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Classical space telescopes have their limit. You can't simply build bigger mirrors all the time. Instead, you can build more mirrors and combine them into a telescope array. That's the concept behind the Nautilus Array which we discuss with Prof. Daniel Apai from The University of Arizona.👉 The Nautilus Arrayhttps://nautilus-array.space/🦄 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 Intro01:45 Future Space Telescopes and their Limits09:11 Nautilus Telescope approach15:21 Flat Lenses23:33 Quality VS Quantity29:52 Capabilities of the Nautilus Telescope 37:00 Earth-size planets around Sun-like stars39:41 Current state 48:32 When do we see one fly📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/P7e3DaBBM44📰 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

NASA Loses Contact with Voyager 2 because of a mistake. Euclid sends its first images. Finally, The Ring Nebula from JWST. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday📚 Suggest books in the book club:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club00:13 NASA Lost Contact with Voyager 2https://www.universetoday.com/162610/oops-nasa-accidentally-points-voyager-2s-antenna-away-from-earth-temporarily-losing-contact/01:54 LK-99. Possible room temperature superconductor06:00 Euclid's First Imageshttps://www.universetoday.com/162631/euclid-reaches-l2-shares-its-first-test-image/08:44 Vote!https://youtu.be/l2hYSn411vs09:43 Possible Sag A companionhttps://www.universetoday.com/162636/does-the-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole-have-a-companion/11:34 PLATO - best future planet hunterhttps://www.universetoday.com/162538/the-plato-mission-could-be-the-most-successful-planet-hunter-ever/13:26 Support Ushttps://www.patreon.com/universetoday14:27 Io and Ganymede by James Webbhttps://www.universetoday.com/162617/jupiters-moons-get-the-jwst-treatment/16:06 Ring Nebula by JWSThttps://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/manchester-astronomer-captures-stunning-images-of-the-ring-nebula-on-james-webb-space-telescope/17:51 Mars Sample Return engine testhttps://www.universetoday.com/162627/watch-the-mars-sample-return-mission-test-the-rocket-thatll-leap-off-the-surface-of-mars/19:19 Does Mars Sample Return mission make sense📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/Tf7WuEuw3ys📰 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

Dealing with space debris is an increasingly important aspect of spaceflight. Can we take it under control? What technical challenges will we need to overcome? What will it mean for the future of space infrastructure? Answering all these questions with Alex Godfrey from Astroscale.👉 More about Astroscale ELSA-m:https://www.universetoday.com/162029/a-new-mission-will-grab-dead-satellites-and-push-them-into-the-atmosphere-to-burn-up/👉 More about Astroscale: https://astroscale.com/https://twitter.com/astroscale_HQ🦄 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 Intro01:19 How bad is space debris problem 07:39 Different orbits. Different treatment11:21 Potential solutions15:33 Technical challenges20:45 ELSA-d and ELSA-m23:38 How big is the potential market26:10 Junk cleanup as part of space infrastructure34:03 Future of space in 30-40 years37:00 Regulating orbits📺 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

What will it take to ditch chemical rockets and make space launches fully electric? What tech will it require and when will it be reasonable to use such a system? What technical challenges are associated with it? Answering all these questions with David Dillon, the founder of Electromagnetic Launch.🦄 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 Intro01:38 The idea behind electromagnetic launch07:40 Quech launcher14:45 How the system will could like24:03 Recent partnerships and applications33:09 Space infrastructure36:13 What's next📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/3uMmVYYMcXU📰 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

NASA reveals nuclear rocket partnership with Lockheed Martin. Witnesses claim there’s a UAP coverup. There could be trillions of rogue planets wandering the Milky Way.😍 1 Year of JWST Special:https://youtu.be/nbDQEo0uA0Q 🦄 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 Intro00:12 2027 Nuclear Rocket by Lockheed Martinhttps://www.universetoday.com/162560/nasa-and-darpa-award-contract-for-a-nuclear-engine-to-lockheed-martin/03:56 UAP hearingshttps://www.universetoday.com/162544/witnesses-alien-congress-uap-ufo/05:58 Trillions of Rogue Planetshttps://www.universetoday.com/162522/there-could-be-trillions-of-rogue-planets-wandering-the-milky-way/07:43 Enormous Cosmological Simulationhttps://www.universetoday.com/162506/an-enormous-cosmological-simulation-wraps-up-recreating-even-more-of-the-universe/09:27 Galaxy With Almost No Dark Matterhttps://www.universetoday.com/162441/a-massive-galaxy-with-almost-no-dark-matter/11:27 Vote Resultshttps://youtu.be/t-LrlFJTaNw12:37 New JWST Image📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/l2hYSn411vs📰 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

It's already been one year of JWST operations. In this episode we accumulated all the major science results, all the amazing images and graphs, all the important discoveries and controversies. Enjoy the ULTIMATE GUIDE to the first year of James Webb. 🦄 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👉 More James Webb VideosScientist's Perspective on Webb's First Year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsZzLzixd-EUniverse-Breaking Galaxies Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPK9kF2tqfkJWST and the Future of Telescopes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXchT7mtEaoImage Processing with Judy Schmidt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiXzfeE5EjIJohn Mather Explains JWST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1dOwht6D3000:00 Intro01:34 Amazing Images13:52 Early Universe22:26 Exoplanets29:10 Solar System36:32 Problems39:24 What's Next📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/nbDQEo0uA0Q📰 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

A white dwarf was found that literally has to sides. One is Hydrogen. The other one is Helium. And it constantly rotates and changes those two sides. What's going on and how could this possibly happen? We're figuring it out with Dr Jeremy Heyl from the University of British Columbia.🧐 More about the Two-Face star:https://www.universetoday.com/162481/one-side-of-this-white-dwarf-is-covered-in-hydrogen-while-the-other-side-is-helium/🦄 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 Intro00:47 What? How? 05:02 Chemistry of white dwarfs11:05 What could be the mechanism20:25 Tools behind the discovery📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/Y5E0FmN-8tY📰 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

Is the Universe twice as old as we thought? China updates its lunar exploration plans. Astronomers might have found an exoplanet in a Lagrange Point.🦌 The deer story:https://www.patreon.com/posts/shareholders-3-q-85994340🦄 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 Is the Universe twice as oldhttps://www.universetoday.com/162394/the-universe-could-be-twice-as-old-if-light-is-tired-and-physical-constants-change/04:10 China's Moon planshttps://www.universetoday.com/162392/china-will-use-two-rockets-to-put-humans-on-the-moon/06:23 Lagrange point planethttps://www.universetoday.com/162439/is-this-the-first-exoplanet-trojan-or-the-result-of-an-epic-collision-between-worlds/08:20 Last week's votehttps://youtu.be/0V1RqK1Hynk08:53 JWST sees very old organic checmicalshttps://www.universetoday.com/162470/carbon-based-molecules-seen-just-a-billion-years-after-the-big-bang/10:46 Two-Face White Dwarfhttps://www.universetoday.com/162481/one-side-of-this-white-dwarf-is-covered-in-hydrogen-while-the-other-side-is-helium/12:58 AI expansion to space news sector14:19 Non-circular Mars crater15:53 Lightning over Europehttps://www.universetoday.com/162410/a-satellite-is-now-continuously-watching-lightning-strikes-in-europe/16:43 Deer update17:22 Book Club📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/t-LrlFJTaNw📰 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

Enceladus is the most interesting world in our Solar System in terms of exploration potential. It just is. But at the moment there are no approved missions to come back there. In this interview I'm discussing a New Frontiers class mission concept, the Astrobiology eXploration at Enceladus (AXE) with Dr Marshall Seaton from NASA JPL.🪐 Astrobiology eXploration at Enceladus (AXE)https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/acd119🦄 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 Intro02:27 How does Enceladus feel like04:45 Why go back to Enceladus15:20 AXE mission concept23:10 How should we search for life29:03 Building a New Frontiers class mission46:46 Other icy ocean worlds51:08 How special is Enceladus54:37 What's next for the mission concept58:40 Career path for young scientists📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/Q3W-0LecU5k📰 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

James Webb recently celebrated its first anniversary at work. What science results did it bring? Why graphs of spectra are as great as the nice pictures? How did JWST change Cosmology? What to expect from the next year of observations? All the answers in this Special Episode. 👉 Dr Jessie Christiansen https://web.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/christia/👉 Dr Maggie Lieu https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceMog🦄 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 Intro01:22 Webb as a planet hunter03:49 JWST from the Cosmology perspective06:30 Spectra vs Images10:53 Most significant results 23:36 Data access to Webb's results29:46 Exciting targets for Cycle 2📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/rsZzLzixd-E📰 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