Universe Today Podcast

By Fraser Cain

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November 05, 2023[Interview] How Antimatter Propulsion Can Enable Interstellar Travel
There are many sci-fi interstellar space engines that allow interstellar travel. But realistically we only have one option, which is antimatter propulsion. Why is it so and how does it work? Finding out with Mark Pickrell.
More interviews:
👉 Realistic Interstellar Travel:
https://youtu.be/SkGRVvA23qI
👉 Solar Sails Interview:
https://youtu.be/W-E83lC-eN0
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00:00 Intro
03:08 Why antimatter
07:21 How do antimatter rockets work
21:16 Potential problems
25:38 What would a mission look like
32:03 Critical analysis
39:38 Current obsessions
41:12 Final thoughts and more interviews
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November 03, 2023[Space Bites] Ancient Planet Inside Earth // HUGE Exoplanet Discovery // Cannibal Betelgeuse
A new system found with 7 Earth and Super-Earth Sized planet, the remains of another planet inside the Earth, and it’s time to replace your wallpaper again with this new image of the Crab Nebula from JWST.
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00:00 Intro
00:18 Sun-like star system with 7 planets
https://www.nasa.gov/general/scorching-seven-planet-system-revealed-by-new-kepler-exoplanet-list/
02:54 Ancient planet inside Earth
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/the-remains-of-an-ancient-planet-lie-deep-within-earth
04:11 Cannibal Betelgeuse
https://www.universetoday.com/163998/did-betelgeuse-consume-a-smaller-star/
06:16 Crab nebula by JWST
https://www.universetoday.com/163977/the-crab-reveals-its-secrets-to-jwst/
07:54 Vote results
https://youtu.be/nQXPuYTMAoM
08:26 SagA spinning as fast as possible
https://www.universetoday.com/163924/the-milky-ways-black-hole-is-spinning-as-fast-as-it-can/
10:17 Rogue planet factories
https://www.universetoday.com/163940/misaligned-binary-star-systems-are-rogue-planet-factories/
12:19 Support us on Patreon
13:02 Lucy flyby
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-lucy-spacecraft-discovers-2nd-asteroid-during-dinkinesh-flyby/
13:46 Map of ice on Mars
https://www.universetoday.com/163937/a-new-map-shows-where-mars-is-hiding-all-its-ice/
15:01 Collapsed lava chamber
https://www.universetoday.com/164015/a-collapsed-martian-lava-chamber-seen-from-space/
16:08 Lava tubes for Mars exploration
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October 31, 2023 [Interview] Did Venus Have Plate Tectonics?
Plate tectonics might be the key to why Venus had become the hell it is right now. Some think that it just never had it. But recent studies suggest that Venus did have plate tectonics at the same time Earth did. Why is it important? Figuring it out with Dr Matt Weller.
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00:00 Intro
01:23 How bad Venus really is
04:44 Plate tectonics
17:05 Will Earth follow Venus' fate
18:40 When was Venus habitable
20:54 How can we learn more
28:00 Finding similar things in exoplanets
32:35 Current obsessions
📺 VIDEO VERSION
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39min
October 31, 2023[Q&A] AI Pilots for Space Missions, A New Big Bang, Falsifiable Dark Matter
Could another Big Bang happen in our existing Universe? Is dark matter theory falsifiable? Should we allow AI to control spacecraft? How many things can you put in a Lagrange point? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A.
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00:00 Start
01:50 [Andoria] Should we put satellites on a supersynchronous orbit?
06:23 [Vulcan] Should we use AI to pilot spacecraft?
08:02 [Risa] Could another Big Bang happen in our Universe?
11:11 [Aeturen] Where did the Weekly Space Hangout go?
15:00 [Vendikar] Is dark matter falsifiable?
22:47 [Remus] What's going on with phosphine on Venus?
25:50 [Janus] Can you fit multiple spacecraft in a Lagrange point?
28:16 [Cait] Can a supernova destroy its star companions?
32:31 [Betazed] Where's the future the futurists of the sixties promised us?
34:57 [Cheleb] Is the L3 point good for anything?
📺 VIDEO VERSION
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October 30, 2023[Interview] Event Horizon Telescope. But 10 Times Better
We got two images of supermassive black hole with the Event Horizon Telescope. But can we make it better? How can we take the telescope to the next level and resolve a photon ring of a black hole? Finding out with Ben Hudson, System Engineer from KISPE Space.
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00:00 Intro
01:50 What is a photon ring
04:56 Structure around black holes
08:36 How can we resolve the photon ring
12:51 Making the Event Horizon Telescope bigger
44:28 What can we learn from the photon ring
53:10 Final thoughts and more interviews
More interviews:
👉 Far infrared interferometer:
https://youtu.be/3N03G9WbYqo
👉 Giant space interferometers
https://www.youtube.com/live/RSPpakbgUS0?si=zi9XTHXS-7ur0q9v
📺 VIDEO VERSION
https://youtu.be/O6hX70YvPms
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56min
October 27, 2023[Space Bites] Three Stars Disappeared // So Much JWST News // Io's Global Magma Ocean
Three stars mysteriously vanished. So much JWST new. Hundreds of volcanoes on Io. Starship is ready to fly again.
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00:00 Intro
01:53 Three Stars Vanished
https://www.universetoday.com/163820/in-1952-a-group-of-three-stars-vanished-astronomers-still-cant-find-them/
04:34 Fomalhaut's companions
http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15028
06:28 Jupiter's new weather feature
https://www.universetoday.com/163817/a-new-weather-feature-was-hiding-in-jwsts-picture-of-jupiter/
07:59 Detailed look at Ganymede
http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13982
10:34 Planet debris found in a stellar disk
https://www.universetoday.com/163832/jwst-looks-at-the-debris-disc-around-a-white-dwarf/
12:35 Vote
https://youtu.be/whE6wd-cXEc
13:12 Global magma ocean on Io
https://www.universetoday.com/163811/io-has-266-active-volcanic-hotspots-linked-by-a-global-magma-ocean/
14:43 Lagest simulation of the Universe
https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/astronomers-carry-out-largest-ever-cosmological-computer-simulation
16:26 Interviews
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmnK1xmCRad_8bn0uOcmLiIE
17:37 JWST and the galaxy core
https://www.universetoday.com/163810/astronomers-want-jwst-to-study-the-milky-way-core-for-hundreds-of-hours/
19:04 Starship WDR
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1716979479845953646?t=n1pJe6mEeu7yW_Z-hxeVQA&s=19
20:01 Jupiter's Halloween face
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/just-in-time-for-halloween-nasas-juno-mission-spots-eerie-face-on-jupiter/
21:07 More on Io
📺 VIDEO VERSION
https://youtu.be/nQXPuYTMAoM
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October 26, 2023[Interview] You Don't Understand The Fermi Paradox
Are we alone in the Universe? How can we approach this question with a real scientific perspective? What would life even look like if it existed somewhere? Answering all these questions and more with Dr Adam Frank.
📕 Adam Frank's book 'Little Book of Aliens'
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-little-book-of-aliens-adam-frank
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00:00 Intro
01:15 When did we start thinking of aliens
03:47 Misunderstanding of the Fermi Paradox
10:44 End state of alien civilisation
28:33 Are aliens here
32:14 How to properly explore UFOs
36:02 Accepting that we might be alone
39:42 Best way to search for technosignatures
47:54 Current obsessions
📺 VIDEO VERSION
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56min
October 24, 2023[Q&A] How Dark Does Space Get, Mining Psyche, Danger from Rogue Planets
Can you reconstruct an image that was gravitationally lensed? How dark can outer space become? Will we ever be able to mine an asteroid? Answering all these questions and much more in this week's Q&A.
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00:00 Start
01:27 [Andoria] How dark can space be?
05:42 [Vulcan] Can you reconstruct gravitationally lensed images?
09:58 [Risa] How big does a parallax need to be for a meaningful improvement?
13:12 [Aeturen] Will we ever be mining Psyche?
15:30 [Vendikar] Which planet would I be spending my last seconds on?
18:02 [Remus] How long does it take a nebula to become a star?
20:53 [Janus] What do amino acids on asteroids really mean?
23:15 [Cait] Are rogue planets a threat for Earth?
25:28 [Betazed] What will be the first entirely space-based manufacturing industry?
26:40 [Cheleb] How with the Starship be refuelled on Mars?
29:31 [Nimbus] Why there was no warfare in space yet?
32:07 [Belos] Was I surprised finding out that antimatter falls down with gravity?
33:51 [Lyar] Do all solar systems have an Oort cloud?
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39min
October 23, 2023[Interview] Can Life Exist Around Red Dwarf Stars?
Red Dwarfs will be the longest living stars in the Universe. Many of them have planetary systems, like the famous Trappist-1. But there is a big problem, as red dwarfs can emit mega-flares which could render planets uninhabitable. Finding out, if there is any hope for finding life and how can we study red dwarfs better with Dr Ward Howard.
👉 Ward Howard's website:
https://www.wardshowardastronomer.com/
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00:00 Intro
01:31 How bad are red dwarf flares
16:28 How to solve the flares problem
21:43 Lifecycle of red dwarfs and their planets
30:02 Any hope for life?
35:25 Brown dwarfs
36:40 Our place in the Universe
41:21 Future of explanatory research
48:58 More interviews and final thoughts
More interviews:
👉 With Dr Jessie Christiansen https://youtu.be/MuH2BlHdAyw
👉 With Dr Ben Hord https://youtu.be/6b377MO20uE
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October 20, 2023Deadly Supercontinent // Pluto Super-volcano // Most Powerful Solar Storm
See the latest solar eclipse from space. A future supercontinent will wipe out the mammals. Juno makes a close flyby of Io. A planet with clouds made of sand.
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00:00 Intro
00:13 Eclipse from space
https://www.universetoday.com/163767/nasa-mission-had-the-perfect-view-for-the-recent-solar-eclipse/
03:30 Deadly supercontinent
https://www.universetoday.com/163694/in-250-million-years-a-single-supercontinent-will-form-wiping-out-nearly-all-mammals/
05:57 Juno's flyby of Io
https://www.universetoday.com/163766/juno-completes-its-closest-flyby-of-io-yet/
07:54 Planet with sand clouds
https://www.universetoday.com/163749/an-exoplanet-so-hot-it-has-clouds-made-of-quartz/
09:26 Vote
https://youtu.be/Zc8W77btzA8
10:30 Possible supervolcano on Pluto
13:40 JWST looks at Kuiper Belt
https://www.universetoday.com/163483/jwst-observes-the-kuiper-belt-sedna-gonggong-and-quaoar/
15:57 Newsletter
16:56 Powerful solar storms
https://www.universetoday.com/163712/a-monster-solar-storm-struck-earth-14300-years-ago/
19:55 Cosmic rays
https://www.universetoday.com/163711/air-showers-ruin-astrophotos-but-they-could-be-a-new-method-for-studying-the-universe/
21:31 More on solar storms
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