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[Space Bites] Scientists Simulate a Quantum Wormhole, Black Hole Consumes a Star, More Moon Visitors Dec 02, 2022

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The best images from Artemis so far. More spacecraft are going to the Moon. Researchers have simulated a wormhole. China now has six people on board its space station

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00:00 Intro
00:15 Artemis 1 Images
- https://www.universetoday.com/158874/nasa-releases-a-stunning-new-supercut-of-the-artemis-i-launch/
- https://www.universetoday.com/158945/nasa-releases-another-supercut-of-the-artemis-i-mission-showing-the-launch-and-flight-past-the-moon/
03:37 More flights to the Moon
- https://www.universetoday.com/158746/tiny-cubesat-will-shine-an-infrared-flashlight-into-the-moons-shadowed-craters-searching-for-water-ice/
05:51 Moon infrastructure
07:10 Quantum Wormhole Simulation
- https://www.universetoday.com/158896/scientists-send-quantum-data-through-a-simulated-wormhole/
09:55 More JWST images
- https://www.universetoday.com/158820/gaze-slack-jawed-at-the-haunting-beauty-of-galaxy-ngc-1566-captured-by-jwst-processed-by-judy-schmidt/
- https://www.universetoday.com/158941/new-images-of-titan-from-jwst-and-keck-telescopes-reveal-a-rare-observation/
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13:33 Black Hole Consumes a Star
- https://www.universetoday.com/158919/a-black-hole-consumed-a-star-and-released-the-light-of-a-trillion-suns/
16:17 China's continuous space presence
17:45 Another SpaceX SuperHeavy test
- https://www.universetoday.com/158905/spacexs-super-heavy-fires-11-of-its-engines-in-a-long-duration-test/
18:46 Q&A 200
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19:37 Outro

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[Q&A] Black Holes VS Brown Dwarfs, Moon Telescopes, Galaxy Collision Nov 30, 2022

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Which ones are more invisible: black holes of brown dwarfs? Which cheap telescope should you get? Will the Artemis program start a new era in astronomy? What will happen when Andromeda crashes into the Milky Way? All this and more in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain.

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00:00 Start
01:21 [Tatooine] Will Andromeda stars get younger as it approaches us?
03:54 [Coruscant] How far apart are the stars?
06:53 [Hoth] Can we see the death of a black hole?
11:09 [Naboo] Is it more difficult to find a black hole or a brown dwarf?
17:56 [Kamino] Which cheap telescope to get?
21:34 [Bespin] What happens during the Andromeda collision?
26:14 [Mustafar] When we'll see data from Earendel?
30:53 [Alderaan] Will Artemis bring lunar-based astronomy?
34:29 Outro

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[Q&A] Space Questions Special Nov 28, 2022

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This time it's different. As always, it's your space questions, but not my answers. I invited my fellow space YouTubers to give their answers to help me with the Q&A. Enjoy!

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00:00 Start
01:21 [Scott Manley ] Can Starship save fuel by aero-braking on Mars?
06:28 [Marcus House] Will we see nuclear spaceships?
08:26 [Launchpad Astronomy] Will supermassive black holes collide as galaxies come together?
12:21 [Sabine Hossenfelder] How quantum entanglement works?
15:04 [Joe Scott] What weird things is the Universe still hiding?
21:05 [Space Mog] Is dark matter just hidden ordinary matter?
24:10 [Dylan O'Donnell] How to democratize astronomy?
26:51 [Isaac Arthur] Is building space colonies the way to go?
29:16 [John Michael Godier ] What's the most low-tech techno-signature we can hope to find?
31:49 Outro

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[Space Bites] Asteroid Explodes Over Canada, Artemis I Updates, Very Large Telescope Improvements Nov 26, 2022

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Updates on Artemis I. Predicting an asteroid strike with stunning accuracy. Webb’s view of Titan. New adaptive optics for the Very Large Telescope.

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00:00 Intro
00:14 Artemis I updates
- https://www.universetoday.com/158739/artemis-i-has-completed-its-first-flyby-of-the-moon/
03:29 NASA predicted an asteroid hit
- https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-program-predicted-impact-of-small-asteroid-over-ontario-canada
06:55 Webb sees Titan
- https://www.universetoday.com/158722/with-jwst-fully-operational-again-we-get-images-like-this-saturns-moon-titan/
09:07 Europe’s Mars rover to fly with NASA
11:11 More details on WASP-39
- https://www.universetoday.com/158761/jwst-detects-signs-of-active-chemistry-and-clouds-in-the-atmosphere-of-exoplanet-wasp-39-b/
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15:13 Very Large Telescope improvements
- https://www.universetoday.com/158765/a-new-instrument-gives-the-very-large-telescope-an-even-sharper-view-of-the-cosmos/
17:19 Map of the entire Universe
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19:58 Outro

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[Interview] Chance for Life After The Sun Dies with Dr Andrew Vanderburg Nov 24, 2022

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Is there a chance for life to continue after the Sun eventually explodes? Can we find evidence of potentially habitable planets near white dwarfs, remnants of dead stars? How can future telescopes helo with that?

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00:00 Intro
01:30 Exoplanets around white dwarfs
10:06 Dynamics of planetary systems as their star dies
12:51 Habitable zone around white dwarfs
15:28 Search for exoplanets
26:05 A perfect telescope for the task
30:28 Biosignatures
34:37 Outro

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[Space Bites] Artemis 1 Launch, Secret Space Plane Returns, James Webb Protection Plan Nov 18, 2022

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SLS finally launches to the Moon. SpaceX get another contract from NASA. James Webb gets a protection plan from micrometeoroids. China continues to trash the orbit. Secret space plane returns.

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00:00 Intro
00:35 NASA’s plan to protect JWST
- https://www.universetoday.com/158663/nasa-has-a-plan-to-minimize-future-micrometeoroid-impacts-on-jwst/
03:06 Firey Hourglass by James Webb
- https://www.universetoday.com/158673/the-latest-jwst-image-shows-a-star-in-the-earliest-stage-of-formation/
04:39 Artemis 1 Launch
- https://www.universetoday.com/158654/artemis-i-is-on-its-way-to-the-moon/
09:48 CAPSTONE arrives at Moon orbit
10:22 More Lunar Starships for NASA
- https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-spacex-second-contract-option-for-artemis-moon-landing-0/
12:15 14-Raptor test of SuperHeavy
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13:47 China continues to trash orbit
14:58 Brightest Satellite Deployed
- https://www.space.com/bluewalker-3-satellite-deploys-largest-commercial-array
16:25 The X-37B is Back After 908 Days in Orbit
- https://www.universetoday.com/158647/the-x-37b-is-back-after-908-days-in-orbit-what-was-it-doing-up-there-thats-classified/
18:01 Outro

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[Interview] The Existential Threat of Solar Storms with Dr Benjamin Pope Nov 16, 2022

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How trees can tell us a story of previous solar storms? What are the chances of having another Carrington-scale event and what would it mean? How can we understand solar storms better?

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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:49 Meet Dr Benjamin Pope
00:02:53 Tree rings and solar storms
00:20:28 What other ways can we study solar storms
00:24:48 Can lunar samples give an answer
00:26:48 Our place in the Universe
00:35:44 Outro

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[Q&A] Harvesting Dark Energy, Making Own Telescope, Escaping Gravity Wells Nov 16, 2022

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How hard is it to escape the gravity wells of massive planets for other civilizations? How hard is it to make your own telescopes? How do gas clouds become stars? Can we harvest dark energy after the Heat Death?

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00:00 Start
02:43 [Tatooine] Can we use dark energy after heat death?
07:37 [Coruscant] How close are the stars in the Pillars of Creation?
09:39 [Hoth] How long does light from star cores take to get out?
13:22 [Naboo] Did NASA solve the solar panels problem with the Lucy mission?
15:32 [Kamino] Does matter expand as spacetime expands?
18:32 [Bespin] Do you subscribe to the Big Bang Theory?
23:13 [Mustafar] Can you escape the gravity wells of massive planets?
25:57 [Alderaan] How to make your own telescope?
29:18 [Dagobah] What is the Great Attractor?
33:11 [Yavin] How stable is Jupiter's L1 Lagrange point?
36:30 [Mandalore] How gas becomes a star?
39:43 Outro

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[Space Bites] SLS In Trouble, James Webb Fixed, Strange Quark Star Nov 11, 2022

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JWST’s MIRI is fully operational again, have astronomers found the first strange star?, the first test of an inflatable heat shield, and SLS just got hit by a Hurricane.

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00:00 Intro
01:10 JWST is fixed
- https://www.universetoday.com/158588/woohoo-jwsts-mid-infrared-instrument-is-fully-operational-again/
03:34 First strange star found?
- https://www.universetoday.com/158331/the-smallest-lightest-neutron-star-ever-seen-could-be-a-strange-star/
06:56 NASA and ULA test an inflatable heat shield test
10:49 Artemis I delayed again
13:23 InSight's last image
- https://www.universetoday.com/158553/this-is-probably-the-last-picture-well-see-from-insight-on-mars/
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15:53 China's space station is complete
- https://www.universetoday.com/158540/china-launches-mengtian-the-last-major-module-to-its-space-station/
17:18 Black hole's jets
- https://www.universetoday.com/158513/a-black-holes-jets-are-coming-from-a-region-2000-km-away-from-the-singularity-itself/
19:53 Outro

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[Bonus] Dr Brian Keating interviews Fraser Cain Nov 09, 2022

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This in an interview with Dr Brian Keating that happened on his YouTube channel. We talk about how Universe Today runs, what do I want to achieve with it, how science journalism works in general and much more.

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