[Space Bites] INCREDIBLE Discovery From Lucy // Most Powerful Ion Engine // Slime Mold Universe

Lucy made an incredible discovery. One of the strangest exoplanetary systems ever seen. Understanding the Universe with slime mold. And the most powerful ion engine passes the test.

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00:00 Intro

00:15 Dinkinesh's contact binary moon

https://www.universetoday.com/164152/what-wow-that-new-asteroid-image-from-lucy-just-got-even-more-interesting/

01:36 Polar Circumbinary Planet Disk

https://www.universetoday.com/164077/this-is-a-first-an-exoplanet-in-a-polar-circumbinary-disc-surrounding-two-stars/

03:37 JWST sees CO2 on a centaur

https://www.universetoday.com/164066/jwst-detects-carbon-dioxide-in-a-centaur-for-the-first-time/

05:28 Slime mold and the Universe

https://www.universetoday.com/164120/what-can-slime-mold-teach-us-about-the-universe/

07:23 Vote results

https://youtu.be/xubOa8xR2lw

07:54 Can Gaia detect gravitational waves

http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03474

09:37 Most powerful ion engine test

https://www.universetoday.com/164072/the-most-powerful-ion-engine-ever-built-passes-the-test/

11:30 Newsletter

https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter

12:13 Euclid's first images https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_s_first_images_the_dazzling_edge_of_darkness

13:46 Water Map

15:00 Apple Podcasts reviews

17:22 More on asteroids and space exploration

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