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 | JWST's Biggest Mystery Might Be Finally Solved
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Could we even find von Neumann probes in the solar system? Could alien megastructures be raining down on the moon? Do we finally have an explanation for little red dots?
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 | So, We Built a Moon Base. What's Next? | Q&A 433
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What does a nation gain from a continuous Moon presence? Will it ever make sense to mine asteroids? What question should we ask aliens and what should we tell them first? And in Q&A+, don't believe everything you see.
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 | What Will We Eat in Space?
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We've seen a lot of depiction of the future of food in space in sci-fi. People eat food in space every day. But with future Moon base missions and trips to Mars, food will have to evolve as well. Which way will it go? Finding out in this interview.
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📜 From production to food systems: A systems-level review of drivers, requirements, and integration for Lunar and Martian food systems
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 | How to Break Away from The Solar System? | Q&A 432
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How will future historians see space exploration? Did NASA handle well the 3I/ATLAS story? How fast do you really need to go to break free from the solar system? And in Q&A+, some sci-fi books recommendation.
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 | NASA Made A Bold Decision About Artemis 3. It's Not What We Expected
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Meet the crew for Artemis III, Weighing a dormant black hole, evidence for a long-gone early planet, how robot probes could take over the galaxy, and in Space Bites+, scanning 3I/ATLAS for alien signals.
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11:44 Observing Protoplanetary Disk’s Rotation
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13:16 Cosmic Web Like You've Never Seen it Before
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15:14 David Kipping Has a New Take on the Existence of Advanced Life
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 | How Bad Is Crashing Rockets in the Ocean, Really? | Q&A 431
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 | What Happens to the Moon Race Now? | Q&A 430
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With the New Glenn explosion and Starship having problems of its own, what is a realistic setback for NASA's Moon base plans? Do they need to look into alternative propulsion methods? And in Q&A+, will Europe ever catch up in space domain?
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 | This Bizarre Galaxy Doesn't Spin. We Now Know Why
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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.
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00:14 Might Be Not Than Bad (Still Pretty Bad)
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04:43 Roman Has a Launch Date
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06:19 Another Take on Early SMBHs
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08:43 Why Galaxies Stop Forming Stars
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10:23 Could Dark Matter Be Comets (At Least Partially?)
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13:41 And Yet It’s Not Spinning
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 | Things I Changed My Mind About After 27 Years of Space Journalism
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 | What Cool Payloads Will Starship Launch? | Q&A 428
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What could Starship launch with its 9 meter faring? How can we possibly be ready for Mars? What happens with information in a black hole? And in Q&A+, when can we be confident that Planet 9 doesn't exist?
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00:24 [@EdSceptic-y2e] Biosphere 2 didn't work on our hospitable planet so how are they really gonna do it on the utterly inhospitable moon or Mars?
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 | DISASTER for NASA and Blue Origin // Primordial Black Hole Candidate // Starship Flight 12
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New Glenn Explodes, NASA leans in on a moon base. Starship makes its 12th flight. Have astronomers found a primordial black hole? And in Space Bites Plus, flying a plane through a rocket plume to measure its pollution.
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00:13 New Glenn explodes
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02:22 NASA Moon base plans
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05:19 Starship Flight 12
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08:40 Primordial black hole candidate
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11:37 Early SMBH
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14:32 Ultra faint galaxy
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16:39 Vote results
17:10 TESS sky map
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19:00 Triple star system
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