[Space Bites+] HUGE Milestone for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman
BONUS STORY STARTS AT 16:42
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What's next for Blue Origin after the explosion? Finding overly massive black holes at the early universe. Could dark matter be made of comets? A galaxy that just isn't rotating. And in Space Bites Plus, how massive can neutron stars be? All this and more on this week's Space Bites.
00:00 Intro
00:14 Might Be Not Than Bad (Still Pretty Bad) https://www.universetoday.com/articles/blue-origin-issues-official-statement-on-new-glenn-explosion
02:35 Testing milestone for Blue Moon https://www.universetoday.com/articles/blue-origins-lunar-lander-just-passed-its-toughest-test-yet
04:43 Roman Has a Launch Date https://www.universetoday.com/articles/roman-telescopes-massive-infrared-mirror-is-ready-to-fly
06:19 Another Take on Early SMBHs https://www.universetoday.com/articles/are-the-jwsts-early-overrmassive-black-holes-just-normal-range-outliers
08:43 Why Galaxies Stop Forming Stars https://www.universetoday.com/articles/heres-why-so-many-massive-galaxies-in-the-early-universe-stop-forming-stars
10:23 Could Dark Matter Be Comets (At Least Partially?) https://www.universetoday.com/articles/could-the-milky-ways-missing-mass-be-hiding-in-a-swarm-of-interstellar-comets
13:13 Vote results https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/posts
13:41 And Yet It’s Not Spinning https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-galaxy-that-forgot-to-spin
14:45 First light for ngVLA https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-next-generation-very-large-array-prototype-ngvla-gathers-its-first-light
16:42 How Heavy Can a Neutron Star Get https://www.universetoday.com/articles/how-heavy-can-a-neutron-star-get
18:49 More space news
19:19 Final thoughts
Comments (8)
Hi Fraser, I'm a retired South African scientist and I think you are the best space journalist ever. Can you kindly include a report on the Vela Banzi Superstructure that was discovered using the Meerkat telescope in March 2026 (if you have not done so already). It makes me proud to be South African.
Thumbs up for the editor, the spinningpart was nicely done hh
Thank you for the helpful post tab explanation.
This is my Saturday morning ritual. Coffee and Space Bites. Really great way to follow new developments. Good proportion of variety, detail, explanation and opinion. Great writing too!
In the bonus story: Wouldn’t scientists be looking for the delineation separating the largest neutron star and the smallest “stellar remnant” (or whatever the correct term is) black hole? If primordial black holes exist, they could be smaller.
I’ve been to Bezos’ estate as a a creative “contractor”. My project wasn’t going well, and oh boy, he was not happy. I can’t imagine how he reacted when that blew up.
I appreciate you answering where the POSTS are, Who the authors are and etc. That is extremely helpful.
The youtube algorithm is broken. My feed is full of shite I've never shown an interest in. And the poll, no matter how often, or how quickly I get in there, hasn't come up in my feed for at least 3 years. Thank you for your free patreon section. 🙏