What would it take to bring the Voyagers back to Earth? When will we see a true deep field by Webb? Why is Europa Clipper solar-powered? Why do black holes rotate? 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-club 00:00 Start 00:37 [Alaris] Can we bring Voyagers back? 04:50 [Ardena] JWST deep field wen? 08:40 [Asuria] Why Europa Clipper uses solar panels instead of an RTG? 11:55 [Belote] How do we know aliens don't exist? 13:51 [Belsa] Do black holes really merge? 16:19 [Cartego] How to choose a tripod for a pair of binoculars? 20:08 [Chulak] How do black holes rotate? 21:39 [Dakara] Were there any civilizations that just died? 24:59 [Edora] What happens when the Earth's magnetic poles flip? 28:12 [Goronak] When will the first child be born off Earth? 30:43 [Hadante] What kind of radiation is there in space? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/BlMjWphwRr4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Another asteroid hit exactly where astronomers predicted, a monster asteroid rolled Ganymede over onto its side, strange sounds coming from Starliner, and China announces when it’ll try to grab a piece of Mars. 🦄 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 00:00 Intro 00:13 Asteroid Over Philippines 02:04 Giant Ganymede impact 03:28 Strange sounds from Starliner 04:48 China's impressive space plans 07:54 Vote results 08:30 Primordial black holes 10:12 Drill for the Moon 11:25 Accretion disk 12:49 Guide to Space 13:32 Interferometers 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/We9w0o-_zuo 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Dr. Gerard van Belle, a leading expert in optical interferometry, discusses the astounding potential of using interferometers for enhanced astronomical observations. He explains why not all telescopes adopt this technology and explores innovative lunar missions like MoonLITE that aim to revolutionize how we observe distant celestial bodies. The conversation dives into detecting exoplanets and the visionary Big Fringe Telescope, highlighting the challenges and possibilities of pushing the boundaries of our understanding of the universe.

Could entangled electrons be used for FTL communications? Will Starship enable better satellites? Could we detect radiation on another world? Are there alternative explanations for black holes? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Overtime 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 00:00 Start 00:31 Could entangled electrons be used for FTL communications? 01:50 Will we ever detect planets at Alpha Centauri? 03:37 Will Starship enable better satellites? 06:32 Could we detect radiation on another world? 07:24 Will New Horizons visit other dwarf planets? 07:49 Where did IFT-4 land? 09:08 What will it do for a heat shield? 11:35 Are we closer to discovering new physics? 13:23 How do large scale structures affect our understanding? 15:00 Any upcoming near-Earth asteroid missions? 15:36 How close are we to detecting life? 16:32 Will Roman go to L2? 17:01 What are some alternatives to black holes? 17:54 Favorite lifeform? 18:12 Will missions go to Mars polar caps? 18:42 Could telescopes have free floating components? 19:38 Could Venus be terraformed? 21:04 Are white holes real? 22:32 What is the hardest part for Starship? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/9ugsq2mY1u0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Is Betelgeuse a binary star? Starliner is coming home empty. New Glenn is on schedule to launch NASA’s next mission to Mars. NASA’s solar sail unfurls. 🦄 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 00:00 Intro 00:14 Betelgeuse could be a binary star 02:08 No crew for Starliner 04:04 New Glenn launch date 06:07 Europa Clipper gets solar panels 09:06 NASA Solar sail deployed 11:12 Vote results 11:48 China's Moon plans 15:00 Cool images 17:29 More space news 18:05 Livestreams return 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Lblcc3jtEW4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Why does the Sun have an 11-year cycle? Would I rather have a Venus mission or a Jovian moon mission? Do black holes attract other black holes? Can Chinese astronomers use Hubble/Webb? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Overtime 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 00:00 Start 00:46 Why does the Sun have an 11-year cycle? 02:13 Do all stars have a stellar cycle? 02:57 Why no probe to Oumuamua? 03:56 What got me into space in the first place? 08:13 Is that my real name? 08:56 Would I rather have a Venus mission or Jovian moon mission? 09:21 How does China do space science? 13:37 Can Chinese astronomers use Hubble/Webb? 14:25 Do I play video games? 18:30 What color are neutron stars? 19:10 Could Starship lower flight times? 19:55 Do black holes attract other black holes? 21:23 Have I ever seen a moose? 22:20 Is AI proceeding too quickly? 26:57 Do I use a special space ChatGPT? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/j248ozTEujs 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

The DART mission is going to create a meteor shower on Earth, an explanation for the Wow! Signal, big problems with New Glenn, and JUICE completes a flyby of both the Earth and Moon. 👉 Plato Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TofP5yeqNLg 👉 JMG's Wow! Signal Interview: https://youtu.be/4ck9IsczPNU 👉 Everyday Astronaut's Blue Origin Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsuqSn7ifpU 🦄 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 00:00 Intro 00:14 DART Debris coming to Earth https://www.universetoday.com/168109/debris-from-dart-could-hit-earth-and-mars-within-a-decade/ 02:14 Water on Psyche https://www.universetoday.com/168189/there-might-be-water-on-the-surface-of-the-metal-asteroid-psyche/ 04:56 Wow! signal https://www.universetoday.com/168176/the-wow-signal-deciphered-it-was-hydrogen-all-along/ 08:09 New Glenn setback https://futurism.com/the-byte/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-rocket-explodes-testing 10:14 Star escaping the Milky Way https://www.universetoday.com/168167/citizen-scientists-find-a-star-escaping-the-milky-way/ 11:48 Vote results 12:33 JUICE flyby https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_rerouted_to_Venus_in_world_s_first_lunar-Earth_flyby 14:07 Black hole feast https://www.universetoday.com/168146/we-know-when-a-black-hole-will-have-its-next-feast/ 16:02 Get ready for Polaris Dawn launch https://polarisprogram.com/dawn/ 18:13 Even more space news 18:50 Plato mission 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/4ck9IsczPNU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Have I ever messed up a recording? Are there plans for new space stations? Is there a limit to the size of an orbital rocket? Will humanity survive the next mass extinction event? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Overtime 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 00:00 Start 00:24 Can a software engineer help astronomers? 05:03 Do galaxies have ripples? 07:03 Can we build a telescope to study a specific planet? 09:14 Did I see the Apple ad? 15:15 Does AI hallucinate? 16:51 Is there a limit to the size of an orbital rocket? 17:57 Will humanity survive the next mass extinction event? 21:40 How would an electromagnetic cannon work? 24:56 Would Gaia work well at the orbit of Jupiter? 26:58 Will I get a new telescope? 28:10 Have I ever messed up a recording? 31:05 Are there plans for new space stations? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/QEikPnzrMoo 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

The quest to find an Earth-sized planet around a Sun-like star continues. One of the telescopes that could achieve it is ESA's Plato mission. How will it be able to do it and what should we expect from it? Finding out it this interview. 🟣 Guest: Dr. David Brown https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/people/dbrown/ 🔭 Plato Telescope: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Plato 🦄 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 00:00 Intro 02:06 Kepler Telescope 06:00 Plato telescope 27:33 What will PLATO find 35:15 Astroseismology 38:39 Follow-ups 41:46 A better PLATO 46:38 Current obsessions 52:39 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/TofP5yeqNLg 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Vast amounts of water found on Mars, but there’s a catch, Milky Way and Andromeda might not merge after all, a planet found before it gets destroyed, and an easier way to terraform Mars. 👉 Submit Your Questions for Patreon Q&A: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110229335 🦄 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 00:00 Intro 00:16 Water found on Mars 02:55 Huge lake on Mars 04:20 Terraforming Mars 08:05 VIPER might be saved 09:38 Milkdromeda might not be happening 10:53 Vote results 11:28 Planet on the verge of destruction 13:09 New way of detecting supermassive black holes 14:21 Vera Rubin's secondary mirror 15:40 More space news 16:11 Livestreams and Q&A 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/oBfoM3TnYUE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast