Universe Today Podcast

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Curiosity gets a rock stuck to its drill. NASA releases over 12,000 images of the Artemis II mission. The new Pandora Space Telescope sees first light. How Io's lava lakes are hotter than we thought. And in Space Bites+, a meteorite that is very similar to the planet Mercury.
00:00 Intro

]00:19 NASA Releases 12,000 Artemis II Photos https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/ShowQueryResults-TextTable.pl?results=1778194875140121

02:15 Curiosity Lifting Rocks on Mars https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4879-4885-struggle-at-atacama/

03:33 Pandora's first light https://www.universetoday.com/articles/first-images-from-the-pandora-exoplanet-mission

05:31 ESPRESSO Telescope https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-paranal-solar-espresso-telescope-a-new-tool-for-finding-exoplanets

07:42 Io's superhot https://www.universetoday.com/articles/we-might-have-massively-underestimated-ios-thermal-output

09:30 Radar drones https://www.universetoday.com/articles/drones-scanning-earths-glaciers-are-paving-the-way-for-future-mars-helicopters

11:25 Vote results 11:51 Subaru on 3I/ATLAS https://www.universetoday.com/articles/subaru-telescope-reveals-new-data-on-the-interior-composition-of-3iatlas

13:20 Superionic ice inside ice giants https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-new-quasi-1d-state-of-matter-could-be-hiding-inside-ice-giant-planets

15:34 BONUS STORY https://www.universetoday.com/articles/how-a-meteorite-helps-explain-mercurys-chemical-makeup

17:40 My current obsessions

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:16
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How hard is it to keep rocket fuel in space? Which is better, a Moon mission on the surface or in orbit? How would a space station look like in a binary planet system? And in Q&A+, could we launch a probe into a black hole?
00:00 Intro

00:24 [@geohondo] Is it problematic to keep rocket fuel in space for extended time?

07:09 [@drewd2] Would a lunar base be more effective for reducing the cost of space exploration?

09:32 [@vistotutti6037] Are we capable of launching Voyager class probes out of our solar system today?

12:21 [@thelightrunner2612] Would a large space station at the barycentre of binary planets work?

15:16 [@JohnnyApplleseed] What could we learn from launching a probe into a black hole?

17:14 Science VS Religion

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:25
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00:00 Intro

00:25 [@paigepotter4682] If we detected a technosignature tomorrow, what’s the first thing scientists would argue about?

04:46 [@Jimdica] Could humanity fall victim of an alien infohazard?

08:06 [@savr4est] Will AI find alien first?

10:55 [@terryhardaway3285] Would there be a CHZ for earth sized moons around rouge brown dwarfs?

13:25 [@EdSceptic-y2e] How far realistically do you think biological humans will ever get from Earth?

15:46 Books I read

BONUS STORY STARTS AT 18:18
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New info about 3I/ATLAS, NASA tests a new high-power ion engine, did dark matter power early black hole formation, why is half the Milky Way hotter than the other? And in Space Bites+, different sources for two of Uranus moons.
00:00 Intro

00:15 More info on 3I/ATLAS https://www.universetoday.com/articles/interstellar-comet-3iatlas-left-a-trail-of-methane-in-its-wake https://www.universetoday.com/articles/new-research-reveals-that-interstellar-comet-3iatlas-formed-in-a-system-far-colder-than-our-own

04:04 NASA tests new ion engine https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-fires-up-powerful-lithium-fed-thruster-for-trips-to-mars/

06:45 NO to NASA budget cuts https://spacenews.com/house-appropriators-keep-nasa-funding-flat/

07:50 Earliest SMBH Mystery https://www.universetoday.com/articles/is-the-earliest-supermassive-black-hole-mystery-solved

09:46 Vote results https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/posts

10:15 Milky Way’s Hot Side https://www.universetoday.com/articles/our-galaxy-has-a-hot-side-and-now-we-know-why

11:56 Where's the edge of the Milky Way https://www.universetoday.com/articles/astronomers-find-the-edge-of-the-milky-ways-star-forming-disc

13:52 Disappearing exoplanets https://www.universetoday.com/articles/toi-201-planets-are-wobbling-out-of-our-line-of-sight

16:02 That's no moon https://www.universetoday.com/articles/jwst-hunts-for-an-earth-moon-twin-in-a-habitable-zone-but-the-star-has-other-plans

18:18 BONUS STORY

20:45 More space news

21:16 Working with Vera Rubin data

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:48
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What did we really find on Mars? Could we find actual fossils there? How was the most detailed 3D-map of the Universe made? And in Q&A+, what's the deal with Iapetus and its huge ridge?
Q&A 00:00 Intro

00:22 [@HanSolo__] Did we find marks of past primitive life on Mars?

05:15 [@geohondo] Could we find an actual skeletal fossil on mars?

07:18 [@louisnelsonsmith] How DESI works

15:48 [@TheGoldishFish] Why does Saturn moon Iapetus have that huge equatorial ridge?

18:03 The Q&A format