Universe Today Podcast

BONUS PART STARTS AT 27:40
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LISA Interview https://youtu.be/AUS8A9J3d5g
LIGO Interview https://youtu.be/_jmQVH9L8vI
🟣 Guest: Dr. Chiara Mingarelli https://www.chiaramingarelli.com/
📜 Fingerprints of Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Pulsar Timing Arrays https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.05722
00:00 Intro

01:41 Pulsar Timing Array

09:27 Detecting individual mergers

18:31 What's next?

27:40 Alternative ways of detecting black holes

41:14 Final thoughts

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:57
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Can we eliminate darkness at night with an orbital reflector? How long do the Voyagers have left? Why didn't JWST inspect some of the potential ocean worlds? And in Q&A+, could we see the Great Attractor unobscured?
00:00 Start

00:26 [@Asmo-RL] Why are Mars and Venus un the habitable zone though clearly uninhabited?

03:52 [@GigaSigma1] Can we put a reflector in orbit to eliminate darkness at night?

07:03 [@MLBrilliance] Can we see the Great Attractor unobscured?

11:01 [@bigglestintin] ow long will voyager 2's power last?

15:57 [@everythingcompute] Why didn't JWST look at Kepler 22B?

20:11 Outro

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In the recent years we found out that a lot of asteroids are rubble piles. And we will be finding more of them. But it appears that Phobos might have a lot of characteristics of rubble piles. Which could have some really interesting consequences.
🟣 Guest: Dr. Harrison Agrusa https://hagrusa.github.io/
📜 Tidal disruptions of rubble piles: The case of Phobos https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21912
00:00 Intro

02:02 Rubble pile asteroids

17:39 DART mission aftermath

21:45 Best ways to deflect an asteroid

25:01 Phobos

37:54 LUCY mission

47:32 Current obsessions

50:54 Final thoughts

BONUS STORY STARTS AT 20:03
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Artemis 2 is going well. The White House proposes to cut back NASA's budget. Webb looks at two protoplanetary systems. An entirely new class of stars. And in Space Bites Plus, Japan is planning a comet return mission.
SLS IR Video
00:00 Intro

00:18 Artemis 2 is going really well https://www.universetoday.com/articles/artemis-ii-mission-shares-first-photo-of-earth https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasa-releases-images-of-artemis-iis-flight-behind-the-moon

07:20 NASA Budget Cuts Amid Artemis 2 and Ignition Announcements https://www.planetary.org/articles/what-is-the-skinny-budget-and-what-does-it-mean-for-nasa

09:36 Two Planets Forming https://www.universetoday.com/articles/webbs-picture-of-the-month-features-two-planet-forming-disks-and-a-few-possible-planets

11:00 New Class of Star https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-new-class-of-star-merger-remnant

13:34 Idea for a Mercury Rover https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-mercury-rover-could-explore-the-planet-by-sticking-to-the-terminator

16:09 Vote results https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/posts

16:44 SuperCDMS https://www.universetoday.com/articles/supercdm-experiment-reaches-critical-temperature-bringing-it-one-step-closer-to-detecting-dark-matte

18:22 JWST's Hidden Treasure https://www.universetoday.com/articles/jwst-spies-once-hidden-treasures-in-the-w51-starbirth-crche

20:03 BONUS STORY https://www.universetoday.com/articles/jaxa-plans-to-bring-back-pristine-early-solar-system-samples-from-a-comet

21:22 Most influential space moments

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:22
Will Jupiter system become habitable? How much atmosphere could the Moon hold onto? Do quasars have a habitable zone? And in Q&A+, is transpirational cooling better than a heat shield?
00:00 Intro

00:24 [@Shrouded_Gh05t] Do I think Europa or Titan has life on it?

03:42 [@GadZookz] If Venus had a moon would it be any different?

05:17 [@jamesmnguyen] What's the max atmosphere The Moon could hold onto?

06:44 [@Storm-Krow] Could current students work with James Webb or ELT?

09:49 [@PhoenixWarp1] Would Jupiter or Saturn become habitable during Sun's red giant phase? 10:49 [@ThexBorg] Do quasars have a habitable zone?

13:22 [@irwin2335] Transpirational cooling, better than a heat shield?

15:15 Outro