Universe Today Podcast Fraser Cain

How old is Jupiter’s Red Spot, watching a supermassive black hole wake up, the earliest merging quasars, and Starliner still hasn’t come home.


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00:00 Intro
00:13 Great Red Spot


https://www.universetoday.com/167417/the-great-red-spot-probably-formed-in-the-early-1800s/

02:18 Supermassive Black Hole Awakening


https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2409/

04:11 Earliest merging quasars


https://www.universetoday.com/167446/the-earliest-merging-quasars-ever-seen/

05:23 Crab Nebula by JWST


https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/investigating-the-origins-of-the-crab-nebula-with-nasas-webb/

07:07 Vote results
07:51 Surviving the lunar night


https://www.universetoday.com/167429/a-new-way-to-survive-the-harsh-lunar-night/

09:51 Fish on Mars


https://www.universetoday.com/167408/fish-could-turn-regolith-into-fertile-soil-on-mars/

11:20 More delays for Starliner
12:48 Cool images


https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-releases-hubble-image-taken-in-new-pointing-mode/

16:04 More space news
16:49 Air-breathing ion engines


https://youtu.be/Lz4O6AzLofQ



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What are primordial black holes and how are they different from all the other kinds of black holes out there? How could we possibly detect them and what would it mean for Cosmology? Can primordial black holes be a solution for dark matter? Finding out the answers in this interview.


🟣 Guest: Jason Kristiano
https://jkristiano.github.io/


📜 Generating large primordial fluctuations in single-field inflation for PBH formation:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12149


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00:00 Intro
02:27 Formation of primordial black holes
11:25 The impact on the Universe
15:45 How can we observe black holes
20:30 Constraints on dark matter solution
22:56 Research
35:11 Further observations
44:18 Current obsessions
51:49 Final thoughts


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Satellites run out of fuel and have to de-orbit and end their missions. But what if they had access to a practically infinite amount of fuel? What if they could scoop air from the atmosphere and use it as propellant? That is exactly the research that Dr Mansur Tisaev is doing!


🟣 Guest: Dr. Mansur Tisaev
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mansur-Tisaev


👉 Dr Andrea Lucca Fabris
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/andrea-lucca-fabris


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00:00 Intro
02:04 Ion engines
15:32 Effects of the solar activity
19:35 Advantages of air-breathing engines
28:13 What's next
32:05 Non-Earth applications
36:26 Interstellar applications
38:35 Current obsessions
41:03 Final thoughts


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What percentage of stars live in binary systems? Are there Lagrange points all the way down? Can there be a rogue gravitational wave? Why do stars twinkle? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show.


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00:00 Start
00:24 [Andoria] Do most stars really live in binary systems?
05:44 [Vulcan] Which events could be galaxy-killers?
08:20 [Risa] Is it Lagrange points all the way down?
10:48 [Aeturen] Do binary stars have Lagrange points?
13:29 [Vendikar] Star Wars planets vs Star Trek planets
14:20 [Remus] Why some galaxies are "inactive"?
17:19 [Janus] What is the meaning of life?
18:19 [Cait] Is AI just overhyped marketing?
22:43 [Betazed] How big is the observable Universe?
25:57 [Cheleb] Could life exist on a tidally locked planet around a red dwarf?
29:25 [Nimbus] Why do stars twinkle?
31:01 [Belos] How to study astronomy as a hobby?
35:07 [Lyar] Can rogue gravity waves exist?
37:15 [Zalcon] Would aliens also have the scientific method?


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Mars is full of toxic perchlorates that can be very harmful for future human missions. So, when people go to Mars, they will need to fix it. NASA has awarded a NIAC grant for a project that can help solving this problem. It's called Detoxifying Mars: the biocatalytic elimination of omnipresent perchlorates.


👉 More about the NIAC project:
https://www.nasa.gov/general/detoxifying-mars/


🟣 Guests: Dr. Lynn Rothschild, Dr. Garrett Roberts Kingman


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00:00 Intro
02:31 Perchlorates on Mars
10:48 The NIAC proposal
35:09 What's next
49:18 Current obsessions
53:35 Final thoughts


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We’re now weeks away from a nova, NASA is looking for new Mars Sample Return mission ideas, there’s frost on Olympus Mons, and watching asteroids collide in another star system.


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00:00 Intro
00:15 A nova's coming


https://www.universetoday.com/167320/were-now-just-weeks-away-from-a-stellar-explosion-you-can-see-with-your-own-eyes/

04:08 Alternative Mars Sample Return architectures


https://www.universetoday.com/167361/nasa-is-considering-other-ways-of-getting-its-mars-samples-home/

06:34 Chandra confirms exoplanet habitability
08:06 Euclid sees rogue planets too


https://www.universetoday.com/167326/euclid-is-finding-free-floating-planets-in-orion-too/

09:17 Frost on Olympus Mons


https://www.universetoday.com/167358/frost-seen-on-olympus-mons-for-the-first-time/

11:03 Vote results
11:51 Free lunch for satellites


https://www.universetoday.com/167366/next-generation-satellites-might-skim-the-atmosphere-using-air-as-a-propellant/

13:57 JWST sees asteroi collisions in another star system


https://www.universetoday.com/167344/webb-sees-asteroids-collide-in-another-star-system/

15:28 Starliner has 5 leaks


https://www.universetoday.com/167381/starliner-has-five-leaks/

17:03 More space news
17:36 Moon-based astronomy


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