Universe Today Podcast

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 14:37 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/2gtlfvI9JJ0 How much of the Universe's life has already passed? Is the Universe spinning? How do binary planets work? And in Q&A+, does solar wind influence the orbits of planets? 00:00 Intro 00:24 [@adamredwine774] What percent of the Universe's total lifetime have already passed? 05:41 [@Daming...

BONUS PART STARTS AT 20:51 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QD5sJ636wxM More interviews: https://www.patreon.com/collection/44300/ 🟣 Guest: Dr. Sanjoy Som https://www.bluemarblespace.org/ 📜 Multistage Rocket Optimization, Geophysics, and the Spacefaring Envelope of Habitable Super-Earths https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02691 Rockets fight against gravity to help us as a civili...

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 21:21 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/xrMsuZTdfAM Couldn’t we use the entire moon as a data center? Does the vastness of space ever scare me? Do solar systems have Lagrange points? And in Q&A+, will we ever get to a Jetsons reality? 00:00 Intro 00:23 [@rwarren58] Couldn’t we use the entire moon as a data center? 03:58 [@jonathanchamb...

BONUS STORY STARTS AT 26:33 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ccPtQeURDzM 🔵 Vote for the best story here: https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/posts Interview with Vasiliy Kokorev about Little Red Dots https://youtu.be/zoHtCmCbcEU Interview with Nobel Prize Winner Adam Riess about JWST https://youtu.be/hmJOz9qCk0M Interview with Lee Feinberg about HWO and LIFE Telescopes htt...

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 14:13 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/aX16AFy_Y9Q Do we go through same places in the Milky Way every rotation? How should we celebrate the first contact? Will artificial magnetosphere help creating an atmosphere on Mars? And in Q&A+, how much does YouTube really pay for views. 00:00 Intro 00:27 [@JamesMcIntosh-r7j] Will an artificia...

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 12:48 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/R8_XwBxWsn0 How dangerous would a massive solar storm be for future Moon and Mars bases? Can more exoplanet discoveries stimulate more funding? What’s the ultimate fate of galaxy clusters? And in Q&A+, would I go on a Moon voyage? 00:00 Intro 00:27 [@slowboyfuelpump5438] how devastating would a K...

BONUS STORY STARTS AT 17:16 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9XGHRoVJgYA 🔵 Vote for the best story here: https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/posts How can there be auroras on Mars? More bad news for the exploration of Europa. Watching Pluto's atmosphere. And on Space Bites Plus, could planets form right after the Big Bang? 00:00 Intro 00:17 Auroras on Mars https://www.univ...

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 11:15 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/vMgKQDzRzUE My Top-100 movie list: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/posts/my-top-100-space-153930141 Which are we more likely to find, alien megastructures or alien microbes? Why is the US racing racing China to the Moon? Will mining the asteroid belt ever become a reality? And in Q&A+, will...

BONUS PART STARTS AT 21:56 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VqBVL2vwh04 🟣 Guest: Dr. Mike Rubenstein 📜 Actively Steerable Femtosat Constellations for In-situ Exploration of Saturn’s Rings, Atmosphere, and Magnetosphere https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/actively-steerable-femtosat-constellations-for-in-situ-exploration-of-saturns-rings-atmosphere-and-magnetospher...

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 12:37 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/N2INt2XOCp0 My Top-100 movie list: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/posts/my-top-100-space-153930141 If white holes exist, could we ever see one? Do SETI researches have access to Vera Rubin? Which is the best way for the Universe to end? And in Q&A+, will the Earth eventually become tidally...

BONUS STORY STARTS AT 19:40 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube https://youtu.be/rV0bRCA2cSs 🔵 Vote for the best story here: https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/posts Interviews mentioned: 👉 Interview with Dr Matt Weller https://youtu.be/R18W6VVZMhc?si=RasWhg-Y9sfKvXys 👉 Interview with Dr Paul Byrne https://youtu.be/VXuhaJu-GNM?si=A-lFy8XUQHJLqvL- Venus might not be completely dead. Evidence...

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:26 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2lopY61vhgc Channels mentioned:  @filmjoy   @WeirdExplorer  Are primordial gravitational waves still coming to us? How big would a 30 billion Sun mass black hole be? Do photons start experiencing time when slowed down in a medium? And in Q&A+, can any particle pop up into existence any time anywhe...

BONUS PART STARTS AT 30:33 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bbJ3I37yS4o 🟣 Guest: Dr. Austin Phoenix https://nationalsecurity.vt.edu/personnel-directory/phoenix-austin.html 📜 ECLIPSE – Efficient variable Conductivity Lunar Insulator for Passive Surveyor Environmental control https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/eclipse-efficient-variable-conductivity-lunar-insulator...

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 12:55 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/5JbQSmK6ZyY Will private companies take over the ISS? Which sci-fi stories need to be written? What's the state of Canadian rocket market? And in Q&A+, a quick rundown of all my telescopes. 00:00 Intro 00:25 [@D.S.8197] Will private companies replace the ISS? 05:51 [@kairon156] Which SciFi storie...

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:36 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7016OzflTww Does the Fermi paradox make any sense? How can we talk about life out there if all the exoplanets are just single pixels or worse? Is it all just nonsense? And in Q&A, what was my favourite part of the Artemis 2 mission? 00:00 Intro 00:25 [@frankshifreen] What's the point of searching...

Patrons, send in your questions: patreon.com/posts/164654175 BONUS PART STARTS AT: 19:02 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3DKTwnz0oAs Starship 13 flies and lands softly in the ocean. Astronomers see the companion star for Betelgeuse. A comet spun down, reversed direction and might tear itself apart. Did Webb see primordial Little Red Dots? On Space Bites+, measuring the hea...

🟣 Guest: Jeff Nosanov https://orbitalvelocity.space/ 🎙️ Space Madness Podcast https://orbitalvelocity.space/#podcast 📚 How to do Business with NASA: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs, Innovators, and Contractors https://a.co/d/062c8pxQ 📜 OBLIVION: Observing Black hole LIght Via Intensity cOrrelatioN https://www.nasa.gov/general/oblivion-observing-black-hole-light-via-intensity-correlation/ 00...

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:58 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HeBEGMNq5OQ Why is the Universe not 13.8 Billion light-years wide? Could a black hole possibly consume the entire Universe? Where did all the metals come from? And in Q&A+, what's the best part of my job here? 00:00 Intro 00:26 [@anonylity_4798] How is the Universe bigger than it's older 05:33 [@W...

BONUS STORY STARTS AT 14:16 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rnRYLtv9bjs Bad news for the planets of Bernard Starr. Measuring the atmosphere on a rocky world within the habitable zone. Identifying the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. How the Milky Way flipped its disk. And on Space Bites Plus, how global Martian dust storms can be even worse. 00:00 Intro 00:19 Bad news f...

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 11:05 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HhfRcjS6HUI If other Universes exist, is it even possible to detect them? What created the fields and quantum fluctuations that supposedly set off the Big bang? Could we use a long tether as a power source around Jupiter’s strong magnetic field? And in Q&A+, what is the best way to watch a SpaceX...

👉 More interview HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/44300 BONUS PART STARTS AT 34:06 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XWz1mElwO-I Supernova remnants should be stable. All the action is long gone. But newly found supernovae in M87 unexpectedly show signs of rapid change. Why does this happen? Nobody really nows yet. 🟣 Guest: Dr. Roy Kilgard https://rkilgard.faculty.w...

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 14:12 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3tWYGNd3hcA 00:00 Intro 00:26 [@PerryM-vy4fe] Is a magnetic shield the first step for a true Mars colonization? 04:58 [@giubl3] Does stuff near the black hole spin faster than stuff further away? 08:59 [@paigepotter4682] What’s the most “I can’t believe this is my job” moment I had? 14:12 [@Nomad77ca]...

BONUS PART START STARTS AT 18:21 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JMSfLchB5hI Interview with Dr. Noelia Noël about painting satellites black https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yQegWQWtUo Dragonfly is taking shape. A new exoplanet at Beta Pictoris. Hera gets a software upgrade mid-flight. And new features hiding in the Orion Nebula. On Space Bites Plus, how we can paint satell...

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 14:04 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BsHe8QzUW0k Why not push the ISS to a high orbit instead of de-orbiting it? Will we ever send a probe to another star? Is quantum computing more promising than AI advances? And in Q&A+, how close are we to a technological singularity? 00:00 Intro 00:27 [@TheLinthus] Why not push the ISS to a high...

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 14:47 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/R-hHX1IiFG8 Is Sgr A* even massive enough for a supermassive black hole? Are there galaxies around the Little Red Dots? How important is plate tectonics? And in Q&A+, what's the biggest showstopper for a interstellar crew? 00:00 Intro 00:26 [@Nomad77ca] Is our BH big enough to be "super" massive?...