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Universe Today Podcast

Fraser Cain

300 episodes

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  1. [Space Bites+] Starship Returns // More Evidence for Betelbuddy // Results from Chang’e-6 Moon Rocks

    · 24 min

    Patrons, send in your questions: patreon.com/posts/164654175 BONUS PART STARTS AT: 19:02 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3DKTwnz0oAs Starship 13 flies and lands softly in the ocean.…

  2. [Interview+] Resolving The Largest Black Hole In the Universe

    · 50 min

    🟣 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…

  3. [Q&A+] Why Is The Universe Not 13.8B Light-Years Wide? | Q&A 444

    · 20 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:58 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HeBEGMNq5OQ Why is the Universe not 13.8 Billion light-years wide? Could a black hole possibly consume the entire…

  4. [Space Bites+] An Asteroid Surprised Astronomers // Limits of Relativity // Milky Way Disk Flipped

    · 20 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 14:16 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rnRYLtv9bjs Bad news for the planets of Bernard Starr. Measuring the atmosphere on a rocky world within the habitable zone.…

  5. [Q&A+] Could We Detect Other Universes?

    · 19 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 11:05 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HhfRcjS6HUI If other Universes exist, is it even possible to detect them? What created the fields and quantum…

  6. [Interview+] Supernova Remnants Should Fade Away. So, Why are Some Flashing?

    · 55 min

    👉 More interview HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/44300 BONUS PART STARTS AT 34:06 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XWz1mElwO-I Supernova remnants should be stable. All the action is…

  7. [Q&A+] What's The First Step for Mars True Colonization?

    · 20 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 14:12 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3tWYGNd3hcA • 00:00 Intro • 00:26 [@PerryM-vy4fe] Is a magnetic shield the first step for a true Mars colonization?…

  8. [Space Bites+] Titan Dragonfly Assembly // Extra Long-Distance Software Update // New Exoplanet Detection Method

    · 25 min

    BONUS PART START STARTS AT 18:21 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JMSfLchB5hI Interview with Dr. Noelia Noël about painting satellites black https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yQegWQWtUo…

  9. [Q&A+] What Would It Cost to Keep The ISS Up?

    · 21 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 14:04 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BsHe8QzUW0k Why not push the ISS to a high orbit instead of de-orbiting it? Will we ever send a probe to another star?…

  10. [Q&A+] Are There Galaxies Around Little Red Dots?

    · 20 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 14:47 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/R-hHX1IiFG8 Is Sgr A* even massive enough for a supermassive black hole? Are there galaxies around the Little Red…

  11. [Space Bites+] China Lands Its First Rocket // Two Asteroids // Milky Way's Bigger Than We Thought

    · 25 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 17:37 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_qdxGFRgCkg China Lands a Reusable Rocket, Spacecraft visit two asteroids up close. How spaceflight makes you older. And using…

  12. [Q&A+] Will The Sun Consume Earth After All?

    · 18 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 11:55 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xNQXTnGGkSY Will the Sun consume the Earth or not? Should we trade feet for arms to live in microgravity? How good is…

  13. [Interview+] Getting to the Moon Is Much More Complex Than You Think

    · 45 min

    BONUS PART starts at 29:32 Watch here (with no ads and a bonus part) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OqDGsTEhlrQ We're pretty familiar with orbits around the Earth. But as we start putting more and more things on the…

  14. [Q&A+] What's The Deal With Helium-3?

    · 20 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 14:11 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/N6HOGQsrf0c Is Helium-3 the real reason for the modern-day space race? Could there be an undetectable death ray coming…

  15. [Q&A+] Will Earth's Iron Poison The Sun?

    · 18 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 12:33 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/e6EhL7635Rc SAVE STARGATE: https://www.change.org/p/save-stargate-with-martin-gero Would the Sun be poisoned by iron…

  16. [Space Bites+] Rubin's 10-Year Survey // Perseverance Clone for the Moon // Super-Puff Planets

    · 21 min

    Vera Rubin survey is underway. Could a spare Perseverance rover be going to the moon? Two planets that are less dense than cotton candy. A vast connected magma system on Mars. • 00:00 Intro • 00:16 Vera Rubin's…

  17. [Q&A+] Will A Naked-Eye Moon Object End Conspiracy Theories?

    · 18 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 11:05 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wk_0L1tqnps Can we put a structure on the Moon to be seen with a naked eye? Which telescope to get under 200 bucks?…

  18. [Q&A+] How Hot Are Black Holes?

    · 20 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:12 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wusLmLQ5uqA Dr Paul Sutter https://www.pmsutter.com/ How can black holes be hot when all they do is suck in…

  19. [Space Bites+] NASA's Insane Rescue Mission With A Crazy Budget

    · 25 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 18:34 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UdX5yLB0quc A mission to rescue a falling space telescope. More uses for the solar gravitational lens. The Euclid Space Telescope…

  20. [Q&A+] What Should We Do With Hubble?

    · 20 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:57 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HcLciDTobu4 The Moon is running away from Earth. How can we stop it? Why orbiting objects get tidally locked? What…

  21. [Space Bites+] JWST's Biggest Mystery Might Be Finally Solved

    · 22 min

    Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4hclR9tb7H8 Could we even find von Neumann probes in the solar system? Could alien megastructures be raining down on the moon? Do we finally have an explanation…

  22. [Q&A+] So, We Built a Moon Base. What's Next?

    · 21 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:41 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bWMmyQu0Zog What does a nation gain from a continuous Moon presence? Will it ever make sense to mine asteroids? What…

  23. [Interview+] What Will We Eat in Space?

    · 52 min

    Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/36ALrLsw2-w We've seen a lot of depiction of the future of food in space in sci-fi. People eat food in space every day. But with future Moon base missions and…

  24. [Q&A+] How to Break Away from The Solar System?

    · 17 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 12:34 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/GWI129yIYGU How will future historians see space exploration? Did NASA handle well the 3I/ATLAS story? How fast do you…

  25. [Space Bites+] Super-Rare Meteorite Hints at an Ancient Destroyed Planet

    · 22 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 17:51 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tEliREVlWQE David Kipping’s @CoolWorldsLab video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT7V4gE4ZIc Matt’s podcast…

  26. [Q&A+] How Bad Is Crashing Rockets in the Ocean, Really?

    · 24 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 16:01 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xxUV3w5rrfE Should we just wait and let Alpha Centauri get closer? Which will happen first, antimatter propulsion or…

  27. [Q&A+] What Happens to the Moon Race Now?

    · 21 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:08 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8dVXQ2fZJ-A With the New Glenn explosion and Starship having problems of its own, what is a realistic setback for…

  28. [Space Bites+] HUGE Milestone for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman

    · 22 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 16:42 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OrYQ_R33BxQ What's next for Blue Origin after the explosion? Finding overly massive black holes at the early universe. Could dark…

  29. [Q&A+] Things I Changed My Mind About After 27 Years of Space Journalism

    · 14 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 09:15 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: • 00:00 Intro • 00:52 [@paigepotter4682] What’s the last thing about space you changed your mind about? • 09:15…

  30. [Q&A+] What Cool Payloads Could Starship Launch?

    · 18 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:51 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/j4SunqVshNw Ranking Solutions to the Fermi Oaradox: https://youtu.be/DFPfG413F58 What could Starship launch with its…

  31. [Space Bites+] DISASTER for Blue Origin // Primordial Black Hole Candidate // Starship Flight 12

    · 26 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 20:08 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ES_2Db9WAGQ @NASASpaceflight https://youtu.be/9b-ZhGB8XDc?si=g8pQDX8OHTDd4R3D @scottmanley…

  32. [Q&A+] What Happens When The Speed of Light Is Broken?

    · 20 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:05 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uUuhxglQwF0 Why don't they just charge the shell of the spaceship to repel radiation? What happens when something…

  33. [Q&A+] LIGO's Getting Its Upgrades. What's Next?

    · 16 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:00 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PFIJ2nw_HLI What's going on with LIGO? Which fictional spaceship is the most realistic? How will astronauts protect…

  34. [Space Bites+] A Big UN-DISCOVERY for Europa

    · 20 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 15:32 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IQPyYFCTn5Q Maybe Europa doesn't have plumes after all. A new way to detect dark matter. Maybe exo-venuses are more common than…

  35. [Q&A+] We Were Promised a Flood of Vera Rubin Discoveries. Where Are They?

    · 18 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 12:57 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dzgbXfW2BMQ Channels mentioned: • @JustHaveaThink • @SimonClark • @ProfessorDaveExplains • @potholer54…

  36. [Q&A+] There Are Only 6,286 Known Exoplanets. Why Hasn’t JWST Observed Them All?

    · 18 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 12:39 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jNGaC5ltB2E • 00:00 Intro • 00:34 [@VigoHornblower] How much science will Dragonfly do? • 02:39 [@SnusKing] Why…

  37. [Space Bites+] Green Bank Telescope Took This Image of Orion

    · 21 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 15:24 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8QJnq45tm3Q • Dr Paul Sutter: https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter • Dr Brian Koberlein…

  38. [Q&A+] What If We Had Another Earth Instead of The Moon?

    · 18 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 11:53 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gTTqqXj-REs • 00:00 Intro • 00:26 [@dan.sheppy7] What if we had a second Earth instead of the Moon? • 03:23…

  39. [Q&A+] What Happens If Somebody Claims Mars?

    · 20 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 14:26 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lQDNwSAK3Z8 What would happen is a country claims Mars as their own? Will we have the Expanse scenario? What's a…

  40. [Space Bites+] Io's Lakes Turned Out Weirder Than We Thought

    · 22 min

    BONUS STORY starts at 15:34 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/f5t09W_tdfE Patreon Q&As https://www.patreon.com/collection/116972 Pandora interview with Dr Ben Hord https://youtu.be/96Ee8Z-sbSU…

  41. [Q&A+] Orbital VS Surface Lunar Bases

    · 22 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:16 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VFtMBTalNMg How hard is it to keep rocket fuel in space? Which is better, a Moon mission on the surface or in orbit?…

  42. [Q&A+] What If AI Finds An Alien Technosignature Tomorrow?

    · 19 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:25 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5PTjLZQ7qLU • 00:00 Intro • 00:25 [@paigepotter4682] If we detected a technosignature tomorrow, what’s the first…

  43. [Space Bites+] Half Of Our Galaxy Is Hotter Than The Other (We Finally Know Why!)

    · 24 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 18:18 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tejYwoRqG38 New info about 3I/ATLAS, NASA tests a new high-power ion engine, did dark matter power early black hole…

  44. [Q&A+] How Does A Telescope Made of 5000 Robots Work?

    · 21 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:48 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/90S24jYGtd4 Latest Patreon Q&A show: https://www.patreon.com/posts/156265102/ What did we really find on Mars? Could…

  45. [Interview+] Removing Space Debris with Real-Life Star Trek Tech

    · 46 min

    BONUS PART STARTS AT 24:29 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/GfEzOHGoAuU 🟣 Guest: Amy Haft 📜 Spacecraft electrostatic tractor using a power-constrained pulsed high-energy…

  46. [Q&A+] What If Voyager Crashed Into Something? | Q&A 418

    · 23 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 17:23 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4uPUdm7WP9o Can we deploy a huge fleet of amateur telescopes to image a single planet? If the Voyager crashes into…

  47. [Space Bites+] Moon Landing Bottleneck // China Gaining // 11,000 New Rubin Asteroids

    · 24 min

    Here’s what might delay Artemis, New Glenn flies again, but there’s a problem, Voyager 1 has to shut down another instrument, Vera Rubin is finding so many asteroids. And in Space Bites+, an incredible image to…

  48. [Q&A+] Fermi Paradox Special (Vol. 2)

    · 19 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:29 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ouw_AobGQ2M CosmoQuest Artemis Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUhAPm8PNdY CosmoQuest: https://cosmoquest.org/…

  49. [Interview+] We Don't See Supernovae In The Milky Way. Nobody Knows Why

    · 43 min

    🟣 Guest: Dr. John Banovetz https://www.bnl.gov/world/ 📜 Uncovering the Next Galactic Supernova with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.12094 We should be getting 1-2 supernovae per century in a…

  50. [Q&A+] Moon Base Basics, HWO Targets, Mars Nuclear Reactor

    · 20 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 16:16 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gac8HkEO9AE How will we power the Moon bases? Which places will be the primary targets for the Habitable World…

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