Universe Today Podcast

How do we know that certain organisms can survive for millions of years in the conditions of Mars? What do we know about them? And where should we be looking for them on Mars?🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Intro01:36 What is Deinococcus radiodurans07:54 How can it live for hundreds of millions of years15:41 Mars contamination18:52 Where should we look on Mars25:45 Panspermia from Mars29:00 What’s next32:03 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/SVjydQEKbEA📰 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

There’s a monster black hole in our backyard (astronomically speaking). Life could survive underground on Mars for hundreds of millions of years. Starlink was hacked to work as GPS. Bad news for Arecibo.🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Intro00:39 The closed black hole ever discovered https://www.universetoday.com/158176/a-monster-black-hole-has-been-found-right-in-our-backyard-astronomically-speaking/03:28 Life can hide deep within Marshttps://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/10/ancient-bacteria-might-lurk-beneath-mars-surface/?fj=106:24 Life could have killed Mars in the pasthttps://www.universetoday.com/158167/early-life-on-mars-might-have-wiped-out-life-on-mars/09:50 Starlink got “hacked” and can be used as GPS alternative11:38 Support us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/universetoday12:19 Lucy gets a portrait of the Earth and the Moonhttps://www.universetoday.com/158323/lucy-took-this-picture-of-earth-as-it-was-making-its-gravity-assist-maneuver/14:13 Star blasts away the atmosphere from a planethttps://www.universetoday.com/158217/a-nearby-star-has-completely-blasted-away-the-atmosphere-from-its-planet/16:38 Arecibo won’t be rebuilthttps://www.universetoday.com/158125/arecibo-wont-be-rebuilt/19:01 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/l_gf_d8kX6M📰 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

All the nice space images you see on the web are processed. It's a complex process that takes the raw data from the instruments and turns them into a picture. Judy Schmidt is one of the best in this, so I talked to her about how she does it. Enjoy!👉 Judy's Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/👉 Judy's Twitter: https://twitter.com/spacegeck👉 Judy's Tutorial: https://youtu.be/8kGPGhbefhI🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Intro02:44 How did Judy get into space image processing 10:47 Pipeline for astronomical images14:34 Astronomers and processed images19:45 What is the image processing pipeline25:43 Working with raw data40:22 Scientific discoveries made while processing images48:49 How to get into image processing53:32 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/iiXzfeE5EjI📰 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 do you clean up astronomy images and what part does Photoshop play in it? Can you make spaceships out of ice found in space? When will SpaceX carry people to Mars? What pet will be the best companion for a long space trip? And even more questions in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain.🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Intro01:41 [Tatooine] How do you "clean up" astronomical images?06:41 [Coruscant] Why Moon spin is synced with Earth?09:31 [Hoth] How many habitable worlds are out there?13:35 [Naboo] Wen hop?18:57 [Kamino] Best space pet?20:46 [Bespin] Can a planet pierce through an accretion disk?22:56 [Mustafar] Remote telescopes?27:12 [Alderaan] Mars mission by 2029?30:20 [Dagobah] Spaceships made of ice?33:08 [Yavin] Why do they sit on data?36:47 [Mandalore] How Q&As are made?39:34 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/gVRKuZKjk9g📰 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

Dark Energy will determine how the Universe will die. With the help of Pantheon+, the most detailed survey of Type 1A supernovae, astronomers can understand more details about Dark Energy and the expansion of spacetime. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Intro01:50 What is Pantheon+13:47 Can we predict Type 1A supernovae17:07 How to use Type 1A supernovae23:33 Dark Energy and the Big Rip27:35 Crisis in Cosmology42:01 What comes next45:05 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSION#TODO_LINK📰 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

We continue to introduce the team behind Universe Today. In this episode meet Matt Williams. Fraser and Matt discussed long format writing, stories about the future of space exploration, science fiction novels Matt has written, how not to be too cynical and how to write fast and write good.🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 - Intro03:33 - Writing science fiction novels inspired by Universe Today09:12 - Future exploration of the Solar System12:44 - Fighting cynicism19:15 - Writing fast. And writing good28:08 - Writing routines30:55 - Matt's podcast and website: https://storiesbywilliams.com/34:16 - Outro📰 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

The Pillars of Creation revealed by JWST. It seems like Big Rip isn't happening after all. Black holes twisting spacetime into knots. Jets that seem to be going faster than the speed of light.🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 - Intro00:38 Pillars of Creation by Webbhttps://www.universetoday.com/158161/heres-webbs-view-of-the-pillars-of-creation/03:41 Big Rip? Maybe Not!https://pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/news/most-precise-accounting-yet-dark-energy-and-dark-matter08:56 Black Holes Tie Spacetime into knotshttps://www.universetoday.com/158086/shortly-before-they-collided-two-black-holes-tangled-spacetime-up-into-knots/11:35 Most Powerful Gamma Ray Burst Ever Recordedhttps://www.universetoday.com/158132/astronomers-just-saw-the-most-powerful-gamma-ray-burst-ever-recorded/13:26 Support us on Patreon14:17 Jet faster than the speed of light from a 2017 Kilonovahttps://www.universetoday.com/158119/hubble-examines-the-wreckage-from-the-2017-kilonova/16:14 A warning sign for supernovaehttps://www.universetoday.com/158116/astronomers-think-they-have-a-warning-sign-for-when-massive-stars-are-about-to-explode-as-supernovae/19:21 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/hNTZ6Cvil0Y📰 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

It has been exactly 100 days since we got the first images from JWST. Here's an overview of all the most important discoveries that the James Webb Space Telescope did since then.🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Intro01:07 Science objectives for JWST 02:01 Galaxy formation and star evolution09:15 Exoplanets13:13 Solar system observations17:10 Nebulae19:54 Problems with JWST22:02 What's next for James Webb24:13 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/lpJ5x4rcH-k📰 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

We continue to introduce the team behind Universe Today. In this episode meet Andy Tomaswick. Fraser and Andy talked about Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’, interest in Astronomy and how to deal with haters and trolls. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 - Intro03:50 - What kind of stories Andy prefers and why12:47 - How UT the stories are made16:47 - What started Andy's interest in Astronomy19:47 - What's next24:34 - Advice for future writers25:46 - Dealing with haters29:17 - Outro📰 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

DART’s results are in, it hammered Dimorphos, the Moon might just be a big chunk of the Earth, Webb sees bizarre rings around a star, and SLS gets a new launch date… at night.🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 - Intro00:33 - NASA’s huge mistake on DART resultshttps://www.universetoday.com/158049/success-dart-impact-shortened-asteroids-orbit-time-by-32-minutes/02:34 - How did the Moon formhttps://www.universetoday.com/157958/the-moon-might-be-one-large-chunk-that-was-blasted-off-the-earth-billions-of-years-ago/06:32 - Not an optical illusionhttps://www.universetoday.com/157385/these-bizarre-concentric-rings-in-space-are-real-not-an-optical-illusion-new-data-from-jwst-explains-whats-happening/09:16 - SLS got a new launch datehttps://www.universetoday.com/158081/a-new-launch-date-for-artemis-1-november-14th-at-night/10:35 - Starship got fully stacked againhttps://www.universetoday.com/158075/starship-and-super-heavy-are-stacked-up-again-how-long-until-they-fly/12:01 - Support us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/universetoday12:55 - CAPSTONE is backhttps://www.universetoday.com/158025/phew-nasas-capstone-is-no-longer-tumbling-in-space/14:25 - SpinLaunch performs its 10th testhttps://www.universetoday.com/158014/spinlaunch-completes-its-10th-test-hurling-payloads-for-nasa-and-other-companies-into-the-air/16:24 - If Europa has lakes, we will find themhttps://www.universetoday.com/158053/if-there-are-shallow-lakes-under-the-ice-on-europa-clipper-will-find-them/18:46 - Channel updates20:26 - OutroInterviewsColin Stuart https://youtu.be/H8EtjYANPjYDr. Lucie Leboulleux https://youtu.be/sLK1W0EGu8A📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/SYdmszEG-Og📰 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