It’s been 50 years since humans set foot on the Moon. Entire generations were born after this historic accomplishment. But humanity has kept its eyes on the sky and vowed to return. This week marks the end of the beginning of that journey, the completion of Artemis I, sending a human-rated capsule around the Moon and back again. With Orion safely back on Earth, let’s look back at this amazing accomplishment and ponder what comes next. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 0...
Dec 14, 2022•21 min
How far away do constellations start to change? What if The Big Bang was more energetic? Which textbooks are good to learn astronomy? Is a university degree worth it? Why don't we travel through the solar system in straight lines? All this and more in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:35 [Tatooine] How far away do constellations begin to change? 04:36 [Coruscant] Can we see beyond the observable Universe? 10:37 [Hoth]...
Dec 13, 2022•39 min
This is an interview I did with John Michael Godier on his show called Event Horizon. We talked about bringing people back to the Moon. With also discussed the latest space missions, such as JWST and DART, and looked back at how well did 2022 go for NASA. ⚫ Event Horizon Show https://www.youtube.com/@EventHorizonShow 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/_Cr9TSRe71E 🦄 Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/universetoday 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. N...
Dec 12, 2022•51 min
Construction Begins on the Square Kilometer Array. Artemis I’s iconic crescent Earthrise picture. A gamma-ray burst that breaks all the rules. SpaceX launches a new service. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:14 Square Kilometer Array Telescope begins construction https://www.universetoday.com/159011/construction-begins-on-the-square-kilometer-array/ 04:38 Iconic Earthrise image from Artemis 1 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/52548807997/ 06:49 S...
Dec 09, 2022•18 min
Can there be habitable worlds around black holes? Where did Mars get its perchlorates from? How are iron meteorites formed? How will the Sun die? Will China succeed with their Moon landing? All this and more in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:10 Book Club: Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson 03:21 [Tatooine] What happens during Sun's black dwarf stage? 07:26 [Coruscant] Is climate engineering a good idea? 11:24 [Ho...
Dec 07, 2022•39 min
The best images from Artemis so far. More spacecraft are going to the Moon. Researchers have simulated a wormhole. China now has six people on board its space station 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:15 Artemis 1 Images https://www.universetoday.com/158874/nasa-releases-a-stunning-new-supercut-of-the-artemis-i-launch/ https://www.universetoday.com/158945/nasa-releases-another-supercut-of-the-artemis-i-mission-showing-the-launch-and-flight-past-the-moon/ ...
Dec 02, 2022•21 min
Which ones are more invisible: black holes of brown dwarfs? Which cheap telescope should you get? Will the Artemis program start a new era in astronomy? What will happen when Andromeda crashes into the Milky Way? All this and more in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:21 [Tatooine] Will Andromeda stars get younger as it approaches us? 03:54 [Coruscant] How far apart are the stars? 06:53 [Hoth] Can we see the death of a...
Nov 30, 2022•36 min
This time it's different. As always, it's your space questions, but not my answers. I invited my fellow space YouTubers to give their answers to help me with the Q&A. Enjoy! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday Thanks to everyone for joining. Here are all the links to their channels: Scott Manley https://www.youtube.com/c/szyzyg Marcus House https://www.youtube.com/@MarcusHouse Launchpad Astronomy https://www.youtube.com/c/ChristianReady Sabine Hossenfelder https://www...
Nov 28, 2022•33 min
Updates on Artemis I. Predicting an asteroid strike with stunning accuracy. Webb’s view of Titan. New adaptive optics for the Very Large Telescope. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:14 Artemis I updates https://www.universetoday.com/158739/artemis-i-has-completed-its-first-flyby-of-the-moon/ 03:29 NASA predicted an asteroid hit https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-program-predicted-impact-of-small-asteroid-over-ontario-canada 06:55 Webb sees Titan https://w...
Nov 26, 2022•21 min
Is there a chance for life to continue after the Sun eventually explodes? Can we find evidence of potentially habitable planets near white dwarfs, remnants of dead stars? How can future telescopes helo with that? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🐦 Dr Andrew Vanderburg on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/amvanderburg 🕸️ Dr Andrew Vanderburg's Website: https://avanderburg.github.io/ 00:00 Intro 01:30 Exoplanets around white dwarfs 10:06 Dynamics of planetary systems...
Nov 24, 2022•37 min
SLS finally launches to the Moon. SpaceX get another contract from NASA. James Webb gets a protection plan from micrometeoroids. China continues to trash the orbit. Secret space plane returns. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:35 NASA’s plan to protect JWST https://www.universetoday.com/158663/nasa-has-a-plan-to-minimize-future-micrometeoroid-impacts-on-jwst/ 03:06 Firey Hourglass by James Webb https://www.universetoday.com/158673/the-latest-jwst-image-sh...
Nov 18, 2022•19 min
How trees can tell us a story of previous solar storms? What are the chances of having another Carrington-scale event and what would it mean? How can we understand solar storms better? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🐦 Dr Benjamin Pope on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fringetracker 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:49 Meet Dr Benjamin Pope 00:02:53 Tree rings and solar storms 00:20:28 What other ways can we study solar storms 00:24:48 Can lunar samples give an answer 00:26:48 Our ...
Nov 16, 2022•37 min
How hard is it to escape the gravity wells of massive planets for other civilizations? How hard is it to make your own telescopes? How do gas clouds become stars? Can we harvest dark energy after the Heat Death? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📖 Book Club Group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 02:43 [Tatooine] Can we use dark energy after heat death? 07:37 [Coruscant] How close are the stars in the Pillars of Creation...
Nov 16, 2022•41 min
JWST’s MIRI is fully operational again, have astronomers found the first strange star?, the first test of an inflatable heat shield, and SLS just got hit by a Hurricane. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 Anton Petrov's channel https://www.youtube.com/c/whatdamath 📖 Book Club Group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:10 JWST is fixed https://www.universetoday.com/158588/woohoo-jwsts-mid-infrared-instrument-is-fully-op...
Nov 11, 2022•21 min
This in an interview with Dr Brian Keating that happened on his YouTube channel. We talk about how Universe Today runs, what do I want to achieve with it, how science journalism works in general and much more. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📺 VIDEO VERSION and Dr Brian Keating's channel https://youtu.be/YKdBJlw60vQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 25 min
Can we catch the next interstellar visitor? Why do black holes' accretion disks glow? Can we make spaceships out of asteroids? How do we know that dark matter and dark energy actually exist? All that in this week's episode of Q&A with Fraser Cain. And we've started the Book Club! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📖 Book Club Group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 01:39 [Tatooine] Why do accretion disks glow? 06:19 [...
Nov 08, 2022•42 min
Historical data about solar storms carved in trees, and it's a bit worrying. Falcon Heavy's back after 40 months of absence. There's a meteor shower and a total lunar eclipse in the coming days. And JWST gave us yet another version of Pillars of Creation. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:33 Even more Pillars of Creation by Webb https://www.universetoday.com/158384/another-version-of-the-pillars-of-creation-from-webb/ 03:20 Meteor shower and Total Lunar E...
Nov 05, 2022•19 min
What's the current state of James Webb? What were the main technical difficulties and what does the future look like? What comes after JWST and LUVOIR? Will it be possible to ever build a quantum telescope? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 💯 100 Days of Webb: https://youtu.be/lpJ5x4rcH-k 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:36 Current state of JWST science 00:08:42 JWST data release mechanisms 00:16:34 Evolution of the Periodic table 00:19:03 Technical challenges of JWST 00:24:06 Exp...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 19 min
If Moon was created with a big collision, where's the crater? Can we fix the space trash problem? Is doing Astronomy just a waste of money that can be better spent elsewhere? What will come after DART? All this and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 02:01 [Tatooine] Is Astronomy just a waste of money? 07:17 [Coruscant] How do scientists react to being wrong? 09:25 [Hoth] Where's Theia's crater? 11:22 [Naboo] If no Big Rip, what's ...
Nov 01, 2022•44 min
How do we know that certain organisms can survive for millions of years in the conditions of Mars? What do we know about them? And where should we be looking for them on Mars? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:36 What is Deinococcus radiodurans 07:54 How can it live for hundreds of millions of years 15:41 Mars contamination 18:52 Where should we look on Mars 25:45 Panspermia from Mars 29:00 What’s next 32:03 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/SVjydQE...
Oct 30, 2022•34 min
There’s a monster black hole in our backyard (astronomically speaking). Life could survive underground on Mars for hundreds of millions of years. Starlink was hacked to work as GPS. Bad news for Arecibo. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:39 The closed black hole ever discovered https://www.universetoday.com/158176/a-monster-black-hole-has-been-found-right-in-our-backyard-astronomically-speaking/ 03:28 Life can hide deep within Mars https://news.northweste...
Oct 28, 2022•20 min
All the nice space images you see on the web are processed. It's a complex process that takes the raw data from the instruments and turns them into a picture. Judy Schmidt is one of the best in this, so I talked to her about how she does it. Enjoy! 👉 Judy's Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/ 👉 Judy's Twitter: https://twitter.com/spacegeck 👉 Judy's Tutorial: https://youtu.be/8kGPGhbefhI 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 02:44 How did Judy get...
Oct 27, 2022•55 min
How do you clean up astronomy images and what part does Photoshop play in it? Can you make spaceships out of ice found in space? When will SpaceX carry people to Mars? What pet will be the best companion for a long space trip? And even more questions in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:41 [Tatooine] How do you "clean up" astronomical images? 06:41 [Coruscant] Why Moon spin is synced with Earth? 09:31 [Hoth] How many ...
Oct 25, 2022•40 min
Dark Energy will determine how the Universe will die. With the help of Pantheon+, the most detailed survey of Type 1A supernovae, astronomers can understand more details about Dark Energy and the expansion of spacetime. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:50 What is Pantheon+ 13:47 Can we predict Type 1A supernovae 17:07 How to use Type 1A supernovae 23:33 Dark Energy and the Big Rip 27:35 Crisis in Cosmology 42:01 What comes next 45:05 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSI...
Oct 24, 2022•47 min
We continue to introduce the team behind Universe Today. In this episode meet Matt Williams. Fraser and Matt discussed long format writing, stories about the future of space exploration, science fiction novels Matt has written, how not to be too cynical and how to write fast and write good. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 03:33 - Writing science fiction novels inspired by Universe Today 09:12 - Future exploration of the Solar System 12:44 - Fighting cyni...
Oct 23, 2022•36 min
The Pillars of Creation revealed by JWST. It seems like Big Rip isn't happening after all. Black holes twisting spacetime into knots. Jets that seem to be going faster than the speed of light. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 00:38 Pillars of Creation by Webb https://www.universetoday.com/158161/heres-webbs-view-of-the-pillars-of-creation/ 03:41 Big Rip? Maybe Not! https://pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/news/most-precise-accounting-yet-dark-energy-and-dark-matter 0...
Oct 21, 2022•20 min
It has been exactly 100 days since we got the first images from JWST. Here's an overview of all the most important discoveries that the James Webb Space Telescope did since then. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:07 Science objectives for JWST 02:01 Galaxy formation and star evolution 09:15 Exoplanets 13:13 Solar system observations 17:10 Nebulae 19:54 Problems with JWST 22:02 What's next for James Webb 24:13 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/lpJ5x4...
Oct 20, 2022•26 min
We continue to introduce the team behind Universe Today. In this episode meet Andy Tomaswick. Fraser and Andy talked about Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’, interest in Astronomy and how to deal with haters and trolls. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 03:50 - What kind of stories Andy prefers and why 12:47 - How UT the stories are made 16:47 - What started Andy's interest in Astronomy 19:47 - What's next 24:34 - Advice for future writers 25:46 - Dealing with ...
Oct 16, 2022•31 min
DART’s results are in, it hammered Dimorphos, the Moon might just be a big chunk of the Earth, Webb sees bizarre rings around a star, and SLS gets a new launch date… at night. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 00:33 - NASA’s huge mistake on DART results https://www.universetoday.com/158049/success-dart-impact-shortened-asteroids-orbit-time-by-32-minutes/ 02:34 - How did the Moon form https://www.universetoday.com/157958/the-moon-might-be-one-large-chunk-th...
Oct 14, 2022•22 min
How understanding the Sun can change our view of all the other stars in the Universe. What will current instruments and future mission will bring. And what are the mysteries that are waiting to be solved in this field. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 - Intro 01:09 - Meet Colin Stuart 04:00 - Modern studies of the Sun 17:03 - How new solar telescopes will change our understanding of the Sun 25:40 - Biggest mysteries of the Sun 33:01 - Public reaction to science a...
Oct 13, 2022•1 hr
