Universe Today Podcast

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BONUS PART STARTS AT: 19:02
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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 heat working its way out of Io. All this and more in this week's Space Bites.
Interviews mentioned
LRDs with Dr. John Chisholm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4caOfg5K8Is

LRDs with Dr. Vasily Kokorev https://youtu.be/zoHtCmCbcEU

OBLIVION NIAC with Jeff Nosanov https://youtu.be/U6fZ2GryNhU

Timecodes
00:00 Intro

00:22 They Are Recovering The Starship https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spacexs-starship-deploys-starlink-satellites-during-13th-flight-test

03:45 More Evidence for Bettelbuddy https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2611/

05:39 Bad News, Everyone https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/2026/07/28/commissioning-update-for-spacecraft-to-boost-nasas-swift/

07:22 CAPSTONE-2 for Moon Docking https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/armd/nasa-announces-new-spacecraft-technology-demonstration-mission-at-moon/

09:06 Chang’e-6 Rocks https://www.universetoday.com/articles/change-6-samples-reveal-how-earth-slows-solar-wind-striking-moons-near-side https://www.universetoday.com/articles/samples-of-lunar-rock-are-leading-scientists-to-rethink-the-moons-history

12:05 Self-Destructing Comet https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spin-reversing-comet-may-face-self-destruction

13:31 Vote results 14:13 Little Red Dots https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-distant-primordial-object-may-be-a-newborn-little-red-dot https://www.universetoday.com/articles/little-red-dots-could-be-ancient-globular-clusters-each-dominated-by-a-super-massive-star

17:40 Almost an Exomoon https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-first-confirmed-exo-satellite-challenges-our-definitions-of-planets-and-moons

19:02 BONUS Story https://www.universetoday.com/articles/juno-measures-the-heat-below-ios-restless-surface

21:36 Final thoughts

🟣 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/
00:00 Intro

01:45 NIAC Season 2026

02:54 OBLIVION

11:06 How can it possibly work

16:18 Possible targets for observation

20:01 Alternative applications

26:23 Orbital Velocity LLC

36:28 Space Madness Pod

41:01 Current obsessions

48:25 Final thoughts

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:58
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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 [@WendellBroadwell] Will the entire Universe inevitably fall into a giant black hole?

11:18 [@davidpayton7838] Where did all the heavy metals come from?

13:58 [@doogle4144] Do I prefer writing text articles for UT or being in front of a camera?

17:08 Perseids

BONUS STORY STARTS AT 14:16
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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 for Barnard's Star exoplanets https://www.universetoday.com/articles/astronomers-determine-that-exoplanets-around-barnards-star-are-extremely-uninhabitable

02:27 Rocky + Habitable Zone + Atmosphere https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-first-breath-of-another-world

04:11 Testing the Limits of Relativity https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-star-orbiting-our-galaxys-supermassive-black-hole-tests-the-limits-of-relativity

06:24 Milky Way Flipped Its Disk https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-milky-way-flipped-its-disk-billions-of-years-ago

07:54 The Type of Meteorite that Killed the Dinosaurs https://www.universetoday.com/articles/researchers-narrow-down-the-type-of-meteorite-that-killed-the-dinosaurs

09:07 Vote results

09:29 Asteroid Turned Out To Be a Comet https://www.universetoday.com/articles/astronomers-catch-a-dark-comet-red-handed

11:45 Van Gogh in Space https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-dark-energy-cameras-new-image-is-reminiscent-of-van-gogh

13:01 Psyche flyby https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasas-psyche-spacecraft-captured-a-time-lapse-video-of-its-mars-flyby

14:16 Bonus story https://www.universetoday.com/articles/electrically-charged-mars-storms-threaten-future-exploration

17:21 Problem with YouTube

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 11:05
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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 launch?
00:00 Intro

00:28 [@hempfreedom3044] Could we detect other Universes if they exist?

03:43 [@EdSceptic-y2e] What created the fields and quantum fluctuations that supposedly set off the Big bang?

09:27 [@doogle4144] Could we use a long tether as a power source around Jupiter’s strong magnetic field?

11:05 [@HenryWarren-b6j] What is the best way to watch a SpaceX launch?

15:57 Star City review