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: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:43 Why Space Shuttle was so great 04:47 Precursors of full reusability 10:05 RS-25 Engines 14:21 The book 20:28 Overview effect 33:38 Constructing the ISS 35:35 Servicing the Hubble 38:25 New era of spaceflight 50:31 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/mH2AF2ZpQsQ 📰 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 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/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:53 [Andoria] What damage would a rogue planet cause for the Solar System? 05:37 [Vulcan] How bad would evolving in an isolated star system be? 09:12 [Risa] How bad can solar flares really be? 13:56 [Aeturen] Lagrange point interferometers. Wen? 17:00 [Vendikar] Do stars go up and down the galactic plane? 19:47 [Remus] How can amateur astronomers contribute to science? 23:58 [Janus] Speed limit from gravity assists? 27:18 [Cait] Can we solve interstellar communication? 31:36 [Betazed] Top 5 science YouTube channels? 34:00 [Cheleb] What's my favourite aspect of cosmology? 35:46 [Nimbus] How bad is air pollution from launches? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Z8Cn0piSKEU 📰 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

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/@MarcusHouse 🦄 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 00:01:02 Before IFT-2 00:08:35 The Launch 00:14:19 Hot Staging 00:16:20 What went wrong with SuperHeavy 00:25:00 What went wrong with Starship 00:32:00 What's next? 00:45:58 What it means for Artemis 01:03:00 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/ReXZvXPak4U 📰 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

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 Starship Second Flight https://www.universetoday.com/164331/spacex-tested-its-starship-again-successful-launch-but-both-vehicles-were-destroyed/ 04:36 JWST finds methane on an exoplanet https://www.universetoday.com/164405/wow-jwst-just-found-methane-in-an-exoplanet-atmosphere/ 06:27 JWST looks into Milky Way's center https://www.universetoday.com/164355/webbs-infrared-eye-reveals-the-heart-of-the-milky-way/ 08:11 Secret Chinese payload https://www.universetoday.com/164379/a-chinese-booster-and-additional-secret-payload-caused-a-double-crater-on-the-moon/ 10:02 Vote results https://youtu.be/tqsRBKgpJsI 11:00 More plutonium for NASA https://www.universetoday.com/164407/nasa-is-getting-the-plutonium-it-needs-for-future-missions/ 13:29 Missing Spiral Galaxies https://durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2023/11/supergalactic-planes-missing-spiral-galaxies/ 15:01 Q&A Show https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmm6b_fexWT6vSK9J_c4zgep 16:50 Zone of Avoidance https://www.universetoday.com/164328/the-universe-cant-hide-behind-the-zone-of-avoidance-any-longer/ 18:21 Real Danger of an Asteroid Threat https://www.universetoday.com/164378/if-youre-trying-to-prevent-an-asteroid-impact-the-technical-and-political-challenges-are-staggering/ 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/tEdSYwSN7NE 📰 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

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.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:54 [Andoria] Were primordial gravitational waves stretched? 07:15 [Vulcan] Are black holes the same with very early Universe? 09:28 [Risa] TESS vs Kepler 12:18 [Aeturen] Can starlinks be used as an interferometer? 15:23 [Vendikar] Can meteors from Venus be on Moon or Mars? 17:40 [Remus] Bogus discoveries 21:38 [Janus] Will a Dyson sphere be unstable? 25:51 [Cait] Have we found aliens yet? 25:57 [Betazed] Did JWST show its full potential? 28:46 [Cheleb] Can we rip a black hole to see what's inside? 30:39 [Nimbus] Can we mine a neutron star? 32:35 [Belos] Rogue exoplanets found in the Orion nebula 35:12 [Lyar] Do I get bored of my job? 38:13 [Zalcon] Triton 40:29 [Arret] Biggest missed opportunity in space? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Tx3kl2sycHE 📰 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

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/china-wants-to-retrieve-a-sample-of-mars-by-2028/ 02:36 Active Oort Cloud https://www.universetoday.com/164213/the-oort-cloud-might-be-more-active-than-we-thought/ 04:40 Amateur supernova discovery https://www.universetoday.com/164136/an-amateur-astronomer-discovered-one-of-a-kind-supernova-remnant/ 06:54 Vote results 07:29 JWST sees water transfer https://www.universetoday.com/164249/jwst-shows-ice-covered-pebbles-delivering-water-to-new-planets/ 09:13 Lunar swirls https://www.universetoday.com/164277/the-lunar-swirl-mystery-deepens/ 10:42 Regolith landing problem https://www.nasa.gov/general/rocket-exhaust-on-the-moon-nasa-supercomputers-reveal-surface-effects/ 11:55 Support us on Patreon 12:48 Hubble Tensions gets worse https://www.universetoday.com/164198/if-you-account-for-the-laniakea-supercluster-the-hubble-tension-might-be-even-larger/ 14:24 Starship Launch https://www.universetoday.com/164220/starship-could-be-ready-to-launch-on-friday/ 15:03 More on interstellar objects 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/tqsRBKgpJsI 📰 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 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/watch?v=ZCWrrL4fP5c&ab_channel=FraserCain 🦄 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 01:14 Understanding our extra-galactic environment 05:58 Siena Galaxy Atlas 10:38 New Era in Astronomy 16:10 Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument 31:06 How can we solve Dark Energy 51:01 Obsessions 55:31 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/3h6dwiPN0Fc 📰 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

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 Start 01:07 [Andoria] Is dark energy just empty space? 06:29 [Vulcan] Canadian accent 08:48 [Risa] What if a nebula collapsed back on its central neutron star? 12:11 [Aeturen] Why not use a satellite on a cycler orbit for high-bandwidth data transfer? 16:25 [Vendikar] Is a new space race on? 21:20 [Remus] How can NASA be so slow? 23:57 [Janus] Can space voids actually be Dyson spheres? 26:25 [Cait] What's the upper limit of star mass? 28:42 [Betazed] How can we protect against solar flares? 32:14 [Cheleb] Controversial topics among science discoveries 36:46 [Nimbus] What is the latest news about life on Europa? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/D6y0xNGmDUc 📰 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

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/2308.16628 More interviews: 👉 A Big Problem with Modern Science Communication https://youtu.be/zGV6mZuULj8 👉 Understanding Dark Energy With Most Detailed Supernovae Survey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y6KK94GaXc&ab_channel=FraserCain 🦄 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 02:00 What is the Hubble Tension 06:56 Implications of Early Dark Energy 10:45 Consistency of Lambda-CDM 17:37 Early ISW effect 28:17 Relative ages of old galaxies 33:22 Descending trends 35:46 How will we know it's right or wrong 43:10 What might be the answer 48:03 Current obsessions 51:14 More thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/XRKX9ElmOQk 📰 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

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 https://www.universetoday.com/164152/what-wow-that-new-asteroid-image-from-lucy-just-got-even-more-interesting/ 01:36 Polar Circumbinary Planet Disk https://www.universetoday.com/164077/this-is-a-first-an-exoplanet-in-a-polar-circumbinary-disc-surrounding-two-stars/ 03:37 JWST sees CO2 on a centaur https://www.universetoday.com/164066/jwst-detects-carbon-dioxide-in-a-centaur-for-the-first-time/ 05:28 Slime mold and the Universe https://www.universetoday.com/164120/what-can-slime-mold-teach-us-about-the-universe/ 07:23 Vote results https://youtu.be/xubOa8xR2lw 07:54 Can Gaia detect gravitational waves http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03474 09:37 Most powerful ion engine test https://www.universetoday.com/164072/the-most-powerful-ion-engine-ever-built-passes-the-test/ 11:30 Newsletter https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter 12:13 Euclid's first images https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_s_first_images_the_dazzling_edge_of_darkness 13:46 Water Map 15:00 Apple Podcasts reviews 17:22 More on asteroids and space exploration 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/c6z1octUAak 📰 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