Universe Today Podcast

By Fraser Cain

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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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💯 100 Days of Webb: https://youtu.be/lpJ5x4rcH-k
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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October 30, 2022[Interview] Bacteria That Can Survive on Mars for Millions of Years with Dr Michael Daly
How do we know that certain organisms can survive for millions of years in the conditions of Mars? What do we know about them? And where should we be looking for them on Mars?
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00:00 Intro
01:36 What is Deinococcus radiodurans
07:54 How can it live for hundreds of millions of years
15:41 Mars contamination
18:52 Where should we look on Mars
25:45 Panspermia from Mars
29:00 What’s next
32:03 Outro
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October 28, 2022[Space Bites] Closest Black Hole Ever Discovered, Starlink as GPS, Early Life Killed Mars
There’s a monster black hole in our backyard (astronomically speaking). Life could survive underground on Mars for hundreds of millions of years. Starlink was hacked to work as GPS. Bad news for Arecibo.
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00:00 Intro
00:39 The closed black hole ever discovered
https://www.universetoday.com/158176/a-monster-black-hole-has-been-found-right-in-our-backyard-astronomically-speaking/
03:28 Life can hide deep within Mars
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/10/ancient-bacteria-might-lurk-beneath-mars-surface/?fj=1
06:24 Life could have killed Mars in the past
https://www.universetoday.com/158167/early-life-on-mars-might-have-wiped-out-life-on-mars/
09:50 Starlink got “hacked” and can be used as GPS alternative
11:38 Support us on Patreon
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12:19 Lucy gets a portrait of the Earth and the Moon
https://www.universetoday.com/158323/lucy-took-this-picture-of-earth-as-it-was-making-its-gravity-assist-maneuver/
14:13 Star blasts away the atmosphere from a planet
https://www.universetoday.com/158217/a-nearby-star-has-completely-blasted-away-the-atmosphere-from-its-planet/
16:38 Arecibo won’t be rebuilt
https://www.universetoday.com/158125/arecibo-wont-be-rebuilt/
19:01 Outro
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21min
October 27, 2022[Interview] Processing Astronomical Images with Judy Schmidt
All the nice space images you see on the web are processed. It's a complex process that takes the raw data from the instruments and turns them into a picture. Judy Schmidt is one of the best in this, so I talked to her about how she does it. Enjoy!
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👉 Judy's Tutorial: https://youtu.be/8kGPGhbefhI
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00:00 Intro
02:44 How did Judy get into space image processing
10:47 Pipeline for astronomical images
14:34 Astronomers and processed images
19:45 What is the image processing pipeline
25:43 Working with raw data
40:22 Scientific discoveries made while processing images
48:49 How to get into image processing
53:32 Outro
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56min
October 25, 2022[Q&A] Spaceships Made of Ice, Best Space Pet, Astronomy and Photoshop
How do you clean up astronomy images and what part does Photoshop play in it? Can you make spaceships out of ice found in space? When will SpaceX carry people to Mars? What pet will be the best companion for a long space trip? And even more questions in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain.
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00:00 Intro
01:41 [Tatooine] How do you "clean up" astronomical images?
06:41 [Coruscant] Why Moon spin is synced with Earth?
09:31 [Hoth] How many habitable worlds are out there?
13:35 [Naboo] Wen hop?
18:57 [Kamino] Best space pet?
20:46 [Bespin] Can a planet pierce through an accretion disk?
22:56 [Mustafar] Remote telescopes?
27:12 [Alderaan] Mars mission by 2029?
30:20 [Dagobah] Spaceships made of ice?
33:08 [Yavin] Why do they sit on data?
36:47 [Mandalore] How Q&As are made?
39:34 Outro
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41min
October 24, 2022[Interview] Understanding Dark Energy With Most Detailed Supernovae Survey | Dr Dillon Brout
Dark Energy will determine how the Universe will die. With the help of Pantheon+, the most detailed survey of Type 1A supernovae, astronomers can understand more details about Dark Energy and the expansion of spacetime.
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00:00 Intro
01:50 What is Pantheon+
13:47 Can we predict Type 1A supernovae
17:07 How to use Type 1A supernovae
23:33 Dark Energy and the Big Rip
27:35 Crisis in Cosmology
42:01 What comes next
45:05 Outro
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October 23, 2022[Meet the Team] Matt Williams, Writer
We continue to introduce the team behind Universe Today. In this episode meet Matt Williams. Fraser and Matt discussed long format writing, stories about the future of space exploration, science fiction novels Matt has written, how not to be too cynical and how to write fast and write good.
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00:00 - Intro
03:33 - Writing science fiction novels inspired by Universe Today
09:12 - Future exploration of the Solar System
12:44 - Fighting cynicism
19:15 - Writing fast. And writing good
28:08 - Writing routines
30:55 - Matt's podcast and website: https://storiesbywilliams.com/
34:16 - Outro
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October 21, 2022[Space Bites] The Big Rip Averted, Pillars of Creation by JWST, Faster Than Light Jet
The Pillars of Creation revealed by JWST. It seems like Big Rip isn't happening after all. Black holes twisting spacetime into knots. Jets that seem to be going faster than the speed of light.
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00:00 - Intro
00:38 Pillars of Creation by Webb
https://www.universetoday.com/158161/heres-webbs-view-of-the-pillars-of-creation/
03:41 Big Rip? Maybe Not!
https://pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/news/most-precise-accounting-yet-dark-energy-and-dark-matter
08:56 Black Holes Tie Spacetime into knots
https://www.universetoday.com/158086/shortly-before-they-collided-two-black-holes-tangled-spacetime-up-into-knots/
11:35 Most Powerful Gamma Ray Burst Ever Recorded
https://www.universetoday.com/158132/astronomers-just-saw-the-most-powerful-gamma-ray-burst-ever-recorded/
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14:17 Jet faster than the speed of light from a 2017 Kilonova
https://www.universetoday.com/158119/hubble-examines-the-wreckage-from-the-2017-kilonova/
16:14 A warning sign for supernovae
https://www.universetoday.com/158116/astronomers-think-they-have-a-warning-sign-for-when-massive-stars-are-about-to-explode-as-supernovae/
19:21 Outro
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October 20, 2022[The Big Q] What James Webb Discovered in Its First 100 Days
It has been exactly 100 days since we got the first images from JWST. Here's an overview of all the most important discoveries that the James Webb Space Telescope did since then.
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00:00 Intro
01:07 Science objectives for JWST
02:01 Galaxy formation and star evolution
09:15 Exoplanets
13:13 Solar system observations
17:10 Nebulae
19:54 Problems with JWST
22:02 What's next for James Webb
24:13 Outro
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