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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!

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• 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?

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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.

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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

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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

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19:40 Lightning on Jupiter

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20:45 Flyby of Mercury

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science

21:57 CO2 Map

23:28 Outro

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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.

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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

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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.

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• 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?

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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:

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• 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

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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.

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• 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
  
  

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• 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/

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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.

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• 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?

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Betelgeuse is unexpectedly bright, and update of JWST’s Deep Field program, and more problems with the Boeing Starliner.

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• 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
  
  

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• 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
  
  

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• 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

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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!

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• 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?

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Lots of new discoveries from JWST. How a software bug killed HAKUTO-R. Kepler’s last ever exoplanets.

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• 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

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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.

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• 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
  
  

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• 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
  
  

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• 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

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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.

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• 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

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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.

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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?

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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.

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👉 Simulation of the Earth’s radio-leakage from mobile towers as seen from selected nearby stellar systems:

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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

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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.

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• 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
  
  

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• 04:42 Limit-Breaking Ultra-Luminous Bursts
  
  

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• 06:44 NASA's Snake Robot Explorer
  
  

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• 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
  
  

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• 18:37 Outro

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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.

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👉 Interstellar Sample Return with Dr Chris Morrison:

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• 00:00 Intro

• 00:36 What is the EmberCore Flashlight

• 12:39 Perspectives for deep space missions

• 17:33 Who will buy such Flashlights

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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.

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• 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?

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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.

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• 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

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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.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 00:14 Uranus' moons might have oceans under the ice
  
  

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• 02:21 Even more moons for Saturn
  
  

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• 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
  
  

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• 16:24 Beautiful space videos
  
  

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• 17:49 Outro

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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.

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• 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

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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.

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• 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

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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?

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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?

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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.

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• 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?

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JUICE is having problems extending its radar antenna. Astronomers watch a star eat its planet. A design for a space station with artificial gravity.

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• 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

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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.

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02:15 Printing medicine in space

17:17 Evolution VS Engineering in Biology

36:30 Risks involved

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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.

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🌞 Interview with Dr Turyshev about the Solar Gravitational Lens

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• 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

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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!

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• 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?

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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.

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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.

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• 00:12 iSpace Hakuto-R Moon Landing Failed
  
  

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• 03:10 China’s Going to the Moon by 2030
  
  

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• 10:25 Yet another James Webb problem
  
  

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• 11:38 Close-up of Deimos by UAE's Hope
  
  

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• 13:43 Percy lost its pet rock
  
  

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• 14:49 Ingenuity's 51st flight

• 16:39 UFOs aren't breaking Physics
  
  

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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.

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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

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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.

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00:46 How did the launch go

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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!

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• 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?

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Starship launches but fails to reach orbit. JUICE looks back at Earth one last time. GAIA helps find an exoplanet.

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• 00:11 Starship Launch
  
  

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• 03:53 NASA Threaten the Future of New Horizons
  
  

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• 06:33 JUICE Looks Back at Earth
  
  

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• 07:56 Neutron Star Acts Like a Mini-Quasar
  
  

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• 09:56 Webb Sees a Galactic Merger
  
  

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• 11:43 Q&A with Fraser Cain

• 12:38 Gravitational Waves from Pulsars Could Be Used to Probe the Interior of the Sun
  
  

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• 13:47 Tornado from the Sun
  
  

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• 15:09 An exoplanet in GAIA data
  
  

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• 18:41 Outro

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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.

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• 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

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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!

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• 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?

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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.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 00:17 JUICE Launch to Jupiter

• 02:13 JWST's view of Cassiopea A
  
  

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• 04:02 AI helping Astronomy
  
  

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• 07:54 Flexible telescope mirrors
  
  

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• 11:27 Terran-1 is dead. Long live Terran R

• 13:28 Dawn Aerospace spaceplane test
  
  

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• 15:58 Lego Moon
  
  

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• 16:57 Outro

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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

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• 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

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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!

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• 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?

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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.

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• 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

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Meet the crew of Artemis 2, we might have the perfect date for a Mars mission, and astronomers discover an ultramassive black hole.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 00:14 Meet the Crew of Artemis-2
  
  

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• 02:14 A Perfect Year to Go To Mars
  
  

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• 05:37 An Ultra-Massive Black Hole
  
  

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• 07:10 James Webb Sees Uranus
  
  

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• 08:39 Clouds on Mars
  
  

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• 09:38 Starship OFT is almost here

• 11:05 China Tests a Stirling Engine in Orbit
  
  

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• 13:23 Water-Based Propulsion
  
  

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• 15:13 Virgin Orbit Files for Bankruptcy

• 16:48 How a Solar Storm Killed Starlinks
  
  

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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.

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• 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

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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.

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• 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?

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We finally got JWST data about TRAPPIST-1. An Earth-sized rogue planet was found. More information about China’s plans for the Moon.

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• 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/

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• 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

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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.

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• 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

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