Universe Today Podcast Fraser Cain

A proposal for a giant new space telescope, a Venus-sized world in a star’s habitable zone, Vera Rubin gets its camera, and the first data release from Euclid.


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00:00 Intro
00:14 SALTUS: Giant 14m space telescope proposal


https://www.universetoday.com/167083/astronomers-propose-a-14-meter-infrared-space-telescope/

03:32 New ExoVenus planet found


https://www.universetoday.com/167096/a-new-venus-sized-world-found-in-the-habitable-zone-of-its-star/

05:07 Massive Protoplanetary disk


https://www.universetoday.com/167038/this-is-the-largest-planet-forming-disk-ever-seen/

06:24 Voyager-1's Back for Real


https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/05/22/voyager-1-resumes-sending-science-data-from-two-instruments/

07:27 China's space aquarium


https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-05-19/Aquatic-antics-Fish-exhibit-disorientation-in-China-Space-Station-1tJt4wprXMY/p.html

09:11 Vote results
10:27 More Evidence for Gravitational Wave Background


https://www.universetoday.com/167058/more-evidence-for-the-gravitational-wave-background-of-the-universe/

13:09 Vera Rubin Got Its Camera


https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2413/

14:25 Euclid data release


https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/ESA_s_Euclid_celebrates_first_science_with_sparkling_cosmic_views

16:23 More space news
17:32 ExoVenus


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Getting to Enceladus is cool. However, it's not yet possible because there isn't enough budget for it. How can we make missions like that happen despite the budget limitations? Finding out the answers with Dr Manasvi Lingam.


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00:00 Intro
02:17 Why Enceladus
03:46 How can NASA cut costs
08:24 Mission profile
15:06 The science
24:23 Alternative approaches
31:21 Practical demonstration
37:44 Out of the box ideas
52:57 Current obsessions
58:41 Final thoughts


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A new answer for Mars methane, BepiColumbo is having thruster problems, three of the oldest stars in the Universe found nearby, and the best auroras in decades.


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00:00 Intro
00:14 Mars Methane Mystery


https://www.universetoday.com/167003/new-answers-for-mars-methane-mystery/

02:50 BepiColombo in Trouble


https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Glitch_on_BepiColombo_work_ongoing_to_restore_spacecraft_to_full_thrust

04:40 Oldest Stars in the Universe


https://www.universetoday.com/167001/three-of-the-oldest-stars-in-the-universe-found-circling-the-milky-way/

06:19 Crazy Auroras


https://www.universetoday.com/166955/what-a-weekend-spectacular-aurora-photos-from-around-the-world/

07:35 Vote results
08:14 Supermassive Black Holes' Origin


https://www.universetoday.com/166947/supermassive-black-holes-got-started-from-massive-cosmic-seeds/

10:12 Bright star mystery


https://www.universetoday.com/167007/a-star-became-1000-times-brighter-and-now-astronomers-know-why/

11:36 Amazing Hubble images
12:59 More space news
13:57 How to see an aurora


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How exactly does Gaia operate? What should we expect from it in the near future? When and why will it come to an end? And what comes after Gaia? Finding out the answers with Dr Berry Holl.


👉 Gaia Black Hole 3 discovery seminar at the Department of astronomy Geneva
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00:00 Intro
02:48 Meet Dr Berry Holl
05:02 How Gaia works
12:56 Measuring the speed of stars
22:14 Limits of Gaia
32:10 Anomalies from Gaia
40:25 When will Gaia end
48:48 What comes next
01:01:33 Current obsessions
01:02:56 Final thoughts


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SpaceX announces their new spacewalking suit, China is off to the Moon again, progress on Vera Rubin, and take a one-way trip into a black hole.


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00:00 Intro
00:12 SpaceX EVA suit


https://polarisprogram.com/eva-suit-unveil/

02:15 New evidence for Planet 9


https://www.universetoday.com/166889/new-evidence-for-our-solar-systems-ghost-planet-nine/

03:57 Vera Rubin's Mirror is done


https://www.universetoday.com/166842/vera-rubins-primary-mirror-gets-its-first-reflective-coating/

05:35 China's Chang'e-6 Moon mission


https://www.universetoday.com/166876/china-is-going-back-to-the-moon-again-with-change-6/

07:20 Vote results
08:13 NIAC phase 2


https://www.universetoday.com/166883/nasa-takes-six-advanced-tech-concepts-to-phase-ii/

10:18 Dinkinesh's moonlet is young


https://www.universetoday.com/166855/dinkineshs-moonlet-is-only-2-3-million-years-old/

11:31 Why white dwarf stars have so much metal


https://jila.colorado.edu/news-events/articles/hungry-hungry-white-dwarfs-solving-puzzle-stellar-metal-pollution

12:56 Dive into a black hole


https://www.universetoday.com/166903/fall-into-a-black-hole-with-this-new-nasa-simulation/

13:51 More space news
14:40 How science works


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How can we improve ALMA? What are the benefits of having a single big submillimeter telescope? What could we discover if the AtLAST telescope project goes through? Figuring out the answers with Dr Claudia Chicone.


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00:00 Intro
01:51 Submillimeter wavelength
06:42 ALMA
16:53 AtLAST telescope project
32:16 Submillimeter maps of the sky
36:30 What's next?
43:17 Final thoughts and more interveiws


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