Titan is the only known world except Earth that has liquid on its surface and a dense atmosphere. We are planning to send a nuclear helicopter called Dragonfly to explore it. What can we expect from Titan? Finding out in this interview.
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📜 Titan’s Fluvial & Lacustrine Landscapes
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00:00 Intro
00:58 Why Titan?
08:28 Climate on Titan
13:32 Dragonfly mission
23:31 Sub-surface ocean
31:05 Current obsessions
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[Q&A] Colouring the Sun Green, Self-Sustaining Space Station, Fate of LUVOIR
Should we be colouring our star green to make it stand out for potential aliens? What would it take for a space station to be fully self-sufficient? What happened to LUVOIR which was supposed to be a bigger version of JWST? And in our free bonus question on Patreon, can you win a Nobel Prize by watching YouTube videos. All this and more in this Q&A.
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00:32 Can a space station be 100% self-sustaining?
03:54 Should we paint the Sun green?
06:29 How can we still see the CMB?
08:02 Starlink and the destruction of ozone layer
12:31 What's going on with the LUVOIR telescope?
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[Space Bites] AMAZING Lunar Spectacle // Alternative Mars Sample Return // Direction of a Death Star
Blue Ghost wraps up two busy weeks on the Moon with a sunset, good news, the death star isn’t pointing at us, and a new option for the Mars Sample Return mission. And our longer edition on Patreon, how supernovae could have caused two of Earth’s mass extinction events.
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00:00 Intro
00:19 Blue Ghost's eclipse and sunset
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https://www.universetoday.com/articles/blue-ghost-watches-the-lunar-sunset-signalling-the-end-of-its-mission
02:45 Some science for Athena IM-2
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/one-instrument-on-the-failed-lunar-lander-did-a-little-science
04:25 Good News about the "Death Star"
https://keckobservatory.org/pinwheel/
06:30 Rocket Lab's Mars Sample Return architecture
https://spacenews.com/bringing-mars-to-earth-solving-mars-sample-return/
08:36 China's MSR
https://www.cnsa.gov.cn/english/n6465645/n6465648/c10652198/part/10652214.pdf
09:36 Euclid's deep field
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-esas-euclid-space-telescope-gives-glimpses-of-its-deep-field
11:19 Vote results
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11:57 My favourite exoplanet system
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14:06 A glipse of SKA's ability
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-square-kilometre-array-releases-its-first-test-image
16:01 Deimos by Hera
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/hera-swings-past-mars-sees-deimos-from-a-new-angle
16:59 Guide to space
17:31 Secret bonus story
17:58 New articles
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20:30
[Q&A] Black Hole in Uranus, AI Impersonating my Channel, Which Telescope to Buy
What would a black hole do if it was inside Uranus? What do I think about AI-generated content impersonating Universe Today? What telescope should you buy in 2025? And in our free extended version, the deepest rabbit hole I went into. All this and more in this Q&A show.
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00:00 Start
00:27 Black hole in Uranus
02:12 What would I tell scientists 100 year ago?
03:44 Telescope recommendations
06:39 Channels impersonating me. What should I do?
08:39 How does throwing a ball in an artificial gravity ring station look like?
11:57 Will Betelgeuse explode soon?
14:30 Where to leave your questions
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[Q&A] Biggest Disappointment in Space Exploration, Aliens Hiding, Privatisation of Space
What is my biggest disappointment in the history of space exploration? Will the YR4 asteroid have a chance to hit the Moon? Does the solar gravitational lens need a coronagraph? And in our free extended version, how time dilation changes intergalactic travel? All this and more in this Q&A show.
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00:00 Start
00:29 Will the Solar Gravitational Lens telescope need a coronagraph?
03:47 Will the asteroid YR4 have a chance to hit the Moon?
05:28 What is the most advanced on the scale that we could possibly miss?
09:47 What’s my current biggest disappointment in space exploration?
13:08 What does privatisation of space mean for us?
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