A new mission can make solar eclipses on demand, what do supernovae and stellar flybys do to Earth’s climate, how asteroid 2024 YR4 will make the mother of all meteor showers, and Starship 36 explodes during testing. And on Space Bites+, how we could use a space elevator to extract water from Ceres.

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00:00 Intro

00:25 Artificial solar eclipse with Proba-3

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/esas-new-mission-can-see-a-solar-eclipse-every-day

01:55 PUNCH sees a solar erruption

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasas-punch-mission-captured-images-of-a-huge-solar-eruption

03:08 Could stellar flybys change Earth's climate

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/have-stellar-flybys-altered-earths-climate-in-the-past

05:43 Supernovae changing Earth's climate

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/supernova-explosions-changed-earths-climate-and-shaped-humanitys-history

08:19 Mother of all meteor showers

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-potential-danger-to-satellites-due-to-ejecta-from-a-2032-lunar-impact-by-asteroid-2024-yr4

10:18 Vote results

10:57 China's Mengzhou abort test

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/china-tests-the-crew-escape-for-its-new-lunar-capsule

12:36 Honda tests a reusable rocket

https://global.honda/en/topics/2025/c_2025-06-17ceng.html

13:42 Starship explodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71AwkBt3_ts&ab_channel=NASASpaceflight

15:46 Vera Rubin's first light

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-first-images-from-vera-rubin-are-about-to-drop

17:50 More space news

18:54 Bonus story

19:12 Vancouver island

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