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Black Widow pulsars consume their partners. But if there were advanced alien species, it could be a perfect way to produce energy and move the stars around. They could also use pulsars as a global galactic navigation system. How exactly could they achieve it? Finding out in this interview. 🦄 Get the extra part for free here: patreon.com/universetoday 🟣 Guest: Dr. Clément Vidal https://www.clemvidal.com/ 📜 The Spider Stellar Engine: a Fully Steerable Extraterrestrial Design? https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05038 📜 Pulsar Positioning System: A quest for evidence of extraterrestrial engineering https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03316 00:00 Intro 01:33 Stellarvore 07:48 Moving stars around 17:57 Technosignatures 25:17 Pulsar galactic navigation system 29:44 Messaging system 39:43 Noosphere 43:48 Bonus part 44:08 Current obsessions 46:43 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Bebhbe0DOrU 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Trump announces his choice for the new NASA administrator, we’ve got a new date for Artemis III, Venus might have never had liquid oceans, and finding habitable planets around white dwarf stars. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🎁 Gift Universe Today Patreon membership: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/gift 00:00 Intro 00:15 NASA's New Administrator 02:08 Delays for Artemis 2 and 3 05:09 More evidence for gravitational waves background 07:35 Venus' past 09:38 Potential habitable planets around white dwarfs 12:26 Vote results 12:51 Vera Rubin and interstellar visitors 14:18 Moon rescue mission 15:55 Galaxy cluster coming together 17:45 Jupiter at opposition 18:57 Gift for space enthusiasts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/9CN1Ymyrhyo 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Does building more JWSTs for different parts of the spectrum make sense? Are star types predetermined at their birth? Can you cook a pizza on the Sun? Why is the Sun's corona hotter than its surface? Are there binary supermassive black holes? Answering all these questions and more in this Q&A show. 🦄 More Q&A in the Overtime Audio: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:25 Does it make sense to have JWST in a different spectrum? 04:07 Are star types determined at their birth? 07:50 Thoughts about the flat Earth? 09:57 Can we see the light from the Big Bang? 11:54 Are there binary supermassive black holes? 13:59 What would a pizza cooked directly on the Sun taste like? 15:17 Why is the corona of the Sun hotter that its surface? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/-X8CiIxfDl0 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Who will pay for the next-generation space stations that follow the ISS? How much do rockets pollute? Did James Webb make the observable Universe bigger? Answering all these questions and more in this Q&A show. 🦄 More Q&A in the Overtime Audio: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:26 Best place for a space factory? 05:21 Can stars and planets escape the Milky Way? 08:02 Did JWST make the observable universe bigger? 09:58 Do rockets pollute a lot? 13:36 Does it make sense to build a new space station? 17:32 What came before the big bang? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/4fhMZNuKpno 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Discover NASA's thrilling Dragonfly mission, which sets its sights on Titan using a Falcon Heavy. Dive into the mysteries lurking inside Uranus and the newly launched Europa Clipper, equipped to explore icy worlds. Uncover the peculiar case of a Russian cargo ship that left astronauts wrinkling their noses in space. Plus, marvel at stunning new images of the Sombrero Galaxy captured by the JWST. And don’t miss news about a recently discovered young exoplanet with an intriguing history!

Why don't comets run out of "tail fuel"? If Voyager crashes into something, can we tell it apart from a regular failure? What are the chances we will drive into a lava tube? Will satellite communication become dominant at some point? Answering all these and more in this Q&A show. 🦄 More Q&A in the Overtime Audio: https://www.patreon.com/posts/overtime-audio-q-116788920 00:00 Start 00:37 How can comets leave tails for thousands of years without running out? 02:57 Can we detect a hit to a Voyager? 04:20 How possible would it be to drive into a lava tube on the moon? 05:44 More Space Bites from website authors? 09:52 Does Moon getting farther away impact tides on Earth? 11:34 Will satellite communications overtake traditional on-ground ones? 16:01 Can we protect a Moon colony with an artificial magnetic field? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/FwLo1h8l5Oc 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

James Webb recently detected a new kind of exoplanet. It's a steam world. How did they find it and what does it mean for the future of exoplanet search? Finding out in this interview. 🦄 Get the extra part for free here: pattern.com/universetoday 🟣 Guest: Eshan Raul 📜 JWST/NIRISS Reveals the Water-rich "Steam World" Atmosphere of GJ 9827 d https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad6f00 00:00 Intro 01:47 The Steam World 10:49 Steam worlds VS Hycean worlds 14:38 Exoplanet research with JWST 17:04 Questions from Patrons 23:33 Where can we find more of them? 30:09 Bonus part 30:46 Current obsessions 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/DvEQDv4yg0c 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

JUMBOs, Jupiter Mass Binary Objects. Over 500 of them were detected in the Orion Nebula by JWST. But where did they come from? How did they form and why are they in binary pairs? My guest has a good guess about it. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🟣 Guest: Jessica Diamond 📜Formation of Jupiter-Mass Binary Objects through photoerosion of fragmenting cores https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.09159 00:00 Intro 01:34 JUMBOs 14:02 Photoerosion 24:57 Questions from Patreon community 31:26 Side track 34:30 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/74ORN6ap1FU 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Where will the money come from for the next generation of space stations? Does NASA have plans for a gravity tractor experiment for the Apophis flyby? Which part of the Milky Way can we see? Can there be different types of black holes? Answering all these and more in this Q&A show. 🦄 More Q&A in the Overtime Audio: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:37 Which part of the Milky Way can we see? 02:41 Will space stations be economically viable? 05:50 Are there different types of black holes? 06:58 Can you un-distort images instead of using adaptive optics? 11:53 How do we know that far away objects are still there? 13:12 Does NASA have plans for a gravity tractor experiment? 15:58 Best time to watch auroras in Alaska? 18:11 How does light from far away get to us? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/sBAAoJwEaY8 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

I just wrapped up an interesting conversation over at ‪DoomDebates‬ talking about the future of artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, Great Filter, Grabby Aliens and more. Check it out and subscribe to the channel. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u07Q7WUVWo 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast