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Is there a chance for life to continue after the Sun eventually explodes? Can we find evidence of potentially habitable planets near white dwarfs, remnants of dead stars? How can future telescopes helo with that?🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday🐦 Dr Andrew Vanderburg on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/amvanderburg🕸️ Dr Andrew Vanderburg's Website: https://avanderburg.github.io/00:00 Intro01:30 Exoplanets around white dwarfs10:06 Dynamics of planetary systems as their star dies12:51 Habitable zone around white dwarfs15:28 Search for exoplanets26:05 A perfect telescope for the task30:28 Biosignatures34:37 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/w8guDh1M25g📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/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

SLS finally launches to the Moon. SpaceX get another contract from NASA. James Webb gets a protection plan from micrometeoroids. China continues to trash the orbit. Secret space plane returns.🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Intro00:35 NASA’s plan to protect JWSThttps://www.universetoday.com/158663/nasa-has-a-plan-to-minimize-future-micrometeoroid-impacts-on-jwst/03:06 Firey Hourglass by James Webbhttps://www.universetoday.com/158673/the-latest-jwst-image-shows-a-star-in-the-earliest-stage-of-formation/04:39 Artemis 1 Launchhttps://www.universetoday.com/158654/artemis-i-is-on-its-way-to-the-moon/09:48 CAPSTONE arrives at Moon orbit10:22 More Lunar Starships for NASAhttps://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-spacex-second-contract-option-for-artemis-moon-landing-0/12:15 14-Raptor test of SuperHeavy13:04 Support us on Patreon13:47 China continues to trash orbit14:58 Brightest Satellite Deployedhttps://www.space.com/bluewalker-3-satellite-deploys-largest-commercial-array16:25 The X-37B is Back After 908 Days in Orbithttps://www.universetoday.com/158647/the-x-37b-is-back-after-908-days-in-orbit-what-was-it-doing-up-there-thats-classified/18:01 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/9mFUZcn_aqg📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/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 trees can tell us a story of previous solar storms? What are the chances of having another Carrington-scale event and what would it mean? How can we understand solar storms better? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday🐦 Dr Benjamin Pope on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fringetracker00:00:00 Intro00:01:49 Meet Dr Benjamin Pope00:02:53 Tree rings and solar storms00:20:28 What other ways can we study solar storms00:24:48 Can lunar samples give an answer00:26:48 Our place in the Universe00:35:44 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/5xPBonKpHIM📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/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 hard is it to escape the gravity wells of massive planets for other civilizations? How hard is it to make your own telescopes? How do gas clouds become stars? Can we harvest dark energy after the Heat Death?🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday📖 Book Club Group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club00:00 Start02:43 [Tatooine] Can we use dark energy after heat death?07:37 [Coruscant] How close are the stars in the Pillars of Creation?09:39 [Hoth] How long does light from star cores take to get out?13:22 [Naboo] Did NASA solve the solar panels problem with the Lucy mission?15:32 [Kamino] Does matter expand as spacetime expands?18:32 [Bespin] Do you subscribe to the Big Bang Theory?23:13 [Mustafar] Can you escape the gravity wells of massive planets?25:57 [Alderaan] How to make your own telescope?29:18 [Dagobah] What is the Great Attractor?33:11 [Yavin] How stable is Jupiter's L1 Lagrange point?36:30 [Mandalore] How gas becomes a star?39:43 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/8-Yl27UHKCU📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/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

JWST’s MIRI is fully operational again, have astronomers found the first strange star?, the first test of an inflatable heat shield, and SLS just got hit by a Hurricane.🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday👉 Anton Petrov's channel https://www.youtube.com/c/whatdamath📖 Book Club Group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club00:00 Intro01:10 JWST is fixedhttps://www.universetoday.com/158588/woohoo-jwsts-mid-infrared-instrument-is-fully-operational-again/03:34 First strange star found?https://www.universetoday.com/158331/the-smallest-lightest-neutron-star-ever-seen-could-be-a-strange-star/06:56 NASA and ULA test an inflatable heat shield test10:49 Artemis I delayed again13:23 InSight's last imagehttps://www.universetoday.com/158553/this-is-probably-the-last-picture-well-see-from-insight-on-mars/15:06 Support us on Patreon15:53 China's space station is completehttps://www.universetoday.com/158540/china-launches-mengtian-the-last-major-module-to-its-space-station/17:18 Black hole's jetshttps://www.universetoday.com/158513/a-black-holes-jets-are-coming-from-a-region-2000-km-away-from-the-singularity-itself/19:53 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/KyRvKxu8Mf0📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/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

This in an interview with Dr Brian Keating that happened on his YouTube channel. We talk about how Universe Today runs, what do I want to achieve with it, how science journalism works in general and much more. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday📺 VIDEO VERSION and Dr Brian Keating's channelhttps://youtu.be/YKdBJlw60vQ📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/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

Can we catch the next interstellar visitor? Why do black holes' accretion disks glow? Can we make spaceships out of asteroids? How do we know that dark matter and dark energy actually exist? All that in this week's episode of Q&A with Fraser Cain. And we've started the Book Club!🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday📖 Book Club Group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club00:00 Start01:39 [Tatooine] Why do accretion disks glow?06:19 [Coruscant] Can redshift create a light trail?10:13 [Hoth] Can we turn asteroids into spaceships?13:45 [Naboo] Book Club: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir18:03 [Kamino] What's the current state of quantum computers?22:54 [Bespin] Can we catch the next Oumuamua-type object?27:53 [Mustafar] How do we know dark matter and dark energy exist?34:12 [Alderaan] How can there be something beyond the observable universe?36:51 [Dagobah] How will AI affect astronomy?39:26 [Yavin] Would I freeze myself to see the future?41:24 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/WSt1AqPYdkM📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/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

Historical data about solar storms carved in trees, and it's a bit worrying. Falcon Heavy's back after 40 months of absence. There's a meteor shower and a total lunar eclipse in the coming days. And JWST gave us yet another version of Pillars of Creation. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Intro00:33 Even more Pillars of Creation by Webbhttps://www.universetoday.com/158384/another-version-of-the-pillars-of-creation-from-webb/03:20 Meteor shower and Total Lunar Eclipsehttps://www.universetoday.com/158356/possible-taurid-meteor-outburst-for-2022/https://www.universetoday.com/158196/our-guide-to-tuesdays-total-lunar-eclipse/06:38 Star Storms in Tree Ringshttps://www.universetoday.com/158351/the-most-devastating-solar-storms-in-history-are-scoured-into-tree-rings/09:30 Heavy Elements from Neutron Stars Mergerhttps://www.universetoday.com/158379/not-just-gold-colliding-neutron-stars-forge-strontium-lanthanum-and-cerium/11:23 Support us on Patreon12:18 InSight Felt a Meteor Strike on Marshttps://www.universetoday.com/158390/insight-felt-the-ground-shake-from-a-meteorite-impact-on-mars/14:09 Falcon Heavy flies againhttps://www.universetoday.com/158447/falcon-heavy-launches-for-the-first-time-in-over-three-years-carrying-military-satellites-to-orbit/15:12 Psyche mission is back on trackhttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-continues-psyche-asteroid-mission/16:32 Channel updates18:12 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/l95ADb_Jx2c📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/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 the current state of James Webb? What were the main technical difficulties and what does the future look like? What comes after JWST and LUVOIR? Will it be possible to ever build a quantum telescope? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday💯 100 Days of Webb: https://youtu.be/lpJ5x4rcH-k00:00:00 Intro00:01:36 Current state of JWST science00:08:42 JWST data release mechanisms00:16:34 Evolution of the Periodic table00:19:03 Technical challenges of JWST00:24:06 Expectations VS reality of operating Webb00:31:52 Damage and current health of JWST00:45:14 Architecture for the next telescopes00:59:37 Non-conventional concepts of future telescopes01:03:47 Quantum telescopes01:17:16 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/eXchT7mtEao📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/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

If Moon was created with a big collision, where's the crater? Can we fix the space trash problem? Is doing Astronomy just a waste of money that can be better spent elsewhere? What will come after DART? All this and more in this week's Q&A.🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Start02:01 [Tatooine] Is Astronomy just a waste of money?07:17 [Coruscant] How do scientists react to being wrong?09:25 [Hoth] Where's Theia's crater?11:22 [Naboo] If no Big Rip, what's left?14:52 [Kamino] What about returning to the Moon?17:22 [Bespin] Is life everywhere?20:34 [Mustafar] Will there be DART successors?24:23 [Alderaan] How to fix space debris?28:53 [Dagobah] EHT but in space?34:26 [Yavin] Dark energy after heat death?37:29 [Mandalore] Viking missions controversy? 42:39 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/gLlzt0Vwn1A📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/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