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[Space Bites] Artificial Solar Eclipses // Mother of All Meteor Storms // Vera Rubin's First Light
A new mission can make solar eclipses on demand, what do supernovae and stellar flybys do to Earth’s climate, how asteroid 2024 YR4 will make the mother of all meteor showers, and Starship 36 explodes during testing. And on Space Bites+, how we could use a space elevator to extract water from Ceres. 🚀 [Space Bites+] No ADS. BONUS Story. For FREE: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday 💥 NSF's video: https://youtu.be/71AwkBt3ts?si=YznNNyumC9VakFu 💥 Scott Manley's video: https://youtu.be/0C_L-qgHsE0?si=UzpyqdtjHJDw2s4N 👉 Vote for the best story here: https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/community 00:00 Intro 00:25 Artificial solar eclipse with Proba-3 https://www.universetoday.com/articles/esas-new-mission-can-see-a-solar-eclipse-every-day 01:55 PUNCH sees a solar erruption https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasas-punch-mission-captured-images-of-a-huge-solar-eruption 03:08 Could stellar flybys change Earth's climate https://www.universetoday.com/articles/have-stellar-flybys-altered-earths-climate-in-the-past 05:43 Supernovae changing Earth's climate https://www.universetoday.com/articles/supernova-explosions-changed-earths-climate-and-shaped-humanitys-history 08:19 Mother of all meteor showers https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-potential-danger-to-satellites-due-to-ejecta-from-a-2032-lunar-impact-by-asteroid-2024-yr4 10:18 Vote results 10:57 China's Mengzhou abort test https://www.universetoday.com/articles/china-tests-the-crew-escape-for-its-new-lunar-capsule 12:36 Honda tests a reusable rocket https://global.honda/en/topics/2025/c2025-06-17ceng.html 13:42 Starship explodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71AwkBt3ts&ab_channel=NASASpaceflight 15:46 Vera Rubin's first light https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-first-images-from-vera-rubin-are-about-to-drop 17:50 More space news 18:54 Bonus story 19:12 Vancouver island 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/wI_Hk36bx7Q 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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[Q&A] Seeing the Oort Cloud, Rogue Planet Nearby, Knocking the Moon Away
Can a giant asteroid knock the Moon from its orbit? How good does a telescope need to be to see the Oort cloud? What are the odds of a rogue planet hiding nearby in our Solar system? And in our extended Q&A+ version, can we be sure that we're alone in the Universe? Answering all these questions and more in this Q&A show. 🎁 [Q&A+] Same video. No YT ads. BONUS question, totally free : https://www.patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 [Overtime] Even more Q&As https://www.patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:30 [angus campbell] Could a giant meteor knock the Moon out of orbit? 02:19 [Liam Dobbyn] Could dark matter be just failed stars with planets? 04:04 [Annie Alexander] How powerful would a telescope have to be to be able to see the Oort cloud? 05:17 [Clint Davis] Can we artificially rotate a tidally locked planet? 06:17 [your average terraria player] Why does breaking light speed cause paradoxes? 07:47 [Correctimus] How likely is it that a rogue planet is in the Oort cloud right now? 09:32 [Snelwegkoek] The coolest object I've seen in a telescope 12:37 [Sid Remey] How to through things down from the ISS? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/r8lcoL2Fy-I 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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[Bonus] No Aliens?! Space Journalist Fraser Cain on Astronomy, Space Discoveries, Sci-Fi
This is an interview with me for the Worldviews Podcast. 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/yj0Gi7d0zm4?si=NYLERm4yquBpkqbb 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Introduction 01:25 Fraser’s upbringing into science 04:59 Proud career moments 06:01 Space misconceptions 09:05 Black Holes 11:05 From planes flying to flying into space 13:05 Topics Fraser has changed his mind about 19:35 Aliens are not real 29:40 Greatest space discoveries of the century 34:12 Discoveries on the horizon 38:25 The name “Fraser” 39:15 Smartest people Fraser has interviewed 40:55 How impressive astronauts are 43:05 Purpose and meaning in the cosmos 44:35 Fine tuning of the Universe 46:55 Multiverse theory 48:45 Multiverse vs dimension 51:45 Mount Rushmore of Scifi tv shows 54:30 Sci-Fi books & Creativity 1:00:15 What’s next for Fraser 1:04:30 One question for God 1:06:16 Closing 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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[Interview] Planning a Mission to Uranus
We never came back to Uranus after the Voyager 2 flyby in 1986. It's time to come back. But what will it take to organise a mission to Uranus? What priorities will it have and when can it launch? Finding out in this interview. 😍 [Interview+] Same video. No YT ads. https://www.patreon.com/universetoday 🟣 Guest: Dr. Amy Simon https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sci/bio/amy.a.simon 00:00 Intro 02:11 What have we learned since Voyager 05:58 Requests for the mission 15:59 Planning a modern-day mission 24:22 LUCY mission 29:38 OSIRIS-ReX 37:52 Current obsessions 40:47 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/S-jz0o5H4Oo 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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[Bonus] The Challenge/Promise of AI & Science Communication 🧠📢
This is an interview with me done by Salman Hameed @ Kainaat Astronomy in English. Salman Hameed has a PhD in astronomy and is Charles Taylor Chair and Professor of Integrated Science & Humanities at Hampshire College, and a member of the Five College Astronomy Department (FCAD) in Massachusetts, USA. He is also the CEO of the non-profit Kainaat Studios. You can find more information about Kainaat Studios here: https://www.kainaatstudios.com/ 🚀 YouTube episode: https://youtu.be/99CeM9GmUqk?si=ICweyVo4TgkXdxAS 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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