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Odysseus lands successfully on the Moon, China is planning to build bricks on the lunar surface, James Webb finds the neutron star at the heart of supernova 1987 A, and Blue Origins finally rolls out New Glenn. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:17 USA's first Moon landing in 21st century https://www.universetoday.com/165834/intuitive-machines-odysseus-lander-moon/ 05:01 Lunar bricks from China https://www.universetoday.com/165771/chinas-change-8-mission-will-try-to-make-bricks-on-the-moon/ 06:39 Perseverance has a problem https://www.universetoday.com/165742/nasa-is-trying-to-fix-a-problem-with-one-of-perseverances-instruments/ 08:32 JWST finds a neutron star https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-112 10:40 Kuiper Belt might be bigger than we thought https://www.nasa.gov/missions/new-horizons/nasas-new-horizons-detects-dusty-hints-of-extended-kuiper-belt/ 13:07 Vote results 13:48 Space-grown drugs return to Earth 15:34 OSIRIS-REx sample mass https://www.universetoday.com/165748/osiris-rexs-final-haul-121-6-grams-from-asteroid-bennu/ 17:16 Interviews 17:54 New Glenn goes vertical https://www.universetoday.com/165850/finally-blue-origins-new-glenn-goes-vertical-on-the-launch-pad/ 19:07 Euclid begins its mission https://www.universetoday.com/165755/euclid-begins-its-6-year-survey-of-the-dark-universe/ 20:40 Moon landings 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/i9DTgdR2vtc 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Support Universe Today Podcast

Why doesn't JWST look at Apollo landing sites? What happened to TRAPPIST-1 atmospheres? What's the biggest thing we can measure our velocity relative to? Will the Universe ever start bouncing back? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:27 [Andoria] What's the biggest thing we can measure our velocity relative to? 02:40 [Vulcan] Why doesn't JWST look at Apollo landing sites? 05:12 [Risa] How can we make Moon regolith safer? 09:13 [Aeturen] What do I think about smart telescopes? 13:25 [Vendikar] When is the Universe expected to bounce back like an elastic band ? 15:56 [Remus] Thoughts on the samples from OSIRIS-REx? 19:29 [Janus] What is dark matter? 20:10 [Cait] Can they still fly Ingenuity? 21:45 [Betazed] What happened to atmosphere of the TRAPPIST-1 planets? 23:43 [Cheleb] What comes next after satellites in space economy? 27:01 [Nimbus] Can we create an atmosphere on the Moon? 29:00 [Belos] Thoughts on the achievements of the Chinese space program? 33:02 [Lyar] Is dark matter just dust and gas we can't see? 36:04 [Zalcon] Will the public be informed if JWST suffers more damage? 39:07 [Arret] Is a nuclear ion engine a thing? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/zVOkhTi88kM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Support Universe Today Podcast

Huge Kuiper Belt discovery! With James Webb astronomers were able to see that Eric and Makemake show signs of geothermal activity. How exactly did that happen? Figuring out with Dr Christopher Glein, Lead Scientist at Southwest Research Institute. 👉 Dr Christopher Glein https://www.christopherglein.com/ 📜 Measurement of D/H and 13C/12C Ratios in Methane Ice on Eris and Makemake: Evidence for Internal Activity https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05085 📜 Moderate D/H Ratios in Methane Ice on Eris and Makemake as Evidence of Hydrothermal or Metamorphic Processes in Their Interiors: Geochemical Analysis https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05549 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:10 JWST's images of Eris and Makemake 05:46 Unique flavours of methane 12:21 Findings 21:16 Implications for other worlds 24:45 What's next 26:21 Current obsessions 32:51 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/eIO69E3Rqoo 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Support Universe Today Podcast

Solar sails aren't just a tool to send tiny spacecraft to Alpha Centauri. They can also be used to optimise exploration of the Solar System. How can we do that? Figuring it out with Alexander Alvara. 📜 BLISS: Interplanetary Exploration with Swarms of Low-Cost Spacecraft https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11226 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:08 Thousands of tiny solar sails 03:58 Deployment plan 10:28 Timeframe 11:58 Communication with Earth 15:15 How far can you go 17:58 Long-term potential of solar sails 26:37 Current obsessions 29:10 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/5p6Ur7V4ZVM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Support Universe Today Podcast

More oceans across the Solar System. The Event Horizon Telescope zooms into an active galactic nucleus. Another lunar lander sets off to the Moon. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:13 Mimas has an ocean https://www.universetoday.com/165722/saturns-death-star-moon-mimas-probably-has-an-ocean-too/ 02:37 Eris and Makemake geothermal activity https://www.swri.org/press-release/swri-scientists-find-evidence-of-geothermal-activity-within-icy-dwarf-planets 04:02 Water on asteroids https://www.universetoday.com/165696/water-found-on-the-surface-of-an-asteroid/ 05:45 Intuitive Machines Odysseus lander launch https://www.universetoday.com/165738/intuitive-machines-odysseus-moon-lander/ 07:29 Testing spacesuits https://www.universetoday.com/165698/next-generation-spacesuit-gets-tested-in-weightlessness/ 09:28 Vote results https://youtu.be/q0XKwvuK8pk 10:11 Confirmation of JUMBOs https://public.nrao.edu/news/astronomers-discover-jupiter-sized-objects/ 12:16 Lasers for the Deep Space Network https://www.universetoday.com/165700/one-of-nasas-radio-dishes-can-now-track-space-lasers-too/ 14:02 Weekly email newsletter https://universetoday.com/newsletter 14:34 A new image from EHT https://www.universetoday.com/165669/the-event-horizon-telescope-zooms-in-on-a-black-holes-jet/ 17:09 What happened after DART https://www.universetoday.com/165690/what-happened-to-all-those-boulders-blasted-into-space-by-dart/ 18:39 More moons thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/bGnxKXD8USE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Support Universe Today Podcast

What are the main problems of modern-day science? Why there's a growing trust gap between the scientists and the public? How can we fix those problems and restore the trust? Figuring out with Dr. Paul M. Sutter. 📖 Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt https://www.pmsutter.com/store/yourplace-zrd55 👉 Paul M. Sutter's website: https://www.pmsutter.com/ 👉 Paul M. Sutter's YouTube: @PaulMSutter 👉 Ask A Spaceman podcast: https://www.pmsutter.com/shows/askaspaceman 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:57 What's wrong with modern science 00:04:14 Fraud in publications 00:11:40 Funding 00:16:01 Careers 00:23:38 Politics 00:39:19 Know-it-alls 00:42:15 Science communication 00:50:42 Diversity 00:54:20 How to fix that 01:02:14 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/517Msi3wDJ4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Support Universe Today Podcast

How sure can astronomers be when estimating asteroid strikes? Why is Jupiter so radioactive? What happened to the methane on Mars story? Are black holes 2D or 3D? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:24 [Andoria] Can you prove that there's no life in the Universe? 04:14 [Vulcan] How certain ca we be about asteroid strikes? 08:52 [Risa] Why is Jupiter so radioactive? 10:36 [Aeturen] Is there gravitational lensing for planets from their own stars? 13:45 [Vendikar] Wouldn't it be cheaper to send multiple satellites to deep space at a single time versus one at a time? 18:10 [Remus] What's my opinion on the shape of the Universe? 22:01 [Janus] What happened to methane on Mars? 24:27 [Cait] Will a major propulsion breakthrough happen soon? 28:26 [Betazed] Does Jupiter protect us from asteroids? 30:08 [Cheleb] Are black holes 2D or 3D? 32:28 [Nimbus] What's the most important resource on the Moon apart from water? 34:37 [Belos] How do gravitational wave detectors know where the signal came from? 37:50 [Lyar] Do Sun-like stars with tidally locked planets make sense? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/kuTkg9d9u6E 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Support Universe Today Podcast

Big layoffs at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Testing spacesuits for the Moon. Another flyby of Io. And our final look at Ingenuity. 🎙️ INTERVIEWS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmnK1xmCRad_8bn0uOcmLiIE 👉 NASA Layoffs: https://youtu.be/yFuHdZNZ6-Y 👉 Io Exploration: https://youtu.be/3YpbDZQHkCk 👉 Measuring Space Distances: https://youtu.be/hmJOz9qCk0M 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:12 NASA JPL Layoffs https://www.universetoday.com/165651/nasas-jpl-lays-off-hundreds-of-workers/ 01:25 Testing Artemis Spacesuits https://www.universetoday.com/165611/nasa-continues-testing-its-new-lunar-spacesuits/ 03:38 JWST Did It Again https://www.universetoday.com/165572/the-jwst-discovers-a-galaxy-that-shouldnt-exist/ 04:35 Berlin meteor found https://www.universetoday.com/165625/fragments-from-that-asteroid-that-exploded-above-berlin-have-been-recovered-and-theyre-really-special/ 06:30 Vote results 07:09 Mass of the Milky Way https://www.universetoday.com/165598/astronomers-measure-the-mass-of-the-milky-way-by-calculating-how-hard-it-is-to-escape/ 08:35 Dust Ruins Another Way to Measure Distances https://www.universetoday.com/165627/dust-ruins-another-way-of-measuring-distance-in-the-universe/ 11:00 Interview streak! 12:27 Juno's Io Flyby https://www.universetoday.com/165585/nasas-juno-probe-makes-another-flyby-of-io/ 13:51 Dreamchaser Test https://www.universetoday.com/165648/nasa-gives-dreamchaser-the-shakedown/ 15:43 Final look at Ingenuity https://www.universetoday.com/165641/perseverance-gives-us-one-last-look-at-the-damaged-ingenuity-helicopter/ 16:57 Meteorites 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/q0XKwvuK8pk 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Support Universe Today Podcast

BREAKING NEWS. JPL is laying off about 530 people. Why did that happen and what it means for major NASA missions like Artemis and Mars Sample Return? Figuring it out with Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society. 🎙️ Planetary Radio Podcast: https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/space-policy-edition 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:10 JPL layoffs and NASA budget cuts 00:21:05 Effects on Artemis 00:36:50 Mars Sample Return in Danger 01:03:41 Planetary Society's plans 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/yFuHdZNZ6-Y 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Support Universe Today Podcast

We all know the Hubble Deep Field as one of the most important astronomy images of all time. But when will we get a similar attempt from Webb? What will we be able to get from it and what are the limits of JWST? Finding out with Dr Viraj Pandya from NASA. 👉 Nobel Prize Winner Explains JWST vs The Crisis in Cosmology https://youtu.be/hmJOz9qCk0M 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:43 Galaxy classification 08:20 Hubble's observations and biases 19:53 Breadstick galaxies 31:07 Wen JWST Deep Field 43:58 What is the limit of Webb 52:03 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/WdTkH1v2NqI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Support Universe Today Podcast

Could we detect life on Earth from Neptune's orbit? Is the Moon shrinking over time? Why don't we send an orbiter the the Kuiper belt? What should we call Planet 9 if we find it? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:24 [Andoria] Could we detect Earth life from Neptune's orbit? 04:47 [Vulcan] Will we ever send an orbiter to the Kuiper belt? 07:57 [Risa] Is the Moon shrinking? 11:23 [Aeturen] Plans for the April eclipse? 13:25 [Vendikar] What happens when gravitational waves collide? 14:18 [Remus] Do photons experience time? 16:04 [Janus] What would be considered an unequivocal biosignature? 21:13 [Cait] What should we name Planet 9? 22:07 [Betazed] How soon can we recycle space junk? 25:04 [Cheleb] Did sci-fi become less compelling? 27:22 [Nimbus] How did Moon effect evolution on Earth? 30:28 [Belos] Are event horizons most perfect spheres in the Universe? 32:14 [Lyar] Is it possible to move from our current universe to the previous one? 35:36 [Zalcon] Why can't dark matter be objects? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/WZUhtAPPbg0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Support Universe Today Podcast

If exoplanets exist, so should exomoons. However, to this day we still did not find any. Even more than that, there's a pretty big controversy regarding the potential discovery of exomoons. What's going on and what can we do about it? Finding the answers with Dr David Kipping. 👉 Dr David Kipping's channel https://www.youtube.com/@CoolWorldsLab 👉 Previous interview with Dr Kipping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx1276dpHe4 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:22 Catch-up after previous interview 00:02:25 Searching for exomoons 00:10:23 Counterarguments 00:15:34 Taking it to the next level 00:28:54 Alternative detection methods 00:37:27 Ideal time for observations 00:39:19 SETI and technosignatures 01:03:28 Science communication 01:28:23 Obsessions 01:37:17 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/umiMtQU3bMU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Support Universe Today Podcast