How to Measure Distance in the Universe

Gravitational wave background of the Universe. A map of the Milky Way in neutrinos. More new discoveries from JWST. A major update for Starship.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 00:13 Gravitational Waves Announcement
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/162188/after-decades-of-observations-astronomers-have-finally-sensed-the-pervasive-background-hum-of-merging-supermassive-black-holes/

• 04:12 IceCube maps the Milky Way
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/162239/icecube-makes-a-neutrino-map-of-the-milky-way/

• 06:12 Ancient quasars seen by James Webb
  
  

  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06345-5.epdf

• 08:31 Key element for life in Orion Nebula
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/162140/another-key-molecule-for-life-found-in-space-by-jwst/

• 10:06 Saturn by JWST
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/162208/here-come-jwsts-first-images-of-saturn/

• 11:11 Last week's vote
  
  

  • https://youtu.be/5jw_cHqT8QU

• 11:46 Euclid ready for launch
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/162127/two-new-space-telescopes-will-bring-dark-energy-into-focus/

• 13:36 Possible planets in Oort cloud
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/162077/there-could-be-captured-planets-in-the-oort-cloud/

• 15:40 How to support what we do
  
  

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• 16:43 Another way to measure space distances
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/162098/a-new-way-to-measure-distances-in-the-universe/

• 18:50 Starship hot staging

• 20:07 Virgin Galactic completes first commercial flight

• 20:46 Outro

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