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.
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2022-10-28 23:10:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
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2022-10-26 13:15:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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2022-10-25 14:31:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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2022-10-24 02:55:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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2022-10-21 20:09:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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2022-10-20 16:35:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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2022-10-14 23:33:41 +0000 UTC View Post
How understanding the Sun can change our view of all the other stars in the Universe. What will current instruments and future mission will bring. And what are the mysteries that are waiting to be solved in this field.
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2022-10-12 14:48:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Are there alternatives to CMB? Will we ever build a space elevator? How can we see radiation coming from a black hole when nothing can escape it? Can you heat something with gravitational waves? Why JWST can look lame to the laymen? All this and more in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain.
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2022-10-11 15:56:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Coronographs will soon be in every major telescope. They can block the light from the star and reveal things around it, like exoplanets. There's so much amazing science behind them. Like, did you know coronographs can be adaptive? We dive into all that with Dr Lucie Leboulleux. Enjoy the interview!
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2022-10-09 21:22:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Dimorphos grows a tail. More Europa pictures from Juno. The horrifying possibility of ads in the night sky. Why Jupiter’s atmosphere is surprisingly hot.
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2022-10-07 20:26:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In this interview, Professor Peter Vickers and I talk about the scientific method, its true nature and its place in modern society. We talk about the philosophy of science, how scientific consensus works and how it can be made better.
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2022-10-05 17:20:55 +0000 UTC View Post
In this week's questions and answers show, I explain why a crewed mission to Venus or the Moon makes sense, if there's debris in the Lagrange Points, and why the photos from DART look so familiar.
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2022-10-04 19:47:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Humanity moved an asteroid on purpose for the first time in history. Juno flies past Jupiter. A possible mission to boost Hubble, and a mysterious blob is orbiting Milky Way’s supermassive black hole.
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2022-10-01 00:25:05 +0000 UTC View PostI've spoken to many patrons, and they often mention that we're creating a LOT of content for Universe Today. There are all the videos, interviews, podcasts, newsletters, and news stories on Universe Today, not to mention the stuff we do for Astronomy Cast and Weekly Space Hangout. There are interviews with me, behind-the-scenes stuff, unedited live streams, Discord live chats, etc.
It's potentially a firehose of space content. But people are also telling me that they're missing mo...
2022-09-28 18:46:22 +0000 UTC View Post
In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain what would happen when an antimatter black hole collides with a regular black hole, I try to estimate when Starship is going to make an orbital launch, and wonder if there could be life around brown dwarf stars.
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In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain the difference between the observable universe and the Hubble sphere, how satellite megaconstellations will affect smartphones and other consumer devices, and what impact Jupiter's radiation might have for life on Europa.
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Today I'm talking to Lee McIntyre, philosopher of science and the author of a recently released book 'How to Talk to a Science Denier'. We talked about the problems with science communication in modern society, the challenges that misinformation poses, and how we can possibly fight it.
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2022-09-20 14:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Uh oh, NASA’s CAPSTONE mission is having problems, A New Shepard Flight fails, Betelgeuse was recently yellow, and of course, another amazing new image from Webb.
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2022-09-17 20:12:46 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back from hiatus! In this week's Questions and Answers show, I talk about what will happen when the expansion of the Universe reaches the speed of light, how I feel about SLS delays, what's happening with James Webb, and more...
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How iPhone 14 will connect to satellites. Why SLS didn’t launch and when it might. Growing rice in space. And a new incredible image from James Webb.
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2022-09-09 20:44:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Artemis 1 delayed, direct image of an exoplanet from Webb, how Starlink will connect to phones, Voyager 1 is fixed, cosmology crisis continues.
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2022-09-03 00:08:15 +0000 UTC View Post
No, James Webb didn’t disprove the Big Bang. Carbon dioxide found in an exoplanet atmosphere. An amazing picture of Jupiter from Webb, pieces of other stars found in asteroid Ryugu, weak astronauts arriving on Mars, and a new way to measure distances in the Universe. All that and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites.
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2022-08-26 23:16:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Rocket Lab is launching the first-ever private mission to Venus. Europe is considering space-based solar power. A new method to detect exoplanets. More evidence about the Moon’s origins. Webb’s largest every image. All that and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites.
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2022-08-20 00:19:22 +0000 UTC View Post
We continue to introduce the team behind Universe Today. In this episode meet Scott Alan Johnston. Fraser and Scott Alan discuss what role history plays in sciences, how it gives a perspective to a lot of space-related stories and how to keep a balance between science and science communication.
James Webb starts delivering actual science results, Space Launch System and Starship both go even closer to their maiden flights, remote surgery medical robot is going to the ISS, Perseverance continues to find weird stuff on Mars, and Hubble is still going strong. All this and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites.
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2022-08-12 23:16:04 +0000 UTC View Post
An interstellar meteorite could be hiding in the ocean. Why doesn’t Jupiter have rings like Saturn. The time when Earth’s magnetic field almost collapsed. The shortest day on Earth, and Planet 9 is running out of places to hide.
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2022-08-05 23:12:22 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for our weekly Spacebites news segment. This week we learn how JWST is doing after its micrometeorite strike, two more helicopters are flying to Mars, and how do you stop the Milky Way from turning into self-replicating robot probes?
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2022-07-30 04:07:19 +0000 UTC View Post
We continue to introduce the team behind Universe Today. In this episode meet Dr. Brian Koberlein. We talked about the balance between being scientific and explaining things in simple terms, which unanswered questions are the most interesting and how to become a good science communicator.
SLS finally gets a launch date for Artemis I, JWST keeps giving the goodness, Percy finds another weird thing on Mars, astronomers find a dormant black hole and NASA will launch a flagship telescope on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
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2022-07-22 23:58:23 +0000 UTC View Post