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Ingenuity is over. SLIM landed on the Moon, but it’s upside-down. Webb sees planets orbiting white dwarf stars. And we finally know why Starship exploded.🎈 Sierra Space inflatable habitat interview: https://youtu.be/C3bd4fdY3DY🚀 Starship IFT-2 discussion with Marcus House and Scott Manley:https://youtu.be/ReXZvXPak4U🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday📚 Suggest books in the book club:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club00:00 Intro00:14 Ingenuity is OVERhttps://www.universetoday.com/165382/nasa-lost-contact-with-its-ingenuity-helicopter-briefly-but-its-back/01:48 SLIM landed upside downhttps://www.universetoday.com/165340/japans-moon-lander-touches-down-power-problem/04:32 Explosive Sierra Space LIFE testhttps://www.sierraspace.com/newsroom/press-releases/sierra-space-advances-its-revolutionary-commercial-space-station-technology/06:44 Dangers of Space Saladhttps://www.udel.edu/udaily/2024/january/harsh-bais-kali-kniel-noah-totsline-spacegrown-plants-foodborne-infections/08:23 JWST sees planets around white dwarf starshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2401.1315310:12 Mystery of the ancient lighthttps://www.universetoday.com/165310/the-jwst-solves-the-mystery-of-ancient-light/12:23 Vote resultshttps://youtu.be/F12KfPkrjuk12:57 Planets around Proxima Centaurihttps://www.universetoday.com/165383/what-could-the-extremely-large-telescope-see-at-proxima-centauris-planet/15:10 Patreon Club Exclusives15:58 Why Starship Explodedhttps://www.universetoday.com/165353/now-we-know-why-starships-second-flight-test-failed/17:17 China's reusable booster testhttps://www.universetoday.com/165401/chinese-firm-successfully-tests-a-new-reusable-booster/18:47 Inflatable space habitats📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/3vRpI80sbv8📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: https://twitter.com/fcainTwitter: https://twitter.com/universetodayFacebook: https://facebook.com/universetodayInstagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday📩 CONTACT FRASERfrasercain@gmail.com⚖️ LICENSECreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

How can we possibly know how does the Milky Way look like? Is Marth worth further exploration after not finding any life there for years? How can we realistically settle on the Moon? All this and more in the 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-club00:00 Start00:43 [Andoria] Multiple rogue planets discovered by JWST04:58 [Vulcan] How did we take a photo of our own galaxy?08:10 [Risa] Why did The Big Bang not collapse under gravity? 10:13 [Aeturen] Why waste money on Mars? 17:23 [Vendikar] Realistic ways to settle on the Moon?20:58 [Remus] How to interest kids in space? 23:59 [Janus] Any updated on Artemis?27:25 [Cait] How can galaxies move away faster than light?28:30 [Betazed] Black hole naming problem31:22 [Cheleb] Is Moon better than the ISS? 34:38 [Nimbus] The Zoo hypothesis VS dinosaurs37:28 [Belos] Will we ever see a proper Neptune mission? 📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/GbPaytLhCoM📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: https://twitter.com/fcainTwitter: https://twitter.com/universetodayFacebook: https://facebook.com/universetodayInstagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday📩 CONTACT FRASERfrasercain@gmail.com⚖️ LICENSECreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

When we'll be sending probes to other stars, getting there will be only one part of the challenge. How do we get the data back? So, NASA just funded a research that will be aiming to solve this problem through the NIAC program.👉 NIAC Award "Swarming Proxima Centauri: Coherent Picospacecraft Swarms Over Interstellar Distances"https://www.nasa.gov/general/swarming-proxima-centauri/🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday📚 Suggest books in the book club:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club00:00 Intro00:56 Applying for NIAC02:54 The Idea25:43 Imaging planets30:06 Using tech in the Solar System 38:24 Laser technology45:30 The reality of NIAC51:19 Final thoughts📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/M-qhm04XoBM📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: https://twitter.com/fcainTwitter: https://twitter.com/universetodayFacebook: https://facebook.com/universetodayInstagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday📩 CONTACT FRASERfrasercain@gmail.com⚖️ LICENSECreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

News about two lunar landers, Webb helps rule out one explanation for the Hubble Tension, NASA’s new quiet supersonic plane, and lots of exoplanet news.🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday📚 Suggest books in the book club:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club00:00 Intro00:14 Two Lunar Landers02:20 Hycean or Lavahttps://www.universetoday.com/165263/is-k2-18b-covered-in-oceans-of-water-or-oceans-of-lava/04:19 Two-face worldhttps://www.universetoday.com/165216/half-of-this-exoplanet-is-covered-in-lava/05:31 Plomet? Conet?https://www.universetoday.com/165251/a-hot-jupiter-with-a-comet-like-tail/06:50 Vote results07:31 Two giant structureshttps://www.universetoday.com/165223/two-giant-structures-have-been-found-billions-of-light-years-away/09:41 One fewer explanation for Hubble tensionhttps://www.universetoday.com/165266/astronomers-rule-out-one-explanation-for-the-hubble-tension/12:41 Support us14:03 NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic planehttps://www.universetoday.com/165239/shhh-nasa-reveals-its-new-quiet-supersonic-aircraft/15:30 Milky Way's magnetic fieldshttps://www.universetoday.com/165297/astronomers-have-mapped-the-milky-ways-magnetic-fields-in-3d/16:30 Exoplanet discovery chaos📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/F12KfPkrjuk📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: https://twitter.com/fcainTwitter: https://twitter.com/universetodayFacebook: https://facebook.com/universetodayInstagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday📩 CONTACT FRASERfrasercain@gmail.com⚖️ LICENSECreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Why it's easier for James Webb to observe TRAPPIST-1 than Alpha Centauri? Is a lunar space elevator possible at all? What would my ideal space mission look like? Can we build a telescope the size of a solar system? 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-club00:00 Start00:47 [Andoria] Why it's easier for JWST to see Trappist-1 rather than Alpha Centauri systems? 07:16 [Vulcan] Is lunar space elevator possible? 12:09 [Risa] What would my dream space mission be? 16:28 [Aeturen] Any update on JWST's TRAPPIST-1 observations?20:54 [Vendikar] Are we building a solar system sized telescope any time soon? 23:06 [Remus] Can we catch up to Voyagers if we need to? 27:03 [Janus] What will Artemis-2 be doing at the Moon? 29:38 [Cait] Can sub-surface oceans be a source for life on planets around red dwarfs? 32:55 [Betazed] How can we predict Betelgeuse exploding? 📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/lF2wihXk58o📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: https://twitter.com/fcainTwitter: https://twitter.com/universetodayFacebook: https://facebook.com/universetodayInstagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday📩 CONTACT FRASERfrasercain@gmail.com⚖️ LICENSECreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

This is an episode I did with Brian Dunning, host of The Skeptoid podcast and Richard Saunders, host of The Skeptic Zone podcast. Enjoy!👉 The Skeptic Zone: https://skepticzone.tv👉 Skeptoid: https://skeptoid.com🛸 THE UFO MOVIE THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE: https://www.briandunning.com/ufo/🦄 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📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: https://twitter.com/fcainTwitter: https://twitter.com/universetodayFacebook: https://facebook.com/universetodayInstagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday📩 CONTACT FRASERfrasercain@gmail.com⚖️ LICENSECreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

This is an episode I did with Brian Dunning, host of Skeptoid and producer and director of THE UFO MOVIE THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE and Richard Saunders, host of The Skeptic Zone. Enjoy!🛸 THE UFO MOVIE THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEEhttps://www.briandunning.com/ufo/📺 YouTube version: https://youtu.be/iz3NowaMuPU?si=ljrDYFmKh9-VdwKP🦄 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📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: https://twitter.com/fcainTwitter: https://twitter.com/universetodayFacebook: https://facebook.com/universetodayInstagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday📩 CONTACT FRASERfrasercain@gmail.com⚖️ LICENSECreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

We finally learn the true color of Neptune. Vulcan succeeds while Peregrine fails. Delays for Artemis missions. A rocket that eats itself for more thrust. 🚀 Interview with Tory Bruno: https://youtube.com/live/WKVv9hasAyY?feature=share🚀 I Finally Watched a Rocket Launch: https://youtu.be/XpQ_MbwNdQA🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday📚 Suggest books in the book club:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club00:00 Intro00:14 True Color of Neptunehttps://www.universetoday.com/165118/uranus-and-neptune-are-actually-pretty-much-the-same-color/01:52 Diamond Rain on Ice Giantshttps://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2024-01-08-diamond-rain-icy-planets-offers-clues-magnetic-field-mysteries03:20 Vulcan succeeds, Peregrine failshttps://www.universetoday.com/165127/the-first-launch-of-ulas-vulcan-goes-smoothly-but-theres-a-problem-with-its-lander-payload/05:42 Artemis 2 and 3 officially delayedhttps://www.universetoday.com/165158/nasa-is-pushing-back-its-moon-landings-to-2026/07:50 MMX got delayed too09:13 OSIRIS-REx samples unboxing is overhttps://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/2024/01/11/nasas-osiris-rex-team-clears-hurdle-to-access-remaining-bennu-sample/10:15 Self-eating rockethttps://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1033908_en.html11:52 Vote resultshttps://youtu.be/GlvqhST1wOs12:36 The faintest galaxyhttps://greenbankobservatory.org/astronomers-accidentally-discover-dark-primordial-galaxy/13:40 Titan's "magic" islandshttps://www.universetoday.com/165108/titans-magic-islands-could-be-floating-blobs-of-organic-solids/14:53 Support Universe Today15:39 Brown dwarf aurorahttps://www.universetoday.com/165156/a-solo-brown-dwarf-found-with-auroras/16:57 Giant star eruptionhttps://www.universetoday.com/165154/a-giant-star-is-fading-away-but-first-it-had-an-enormous-eruption/18:27 How to see a rocket launchhttps://youtu.be/XpQ_MbwNdQA?si=eU-zHGk8QMBMRISg📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/fyZUQxnnbXg📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: https://twitter.com/fcainTwitter: https://twitter.com/universetodayFacebook: https://facebook.com/universetodayInstagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday📩 CONTACT FRASERfrasercain@gmail.com⚖️ LICENSECreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

This is a bonus episode from John Michael Godier's Event Horizon podcast. We discussed JWST, Artmeis, Parker Solar Probe and many other things to be excited about in 2024.📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/U4Oa94Ln3yU?si=8ivCeGFhzeIkUUW8👉 John Michael Godier's Event Horizonhttps://www.youtube.com/@EventHorizonShow🦄 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📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: https://twitter.com/fcainTwitter: https://twitter.com/universetodayFacebook: https://facebook.com/universetodayInstagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday📩 CONTACT FRASERfrasercain@gmail.com⚖️ LICENSECreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Juno’s closest flyby of Io, Hubble studies an exoplanet atmosphere for 3 years, astronauts test out Starship’s elevator, and more evidence for quark stars.🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday📚 Suggest books in the book club:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club00:00 Intro00:16 Juno's Closest Flyby of Io https://www.universetoday.com/165047/juno-makes-its-closest-flyby-of-io/02:31 Hubble studies exoplanet atmosphere for 3 yearshttps://www.universetoday.com/165088/hubble-watches-an-exoplanet-atmosphere-change-over-three-years/04:56 An Ancient Stone With An Accurate Sky Maphttps://www.universetoday.com/165037/an-ancient-stone-found-in-italy-is-an-accurate-map-of-the-night-sky/06:30 Solar Flareshttps://www.universetoday.com/165033/the-sun-just-blasted-its-strongest-flare-in-6-years-get-ready-for-auroras/07:38 NIAC Awards 2024https://www.nasa.gov/general/niac-2024-selections/08:17 Vote resultshttps://youtu.be/gUMKJayKYDU09:08 Canadarm hit by meteoritehttps://www.universetoday.com/164960/ouch-canadarm2-took-a-direct-hit-from-a-micrometeorite/10:24 Lunar Starship's Elevator Testhttps://www.universetoday.com/164983/nasa-astronauts-are-trying-out-the-starship-lunar-elevator/11:25 2023 in review12:49 Quark Starshttps://www.universetoday.com/165045/the-most-massive-neutron-stars-probably-have-cores-of-quark-matter/14:26 Gorgeous Images https://www.universetoday.com/164928/youll-need-all-the-internet-to-download-the-full-resolution-of-this-new-running-chicken-nebula-image/16:41 How to see an aurora📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/GlvqhST1wOs📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: https://twitter.com/fcainTwitter: https://twitter.com/universetodayFacebook: https://facebook.com/universetodayInstagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday📩 CONTACT FRASERfrasercain@gmail.com⚖️ LICENSECreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast