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What Will Starship Test on its Next Flight? A 6-Planet System in Perfect Resonance. And Betelgeuse Might Not be Rotating at all.

⛽️ Orbital refuelling video:

https://youtu.be/5EXvEXfY1ts

🚀 Starship IFT-2 Special:

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• 00:00 Intro

• 00:11 Starship refuelling test
  
  

  • https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/12/nasa-wants-to-see-gas-stations-in-space-but-so-far-its-tanks-are-empty/

• 02:28 Perfect resonance
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/164579/a-planetary-system-with-six-sub-neptunes-locked-in-perfect-resonance/

• 04:02 Hypernebula's FRB
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/164642/another-fast-radio-burst-is-coming-from-a-hypernebula-also-hypernebulae-are-a-thing/

• 05:57 Chandrayaan's final surprise
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/164664/for-its-final-trick-chandrayaan-3-brings-its-propulsion-module-to-earth-orbit/

• 07:22 Does Betelgeuse even rotate
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/164602/does-betelgeuse-even-rotate-maybe-not/

• 08:53 Vote results

• 09:31 Intergalactic star in Milky Way's heart
  
  

  • https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/science/2023/20231204-subaru.html

• 10:44 Hubble tension explanation
  
  

  • https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/231-2023

• 12:07 Newsletter

• 12:44 Red Sprites from space
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/164626/red-sprites-are-best-seen-from-space/

• 14:21 Largest iceberg on the run
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/164594/after-stalling-out-for-40-years-the-largest-iceberg-in-the-world-is-on-the-move/

• 15:18 Orbital refuelling
  
  

  • https://youtu.be/5EXvEXfY1ts

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