[Space Bites+] NASA's Insane Rescue Mission With A Crazy Budget
BONUS STORY STARTS AT 18:34
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A mission to rescue a falling space telescope. More uses for the solar gravitational lens. The Euclid Space Telescope images the center of the Milky Way. And in Space Bites+, a star ate a planet.
00:00 Intro
00:15 Rescue mission for a falling telescope https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonianmag/this-week-nasa-will-launch-a-first-of-its-kind-mission-to-save-a-space-telescope-that-has-observed-the-sky-for-nearly-22-years-180988998/
03:40 More Uses for the Solar Gravitational Lens https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-solar-gravitational-lens-could-map-white-dwarfs-and-black-holes
07:43 Six Galaxies Become One https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-jwst-spies-six-galaxies-becoming-one
09:44 Dying by the Wrong Rules https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-star-dying-by-the-wrong-rules
11:40 Vote results
12:07 The Secret of Early Galaxy Growth https://www.universetoday.com/articles/cosmic-dawn-fuel-discovery-unlocks-early-galaxy-growth-secrets-vla-fuel-discovery
13:54 The First Pair of Sibling Supernova Remnants https://www.universetoday.com/articles/this-is-the-first-pair-of-sibling-supernova-remnants
16:07 Euclid Captures Milky Way’s Bulge https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/ESA_s_Euclid_captures_the_Milky_Way_s_crowded_heart
18:34 Bonus story https://www.universetoday.com/articles/astronomers-find-stellar-evidence-of-an-engulfed-planet
20:22 More space news
21:00 Bad naming in Astronomy
Comments (10)
Can you tell me how to change your email synopsis to dark mode? The only reason I'm not signed up...thanks ;)
The story about excess lithium being found in a star that had eaten a planet sounds like it should be the plot of a sci-fi novel where a doomed civilisation on the eaten planet have to find a way off the planet and into space. Sort of like Next Generation Inner Light episode or perhaps 3 body problem TV series
I dont understand anything 🥲
I really hate the idea that the name for something has to be a perfect description of that thing. Like, let’s just take all the words in the Wikipedia article, and call it that.
Are we taking suggestions for better names for things? Maybe put the best suggestions in a poll?
I'll start, in the vein of "pedestrian" and "equestrian" we could use "astrestrian"?
Zelda is easily your best patron
If we can see planets through their clouds using a gravitational lens at 1000 X 1000 pixels, could we detect roads/civilization? Can space aliens on distant planets with even better telescopes someday see people here on Earth, walking, picnicking, loving on clear days? https://garywillkreie.com/track/4844172/long-as-stars-shine
Most civilisation stuff doesn't show at that 1000x1000 resolution of a planet, just enough to cause arguments, but nighttime city lights show up really well at that resolution, which is a tantalising thought.
How far away is a Gamma Ray Burst dangerous, presuming we are in the path of the jet?