[Space Bites+] Starship Returns // More Evidence for Betelbuddy // Results from Chang’e-6 Moon Rocks
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BONUS PART STARTS AT: 19:02
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Starship 13 flies and lands softly in the ocean. Astronomers see the companion star for Betelgeuse. A comet spun down, reversed direction and might tear itself apart. Did Webb see primordial Little Red Dots? On Space Bites+, measuring the heat working its way out of Io. All this and more in this week's Space Bites.
Interviews mentioned
LRDs with Dr. John Chisholm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4caOfg5K8Is
LRDs with Dr. Vasily Kokorev https://youtu.be/zoHtCmCbcEU
OBLIVION NIAC with Jeff Nosanov https://youtu.be/U6fZ2GryNhU
Timecodes
00:00 Intro
00:22 They Are Recovering The Starship https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spacexs-starship-deploys-starlink-satellites-during-13th-flight-test
03:45 More Evidence for Bettelbuddy https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2611/
05:39 Bad News, Everyone https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/2026/07/28/commissioning-update-for-spacecraft-to-boost-nasas-swift/
07:22 CAPSTONE-2 for Moon Docking https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/armd/nasa-announces-new-spacecraft-technology-demonstration-mission-at-moon/
09:06 Chang’e-6 Rocks https://www.universetoday.com/articles/change-6-samples-reveal-how-earth-slows-solar-wind-striking-moons-near-side https://www.universetoday.com/articles/samples-of-lunar-rock-are-leading-scientists-to-rethink-the-moons-history
12:05 Self-Destructing Comet https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spin-reversing-comet-may-face-self-destruction
13:31 Vote results 14:13 Little Red Dots https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-distant-primordial-object-may-be-a-newborn-little-red-dot https://www.universetoday.com/articles/little-red-dots-could-be-ancient-globular-clusters-each-dominated-by-a-super-massive-star
17:40 Almost an Exomoon https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-first-confirmed-exo-satellite-challenges-our-definitions-of-planets-and-moons
19:02 BONUS Story https://www.universetoday.com/articles/juno-measures-the-heat-below-ios-restless-surface
21:36 Final thoughts
Comments (3)
Both of the little red dot videos that Fraser mentions are brilliant!
Super cool show!! Very lucky to have real professionals and expert knowledge shared about the latest news 🗞️
Hey Fraser! (or whoever publishes this to Patreon), thank you so much for keeping us up to date every week on Space Bites! Seeing a new episode drop always makes me happy. I do have a suggestion for a small improvement though, and that is if you could put a link to the vote in the description of the video? YouTube doesn't show me any of your content because I watch it all here on Patreon, and these votes annoyingly don't show up in the subscriptions feed either. I love the votes, and I of course could manually go to your channels post tab every time, but it would be far easier having the link in the description like it used to be for some time. Hope you could bring that back!