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[Interview] Can PLATO Be The Mission To Finally Find Earth 2.0? Aug 19, 2024

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The quest to find an Earth-sized planet around a Sun-like star continues. One of the telescopes that could achieve it is ESA's Plato mission. How will it be able to do it and what should we expect from it? Finding out it this interview.

Guest: Dr. David Brown

[Space Bites] Huge Lake on Mars // Fate of Milkdromeda // Hope for VIPER Rover Aug 16, 2024

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Vast amounts of water found on Mars, but there’s a catch, Milky Way and Andromeda might not merge after all, a planet found before it gets destroyed, and an easier way to terraform Mars.

[Interview] Can Dark Matter Solve One Of The Biggest Mysteries of Black Holes? Aug 15, 2024

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The final parsec problem is a mystery that is yet to be answered by cosmology. On paper, supermassive black holes shouldn't merge. But yet they do. Why is it happening? What helps them slow down? Could it be dark matter? Looking for answers in this interview.

Guest: Dr. Gonzalo Alonso Álvarez

[Overtime Q&A] Why Is Uranus On Its Side? A Telescope for $200? Can We Build More Planets? Aug 13, 2024

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What's the most challenging part of Astronomy? What happened to Uranus? Which telescope to get for $200? Could we detect Voyager-like spacecraft flying through the solar system? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A.

[Interview] Why Is Nobody Talking About Multi-Stage Interstellar Spaceships? Aug 12, 2024

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Interstellar travel might not be as impossible as most people think. Especially if we adopt the multi-stage approach that we already use in everyday rockets. How can we do it and what results we can expect? Finding out in this interview.

Guest: Jeff Greason

[Space Bites] China's Space Junk // Graphene on the Moon // Best Meteor Shower Is Here Aug 09, 2024

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It’s time for the Perseids meteor shower, Gaia has found hundreds of asteroid moons, Starliner is still in question, and where does the Moon’s atmosphere come from?

[Interview] How Simulated Observations Help Future Telescopes Aug 08, 2024

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Future telescopes like Vera Rubin and Nancy Grace Roman will generate a lot of data. This will be a big challenge. To get ready for it astronomers use simulated observation data. Why is it important and how is it done? Finding out in this interview.

[Q&A] Things Falling Into Black Holes, Interstellar Medium, Beyond Science Aug 06, 2024

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What happens to the stuff that falls into black holes? Do supergiants have sunspots? How can you do a gravitational slingshot from the Sun? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Overtime Q&A.

[Interview] When Will James Webb Finally Reveal the TRAPPIST-1 Atmospheres Results? Aug 05, 2024

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TRAPPIST-1 is one of the most interesting systems out there. JWST did observe them but we still don't have the results from all of them. Why is that and when can we expect to know something about their atmospheres? Finding out in this interview.

[Space Bites] Dark Oxygen in Deep Ocean // Solar Cycles // Starliner Suspense Aug 02, 2024

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We’ve learned much more from the DART mission, dark oxygen is being generated at the bottom of the ocean, Starliner is almost ready to come home, and we might not need to dig deep to find life on Europa.

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