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Magnetospheres seem to be a very important factor when considering how habitable a planet is. So it was really exciting when it was announced that an Earth-size exoplanet's magnetosphere was detected using radio telescopes. It can also be a method to look for exoplanets by detecting their magnetic fields.I'm discussing this discovery with Dr Joe Pesce who is the Program Director at National Science Foundation. More about the discovery:https://www.universetoday.com/160864/do-repeating-radio-signals-indicate-an-exoplanet-with-a-magnetosphere/🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Intro00:19 An exoplanet with a magnetosphere 06:10 Alternative explanations11:38 Detecting magnetospheres with existing telescopes17:30 Scaling up the method21:38 Big surveys with radio telescopes25:38 What's next📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/p1PnoSoH0ys📰 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 big can iron planets get before collapsing into black holes? Why is the Moon floating away from Earth? Will Mars bases have glass domes? How will the asteroid mining race unfold? Will we create rings of satellites around the Earth? All this and more in this week's Q&A!🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Start01:00 [Tatooine] How big can rocky planets get?03:51 [Coruscant] How big can an iron planet get?08:13 [Hoth] Why is the Moon floating away?11:43 [Naboo] What happens if you jump in artificial gravity?14:56 [Kamino] Will glass domes on Mars ever be real?17:31 [Bespin] Are they still looking for Planet 9?19:33 [Mustafar] Are there more galaxies than stars?21:23 [Alderaan] Return to British Columbia?24:02 [Dagobah] Missions to explore Europa?25:51 [Yavin] When will we see the next images from Webb?28:42 [Mandalore] How will the asteroid mining race go?30:14 [Geonosis] Will Earth have rings?33:48 [Corellia] How big is the expansion of the Universe?📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/bdhNhTdk9LI📰 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

JUICE launches to Jupiter and its moons. A new JWST image of supernova remenant Cassiopea A. Machine learning cleans up the Universe, and improves images of a black hole’s event horizon.🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Intro00:17 JUICE Launch to Jupiter02:13 JWST's view of Cassiopea Ahttps://www.universetoday.com/160883/its-time-for-supernova-remnant-cassiopeia-a-to-get-the-jwst-treatment/04:02 AI helping Astronomyhttps://www.universetoday.com/160913/machine-learning-tidies-up-the-cosmos/07:54 Flexible telescope mirrorshttps://www.universetoday.com/160845/a-new-membrane-could-lead-to-space-telescopes-with-flexible-mirrors/09:46 Support us on Patreon11:27 Terran-1 is dead. Long live Terran R13:28 Dawn Aerospace spaceplane testhttps://www.universetoday.com/160915/a-rocket-powered-spaceplane-completes-a-successful-test-flight/15:58 Lego Moonhttps://www.universetoday.com/160872/an-amazing-new-map-of-the-moon-in-lego/16:57 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/yzx5nnrTTK4📰 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

Active volcanism. Plate tectonics. Retaining the atmosphere without a magnetosphere. There's so much to learn about Venus! In this interview I'm discussing all these things with Dr Paul Byrne, Planetary Evangelist and Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at Washington University in St. Louis🐥 Professor Paul Byrne on Twitter:https://twitter.com/ThePlanetaryGuy🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00:00 Intro00:01:14 Why Venus?00:05:32 The big questions00:08:03 Why so underexplored00:20:13 Problems with the VERITAS mission00:30:05 Vulcanism on Venus00:46:07 Data for the future00:47:50 No Magnetosphere but with atmosphere. Why?00:54:20 Plate tectonics00:58:59 Venus as an exoplanet01:04:13 Venus sample return📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/VXuhaJu-GNM📰 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 are the risks of returning samples from Mars? What happens if you bring two stars together? Which galaxies can be seen with the naked eye? What is the system behind naming stars and exoplanets? All this and more in this week's Q&A!🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Start01:19 [Tatooine] Can we bring viruses from Mars?07:42 [Coruscant] What is the maximum size limit for black holes?12:03 [Hoth] What happens when two stars come together?15:26 [Naboo] What to expect from Artemis 2?17:32 [Kamino] What are my thoughts on Artemis 2 crew?20:57 [Bespin] How are stars and planets named?23:43 [Mustafar] Which galaxies can be seen with a naked eye?25:53 [Alderaan] What it feels like standing on an asteroid being destroyed?28:38 [Dagobah] Will NASA land on an asteroid?30:58 [Yavin] How cold is it in space?33:25 [Mandalore] Can we bring our sun to another star?37:03 [Geonosis] Lunar probe flying with springs?📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/TAx9s_idIpI📰 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 are Fast Radio Bursts? Did we get a step closer to answering this question by associating some of them with a Kilonova event? What Cosmology questions can we solve by studying FRBs? Discussing all these things with Dr Clancy James from Curtin University. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Intro01:41 Second Kilonova event03:37 FRB connection to neutron star collisions13:13 Mechanism behind Fast Radio Bursts23:12 How to observe and study FRBs29:12 Repeating FRBs32:30 How FRBs are useful for Cosmology38:10 When will we solve FRBs 📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/o8uTWGBSLcU📰 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

Meet the crew of Artemis 2, we might have the perfect date for a Mars mission, and astronomers discover an ultramassive black hole.🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Intro00:14 Meet the Crew of Artemis-2https://www.universetoday.com/160806/meet-astronauts-fly-around-moon-artemis-ii/02:14 A Perfect Year to Go To Marshttps://www.universetoday.com/160753/2033-is-the-perfect-year-to-send-humans-to-mars-with-a-bonus-venus-flyby/05:37 An Ultra-Massive Black Holehttps://www.universetoday.com/160755/astronomers-think-theyve-found-one-of-the-biggest-black-holes-ever-seen/07:10 James Webb Sees Uranushttps://www.universetoday.com/160858/the-rings-of-uranus-shine-bright-in-stunning-new-jwst-image/08:39 Clouds on Marshttps://www.universetoday.com/160825/perseverance-sees-drifting-clouds-on-mars/09:38 Starship OFT is almost here11:05 China Tests a Stirling Engine in Orbithttps://www.universetoday.com/160816/china-tests-a-stirling-engine-in-orbit/13:23 Water-Based Propulsionhttps://www.universetoday.com/160781/pale-blue-successfully-operates-its-water-based-propulsion-system-in-orbit/14:21 Support us on Patreon15:13 Virgin Orbit Files for Bankruptcy16:48 How a Solar Storm Killed Starlinkshttps://www.universetoday.com/160761/now-we-know-how-a-solar-storm-took-out-a-fleet-of-starlinks/18:17 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/bg9OPAIc4BI📰 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's an effect called photophoretic propulsion. You could have seen it in a Crookes radiometer. One of the NIAC awards of 2023 was granted to a team that hopes to use this effect to develop a propulsion system. This can allow flying in altitudes nothing else can fly and possibly even explore other worlds.🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday👉 More about the NIAC grant: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/Photophoretic_Propulsion_Enabling_Mesosphere_Exploration/https://bargatin.seas.upenn.edu/00:00 Intro01:19 Levitation in science05:47 Coming up with a design11:33 Testing the design15:34 Potential applications23:10 Challenges28:03 Other worlds33:18 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/BzG64g4UEHo📰 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 complex must a telescope be to use the solar gravitational lens? How would we approach mining asteroids? How to detect magnetic fields outside the solar system? What is the size limit for a planet? All this and more in this week's Q&A.🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Start00:52 [Tatooine] What is the size limit for a planet?03:51 [Coruscant] How complex must a telescope be to use the solar gravitational lens?08:19 [Hoth] How would we approach mining asteroids?10:42 [Naboo] How to detect magnetic fields outside the solar system?13:49 [Kamino] Which telescopes did China fund?15:56 [Bespin] Will we discover what's outside of our Universe?19:06 [Mustafar] Oumuamua: artificial or natural?21:39 [Alderaan] Planets caught in binary stars' Lagrange points?26:12 [Dagobah] What's my take on artificial versus organic intelligence?28:31 [Yavin] What is my preferred answer to the Fermi Paradox?📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/zLCwPNbm6WY📰 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 United Arab Emirates are making good progress in space exploration. Their Hope mission is orbiting Mars since 2021. Their Rashid rover is on its way to the Moon. They are also planning a mission to the Asteroid belt. In this interview, I'm discussing UAE's current progress as well as future missions with Mohsen Al Alwahdi, the Director of the Space Missions Department at UAE Space Agency.🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Intro00:50 UAE's Hope mission at Mars03:22 Science goals and results07:14 Current state of the spacecraft10:17 Tech for future missions14:02 Rashid Moon rover15:11 Next missions18:55 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/Svtn9WACg8A📰 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