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We finally learn the true color of Neptune. Vulcan succeeds while Peregrine fails. Delays for Artemis missions. A rocket that eats itself for more thrust.

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🚀 I Finally Watched a Rocket Launch: https://youtu.be/XpQ_MbwNdQA

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• 00:00 Intro

• 00:14 True Color of Neptune
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/165118/uranus-and-neptune-are-actually-pretty-much-the-same-color/

• 01:52 Diamond Rain on Ice Giants
  
  

  • https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2024-01-08-diamond-rain-icy-planets-offers-clues-magnetic-field-mysteries

• 03:20 Vulcan succeeds, Peregrine fails
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/165127/the-first-launch-of-ulas-vulcan-goes-smoothly-but-theres-a-problem-with-its-lander-payload/

• 05:42 Artemis 2 and 3 officially delayed
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/165158/nasa-is-pushing-back-its-moon-landings-to-2026/

• 07:50 MMX got delayed too

• 09:13 OSIRIS-REx samples unboxing is over
  
  

  • https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/2024/01/11/nasas-osiris-rex-team-clears-hurdle-to-access-remaining-bennu-sample/

• 10:15 Self-eating rocket
  
  

  • https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1033908_en.html

• 11:52 Vote results
  
  

  • https://youtu.be/GlvqhST1wOs

• 12:36 The faintest galaxy
  
  

  • https://greenbankobservatory.org/astronomers-accidentally-discover-dark-primordial-galaxy/

• 13:40 Titan's "magic" islands
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/165108/titans-magic-islands-could-be-floating-blobs-of-organic-solids/

• 14:53 Support Universe Today

• 15:39 Brown dwarf aurora
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/165156/a-solo-brown-dwarf-found-with-auroras/

• 16:57 Giant star eruption

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