How would they get a 14-meter mirror to space? Are we sure there's no life on the Moon? Can there be Lagrange points around Lagrange points? How much mass does Earth gain and lose to space? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:26 [Andoria] Are we sure there's no life on the Moon? 06:53 [Vulcan] 14-meter space telescope. How? 10:53 [Risa] Why are there plumes on Enceladus? 14:59 [Aeturen] Is there a telescope planned to directly image exoplanets? 18:47 [Vendikar] Lagrange points around Lagrange points? 22:37 [Remus] Can you grind your own glass for a telescope? 25:12 [Janus] How much mass does Earth gain/lose? 28:11 [Cait] How much does time on JWST cost? 28:46 [Betazed] Can Earth remain habitable when the Sun expands? 33:01 [Cheleb] Does Hawking radiation travel faster than light? 34:12 [Nimbus] Did JWST find a Dyson sphere? 38:27 [Belos] How to keep up with space news? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/3OW9PaNm03Y 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Lava tubes are one of the most interesting places on the Moon. They can be a great place for a potential lunar base, but they also can be a time capsule that can tell us about the entire history of the Moon. And there's a very interesting mission in development that could explore lava tubes. It's called Lunar Leaper. Guest: Dr Anna Mittelholz 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 03:08 Lava tubes 07:31 Lunar Leaper 13:11 Hopping on the Moon 24:04 Going inside a lava tube 27:28 Mars lava tubes 30:44 Mars magnetosphere 36:45 Why don't they just ... crash things into Mars 39:34 Current obsessions 45:15 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/TJIcpl9sk8E 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Starship is ready for its 4th flight, Webb finds the most distant galaxy ever seen, a new way to detect Hawking Radiation, and fresh volcanoes on Venus. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 Starship Flight 4 Coming Soon 01:55 Starliner might finally fly humans to space 02:47 James Webb sees the most the distant galaxy 04:58 New way to measure black hole rotation https://www.universetoday.com/167127/a-new-way-to-measure-the-rotation-of-black-holes/ 06:44 Possible way to see Hawking radiation https://www.universetoday.com/167112/merging-black-holes-could-give-astronomers-a-way-to-detect-hawking-radiation/ 08:32 Giant stars disappearing https://www.universetoday.com/167171/hundreds-of-massive-stars-have-simply-disappeared/ 10:42 Vote results 11:18 China's about to land on the Moon 13:07 Sorry, Spock! Vulcan is not a planet https://www.universetoday.com/167161/sorry-spock-but-vulcan-isnt-a-planet-after-all/ 14:28 Volcanos on Venus https://www.universetoday.com/167156/volcanoes-were-erupting-on-venus-in-the-1990s/ 15:39 Akatsuki lost connection 16:32 Cool images and videos 18:10 Newsletter 19:15 Missions to Venus 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Rta_pbpGAGM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Where can we observe the effects of dark matter? How did all satellites survive the recent solar storms? Why auroras can show different colours? If we found Planet X, could we even observe it? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:24 [Andoria] Where can we observe dark matter? 08:02 [Vulcan] How good are MOND theories? 11:21 [Risa] Why did we survive all the recent solar storms so well? 15:23 [Aeturen] Can we even see Planet X if it actually exists? 20:43 [Vendikar] Can multiple scientists use JWST at the same time? 24:23 [Remus] Can neutrinos be dark matter? 28:15 [Janus] Why some auroras are pink and not green? 29:50 [Cait] What is the Drake equation? 32:58 [Betazed] Falling into a black hole 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/WDFW_-dWT8A 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

NASA selected the Agnostic Life Finder (ALF) for Phase 1 in 2024. It will be studying a possibility to search for existing and past life on Mars alongside the in situ resource utilization process. How will this device work and what potential implications could it have? Finding out with Dr Jan Spacek. 👉 Dr Jan Spacek: https://www.alfamars.org/team/jan-spacek/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 02:23 The NIAC Proposal for ALF 17:25 Life as we don't know it 23:31 What's next for the NIAC project 27:45 The Morning Star mission to Venus 35:37 IMPRESS mission to Mars 43:55 Europa and Enceladus 50:19 Finding life 53:50 Current obsessions 55:33 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/dcf87fYciXM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

A proposal for a giant new space telescope, a Venus-sized world in a star’s habitable zone, Vera Rubin gets its camera, and the first data release from Euclid. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 SALTUS: Giant 14m space telescope proposal https://www.universetoday.com/167083/astronomers-propose-a-14-meter-infrared-space-telescope/ 03:32 New ExoVenus planet found https://www.universetoday.com/167096/a-new-venus-sized-world-found-in-the-habitable-zone-of-its-star/ 05:07 Massive Protoplanetary disk https://www.universetoday.com/167038/this-is-the-largest-planet-forming-disk-ever-seen/ 06:24 Voyager-1's Back for Real https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/05/22/voyager-1-resumes-sending-science-data-from-two-instruments/ 07:27 China's space aquarium https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-05-19/Aquatic-antics-Fish-exhibit-disorientation-in-China-Space-Station-1tJt4wprXMY/p.html 09:11 Vote results 10:27 More Evidence for Gravitational Wave Background https://www.universetoday.com/167058/more-evidence-for-the-gravitational-wave-background-of-the-universe/ 13:09 Vera Rubin Got Its Camera https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2413/ 14:25 Euclid data release https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/ESA_s_Euclid_celebrates_first_science_with_sparkling_cosmic_views 16:23 More space news 17:32 ExoVenus 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/JPFx3yBDQxg 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Getting to Enceladus is cool. However, it's not yet possible because there isn't enough budget for it. How can we make missions like that happen despite the budget limitations? Finding out the answers with Dr Manasvi Lingam. 👉 Manasvi Lingam's Google Scholar Page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XLPj80AAAAAJ&hl=en 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 02:17 Why Enceladus 03:46 How can NASA cut costs 08:24 Mission profile 15:06 The science 24:23 Alternative approaches 31:21 Practical demonstration 37:44 Out of the box ideas 52:57 Current obsessions 58:41 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/GxGl80RDrkI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

A new answer for Mars methane, BepiColumbo is having thruster problems, three of the oldest stars in the Universe found nearby, and the best auroras in decades. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 Mars Methane Mystery https://www.universetoday.com/167003/new-answers-for-mars-methane-mystery/ 02:50 BepiColombo in Trouble https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Glitch_on_BepiColombo_work_ongoing_to_restore_spacecraft_to_full_thrust 04:40 Oldest Stars in the Universe https://www.universetoday.com/167001/three-of-the-oldest-stars-in-the-universe-found-circling-the-milky-way/ 06:19 Crazy Auroras https://www.universetoday.com/166955/what-a-weekend-spectacular-aurora-photos-from-around-the-world/ 07:35 Vote results 08:14 Supermassive Black Holes' Origin https://www.universetoday.com/166947/supermassive-black-holes-got-started-from-massive-cosmic-seeds/ 10:12 Bright star mystery https://www.universetoday.com/167007/a-star-became-1000-times-brighter-and-now-astronomers-know-why/ 11:36 Amazing Hubble images 12:59 More space news 13:57 How to see an aurora 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/6z9RV-dm7eU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

How exactly does Gaia operate? What should we expect from it in the near future? When and why will it come to an end? And what comes after Gaia? Finding out the answers with Dr Berry Holl. 👉 Gaia Black Hole 3 discovery seminar at the Department of astronomy Geneva https://mediaserver.unige.ch/play/218992 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 02:48 Meet Dr Berry Holl 05:02 How Gaia works 12:56 Measuring the speed of stars 22:14 Limits of Gaia 32:10 Anomalies from Gaia 40:25 When will Gaia end 48:48 What comes next 01:01:33 Current obsessions 01:02:56 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/RyEVmDH5Cdk 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

SpaceX announces their new spacewalking suit, China is off to the Moon again, progress on Vera Rubin, and take a one-way trip into a black hole. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:12 SpaceX EVA suit https://polarisprogram.com/eva-suit-unveil/ 02:15 New evidence for Planet 9 https://www.universetoday.com/166889/new-evidence-for-our-solar-systems-ghost-planet-nine/ 03:57 Vera Rubin's Mirror is done https://www.universetoday.com/166842/vera-rubins-primary-mirror-gets-its-first-reflective-coating/ 05:35 China's Chang'e-6 Moon mission https://www.universetoday.com/166876/china-is-going-back-to-the-moon-again-with-change-6/ 07:20 Vote results 08:13 NIAC phase 2 https://www.universetoday.com/166883/nasa-takes-six-advanced-tech-concepts-to-phase-ii/ 10:18 Dinkinesh's moonlet is young https://www.universetoday.com/166855/dinkineshs-moonlet-is-only-2-3-million-years-old/ 11:31 Why white dwarf stars have so much metal https://jila.colorado.edu/news-events/articles/hungry-hungry-white-dwarfs-solving-puzzle-stellar-metal-pollution 12:56 Dive into a black hole https://www.universetoday.com/166903/fall-into-a-black-hole-with-this-new-nasa-simulation/ 13:51 More space news 14:40 How science works 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/_OIfxkBc4-8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast