Universe Today Podcast

By Fraser Cain

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August 16, 2024[Space Bites] Huge Lake on Mars // Fate of Milkdromeda // Hope for VIPER Rover
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.
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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
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August 15, 2024[Interview] Can Dark Matter Solve One Of The Biggest Mysteries of Black Holes?
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
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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
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August 13, 2024 [Overtime Q&A] Why Is Uranus On Its Side? A Telescope for $200? Can We Build More Planets?
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.
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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?
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August 12, 2024[Interview] Why Is Nobody Talking About Multi-Stage Interstellar Spaceships?
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:
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🟣 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
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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
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August 09, 2024[Space Bites] China's Space Junk // Graphene on the Moon // Best Meteor Shower Is Here
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?
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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
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August 08, 2024 [Interview] How Simulated Observations Help Future Telescopes
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.
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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
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August 06, 2024[Overtime Q&A] Things Falling Into Black Holes, Interstellar Medium, Beyond Science
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.
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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
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August 06, 2024 [Q&A] Things Falling Into Black Holes, Interstellar Medium, Beyond Science
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.
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August 05, 2024[Interview] When Will James Webb Finally Reveal the TRAPPIST-1 Atmospheres Results?
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.
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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
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August 02, 2024[Space Bites] Dark Oxygen in Deep Ocean // Solar Cycles // Starliner Suspense
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.
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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
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