket Lab reuses a returned engine from Electron https://www.universetoday.com/157444/rocketlab-sent-this-engine-to-space-and-then-retrieved-it-a-new-test-shows-its-still-working-fine/ 13:02 - Axiom wins a contract for Moon spacesuits https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-taps-axiom-space-for-first-artemis-moonwalking-spacesuits/ 14:38 - Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Ns_vEaoJfEw 🎙️ OUR DISCORD: https://discord.gg/bRxr4JTNqh 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

I often say that it's not just me doing Universe Today. This series is here to introduce you to the Team behind the project. Show you all the work that we're doing and meet all the great people that make Universe Today possible. Nancy Graziano, the producer of the Weekly Space Hangout and many of the other projects we're working on. Hear how she fell into the Universe Today gravity well, and her future plans to train the next generation of science communicators. 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 00:00 - Intro 02:03 - Meet Nancy Graziano 10:45 - Getting into Universe Today 19:58 - Changing The Weekly Space Hangout 23:33 - Getting more people into science communication 26:46 - Outro 👉 Weekly Space Hangout (https://www.wshcrew.space/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Artemis 1 delayed, direct image of an exoplanet from Webb, how Starlink will connect to phones, Voyager 1 is fixed, cosmology crisis continues. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 00:38 - Direct image of an exoplanet by JWST https://www.universetoday.com/157404/jwst-takes-its-first-image-of-an-exoplanet%ef%bf%bc/ 02:59 - Artemis I Delayed. Again https://www.universetoday.com/157362/nasa-will-try-again-on-september-3-for-first-launch-of-artemis/ 05:55 - Ocean World Exoplanet https://www.universetoday.com/157306/astronomers-find-a-waterworld-planet-with-deep-oceans-in-the-habitable-zone/ 08:03 - Planet shifting in and out of the habitable zone https://www.universetoday.com/157396/a-planet-has-been-found-that-shifts-in-and-out-of-the-habitable-zone/ 10:39 - Voyager 1 Fixed https://www.universetoday.com/157378/problem-solved-voyager-1-is-no-longer-sending-home-garbled-data/ 12:17 - Starlink will talk directly to phones https://www.spacex.com/updates/ 14:49 - Ongoing crisis in Cosmology https://www.universetoday.com/157307/a-new-study-confirms-that-gravity-has-remained-constant-for-the-entire-age-of-the-universe/ 18:34 - Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/_ujVaJFIM7Y 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

No, James Webb didn’t disprove the Big Bang. Carbon dioxide found in an exoplanet atmosphere. An amazing picture of Jupiter from Webb, pieces of other stars found in asteroid Ryugu, weak astronauts arriving on Mars, and a new way to measure distances in the Universe. All that and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites. 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 00:00 - Intro 00:38 - Don’t PANIC! JWST Did Not Disprove The Big Bang Theory https://www.universetoday.com/157264/the-latest-webb-observations-dont-disprove-the-big-bang-but-they-are-interesting/ 07:35 - Carbon Dioxide Discovered in an Exoplanet Atmosphere https://www.universetoday.com/157304/jwst-finds-a-clear-unambiguous-signal-for-carbon-dioxide-in-an-exoplanets-atmosphere/ 10:45 - Amazing Jupiter With Auroras from JWST https://www.universetoday.com/157261/webb-telescope-sees-jupiter-and-its-auroras-in-a-new-light/ 12:31 - Black Holes Help Measure Distances in Space https://www.universetoday.com/157287/colliding-black-holes-provide-another-way-to-measure-distance-in-the-universe/ 15:01 - Ryugu Samples Are Partially Interstellar https://www.universetoday.com/157282/samples-from-asteroid-ryugu-contain-bits-that-came-from-outside-the-solar-system/ 17:32 - How Weak Will Mars Astronauts Feel On Arrival https://www.universetoday.com/157230/how-weak-will-astronauts-feel-when-they-first-set-foot-on-mars-after-months-in-space/ 19:35 - There’s Less Water Ice Under InSight That Scientists Expected https://www.universetoday.com/157244/mars-insight-doesnt-find-any-water-ice-within-300-meters-under-its-feet/ 21:11 - Universe Today News Tory Bruno Interview: https://youtu.be/WKVv9hasAyY Midjourney Video: https://youtu.be/8420A3fU05c 22:28 - Upcoming Artemis I SLS Launch 22:57 - Outro 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Here's another interview with me from another podcast. This time I'm on the Chatter podcast hosted by Lawfare. I spoke with host David Priess about the upcoming Artemis missions, the race to the Moon and other issues relating to the politics and impact of space exploration. Subscribe to the podcast at: https://shows.acast.com/chatter 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

My guest this week is Tory Bruno, the President, and CEO of United Launch Alliance. ULA has provided launch services for many NASA missions, including Juno, Curiosity, MAVEN, and the Parker Solar Probe. https://twitter.com/torybruno 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Rocket Lab is launching the first-ever private mission to Venus. Europe is considering space-based solar power. A new method to detect exoplanets. More evidence about the Moon’s origins. Webb’s largest every image. All that and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites. 00:00 - Intro 00:48 - First Private Mission to Venus by Rocket Lab https://www.rocketlabusa.com/missions/upcoming-missions/first-private-mission-to-venus/ 03:19 - MIT Space Bubbles Could Help Fight Climate Change https://www.universetoday.com/157073/mit-researchers-propose-space-bubbles-to-stop-climate-change/ 05:09 - Europe Is Going for Space-Based Solar Power https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/european-space-chief-says-continent-will-lead-in-space-based-solar-power/ 07:47 - More Evidence that Moon Came from Earth https://www.universetoday.com/157153/lunar-rocks-have-earths-noble-gases-trapped-inside-more-evidence-that-the-moon-came-from-the-earth/ 09:56 - Why Betelgeuse Dimmed After All https://www.universetoday.com/157110/why-betelgeuse-dimmed/ 12:11 - Thanks to GAIA We Know Exactly How the Sun Dies https://www.universetoday.com/157122/thanks-to-gaia-we-know-exactly-how-and-when-the-sun-will-die/ 14:58 - New Way to Look for Exoplanets https://www.universetoday.com/157162/one-exciting-way-to-find-planets-detect-the-signals-from-their-magnetospheres/ 17:13 - Did We Finally Get a Photon Ring of M87 https://www.universetoday.com/157216/astronomers-have-revealed-a-black-holes-photon-ring-for-the-first-time/ 18:43 - The Largest Image Webb has taken so far https://www.universetoday.com/157168/heres-the-largest-image-jwst-has-taken-so-far/ 19:49 - Outro 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

James Webb starts delivering actual science results, Space Launch System and Starship both go even closer to their maiden flights, remote surgery medical robot is going to the ISS, Perseverance continues to find weird stuff on Mars, and Hubble is still going strong. All this and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites. Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - Science behind JWST pictures https://www.universetoday.com/156943/did-you-want-more-scientific-information-about-the-first-set-of-images-from-jwst-fill-your-boots/ 02:31 - SpaceX Test Fires Booster 7’s Engine https://www.universetoday.com/157102/spacex-super-heavy-fires-just-one-of-its-engines-imagine-what-itll-be-like-when-it-fires-all-33/ 04:18 - SLS Approaches Its launch date https://www.universetoday.com/157021/nasas-space-launch-system-gets-tentative-launch-date-of-august-29th/ 06:28 - Percy finds 'cat hair' on Mars https://www.universetoday.com/157096/perseverance-has-found-a-cat-hair-in-its-drill-chuck-what-is-it/ 07:59 - Curiosity celebrates 10 years on Mars https://www.universetoday.com/157091/its-been-10-years-since-curiosity-landed-on-mars-and-the-rover-is-still-going-strong/ 09:31 - South Korea’s mission to the Moon https://www.universetoday.com/157084/south-koreas-first-orbital-mission-to-the-moon-is-on-its-way/ 10:27 - Remote surgery robot going to the ISS https://www.universetoday.com/157027/a-remote-surgical-robot-is-going-to-the-international-space-station/ 12:26 - Dwarf galaxies without dark matter https://www.universetoday.com/157056/dwarf-galaxies-found-without-influence-from-dark-matter/ 13:51 - Hubble still going strong https://www.universetoday.com/157074/hubble-can-still-impress-and-inspire-heres-globular-star-cluster-ngc-6638/ 15:10 - Outro 16:07 - Secret announcement 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

An interstellar meteorite could be hiding in the ocean. Why doesn’t Jupiter have rings like Saturn. The time when Earth’s magnetic field almost collapsed. The shortest day on Earth, and Planet 9 is running out of places to hide. 00:00 - Intro 00:45 - Why Jupiter doesn’t have massive rings https://www.universetoday.com/156887/jupiters-giant-moons-prevent-it-from-having-rings-like-saturn/ 02:37 - Searching for Interstellar Meteor Underwater https://www.universetoday.com/157009/an-interstellar-meteor-struck-the-earth-in-2014-and-now-scientists-want-to-search-for-it-at-the-bottom-of-the-ocean/ 04:27 - Long March 5B has fallen https://www.universetoday.com/156962/chinas-long-march-rocket-booster-makes-uncontrolled-reentry-back-to-earth/ 05:18 - The shortest day in history 07:17 - Super fast destruction by a black hole https://www.universetoday.com/156811/a-black-hole-can-tear-a-neutron-star-apart-in-less-than-2-seconds/ 09:13 - Planet 9 is running out of places to hide https://www.universetoday.com/156975/planet-9-is-running-out-of-places-to-hide/ 11:36 - Earth's magnetic field almost collapsed fairly recently https://www.universetoday.com/156969/earths-magnetic-field-almost-completely-collapsed-550-million-years-ago/ 14:00 - Even citizen astronomers get time on JWST https://www.universetoday.com/156978/even-citizen-scientists-are-getting-time-on-jwst/ 15:32 - New cool pictures from JWST https://www.universetoday.com/156994/jwst-turns-its-gaze-on-the-cartwheel-galaxy/ 16:43 - Outro 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

How JWST is doing after its micrometeorite strike, two more helicopters are flying to Mars, and how do you stop the Milky Way from turning into self-replicating robot probes? 00:00 - Intro 00:27 - How bad the JWST damage really is https://www.universetoday.com/156793/you-can-see-where-jwst-took-a-direct-hit-from-a-micrometeorite-on-one-of-its-mirrors/ 03:41 - China launches space station module https://www.universetoday.com/156896/china-has-added-a-science-module-to-its-new-space-station/ 06:48 - Two new helicopters going to Mars https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-will-inspire-world-when-it-returns-mars-samples-to-earth-in-2033 08:38 - Teaching Robots to die https://www.universetoday.com/156778/before-we-develop-self-replicating-machines-to-explore-the-universe-we-should-figure-out-how-to-turn-them-off-again/ 10:27 - Most sensitive dark matter detector https://www.universetoday.com/156900/the-worlds-most-sensitive-dark-matter-detector-has-come-online/ 12:16 - NASA needs your help https://www.universetoday.com/156829/nasa-wants-your-help-designing-a-starshade-to-observe-exoplanets/ 14:27 - Surprisingly comfortable lava tubes https://www.universetoday.com/156932/lava-tubes-on-the-moon-maintain-comfortable-room-temperatures-inside/ 16:09 - Outro 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

SLS finally gets a launch date for Artemis I, JWST keeps giving the goodness, Percy finds another weird thing on Mars, astronomers find a dormant black hole and NASA will launch a flagship telescope on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. 00:00 - Intro 00:33 - More from JWST https://www.universetoday.com/156799/heres-m74-like-youve-never-seen-it-before-thanks-to-judy-schmidt-and-jwst/ 04:46 - SLS launch date announced 06:02 - Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will fly on Falcon Heavy https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-for-roman-space-telescope/ 07:35 - VIPER Moon rover gets delayed https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-replans-clps-delivery-of-viper-to-2024-to-reduce-risk/ 08:27 - NASA could cancel Psyche mission https://www.universetoday.com/156798/uh-oh-nasa-is-reviewing-psyche-and-may-terminate-the-mission/ 09:33 - Weird String-Like Object Found on Mars https://www.universetoday.com/156775/weird-string-like-object-found-on-mars-probably-dropped-by-the-rover/ 10:30 - New approach to asteroid mining https://www.universetoday.com/156729/two-spacecraft-could-work-together-to-capture-an-asteroid-and-bring-it-close-to-earth-for-mining/ 12:15 - Strongest magnet in the Universe https://www.universetoday.com/156722/a-new-record-for-the-strongest-magnetic-field-seen-in-the-universe-1-6-billion-tesla/ 13:10 - Dormant black hole found https://www.universetoday.com/156815/a-dormant-black-hole-has-been-discovered-just-outside-the-milky-way/ 14:39 - Outro 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Even more pictures from James Webb Space Telescope, China's planning a mission to Neptune, SpaceX's Booster 7 suffers from an explosion, black holes are messy eaters, going under Europa's ice crust and more. More videos about James Webb My JWST Special: https://youtu.be/0VNQ6_hSA8o @Dr. Becky : https://youtu.be/uZeEhUCAeac @Anton Petrov : https://youtu.be/mMyJOVQdZy8 @Joe Scott https://youtu.be/UGK5eIuWxb4 Videos about SpaceX's Booster 7 explosion @NASASpaceflight https://youtu.be/05Yiw7_JTXY @Scott Manley https://youtu.be/dU4B9Xk7x7c 00:00 - Intro 00:37 - More images from JWST https://www.universetoday.com/156696/theyre-here-check-out-the-first-images-from-the-james-webb-space-telescope/ Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/vw148t/locationsofthefirst5imagesdataofthejames/ 04:49 - SpaceX Booster 7 goes BOOM 07:22 - Nuclear Neptune Mission https://www.universetoday.com/156509/china-is-considering-a-nuclear-powered-mission-to-neptune/ 09:41 - Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/universetoday 10:00 - Black hole fails to eat a star https://www.universetoday.com/156714/a-star-came-too-close-to-a-black-hole-and-was-torn-apart-surprisingly-little-actually-went-in/ 11:12 - NIAC for Europa's sub-surface robots https://www.universetoday.com/156529/a-swarm-of-swimming-robots-to-search-for-life-under-the-ice-on-europa/ 12:49 - Outro 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

NASA finally released James Webb's first full-color images. We have 5 great photos of different regions of space. So, in this video we're digesting all the great pictures we got from JWST. 00:00 - Intro 00:49 - Deep Field 04:37 - Exoplanet 07:26 - Stellar Death 10:12 - Galaxy 12:12 - Stellar Birth 14:27 - Outro More about the first JWST images: https://www.universetoday.com/156696/theyre-here-check-out-the-first-images-from-the-james-webb-space-telescope/ The Big Q: JWST https://youtu.be/tadR5fUatHo Interview with Noble Prize Laureate John Mather https://youtu.be/S1dOwht6D30 Interview with Dr. Klaus Pontoppidan https://youtu.be/6wg8d-gwTMI Interview with Lee Feinberg, Optical Telescope Manager https://youtu.be/0pEmQ1zpKtI 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

In this week's questions and answers show, I explain how Starship will enable enormous space telescopes, if James Webb can look at Hubble, and if future astronomers will have any way of learning about the expansion of the Universe and the Big Bang. 00:00 Start 01:46 Could Starship be a telescope? 04:26 Can JWST see Hubble? 06:10 Will elliptical galaxies restart star formation? 08:00 Will future civilizations know about the Big Bang? 11:38 How will the Lunar Gateway change robotic space exploration? 14:34 Where are the flagship missions? 15:50 How does artificial gravity work in space? 16:55 How many useful gravitational lenses are there out there? 19:11 What lies beyond space? 20:10 Will we definitively prove life beyond Earth? 23:57 Could you use the Moon as a gravitational lens? 24:40 Can we look back in time somehow? 26:10 Are there good careers in astronomy? 29:19 Could we learn anything getting close to black holes? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday Discord: https://discord.gg/3nk8kAARUm 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

NASA teases JWST images, Rocket Lab launches CAPSTONE, mystery rocket's crash site found on the Moon, how magnetars are created, ISS gets more independent from Russia and more. 00:00 Intro 00:32 NASA teases first JWST images Weekly Space Hangout with Lee Feinberg https://youtu.be/0pEmQ1zpKtI 03:44 NASA funds space nuclear reactor development https://www.universetoday.com/156461/nasa-funds-the-development-of-a-nuclear-reactor-on-the-moon-that-would-last-for-10-years/ 05:21 Rocket Lab launches CAPSTONE https://www.universetoday.com/156493/rocket-lab-launches-nasas-capstone-mission-to-the-moon/ 06:39 Mystery rocket crash site found https://www.universetoday.com/156469/remember-that-rocket-that-was-going-to-crash-into-the-moon-scientists-think-theyve-found-the-crater/ 08:08 Independence from Russia's Progress is coming for the ISS https://www.universetoday.com/156500/cygnus-boosts-the-international-space-station-for-the-first-time-nasa-can-now-potentially-keep-the-station-aloft-without-russias-progress-spacecraft/ 09:51 Support us on Patreon Interview with Andy Tomaswick https://www.patreon.com/posts/expanding-today-68472127 Lee Feinberg Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pEmQ1zpKtI 10:50 Rapidly growing sunspot isn’t a problem https://www.universetoday.com/156474/giant-sunspot-ar3038-has-doubled-in-size-and-is-pointed-right-at-earth-could-be-auroras-coming/ 12:35 ESA rules out dangerous asteroid hitting Earth https://www.esa.int/SafetySecurity/Impactin2052ruledoutasESAcountsdowntoAsteroidDay 14:25 A very young pulsar found https://www.universetoday.com/156436/astronomers-find-a-brand-new-pulsar-thats-probably-less-than-14-years-old/ 15:43 How magnetars are born https://www.universetoday.com/156522/the-case-is-building-that-colliding-neutron-stars-create-magnetars/ 17:15 Map of Mars made from orbital pictures https://www.universetoday.com/156492/a-new-map-of-mars-made-from-51000-orbital-images/ 18:43 Outro 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain how astronauts are trained to deal with medical emergencies if the Universe is expanding smoothly or chaotically, and what would survive longer, a white dwarf or a red dwarf? 00:00 Start 01:34 [Tatooine] What if there's a medical emergency on the ISS? 04:13 [Coruscant] Could we see before the Big Bang? 09:28 [Hoth] Are there stars below the Earth too? 12:22 [Naboo] Is there a way to see something moving faster than light? 15:00 [Kamino] Why is the SLS fuel tank orange? 16:30 [Bespin] Could Titan serve as a fuel depot? 18:19 [Mustafar] Would the expansion of the Universe eventually spaghettify all matter? 21:37 [Alderaan] If you rode a space elevator, wouldn't you fall back down? 23:36 [Dagobah] What lasts longer, a red dwarf or a white dwarf? 25:44 [Yavin] Would I like a solution to dark matter or dark energy? 26:41 [Mandalore] Why doesn't the Moon fall down to the Earth? 28:28 [Geonosis] Has anyone actually tried going the speed of light? 29:20 [Corellia] How could we broadcast our existence to aliens? 31:47 [Crait] How will astronomers know where to point JWST to see the first galaxies? 32:59 [Endor] Could we be inside a nebula? 34:44 [Exegol] What new telescope am I looking forward to? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

SLS finally got through WDR (almost), Falcon 9 are setting new reuse records, China is about to beat NASA to Mars with a sample return mission, Charon red spot explained and more. 00:00 Intro 00:29 New records for SpaceX 01:33 SLS goes through WDR (kinda) https://www.universetoday.com/156446/nasa-says-its-satisfied-with-rehearsal-for-sls-moon-rocket-launch/ 02:39 South Korea joins the space club https://www.universetoday.com/156405/south-korea-is-now-a-space-faring-nation-with-the-orbital-launch-of-their-homegrown-nuri-rocket/ 03:15 China's Mars sample return mission 05:55 Samples from Ryugu are full of amino acids https://www.universetoday.com/156245/samples-of-asteroid-ryugu-contain-more-than-20-amino-acids/ 07:34 How Asteroid 16 Psyche might look like https://www.universetoday.com/156333/this-is-what-the-metal-asteroid-psyche-might-look-like/ 08:55 Support what we do https://patreon.com/universetoday 09:35 Charon's red spot mystery https://www.universetoday.com/156395/charons-red-cap-at-its-north-pole-we-might-have-an-answer/ 10:58 Young galaxies aren’t exactly what we expect https://www.universetoday.com/156359/once-again-galaxies-look-surprisingly-mature-shortly-after-the-beginning-of-the-universe/ 12:48 Retired telescopes are still useful https://www.universetoday.com/156388/a-totally-new-view-of-the-large-magellanic-cloud-and-more-from-retired-telescopes/ 14:36 Where Moon's water came from https://www.universetoday.com/156378/the-moon-could-have-gathered-some-of-its-water-from-the-earths-atmosphere/ 16:16 Repeating FRBs https://www.universetoday.com/156275/a-rare-repeating-fast-radio-burst-gives-astronomers-a-chance-to-study-these-mysterious-objects/ 18:04 Interviews Gaia Data Release 3 with Dr. Martin Barstow https://youtu.be/iHcLBZaC5x4 NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver https://youtu.be/b1FC0BxxCtQ 19:06 Outro 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Dr. Martin Barstow is is a Professor of Astrophysics and Space Science at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester and the former President of the Royal Astronomical Society. Dr. Barstow was part of the team who worked on the recent Gaia Data Release 3, which categorized almost 2 billion stars in the Milky Way. https://le.ac.uk/people/martin-barstow 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

In this week's questions and answers show, I explain why most quasars are very far away, consider what would happen if you brought Pluto into the inner Solar System, and deliver the heartbreaking news of why the ISS won't be recycled. 00:00 Start 01:25 [Tatooine] Can quasars appear anywhere in the Universe? 04:35 [Coruscant] What if you brought Pluto into the inner Solar System? 07:13 [Hoth] Why can't the ISS be recycled? 11:22 [Naboo] Why don't we see objects repeating in the Universe? 13:17 [Kamino] What lies beyond the observable universe? 15:54 [Bespin] Could an asteroid push the Earth into the Sun? 18:45 [Mustafar] Are dust storms a threat to Mars settlers? 21:14 [Alderaan] Could a solar gravitational lens help detect technological civilizations? 23:06 [Dagobah] Would an asteroid strike on another planet be a risk to Earth? 23:59 [Yavin] Could the moon of a gas giant be habitable? 25:32 [Mandalore] What do I think about NASA's UAP study? 29:04 [Geonosis] Could you create an artificial meteor storm? 30:22 [Corellia] Where would I like to go in the Milky Way? 33:04 [Crait] Could Hubble look at JWST? 33:46 [Endor] Is anyone working on construction equipment for the Moon? 34:57 [Exegol] Are there aliens on the back side of the Moon? 37:50 [Jedha] What would we learn from a comet sample return mission? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Dr. Sonny White is a physicist and mechanical engineer. He previously worked at NASA's Eagleworks Lab testing advanced propulsion systems, and developing ideas for faster-than-light travel. He's now working with Limitless Space, founded with the vision of advancing human space exploration beyond the Solar System by the end of the 21st century. https://www.limitlessspace.org/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

FAA finally gave its approval to SpaceX for Starship launches from Boca Chica, Gaia released its third data drop, China stars continuous space presence, Perseverance finds another weird rock on Mars. 🚀 Discord Discussion Club https://discord.gg/bRxr4JTNqh 👽 Anton's video on Best Tourist Destination in Our Solar System https://youtu.be/IzCFSaQdgn8 00:00 Intro 00:25 FAA gives SpaceX permission to launch Starship https://www.universetoday.com/156312/starship-is-one-step-closer-to-flight/ 02:22 Starlink 2.0 deployment from Starship https://www.universetoday.com/156233/starship-will-spit-out-starlinks-like-a-candy-dispenser-1/ 04:20 GAIA 3rd data drop is out 06:52 World Largest Liquid Mirror Telescope https://www.universetoday.com/156246/the-worlds-largest-liquid-mirror-telescope-comes-online/ 08:45 Rogue black hole’s mass pinned by Hubble https://www.universetoday.com/156261/hubble-pins-down-the-mass-of-a-potential-free-floating-black-hole-thats-5000-light-years-away/ 10:24 Join our Discord Server 11:17 Jupiter ate a bunch of planets in the past https://www.universetoday.com/156235/jupiter-is-up-to-9-rock-and-metal-which-means-it-ate-a-lot-of-planets-in-its-youth/ 12:57 Shenzhou-14 Astronauts Begin Their Mission of 6 Months in Space https://www.universetoday.com/156204/shenzhou-14-astronauts-begin-their-mission-of-6-months-in-space/ 13:39 Water on the Moon https://www.universetoday.com/156307/chinas-lunar-lander-finds-water-under-its-feet/ 15:39 Cool map of the entire Moon https://www.universetoday.com/156265/a-geologic-map-of-the-entire-moon-has-been-released-at-12500000-scale/ 16:37 Potential alien signal from space 17:29 And even more weird rocks on Mars https://www.universetoday.com/156313/a-perfectly-balanced-rock-seen-by-perseverance/ 18:58 Interviews Self Sustaining Space Habitats with Annika Rollock https://youtu.be/ZffFUMtJ3FI Liquid Mirror Telescope with Dr. Paul Hickson https://youtu.be/MCHK0wJIt8A Advanced Propulsion Systems with Dr. Sonny White https://youtu.be/MDURVz31N1k Podcast with Evan Gough https://www.patreon.com/posts/expanding-today-67816427 20:15 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Annika Rollock is a Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is studying next generation space habitats and recently published a paper about how future space stations can remain self-sufficient, especially when support and communication from Earth are far away. https://www.annikarollock.com/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/) 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

In this week's questions and answers show, I explain how JWST and other telescopes see color, how images from observatories are released to the public, and how much of the sky can JWST see. Also, a bunch of non-Webb questions too. 00:00 Start 01:55 [Tatooine] How does JWST see color? 09:58 [Coruscant] How are astronomical images released to the public? 12:52 [Hoth] How does JWST handle spacedust? 14:48 [Naboo] How is JWST pointed? 16:39 [Kamino] Could dark matter be detected in specific parts of the Universe? 18:52 [Bespin] Is dark matter just a smart guess? 23:10 [Mustafar] Why does Earth have water and the Moon doesn't? 26:09 [Alderaan] Is Panspermia inevitable? 28:28 [Dagobah] Is the Big Bang a past event or is it still happening? 29:43 [Yavin] What's the best telescope to see planets? 31:19 [Mandalore] If we mapped the CMB from Andromeda, would it look different? 33:10 [Geonosis] Why do we see light from long ago, shouldn't it have passed us? 34:49 [Corellia] How can we promote diversity in STEM? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday Discord: https://discord.gg/3nk8kAARUm 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Dr. Paul Hickson is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Hickson is overseeing a team that built a telescope out of liquid mercury in India. The International Liquid Mirror Telescope is 4 meters across and built on top of a 3,000-meter mountain in India. This will prove the technology and allow for larger and larger liquid mirror telescopes on Earth (and eventually in space). https://science.ubc.ca/news/indian-ubc-astronomers-celebrate-first-light-liquid-mirror-telescope 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra is a geologist and astrobiologist with the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science. He studies the conditions that allowed life to spread across the Earth and searches for similar environments across the Universe. In a recent paper, Dr. Haqq-Misra suggests methods that we could search for technologically advanced civilizations across the Universe. https://haqqmisra.net/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.00030.pdf 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

JWST got damaged by a micrometeoroid but seems to be okay, NASA buys more Crew Dragon flights, Mars rovers see interesting stuff, ESA confirms a comet hunter, UFOs get official NASA investigations, all planets get into order in the night sky and more. Discord Discussion Club https://discord.gg/9vXZFCGKMg?event=983521001998549092 00:00 Intro 00:28 JWST’s mirror got hit and damaged by a micrometeorite https://www.universetoday.com/156219/jwst-was-recently-hit-by-a-surprisingly-large-micrometeoroid/ James Webb Video: https://youtu.be/tadR5fUatHo 02:23 Hubble finds a lot of targets for JWST https://www.universetoday.com/156189/hubble-finds-a-bunch-of-galaxies-that-webb-should-check-out/ 04:10 All planets in order in the night sky https://www.universetoday.com/156057/see-all-naked-eye-planets-this-month-in-order/ 05:09 NASA is investigating UFOs https://www.universetoday.com/156223/whats-out-there-nasa-sets-up-independent-study-on-ufos/ 07:10 Join our Discord Server https://discord.gg/bRxr4JTNqh 08:09 European comet interceptor confirmed 09:27 Mars Rovers See Interesting Stuff https://www.universetoday.com/156168/curiosity-sees-bizarre-spikes-on-mars/ 11:04 Dust Devils by Perseverance https://www.universetoday.com/156171/perseverance-is-seeing-a-lot-of-dust-devils/ 12:07 Rock in a wheel https://www.universetoday.com/156253/perseverance-has-been-carrying-a-rock-in-its-wheel-for-over-100-days/ 12:39 NASA buys more Crew Dragon launches to ISS through 2030 https://www.universetoday.com/156207/nasa-has-purchased-5-more-crew-dragon-missions-keeping-the-iss-going-until-2030/ 14:22 Mitsubishi are creating 3D-printed antennas for satellites 15:59 Interviews Using Pulsars to Navigate in Space with Dr. Zach Putnam https://youtu.be/tKv7wf6jOhE Searching for Technosignatures with Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra https://youtu.be/-M4hGuDDsgM 16:42 Outro Host: Fraser Cain Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov 🚀 SUPPORT WHAT WE DO: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Dr. Zach Putnam is an assistant professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He's part of a team developing navigation techniques that use the signals from pulsars to always know your location, anywhere in the Solar System. https://aerospace.illinois.edu/directory/profile/zputnam 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's Questions and Answers show, I answer what it would take to build a telescope as big as the Earth's orbit around the Sun, why SgrA* seems to have been rolled over on its side, and how we know the age of stars. 00:00 Start 01:50 [Tatooine] Could we have a telescope the size of Earth's orbit? 08:11 [Coruscant] Why is SgrA* rolled over on its side? 09:53 [Hoth] How do we know the age of stars? 14:19 [Naboo] Could you have a collection of smaller mirrors working together? 17:19 [Kamino] Why not build two Uranus missions? 19:11 [Bespin] Why do white dwarfs explode at 1.4 times the mass of the Sun? 21:23 [Mustafar] Where are the Voyagers? 22:20 [Alderaan] Could a meteor storm destroy satellites? 23:49 [Dagobah] Could aliens know there's life on Earth? 27:03 [Yavin] Has anyone ever built artificial gravity in space? 31:36 [Mandalore] How do we get more people to try stargazing? 33:06 [Geonosis] How do you orbit a Lagrange point? 35:31 [Corellia] Are there any missions to return to Pluto? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday Discord: https://discord.gg/3nk8kAARUm 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Einstein's Theory of General Relativity has been tried and tested many times, and so far, Einstein was right. But we know his theory must be incomplete, as it still doesn't integrate with quantum mechanics. Where are physicists searching next for the future of cosmology and relativity? Dr. Leah Jenks is a PhD recipient from Brown University, and will become a KICP Fellow at the University of Chicago. https://leahjenks.com 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

NASA selects two suppliers for new spacesuits, James Webb reveals the date of first color images, JUICE moves closer to launch and a new kind of solar sail gets to next NIAC round. 00:00 Intro 00:32 First JWST images date revealed James Webb Video: https://youtu.be/tadR5fUatHo 02:01 NASA selects Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace for spacesuit contracts https://www.universetoday.com/156117/nasa-will-rent-future-spacesuits-from-longtime-supplier-and-newcomer/ 04:37 Planetary Defense Training 07:25 Voyager getting strange telemetry https://www.universetoday.com/156065/voyager-1-doesnt-know-where-it-is-generating-random-looking-telemetry-data/ 09:07 New kind of solar sail can help us reach places in solar system https://www.universetoday.com/156092/a-new-kind-of-solar-sail-could-let-us-explore-difficult-places-to-reach-in-the-solar-system/ 10:57 Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/universetoday Interview with Nancy Graziano https://www.patreon.com/posts/expanding-2-66877346 Interview with Nancy Atkinson https://www.patreon.com/posts/expanding-3-67097646 12:10 Interstellar travel without spaceships https://www.universetoday.com/156081/civilizations-dont-even-need-space-ships-to-migrate-from-star-system-to-star-system/ 14:51 JUICE mission is fully integrated and ready for testing https://www.universetoday.com/156094/esas-juice-mission-is-fully-integrated-and-ready-for-testing-soon-itll-fly-to-space-on-a-mission-to-jupiters-moons/ 16:13 Why Neptune and Uranus are different colors https://www.universetoday.com/156109/why-are-uranus-and-neptune-different-colors-haze/ 18:04 FAA further delays Boca Chica certification for another 2 weeks 18:46 Meteor storm that didn't happen 20:18 Interview: Cosmology and Relativity with Dr. Leah Jenks https://youtu.be/1Np2y5IPgT4 21:10 Outro Host: Fraser Cain Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov 🚀 SUPPORT WHAT WE DO: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

James Webb is the most expensive and most advanced telescope in human history. Will it be worth its $10B price? What it will discover? How long will JWST last? Will it ever be serviced? All the answers are in this episode of The Big Q. 00:00 Intro 00:39 How JWST came together. 02:58 The telescope that ate astronomy. 04:36 Leading to launch. 06:08 Staying at the L2 Lagrange point. 07:09 Infrared spectrum observations. What will JWST see? 11:06 Potential targets for JWST. 15:12 What is Fraser most excited about? 16:53 What will the pictures look like? 18:12 How long will JWST last? 20:30 Even more info about JWST? 21:14 Outro Host: Fraser Cain Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov Video credits: NASA, ESO, Arianespace, Spitzer 🚀 SUPPORT WHAT WE DO: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

How did life go from single-celled to multi-celled? Dr. William Ratcliff is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences at the School of Biological Science at Georgia Tech. Dr. Ratcliff and his collaborators are working with single cells of yeast, watching them make the jump to become multi-cellular organisms. It turns out, life has done this many times in the past, and not just the jump that created the modern animals we know of today. https://biosciences.gatech.edu/people/will-ratcliff 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Boeing finally completes a demo mission, scientists grow plants in lunar regolith, NASA will launch a mission to repair and refuel a satellite, space suits are leaking on the ISS again, and more. 00:00 Intro 00:27 Update on the meteor storm on May 31st https://www.universetoday.com/156008/update-on-the-potential-may-31st-tau-herculid-meteor-storm/ 03:31 Starliner OFT-2 went up to the ISS and back https://www.universetoday.com/156026/starliner-launches-successfully-but-two-of-its-thrusters-failed/ 05:14 Space suits leaking water causing problems for EVAs https://www.universetoday.com/156034/spacesuits-are-leaking-water-and-nasa-is-holding-off-any-spacewalks-until-they-can-solve-the-problem/ 06:57 Plants can grow in lunar regolith https://www.universetoday.com/155984/plants-can-grow-in-lunar-regolith-but-theyre-not-happy-about-it/ 08:17 Mars dust storms and energy balance https://www.universetoday.com/155983/dust-storms-on-mars-happen-when-the-planet-cant-release-its-heat-fast-enough/ 10:20 Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/universetoday Interview with Nancy Graziano https://www.patreon.com/posts/expanding-2-66877346 12:00 NASA plans orbital refueling and repair mission, OSAM-1 https://www.universetoday.com/155863/nasa-is-building-a-mission-that-will-refuel-and-repair-satellites-in-orbit/ 14:13 GAIA shows nebulae in 3D https://www.universetoday.com/156010/thanks-to-gaia-astronomers-are-able-to-map-out-nebulae-in-3d/ 15:16 Solar Orbiter's pictures of the Sun https://www.universetoday.com/155958/solar-orbiters-pictures-of-the-sun-are-every-bit-as-dramatic-as-you-were-hoping/ 17:06 Interview. Jumping to Multicellular Life with Dr. William Ratcliff https://youtu.be/DLhqntkqlrw 17:29 Outro Host: Fraser Cain Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov 🚀 SUPPORT WHAT WE DO: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain what James Webb will see when it looks at SgrA*, why black holes happen to be facing towards us, and if asteroid strikes can hurl dinosaurs into space. 00:00 Start 00:59 [Tatooine] Will Webb look at SgrA*? 05:23 [Coruscant] Why are both black holes facing us? 07:16 [Hoth] Were dinosaurs hurled to space during an asteroid impact? 09:57 [Naboo] How do stars get bigger than red dwarfs? 12:36 [Kamino] Will there be new physics beyond Newton and Einstein? 15:43 [Bespin] What would happen if a small black hole passed through the Earth? 17:27 [Mustafar] Has water been found on the Moon? 20:13 [Alderaan] How bad is the dust on Mars? 21:54 [Dagobah] Where does a planet go if it's absorbed by a black hole and then radiated away? 24:11 [Yavin] Are telescopes generating too much data? 27:01 [Mandalore] Who will take over after us? 28:19 [Geonosis] What will be the next space propulsion systems? 31:14 [Corellia] Will James Webb reveal planets at Proxima B? 33:41 [Crait] Which country will reach Mars first? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday Discord: https://discord.gg/3nk8kAARUm 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Dr. Jonathan Jiang is the supervisor of the Aerosol and Cloud Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Jiang has contributed over 220 peer-reviewed papers in a variety of journals. Most recently, he collaborated on a paper that investigates the future of human space exploration beyond the Moon and Mars, even to the outer Solar System. https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/jjiang/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Professor Stephen Sweeney works in the department of physics at the University of Surrey. He specializes in photonics, using lasers and photovoltaics for new types of communication, remote power transmission, and other concepts in space exploration. https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/stephen-sweeney 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Dr. Ashish Goel is a Research Technologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Robotic Surface Mobility group. He has helped develop the plans to build a giant radio telescope inside a crater on the Moon, providing a pristine view to the Universe, using the Moon to block Earth's radio transmissions. https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/who-we-are/people/ashish_goel/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's News Bites segment, I talk about the successful launch of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner, how astronomers watch a nova unfold in real time, the (not) door way on Mars, and the chance to see the greatest meteor storm in a generation. 00:00 Intro 00:41 Boeing Starliner Successful Test Launch 03:49 China Continues to Extend Its Plans for Space Programs https://www.universetoday.com/155927/china-has-a-new-human-lunar-space-program-with-plans-for-landers-orbiters-rovers-and-a-lunar-base/ 07:15 LISA can finally go to the next phase https://www.universetoday.com/155962/lisa-has-passed-a-key-review-phase-its-time-to-actually-design-the-final-mission/ 09:30 Doorway on Mars (no, it isn't) https://www.universetoday.com/155946/no-this-isnt-a-doorway-on-mars/ 11:10 Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/universetoday 12:19 Nova caught live https://www.universetoday.com/155881/astronomers-finally-catch-a-nova-detonating-on-a-white-dwarf-as-its-happening/ 14:25 InSight will be gone soon https://www.universetoday.com/155950/insight-is-losing-power-it-probably-will-be-shut-down-in-a-few-months/ 17:07 Most Powerful Meteor Storm in Generations https://www.universetoday.com/155928/we-may-see-a-tau-herculid-meteor-outburst-on-may-31st/ 19:54 Interviews Beaming Power in Space with Dr. Stephen Sweeney https://youtu.be/XDWTPGPoqko The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope with Dr. Ashish Goel https://youtu.be/gAbhi4EMyO8 Sending Humans to the Outer Solar System with Dr. Jonathan Jiang https://youtu.be/qNE9jigS-wY 20:37 Outro Host: Fraser Cain Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov 🚀 SUPPORT WHAT WE DO: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Michael Amato is an engineer at NASA and has been a member of the team behind NASA's DAVINCI spacecraft which will be launching to Venus in 2029. The spacecraft will be exploring the atmosphere of Venus with more clarity and detail than has ever been seen before, giving us a better sense about how the world became so different from Earth. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/amato-helped-keep-davinci-probe-on-track 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's episode, I talk about how close to the Sun Parker Solar Probe can get, what is the smallest possible star that's turned into a red giant, why do I think aliens will need to adhere to the laws of physics, and more. Oh, and why am I so cynical? 00:00 Start 01:17 [Tatooine] Will Parker Solar Probe fly low enough to dodge prominences? 03:32 [Coruscant] What is the smallest mass star to have turned into a red giant? 06:23 [Hoth] Why do we think aliens have to adhere to the laws of physics? 09:46 [Naboo] Am I too cynical? 13:13 [Kamino] What would the night sky look like on Mars? 14:11 [Bespin] Can black holes grow endlessly? 15:35 [Mustafar] Do black holes eat dark matter? 16:00 [Alderaan] How can we get high bandwidth to Mars? 18:10 [Dagobah] What if aliens don't remake the Universe? 22:32 [Yavin] Could dark energy tear a black hole apart? 25:25 [Mandalore] Am I sad that I won't see the future? 27:54 [Geonosis] How long would trips take if you could go faster than light speed? 30:07 [Corellia] Could Earth lose its orbit around the Sun? 31:52 [Crait] Could there be a bigger telescope than Webb? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday Discord: https://discord.gg/3nk8kAARUm 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

We finally have the SgrA* supermassive black hole image by the Event Horizon Telescope, China announces their plans to launch a space telescope, and Russia threatens to leave the ISS. 00:00 Intro 00:20 Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole https://www.universetoday.com/155874/this-is-it-meet-the-supermassive-black-hole-at-the-heart-of-the-milky-way/ 03:48 China will launch a space telescope https://www.universetoday.com/155825/china-announces-its-new-flagship-space-telescope-mission/ 05:57 Another ISS bluff from Russia https://www.universetoday.com/155765/russia-says-itll-quit-the-international-space-station-over-sanctions-also-russia-says-a-lot-of-stuff-that-doesnt-happen/ 07:49 Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/universetoday 08:46 Another test by Spinlaunch 09:52 Record marsquakes by Insight https://www.universetoday.com/155870/insight-just-detected-a-record-breaking-marsquake-magnitude-5/ 11:05 Ingenuity starts having problems https://www.universetoday.com/155864/martian-dust-is-starting-to-darken-ingenuitys-solar-panel/ 13:42 Total lunar eclipse https://www.universetoday.com/155691/our-complete-guide-to-this-weekends-total-lunar-eclipse/ 14:58 Starliner can finally launch on May 19th 17:16 Dreamchaser build timelapse 17:54 Channel news Fluidic Space Telescopes with Dr. Edward Balaban https://youtu.be/MJd6_-Ra6oY Dealing with Lunar Regolith with Dr. Kevin Cannon https://youtu.be/Jt8geyxhdu8 Messaging Extraterrestrials with Dr. Chris Impey https://youtu.be/1OqYanmc-4Y 19:01 Outro Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/bRxr4JTNqh Host: Fraser Cain Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov 🚀 SUPPORT WHAT WE DO: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Edward Balaban is a research scientist at NASA Ames and the principal investigator of the Fluidic Telescope Experiment, or FLUTE. The idea is to create a giant lens in space out of a fluid that could maintain its shape in microgravity. The technology was recently tested during the Axiom-1 mission to the International Space Station. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/nasa-tries-new-ways-fluid-materials-to-build-giant-space-telescopes 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Dr. Kevin Cannon is an assistant professor of geology and geological engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Cannon has been studying the properties of lunar regolith, developing techniques that could help to mitigate its dangers during long-duration lunar exploration missions. https://geology.mines.edu/project/cannon-kevin/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain why we don't see much stuff in space unfolding in real time, how long will Musk's Tesla be a recognizable object, and what are some feasible structures we could build to help send payloads to space. 00:00 Start 03:38 [Tatooine] Why don't we see space stuff in real time? 07:40 [Coruscant] When will the Voyagers actually leave the Solar System? 09:43 [Hoth] What do I use to take notes? 12:04 [Naboo] Could we make better rocket fuel? 14:41 [Kamino] Could ion engines reach the speed of light? 16:23 [Bespin] Should we modify the Drake Equation more? 17:18 [Mustafar] How long will Musk's Tesla be recognizable? 19:02 [Alderaan] Is there any research to have humans survive in space for a long time? 20:49 [Dagobah] Are the Voyagers slowing down? 21:58 [Yarvin] How can galaxies collide if the Universe is expanding? 23:38 [Mandalore] What launch systems should we develop? 25:51 [Geonosis] Could there be life without a magnetic field? 27:39 [Corellia] Could balloons launch rockets? 29:49 [Crait] What habitable worlds are most exciting? 31:46 [Endor] How much material would the asteroid belt make? 32:44 [Exegol] Will the Event Horizon Telescope show Sag A*? 34:23 [Jedha] Why send a probe to Uranus? 35:13 [Lothal] Could two black holes destroy each other? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday Discord: https://discord.gg/3nk8kAARUm 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Rocket Lab almost catches their Electron booster with a helicopter, China building an asteroid redirection mission, NASA gives out awards and astronomers find a new type of space explosions. 00:00 Intro 00:35 Rocket Lab Almost Caught a Booster with a Helicopter https://www.universetoday.com/155706/they-did-it-rocket-lab-uses-copter-to-catch-and-release-a-rocket/ 02:06 China is Building an Asteroid Deflection Mission https://www.universetoday.com/155683/china-is-building-an-asteroid-deflection-mission-of-its-own-due-for-launch-in-2025/ 03:35 Micronova. A New Kind of Stellar Explosion Has Been Discovered https://www.universetoday.com/155626/a-new-kind-of-stellar-explosion-has-been-discovered-micronovae/ 05:42 A Space Telescope Could Reveal a Black Hole's Photon Ring https://www.universetoday.com/155614/a-space-telescope-could-reveal-a-black-holes-photon-ring/ 07:21 Astronomers Discover Eight Echoes from Black Holes https://www.universetoday.com/155709/astronomers-discover-eight-echoes-from-black-holes/ 09:13 Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/universetoday 10:39 NASA Announces the Winners of its Second Payload Challenge! https://www.universetoday.com/155728/nasa-announces-the-winners-of-its-second-payload-challenge/ 11:50 NASA is Looking for Ideas on How to Simulate Missions to Mars! https://www.universetoday.com/155306/nasa-is-looking-for-ideas-on-how-to-simulate-missions-to-mars/ 15:21 ISS Reboost https://www.universetoday.com/155694/watch-what-happens-to-astronauts-when-the-international-space-station-gets-an-orbital-reboost/ 14:22 Channel News Collecting Micrometeorites with Scott Peterson https://youtu.be/NEhFcuWJkxM Going Under the Ice with Dr. Samuel Howell https://youtu.be/f7z8Fv_CEaY 15:22 Outro Interview with Anton: https://www.patreon.com/posts/expanding-today-65922760 Host: Fraser Cain Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov 🚀 SUPPORT WHAT WE DO: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Sam Howell, a planetary scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Sam studies the interiors of icy worlds, like Europa and Enceladus and is pioneering methods to explore their subsurface oceans. https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/showell/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Every day about 100 tonnes of space dust strikes the Earth's atmosphere. Most of these space rocks vaporize, but some fall to the Earth at meteorites. Did you know that there are particles from space falling on the roof of your house? My guest today is Scott Peterson. Scott collects micrometeorites from his house and takes pictures of them using a microscope. We'll talk about how to find them, identify them and photograph them for yourself. https://micro-meteorites.com 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain why James Web still can't see the Big Bang, if black holes can "unblack hole" later in life and what is the cutest nebula in the Universe? 00:00 Start 03:17 [Tatooine] Can Webb see back to the Big Bang? 08:20 [Corusant] Could antimatter destroy a black hole? 10:06 [Hoth] Why can't the aliens be hiding? 15:02 [Naboo] Can black holes lose enough mass to stop being black holes? 17:51 [Kamino] Why don't supermassive black holes suck everything up? 19:38 [Bespin] Would I go to space? 21:43 [Mustafar] Could a telescope see features on an exoplanet? 23:57 [Alderaan] Can we see cosmic rays hitting our retinas? 25:26 [Dagobah] How can Parker Solar Probe fly so close to the Sun? 27:10 [Yarvin] Does the density of the Universe matter to advanced civilizations? 30:34 [Mandalore] Am I worried about solar flares? 32:31 [Geonosis] What if we put Hubble out to the orbit of Neptune? 34:46 [Corellia] What are some good targets for astrophotography? 37:05 [Crait] Is the Sun pulling us in? 38:07 [Endor] When will we see another bright comet? 39:31 [Exegol] What's the cutest nebula? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday Discord: https://discord.gg/3nk8kAARUm 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Franck Marchis, a senior planetary astronomer and chair of the exoplanet group at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute and Chief Scientific Officer and Founder at Unistellar. Franck helps develop adaptive optics systems for research observatories and helped develop the fully automated eVscope telescope which helps amateurs do astrophotography and contribute to astronomical research. https://www.seti.org/our-scientists/franck-marchis 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

NASA extended 8 space missions, EHT has groundbreaking announcements on the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, James Webb shows first images, SOFIA telescope is getting shut, Starship evaluation gets another delay, and more space news. 00:00 Intro 00:37 EHT announced ‘groundbreaking Milky Way results’ https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann22006/ 02:25 Webb Has Almost Reached its Final, Coldest Temperature https://www.universetoday.com/155568/webb-has-almost-reached-its-final-coldest-temperature/ 03:44 New Engineering Images from JWST Will Blow Your Mind https://www.universetoday.com/155649/prepare-yourself-new-engineering-images-from-jwst-will-blow-your-mind/ https://twitter.com/andrasgaspar/status/1520184730985148418?s=21&t=sR0-_t0BaKUwvDUPPbwCTQ 05:51 Eight Missions Planetary are Getting Extensions https://www.universetoday.com/155606/eight-missions-are-getting-extensions-most-exciting-osiris-rex-is-going-to-asteroid-apophis/ 08:19 NASA is Ready to try and fix Lucy’s Unlatched Solar Panel https://www.universetoday.com/155578/nasa-is-ready-to-try-and-fix-lucys-unlatched-solar-panel/ 10:07 FAA further delayed Boca Chica Decision to May 31st 11:33 Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/universetoday 12:30 Sofia Observatory Will Officially End on Sep 30th https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-partner-decide-to-conclude-sofia-mission 13:49 Ingenuity Helicopter Flies to the Perseverance Backshell and Parachute to See Them Close Up https://www.universetoday.com/155643/amazing-ingenuity-helicopter-flies-to-the-perseverance-backshell-and-parachute-to-see-them-close-up/ 14:48 Cool video of SpaceX Crew Dragon approaching ISS 15:21 Ganymede Casts a Long Shadow Across the Surface of Jupiter https://www.universetoday.com/155634/ganymede-casts-a-long-shadow-across-the-surface-of-jupiter/ 16:07 Outro Host: Fraser Cain Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov 🚀 SUPPORT WHAT WE DO: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Renu Malhotra, a planetary scientist who specializes in planetary migration and orbital mechanics. Dr. Malhotra and her team have discovered that Pluto's orbit is surprisingly chaotic at small timescales and yet surprisingly stable at larger timescale. We'll talk about her research and the science of orbital mechanics that led to the current orbits of the planets in the Solar System. https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~renu/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions and answers show, I talk about supermassive black hole nucleosynthesis, the threat of grabby aliens and why would we ever bother building Von Neumann Probes. 00:00 Start 01:00 [Tatooine] Are elements being formed in quasars? 03:50 [Corusant] What will the coverage of the Moon landings be like? 06:39 [Hoth] How close will Comet C/2014 UN271 get to us? 08:29 [Naboo] Why send out Von Neumann Probes? 09:56 [Kamino] Will we actually develop the technology for Von Neumann Probes? 12:34 [Bespin] Why do colliding black holes turn mass into gravitational waves? 13:56 [Mustafar] Should we broadcast signals into space? 18:05 [Alderaan] Would bowl-spin habitats help with lower gravity? 21:07 [Dagobah] What will the first pictures from Webb be? 22:31 [Yarvin] How do we know the Oort Cloud exists? 23:31 [Mandalore] What telescopes can fly with Starship? 26:46 [Geonosis] Could a heavy suit mimic Earth gravity? 28:41 [Corellia] Why do people want to colonize other planets? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday Discord: https://discord.gg/3nk8kAARUm 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Planetary Science Decadal Survey recommends a mission to Uranus, SLS is set for another delay, Perseverance sees a Phobos solar eclipse, all Hubble's images in a single picture and other most important space and astronomy news of the week. 00:00 Intro 00:43 Planetary Science Decadal Survey is out https://www.universetoday.com/155519/planetary-decadal-survey-says-its-time-for-a-mission-to-uranus-and-enceladus-too-1/ 04:11 NASA is Having a Tough Time Testing the SLS https://www.universetoday.com/155485/nasa-is-having-a-tough-time-testing-the-sls/ 05:46 US goes for a ban of anti-satellite weapons https://spacenews.com/dod-a-main-proponent-of-anti-satellite-test-ban-we-are-not-disarming/ 07:13 Wow! Perseverance Sees a Solar Eclipse on Mars https://www.universetoday.com/155538/wow-perseverance-sees-a-solar-eclipse-on-mars/ 08:15 Perseverance Begins the Next Phase of its Mission, Studying an Ancient River Bed on Mars https://www.universetoday.com/155553/perseverance-begins-the-next-phase-of-its-mission-studying-an-ancient-river-bed-on-mars/ 09:48 Race VS NASA and SpaceX! https://patreon.com/universetoday 11:15 Pluto’s Orbit is Surprisingly Unstable https://www.universetoday.com/155433/plutos-orbit-is-surprisingly-unstable/ 13:29 Chinese Astronomers Recorded Earliest Account of Aurora https://www.universetoday.com/155465/chinese-astronomers-recorded-earliest-account-of-aurora/ 15:31 All of Hubble’s Images in a single photo https://www.universetoday.com/155549/here-are-all-of-hubbles-observations-in-one-picture/ 16:32 Universe Today News Interview with Dr Slava Turyshev https://youtu.be/lqzJewjZUkk Interview with Celeste Keith https://youtu.be/bP_Za4y6mQ0 Astronomy Jargon by Dr Paul Sutter https://www.universetoday.com/tag/astronomy-jargon/ 17:18 Outro Host: Fraser Cain Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov 🚀 SUPPORT WHAT WE DO: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Celeste Keith, a graduate student at the University of Chicago. Celeste and her team are searching for ways to detect the presence of primordial black holes, leftover from the Big Bang. These could be an explanation for dark matter and other phenomena in the Universe. https://astrophysics.uchicago.edu/people/profile/celeste-keith/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Slava Turyshev, a physicist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He helped to solve the Pioneer Anomaly, and is developing a mission that could use the Sun's gravity as a natural lens to focus the light from distant objects. https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Turyshev/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Margaret Meixner, the Director of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Science Mission Operations. Previous to this role, Dr. Meixner was a Distinguished Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and a Project Scientist at James Webb Space Telescope. https://www.sofia.usra.edu/about-sofia/science-team/margaret-meixner 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's live Questions and Answers show, I provide the exact number of alien worlds that could detect the Earth, are we made of heavier elements made in other galaxies, will lasers remain perfectly parallel in space? And more... 00:00 Start 01:15 [Tatooine] Could any aliens see us by the transit/radial velocity method? 04:05 [Corusant] Are we made from atoms made in other galaxies? 07:23 [Hoth] Will lasers remain parallel in space? 09:32 [Naboo] Is the Universe just a coincidence? 10:16 [Kamino] Are there too many satellites? 13:30 [Bespin] What do I think of ISRO? 15:31 [Mustafar] Will we ever reach the speed of light? 16:47 [Alderaan] Do I find the Great Filter convincing? 18:20 [Dagobah] How can we avoid planetary contamination? 20:53 [Yarvin] Does Pluto have an atmosphere? 22:22 [Mandalore] When will astronauts drop their poop on Mars? 22:38 [Geonosis] Do I see Starlink trails? 24:46 [Corellia] How big can objects get? 26:08 [Crait] Could there be space science startups? 27:19 [Endor] What will low gravity do to Martian colonists? 30:37 [Exegol] Why don't astronauts feel centripetal force? 31:48 [Jedha] Was space always a vacuum? 33:38 [Lothal] When will there be asteroid mining? 35:36 [Mortis] How do supermassive black holes form? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday Discord: https://discord.gg/3nk8kAARUm 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Perseverance found its parachute, JWST cooling down its experiments, Standard Model once again in danger, Space Force releasing data to scientists, yet another approach for expensive space tourism and more top news stories of this week. 00:00 Intro 00:52 Space Force is Releasing Decades of Tracking Data on a Thousand Bright Meteor Fireballs https://www.universetoday.com/155380/space-force-is-releasing-decades-of-tracking-data-on-a-thousand-bright-meteor-fireballs/ 02:18 An overweight boson might be threatening the Standard Model https://www.universetoday.com/155396/weird-measurement-of-w-boson-doesnt-match-standard-model-of-physics/ Interview with Dr Paul Sutter https://youtu.be/9ZUd9SqOJBQ 05:20 James Webb Almost Cooled Down Enough https://www.universetoday.com/155453/brrr-webbs-miri-has-reached-6-4-kelvin-just-a-few-degrees-above-absolute-zero/ 07:02 Yet another approach to high altitude tourism https://www.universetoday.com/155400/get-an-inside-look-at-space-perspectives-stratospheric-lounge-with-bar/ 09:51 Join our Discord Server! https://discord.gg/bRxr4JTNqh 10:00 Martian Astronauts Will Create Fuel by Having a Shower https://www.universetoday.com/155360/martian-astronauts-will-create-fuel-by-having-a-shower/ 11:21 Perseverance rover spotted its parachute that helped it descend on Mars https://www.universetoday.com/155384/perseverance-finally-spots-its-own-parachute-on-the-surface-of-mars/ 12:14 Five Rover Teams Chosen to Help Explore the Moon’s South Pole https://www.universetoday.com/155357/five-rover-teams-chosen-to-help-explore-the-moons-south-pole/ 14:07 Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/universetoday 14:38 Apollo 11 Moon Dust Sells at Auction for a Cool Half Million https://www.universetoday.com/155449/apollo-11-moon-dust-sells-at-auction-for-a-cool-half-million/ 16:26 Outro 🚀 SUPPORT WHAT WE DO: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Particle physicists have announced an exciting discovery about the W Boson particle that challenges the Standard Model of Physics. To help me understand what was discovered and what it means for physics, I've invited Dr. Paul Sutter back to explain it. Paul is a fantastic science communicator and has a PhD in particle physics. The perfect person to help us make sense of this. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBr7XOxxQyBHEwqkhoci7vw Timecodes: Start 00:00:00 Edge of Knowledge 00:01:26 What is the W Boson? 00:03:14 How is the mass of the W boson measured? 00:07:32 What was the result of the experiment? 00:09:14 What explains the result? 00:11:37 What comes next? 00:19:35 Follow Paul's work 00:22:55 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Surjeet Rajendran, a physics professor at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to his teaching, Dr. Rajendran's research is in theoretical physics, with a strong focus on what comes after the standard model. What could dark matter be? How can gravity be merged with quantum mechanics? https://physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/directory/rajendran/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I explain how other planets can have geostationary orbits, if sending tardigrades to the Moon is a violation of the Outerspace Treaty, and why everything orbiting the Sun is in perfect balance. Here's a link to our Discord server: https://discord.gg/3nk8kAARUm 00:00 Start 00:53 Does Venus have a geostationary orbit? 02:34 Is sending tardigrades to the Moon violate the Outerspace Treaty? 06:30 Why is everything in stable orbit around the Sun? 08:50 Is there a telescope on the ISS? 10:33 How does the solar maximum work? 13:05 Does space solar power make sense? 15:40 Do rockets have to go into orbit around the Earth first? 17:15 When will a microscope go to Mars? 19:57 Could gravitational lensing let us see beyond the observable Universe? 21:53 Where will we see the surface of other worlds? 24:19 Could you go faster to blue shift light? 26:47 Do nuclear rockets need fuel? 28:03 Does time travel slower at the centre of the Universe? 29:49 Can black holes go supernova? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Thayne Currie, an astrophysicist at NASA-Ames Research Center and the Subaru Telescope. Dr. Currie was part of a team that directly imaged a newly-forming planet, providing evidence of another way large planets can form, and could have formed here in the Solar System. https://subarutelescope.org/staff/currie/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Robin Hanson, an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. Dr. Hanson is famous for writing a paper describing the Great Filter, a theory that explains why we don't see aliens across the Universe. https://www.overcomingbias.com/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Chris Prophet, a freelance writer who has been covering the rise of SpaceX. He has written several books, including SpaceX from the Ground Up. His new book is called SpaceX Evolution and explains some of the company's long-term strategies to create a sustainable human civilization on Mars and beyond. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6442069.Chris_Prophet 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's live Questions and Answers show, I explain how big black holes are, what coordinate system astronomers use to map objects in the sky, and what could have collapsed clouds of hydrogen to form the first stars? 00:00 Start 00:42 How big are black holes? 03:15 What coordinate system do astronomers use to map objects in space? 06:50 What created the first stars? 08:19 If Planet 9 is a black hole, how could we detect it? 10:10 How do gamma rays escape the gravity of a black hole? 11:04 Any alternative theories to the Big Bang that I find convincing? 14:51 Where is Starman right now? 15:44 How do we know the shape of the Milky Way? 18:50 How far is James Webb in light-seconds? 19:45 Are filaments and dark matter related? 21:24 How do orbits become and stay stable? 24:11 How dangerous is the Universe to life? 27:39 What do I think of the Dark Forest theory? 29:25 Are rubble pile asteroids dead comets? 30:52 Are some galaxies more habitable? 32:03 Could a Dyson Sphere stay inflated by the Solar Wind? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions and answers show, I answer the question: could we build a star? How far will humans realistically explore within the Solar System? Is there any way we can escape the heat death of the Universe? 00:00 Start 01:03 Could we create a new star? 04:17 How far will humans explore in the Solar System? 08:59 Can we escape the heat death of the Universe? 13:29 Where is the surface of Jupiter? 15:53 Can a rocket escape Venus? 18:50 Will we find life in the Solar System? 19:45 Why do we see those spikes in the James Webb image? 23:52 Could we communicate back out of a black hole? 24:57 Could we use laser sails within the Solar System? 27:09 Will humans really survive more than a few years? 29:52 Can Webb handle space radiation? 32:02 Are some of the first stars still around? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's live Questions and Answers show, I explain how a more powerful rocket could reduce the need of a heat shield, if we could detect objects beyond the edge of the observable Universe through their gravity, and what are the largest objects (or spacecraft) that could hang out at a Lagrange Point? 00:00 Start 00:13 Why do we even need heat shields? 03:12 Could we detect objects beyond the observable Universe through their gravity? 05:42 Can massive objects last at Lagrange Points? 08:03 Will fusion drives enable interstellar travel? 11:35 Why does gas need to be cold to form stars? 13:11 Why do we assume dark energy is accelerating the expansion of the Universe? 17:08 Can Webb look in all directions? 19:01 Could we detect the Earth from 100 light-years away? What about our satellites? 22:24 Is everything still trapped inside the Big Bang? 24:34 How can people support Universe Today? 27:06 Are black holes really dark stars? 28:10 Would geothermal work on Mars? 30:53 How can Webb orbit L2 if nothing's there? 34:24 Can smaller black holes eat bigger black holes? 35:25 When will we stop wanting to colonize Mars? 36:48 Can dark matter be explained by black holes? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Jason Hofgartner, a planetary scientist specializing in icy worlds of the Solar System. Jason wrote a recent paper about the nature of Neptune's moon Triton, first discovered by Voyager 2 back in 1989. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jason-Hofgartner 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain how astronomers use the Doppler Effect to know if objects are moving towards or away from us, I give my thoughts on Starlink as a user, and I suggest ideas on how to become a better writer. 00:00 Start 01:50 How do we know light is red or blue shifted? 04:24 What do I think of Starlink? 08:07 Why don't we visit the atmosphere of Venus? 10:33 What do I like about my job? 12:54 When is something standing still? 14:39 What is the Sun an average star? 16:16 How do we know we're not special? 18:06 What will sanctions on Russia do to space exploration? 22:24 Will the US be patrolling the Moon? 24:09 Any advice for being a writer? 27:14 Why are we sending probes to L2? 28:36 Could we find life around red dwarfs? 30:18 Where are the stars that formed with the Sun? 32:32 How can Parker Solar Probe survive being close to the Sun? 34:13 How would I spend a billion dollars? 36:24 What's my most controversial opinion? 36:48 Would tides be a problem for a habitable moon? 38:04 Can you collect meteorites? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Matthew Campbell, a Mechanical Engineer, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania. He's a member of the Bargatin Group, researching nanomaterials and their applications. https://bargatin.seas.upenn.edu/people/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Elena D'Onghia, an associate professor at the University of Wisconson--Madison's Department of Astronomy. Her research is focused on the dynamics of galaxies through simulations, theory, and observations. https://www.madastrodynamics.com/team#elena 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's episode, I explain how we could use Jupiter as a source of fuel for our fusion reactors, what it means to say there's a scientific consensus, and if gravitational waves can trigger earthquakes. 00:00 Start 01:26 Could we mine Jupiter for hydrogen? 03:24 What does "scientific consensus" mean? 07:04 Could gravitational waves trigger earthquakes? 08:47 Is there really a need to build Dyson Spheres? 10:52 Could aliens know our history? 12:33 When will there be good pictures from JWST? 14:19 What's holding up Starship? 16:21 What happens to ISS if Russia pulls out? 19:35 Would life be better at a K-star? 22:12 Where can we invest in space mining? 23:15 How do we know the source of gravitational waves? 24:22 Could the Solar System leave the Milky Way? 27:06 Are we Von Neumann probes? 28:17 Does SpaceX really land rockets? 29:29 Why aren't there more rovers going to the ice on the Moon and Mars? 30:43 How can Webb get solar power? 31:35 Are there any other uses for ISS? 33:18 Do neutron stars have crusts? 34:32 Will LUVOIR get build? 36:55 Would a diamond spaghettify entering a black hole? 38:11 Does life need a Jupiter to protect it? 39:47 Could we survive just living in spacesuits? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. John Mather, Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Mather received a Nobel Prize for his influential cosmology work, helping to confirm the Big Bang. He's been involved in almost every major astronomy mission in the last few decades, including Hubble, and of course, James Webb. https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/meetTheTeam/people/mather.html 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I explain how astronomy would be different if we didn't have space telescopes, what was the Universe like shortly after the Big Bang?, and what if James Webb detects oxygen in the atmosphere of another planet? 00:00 Start 00:45 What if we couldn't build space telescopes? 05:01 Did the Universe act like a big star after the Big Bang? 06:30 If James Webb detects oxygen, does that mean life? 10:59 Will James Webb pictures be colorized? 14:45 Do I believe the Big Bang is the beginning of the Universe? 16:25 Where could we find alien space junk? 18:24 What causes the warp in the Milky Way? 19:48 Will we get portals, or warp drives? 23:15 Are there any private space missions coming up? 25:44 Could we see the Earth in a mirrored planet? 26:51 Would AI be a threat to other civilizations? 28:36 Will humans evolve in space? 31:44 What causes the spiral arms to turn in a galaxy? 32:55 What's inside a neutron star? 34:40 Why is weightlessness called microgravity? 36:16 Is Titan better to explore than the Mars or Moon? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Chenoa Tremblay, a Post Doctoral Researcher at the SETI Institute. Dr. Tremblay and her team used the Murchison Widefield Array to scan the core of the Milky Way for any sign of signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. https://twitter.com/chenoachem 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions and answers show, I explain why people might see extraterrestrials as a threat. What could we learn about astronomy if we lived at the center of a supervoid, and how far away are we from the Big Bang? 00:00 Start 01:10 Why do we assume extraterrestrials are evil? 07:40 Could we see anything from within a supervoid? 09:40 What if we lived near the Big Bang? 10:25 Will James Webb ever look at Earth? 11:34 What's the benefit of helium 3? 14:47 Can we take animals to Mars? 17:13 Will machines do all our exploring? 20:36 Was the Universe as small as a grapefruit? 21:42 Does the expansion of the Universe travel faster than the speed of light? 23:04 Should we be worried about rogue black holes? 25:14 When will we see the calibration star from James Webb? 27:08 Did the Three-Body Problem change my opinion about extraterrestrials? 30:07 Could there have been many Big Bangs and other universes? 31:52 What is the Oort Cloud? 33:00 Why do stars like Sirius shimmer? 35:15 Will James Webb see the first stars? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's episode, I explain why James Webb is actually the perfect telescope for detecting advanced civilizations, could we hide the Earth from snooping aliens, could spacecraft go into polar orbit around the Sun? And more... 00:00 Start 00:39 Could James Webb Detect a Type 2/3 Civilization? 05:31 How can Earth hide from aliens? 07:10 Polar orbit around the Sun? 09:41 Could dark matter be alien robots? 11:25 Could iterative design work for JWST? 14:28 Could Betelgeuse have planets? 16:01 Could we replenish Mars atmosphere? 17:34 Are exomoons more habitable? 19:05 Could anything go wrong with JWST? 20:26 Does light redshift to nothing? 22:14 Are Lagrange points filled with debris? 24:12 What are the benefits of a Moon or Mars base? 28:24 How much water will protect against radiation? 29:34 Do photons travel forever? 30:48 What's the best way to refuel in space? 32:57 Are there any ways to communicate instantaneously? 34:33 What are my favorite Bortle-1 locations? 37:32 What am I most excited to see from JWST? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Andrei Lobanov, a staff astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Bonn, Germany. Dr. Lobanov was part of a team that just took the highest resolution image ever seen of a blazar, using a network of space and ground-based radio telescopes. https://www3.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/alobanov/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Jillian Scudder, a PhD astrophysicist and assistant professor at Oberlin College. In addition to her teaching and research work, Dr. Scudder also answers space and astronomy questions on her blog and in her newly updated book: Astroquizzical. https://www.jillianscudder.com/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's QA, I talk about how we can see individual stars in a galaxy like Andromeda, how we know the Universe is bigger than we can observe, and whether black holes are solid objects or infinitely dense singularities. 00:00 Start 01:07 Can we see the stars in Andromeda? 03:21 How do we know the Universe is bigger than we can see? 09:24 Are black holes solid? 12:03 How did the Moon form out of debris? 13:49 Are there pieces of Earth on other worlds? 15:49 When will we see the first pictures from Webb? 17:12 Is tech in Webb obsolete? 19:10 Is dark matter black holes? 20:55 Why does Webb orbit around in empty space? 22:11 Would the Universe look different billions of years ago? 23:06 What launch would I like to see in person? 25:10 What other space missions should we get excited about? 26:38 Can Vera Rubin see JWST? 27:41 Do we live in a black hole or simulation? 28:51 Could a micro-meteorite impact JWST? 29:57 What are some cool ideas for space telescopes? 33:50 Will we have a permanent lunar base by 2050? 34:45 Can we see exo-Oort clouds? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's episode, I talk about the possibility of a copy of the Hubble Space Telescope, if satellites could relay information like a mesh network, and if it's even possible for plants to survive on the surface of Mars. 00:00 Start 01:22 Could we launch a copy of Hubble? 03:34 Could satellites relay information like a mesh network? 06:17 Could plants survive on Mars? 08:52 Could Planet 9 be dark matter? 11:12 Do globular clusters ever collapse into disks? 12:36 Are there any new questions about Lagrange Points? 14:07 Would the Solar System change if you build a Dyson Sphere? 17:08 Could we see the Oort Cloud? 19:39 Could we genetically modify humans to survive on Mars? 22:32 Are we the center of the Big Bang? 24:32 Could a warp drive escape a black hole? 25:58 Could we fix Mars by crashing Phobos into it? 27:11 Will there be a servicing mission for James Webb? 28:41 Will humans visit anywhere other than Mars? 31:13 Could life have formed shortly after the Big Bang? 32:50 Could a moon be bigger than its planet? 34:43 How could the Universe be infinite if it's expanding for a finite time? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Andreas Hein, Executive Director, Chairman Technical Research Committee of the Initiative for Interstellar Studies. Andreas is part of a team working to develop practical missions for interstellar exploration. https://i4is.org/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Joanna Barstow, a Royal Astronomical Society Research Fellow at University College London. Dr. Barstow specializes in planetary science, studying the atmospheres of planets both inside and beyond the Solar System. She's also a member of the ARIEL science team, an upcoming mission that will categorize the atmospheres of exoplanets. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/astrophysics/people/joanna-barstow 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's Questions Show I explain why James Webb doesn't have any cameras on board, what the Universe is expanding into, and what is the point of building big telescopes when we're trapped in the Solar System? 00:00 Start 06:35 Why build big telescopes? 00:35 Are there cameras on board James Webb? 04:17 What is the Universe expanding into? 09:01 When will we see the first image from James Webb? 10:05 Have I ever done a Messier Marathon? 12:33 Capabilities-driven exploration of the Moon? 16:02 Which version of LUVOIR will be built? 18:35 Can you see the same thing on opposite sides of the Universe? 19:39 Can James Webb take pictures of stars? 21:23 How did life arise? 23:07 Can Hubble see Webb? 23:43 Can James Webb see beyond the observable universe? 25:18 Is there no way to repair James Webb? 26:56 Building your own telescope 28:52 What will be the most surprising discovery from Webb? 30:55 What level of tech to cross 119 light-years? 32:10 Can we access astronomy data? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's final 2021 QA, I explain why landing on the Moon could make it difficult for other spacecraft to land, if binary planets could exist, and if there are plans to do a JWST version of the Hubble Deep Field. 00:00 Start 00:29 Can spacecraft land on the Moon or Mars without a landing pad? 03:29 Could binary planets exist? 06:25 Will we ever have certainty? 09:15 Can black holes absorb dark matter? 10:48 Will James Webb redo the Hubble Deep Field? 12:54 Water in Valles Marineris? 15:12 Is Starship just a modern day Space Shuttle? 18:09 Will the Universe end in a Big Crunch? 21:27 Could a thicker atmosphere on Mars protect us from radiation? 22:49 What if dark matter doesn't exist? 25:22 How is Moon/Mars regolith different from Earth soil? 27:41 Could there be habitable moons? 28:12 What missions should we be looking forward to? 30:17 Could a solar system survive inside a black hole? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Andrea Lin, a graduate student at the Eberly College of Science at Penn State University. Andrea is working with the NEID Spectrograph, a brand new instrument that will eventually be capable of detecting Earth-sized worlds orbiting sunlike stars. https://science.psu.edu/astro/people/apl5194 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain how an infinite Universe could be the ultimate answer to the Fermi Paradox, where the energy for tidal heating comes from, and why are there always so many asteroid scare stories in media? 00:00 Start 00:43 Can a satellite remain in one spot? 03:56 Does an infinite Universe solve the Fermi Paradox? 06:41 Where does tidal heating energy come from? 08:43 Is an asteroid going to hit us soon? 11:35 Are galaxies traveling faster than light? 13:13 Is there an anti-matter photon? 14:24 Could there be Pluto Planets? 15:51 Can we move the Earth away from the Sun? 19:20 Can we protect spacecraft with magnetic fields? 22:49 If humans vanished, would there be any evidence? 24:52 Would I like to travel into the future? 25:58 Why are rockets launched in stages? 27:53 Biggest Starship telescope? 29:36 What energy pushes the planets around the Sun? 31:52 Will Starship ruin planetary protection? 34:28 Why can't we find Planet 9? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Michael Zemcov, an associate professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Zemcov has proposed putting a telescope out beyond the orbit of Saturn to capture the clearest possible view of the Universe, away from the light-polluted inner Solar System. https://theconversation.com/a-small-telescope-past-saturn-could-solve-some-mysteries-of-the-universe-better-than-giant-telescopes-near-earth-169805 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's live questions and answers show, I explain why NASA doesn't build standardized rovers, how we know the Universe is approximately 13.8 billion years old, and which are the best (and worst) entry-level telescopes to get. Mars Magnetosphere story https://www.universetoday.com/153368/an-absolutely-bonkers-plan-to-give-mars-an-artificial-magnetosphere/ 00:00 Start 00:28 When will NASA make standard models of rovers? 04:28 Is the Universe older than 13.8 billion years? 07:06 What are the best and worst entry level telescopes? 10:29 Why isn't there more of a push to explore Europa? 13:40 could dark matter be a heavier element? 16:29 How could we drill down through Europa's ice sheet? 19:23 Will supervoids grow as the Universe expands? 21:11 What's the best technology for interstellar travel? 23:15 Could we protect Mars with a giant solenoid? 25:37 Could we build a second James Webb? 27:08 Could a longer ramp let Spinlaunch send humans to space? 29:39 What is the economic cost of contaminating Mars? 33:18 Do Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have any business strategy for colonizing space? 35:08 How do neutron stars die? 36:28 Better to live on a water world or Mars? 37:37 Any way to collect small pieces of space junk? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's live questions and answers show, I speculate what kind of civilization could be permanently stuck on the surface of their planet, if rival nations could shoot down each other's spacecraft, and how do I really feel about the Space Launch System? 00:00 Start 01:01 How much gravity makes spaceflight impossible? 04:40 Could a rival shoot down a rocket during launch? 07:07 Should I apologize for advocating for SLS? 11:50 Do photons experience time? 13:42 Can you see Earth's lights from the Moon? 15:28 Can we detect exoplanets with their magnetic fields? 17:27 What missions do I wish were never cut? 20:21 Does finding life mean we're doomed? 22:45 Are galaxies orbiting something bigger? 23:42 Can a star collapse directly into a black hole? 25:36 Should we move away from complex telescopes? 29:03 What does it cost to use Hubble? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Alex Teachey, a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics (ASIAA) in Taipei, Taiwan. Alex specializes in searching for moons orbiting extrasolar planets: exomoons. Learn why these could be some of the most interesting places to search for life in the Universe. https://alexteachey.wordpress.com/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's episode, I answer questions about the speed of supernovae, if a black hole can pull itself apart, is there really no way to repair James Webb, and more... 00:00 Start 00:41 What are the timescales for a supernova? 02:59 Could a black hole spin itself apart? 05:37 Will James Webb launch on time? 07:10 What do I think about Apophis? 09:24 Can a magnetar collapse into a black hole? 12:43 When will we reach the Kessler Syndrome/ 16:26 Would we try to fix James Webb? 19:27 Will there be a permanent Moon base in our lifetime? 21:28 What do I think about Spin Launch? 24:06 What's the temperature on the night side of Venus? 26:01 What's the point of sending humans to Mars? 29:56 Does a supermassive black hole's gravity pull on its galaxy? 31:35 Will the Moon get a magnetic field? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's live Q&A, I explain what would happen if we build a particle accelerator around the entire Moon (and what would happen if it generated a black hole), if you can ice skate on Pluto, and is it better to do sample return missions or explore with rovers and landers. Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Mary Voytek, the director of NASA's Astrobiology Program since 2008. Dr. Voytek and others from NASA are proposing a new 7-step framework on how they could report on the discovery of life beyond Earth. We'll discuss this new framework as well as the latest challenges in the search for life across the Universe. https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/directory/voytek-mary/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Boris Goncharov, a researcher at the Gran Sasso Science Institute. Boris is part of the team using the precise signals from pulsars as a way to detect gravitational waves. This technique could be sensitive enough to even detect merging supermassive black holes. http://bgoncharov.com/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I answer if you could have a planet made entirely of water, is it our duty to spread life in the Universe? Could Planet 9 be a brown dwarf? And more... 00:00 Start 01:35 Could you have a planet made only of water? 04:23 Is it our duty to spread life into the Universe? 07:43 Could a civilization harvest energy from tidal flexing? 10:01 Where could you survive without a spacesuit? 12:18 How do space stations get decommissioned? 14:41 Could Planet 9 be a brown dwarf? 15:42 Will climate change impact space exploration? 18:47 Would mold outside the space station be alien? 20:22 Do other star systems have kuiper belts and oort clouds? 22:06 Does the Milky Way have an escape velocity? 24:14 Should Earth be kept as a nature preserve? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Justin Simon, a planetary scientist within the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at the Johnson Space Center. He specializes in measuring meteorites and samples collected by spacecraft. We'll be talking about what it takes to sample the surface of Mars and other worlds: https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/people/bios/justin-i-simon/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I answer questions about ice on rockets, the maximum gravitational slingshot, could black holes pull you out of black holes, and more... 00:00 Start 00:30 Why is iron the heaviest element produced in stars? 04:31 Why does ice fall off the outside of rockets? 06:02 What is the maximum gravitational slingshot? 09:36 Could a black hole pull you out of another black hole? 10:21 What is the deadliest distant object? 11:59 Could NASA rent space from Orbital Reef? 13:49 Could we communicate with another civilization? 17:31 Are you squished or torn apart by a black hole? 19:16 Could Starship return ISS to the Earth? 21:45 Could we transmit DNA to another civilization? 24:41 Could a solar flare kill life on Earth? 26:12 Could space telescopes work as interferometers? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I theorize how long life can survive in the Universe, could we detect a wormhole in the Solar System, what's happening with the Chinese Space Agency? And more... 00:00 Start 00:53 How long can life survive? 04:11 Will a black hole leave a remnant after it evaporates? 06:01 Will we detect biosignatures or technosignatures first? 09:35 Will Lucy make it? 11:29 Could red dwarf stars could become less hectic with time? 14:42 Where does energy go if the Universe becomes static? 16:45 Will James Webb see brown dwarfs? 19:32 Could we detect a wormhole? 21:26 Anything interesting with the Chinese space program lately? 23:23 What happens if a gas giant melts? 25:37 What are the challenges to filming on the ISS? 28:07 Should we be afraid of a meteorite crashing into our roofs? 31:34 When we look up, what class of stars are we seeing? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Nikku Madhusudhan, a PhD astronomer at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Madhusudhan is one of the researchers who investigated the habitability of "hycean worlds"; ocean worlds with a thick hydrogen ocean. These worlds are completely alien to anything we have in the Solar System, and yet, could have a much wider region that remains habitable than terrestrial planets. https://people.ast.cam.ac.uk/~nmadhu/Nikku_Madhusudhan/Home.html 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Hiro Ono, the Group Leader of the Robotic Surface Mobility Group for NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. Dr. Ono is been awarded a NIAC prize to develop a rover that could crawl into the fascinating vents on Enceladus, to search for evidence of life on this icy world. https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Masahiro_Ono/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's live questions and answer show, I explain how astronomers measure the distance to gravitational wave events, how clean are spacecraft sent to Mars, and would it be possible to have a sample return mission from Titan? https://www.universetoday.com/150507/a-titan-mission-could-refuel-on-site-and-return-a-sample-to-earth/ 00:00 Start 00:25 How do we calculate the distance of gravitational waves? 03:36 Have Mars spacecraft been sterilized? 05:54 Is a sample return mission possible from Titan? 09:11 How fast would time go if there was no gravity? 11:01 Could a tiny vehicle fly autonomously around the ISS? 12:18 Is NASA planning to impact an asteroid? 14:06 Could space missions be build cheaper? 16:26 What science experiments could be done on a Moon base? 18:50 Will there still be time at the end of the Universe? 20:25 Would a rogue planet catch us off guard? 22:15 Could landers build their own rovers? 24:23 How do launch platforms deal with the rocket exhaust. 25:23 Which solution to the Fermi Paradox is my favorite? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain how we'll get the matter to build stuff out in space, what about the matter for a Dyson Sphere? How long will the International Space Station survive? And More... 00:00 Start 00:45 Could we create matter from photons? 03:57 Where are we going to get the matter for a Dyson Sphere? 07:56 What do I think about GPT-3? 11:32 How long will ISS survive? 14:32 What do I think of Foundation? 16:56 Am I a big ripper or big cruncher? 20:37 When will James Webb be online? 23:09 Are the Perseids getting worse? 25:51 Is it dangerous to use a telescope to look at the Sun? 28:00 Why is it hard to get close to the Sun? 29:51 How do we get stuff back from Mars? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I explain why we don't see the same thing multiple times as we look out into the Universe, could a planet orbit in the Lagrange Points of two stars, and why haven't there been any missions to Io? 00:00 Start 00:36 Could we see the same galaxy multiple times? 05:16 Could a planet orbit in an L4/L5 point? 08:31 Why no missions to Io? 10:42 How can we drive space exploration? 13:31 Did Inspiration4 have problems with their toilet? 14:33 Self sufficient colony on Titan? 15:54 Will Webb be able to image nearby planets? 18:02 Will the entire Universe be black holes eventually? 19:29 How far could we reach? 21:25 Will Starship enable more planetary science? 23:32 Would metallic hydrogen be a big deal? 25:25 Will interferometers work well in space? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I jump into the controversy between Blue Origin and SpaceX, explain why bigger telescopes are better, and talk about how Mercury has eternally shadowed craters and could serve as a place for a base. Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

The new season has begun! We're back with an all-new series of question shows. In this week's episode, I provide a quick guide to seeing fireballs (bolides), which are the brightest meteors you can see (and sometimes hear). I explain the philosophy behind Dyson Spheres, and explain why dark matter can't be made out of antimatter. 00:00 Start 00:43 How big are really bright meteors? 04:15 Are Dyson Spheres just pure fantasy? 08:19 What would it take to resolve features on Proxima B? 11:32 Could anti-matter be dark matter? 12:23 Is Jupiter a failed star? 13:15 Would the transmit method let us detect planets in Andromeda? 14:55 Disappearing stars? 17:38 No more Ewok Forest? 18:50 Could a collider create a dangerous black hole? 20:57 Should we find Oumuamua? 23:21 Could we detect techno signatures in Andromeda? 24:45 What's happening on Mars? 27:43 Could we detect an extraterrestrial war? 28:54 Will space-based power work? 30:43 Will Mars be a knowledge-based economy? 32:53 Will we ever live on Venus? 33:21 Is the Moon moving away? 34:09 Does NASA have new space suits for Artemis? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Markus Janson, an astronomy professor at Stockholm University. Dr. Janson and his co-authors have recently published a study investigating if ground-based observatory could use starshades to help directly image exoplanets. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10686-021-09792-y 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Dr. Hamsa Padmanabhan, a cosmologist at the University of Geneva. Dr. Padmanabhan's work involves the investigation of Cosmic Dawn, the period shortly after the beginning of the Universe when the large-scale structure of the cosmos was defined. https://cosmology.unige.ch/users/hamsa-padmanabhan 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In the season finale of my questions show, I talk about high-altitude bacteria, traveling into the future, does it make sense to go back to University, and more. See you all in September! 00:00 Start 01:10 How high an altitude can bacteria survive? 04:02 Should I go back to university? 06:29 Could we terraform Venus with comets? 08:49 Could we detect life in Andromeda? 11:04 Could aliens perceive time differently? 13:01 Why do spacecraft use such old hardware? 15:20 What do I think about the billionaire space race? 17:16 How many satellites can we see? 19:31 Would I cryosleep into the future? 20:30 Should we only build smaller space telescopes? 24:40 Did we used to have better knowledge of the cosmos? 27:10 How would life be different close to a black hole? 29:22 Is there a business model for Starship? 31:23 Am I disappointed Trident wasn't chosen by NASA? 33:19 Are we the generation to find life beyond Earth? 34:25 How much better will LIGO get? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I explain why Dyson Spheres (and Swarms) should actually be pretty easy to detect across the Universe. If it's possible to service the Hubble Space Telescope with a Falcon 9, and will computers take jobs away from astronomers. 00:00 Start 01:04 How could we detect Dyson Swarms? 07:24 How could we hide a Dyson Swarm? 10:03 Could a Falcon 9 service Hubble? 13:02 Will computers replace humans in astronomy? 16:30 Will any Venus missions be able to detect life? 18:43 Could you generate repeating gravitational waves? 20:25 What conventional wisdom will be disproven by science? 23:43 How much longer will Earth be habitable? 26:08 What will drive space exploration? 28:15 Will James Webb let us see more Universe? 29:27 What do I think about the similarity between cosmic filaments compared to the CMB? 30:27 What are some future propulsion systems? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest today is Professor Lee Cronin from the University of Glasgow. Dr. Cronin investigates the chemistry of life and has developed methods that could help us detect it on other worlds - even life as we don't know it. http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I explain what would happen if scientists discovered an existential threat to humanity. Would they let us know, or keep it secret to avoid a panic? Could we detect a Breakthrough Starshot fleet coming our way? And how well does China communicate its space exploration to the public? 00:00 Start 00:37 Would they tell us about the end of the world? 03:05 Is the Solar System normal? 05:38 Could we detect Breakthrough Starshots? 08:46 How well does China communicate to the public? 11:15 Could we use space junk for 3D printing? 14:02 What do I suggest for aspiring astrophysicists? 17:11 Will there ever be another Grand Tour? 19:47 What determines a planet's orbit? 22:08 Will Blue Origin pick up the pace? 25:02 What if aliens were pure energy? 28:14 Should there be more dark matter inside planets? 29:39 Would alien life be multicellular? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions and answer show, I explain how all the dust in space forms, could life be Von Neumann probes, why do people think black holes lead to another universe, and more... 00:00 Start 00:57 What is space dust? 05:14 Does the Kardashev scale make sense? 08:43 Could life on Earth be Von Neumann probes? 11:31 What should I point my telescope at? 14:23 Why do people think black holes go somewhere? 16:36 Why are we seeing so many asteroids? 19:36 If we can track space debris, shouldn't we be able to detect UFOs? 21:42 Would a warp drive be able to travel within the event horizon of a black hole? 22:59 Could we investigate the atmosphere of gas giants? 26:41 What's the first resource we'll mine off Earth? 29:05 How big is a galaxy? 30:42 Any benefit to stationing a telescope in the outer Solar System? 33:07 What will Space Force accomplish? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's Q&A, I try to imagine what might happen if a microscopic black hole passed through the Earth. How long will James Webb take to become operational, and what will be the Plan B for James Webb if it fails? 00:00 Start 00:46 What if a microscopic black hole passed through the Earth? 05:25 When will James Webb come online? 06:38 What's plan B for James Webb if it fails? 09:16 Do Oort Clouds overlap? 11:29 Could there be a Tatooine out there? 13:50 Does China plan to colonize Mars? 16:22 Does the US take China's space exploration seriously? 19:50 Are there dark matter planets, suns and people? 22:11 What will the US government disclosure tell us? 25:45 Should I get an astronomy degree? 30:19 Shouldn't there be more black holes at the center of the Milky Way? 32:03 Have we measured the speed of gravity? 33:13 Will AI explore the Universe without us? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's episode, I talk about the various ways we measure the age of the Universe. What's next for OSIRIS-REx? And what are the next frontiers for gravitational wave astronomy? 00:00 Start 00:41 How do we calculate the age of the Universe? 04:32 Will the planets migrate again? 06:36 What's next for OSIRIX-REx? 07:47 What's next for gravitational wave astronomy? 11:27 Does the habitable zone shift as the Sun heats up? 12:59 Will future civilizations know about the Big Bang? 18:17 Could a powerful telescope look beyond the CMB? 20:27 Could a computer become a planet-sized mind? 24:08 Is the CMB shifting away from us? 25:28 Bounties to remove space junk? 30:58 Could rockets be launched from Canada? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

I'm pleased to welcome back Dr. Casey Handmer, a software systems architect at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In addition to his work at NASA, Casey has a fascinating blog where he considers the future of human and robotic space exploration: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest is Dr. Ken Olum, a research professor at Tufts University. His primary research is into cosmic strings, and how they could be detectable through techniques like gravitational waves. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I consider what the night sky might look like if you could stand at the center of the Milky Way where the stars are denser. Do all stars have Oort clouds? And could Starship really send humans to Mars for the price of a house? 00:00 Start 00:50 What would the sky look like at the center of the Milky Way? 04:05 Will the Neutron be competitive? 07:40 Do all stars have Oort Clouds? 09:59 Would it be realistic to send humans to Mars for the price of a house? 11:38 Next cool space mission I'm excited about? 13:20 Do I think there's microbial life in the Universe? 16:48 How far away was the Big Bang? 19:26 Why was L2 chosen for JWST? 21:52 Does SpaceX need NASA? 25:11 Would Starlinks be brighter if they were lower? 28:21 Multiple nukes to destroy an asteroid? 30:21 Could we make a telescope the size of Earth's orbit? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest is Dr. Michael H. Hecht, a research scientist and associate director at MIT's Haystack Observatory. Hecht is also the principal investigator for the Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment onboard Perseverance: https://www.haystack.mit.edu/researcher/mike-hecht/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this special interview, I was fortunate to speak with Dr. Ronald Mallet, an emeritus professor at UConn. In addition to a lifetime's work in cosmology and astrophysics, Mallet has been trying to work out how our understanding of Einstein's theories of General Relativity might lead to a practical form of time travel. https://physics.uconn.edu/person/ronald-mallett/ This interview was part of the Weekly Space Hangout for May 5th, 2021. You can watch the whole episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBwEAKA2ylw&t=2s Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I explain why we'd be able to recognize aliens, even if they were vastly more technologically advanced than us. Why I don't do any promotional ads on my videos, and if we have any examples of energy turning into matter. 00:00 Start 01:09 Can we actually recognize aliens? 04:18 Why don't I have sponsors? 06:33 Could we detect light pollution? 08:36 Can energy turn into matter? 10:18 How do we measure the age of the solar system? 12:52 What other prototypes will we need for Mars? 16:26 Can we extend the life of the Sun? 21:10 Is it time to map Mars? 23:43 Are there ultraviolet telescopes? 25:43 What would Starship be used for? 28:01 Can we match velocity with other stars? 29:50 Do we know the rate of the Universe's expansion? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest is Dr. Rebecca K. Leane, an astroparticle physicist with the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The work involves innovative ways to detect dark matter. http://rebeccaleane.com/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest is Dr. Jessie Christiansen, an astrophysicist with NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute. Jessie will give us an update on TESS and the 2,200 planets it's discovered so far. http://web.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/christia/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I explain whether or not gravity is infinite, will we need to cure cancer to go to space? Will SpaceX help Artemis' chances for landing humans on Mars in 2024, and more... 00:00 Start 00:54 Is gravity infinite? 02:33 How deep does lunar regolith go? 04:09 Could nearby star systems contain planets that we don't know about? 06:59 Will dust diminish Ingenuity's performance? 10:14 Difference between micro-gravity and zero-gravity? 11:57 Will the Russians abandon the ISS? 14:57 Shouldn't the expansion of space be greater than gravity? 17:00 Biggest exoplanet we could live on? 19:42 What's happening with MOXIE? 22:00 Will we need to cure cancer for space exploration? 24:52 Why are there no privately funded missions? 27:01 What are astronauts "big questions"? 29:37 Could there be a balloon habitat on gas giants? 33:01 How will we produce power on Mars? 35:24 Does SpaceX improve Artemis chances for landing in 2024? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show I explain why we could be first in the Universe, do galaxies flip or spin, did I pick a good career? And more. 00:00 Start 00:47 Are we first in the Universe? 03:01 Do galaxies flip end over end? 04:28 Bro, get a better career 06:46 How much longer can SLS going? 10:33 Did I watch Ingenuity fly? 12:08 Am I looking forward to the movie version of the Three-Body Problem? 13:42 Does it make sense to try and watch a rocket launch? 16:32 Could we build space elevator on Mars. 18:38 What one mystery about space would I like to know? 21:00 Why don't we take the low gravity on Mars seriously? 24:47 What astronomy career is good if you're bad at math? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest is Mick West, a game developer and writer. Mick has been studying UFO claims and contrail conspiracy theories for many years and has a useful toolkit to help identify unidentified objects in the sky. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF3UCTZiVg9wrIEzO7Om6jw 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest is Dr. Klaus Pontoppidan, an astronomer and project scientist working with the James Webb Space Telescope. Klaus is on the committee that helped choose targets that the telescope will be studying once it flys (and it will). https://www.stsci.edu/~pontoppi/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I explain why a heat-powered rover wouldn't work on Venus. I explain how spacecraft navigate, and wonder what James Webb's Deep Field survey will look like. 00:00 Start 00:54 Could the heat on Venus power a rover? 03:53 What if Ingenuity tips over? 05:42 How do spacecraft navigate? 08:36 Are SpaceX workers being prepared to work on the Moon or Mars? 10:46 How would James Webb's deep field look? 12:52 Any more flybys for New Horizons? 14:03 Will human or a sample return from Mars come first? 16:58 Why are intermediate mass black holes important? 18:42 What's the case against Mars colonization? 23:28 What are my favorite space missions? 26:57 Does a black hole form instantly? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest is astronomer and science communicator Dr. Maggie Lieu. Lieu is a research fellow of machine learning and cosmology at the University of Nottingham and has been working on the upcoming Euclid space mission to help in the search for Dark Energy. https://maggielieu.com/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Professor Geraint Lewis is an astrophysicist focused on dark energy, gravitational lensing and galactic merger. He has recently published a paper that that investigates the nature of the anthropic principle, how the Universe needs observers. https://www.geraintflewis.com/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

You might know Dr. Sutter as a science communicator, but his doctorate is actually in particle physics. Paul is going to join me to talk about the Muon g-2 experiment and what it means for the Standard Model of physics. We'll probably also talk about the end of the EmDrive and other topics in space and astronomy. http://www.pmsutter.com/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist and science communicator. His new book is called the God Equation, which traces the quest for a single theory of everything that will unite quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. https://mkaku.org/home/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I look at the rotation rate of pulsars, why NASA is such a fan of the term in-situ and what our plans are for exploring the Universe. 00:00 Start 00:49 Do pulsars ever slow down? 03:20 What's with in-situ? 05:17 Europa or Enceladus? 07:42 How far could Starships go? 09:27 Can planets be in orbital resonance? 10:44 Would fusion work for space travel? 12:46 What are the plans for colonising the universe? 14:26 How soon until we can starhop to another star? 16:17 Why isn't there an improvement to the Drake Equation? 19:28 Why don't we use nuclear rockets? 23:48 Could we use binoculars to see the night sky? 26:35 How close are stars in a cluster? 27:57 Best way to terraform Mars? 30:18 Why not use wiper blades on the Mars rover solar panels? 33:19 Is there bacteria on the Voyagers? 36:01 Is dark matter a fact now? 40:11 Is there confirmation bias in the science community? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Professor Avi Loeb is a theoretical physicist from Harvard who has worked on many advances in space and astrophysics. He helped predict exoplanet discoveries using microlensing, worked on the mathematics for the Event Horizon Telescope, and has many fascinating opinions about the search for extraterrestrials. https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest is Dr. James Davenport, a research assistant professor at the University of Washington. In addition to his research into magnetically active stars, James focuses on large-scale, time-domain astronomy. He's also a prolific communicator here on YouTube, breaking down complicated scientific topics and documenting astronomy meetings for the general public. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg6zx6fQG_Xo639TIjwJSZA 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I tackle some challenging questions, like the ethics of sending humans to Mars, and whether it's better to focus on our efforts on Earth or on space exploration. Should we welcome a Carrington Event? Are there any serious competitors to SpaceX in the market right now? 00:00 Start 00:49 Is it ethical to send people to Mars? 04:01 Welcoming a Carrington Event? 07:07 Is Starship legitimate? 12:09 Should we spend money on space or Earth? 16:36 Is there a limit to gravitational assists? 19:46 Is there a use for small space telescopes? 22:04 Could something stand completely still? 23:24 Are there any serious contenders to SpaceX? 25:49 Will Mars have more asteroid strikes? 27:14 Will the Lunar Gateway be important? 30:58 Is it frustrating for mission name changes? 32:22 Could we ever accelerate at 1g? 33:33 Why do stars weigh so much? 35:11 Is something past the Great Attractor? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I talk about the stars we can see with our own eyes. Are they special? How long does it take solar flares to reach Earth? How will crimes on Mars be prosecuted? 00:00 Start 00:39 What types of stars can we see? 02:07 How long does it take for a solar flare to reach us? 04:19 Will I watch Foundation? 05:39 Crimes on Mars? 08:31 How will future spaceships slow down? 11:06 End of the Earth conspiracy theories 14:22 Will today's children live long enough to see interstellar flight? 16:41 Is an Earth-Mars cycler feasible? 19:13 Should we build a giant telescope on the Moon? 22:27 What does space look like, from space? 25:13 Could we see 4th dimensional beings? 28:04 What elements are in the solar winds? 28:48 Will Starship have to launch from the ocean? 31:05 Are there stars forming right now? 33:43 Should we land on Mercury? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I answer questions about supernovae, how we could terraform the Moon, and why is Starlink so expensive? 00:00 Start 00:55 When is the next Star Party? 06:21 When will we have better images of exoplanets? 09:25 Am I afraid of another Carrington Event? 13:03 How do astronomers book telescopes? 16:33 Can giant stars have smaller stars orbiting them? 19:31 Have I seen Space Sweepers? 20:17 Could we give the Moon an atmosphere? 21:48 Why not go to Ganymede? 23:53 How many times will SpaceX use boosters? 26:19 Is there still volcanism on Mars? 30:29 How will we measure age in the Universe? 33:46 Do I watch K-Dramas? 37:05 Why do supernovae leave different remnants? 40:30 Babylon 5 vs DS9 42:13 Why is Starlink so expensive? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Today I'm interviewing Dr. Benjamin Zuckerman, emeritus professor from UCLA. Zuckerman is the author of over 200 papers, and was involved with the first direct imaging of a multi-planetary system. http://astro.ucla.edu/personnel/benjamin-zuckerman 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I talk about how dark matter seems to clump differently from regular matter. When will Starships stop exploding? And what do I think about the Stellina telescope? Image credit: Everyday Astronaut https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6uKrU_WqJ1R2HMTY3LIx5Q 00:00 Start 00:36 Does dark matter clump? 05:35 When will Starships stop exploding? 10:33 What do I think about the Stellina telescope? 14:44 Do I think there's a bias against searching for life? 19:27 What will the far future of the Universe look like? 22:48 Where is the edge of space? 23:55 Do I recommend Babylon 5? 25:20 What about Battlestar Galactica? 26:17 Would I take a trip around the Moon? 29:19 What if a black hole met a white hole? 29:55 What's the state of James Webb? 31:18 What if Venus had a moon? 34:20 Is there a solution for Starship's legs? 37:55 Will Artemis prove we went to the Moon? 40:20 Could we build the Enterprise today? 44:07 Could we crowdfund space missions? 47:20 Will ping times doom interplanetary gameplay? 48:26 How do black holes have gravity? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

This week I talk to Dr. Jack Burns, the Principle Investigator for the Lunar FARSIDE telescope. This would be a radio telescope installed on the far side of the Moon that would be capable of observing the first stars and black holes during the Dark Ages and Epoch of Reionization. https://www.colorado.edu/project/lunar-farside/dr-jack-burns 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

This week I talk to Christopher Morrison from USNC about their recently awarded NIAC Grant. Their grant will investigate the feasibility of a radioisotope-electric propelled spacecraft that could intercept and retrieve a sample from a future interstellar asteroid or comet. You can learn more about it here: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2021PhaseI/ExtrasolarObjectInterceptorandSample_Return/ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's live questions show, we spend a lot of time talking about the Perseverance landing on Mars. What's happening with my content right now, and is anyone watching the Moon for meteorite impacts? 00:00 Start 00:15 What was the best part of the Perseverance landing? 03:28 Why is the data transfer to Mars so good? 05:43 How do you test AI to work remotely on Mars? 07:56 How did they decelerate the rover? 09:20 Is there a microphone on the rover? 11:10 When will ESA's rover going? 14:37 Have Mars rovers photographed Earth? 15:15 Could Breakthrough Starshot send spacecraft to Mars? 17:44 Does the spacecraft move faster after a cargo delivery? 19:26 Do we watch for asteroids hitting the Moon? 21:14 What do I think of Babylon 5? 23:03 Is more content planned? 28:42 Will we visit nebulae in the future? 32:36 When will I shoot outside again? 34:57 Do I think the government is hiding evidence of aliens? 36:49 What are the limits of our technology? 40:35 Why sterilize spacecraft going to other worlds? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's questions show, I talk about why some missions go into orbit, and other missions make a direct landing on Mars. Is it a good idea for the SpaceX Falcon Heavy to launch components for the Lunar Gateway? And how can we know if the Universe is finite or infinite? 00:00 Start 00:30 Why go into orbit when NASA goes straight for landing? 04:19 What about SpaceX launching the Lunar Gateway? 08:45 Is the Universe finite or infinite? 11:52 Would a big black hole event horizon look flat? 12:38 If I had $50 billion to spend on space 16:14 Do I own any space stocks? 18:04 Will there be a time when we can't see other galaxies? 21:24 Is it easier or harder to fly to the Moon now? 25:09 When will the first steps be on Mars? 30:58 Would a Moon city protect humanity? 35:46 Could we crash Mars into Pluto? 36:54 Will travel to the Moon/Mars ever be cheap? 39:24 Should we be improving Earth or Mars? 41:06 Which book series do I recommend people read first? 42:13 Will Perseverance hear the helicopter? 44:07 What technologies will improve the Earth in the future? 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

00:00 Start 00:22 Easier to find life in the Solar System or Milky Way? 05:13 Could an exosuit simulate gravity? 06:36 Could you use water as a propulsion system? 08:28 Could you have space-based interferometry? 13:02 Are the moons of Jupiter in severe radiation? 14:19 Is anyone working on spinning habitats? 18:05 What about Amazon's satellite constellations? 22:19 Can you have rogue planets without a star? 25:52 How do you stop a lightsail? 27:22 How far will James Webb see? 31:35 Could gravitational lensing mess up the CMB? 34:27 Will the Titan Dragonfly visit the seas? 37:29 What's my astrophotography setup? 38:55 What type of radiation is around Jupiter? 39:53 Is Blue Origin a serious competitor to SpaceX? 44:22 What telescopes do I have? 44:47 If Earth was locked to the Sun, what would happen to the gravity? 45:23 Will there be a telescope on the Moon? 46:17 Would we know where a WoW signal is coming from? 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

This week I interview Chris Prophet, the author of "SpaceX from the Ground Up". His book, now in its 6th edition covers the story of SpaceX, from its initial concept to the latest Starship tests. https://www.amazon.com/SpaceX-Ground-Up-Chris-Prophet-ebook/dp/B01CUUUZZ2 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's Q&A show, I answer questions about Starship might be able to provide artificial gravity, whether I'd prefer to have LUVOIR or the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, and if nuclear-powered rockets will work in space. You can join me live every Monday on my YouTube channel at 5pm Pacific Time to ask your questions live. 00:00 Start 00:18 Could Starships provide artificial gravity? 03:51 LUVOIR or the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope? 05:30 Are nuclear-powered rockets feasible? 09:08 What do I think about Avi Loeb's theory about Oumuamua aliens? 14:49 What happened with Starship's SN9 test? 16:19 Let's learn more about the Universe Today writing team 19:15 Learning the constellations 23:00 Can spacecraft survive interstellar space? 25:13 What if the Earth had no Moon? 27:52 Why are all craters circular? 30:09 Will humans be able to survive in the Solar System? 33:01 Will there be a limit to orbital refueling? 36:58 Did the Sun have a binary partner? 39:08 Is life more likely on K-type stars? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's interview, I talk to David Brown about his new book: The Mission. It's all about the campaign to design and build the Europa Clipper mission and everything that happened behind-the-scenes. David is a science journalist and writer with with work in the Atlantic, New York Times, Scientific American and more. https://www.dwb.io/ https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-mission-david-w-brown?variant=32126580064290 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's QA, I talk about what's driving the expansion of the Universe, how big the observable Universe is to the actual Universe, and what will happen to dogs in gravity. 00:00 Start 00:26 What's driving the expansion of the Universe? 04:01 How big is the observable Universe compared to the actual Universe? 07:25 Do people watch videos or listen to my podcasts? 10:37 Will dogs enjoy lunar gravity? 12:59 Why aren't we looking deeper in the Kuiper Belt? 15:54 What would be some good ways to explore lava tubes? 19:36 What happened to the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope? 22:48 Would space LIGO be more sensitive? 27:56 What's the most like Great Filter? 31:07 Why do we talk about distance in form of time? 35:14 Any future collaborations with Isaac Arthur? 35:58 How long will the Mars helicopter survive? 40:07 When will NASA incorporate Starship into its plans? 42:15 How dangerous is the Kessler Syndrome? 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

10 billion years ago, galaxies of the Universe were ablaze with the light of newly forming stars. This epic phase of history is known as “Cosmic Noon” - the height of all star creation. Galaxies like our Milky Way aren’t creating stars at nearly the rates they were in the ancient past. However, there is a time when galaxies in the present can explode with star formation – when they collide with each other. This recently published collage of merging galaxies by the Hubble HiPEEC survey (Hubble imaging Probe of Extreme Environments and Clusters) highlights six of these collisions which help us understand star formation in the early Universe.

In this week's interview, I talk with Devin Carroll, a robotics Ph.D. student at the modular robotics lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Devin is working on robots that can build their own structure out of ice. https://www.modlabupenn.org/people/devin-carroll/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjfDRQWv0x0 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's live Q&A, I talk about the new Space Launch System hot-fire test, how Breakthrough Starshot spacecraft might be able to communicate with home, and what messages would we send to aliens that we might never be able to reach physically. 00:00 Start 02:11 How would Starship chipsats communicate with Earth? 05:00 How far can we ever explore into the Universe? 06:31 Why was the SLS test so short? 08:59 This is why we test. 09:52 What message would we send to aliens we could never visit? 13:52 Is anyone working on a practical artificial gravity? 18:32 Do we know which stars can see Earth transiting? 21:11 How do spacecraft change their trajectories? 23:50 When will LUVOIR launch? 26:24 Why is there a solar cycle? 29:51 Will AI start answering science questions? 32:53 Is a generation ship or seed ship better? 35:25 Are gravitational lenses like telescope lenses? 36:46 Will we hit light speed or wormholes first? 37:49 How prepared are we for a Carrington Event? 40:48 Can we predict gamma ray bursts? 45:52 What are my news sources? 48:41 Do I think there's non-intelligent life out there? 52:56 Would a Europa lander see any life in the surface? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Welcome to the new style Q&As, which we're now recording every Monday live on my YouTube channel at 5pm Pacific Time. This week we got a lot of great questions about the Proxima Centauri signal, the Fermi Paradox, and Breakthrough Starshot. 00:00:00 Start 00:00:14 Is Starlink portable? 00:01:07 Any thoughts on the Wow signal? 00:03:58 What are magnetars? 00:06:20 Any followup planned on Proxima signal? 00:07:34 My answer to the Fermi Paradox 00:11:50 Why don't neutron stars turn into black holes? 00:13:03 Could Breakthrough Starshot confirm the Oort Cloud? 00:15:07 Can Breaththrough Starshot slow down? 00:20:03 Do other planets have pole stars? 00:20:45 Should we put a telescope out by Neptune or Uranus? 00:23:15 Next rare celestial event 00:26:12 Does Skylon have a future in space exploration? 00:30:35 How will humanity end? 00:33:47 Is Elon Musk a supervillain? 00:35:16 When can regular people do space tourism? 00:38:12 Am I up to date on the Expanse? 00:39:51 SG1 or the Expanse? 00:41:37 Does everything experience gravitational lensing? 00:44:07 What do I think of DALL-E? 00:47:18 Doing space journalism for 21 years 00:48:39 Space assembly of telescopes. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's interview, I talk with Chris Carr, one of the co-hosts in the Weekly Space Hangout. Chris is a grad student at Columbia University, specializing in the cosmos inside and outside the Milky Way. http://www.astro.columbia.edu/profile?uid=chris 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

In this week's last QA of 2020, I go long answering questions about space and astronomy. I talk about the news of a radio signal received from Proxima Centauri, an update on my attempts to learn Mandarin Chinese, and a long diatribe about megaconstellations and their impact on astronomy. 00:00:00 Start 00:02:51 How do we know the rotation rate of gas planets? 00:05:21 Green blobs 00:05:42 Radio signal from Proxima Centauri 00:11:25 Learning Chinese 00:17:05 Why don't we live in a black hole? 00:18:37 Is nuclear propulsion legal? 00:21:50 Are there planets that have no knowledge of space? 00:24:57 Will the speed of light change our view of the conjunction? 00:26:25 Should we build a super-Kepler? 00:29:00 What motivation is there for space colonization? 00:31:23 Better name for dark matter? 00:32:15 Why learn Chinese? 00:35:12 Where will humans go instead of Mars? 00:37:00 Will we detect heavier elements after the island of stability? 00:38:40 Will there be a future mission to Neptune? 00:39:51 Should we send a mission to Alpha Centauri? 00:41:23 What would the Milky Way look like from above? 00:43:00 Updates on O'Neill cylinders? 00:45:10 Should we change our behaviour if we live in a simulation? 00:47:06 Is the Universe 99.99% devoid of life? 00:50:27 Will I do QAs in Mandarin? 00:51:06 What's the terminal velocity speed of Starship? 00:52:04 How to push Venus into the Sun? 00:53:04 Am I enjoying The Expanse? 00:54:15 Could Hubble show the conjunction? 00:54:37 How big were Pop 3 stars? 00:58:15 What missions would I do if I was the head of NASA? 00:59:49 Will robots replace people most of the time? 01:01:15 Favorite missions that never happened? 01:02:20 Backyard observatory? 01:03:20 ESA's reusable rocket plans 01:07:25 Can a remote colony be self-sustaining? 01:10:11 What about VASIMIR? 01:12:17 How bad will Starlink be for astronomy? 01:25:27 Could you extrapolate the position of stars in the sky? 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

00:00:00 Start 00:04:45 Can we know how much of the Moon is Earth and what is Theia? 00:06:41 Where did the Earth's water come from? 00:09:24 Would alien AI be friendly? 00:12:01 How far could we detect alien civilizations? 00:15:58 Why isn't metallic hydrogen made with nuclear weapons? 00:19:37 Is there water on Titan? 00:22:35 Is the outer Solar System rich in water? 00:24:03 Do stars leak hydrogen? 00:26:32 Can we own mining facilities on the Moon? 00:31:08 Is the Universe orbiting a huge black hole? 00:33:20 What are all the stuff behind me? 00:34:35 Why is it taking so long to send missions to the ice giants? 00:36:58 Favorite lunar lander? 00:40:13 Why is everyone making fun of Starship? 00:44:10 Can ion engines be scaled up? 00:48:00 Could a Falcon 9 carry Orion? 00:51:13 Am I happy to see Bridenstine step down? 00:52:30 What are the limitations of horizontal launches? 00:55:15 What about Sea Dragon? 00:59:05 Why does it take so long to get to Jupiter? 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest this week is the science journalist Elizabeth Howell. Dr. Howell is one of the most prolific space journalists working in the field, contributing thousands of articles across almost every space news site (including Universe Today). She has also written and collaborated on several books. Her latest book is called "Canadarm and Collaboration", and it's all about Canada's role in spaceflight. https://elizabethhowell.ca/ Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

In this week's live questions show, I explain why planets can remain habitable long after their stars have died, what we're going to do now that Arecibo has collapsed, how we'll explore the oceans underneath Europa. I also answer the question of whether or not I'm ready to learn about the secret Galactic Federation. Our live shows are provided ad-free thanks to the support of our amazing patrons. Join our community at https://patreon.com/universetoday. 00:00:00 Start 00:06:07 Can white dwarf stars have planets? Is it habitable in the long term? 00:09:50 Can bugs fly on the space station? 00:11:16 How will we track asteroids without Arecibo? 00:13:41 Could Arecibo have been collapsed safely? 00:16:28 Can ISS dodge meteors? 00:18:45 What would it take to rebuild Arecibo? 00:19:45 Is there dark matter here in the Solar System? 00:22:59 No ads 00:23:17 Will we be watching the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter? 00:23:40 Will Arecibo engineers be able to get other jobs? 00:24:20 Could there be captured interstellar objects in the Solar System? 00:26:50 Will I be watching the Starship test? 00:30:43 Seriously? Conjunction Star Party? 00:31:41 Will a Ryugu sample be contaminated by the Solar System? 00:33:55 Will China share their space station? 00:37:43 Should James Webb launch on a different rocket? 00:40:17 How could we actually drill into Europa? 00:43:27 How will we scan Europa's oceans? 00:46:12 Are there positive and negative magnetars? 00:48:22 How will we not contaminate other worlds with Earth life? 00:50:22 What if someone is hurt on the International Space Station? 00:51:53 Can we join the Galactic Federation? 00:52:50 Are Cargo Dragons reused? 00:53:33 How will the Europa Clipper's lander work? 00:55:35 Why doesn't Starship have escape pods? 00:57:03 What about a mission to other Jovian moons. 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ https://www.universetoday.com/ 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: https://universetoday.com/audio iTunes: https://universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: https://universetoday.com/spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: https://astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ Email: [email protected] 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

My guest this week is Alex Ignatiev, from Lunar Resources. Alex and his team are working on a rover that could build solar panels, wiring and even radio antennae out of lunar regolith. This could support future bases or even radio telescopes. You can learn more about Lunar Resources here: http://lunarresources.space/ Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

In this week's live questions show, I explain how amateurs can contribute to space and astronomy research, will I sign up for Starlink, and what would happen if the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way turned into a quasar? 00:00:00 Start 00:03:13 How can amateurs can contribute to science? 00:05:50 What if Sgr* turned into a quasar? 00:07:00 Will the Universe end in a Big Rip? 00:10:32 How can solar sails be pushed by massless photons? 00:12:45 Do we know what rocky planets are made out of? 00:14:18 How did my mind change after interviewing Wallace Arthur 00:18:06 Will I sign up for Starlink Beta? 00:20:00 Am I looking forward to Dune? 00:23:30 Isn't the buy in cost for Starlink too expensive? 00:26:08 How can the methuselah star be older than the Universe? 00:27:31 Can we observe Oort clouds in other Solar Systems? 00:30:00 Does Andromeda have a supermassive black hole? 00:32:43 Any progress on Event Horizon Telescope? 00:34:35 What if an Earth-sized world fell into the Sun? 00:36:01 How can spacecraft journey from star to star? 00:37:31 Is Andromeda more massive? 00:38:31 Propulsion systems I'm excited about? 00:40:23 Is the Sun gaining or losing mass? 00:41:10 Why is it a good year for comets? 00:42:52 Can we use fusion for spaceflight? 00:46:15 How could we destroy Saturn's rings? 00:47:23 Any update on Terrascope? 00:48:52 Could we put astronauts to sleep? 00:51:53 What about cold fusion? 00:53:21 Is a hot big bang feasible? 00:55:15 Could there be planets in globular clusters? 00:58:20 Could neutrinos be dark matter? Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

Wallace Arthur is an evolutionary biologist and emeritus professor of Zoology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His newest book is called the Biological Universe, and features the search for life in the Milky Way and Beyond. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/biological-universe/4599E17C7FAAECE4A87038C62039C755 Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

In this week's Open Space, we had a series of questions about the International Space Station. How long will it remain in orbit, and what role will it continue to play with other space stations under construction? We also talked about how much longer the Earth will remain habitable, and if it could be possible to replace Arecibo. 00:00:00 Start 00:03:35 How much longer with the Earth be habitable? 00:06:30 The great conjunction 00:09:11 Is nuclear power a good option in space? 00:13:31 What is the future of the ISS? 00:18:24 What are the chances of replacing Arecibo? 00:21:57 Couldn't we melt down the station for raw material? 00:23:35 What do I think of Axiom's private space station? 00:27:28 What's the best supernova candidate? 00:32:25 Could we add mass to Mars to restart its core? 00:36:03 Am I excited about the next Gaia release? 00:40:45 Are we looking backwards in time? 00:42:00 How's Chinese going? 00:46:39 What's the future of the Thirty Meter Telescope? 00:50:24 Will there be more international collaboration? 00:54:45 How much of the Universe has already disappeared? 00:56:33 Future telescope names? 00:57:00 Legit warp drive? 00:59:45 Any value putting a telescope on Mars? Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

00:00:00 Start 00:01:31 How much oxygen is too difficult? 00:03:46 Do the Falcon 9 boosters really land, or does the camera always cut out? 00:04:55 Could SpaceX have succeeded without NASA? 00:07:53 Will Gateway get delayed too? 00:11:20 Too drunk to control a telescope? 00:12:38 Is the Universe heating up? 00:16:00 Why rush to Mars? 00:19:50 Why research things that'll happen in the far future? 00:22:10 Could we use railguns? 00:26:00 Does thinking about the Universe drive you crazy? 00:28:45 Why don't we send cubesats in all directions? 00:31:32 Why could reduce the atmospheric pressure of Venus? 00:33:13 What's the farthest humans will go? 00:37:17 Will self replicating robots be built? 00:41:47 Will we never go to other stars? 00:44:07 Could a Dyson Sphere hide its radiation? 00:46:30 Where is the life in the Universe? 00:48:00 Dyson Sphere is a dumb idea. 00:49:47 What will be attributed to aliens next? 00:50:00 What are the cause of fast radio bursts? 00:53:30 Will we control space junk? Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

Dr. Peter Woit is a theoretical physicist and senior lecturer in the math department at Columbia University. He's a critic of string theory, wrote a book called "Not Even Wrong" and maintains a blog of the same name. http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

In this week's live QA, I talk about Elon Musk's hope of establishing a free Mars, the future of gravitational wave detectors, and what do I think about trying to live in other places in the Solar System? 00:00:00 Start 00:03:00 Thoughts on Bridenstine leaving NASA? 00:08:10 Should we declare a Free Mars? 00:11:43 How sensitive will gravitational wave detectors become? 00:17:05 More damage at Arecibo 00:19:20 Why is the Moon the same visual size as the Sun? 00:22:02 Are white holes real? 00:25:48 Any hard sci-fi 00:28:30 Why doesn't Elon talk about nuclear propulsion or artificial gravity? 00:31:03 Why is artificial gravity research so expensive? 00:33:00 What's going to happen with Artemis? 00:37:33 What do I think about GPT-3? 00:42:43 Could we live on Venus? 00:48:00 Give Venus an artificial satellite? 00:49:22 Would Mercury be better to live on? 00:51:00 What is the Great Attractor? 00:52:27 Is Titan the best? 00:53:16 Live underground on Venus? 00:55:00 Is Mercury a good source of metals? 00:55:56 Could we terraform Ceres? 00:58:15 How close can planets get to their star?

In this week's questions show, I talk about the Dark Forest theory in the Three-Body Problem series of books. Is it a compelling answer to the Fermi Paradox? How much of a risk is dust to interstellar travel? Is black hole evaporation negated by black holes absorbing additional material and energy? 00:00 Start 00:46 Is the Dark Forest a reasonable answer to the Fermi Paradox? 04:05 How much dust is in interstellar space? 05:57 Can we go faster than the Voyagers? 08:24 Are black holes gaining mass faster than they're evaporating? 10:07 Is abiogenesis happening right now? 13:47 How do we calculate the habitable zones around other stars? 15:45 How close can binary stars be and still be habitable? 17:50 Could we find debris in the Lagrange Points? 19:27 Can gravitational waves let us see past the CMB? 22:07 What is a galactic halo? 23:49 Are there gas dwarfs? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

https://www.darkskytraveller.com.au/fredwatson Space Nuts Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/space-nuts-astronomy-space-and-science-news/id1080090608 Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

00:00:00 Start 00:04:10 Searching for exomoons 00:07:35 Why I hate embargoes 00:11:29 Discovery of water on the Moon 00:17:00 Could Spitzer target the Moon? 00:17:30 Would Jupiter's magnetosphere protect you? 00:20:56 Any space telescopes for Starship? 00:26:27 Cost of a replacement James Webb? 00:27:45 Do you need gravitational assists to go to the outer Solar System? 00:30:49 Is Juno still flying? 00:31:17 When will Starship do its next hop? 00:32:35 Could you have a world made entirely of water? 00:36:05 Will amateurs be able to use Gaia? 00:38:16 What's the impact of James Webb on other missions? 00:43:26 How can small businesses work with NASA? 00:47:00 Quantum foam particles. 00:48:40 What are the most habitable stars? 00:52:36 Does nothingness exist? 00:55:10 What does it mean that the Universe is expanding? Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

00:00 Start 05:54 Have we learned any more about Venus? 08:31 Elon Musk interview with the Mars Society 11:15 How small would Earth be as a black hole? 11:31 Could space be infinite at the Big Bang? 13:57 Will we mine the Moon for Helium 3? 17:08 How does inflation improve the Big Bang? 23:22 Why didn't the Universe collapse again? 27:03 OSIRIS-REx update 28:17 Could you turn condensed light into matter? 30:11 Will the magnetic reversal be devastating? 32:35 How can you have atmospheric pressure without a container? 33:45 What will Starship land on? 34:47 Will it cost more than a ton of gold to bring gold back from the Moon. 36:20 Why do I think multicellular life is rare? 41:47 Starfleet or Space Force? 42:38 Would there be a Universe without us to observe it? 44:27 What rocket launch do I want to see? 45:39 What's the difference between the SpaceX suits and the shuttle suits? 47:43 Will the first person on Mars be Chinese? 49:23 Could we start building our Dyson Sphere now? 51:37 Are there any full views of the Earth from satellites? 54:47 Have any black holes evaporated yet? 55:45 Is interstellar space cold or hot? 56:59 Could you use the transit method to communicate between stars? 58:32 Is Planet 9 a black hole? Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

This week I'll be talking Dr. Seth Shostak from the SETI Institute about his work searching the Universe for evidence of extraterrestrials. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

In this week's live questions show, I answer questions about drilling for microbes on Mars, missions that could survive the surface of Venus, and if anyone else is dissatisfied with the Big Bang. 00:00 Start 04:18 Any updates on the Chinese mission to Mars? 05:41 How many exoplanets are confirmed? 07:18 Can any rovers drill for microbes? 10:31 Any ways to survive the surface of Venus? 13:10 How do you know if an exoplanet has cleared its path? 15:31 Is anyone dissatisfied with the Big Bang? 19:50 Favorite solution to Planet 9? 21:48 When did I start getting interested in space? 22:55 How likely is the Venus phosphine abiotic? 27:45 How intense is the radiation field at Jupiter? 28:54 Will I ever stream video games? 34:03 Could we detect planets in the Magellanic Clouds 36:13 Would would life be like near a black hole? 38:40 How many launches have I seen? 41:50 Is quantum mechanics a big hoax? 42:35 Good targets for astrophotography? 44:04 Raised by Wolves? 45:02 Are we living in a black hole? 45:31 When will there be lunar tourism? 45:60 Have I read Artemis? 47:20 Is the Universe computable? 47:41 How can the Universe expand faster than the speed of light? 50:00 Why is the Moon drifting away from us? 52:00 Do we know how fast the Universe is expanding? 53:17 Do Mercury and Venus pass in front of the Sun? 54:35 Most significant scientific advance in the last 20 years? 55:43 Is the expansion rate different in the Universe? 58:10 Will we screw up the climate permanently? 59:43 Wrap up Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

Black holes are already mind-bending enough. Matter and energy compressed into a region so dense that the escape velocity exceeds the speed of light. Places where space and time are tangled up so much that even if you could go faster than light speed, you’d still end up at the singularity. Astronomers know of two kinds of black holes in the Universe: stellar mass and supermassive, and how we get them have been worked out pretty well. But there’s a third class of black hole, one which has never been observed nor detected indirectly, and yet it could explain some of the mysteries of the Universe, including the nature of dark matter. Primordial black holes. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected] References: https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/schwarzschild-radius https://phys.org/news/2020-01-primordial-black-holes.html https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-scientist-suggests-possible-link-between-primordial-black-holes-and-dark-matter https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.05403.pdf https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01620 https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2020/09/scientists-detect-first-of-its-kind-intermediate-mass-black-hole-gravitational-waves/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10455 https://phys.org/news/2020-07-scientists-planet-primordial-black-hole.html https://arxiv.org/search/?query=primordial+black+holes&searchtype=all&source=header https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_7iDe5KYFU

Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

Sarah Scoles is a Denver-based science writer who has supplied articles to WIRED Science and Popular Science. Her newest book is called "They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers". http://www.sarahscoles.com/ Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

00:00 Start 00:16 Did we infect Venus with life? 02:27 Can we terraform Venus with bacteria? 04:03 This is boring. 06:21 It's probably not life. 09:07 Phosphine is on Jupiter too. 10:50 Are there spaceflight insurance companies? 12:59 Why can gas giants remain spherical? 15:21 What if the Moon was in geosynchronous orbit? 17:42 Are astronauts falling? 19:40 Could we use interstellar hydrogen as fuel? 22:52 Could supermassive black holes be primordial black holes? 26:25 Are there rogue intergalactic stars? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

Well, did you hear the big news? Life on Venus. Life… on... Venus. Now, where have we heard this before? Oh right, life on Mars. If you’ve been watching any of my videos or listening to Astronomy Cast, you’re cautiously optimistic. Skeptical, but hopeful. That’s the right position to take, because buckle up, the internet’s about to run with this news. It’s going to be difficult to figure out what was really discovered, and what this means for the search for life in the Universe. Want to see this video early? Join our community at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected] References: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2015/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/681/solar-system-temperatures/ https://www.esa.int/ScienceExploration/SpaceScience/VenusExpress/TheunexpectedtemperatureprofileofVenussatmosphere https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2020.2244 https://phys.org/news/2020-07-scientists-volcanoes-venus.html https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/scientists-pull-living-microbes-100-million-years-beneath-sea https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-goddard-team-selected-to-design-concept-for-probe-of-mysterious-venus-atmosphere

In this week's questions show, I wonder about the supernova that formed the Solar System, how astronauts deal with air pressure differences, and how we're going to handle the cold temperatures on Mars. Featuring Astronaut Terry Virts https://terryvirts.com/ 00:00 Start 01:17 Where are the supernovae that created the Solar System? 03:53 Can astronauts get infected on Mars or in space? 05:20 When a black hole forms, is there still a neutron star inside? 08:02 Why is the CMB in its current location? 09:23 Is the idea of a primordial black hole absurd? 12:59 Why does the simulation get support while UFOs don't? 15:45 Could the Solar System capture a rogue planet? 17:57 Can we see the Orion arm of the Milky Way? 19:57 Handling the cold on Mars? 22:22 How much can we mine the Moon? 23:45 Will Pluto and Neptune ever collide with each other? 24:41 How do astronauts deal with ear pressure differences? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

In this week's questions show, you wondered if the simulation hypothesis is a good answer to the Fermi Paradox. How to get a career in space manufacturing? Will a compass work on Mars? And more... Featuring Moiya McTier https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAzGSsOGMAJeet8SkO8TWmA https://twitter.com/GoAstroMo https://exolore.captivate.fm/listen 00:00 Start 00:27 Could the simulation hypothesis explain the Fermi Paradox? 02:54 The future of space manufacturing? 05:47 Does a compass work on Mars? 07:10 Why don't we have video from Juno and other spacecraft? 11:10 Could a black hole spin so fast that it tears itself apart? 13:08 Will the Universe eventually expand out of view? 16:31 Why do we assume Dyson Spheres are inevitable? 17:01 What megaprojects could Starship be used for? 22:26 How will astronauts be protected from meteorites on the Moon? 24:42 How to get started in astrophotography 29:07 How many planets are confirmed through multiple methods? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

In this week's questions show, I consider what the benefits might be to humanity if we discover that we aren't alone in the Universe. How long did Mars planetary dynamo take to turn off? Could we find and repair the lunar rovers? 00:00 Start 00:12 Would extraterrestrial life have any impact on us? 03:01 When did Mars shut down? 05:16 Could the rovers be repaired? 07:05 Would an ejected star take its planets with it? 08:54 Dangerous to go to Mars at the same time? 10:19 Is there any way to go faster? 13:37 Should the smallest black holes already have evaporated? 15:48 Shouldn't Voyager be coming back? 17:15 Could there be life inside Jupiter? 18:50 Does the Sun have a binary black hole partner? 19:57 Aren't I on vacation? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

In this week's questions show, I explain how it's possible for stars to orbit so closely they're actually touching. What are the limits to gravitational slingshots, and how astronomers know where to point their telescopes in the Universe. 00:00 Start 00:44 Can stars touch? 02:39 What is the maximum slingshot speed? 05:32 How do astronomers know where to look? 08:27 Could a planet orbit backwards? 10:56 Will nations allow deadly space lasers? 13:06 What if a black hole stopped rotating? 15:06 How would you control a warp drive? 17:32 Is Planet 9 a captured rogue planet? 21:36 Does this mean there are new physics? 25:08 How common are supernovae that don't leave a remnant? 27:14 Why would red dwarf planets be tidally locked? 28:54 How do space agencies decide to launch missions? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

When the Apollo astronauts first landed on the Moon, they couldn’t go far on foot. That’s why the three final missions were equipped with Lunar Roving Vehicles, or Moon buggies, which allowed the astronauts to cover much more ground and do more science. Now that NASA is returning to the Moon by 2024 as part of its Artemis Program, it’s considering a fleet of new vehicles that will help astronauts roam far and wide across the surface of the Moon. 60 fps Apollo Videos from Dutchsteammachine https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRGEIYuo_HbUR6GhFLeEkPA Want to see this video early? Join our community at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected] References: https://space.nss.org/wp-content/uploads/Lunar-Bases-conference-2-706-Lunar-Roving-Vehicle.pdf https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollolrv.html https://www.nasa.gov/missionpages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/explorationroverconceptsgrc.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228353156ConceptforaRadioisotopePoweredDualModeLunarRover https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/documents/NTRS/collection2/NASACR192034.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/technology/spaceexplorationvehicle/ https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/284669mainLERFactSheet_web.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-to-industry-send-ideas-for-lunar-rovers/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-administrator-signs-declaration-of-intent-with-japan-on-artemis-space-station https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/27059582.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eney3cJBtow

In this week's questions show I explain why it's still important to do science, even if it's difficult, can we use multiple methods to measure distance, and why the Trojan asteroids don't collect into a single object? 00:00 Start 00:40 Why should we bother trying to understand the Universe? 05:01 Can different methods be used to measure distances to the same object? 07:50 Why don't Trojans collect into a single object? 10:24 Split the videos up? 13:02 Do supernovae cause a chain reaction? 14:27 Why settle the Milky Way? 16:48 What if a black hole came close to the Earth? 18:04 Is there an escape velocity from the Milky Way? 18:51 Could we detect something moving faster than light? 20:48 Could we detect pulsars in other galaxies? 22:44 When does a planet end, and an atmosphere begin? 24:06 Could we store photons for energy? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

When the largest stars die, it’s usually pretty obvious. Supernovae are visible from billions of light-years away. But recently astronomers watched a massive star just disappear. No explosion, nothing, it just… vanished? Of course, it could have been dust. It’s always dust. But one intriguing possibility is that the star just imploded directly into a black hole, without the supernova detonation. And if that’s the case, is this happening more often, we just didn’t notice it? Want to see this video early? Join our community at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected] References: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso2010/eso2010a.pdf https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/09/05/the-suns-energy-doesnt-come-from-fusing-hydrogen-into-helium-mostly/#456b5d0670f9 https://www.eso.org/public/usa/news/eso2010/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/collapsing-star-gives-birth-to-a-black-hole https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/12/26/direct-collapse-black-holes-may-explain-our-universes-mysterious-quasars/#1575aa7b71f0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEZu3pXAFWY

This episode is a segment that we did in the Weekly Space Hangout talking about how astronomers are using masers (water lasers) to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. You'd think that another, independent way to measure the expansion rate of the Universe would be helpful, but it's only deepened the mystery of the cosmological crisis. Subscribe to the Weekly Space Hangout https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzO-QhBFz04 Thumbnail credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Want to see this video early? Join our community at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected] References: https://www.universetoday.com/146523/evidence-is-building-that-the-standard-model-of-the-expansion-of-the-universe-needs-some-new-ideas/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.09213.pdf

In this week's questions show, I answer what would happen if a supernova exploded right beside a black hole, how do we know that it's impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, can we hitch a ride on an interstellar object, and more... 00:00 Start 00:17 What if a supernova exploded right beside a black hole? 03:09 Is interstellar travel just too difficult? 05:25 How do we know FTL is impossible? 07:58 How does the Mars helicopter navigate? 09:18 Why does NASA still pay Boeing for Starliner? 11:25 How does the speed of causality work? 14:15 What if you watched a warp drive ship? 16:35 Will China go to Mars? 20:26 Why aren't we tidally locked to the Sun? 22:22 Maybe dark matter is in another dimension? 23:48 Can we hitch a ride on an interstellar asteroid? 26:15 Turning energy into matter Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

Earlier this year, NASA announced 4 new Discovery-class missions that they were considering. These are low-cost, rapidly-built missions that will help scientists understand some mystery in astronomy and planetary science. One of these missions is called Trident, and it’s going to be targeting the Planet Neptune. And more specifically, it’s going to be providing close up pictures of its largest moon Triton. Want to see this video early? Join our community at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected] References: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7680 https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/images-voyager-took/neptune/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7597 https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2019/pdf/3188.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/planetarymissions/discovery.html https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2019/pdf/3188.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-v7HRsanZY

This week, it'll be the last Open Space with Fraser before the show goes on its summer hiatus until September. If you've got some burning space questions, no will be your chance to ask them. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

In this week's episode, I answer questions about alien life, why the ISS is at its current altitude, and of course, many questions about black holes. 00:00 Start 00:11 How do we know it's life? 02:00 Could smaller planets form directly? 04:33 Any way to service Hubble? 05:55 Boost the station up? What does that mean? 07:18 If you went the speed of light to 10 light-years away... 08:40 Will we change our DNA? 11:34 Is Paul really a Doctor? 15:13 Have any stars gotten closer than Alpha Centauri? 16:13 Why can't you escape an event horizon? 17:30 Are black holes a singularity? 19:44 Why have we found so many hot Jupiters? 22:25 Why is ISS at its current altitude? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, and still need to confirm thousands more. And over the coming decades, we’ll probably learn of millions of planets, orbiting stars we’ve never heard of. That’s why it’s reassuring to know astronomers are learning a tremendous amount about the closest star system to our own, Proxima Centauri. In fact, we now know of two planets orbiting the red dwarf star, one of which is in the habitable zone. Thumbnail credit: NASA/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/D. Aguilar Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected] References: https://www.universetoday.com/146262/powerful-telescope-confirms-theres-an-earth-sized-world-orbiting-proxima-centauri/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03449 https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12114v2 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/3/eaax7467 https://mcdonaldobservatory.org/news/releases/20200602 https://www.universetoday.com/145697/astronomers-might-have-imaged-a-second-planet-around-nearby-proxima-centauri-and-it-might-have-a-huge-set-of-rings/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.06685.pdf https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2YkvWdUUNQ

Another week, another Open Space. In this week's questions show, I talk about planets orbiting red dwarf stars, if planets could steal moons from each other, and whether or not the space shuttle should have ever been built. 02:58 Is Proxima Centauri C a gas giant? 05:22 How doomed are red dwarf planets? 07:37 Could a planet steal a moon? 10:25 Should we sent asteroids back to Earth to mine them? 14:00 Do any sunlike stars have promising planets? 15:35 Why do meteors turn green? 17:51 Will Starlink communicate from Earth to Mars? 21:50 What if our supermassive black hole increased in mass? 23:35 Will spaceforce administer justice in space? 27:29 Will we discover life on Enceladus? 31:10 What is the limit of ion engines? 32:33 Have any lava tubes been explored? 34:05 How will we deal with astronaut mental health? 36:52 Would I want three telescopes at L3, L4, L5 39:10 How does the speed of gravity affect the movement of stars in the Milky Way? 40:15 Was the shuttle prematurely ended? 43:52 Is there competition for small rockets? 49:00 What if the Sun was different type of star? 51:28 Is space radiation underappreciated risk? 54:44 what are my expectations for James Webb? 55:38 What are the best ideas for cleaning space debris? 57:51 Will James Webb find biosignatures? 58:15 Does the Solar System line up with the Milky Way? Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

In this week's episode of Open Space, I talk with Dr. Jamie Molaro, a planetary scientist who helped discover that the surface of asteroid Bennu has rocks that crack because of the constant day/night cycle. Learn more about her work: https://twitter.com/spacejammie Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

Another week, another Open Space. This week I answer questions about what we might see in the next 5 decades. When dark matter will get debunked, and who will carry the Mars torch after Elon Musk passes away. 03:35 What will happen in the next 5 decades? 07:09 Will dark matter be debunked? 10:50 Who will carry the Mars torch after Elon? 13:17 Do I have a PhD? 14:33 Could civilizations be hiding in the infrared? 19:07 What laws should be in place before a mission to Mars? 23:25 If you could name a space program? 24:28 Can light travel faster than light? 25:30 Why aren't we using gliders to access the ISS? 28:12 What if a white hole passed through the Solar System? 29:26 Where do Von Neumann probes get their raw materials? 30:30 Am I happy with the militarization of space? 33:21 Have I read the Bobiverse books? 33:37 What if the speed of light wasn't constant? 35:10 Is Planet X a myth? 37:41 How will James Webb view habitable exoplanets? 39:02 What is the most frustrating space myth? 41:30 Is there something beyond Neptune? 44:35 How do coronographs work? 47:28 Would incoming alien ships unite the Earth? 49:20 Could you fly through Jupiter? 51:48 Should we let aliens know we eat ham and pineapple pizza? 52:25 How can the core of Jupiter be hotter than the surface of the SuN? 53:18 What field does metallic hydrogen generate? 54:00 What sci-fi books would make good movies? 56:40 What's the most likely answer to the Fermi Paradox? 56:53 Is anything in space named after me? Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

I’d say half the astronomy-related videos on YouTube are all about black holes. Clearly, they’re a fascinating topic, but they’re also a mystery. How do you observe something that can absorb all the radiation and matter falling onto them, and nothing can ever escape? How do we know they’re really there, and what are the best observations we can make? Today I’m joined by Dr. Paul Sutter, a cosmologist, and astrophysicist to talk about how we know black holes are really there and not just a figment of an astrophysicist’s imagination? Paul's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBr7XOxxQyBHEwqkhoci7vw Paul's new book: http://www.pmsutter.com/book Thumbnail credit: ESO Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

In this week's questions show, I answer questions about how the International Space Station stays above the Earth's atmosphere, does dark matter need a better name? And how do astronomers know they're looking at exoplanets and not sunspots? Michael Rodruck with Pennsylvania State University https://sites.psu.edu/mrodruck/ 00:18 How does the ISS stay up? 01:54 Does dark matter need a better name? 04:12 Could planets orbit something that isn't a star? 07:00 GOTO Telescopes 09:22 How do we know it's exoplanets and not sunspots? 11:55 Interstellar travel without wormholes? 14:23 Why make Mars habitable? 16:38 Have we mapped Venus? 18:23 What would it feel like to stand on a massive disk? 20:25 Can dark matter get concentrated into a black hole? 22:30 Are there even closer black holes? 24:21 How do we know how many stars in the Milky Way? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

On Sunday, May 31st, 2020, a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley docked with the International Space Station. This was a tremendous accomplishment for SpaceX and NASA, giving the United States the capability of launching its own astronauts, and no longer relying on its Russian partners. This was the 5th time that US astronauts went into orbit on a new kind of space vehicle, following in the footsteps of Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected] References: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/ccp-press-kit/main.html https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2020/05/27/historic-launch-pad-39a/ https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2020/05/31/international-space-station-welcomes-first-spacex-crew-dragon-with-nasa-astronauts/ https://www.space.com/2811-nasa-places-500-million-bet-firms.html https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/news/COTS_selection.html https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/the-trampoline-is-working-spacex-returns-human-spaceflight-to-america/ https://www.nasa.gov/specials/ccp-press-kit/dm1.html https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2019/12/ https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/crew/index.html https://spaceadventures.com/space-adventures-announces-agreement-with-spacex-to-launch-private-citizens-on-the-crew-dragon-spacecraft/ https://www.universetoday.com/144791/nasa-is-going-to-add-a-commercial-module-to-the-space-station/ https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2020/04/06/boeing-to-fly-second-uncrewed-orbital-flight-test-for-nasa/

Another week, another Open Space. This week, I answered questions about whether space-time could freeze, are standard candles like Type 1a supernovae still useful? And is the Great Attractor just a black hole? 04:33 Could spacetime freeze? 06:48 Any plans for solar observing in the star parties? 07:26 Are standard candles still useful? 14:15 Predicting future locations of planets? 15:26 Is the great attractor a black hole? 19:02 Is there a speed limit for gravity assists? 20:04 Why are there so many red dwarfs? 22:02 Did the Big Bang happen in one place? 23:02 Map of the Solar System's magnetic fields? 23:45 Favorite space travel system? 24:15 Star party for Jupiter/Saturn conjunction? 25:15 Are there stars bigger than UY Scuti? 26:50 Can moons have moons? 28:47 Best Star Trek? 29:33 Does the Moon have Lagrange Points? 30:45 Will Virgo supercluster stay together? 32:11 Favorite artificial gravity? 33:00 Would aliens feel different gravity on Earth? 34:30 What else did Crew Dragon take to the station? 34:56 Are we in a new space race? 36:33 Could you use a Moon for artificial gravity? 37:29 Why does it have to be a space race? 40:25 What did I think of Space Force? 41:26 How would territory be allocated on the Moon? 43:50 Will Mars colonists live underground? 45:00 Is James Webb too big to fail? 47:09 What about NatGeo's Mars? 47:38 Canadian space projects? 50:08 Why no missions to Uranus and Neptune? 51:20 What is Blue Origin up to? 54:50 Isaac Arthur just got married! 56:37 Strange matter versus black holes? 57:00 Canada arms and Canada legs? Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

In this week's live Open Space, people wanted to know if solar sails really work, will we ever get close to the speed of light, what's the best way to get out of Venus' gravity well, and more? 01:46 Do solar sails really work? 02:48 Will we ever get close to the speed of light? 06:22 Best way to get off Venus? 08:45 What about the standard candle? 11:45 Why is it so hard to get to Mercury? 14:15 Could FTL escape a black hole? 15:10 How did the astronauts deal with regolith? 18:12 Could there be liquid water on Mercury? 19:41 What's the best place on Earth to look through a telescope? 21:01 Does the regolith get into spacesuits? 22:20 Could an Alcubiere Drive get out of a black hole? 23:15 Do I ever use the telescope behind me? 24:08 Why is the speed of light so disproportionate to the size of the Universe? 26:07 Do I use the RASA? 27:03 How will I watch Crew Dragon? 28:00 Could we build a particle accelerator on the Moon? 30:16 What if another system collided with us? 32:32 Is it worth launching visible light telescopes? 34:22 Would I live in orbit for a month? 36:20 Should we colonize Mars? 39:50 Where will we find life in the Solar System? 41:00 Will bigger rockets make simpler big telescopes possible? 45:49 Why is Andromeda heading towards us? 46:19 Do I believe in alternate universes? 47:26 Any good ideas for space debris? 50:31 Could a black hole eat a supernova? 53:14 What space problem keeps me up at night? 56:19 Is the Planck scale the resolution of the Universe? Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

In this week's questions show, I answer whether or not dark matter could become a black hole, how do we know the Universe is flat, and what would happen to the world's market for precious metals once we start mining asteroids? Natalie Hinkel, SWRI http://www.nataliehinkel.com/ Follow Natalie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/natalie_hinkel/ 00:26 Can dark matter turn into a black hole? 05:07 If the Universe is flat, how can it be expanding? 08:00 Will asteroid mining devalue markets on Earth? 10:06 Good binoculars for a newbie? 11:13 Why haven't we found Planet 9 yet? 12:55 What species will replace humanity on Earth? 16:14 What if someone found our spacecraft orbiting an interstellar object? 17:45 What if Venus and Earth swapped sizes? 19:09 Why do we need a reason for an accelerating Universe? 22:37 Is NASA moving too fast? 26:13 Could you use a leaf blower on the Moon? 27:51 Could you have an exoplanetary system without a star? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week and answer them here. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

When you’re out in space, water is the most precious resource you can get your hands on. It can be used for air, water, to grow food, radiation shielding, and most importantly, as the propellant for your spacecraft. Exploration of the Moon has revealed that there’s a tremendous amount of water ice locked into the regolith, but it’s probably very difficult to access. But there are also permanently shadowed craters at the Moon’s poles that could have more than enough water to support a permanently inhabitable station on the Moon. But it’s going to be tricky to get at, considering the fact that temperatures in the shadows plunge to -240 degrees Celsius, just 30 degrees above absolute zero. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected] References: https://theprint.in/science/discovery-of-water-on-moon-what-indias-first-chandrayaan-mission-achieved-a-decade-ago/317591/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/ice-confirmed-at-the-moon-s-poles https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/c-missions/chang-e-4 https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/06/china-publishes-change-4-data-one-year-after-first-landing-on-far-side-of-the-moon/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-cubesat-will-shine-a-laser-light-on-the-moons-darkest-craters https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/lunar-flashlight/ https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9076196 http://www.esa.int/EnablingSupport/SpaceEngineeringTechnology/Laser-poweredrovertoexploreMoonsdarkshadows https://www.esa.int/EnablingSupport/SpaceEngineeringTechnology/RoversdrivethroughTenerife_darkness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eney3cJBtow

In this week's live QA, I explain why a black hole can have infinite density but not infinite gravity. Does your perception of time change due to your mass, and am I ever intimidated by the people I get to interview? 03:00 How can a singularity have infinite density and not infinite gravity? 06:02 Does your perception of time change due to your mass? 08:10 How do I feel about String Theory? 10:20 Am I intimidated by people I interview? 12:47 Is intelligent design a scientific theory? 15:21 Why don't we see practical applications on quantum mechanics? 16:34 Anyone on my wishlist of guests? 19:00 Are there alien bodies at Area-51? 20:25 Would you feel it falling into a supermassive black hole 22:00 Will we get a Grand Unified Theory in our lifetimes? 27:21 Is Blue Origin for real? 30:35 Should the US have built the super collider? 34:17 Does time go backwards if you exceed the speed of light? 35:20 What's happening with Perseverance? 37:03 Could we jumpstart a rocket planet to get a magnetosphere? 40:35 How far are we from a nuclear rocket? 42:50 Could they make a bigger particle accelerator? 45:00 Would I get neurolink? 46:42 Humans on the Moon or a 30M telescope? 48:02 Have I watched Upload yet? 48:25 Why don't we explore the deep ocean first? 51:45 Wouldn't a solar sail be stopped by photons from another star? 53:49 Could we use Ceres or Vesta to warm up Mars? 54:52 Why is the Hubble Constant increasing? Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]