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Have astronomers found the first signs of life on an exoplanet? So much James Webb news. The closest black hole to Earth. NASA gives its report on UAPs. 😍 1 Year of JWST Special:https://youtu.be/nbDQEo0uA0Q 😱 JWST image quiz: https://youtu.be/96POynVOcWc🦄 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 Intro00:15 Hycean World Found by JWSThttps://www.universetoday.com/163123/jwst-might-have-imaged-a-hycean-world-for-the-first-time-with-a-hydrogen-rich-atmosphere-and-a-deep-planet-wide-water-ocean/04:40 JWST Images A Young Starhttps://esawebb.org/news/weic2322/06:21 What Will Come After JWSThttps://www.universetoday.com/163165/planning-is-underway-for-nasas-next-big-flagship-space-telescope/08:43 Closest Black Hole to Earthhttps://www.universetoday.com/163116/the-closest-black-holes-to-earth-are-probably-hidden-in-this-nearby-star-cluster/10:29 Vote11:37 DART’s Impact Had Stronger Effects Than Originally Measuredhttps://www.universetoday.com/163089/dart-had-a-surprising-impact-on-its-target/13:56 Dark Matter Blobs 30,000 Light-Years Acrosshttps://www.universetoday.com/163143/astronomers-observe-blobs-of-dark-matter-down-to-a-scale-of-30000-light-years-across/16:20 NASA's UAP Reporthttps://www.universetoday.com/163181/report-nasa-ufo-uap-research/18:47 Weekly Email Newsletterhttps://www.universetoday.com/138303/universe-today-weekly-email-newsletter-fraser-cain/19:26 Small Universehttps://www.universetoday.com/163112/the-case-for-a-small-universe/20:58 Rant of the Day📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/bPXjskJyIwk📰 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

What's going on with the Hubble Tension and does it really imply a Crisis in Cosmology? How to stay sceptical but at the same time keep an open mind? What big discoveries should we expect in the coming future? Looking for answers to all these questions with Dr Ethan Siegel. 👉 Ethan Siegel's blog at Big Think:https://bigthink.com/people/ethansiegel/👉 New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension:https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/jwst-confirms-worsens-hubble-tension/🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday📚 Suggest books in the book club:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club00:00:00 Intro00:01:54 Big Questions00:03:18 The Crisis in Cosmology00:16:49 Problem with modern science communication00:28:17 How to keep an open mind00:37:02 Next big discoveries00:46:52 Theory vs Practice00:52:10 Iterative approach in science 01:03:55 What's next📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/zGV6mZuULj8📰 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

Starship could be almost ready to fly. The smallest possible Mars colony. Three more space missions launched this week. And a new look at China’s next-generation crew capsule and lunar lander. 😍 1 Year of JWST Special:https://youtu.be/nbDQEo0uA0Q 😱 JWST image quiz: https://youtu.be/96POynVOcWchttps://youtu.be/skjGrObdE1E🦄 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 Starship is ready (according to Musk)02:16 How small can a Mars Colony behttps://www.universetoday.com/163069/whats-the-bare-minimum-number-of-people-for-a-mars-habitat/04:35 100 minutes of flight for Ingenuity05:52 Two new missions from Japan07:51 Vote08:39 India lands on the Moon for the second timehttps://www.universetoday.com/163045/as-night-falls-indias-lunar-lander-rover-goes-to-sleep-probably-forever/11:23 India's Sun missionhttps://www.universetoday.com/163060/india-follows-its-lunar-mission-by-sending-a-spacecraft-to-study-the-sun/12:48 Most distant galactic field lineshttps://www.universetoday.com/163075/the-most-distant-galactic-field-lines-ever-seen/14:16 Q&As are coming back!14:50 China's next gen Moon vehicleshttps://www.universetoday.com/163047/china-reveals-its-lunar-lander-design/16:18 Self-suffucient Mars colony📺 VIDEO VERSION#TODO_LINK📰 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

The center of our Galaxy is a mystery. It is full of dust which most telescopes can't see through. But with James Webb we can look into it. What hides deep in the middle of the Milky Way? Finding out with Dr Adam Ginsburg. 👉 Dr Adam Ginsburg's website: https://www.adamgginsburg.com/👉 JWST reveals widespread CO ice and gas absorption in the Galactic Center cloud G0.253+0.015https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16050🦄 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 Intro01:27 Skies at the center of the Milky Way05:31 Using JWST to see our galaxy 07:07 What is there to learn19:49 How different is the center24:50 How to get better results29:52 What's next📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/rKG9PIrQnnM📰 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

Which JWST image is the best so far? To answer that, we did a series of polls among our community with a quarter-final round, semi-final and the final. Can my fellow space YouTubers guess which one turned out to be the winner? Do they agree with your decision? Let's find out!📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/96POynVOcWcGUESTS📺 Joe Scotthttps://www.youtube.com/@whatdamath📺 Anton Petrovhttps://www.youtube.com/@joescott🦄 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😍 1 Year of JWST Special:https://youtu.be/nbDQEo0uA0Q 🚀 Lee Feinberg Interview:https://youtu.be/eXchT7mtEao🔭 Judy Schmidt Interview:https://youtu.be/iiXzfeE5EjI📰 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

An exoplanet denser than steel. The Whirlpool Galaxy from JWST. We finally learn where the solar wind comes from. The ISS is getting gigabit internet. 🦄 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 Intro00:15 Exoplanet As Dense As Steel https://www.universetoday.com/162982/a-neptune-sized-exoplanet-is-denser-than-steel-the-result-of-a-catastrophic-collision/03:05 Whirlpool Galaxy by James Webbhttps://www.universetoday.com/162955/the-whirlpool-galaxy-seen-by-jwst/04:41 Iconic Supernova SN 1987A by JWSThttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/webb-reveals-new-structures-within-iconic-supernova06:03 Trouble for New Horizonshttps://www.universetoday.com/162934/nasas-new-horizons-mission-still-threatened/07:59 Vote Resultshttps://youtu.be/PQlgWrrpDes08:37 Detecting Supermassive Black Hole Mergers with Pulsarshttps://www.universetoday.com/162925/pulsars-detected-the-background-gravitational-hum-of-the-universe-now-can-they-detect-single-mergers/11:02 Source of the Solar Windhttps://www.universetoday.com/162952/is-the-solar-wind-coming-from-these-tiny-jets-on-the-sun/13:32 Gigabit Internet for the ISShttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasa-to-demonstrate-laser-communications-from-space-station15:31 Support us on Patreon16:34 More Starship Tests17:50 Chandrayaan-3 Updatehttps://twitter.com/stim3on/status/169717913959203229818:42 Luna-25 Crash Sitehttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/lro-luna-25-impact18:56 Why New Horizons Needs Saving📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/YHEmHYI3hCQ📰 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

There is a disagreement in measurements of the Hubble constant often referred to as The Crisis in Cosmology. One way to solve it is to observe redshift drift. However, it requires lengthy observations. But my guest, Dr Geraint Lewis, has a hack up his sleeve — gravitational lensing.👉 Redshift Drift story on Universe Today:https://www.universetoday.com/162845/a-new-way-to-measure-the-expansion-rate-of-the-universe-redshift-drift/👉 The Redshift Difference in Gravitational Lensed Systems: A Novel Probe of Cosmology:https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07529👉 Dr Geraint Lewis' website: https://www.geraintflewis.com/👉 Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Cosmic_Horizons🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday📚 Suggest books in the book club:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club00:00:00 Intro00:01:41 Understanding the expansion of the Universe00:03:10 Hubble Tension and Crisis in Cosmology00:05:53 Cosmic ladder of distances00:17:30 CMB measurements00:24:47 The Boring Solution00:31:10 The Exciting Solution00:37:25 Red Shift Drift00:48:05 Time machine for free 00:54:14 Perfect solution with unlimited funds00:57:05 Advice for young astronomers 01:03:44 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/JGYHwpsMQ1w📰 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

Topics discussed in this podcast include India's successful moon landing, the James Webb Space Telescope capturing a stunning image of the ring nebula, the fluctuating cloud cover and reappearance of dark spots on Neptune, direct observation of an exoplanet, and the upcoming launch of a new telescope generating excitement among astronomers.

Recent discoveries include the farthest star and farthest galaxy seen by JWST, measuring the darkness of the Universe, and new evidence for MOND vs dark matter. The podcast also discusses the SETI Symposium, the Antarctic sea ice decline, and astronomers' pursuit of understanding the universe.

Superconductor update. Contact re-established with Voyager 2. Two stars orbiting so closely they could hide inside the Sun. A field of gravitational lenses in a new JWST image.🦄 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 LK-99 Update02:35 Fusion Breakthrough Done Again03:45 Voyager-2 is Back05:00 Wolf Pack of NASA Moon Rovers https://www.universetoday.com/162676/nasa-plans-to-unleash-a-wolf-pack-of-rovers-onto-the-lunar-surface-in-2024/07:10 Chandrayaan-3 Enters Lunar Orbit08:02 Unscheduled Landing for Ingenuityhttps://www.universetoday.com/162709/nasas-mars-helicopter-had-an-unscheduled-landing-but-flew-again/10:03 Two Stars Very Close To Each Otherhttps://www.universetoday.com/162692/two-stars-orbiting-each-other-so-closely-they-could-fit-inside-the-sun/12:17 Vote13:12 JWST Sees El Gordohttps://www.universetoday.com/162674/jwst-sees-multiple-gravitational-lenses-in-a-massive-cluster-the-fishhook-and-the-thin-one/14:30 Best Year for Perceids https://www.universetoday.com/162607/why-2023-is-a-great-year-for-the-perseid-meteors/15:52 Booster 9 Hot Fire Test17:38 Starship Capabilities📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/z-wpbHns6Sc📰 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