Universe Today Podcast

By Fraser Cain

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November 24, 2022[Interview] Chance for Life After The Sun Dies with Dr Andrew Vanderburg
Is there a chance for life to continue after the Sun eventually explodes? Can we find evidence of potentially habitable planets near white dwarfs, remnants of dead stars? How can future telescopes helo with that?
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00:00 Intro
01:30 Exoplanets around white dwarfs
10:06 Dynamics of planetary systems as their star dies
12:51 Habitable zone around white dwarfs
15:28 Search for exoplanets
26:05 A perfect telescope for the task
30:28 Biosignatures
34:37 Outro
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November 18, 2022[Space Bites] Artemis 1 Launch, Secret Space Plane Returns, James Webb Protection Plan
SLS finally launches to the Moon. SpaceX get another contract from NASA. James Webb gets a protection plan from micrometeoroids. China continues to trash the orbit. Secret space plane returns.
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00:00 Intro
00:35 NASA’s plan to protect JWST
https://www.universetoday.com/158663/nasa-has-a-plan-to-minimize-future-micrometeoroid-impacts-on-jwst/
03:06 Firey Hourglass by James Webb
https://www.universetoday.com/158673/the-latest-jwst-image-shows-a-star-in-the-earliest-stage-of-formation/
04:39 Artemis 1 Launch
https://www.universetoday.com/158654/artemis-i-is-on-its-way-to-the-moon/
09:48 CAPSTONE arrives at Moon orbit
10:22 More Lunar Starships for NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-spacex-second-contract-option-for-artemis-moon-landing-0/
12:15 14-Raptor test of SuperHeavy
13:04 Support us on Patreon
13:47 China continues to trash orbit
14:58 Brightest Satellite Deployed
https://www.space.com/bluewalker-3-satellite-deploys-largest-commercial-array
16:25 The X-37B is Back After 908 Days in Orbit
https://www.universetoday.com/158647/the-x-37b-is-back-after-908-days-in-orbit-what-was-it-doing-up-there-thats-classified/
18:01 Outro
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November 16, 2022[Interview] The Existential Threat of Solar Storms with Dr Benjamin Pope
How trees can tell us a story of previous solar storms? What are the chances of having another Carrington-scale event and what would it mean? How can we understand solar storms better?
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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:49 Meet Dr Benjamin Pope
00:02:53 Tree rings and solar storms
00:20:28 What other ways can we study solar storms
00:24:48 Can lunar samples give an answer
00:26:48 Our place in the Universe
00:35:44 Outro
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November 16, 2022[Q&A] Harvesting Dark Energy, Making Own Telescope, Escaping Gravity Wells
How hard is it to escape the gravity wells of massive planets for other civilizations? How hard is it to make your own telescopes? How do gas clouds become stars? Can we harvest dark energy after the Heat Death?
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00:00 Start
02:43 [Tatooine] Can we use dark energy after heat death?
07:37 [Coruscant] How close are the stars in the Pillars of Creation?
09:39 [Hoth] How long does light from star cores take to get out?
13:22 [Naboo] Did NASA solve the solar panels problem with the Lucy mission?
15:32 [Kamino] Does matter expand as spacetime expands?
18:32 [Bespin] Do you subscribe to the Big Bang Theory?
23:13 [Mustafar] Can you escape the gravity wells of massive planets?
25:57 [Alderaan] How to make your own telescope?
29:18 [Dagobah] What is the Great Attractor?
33:11 [Yavin] How stable is Jupiter's L1 Lagrange point?
36:30 [Mandalore] How gas becomes a star?
39:43 Outro
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November 11, 2022[Space Bites] SLS In Trouble, James Webb Fixed, Strange Quark Star
JWST’s MIRI is fully operational again, have astronomers found the first strange star?, the first test of an inflatable heat shield, and SLS just got hit by a Hurricane.
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00:00 Intro
01:10 JWST is fixed
https://www.universetoday.com/158588/woohoo-jwsts-mid-infrared-instrument-is-fully-operational-again/
03:34 First strange star found?
https://www.universetoday.com/158331/the-smallest-lightest-neutron-star-ever-seen-could-be-a-strange-star/
06:56 NASA and ULA test an inflatable heat shield test
10:49 Artemis I delayed again
13:23 InSight's last image
https://www.universetoday.com/158553/this-is-probably-the-last-picture-well-see-from-insight-on-mars/
15:06 Support us on Patreon
15:53 China's space station is complete
https://www.universetoday.com/158540/china-launches-mengtian-the-last-major-module-to-its-space-station/
17:18 Black hole's jets
https://www.universetoday.com/158513/a-black-holes-jets-are-coming-from-a-region-2000-km-away-from-the-singularity-itself/
19:53 Outro
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November 09, 2022 [Bonus] Dr Brian Keating interviews Fraser Cain
This in an interview with Dr Brian Keating that happened on his YouTube channel. We talk about how Universe Today runs, what do I want to achieve with it, how science journalism works in general and much more.
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November 08, 2022[Q&A] Quantum Computers for Astronomy, Catching Interstellar Guests, The Book Club
Can we catch the next interstellar visitor? Why do black holes' accretion disks glow? Can we make spaceships out of asteroids? How do we know that dark matter and dark energy actually exist? All that in this week's episode of Q&A with Fraser Cain. And we've started the Book Club!
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00:00 Start
01:39 [Tatooine] Why do accretion disks glow?
06:19 [Coruscant] Can redshift create a light trail?
10:13 [Hoth] Can we turn asteroids into spaceships?
13:45 [Naboo] Book Club: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
18:03 [Kamino] What's the current state of quantum computers?
22:54 [Bespin] Can we catch the next Oumuamua-type object?
27:53 [Mustafar] How do we know dark matter and dark energy exist?
34:12 [Alderaan] How can there be something beyond the observable universe?
36:51 [Dagobah] How will AI affect astronomy?
39:26 [Yavin] Would I freeze myself to see the future?
41:24 Outro
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November 05, 2022[Space Bites] Worrying Solar Storm Data, Falcon Heavy is Back, Total Lunar Eclipse
Historical data about solar storms carved in trees, and it's a bit worrying. Falcon Heavy's back after 40 months of absence. There's a meteor shower and a total lunar eclipse in the coming days. And JWST gave us yet another version of Pillars of Creation.
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00:00 Intro
00:33 Even more Pillars of Creation by Webb
https://www.universetoday.com/158384/another-version-of-the-pillars-of-creation-from-webb/
03:20 Meteor shower and Total Lunar Eclipse
https://www.universetoday.com/158356/possible-taurid-meteor-outburst-for-2022/
https://www.universetoday.com/158196/our-guide-to-tuesdays-total-lunar-eclipse/
06:38 Star Storms in Tree Rings
https://www.universetoday.com/158351/the-most-devastating-solar-storms-in-history-are-scoured-into-tree-rings/
09:30 Heavy Elements from Neutron Stars Merger
https://www.universetoday.com/158379/not-just-gold-colliding-neutron-stars-forge-strontium-lanthanum-and-cerium/
11:23 Support us on Patreon
12:18 InSight Felt a Meteor Strike on Mars
https://www.universetoday.com/158390/insight-felt-the-ground-shake-from-a-meteorite-impact-on-mars/
14:09 Falcon Heavy flies again
https://www.universetoday.com/158447/falcon-heavy-launches-for-the-first-time-in-over-three-years-carrying-military-satellites-to-orbit/
15:12 Psyche mission is back on track
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-continues-psyche-asteroid-mission/
16:32 Channel updates
18:12 Outro
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November 01, 2022[Interview] James Webb, LUVOIR and Mindblowing Future Projects
What's the current state of James Webb? What were the main technical difficulties and what does the future look like? What comes after JWST and LUVOIR? Will it be possible to ever build a quantum telescope?
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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:36 Current state of JWST science
00:08:42 JWST data release mechanisms
00:16:34 Evolution of the Periodic table
00:19:03 Technical challenges of JWST
00:24:06 Expectations VS reality of operating Webb
00:31:52 Damage and current health of JWST
00:45:14 Architecture for the next telescopes
00:59:37 Non-conventional concepts of future telescopes
01:03:47 Quantum telescopes
01:17:16 Outro
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November 01, 2022[Q&A] DART Successor, Fixing Space Debris, Viking Missions Controversy
If Moon was created with a big collision, where's the crater? Can we fix the space trash problem? Is doing Astronomy just a waste of money that can be better spent elsewhere? What will come after DART? All this and more in this week's Q&A.
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00:00 Start
02:01 [Tatooine] Is Astronomy just a waste of money?
07:17 [Coruscant] How do scientists react to being wrong?
09:25 [Hoth] Where's Theia's crater?
11:22 [Naboo] If no Big Rip, what's left?
14:52 [Kamino] What about returning to the Moon?
17:22 [Bespin] Is life everywhere?
20:34 [Mustafar] Will there be DART successors?
24:23 [Alderaan] How to fix space debris?
28:53 [Dagobah] EHT but in space?
34:26 [Yavin] Dark energy after heat death?
37:29 [Mandalore] Viking missions controversy?
42:39 Outro
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