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Which astronomical events can only be seen with gravitational waves? Is there enough water on the Moon for a permanent colony? Can we use stars other than the Sun as gravitational lenses? Does the present even exist or are we always living in the past? All this and more in this week's Q&A session.🦄 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 Start00:40 [Tatooine] Which things we can see only with gravitational waves?10:38 [Coruscant] How can the Universe be larger than 13.8 billion light years?13:26 [Hoth] Are we all living in the past?16:04 [Naboo] How's the search for Planet 9 going? 18:57 [Kamino] Are there rare elements on Mars? 20:34 [Bespin] Is there enough water on the Moon for a permanent colony?22:11 [Mustafar] Can we use other stars as gravitational lenses?25:01 [Alderaan] Are strange isotopes and rare elements created in supernovae?27:01 [Dagobah] Worst space-related movie regarding Physics? 28:49 [Yavin] Do gas giants have solid cores?29:59 [Mandalore] What would I do if I met aliens?33:29 [Geonosis] What would I do as a NASA Chief? 📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/GwXi4F7xnJU📰 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 still don't know what is Dark Matter. We can see its effects but we don't know what it's made of. However, with their latest publication, Dr Amruth Alfred suggests that dark matter should be made of axions (which are one of the candidates among other particles). Paper by Dr Amruth Alfred and his team:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01943-9🦄 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 Intro02:19 WIMPs vs Axions06:35 Observations 15:54 Implications for Cosmology18:54 Where axioms come from23:57 Difficulties with observations27:54 How can the results be confirmed or debunked31:13 Open-mindness in science36:50 Gravitational lenses54:35 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/M7IO6FkHRhE📰 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 is starting to turn into a diamond. Another key element for life found in the plumes at Enceladus. The Parker Solar Probe discovers the source of the fast solar wind. All this and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites.🦄 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 Intro00:17 White Dwarf Turns Into Diamondhttps://www.universetoday.com/161929/a-white-dwarf-is-starting-to-crystallize-into-diamond/03:34 Parker Solar Probe Confirm The Source of Solar Windhttps://www.universetoday.com/161891/parker-solar-probe-flies-close-enough-to-the-sun-to-see-the-source-of-the-fast-solar-wind/06:14 Fighting Satellite Trailshttps://www.universetoday.com/161932/astronomers-have-figured-out-clever-tricks-to-reduce-the-impact-of-satellite-trails/10:16 Phosphorous Discovered at Enceladushttps://www.universetoday.com/161954/an-element-critical-for-earth-life-is-spewing-out-of-enceladus/12:31 Vote Results from last weekhttps://youtu.be/5Qxo3MhhInA13:06 What’s Going On With The Tarantula Nebulahttps://www.universetoday.com/161885/the-tarantula-nebula-shouldnt-be-forming-stars-whats-going-on/15:27 19-hour long dayhttps://www.universetoday.com/161937/a-day-on-earth-used-to-only-be-19-hours/18:14 ISS Transit in front of the Sunhttps://www.universetoday.com/161902/thierry-legaults-stunning-views-of-the-space-station-with-spacewalking-astronauts-crossing-in-front-of-sunspots/19:53 Curiosity's Postcard https://www.universetoday.com/161945/curiosity-takes-one-final-postcard-image-of-a-picturesque-valley-before-moving-on-to-its-next-destination/📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/yadpJxWOX8U📰 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 nuking the Sun a good way to disarm the Earth? Should they rebuild the Arecibo observatory? How will SpaceX Starship change spaceflight? Could we see a reflection of an exomoon in a planet's ocean? Can a heavy suit help fight lower gravity effects on Moon and Mars? All this 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-club00:00 Start00:50 [Tatooine] Are cosmic ray observatories a thing?05:03 [Coruscant] Can we see a reflection of an exomoon?08:01 [Hoth] Does solar wind slow down planets?09:55 [Naboo] Can solar systems exist outside of galaxies?11:38 [Kamino] What's up with Boeing Starliner?13:24 [Bespin] What would happen if we nuke the Sun?15:34 [Mustafar] Should Arecibo be rebuilt? 17:18 [Alderaan] How can we detect electromagnetic poles of exoplanets?18:23 [Dagobah] Will wearing a heavy suit help fight the lack of gravity? 20:12 [Yavin] How Starship will change the future?22:59 [Mandalore] AI changing science videos?📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/xv4JFvvEXN8📰 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

Betelgeuse is unexpectedly bright, and update of JWST’s Deep Field program, and more problems with the Boeing Starliner.🦄 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 Intro00:13 Betelgeuse Is Acting Weird Againhttps://www.universetoday.com/161751/betelgeuse-is-almost-50-brighter-than-normal-whats-going-on/03:15 Webb Deep Fieldhttps://www.universetoday.com/161792/jwst-shows-how-the-early-universe-was-furiously-forming-stars/06:25 Organic Molecules Seen Farther Than Ever Beforehttps://www.universetoday.com/161793/jwst-sees-organic-molecules-ludicrously-far-away/07:59 Last Week's Votehttps://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/community08:33 Why Jupiter Stripes Change Colorhttps://www.universetoday.com/161767/jupiters-stripes-change-color-now-we-might-know-why/10:14 Things Are Not Looking Good for Boeinghttps://www.universetoday.com/161776/starliner-faces-new-delays-for-crewed-flights-to-iss/12:09 NIAC Interviewshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmmM_Ft5DzAbrwzXHB8ED0rf13:22 Satellite Beams Power To Earthhttps://www.universetoday.com/161759/new-satellite-successfully-beams-power-from-space/15:44 Cool Space Videos https://www.universetoday.com/161760/20-years-of-mars-express-images-helped-build-this-mosaic-of-the-red-planet/18:48 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/5Qxo3MhhInA📰 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

Was the Universe ever the size of an orange or a basketball? Can life exist on planets that cannot be escaped? Can the asteroid belt ever produce a new planet? Is the CMB slowly changing over time? What happens at the very edge of the observable Universe? All this 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-club00:00 Start00:41 [Tatooine] Was the Universe ever the size of an orange? 05:40 [Coruscant] Is the CMB changing over time? 07:49 [Hoth] What happens at the edge of the Universe?09:38 [Naboo] What are the chances for a habitable moon at Alpha Cen?12:16 [Kamino] What happened to SOFIA's plane?15:00 [Bespin] Is magnetic pole reversal a thing? 17:34 [Mustafar] What's the current state of orbital refuelling?21:35 [Alderaan] Can a planet orbit binary stars?23:47 [Dagobah] How can we use gravitational waves? 25:59 [Yavin] Does the ISS need refuelling?26:45 [Mandalore] Can life exist on inescapable planets? 29:43 [Geonosis] Can what happens inside very dense neutron stars be extended to black holes?31:58 [Corellia] Can the asteroid belt produce a new planet in our solar system?33:13 [Crait] Can a simulated Universe become indistinguishable from a real one? 📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/wXUHnkbj_z0📰 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

Lots of new discoveries from JWST. How a software bug killed HAKUTO-R. Kepler’s last ever exoplanets.🦄 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 JWST Spies Huge Water Plumes on Enceladushttps://www.universetoday.com/161655/jwst-spies-a-gigantic-water-plume-at-enceladus/02:15 Ultra-Hot Jupiter Mapped by Webbhttps://www.universetoday.com/161719/jwst-scans-an-ultra-hot-jupiters-atmosphere/04:28 A Bug That Crashed Hakuto-Rhttps://www.universetoday.com/161661/hakuto-rs-software-got-confused-at-the-last-minute-causing-it-to-crash-into-the-moon/06:35 New Spaceflight Record 08:22 Ingenuity Went Silent. But It’s Backhttps://www.universetoday.com/161667/nasas-mars-helicopter-went-silent-for-six-agonizing-days/10:15 Kepler’s Last Planetshttps://www.universetoday.com/161680/the-kepler-missions-final-three-planets/11:55 Best Space Bite from Last Week12:37 The Soot Zonehttps://www.universetoday.com/161593/a-new-place-to-search-for-habitable-planets-the-soot-line/14:45 Support Us on Patreon15:49 LIGO’s Fully Operational Againhttps://www.universetoday.com/161553/after-three-years-of-upgrades-ligo-is-fully-operational-again/17:59 Fire in Space https://www.universetoday.com/161724/esa-is-testing-how-iron-burns-in-weightlessness/19:41 James Webb teams up with Chandra and Hubblehttps://www.universetoday.com/161551/chandra-and-jwst-join-forces-in-a-stunning-series-of-images/20:52 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/OEFciqSNmOk📰 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 chooses another lander for Artemis V. The first radiation belt ever seen outside the Solar System. And those impossible galaxies might be even more massive than we thought. 🦄 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 Blue Origin wins NASA Moon Landing Contract https://www.universetoday.com/161484/artemis-v-is-going-to-the-moon-with-blue-origin/03:12 Hakuto-R Landing Sitehttps://www.universetoday.com/161554/nasa-may-have-found-hakuto-rs-crash-site/04:26 First Ever Radiation Belt Outside Our Solar Systemhttps://www.universetoday.com/161403/an-astronomical-first-a-radiation-belt-seen-outside-the-solar-system/06:19 How ESO Allocates Telescope Time https://www.universetoday.com/161486/eso-is-using-a-new-system-to-allocate-telescope-time-its-working-well/08:03 “Impossible” Galaxies May Be Even Impossiblierhttps://www.universetoday.com/161457/remember-those-impossibly-massive-galaxies-they-may-be-even-more-massive/11:56 Last Week's Best Space Bitehttps://youtu.be/kGDXuP4bvqQ12:33 FRB That Went Through A Starhttps://www.universetoday.com/161507/astronomers-watched-a-fast-radio-burst-go-right-through-a-stars-atmosphere/14:16 Q&As with Fraser Cainhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmm6b_fexWT6vSK9J_c4zgep15:25 Strange Matter Cores for Neutron Starshttps://www.universetoday.com/161514/the-heaviest-neutron-stars-could-have-strange-matter-cores/16:54 Polar Cyclone on Uranushttps://www.universetoday.com/161541/theres-a-polar-cyclone-on-uranus-north-pole/18:26 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/mARazyCYFEY📰 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 five years since NASA's TESS mission was launched. Now it completed its first full mission observing the sky and hunting for exoplanets. In this interview, I'm talking with Nicole Colon from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center about the results from TESS and what can come next for the mission.🦄 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 Intro01:12 How's TESS doing06:52 Results from TESS10:30 TESS VS Kepler20:16 Most exciting planets30:42 TESS and Earth-like worlds39:53 Super TESS48:46 What's next📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/YB7imAuEZco📰 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

Could stars and planets be living organisms? Is LHC dangerous for the Earth? How do neutrino detectors work? Does the Big Bang suggest that everything around us came from nothing? What will happen if we create a black hole on Earth? 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👉 Ultimate Solar Systemhttps://planetplanet.net/2018/05/30/the-black-hole-ultimate-solar-system/00:00 Start01:03 [Tatooine] How does something come from nothing?07:07 [Coruscant] Could stars be alive and conscious?12:18 [Hoth] Is the LHC dangerous for the Earth?15:26 [Naboo] What if we create a black hole on Earth?18:57 [Kamino] How neutrino detectors work?22:15 [Bespin] What's the maximum number of planets a star can have?26:47 [Mustafar] How Universe Today changed over the years?30:29 [Alderaan] Favourite nebula?30:50 [Dagobah] What's the largest milestone we can live to see?📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/lLcvFFpK-MI📰 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