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[Space Bites] Huge Discoveries by James Webb // Fire In Space // Quantum Squeezing
Lots of new discoveries from JWST. How a software bug killed HAKUTO-R. Kepler’s last ever exoplanets.
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00:00 Intro
00:12 JWST Spies Huge Water Plumes on Enceladus
https://www.universetoday.com/161655/jwst-spies-a-gigantic-water-plume-at-enceladus/
02:15 Ultra-Hot Jupiter Mapped by Webb
https://www.universetoday.com/161719/jwst-scans-an-ultra-hot-jupiters-atmosphere/
04:28 A Bug That Crashed Hakuto-R
https://www.universetoday.com/161661/hakuto-rs-software-got-confused-at-the-last-minute-causing-it-to-crash-into-the-moon/
06:35 New Spaceflight Record
08:22 Ingenuity Went Silent. But It’s Back
https://www.universetoday.com/161667/nasas-mars-helicopter-went-silent-for-six-agonizing-days/
10:15 Kepler’s Last Planets
https://www.universetoday.com/161680/the-kepler-missions-final-three-planets/
11:55 Best Space Bite from Last Week
12:37 The Soot Zone
https://www.universetoday.com/161593/a-new-place-to-search-for-habitable-planets-the-soot-line/
14:45 Support Us on Patreon
15:49 LIGO’s Fully Operational Again
https://www.universetoday.com/161553/after-three-years-of-upgrades-ligo-is-fully-operational-again/
17:59 Fire in Space
https://www.universetoday.com/161724/esa-is-testing-how-iron-burns-in-weightlessness/
19:41 James Webb teams up with Chandra and Hubble
https://www.universetoday.com/161551/chandra-and-jwst-join-forces-in-a-stunning-series-of-images/
20:52 Outro
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6/2/2023
22:08
NASA Selected Blue Origin // Galaxies Getting More Impossible // First (Exo)Radiation Belt
NASA chooses another lander for Artemis V. The first radiation belt ever seen outside the Solar System. And those impossible galaxies might be even more massive than we thought.
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00:00 Intro
00:15 Blue Origin wins NASA Moon Landing Contract
https://www.universetoday.com/161484/artemis-v-is-going-to-the-moon-with-blue-origin/
03:12 Hakuto-R Landing Site
https://www.universetoday.com/161554/nasa-may-have-found-hakuto-rs-crash-site/
04:26 First Ever Radiation Belt Outside Our Solar System
https://www.universetoday.com/161403/an-astronomical-first-a-radiation-belt-seen-outside-the-solar-system/
06:19 How ESO Allocates Telescope Time
https://www.universetoday.com/161486/eso-is-using-a-new-system-to-allocate-telescope-time-its-working-well/
08:03 “Impossible” Galaxies May Be Even Impossiblier
https://www.universetoday.com/161457/remember-those-impossibly-massive-galaxies-they-may-be-even-more-massive/
11:56 Last Week's Best Space Bite
https://youtu.be/kGDXuP4bvqQ
12:33 FRB That Went Through A Star
https://www.universetoday.com/161507/astronomers-watched-a-fast-radio-burst-go-right-through-a-stars-atmosphere/
14:16 Q&As with Fraser Cain
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmm6bfexWT6vSK9Jc4zgep
15:25 Strange Matter Cores for Neutron Stars
https://www.universetoday.com/161514/the-heaviest-neutron-stars-could-have-strange-matter-cores/
16:54 Polar Cyclone on Uranus
https://www.universetoday.com/161541/theres-a-polar-cyclone-on-uranus-north-pole/
18:26 Outro
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5/26/2023
19:35
[Interview] What Did NASA Discover With TESS' First Complete Mission
It's already been five years since NASA's TESS mission was launched. Now it completed its first full mission observing the sky and hunting for exoplanets. In this interview, I'm talking with Nicole Colon from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center about the results from TESS and what can come next for the mission.
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00:00 Intro
01:12 How's TESS doing
06:52 Results from TESS
10:30 TESS VS Kepler
20:16 Most exciting planets
30:42 TESS and Earth-like worlds
39:53 Super TESS
48:46 What's next
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5/25/2023
54:27
[Q&A] Did The Universe Come From Nothing? Can Stars Be Alive? What's The Best Nebula?
Could stars and planets be living organisms? Is LHC dangerous for the Earth? How do neutrino detectors work? Does the Big Bang suggest that everything around us came from nothing? What will happen if we create a black hole on Earth? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A.
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👉 Ultimate Solar System
https://planetplanet.net/2018/05/30/the-black-hole-ultimate-solar-system/
00:00 Start
01:03 [Tatooine] How does something come from nothing?
07:07 [Coruscant] Could stars be alive and conscious?
12:18 [Hoth] Is the LHC dangerous for the Earth?
15:26 [Naboo] What if we create a black hole on Earth?
18:57 [Kamino] How neutrino detectors work?
22:15 [Bespin] What's the maximum number of planets a star can have?
26:47 [Mustafar] How Universe Today changed over the years?
30:29 [Alderaan] Favourite nebula?
30:50 [Dagobah] What's the largest milestone we can live to see?
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5/23/2023
34:50
[Interview] Aliens' Perspective of Technosignatures from Earth
If an extra-terrestrial civilisation saw the Earth, what technosignatures could they pick up? What could they learn about life on our planet and human civilisation in particular? I'm discussing that with Dr Michael Garrett who is the Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.
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👉 Simulation of the Earth’s radio-leakage from mobile towers as seen from selected nearby stellar systems:
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/522/2/2393/7028804
00:00 Intro
02:11 Biosignatures in modern Astronomy
06:46 Technosignatures VS biosignatures
13:07 Loudest technosignatures of Earth
18:27 Earth from the perspective of aliens
32:31 Satellite constellations
38:00 Going into wires
42:49 Leaked transmissions
46:09 Becoming an alien hunter
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