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[Q&A] Milky Way from the ISS, Poking a Black Hole, Sun Bringing The Moon Closer Dec 10, 2024

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How don't comets lose all their mass really quickly? Where are all the photos of the Milky Way from the ISS? Can you reach out from orbit and poke a black hole with a stick? Answering all these questions and more in this Q&A show.

[Interview] How Black Widow Pulsars Can Be A Sign of Star-Eating Aliens Dec 09, 2024

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Black Widow pulsars consume their partners. But if there were advanced alien species, it could be a perfect way to produce energy and move the stars around. They could also use pulsars as a global galactic navigation system. How exactly could they achieve it? Finding out in this interview.

🟣 Guest: Dr. Clément Vidal
https://www.clemvidal.com/

[Space Bites] Trump's New NASA Administrator // Artemis Delayed Again // No Oceans in Venus' Past Dec 06, 2024

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Trump announces his choice for the new NASA administrator, we’ve got a new date for Artemis III, Venus might have never had liquid oceans, and finding habitable planets around white dwarf stars.

[Q&A] JWST in Different Spectra, Milky Way Losing Stars, Mystery of the Sun's Corona Dec 05, 2024

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Does building more JWSTs for different parts of the spectrum make sense? Are star types predetermined at their birth? Can you cook a pizza on the Sun? Why is the Sun's corona hotter than its surface? Are there binary supermassive black holes? Answering all these questions and more in this Q&A show.

[Q&A] Funding New Space Stations, Pollution from Rocket Launches, Best Place for Space Factory | Q&A 276 Dec 03, 2024

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Who will pay for the next-generation space stations that follow the ISS? How much do rockets pollute? Did James Webb make the observable Universe bigger? Answering all these questions and more in this Q&A show.

[Space Bites] What's Inside Uranus // Dragonfly Launch Secured // Best JWST Image of 2024 Nov 29, 2024

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Dragonfly is taking a Falcon Heavy to Titan, What’s inside Uranus?, Russia’s cargo ship delivers a stinky smell to the station, and testing robots to go under the ice on Europa.

[Q&A] Fuel for Comet Tails, Detecting a Voyager's Crash, Driving Into Lava Tubes Nov 28, 2024

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Why don't comets run out of "tail fuel"? If Voyager crashes into something, can we tell it apart from a regular failure? What are the chances we will drive into a lava tube? Will satellite communication become dominant at some point? Answering all these and more in this Q&A show.

[Interview] First Ever Steam World Found by JWST Nov 27, 2024

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James Webb recently detected a new kind of exoplanet. It's a steam world. How did they find it and what does it mean for the future of exoplanet search? Finding out in this interview.

🟣 Guest: Eshan Raul

[Interview] Where Did The Mysterious JUMBOs in The Orion Nebula Come From? Nov 27, 2024

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JUMBOs, Jupiter Mass Binary Objects. Over 500 of them were detected in the Orion Nebula by JWST. But where did they come from? How did they form and why are they in binary pairs? My guest has a good guess about it.

Guest: Jessica Diamond

[Q&A] Funding Space Stations After ISS, Gravity Tractor Experiment, Digital Adaptive Optics Nov 27, 2024

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Where will the money come from for the next generation of space stations? Does NASA have plans for a gravity tractor experiment for the Apophis flyby? Which part of the Milky Way can we see? Can there be different types of black holes? Answering all these and more in this Q&A show.

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