[Space Bites] What's Inside Uranus // Dragonfly Launch Secured // Best JWST Image of 2024
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.
🦄 Support us on Patreon:
https://patreon.com/universetoday
00:00 Intro
00:15 A ride for Dragonfly
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-for-dragonfly-mission/
01:30 Inside Uranus
https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/11/25/a-clue-to-what-lies-beneath-the-bland-surfaces-of-uranus-and-neptune/
03:51 Europa Clipper unrolls its instruments
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/nasas-europa-clipper-millions-of-miles-down-instruments-deploying/
05:50 Robots for under the ice exploration
https://www.universetoday.com/169887/testing-the-robots-that-might-explore-europa/
06:56 Baby planet
https://www.universetoday.com/169863/astronomers-find-a-3-million-year-old-planet/
08:17 Vote results
08:49 Haolong haoloooong
https://www.universetoday.com/169703/chinas-proposed-cargo-shuttle-the-haolong-has-entered-development/
10:08 Russian spaceship stinks
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/11/after-russian-ship-docks-to-space-station-astronauts-report-a-foul-smell/
10:50 Sombrero galaxy by JWST
https://www.universetoday.com/169895/fantastic-new-image-of-the-sombrero-galaxy-from-webb/
11:42 Alien-like Jupiter
https://www.universetoday.com/169920/magnetic-tornado-is-stirring-up-the-haze-at-jupiters-poles/
13:21 SLS fireplace
https://www.universetoday.com/169912/the-holiday-fireplace-video-we-needed/
13:55 Questions for upcoming interviews
📺 VIDEO VERSION
https://youtu.be/D-xKbLrJb_g
📰 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)
--------
15:31
[Q&A] Fuel for Comet Tails, Detecting a Voyager's Crash, Driving Into Lava Tubes
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.
🦄 More Q&A in the Overtime Audio:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/overtime-audio-q-116788920
00:00 Start
00:37 How can comets leave tails for thousands of years without running out?
02:57 Can we detect a hit to a Voyager?
04:20 How possible would it be to drive into a lava tube on the moon?
05:44 More Space Bites from website authors?
09:52 Does Moon getting farther away impact tides on Earth?
11:34 Will satellite communications overtake traditional on-ground ones?
16:01 Can we protect a Moon colony with an artificial magnetic field?
📺 VIDEO VERSION
https://youtu.be/FwLo1h8l5Oc
📰 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)
--------
21:32
[Interview] Where Did The Mysterious JUMBOs in The Orion Nebula Come From?
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.
🦄 Support us on Patreon:
https://patreon.com/universetoday
🟣 Guest: Jessica Diamond
📜Formation of Jupiter-Mass Binary Objects through photoerosion of fragmenting cores
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.09159
00:00 Intro
01:34 JUMBOs
14:02 Photoerosion
24:57 Questions from Patreon community
31:26 Side track
34:30 Final thoughts
📺 VIDEO VERSION
https://youtu.be/74ORN6ap1FU
📰 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)
--------
36:18
[Q&A] Funding Space Stations After ISS, Gravity Tractor Experiment, Digital Adaptive Optics
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.
🦄 More Q&A in the Overtime Audio:
https://patreon.com/universetoday
00:00 Start
00:37 Which part of the Milky Way can we see?
02:41 Will space stations be economically viable?
05:50 Are there different types of black holes?
06:58 Can you un-distort images instead of using adaptive optics?
11:53 How do we know that far away objects are still there?
13:12 Does NASA have plans for a gravity tractor experiment?
15:58 Best time to watch auroras in Alaska?
18:11 How does light from far away get to us?
📺 VIDEO VERSION
https://youtu.be/sBAAoJwEaY8
📰 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)
--------
21:36
[Bonus] Cosmology, AI Doom, and the Future of Humanity
I just wrapped up an interesting conversation over at DoomDebates talking about the future of artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, Great Filter, Grabby Aliens and more. Check it out and subscribe to the channel.
🦄 Support us on Patreon:
https://patreon.com/universetoday
📺 VIDEO VERSION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u07Q7WUVWo
📰 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)
Canada - english