Fraser Cain

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Fraser Cain

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[Space Bites] Hubble Entered Safe Mode // Protoplanetary Disk in Another Galaxy // Dragonfly Delay 01.12.2023 19:58

Hubble is down right now. JWST sees the first protoplanetary disk in another galaxy. Titan Dragonfly’s delay. The first full image of the Chinese Space Station from orbit. 🚀 Starship IFT-2 Special: https://youtu.be/ReXZvXPak4U 🦄 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 I...

[Interview] Astronaut’s Perspective On How Space Shuttle Shaped Spaceflight 29.11.2023 52:24

What was it like to fly on the Space Shuttle? What made this vehicle so important for the history of spaceflight? What stories can it tell? Answering all these questions with NASA Space Shuttle Astronaut, Tom Jones. 📖 Space Shuttle Stories: https://astronauttomjones.com/product/space-shuttle-stories/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: ht...

[Q&A] Real Danger from Solar Flares, Lagrange Interferometers, Interstellar Communications 29.11.2023 40:02

How bad can a solar flare really be for the Earth? What would evolution in an isolated star system look like? What damage can a rogue planet flying through the Solar System cause? When will we have Lagrange point interferometers? What's the speed limit for gravitational assists? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetod...

[Special] What Does Starship Launch Success Mean for SpaceX Now 27.11.2023 1:06:09

It happened! Starship and SuperHeavy Did Launch for the second time. All 33 raptors were working. Hot staging went as planned. But then both the Booster 9 and Ship 25 were lost. What exactly went wrong and what does it mean for the future of Starship? Finding out with Scott Manley and Marcus House. 📺 Scott Manley: https://www.youtube.com/@scottmanley 📺 Marcus House: https://www.youtube.com/@Marc...

[Space Bites] China's Moon Secret Revealed // Starship Success // The Real Asteroid Danger 24.11.2023 22:31

SpaceX Starship launches again. Webb finds methane in the atmosphere of an exoplanet and reveals a star forming region near the center of the Milky Way. The overwhelming logistics of dealing with an asteroid threat. 🦄 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 00:16 S...

[Q&A] More To Come From JWST, Starlink Interferometer, TESS vs Kepler 22.11.2023 47:38

Did James Webb already reach its full potential or is there more to come from it? How does TESS compare to Kepler? Can we use Starlinks as a giant space-based interferometer? Can we rip a black hole apart to see what's inside? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goo...

Mars Samples By 2031 // Starship's GO For Launch // Oumuamua NOT Interstellar? 17.11.2023 17:11

China is planning a Mars Sample Return Mission. James Webb tracks water moving towards planets. The Hubble Tension has gotten even more tense. 🦄 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 China's Mars Sample Return Mission https://www.universetoday.com/164186/ch...

[Interview] 35 Million Galaxies in One Catalog to Understand Dark Energy 16.11.2023 58:53

How large surveys of our galactic neighbourhood can help us better understand dark energy? What more can we learn from them? What instruments and techniques are used for this? Answering all these question and more with Dr John Moustakas. More interviews: 👉 Understanding Dark Energy https://youtu.be/2Y6KK94GaXc?si=twg4yVmpxDSBJFgA 👉 Time-Domain Astronomy Dr James Davenport https://www.youtube.com...

[Q&A] New Space Race, Dyson Spheres in Cosmic Voids, Protection from Solar Storms 14.11.2023 40:29

Can dark energy be just empty space and nothing else? Is there a new space race going on? Why is NASA so slow with its Moon plans? Is there an upper limit for a star? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 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...

[Interview] Early Dark Energy and Other Possible Solutions for The Crisis in Cosmology 13.11.2023 54:29

The so-called Crisis in Cosmology didn't go anywhere. Different methods are giving different values for the Hubble Constant creating one of the most interesting mysteries in Astronomy. What possible solutions do we have? Discussing them with Dr Sunny Vagnozzi. 📄 Seven hints that early-time new physics alone is not sufficient to solve the Hubble tension Sunny Vagnozzi https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16...

[Space Bites] INCREDIBLE Discovery From Lucy // Most Powerful Ion Engine // Slime Mold Universe 10.11.2023 19:39

Lucy made an incredible discovery. One of the strangest exoplanetary systems ever seen. Understanding the Universe with slime mold. And the most powerful ion engine passes the test. 🦄 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 00:15 Dinkinesh's contact binary moon htt...

[Interview] The LIFE Telescope. Next Gen Planet Hunter 09.11.2023 49:11

You asked for it, so it's here. A big interview about a proposed mission called LIFE that could help us revolutionise planet hunting. My guest is Dr Daniel Angerhausen from EHT Zurich. More interviews: 👉 Weird Gap in Exoplanet Sizes https://youtu.be/MuH2BlHdAyw 👉 JWST as a Planet Hunter https://youtu.be/6b377MO20uE 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in t...

[Q&A] Things to See Before You Die, Reigniting A Dead Star, Types of Black Holes 07.11.2023 43:49

How do we know that Psyche is a metal asteroid? Did primordial gravitational waves stretch when inflation happened? When do we finally get more Trappist-1 data from JWST? Can a dead star possibly reignite? 🦄 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 00:53 [Andoria] W...

[Space Bites] Ancient Planet Inside Earth // HUGE Exoplanet Discovery // Cannibal Betelgeuse 03.11.2023 18:29

A new system found with 7 Earth and Super-Earth Sized planet, the remains of another planet inside the Earth, and it’s time to replace your wallpaper again with this new image of the Crab Nebula from JWST. 🦄 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 00:18 Sun-like st...

[Interview] Did Venus Have Plate Tectonics? 31.10.2023 38:09

Plate tectonics might be the key to why Venus had become the hell it is right now. Some think that it just never had it. But recent studies suggest that Venus did have plate tectonics at the same time Earth did. Why is it important? Figuring it out with Dr Matt Weller. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/sho...

[Q&A] AI Pilots for Space Missions, A New Big Bang, Falsifiable Dark Matter 31.10.2023 40:30

Could another Big Bang happen in our existing Universe? Is dark matter theory falsifiable? Should we allow AI to control spacecraft? How many things can you put in a Lagrange point? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-...

[Interview] Event Horizon Telescope. But 10 Times Better 30.10.2023 55:42

We got two images of supermassive black hole with the Event Horizon Telescope. But can we make it better? How can we take the telescope to the next level and resolve a photon ring of a black hole? Finding out with Ben Hudson, System Engineer from KISPE Space. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-...

[Space Bites] Three Stars Disappeared // So Much JWST News // Io's Global Magma Ocean 27.10.2023 23:09

Three stars mysteriously vanished. So much JWST new. Hundreds of volcanoes on Io. Starship is ready to fly again. 🦄 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 01:53 Three Stars Vanished https://www.universetoday.com/163820/in-1952-a-group-of-three-stars-vanished-astro...

[Interview] You Don't Understand The Fermi Paradox 26.10.2023 55:07

Are we alone in the Universe? How can we approach this question with a real scientific perspective? What would life even look like if it existed somewhere? Answering all these questions and more with Dr Adam Frank. 📕 Adam Frank's book 'Little Book of Aliens' https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-little-book-of-aliens-adam-frank 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 S...

[Q&A] How Dark Does Space Get, Mining Psyche, Danger from Rogue Planets 24.10.2023 38:56

Can you reconstruct an image that was gravitationally lensed? How dark can outer space become? Will we ever be able to mine an asteroid? Answering all these questions and much more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 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 01:27 [Andoria] Ho...

[Interview] Can Life Exist Around Red Dwarf Stars? 23.10.2023 51:56

Red Dwarfs will be the longest living stars in the Universe. Many of them have planetary systems, like the famous Trappist-1. But there is a big problem, as red dwarfs can emit mega-flares which could render planets uninhabitable. Finding out, if there is any hope for finding life and how can we study red dwarfs better with Dr Ward Howard. 👉 Ward Howard's website: https://www.wardshowardastronome...

Deadly Supercontinent // Pluto Super-volcano // Most Powerful Solar Storm 20.10.2023 24:33

See the latest solar eclipse from space. A future supercontinent will wipe out the mammals. Juno makes a close flyby of Io. A planet with clouds made of sand. 🦄 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 Eclipse from space https://www.universetoday.com/163767/na...

[Interview] Can Dark Matter Be Explained by Dark Photons 19.10.2023 45:39

Dark matter is one of the most exciting mysteries in Astronomy. We can see its effects but we don't know what exactly it is. One of the proposed solutions is dark photons. What are they and what do we need to find them? Finding the answers with Nicholas Hunt-Smith. 👉 Global QCD analysis and dark photons: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP09(2023)096 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://p...

[Q&A] Predicting Supernovae, The Truth About Binary Stars, Creating a Pet Black Hole 17.10.2023 43:29

How can we know that a star is about to go supernova? Can we create a pet black hole in our Solar System? What if all our star data is just wrong? How common are red dwarf binaries? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-...

[Interview] Faster Than Light, Quantum Communication, Astronomy Pic Of The Day 16.10.2023 1:12:38

Which things can go faster than light and what does it mean for Physics. Can quantum entanglement provide interstellar communication. Why NASA didn't believe in websites during the early internet era. How should scientists approach controversial ideas. Answering all these questions with Dr Robert Nemiroff. More interviews to watch: 👉 Advanced Propulsion Systems with Dr. Sonny White https://www.yo...