Universe Today Podcast

🟣 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

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BONUS PART STARTS AT 34:06
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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.wesleyan.edu/
📜 NASA's Chandra Finds Unexpected Fireworks in Aftermath of Stellar Explosions https://chandra.si.edu/press/26_releases/press_061526.html
00:00 Intro

01:56 Dynamic supernovae

08:28 What's going on there?

20:11 How can we resolve this mystery

22:08 X-ray binaries

24:24 Demarkation of compact objects

29:17 Neutron stars becoming black holes

34:06 Light pollution

43:53 Current obsessions

51:25 Final thoughts