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Universe Today Podcast Fraser Cain
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Space news, interviews, Q&As, and exclusive content from Universe Today.
Audio versions of Fraser Cain YouTube channel.
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[Space Bites] HUGE Starship Success // Far Side Moon Samples // Hubble In Trouble
Starship is successful on its fourth flight, Starliner reaches the station, carrying people, Hubble is only using one gyro, and Chang’e-6 scoops samples from the Moon and heads for home.
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00:00 Intro
00:14 Starship IFT-4
https://www.universetoday.com/167296/success-starship-makes-a-splash-in-fourth-flight-test/
07:10 Starliner First Crewed Launch
https://www.universetoday.com/167277/starliner-finally-launches-carrying-two-astronauts-into-orbit/
09:28 Chang'e-6 Lands, Scoops, Launches back
https://www.universetoday.com/167243/chinese-probe-collects-moon-samples-and-heads-for-earth/
10:53 dearMoon gets cancelled
https://www.universetoday.com/167211/japanese-billionaire-calls-off-his-starship-trip-around-the-moon/
12:19 SLIM is dead
https://www.universetoday.com/167242/japans-lunar-lander-fails-to-check-in/
13:03 Vote results
13:34 Hubble goes into single gyro mode
https://www.universetoday.com/167294/its-time-for-hardworking-hubble-to-slow-down-a-little/
16:09 Moon spacesuits integrated test
https://www.universetoday.com/167278/astronauts-are-practicing-lunar-operations-in-new-space-suits/
17:11 Support our work
18:27 Habitable worlds observatory
https://www.universetoday.com/167280/research-work-begins-on-the-habitable-worlds-observatory/
20:20 Dark matter updates
https://www.universetoday.com/167236/evidence-of-dark-matter-interacting-with-itself-in-el-gordo-merger/
24:24 More space news
25:06 What Starship success means
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[Interview] How Much Water Will A Human Colony on Moon or Mars Need
How much water will a proper Moon base need? Where can we get it from? How can we manage and maintain the water? How will this approach work on Mars and beyond? Finding out the answers with Dr Jeffrey Lee.
🟣 Guest: Dr. Jeffrey Lee
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dX5MnbUAAAAJ&hl=en
📜 Water Management Considerations for a Self-Sustaining Moonbase
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14100
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00:00 Intro
01:56 How much water do humans need
05:10 Additional water requirements
09:32 Extracting water from the regolith
15:49 Managing the water
23:38 What comes next
26:16 Going to Mars
32:07 Current obsessions
41:21 Final thoughts
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[Q&A] Life on the Moon, Lagrange Points Around Lagrange Points, JWST Time Cost
How would they get a 14-meter mirror to space? Are we sure there's no life on the Moon? Can there be Lagrange points around Lagrange points? How much mass does Earth gain and lose to space? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A.
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00:00 Start
00:26 [Andoria] Are we sure there's no life on the Moon?
06:53 [Vulcan] 14-meter space telescope. How?
10:53 [Risa] Why are there plumes on Enceladus?
14:59 [Aeturen] Is there a telescope planned to directly image exoplanets?
18:47 [Vendikar] Lagrange points around Lagrange points?
22:37 [Remus] Can you grind your own glass for a telescope?
25:12 [Janus] How much mass does Earth gain/lose?
28:11 [Cait] How much does time on JWST cost?
28:46 [Betazed] Can Earth remain habitable when the Sun expands?
33:01 [Cheleb] Does Hawking radiation travel faster than light?
34:12 [Nimbus] Did JWST find a Dyson sphere?
38:27 [Belos] How to keep up with space news?
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[Interview] Leaping Robot for Lunar Lava Tubes
Lava tubes are one of the most interesting places on the Moon. They can be a great place for a potential lunar base, but they also can be a time capsule that can tell us about the entire history of the Moon. And there's a very interesting mission in development that could explore lava tubes. It's called Lunar Leaper.
Guest: Dr Anna Mittelholz
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00:00 Intro
03:08 Lava tubes
07:31 Lunar Leaper
13:11 Hopping on the Moon
24:04 Going inside a lava tube
27:28 Mars lava tubes
30:44 Mars magnetosphere
36:45 Why don't they just ... crash things into Mars
39:34 Current obsessions
45:15 Final thoughts
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[Space Bites] Starship Flight 4 Update // Giant Stars Disappearing // Volcanoes on Venus
Starship is ready for its 4th flight, Webb finds the most distant galaxy ever seen, a new way to detect Hawking Radiation, and fresh volcanoes on Venus.
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00:00 Intro
00:14 Starship Flight 4 Coming Soon
01:55 Starliner might finally fly humans to space
02:47 James Webb sees the most the distant galaxy
04:58 New way to measure black hole rotation
https://www.universetoday.com/167127/a-new-way-to-measure-the-rotation-of-black-holes/
06:44 Possible way to see Hawking radiation
https://www.universetoday.com/167112/merging-black-holes-could-give-astronomers-a-way-to-detect-hawking-radiation/
08:32 Giant stars disappearing
https://www.universetoday.com/167171/hundreds-of-massive-stars-have-simply-disappeared/
10:42 Vote results
11:18 China's about to land on the Moon
13:07 Sorry, Spock! Vulcan is not a planet
https://www.universetoday.com/167161/sorry-spock-but-vulcan-isnt-a-planet-after-all/
14:28 Volcanos on Venus
https://www.universetoday.com/167156/volcanoes-were-erupting-on-venus-in-the-1990s/
15:39 Akatsuki lost connection
16:32 Cool images and videos
18:10 Newsletter
19:15 Missions to Venus
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[Q&A] Danger from Solar Storms, Observing Planet X, Pink Auroras
Where can we observe the effects of dark matter? How did all satellites survive the recent solar storms? Why auroras can show different colours? If we found Planet X, could we even observe it? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show.
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00:00 Start
00:24 [Andoria] Where can we observe dark matter?
08:02 [Vulcan] How good are MOND theories?
11:21 [Risa] Why did we survive all the recent solar storms so well?
15:23 [Aeturen] Can we even see Planet X if it actually exists?
20:43 [Vendikar] Can multiple scientists use JWST at the same time?
24:23 [Remus] Can neutrinos be dark matter?
28:15 [Janus] Why some auroras are pink and not green?
29:50 [Cait] What is the Drake equation?
32:58 [Betazed] Falling into a black hole
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Customer Reviews
I didn’t know a media like Universe Today existed
When I was a child, I was very interested in the universe, but there was nobody in my close environment who followed this curiosity with me, and I didn't step into any frequent publication with great information about space, all I found was general information, but no media that would take me to the edge of space exploration as it was happening. As a result, my love for space died and I spent many years without paying much attention to it.
But one day, because of some news about JWST, I came across Universe Today and all my curiosity about space was reborn. I didn't know a media like Universe Today existed, and I'm very grateful to have found it. I love the passion, the rigour, the love, the time, the depth, the creativity, the dynamism that the team puts into it. I love the passion they have to be at the forefront of what's happening in space exploration and the passion they have to follow their own curiosity. I just love it and I haven't missed an episode since I discovered it, if not on Youtube then as a podcast.
I REALLY recommend listening to it. Love from a small island in the Finnish archipelago 💚