Universe Today Podcasts With Fraser Cain
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The Guide to Space is a series of space and astronomy poddcasts by Fraser Cain, publisher of Universe Today
Episodios
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[Interview] Axions or Not. What's Hiding Behind Dark Matter
08/07/2023 Duración: 42minBefore finding out what is dark matter we might first need to find what it isn't. In this interview Dr Keir Rogers explains what do we currently know about dark matter, what can we find in the near future and how the upcoming astronomy instruments might help us with all that.
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[Space Bites] Big JWST Discoveries // 63-Day Silence for Ingenuity // Lensing Gravitational Waves
07/07/2023 Duración: 22minSo much James Webb discoveries. A planet survives after being consumed by a red giant star. Euclid successfully launches. And gravitational lensing gravitational waves.
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[Q&A] Submarine for Titan, Planets Changing Size, Even Bigger LIGO
05/07/2023 Duración: 31minWhen does a Lagrange point stop being one? Can we make LIGO even bigger? Do planets change their size over time? Can we build a submarine to go to Titan? What's next for the TRAPPIST-1 system? All this and more in this week's Q&A!
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[Bonus] Robo Eels Exploring Water Worlds, NASA UAP Study, AGI to Take Over
02/07/2023 Duración: 59minThis is an episode of John Michael Godier's show Event Horizon. We explore the extraordinary idea of robo-eels, groundbreaking aquatic automatons designed to unlock the mysteries of water worlds like Enceladus and Europa. Then, we shift gears to discuss NASA's riveting UAP study, exploring unidentified aerial phenomena and their implications for our understanding of the universe. Finally, John and Fraser get into the ever changing realm of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and contemplate its potential impact on our future. ⚫️ Event Horizon: https://www.youtube.com/@EventHorizonShow
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[Space Bites] Gravitational Waves Background Announced // Planets in The Oort Cloud // Big Starship Update
01/07/2023 Duración: 21minGravitational wave background of the Universe. A map of the Milky Way in neutrinos. More new discoveries from JWST. A major update for Starship.
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[Interview] Vera Rubin Telescope Will Revolutionise Astronomy. Here's Why
27/06/2023 Duración: 01h02minThe Vera Rubin Observatory will soon come online. It will be a game-changer for Astronomy. How exactly will it happen and how it will help SETI? We're trying to find the answers with my guest, Dr James Davenport from The University of Washington.
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[Q&A] Dark Matter Evidence, Oort Cloud Shape, Size of Lagrange Points
27/06/2023 Duración: 35minWill LIGO detect gravitational waves when Betelgeuse explodes? Why are scientists so sure about dark matter? Could Betelgeuse become a black hole after it goes supernova? Why is the Oort cloud a sphere, not a disk? What determines the size of Lagrange points? All this and more in this week's Q&A!
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[Space Bites] Ancient Echo from Sgr A* // Lightning on Jupiter // TRAPPIST-1c by James Webb
23/06/2023 Duración: 24minJWST Looks at the Next Planet in the TRAPPIST system. Could we detect colliding supermassive black holes. Hot Jupiters that flew too close to their stars.
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[Interview] Simulating The Universe with Supercomputers
21/06/2023 Duración: 51minSupercomputer simulations of the Universe are a huge part of modern astronomy. In this interview with Dr Andrew Pontzen we discuss, how exactly are these simulations done, what's the future of this industry, how it will shape the James Webb era and is it possible that we live in a simulation after all.
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[Q&A] Strange Isotopes in Supernovae, External Gravitational Lenses, Existence of The Present
20/06/2023 Duración: 37minWhich astronomical events can only be seen with gravitational waves? Is there enough water on the Moon for a permanent colony? Can we use stars other than the Sun as gravitational lenses? Does the present even exist or are we always living in the past? All this and more in this week's Q&A session.
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[Interview] Can Axions Be Dark Matter?
17/06/2023 Duración: 57minWe still don't know what is Dark Matter. We can see its effects but we don't know what it's made of. However, with their latest publication, Dr Amruth Alfred suggests that dark matter should be made of axions (which are one of the candidates among other particles). Paper by Dr Amruth Alfred and his team: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01943-9
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[Space Bites] Another Enceladus Breakthrough, Crystallising White Dwarf, 19-Hour Earth Day
16/06/2023 Duración: 24minA white dwarf is starting to turn into a diamond. Another key element for life found in the plumes at Enceladus. The Parker Solar Probe discovers the source of the fast solar wind. All this and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites.
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[Q&A] Solar Wind Slowing Down Planets, Nuking the Sun, Exomoon Reflection
14/06/2023 Duración: 30minIs nuking the Sun a good way to disarm the Earth? Should they rebuild the Arecibo observatory? How will SpaceX Starship change spaceflight? Could we see a reflection of an exomoon in a planet's ocean? Can a heavy suit help fight lower gravity effects on Moon and Mars? All this and more in this week's Q&A.
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[Space Bites] James Webb Deep Field, Betelgeuse's Doing It Again, Starliner Fail
09/06/2023 Duración: 19minBetelgeuse is unexpectedly bright, and update of JWST’s Deep Field program, and more problems with the Boeing Starliner.
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[Q&A] True Size of the Universe, Inescapable Planets, Magnetic Poles Reversal
06/06/2023 Duración: 39minWas the Universe ever the size of an orange or a basketball? Can life exist on planets that cannot be escaped? Can the asteroid belt ever produce a new planet? Is the CMB slowly changing over time? What happens at the very edge of the observable Universe? All this and more in this week's Q&A!
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[Space Bites] Huge Discoveries by James Webb // Fire In Space // Quantum Squeezing
02/06/2023 Duración: 22minLots of new discoveries from JWST. How a software bug killed HAKUTO-R. Kepler’s last ever exoplanets.
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NASA Selected Blue Origin // Galaxies Getting More Impossible // First (Exo)Radiation Belt
26/05/2023 Duración: 19minNASA chooses another lander for Artemis V. The first radiation belt ever seen outside the Solar System. And those impossible galaxies might be even more massive than we thought.
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[Interview] What Did NASA Discover With TESS' First Complete Mission
25/05/2023 Duración: 54minIt's already been five years since NASA's TESS mission was launched. Now it completed its first full mission observing the sky and hunting for exoplanets. In this interview, I'm talking with Nicole Colon from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center about the results from TESS and what can come next for the mission.
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[Q&A] Did The Universe Come From Nothing? Can Stars Be Alive? What's The Best Nebula?
23/05/2023 Duración: 34minCould stars and planets be living organisms? Is LHC dangerous for the Earth? How do neutrino detectors work? Does the Big Bang suggest that everything around us came from nothing? What will happen if we create a black hole on Earth? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A.
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[Interview] Aliens' Perspective of Technosignatures from Earth
23/05/2023 Duración: 51minIf an extra-terrestrial civilisation saw the Earth, what technosignatures could they pick up? What could they learn about life on our planet and human civilisation in particular? I'm discussing that with Dr Michael Garrett who is the Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.