Universe Today Podcast 803: ILLEGAL Moon Residents, Space Power Plants, Center of the Universe | Q&A 179
In this week's questions show, I explain how other planets can have geostationary orbits, if sending tardigrades to the Moon is a violation of the Outerspace Treaty, and why everything orbiting the Sun is in perfect balance.
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00:00 Start
00:53 Does Venus have a geostationary orbit?
02:34 Is sending tardigrades to the Moon violate the Outerspace Treaty?
06:30 Why is everything in stable orbit around the Sun?
08:50 Is there a telescope on the ISS?
10:33 How does the solar maximum work?
13:05 Does space solar power make sense?
15:40 Do rockets have to go into orbit around the Earth first?
17:15 When will a microscope go to Mars?
19:57 Could gravitational lensing let us see beyond the observable Universe?
21:53 Where will we see the surface of other worlds?
24:19 Could you go faster to blue shift light?
26:47 Do nuclear rockets need fuel?
28:03 Does time travel slower at the centre of the Universe?
29:49 Can black holes go supernova?
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