[Space Bites+] SpaceX Turns Away from Mars // Venus Lava Tube Confirmed // China's Moon Rocket Test
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.
00:00 Intro
00:16 New image from EHT https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-collaboration-that-brought-you-the-first-image-of-a-black-hole-just-released-photos-of-its-massi
02:19 Lava Tube on Venus https://www.universetoday.com/articles/massive-venus-lava-tube-detected-using-data-from-nasas-long-defunct-magellan-spacecraft
04:43 China's Moon Rocket Test https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-02-11/VHJhbnNjcmlwdDg5MDIw/index.html
06:25 SpaceX pivots from Mars to Moon https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spacex-makes-a-huge-pivot-wants-to-build-on-the-moon-instead
08:21 Another possible explanation for Little Red Dots https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-little-red-dots-observed-by-webb-were-direct-collapse-black-holes
11:17 Vote results https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/posts
11:55 Possible bright comet alert https://www.universetoday.com/articles/new-sungrazer-comet-a1-maps-could-be-bright-in-early-april-if-it-survives-perihelion
13:46 More of 3I/ATLAS https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasas-spherex-mission-spots-3iatlass-bright-envelope
14:28 BONUS STORY: 5 galaxy merger https://www.universetoday.com/articles/cosmic-collision-the-jwst-found-an-early-5-galaxy-merger
16:23 Why SpaceX plans make sense
Comments (10)
Watching this on Apr-7. Looked up c2026 a1 maps. Turns out the universe does suck.
Welcome back Bruce
Do you think Elon musk decided not to try to go to mars after watching Leonard Susskind's YouTube video 'why we'll never go to mars' ?
Space does have 100% solar but space cooling using radation only in sunlight for power ? Kind of stupid to me. I guess picture a mirrored flower one side capturing the sun and the dark side radiating heat.
Spacex switchs to moon cause nasa is on it... Has to be to best partnership.
The financial model for space-based computing is complicated. By the time you qualify your design, the fancy new GBU will be near or past the peak of the (demand X price per computation unit) curve. You won't be able to charge top-tier prices for long, if at all. Can you really make up for the high costs and short useful life? Or is this just another ploy to keep the bubble inflated by the AI pimps?
Hi Fraser, do you think that NASA will be able to save the Swift Telescope, which is apparently getting closer to entering the Earth's atmosphere and disintegrating !
So, I am still confused about direct collapse black holes. Where is the pressure coming from to force this gas to combine that tightly. Stars and Fusion makes sense to me but direct collapse?
Event Horizon: What will eventually happen to these jets? Any chance they will condense into dwarf galaxies?
Still laughing at Canadian Accent Alert