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A piece of the ISS smashed into a house in Florida. Evidence for the first stars in the Universe. NASA is having to rethink its Mars Sample Return mission.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 00:14 Chunk from ISS hits a house in Florida
  
  

  • https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2024/04/15/nasa-completes-analysis-of-recovered-space-object/

• 01:45 Did JWST find Pop III stars?
  
  

  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00953

• 04:46 Problems with Mars Sample Return
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/166658/the-current-mars-sample-return-mission-isnt-going-to-work-nasa-is-going-back-to-the-drawing-board/

• 07:00 Closest black hole
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/166669/the-milky-ways-most-massive-stellar-black-hole-is-only-2000-light-years-away/

• 08:26 Vote results

• 09:20 Moon dust shield
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/166615/nasa-is-building-an-electrodynamic-shield-to-deal-with-all-that-dust-on-the-moon-and-mars/

• 11:18 Patreon

• 12:29 Hint for an exomoon
  
  

  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1041117

• 14:27 Mind-blowing eclipse video
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/166677/the-solar-eclipse-like-weve-never-seen-it-before/

• 15:16 More space news

• 16:07 Mars sample return

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