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Universe Today Podcast

Fraser Cain

300 episodes

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  1. [Space Bites+] Fresh Lunar Crater // 3D-Map of The Universe // Stardust on Venus

    · 26 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 20:55 Watch here (with no ads and a bonus part) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VHLROLaOCFc There's a new scar on the moon. The Artemis II astronauts return home safely. A new survey has just…

  2. [Q&A+] Understanding Universe's Scale, Mars Missions, Colonizing Gas Giant Moons

    · 25 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 19:38 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/N1yFECYcRYs How can you wrap your head around the true scale of the Universe? Will humanity ever colonize gas giant moons? Can…

  3. [Interview+] Extracting Even More Gravitational Waves from The Pulsar Timing Array

    · 43 min

    BONUS PART STARTS AT 27:40 Watch here (with no ads and a bonus part) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nX5Ou28VGwQ LISA Interview https://youtu.be/AUS8A9J3d5g LIGO Interview https://youtu.be/_jmQVH9L8vI 🟣 Guest: Dr.…

  4. [Q&A+] Eliminating Night Darkness, Voyagers' Lifetime, JWST's Planets

    · 24 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:57 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1rUTV39wcwM Can we eliminate darkness at night with an orbital reflector? How long do the Voyagers have left? Why…

  5. [Interview+] Phobos Might Already Be Destroyed and Reformed. Possibly Multiple Times

    · 53 min

    BONUS PART STARTS AT 37:54 Watch here (with no ads and a bouns part) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JMP7N_Dkga0 In the recent years we found out that a lot of asteroids are rubble piles. And we will be finding more…

  6. [Space Bites+] "Accidental" Moon Photo // New NASA Budget Cuts // New Class of Stars

    · 26 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 20:03 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TV_kJYQctvk Artemis 2 is going well. The White House proposes to cut back NASA's budget. Webb looks at two protoplanetary systems.…

  7. [Q&A+] Moon Atmosphere, Habitable Quasars, Sun's Red Giant Phase

    · 19 min

    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?…

  8. [Interview+] What Would It Take to Catch Up With a Meteorite?

    · 35 min

    Earth is hit by meteorites every day. Some are harmless, some could be dangerous. But now we have the most advanced tool to discover and predict them, the Vera Rubin Observatory. Will it be enough to predict a hit with…

  9. [Q&A+] Ring Galaxies' Origin, Project Orion, Comet Hitting The Moon | Q&A 412

    · 20 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:39 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gIOPdaFyjFY How did the ring galaxies get their weird shape? Could we redirect a comet to hit the Moon? Could Project…

  10. [Interview+] Can Mars Fight Back The Contamination from Earth

    · 31 min

    BONUS PART STARTS AT 18:21 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/K6LbP3Q1iMM Going to Mars means contaminating it with Earth's life. Most probably, we have already done it with our landers. But it…

  11. [Space Bites+] Unexpected Comet Behaviour // Artemis 2 Launched // NO-Dark-Matter Galaxy

    · 25 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 20:11 👉 Interviews on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmnK1xmCRad_8bn0uOcmLiIE 👉 Interviews on Patreon (free for everyone)…

  12. [Q&A+] Reasons to Return to The Moon, WW3 and The Kessler Syndrome, Time Delay Cosmography

    · 21 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:49 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/poOg7fY_3Q0 What will we learn from going back to the Moon? Is there dark matter in the Solar System? Which telescopes…

  13. [Interview+] A NIAC Project That Could Crush The Hubble Tension

    · 54 min

    Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MX3YWQVSjW8 Fast Radio Bursts can be a key to dramatically improving cosmic distance measurements. A NIAC project suggests using it for a global cosmic…

  14. [Q&A+] Best Space Pet, Aftermath of 3I/ATLAS Flyby, Limits on Lagrange Points

    · 19 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:00 🎬 Top-100 Sci-Fi/Space Movies https://www.patreon.com/posts/153930141 📺 Top-100 Sci-Fi/Space TV Series https://www.patreon.com/posts/153997969 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on…

  15. [Interview+] The Limits of The Habitable Worlds Observatory

    · 42 min

    Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/M3KZgV-_kks The Habitable Worlds Observatory is our ultimate tool to see an Earth-sized world around a Sun-like star. But what will be the limits of its…

  16. [Emergency Review] Project Hail Mary + Top 100 Lists

    · 43 min

    This is an EMERGENCY podcast about Project Hail Mary. Fraser's joined by Producer Anton discussing the movie, as well as the recently released Top-100 lists for movies and TV shows. ⚠️‼️⛔️THIS CONTAINS SPOLERS for…

  17. [Space Bites+] Nuclear Mars Mission // NASA's Moon Base // New ISS Plan

    · 26 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 20:07 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FBEUdChBGxA NASA overturns its future exploration plans, Rubin pipelines are filled with juicy data, dwarf galaxies hide…

  18. [Q&A+] Nights on Venus, Best Interstellar Propulsion Tech, Sun's Stellar Flybys

    · 19 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 12:02 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/V6Vm9Wb4ZF8 Full livestream: https://youtube.com/live/esBOfZhJTWk Does it get dark on Venus during the night? Which…

  19. [Interview+] There Might Be A Limit on How Many Satellites We Can Launch

    · 37 min

    Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/w677o1jHYmk The number of satellites has grown dramatically and it will continue to grow. But where's the limit? How many satellites can we realistically…

  20. [Q&A+] Video from Titan, Watching Artemis 2, Moons with Moons with Moons

    · 18 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:04 👉 Send in your questions for Patreon Q&A here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/153780788 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube https://youtu.be/cHcqk31NtH0 What kind of media can we…

  21. [Interview+] How Moon's Ridges Reveal Secrets About Its Geology

    · 40 min

    Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/iGxXclzwa08 How dead is the Moon (geologically speaking)? How can we know what's going on inside it? What should the people returning to the Moon expect from…

  22. [Bonus] Event Horizon JMG: Why Intelligence May Be Extremely Rare in the Universe

    · 1 h 09 min

    This is an episode of John Michael Godier's Event Horizon show that we did together. YouTube version on JMG's channel: https://youtu.be/mbn3uK7V3b0

  23. [Space Bites+] Weird New Planet // New Moon in A Bag // Superstorm Hit Mars

    · 22 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 15:26 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ncr3QzZUREY A planetary system that breaks all the rules. Colliding worlds reminds us of the Earth and the Moon. A super solar…

  24. [Q&A+] Moon Bases Locations, Lunar Internet, Sun's Companion

    · 20 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:51 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YZD1WNKzbiQ Could the Sun have a binary companion, are we the only observers in the Universe, will lunar bases be…

  25. [Q&A+] Humanity's Biosignatures, Galaxy Rotation, The Ultimate Question

    · 21 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:49 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/GvVZsDw3Xk0 If the robots take over, what would our biosignatures look like? is a galaxy's rotation tied to its black…

  26. [Interview+] Little Red Dots Could Be Something Completely Unexpected

    · 47 min

    BONUS PART START AT 28:49 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4caOfg5K8Is Little Red Dots are one of the biggest mysteries from JWST so far. They could be galaxies. They could be supermassive…

  27. [Interview+] How Vera Rubin's Insane Data Pipeline Works

    · 24 min

    How does Vera Rubin's data stream work? Why are there data brokers and what's their function? Who can use the data and how you can do that? How will the discoveries be made and who will have naming rights? Finding the…

  28. [Space Bites+] Improving ELT // More from DART // Sun's Heartbeat

    · 28 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 21:25 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bqeK-3s-y1s Starshades for ground-based telescopes, DART proved that asteroids share material, a new way to measure the age of the…

  29. [Q&A+] Superfast Neutrinos, Types of Astronomers, Gravitational Limits for Planets

    · 21 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:13 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zWkaeakf4Mg Which different types of astronomers exist? If Mars flat? Is there a gravitational limit for planets? And…

  30. [Q&A+] What Will Vera Rubin Find?

    · 20 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 14:15 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/iVoz7HnPp1k What will Vera Rubin find? Can life on Tau Ceti be found? Why do we find galaxies of different age at same…

  31. [Supercut] 10 Years of Black Hole Questions in 10 Hours

    · 10 h 00 min

    We built a search engine that allows us to search through all the Questions Shows we've recorded to look for specific topics. It turns out that black holes were the most searched-for topic, so we decided... let's make…

  32. [Interview+] The Architect for JWST, Habitable Worlds Observatory and LIFE. Lee Feinberg

    · 1 h 28 min

    BONUS PART STARTS AT 01:10:56 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0R3ykUkxH5M 👉 My previous interview with Dr Lee Feinberg https://youtu.be/eXchT7mtEao How's James Webb doing? What's the state…

  33. [Space Bites+] Jupiter’s New Size // NO Moon Impact // More Years for ISS

    · 25 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 20:43 Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not impact the moon in 2032. Jupiter is smaller and flatter than we thought. New ways to measure the expansion rate of the universe. And in Space Bites Plus, even…

  34. [Q&A+] The Next ISS, Europan Life, Heat Death of The Universe

    · 24 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 17:37 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/olJR9OPYXbo What are the plans for the next space station? What type of Europan life could Europa Clipper detect?…

  35. [Bonus] Event Horizon JMG: Black Holes, Dark Matter, and What Rubin Will Find

    · 53 min

    This is an episode of John Michael Godier's Event Horizon show that we did together. YouTube version on JMG's channel: https://youtu.be/RCiEXChXokI

  36. [Q&A+] Catching Interstellar Objects, Safe Zone from Supernovae, Dark Matter Zones

    · 19 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 14:16 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Jr32qD9WwjE How close is too close for a dangerous supernova? Can we realistically hitch a ride on an interstellar…

  37. [Interview+] SpaceX's AI Data Centres Might Actually Be A Good Idea. Here's Why

    · 54 min

    SpaceX is pivoting towards the Moon from Mars. Big part of it is because they now want to build data centres in space. And on the Moon. Is it a good idea? Can it work? Actually, it just might. 🟣 Guest: Dr. Casey…

  38. [Space Bites+] Vera Rubin Is LIVE // NO Landing for Artemis 3 // Peeping Inside Uranus

    · 25 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 20:50 🔭 Interview with Vera Rubin' Program Director Dr. Edward Ajhar: https://youtu.be/HQKswmYpxKE 🔵 Vote for the best story here: https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/posts Vera Rubin is…

  39. [Q&A+] State of The Voyagers, Dyson Sphere Construction, ELT Expectations | Q&A 401

    · 24 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 17:21 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dTMAWvRteaQ How weathered are the Voyagers by now? Did we already start building the Dyson sphere? What should we…

  40. [Q&A+] Data Centers in Space. Genius or Just Dumb?

    · 23 min

    AI data centers are a hot topic for a lot of space companies. That includes SpaceX who have applied for putting a million satellites into orbit. So, is this a genius idea that will put more money into space exploration…

  41. [Space Bites+] AMATERASU Cosmic Rays // Late Heavy Bombardment Doubts // Titan Bully

    · 28 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 21:18 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/a7TO-LHCCI4 The source of a powerful cosmic ray, did the late heavy bombardment actually happen? Did Titan create…

  42. [Q&A+] Approaching Rogue Black Holes, Moon VS Mars, Other Oort Clouds

    · 21 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:54 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JHFXyJmaHbw Could we spot a black hole approaching us? Is the Moon just a distraction on the way to Mars? Why don't we…

  43. [Interview+] Complexity As a Driving Force of the Universe

    · 54 min

    BONUS PART STARTS AT 34:49 Why is time moving forward? Some find an answer in the Second Law of Thermodynamics. That entropy defines the arrow of time. But is there another force behind it? My guests think so. Diving…

  44. [Q&A+] Earth's Status, Black Hole Dark Matter, Figure-8 Orbits

    · 21 min

    Is Earth actually a planet or not? Can dark matter be just black holes? Can a planet have a figure-eight orbit around binary stars? And in Q&A+, what happens if you put antimatter into a black hole? BONUS QUESTION…

  45. [Space Bites+] SpaceX Turns Away from Mars // Venus Lava Tube Confirmed // China's Moon Rocket Test

    · 20 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 14:28 A lava tube found on Venus, China tests its new capsule and softlands a rocket, SpaceX shifts focus from Mars to the Moon, and in Space Bites+, 5 galaxies colliding in the early Universe.…

  46. [Q&A+] Ancient Venus Civilization, Dark Matter, Great Attractor

    · 22 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 16:22 Could Venus be turned into hell by an ancient civilization that lived on it? Why Dark Matter is not a theory? What's up with all the Great Attractor videos on YouTube? And in Q&A+,…

  47. [Interview+] How Japan Built Its Crazy Space Agency

    · 52 min

    Japan’s space agency often flies under the radar, despite pursuing missions many larger agencies haven’t attempted. Like returning samples from Phobos or deploying a Toyota-built lunar rover. In this interview, we…

  48. [Q&A+] Alternative Dyson Spheres, Vera Rubin's Data, Source of Magnetars

    · 19 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 12:43 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/aALqt_Ng0dU • 00:00 Start • 00:26 [@ar-visions] Are white dwarf a solution for Dyson spheres? • 02:41 [@gumby2ms]…

  49. [Space Bites+] Crazy New SpaceX Plans // AI Mars Takeover // NO Artemis 2 in February

    · 27 min

    BONUS STORY starts at 19:42 👉 Interview about Europa with Dr. Paul Byrne https://youtu.be/Sj3JwQde-b8 👉 Interview about Magnetars with Dr. Genevieve Schroeder https://youtu.be/Q3JGdARjzTA 👉 How AI Destroyed My Job:…

  50. [Q&A+] Streaming Artemis Landings, Planets VS Supernovae, Life Deep Inside Earth

    · 20 min

    How will livestreams from Artemis be different from Apollo? Can planetary systems survive their stars exploding? Can a completely different life hide deep inside Earth? And in Q&A+, when should we expect new NIAC…

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