Universe Today Podcast

By Fraser Cain

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November 20, 2024[Overtime Q&A] Conspiracy Theories in School, Preserving History, JWST Restrictions
Should they teach conspiracy theories in schools? How can we preserve history? How restricted is JWST because of its sunshield? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Overtime Q&A.
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00:00 Start
00:26 Should conspiracy theories be taught in school?
08:13 How much does the sunshield block JWST?
10:19 How can we protect history?
14:27 Will we find ancient civilizations on other planets?
18:03 Why not use the proper name for the Sun and Moon?
18:55 Is there a Moon timezone?
19:56 Is the edge of the Observable Universe set by aliens?
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November 19, 2024[Interview] Can Anybody Stop SpaceX Now? (with Eric Berger)
Will SpaceX be able to deliver Starship in time for Artemis? Will Elon and Donald cancel SLS and replace it with Falcon Heavy? Is there any chance for real competition with SpaceX? How serious is the space race with China? Finding out the answers in this interview.
🟣 Guest: Eric Berger
https://arstechnica.com/author/ericberger/
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📖 Eric Berger's New Book "Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age"
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00:00 Intro
01:12 Reentry and the rise of SpaceX
10:24 What happens to SLS
20:17 The state of Starship
30:45 Blue Origin and other competition
35:29 Space race with China
42:11 Questions from the Patreon Community
53:22 Current obsessions
55:11 Final thoughts
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November 18, 2024[Interview] How The Moon's Bumpy Gravitational Field Can Help Launch Things From Its Surface
Moon has a non-uniform bumpy gravitational field. We can use these anomalies to launch stuff off the surface of the Moon with electromagnetic launchers. How exactly can we do it? Finding out in this interview.
🟣 Guest: Dr. Pekka Janhunen
https://www.mpe.mpg.de/person/18090/2169
📜 Launching mass from the Moon helped by lunar gravity anomalies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09616
📜 Terraforming the dwarf planet: Interconnected and growable Ceres megasatellite world
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.07487
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🌞 Solar Gravitational Lens with Slava Turushev:
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🚀 Realistic Interstellar Travel with Andrew Higgins
https://youtu.be/SkGRVvA23qI
🏡 Asteroid Habitats with Adam Frank
https://youtu.be/Z-hH3-z56cg
00:00 Intro
02:51 Electrostatic sail updates
07:15 Launching stuff from the Moon
14:46 Finding trajectories
18:44 Practical applications
30:56 Mining Ceres
38:32 Future of humanity
42:53 More interviews
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November 15, 2024[Space Bites] Zone of Avoidance Defied // Big Meteor Storm's Coming // Ozone Hole Shrinks
Some good environmental news, the Roman Space Telescope gets its mirror, astronomers defy the zone of avoidance, and moving stars halfway across the Milky Way
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00:00 Intro
00:14 Good news!
https://www.universetoday.com/169251/good-news-the-ozone-layer-hole-is-continuing-to-shrink/
02:41 Nancy Grace Roman gets its mirror
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/telescope-for-nasas-roman-mission-complete-delivered-to-goddard
05:01 Leonides
https://www.universetoday.com/169124/is-an-off-year-leonid-outburst-in-the-cards-for-november/
06:27 Trash compactor
https://www.universetoday.com/169229/a-trash-compactor-is-going-to-the-space-station/
07:43 Astronomers defy the Zone of Avoidance
https://www.universetoday.com/169287/astronomers-defy-the-zone-of-avoidance-to-find-hundreds-of-new-galaxies/
10:07 Finding black holes by their light echoes
https://www.universetoday.com/169227/using-light-echoes-to-find-black-holes/
11:33 Vote results
12:11 Life under ice on Mars
https://www.universetoday.com/169296/how-life-could-live-under-the-ice-on-mars/
13:46 Stellar engine
https://www.universetoday.com/169255/a-spider-stellar-engine-could-move-binary-stars-halfway-across-a-galaxy/
16:08 Habitable worlds observatory
17:05 More space news stories
17:49 New Zealand astrophotography competition
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November 14, 2024[Interview] Are Membrane Telescopes The Future of Space-Based Astronomy?
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🟣 Guest: Dr. Sebastian Rabien
https://www.mpe.mpg.de/person/18090/2169
📜 Membrane Space Telescope: Active Surface Control with Radiative Adaptive Optics
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.07741
00:00 Intro
02:27 Adaptive optics in space
05:17 Membrane-based telescopes
22:48 Taking membrane telescopes to space
32:54 A practical next step
34:02 Questions from patrons
36:54 Working with ELT
44:30 More interviews
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November 12, 2024 [Q&A] Spin Limit of Earth, True Colours of Exoplanets, Danger from Space Samples
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How fast can the Earth spin before it starts tearing itself apart? Should we be worried about samples from Mars contaminating Earth? Why don't space agencies use standardized platforms for their missions to save costs?
00:00 Start
01:05 How fast can the Earth spin not to tear apart?
05:19 Is bringing samples from space objects dangerous?
09:56 Can we make space probes standard?
14:34 Why is it so hard to go to other star systems?
19:01 What happens to time dilation in an Alcubierre drive?
21:32 Can our Oort cloud exchange material with Alpha Cen?
24:05 How would true colour images of exoplanets look like?
26:19 Are goofy thumbnails the zeitgeist of science channels?
29:41 Electromagnetic mass drivers on the Moon?
33:31 How long can satellites stay in orbit?
36:09 Why we don't expect life around M dwarf stars?
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November 08, 2024[Space Bites] Satellite Survives Orbital Hit // Starship Flight 6 Date // Webb Finds a Steam World
Another Starship flight is right around the corner, how to make space telescopes insanely thin, a black hole feeding faster than it should, and plans to build your own radio telescope
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00:00 Intro
00:13 Starship IFT-6 Launch Date
03:27 Satellite surviving a collision
05:12 Ultra-thin space telescopes
07:42 Aftermath of a neutron star collision
09:48 Steam world
11:25 Vote results
11:58 Black hole that's eating too fast
13:33 The end for Skylon?
15:39 Build your own telescope
17:16 Guide to Space
17:59 Questions for the interviews
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November 05, 2024 [Q&A] How Loud Was The Big Bang? Does Planet Spin Matter? Can Black Holes Revert to Stars?
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00:00 Start
00:27 [Alaris] How loud was the Big Bang?
04:06 [Ardena] Can black holes become neutron stars again?
07:35 [Asuria] Why send missions to Europa, not Enceladus?
12:17 [Belote] Will humans feel weird on a planet spinning opposite to Earth?
13:33 [Belsa] Did we see globular clusters gain or lose stars?
15:40 [Cartego] What would a Moon or Mars cars look like?
19:03 [Chulak] Can Ganymede and Titan be considered planets?
21:51 [Dakara] How loud would the Sun be?
22:40 [Edora] Can we use lasers for solar sails?
27:30 [Goronak] How does mass cross the event horizon?
30:28 [Hadante] How do we predict the lifetime of stars?
33:45 [Hebridan] Could we send mass to space to change our orbit and stop global warming?
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November 01, 2024[Space Bites] Is Sgr A* Image Wrong? // New Voyager-1 Problems // Another Sub-Surface Ocean
Is this Event Horizon image accurate? Webb scans Vega for planets, another problem with Voyager 1, and a supernova space dandelion.
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00:00 Intro
00:13 Retake for the Sgr A image?
https://www.universetoday.com/169025/the-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole-photo-might-need-a-retake/
02:32 Scanning Vega for planets
https://www.universetoday.com/169041/webb-scans-vega-for-planets/
04:20 "Alien signal" decoded
https://www.universetoday.com/169047/remember-that-alien-signal-sent-by-the-exomars-orbiter-last-year-its-just-been-decoded/
06:00 NASA's solar sail damaged
https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-solar-sail-spacecraft-damaged-spinning
07:47 New problems for Voyager-1
https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/10/28/after-pause-nasas-voyager-1-communicating-with-mission-team/
09:48 Vote results
10:28 Sub-surface ocean on Miranda
https://www.universetoday.com/169058/theres-another-ocean-moon-candidate-uranus-tiny-moon-miranda/
12:23 Titan's icy crust
https://www.universetoday.com/169048/titan-may-have-a-methane-crust-10-km-thick/
14:08 Space Dandelion
https://www.universetoday.com/169031/this-ancient-supernova-remnant-looks-like-a-stellar-dandelion/
16:04 The Guide to Space
16:45 Remote telescope testing
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October 29, 2024[Q&A] Europa Sample Return, Imaging Auroras, Winds of Titan
How hard can it be to retrieve a sample from Europa? How strong are the winds on Titan? What are the differences between different types of time dilation? Will Starship have landing legs? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show.
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00:00 Start
00:29 [Alaris] What are the weird rocket noises?
04:54 [Ardena] Could we be forever trapped on Earth because of its spin?
08:29 [Asuria] How to take pictures of auroras?
11:54 [Belote] How big is the Solar System?
15:16 [Cartego] How hard would it be to do a sample return from Europa?
21:37 [Chulak] Why worry about contaminating space probes?
25:25 [Dakara] What are the plans to explore lava tubes on Moon/Mars?
28:36 [Edora] How strong are the winds on Titan?
30:32 [Goronak] Will there be legs of Starships that go to Moon and Mars?
31:51 [Hadante] What are the chances of Europa Clipper finding plumes and sampling them?
34:20 [Hebridan] Any news on Starshot?
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