Universe Today Podcast

By Fraser Cain

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November 29, 2024[Space Bites] What's Inside Uranus // Dragonfly Launch Secured // Best JWST Image of 2024
Dragonfly is taking a Falcon Heavy to Titan, What’s inside Uranus?, Russia’s cargo ship delivers a stinky smell to the station, and testing robots to go under the ice on Europa.
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00:00 Intro
00:15 A ride for Dragonfly
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-for-dragonfly-mission/
01:30 Inside Uranus
https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/11/25/a-clue-to-what-lies-beneath-the-bland-surfaces-of-uranus-and-neptune/
03:51 Europa Clipper unrolls its instruments
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/nasas-europa-clipper-millions-of-miles-down-instruments-deploying/
05:50 Robots for under the ice exploration
https://www.universetoday.com/169887/testing-the-robots-that-might-explore-europa/
06:56 Baby planet
https://www.universetoday.com/169863/astronomers-find-a-3-million-year-old-planet/
08:17 Vote results
08:49 Haolong haoloooong
https://www.universetoday.com/169703/chinas-proposed-cargo-shuttle-the-haolong-has-entered-development/
10:08 Russian spaceship stinks
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/11/after-russian-ship-docks-to-space-station-astronauts-report-a-foul-smell/
10:50 Sombrero galaxy by JWST
https://www.universetoday.com/169895/fantastic-new-image-of-the-sombrero-galaxy-from-webb/
11:42 Alien-like Jupiter
https://www.universetoday.com/169920/magnetic-tornado-is-stirring-up-the-haze-at-jupiters-poles/
13:21 SLS fireplace
https://www.universetoday.com/169912/the-holiday-fireplace-video-we-needed/
13:55 Questions for upcoming interviews
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November 28, 2024[Q&A] Fuel for Comet Tails, Detecting a Voyager's Crash, Driving Into Lava Tubes
Why don't comets run out of "tail fuel"? If Voyager crashes into something, can we tell it apart from a regular failure? What are the chances we will drive into a lava tube? Will satellite communication become dominant at some point? Answering all these and more in this Q&A show.
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00:00 Start
00:37 How can comets leave tails for thousands of years without running out?
02:57 Can we detect a hit to a Voyager?
04:20 How possible would it be to drive into a lava tube on the moon?
05:44 More Space Bites from website authors?
09:52 Does Moon getting farther away impact tides on Earth?
11:34 Will satellite communications overtake traditional on-ground ones?
16:01 Can we protect a Moon colony with an artificial magnetic field?
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22min
November 27, 2024[Interview] First Ever Steam World Found by JWST
James Webb recently detected a new kind of exoplanet. It's a steam world. How did they find it and what does it mean for the future of exoplanet search? Finding out in this interview.
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🟣 Guest: Eshan Raul
📜 JWST/NIRISS Reveals the Water-rich "Steam World" Atmosphere of GJ 9827 d
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad6f00
00:00 Intro
01:47 The Steam World
10:49 Steam worlds VS Hycean worlds
14:38 Exoplanet research with JWST
17:04 Questions from Patrons
23:33 Where can we find more of them?
30:09 Bonus part
30:46 Current obsessions
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November 27, 2024[Interview] Where Did The Mysterious JUMBOs in The Orion Nebula Come From?
JUMBOs, Jupiter Mass Binary Objects. Over 500 of them were detected in the Orion Nebula by JWST. But where did they come from? How did they form and why are they in binary pairs? My guest has a good guess about it.
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🟣 Guest: Jessica Diamond
📜Formation of Jupiter-Mass Binary Objects through photoerosion of fragmenting cores
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.09159
00:00 Intro
01:34 JUMBOs
14:02 Photoerosion
24:57 Questions from Patreon community
31:26 Side track
34:30 Final thoughts
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November 27, 2024[Q&A] Funding Space Stations After ISS, Gravity Tractor Experiment, Digital Adaptive Optics
Where will the money come from for the next generation of space stations? Does NASA have plans for a gravity tractor experiment for the Apophis flyby? Which part of the Milky Way can we see? Can there be different types of black holes? Answering all these and more in this Q&A show.
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00:00 Start
00:37 Which part of the Milky Way can we see?
02:41 Will space stations be economically viable?
05:50 Are there different types of black holes?
06:58 Can you un-distort images instead of using adaptive optics?
11:53 How do we know that far away objects are still there?
13:12 Does NASA have plans for a gravity tractor experiment?
15:58 Best time to watch auroras in Alaska?
18:11 How does light from far away get to us?
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22min
November 24, 2024 [Bonus] Cosmology, AI Doom, and the Future of Humanity
I just wrapped up an interesting conversation over at ‪DoomDebates‬ talking about the future of artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, Great Filter, Grabby Aliens and more. Check it out and subscribe to the channel.
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1h 59min
November 23, 2024[Overtime Q&A] Detecting Warp Drive Ships, Good Telescope Under $200, Solar Gravitational Lens
If there is a faster-than-light spaceship, could we detect it? Can we use the Sun as a magnifying glass? Which telescope to get under $200? Can Juno meet Europa clipper? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Overtime Q&A.
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00:00 Start
00:18 Can we detect FTL spacecraft?
03:26 Good telescope for under $200?
05:51 Could we use the Sun as a magnifying lens?
06:50 Will Juno still be operational when Clipper and Juice arrive?
07:23 Why did SpaceX develop Mechazilla?
10:51 How can the Universe be infinite if it started in the Big Bang?
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18min
November 22, 2024[Space Bites] No Booster Catch for Starship // A Star from Another Galaxy // New Explanation for Moons of Mars
Starship completes its 6th flight test, Webb analyzes a star in another galaxy and confirms the Hubble tension, again, and a new explanation for the moons of Mars.
More interviews:
👉 Nobel Prize Winner Explains JWST vs The Crisis in Cosmology
https://youtu.be/hmJOz9qCk0M
👉 Explanation for the Webb's "Impossible" Galaxies
https://youtu.be/xPK9kF2tqfk
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00:00 Intro
00:14 Starship IFT-6
https://www.universetoday.com/169736/starships-booster-and-donald-trump-make-a-splash-at-sixth-flight-test/
03:47 Zoomed in star in another galaxy
https://www.universetoday.com/169830/the-first-close-up-picture-of-star-outside-the-milky-way/
05:20 Webb confirms Hubble Tension
https://www.universetoday.com/169619/james-webb-confirms-hubbles-calculation-of-hubbles-constant/
08:31 More monster galaxies
https://www.universetoday.com/169692/three-more-galactic-monster-ultra-massive-galaxies-found/
10:22 Vote results
11:03 Stars eating their planets
https://www.universetoday.com/169702/up-to-a-third-of-stars-ate-some-of-their-planets/
12:47 How Mars got its moons
https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/mars/making-mars-moons-supercomputers-offer-disruptive-new-explanation-2/
14:37 Repurposing Mars Express camera
https://www.universetoday.com/169092/how-scientists-repurposed-a-camera-on-esas-mars-express-mission/
16:07 Guide to space
16:45 Channel updates
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November 21, 2024[Interview] How Red Dwarf Stars Could Host Habitable Planets After All
We're still waiting for the results from JWST about the atmospheres on the TRAPPIST-1 planets. But is there a way for red dwarf planets to keep atmospheres on planets. Latest research seems to show that it might be possible.
🟣 Guest: Dr. Joshua Krissansen-Totton
https://depts.washington.edu/astrobio/wordpress/profile/joshua-krissansen-totton/
📜 The erosion of large primary atmospheres typically leaves behind substantial secondary atmospheres on temperate rocky planets
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52642-6
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00:00 Intro
02:09 Problems with M dwarfs
11:22 Holding on to atmospheres
19:46 JWST observations
24:10 Habitable worlds observatory
32:40 Trappist-1 results wen?
40:22 More interviews
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43min
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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