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TOI-561 b: Ultra-Hot Exoplanet Has Impossible Atmosphere
Season 2 Episode 291
The James Webb Space Telescope just discovered something that shouldn't exist—a thick atmosphere on a hellish magma world orbiting so close to its star it should have been stripped bare billions of y…
Published on 12 hours ago
Black Hole Winds at 60,000 km/s: First Real-Time Observation of Galactic Super-Eruptions
Season 2 Episode 290
For the first time ever, astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole throwing a cosmic tantrum in real-time.
Scientists watched as a black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 unleashed winds screaming at 60…
Published on 2 days, 7 hours ago
Is the Universe Asymmetrical? Scientists Find Cosmic Dipole Anomaly That Breaks Physics
Season 2 Episode 289
Is the universe lopsided? New research is shaking the foundations of cosmology by revealing a cosmic dipole anomaly—a troubling mismatch between ancient background radiation and the distribution of d…
Published on 4 days, 8 hours ago
Enceladus Life Search: Saturn's Moon Shows Signs of Alien Biology
Season 2 Episode 288
Could alien life exist beneath the icy surface of Saturn's moon? New analysis of Cassini spacecraft data reveals that Enceladus harbors the essential ingredients for life.
Scientists studying plumes e…
Published on 6 days, 7 hours ago
Finding Aliens by Studying Fireflies: Rethinking the Search for ETs
Season 2 Episode 288
Scientists are rethinking the search for extraterrestrial intelligence by studying firefly bioluminescence instead of only looking for human-like radio signals. Traditional SETI efforts suffer from a…
Published on 1 week, 1 day ago
SPHEREx Maps the Entire Sky in 3D Infrared
Season 2 Episode 286
NASA's SPHEREx telescope has created the first complete 3D infrared sky map using 102 wavelengths invisible to human eyes. This revolutionary dataset tracks galaxy evolution and the chemical building…
Published on 1 week, 3 days ago
Superkilonova: The Dual Cosmic Explosion
Season 2 Episode 285
A baffling cosmic event, designated AT2025ulz, was detected by LIGO and Virgo and is now considered a candidate for a never-before-seen phenomenon: a superkilonova. This oddball event, which took pla…
Published on 1 week, 5 days ago
Mapping the Magellanic Clouds: The 1001MC Stellar Survey
Season 2 Episode 284
This episode explores a new five-year astronomical survey of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds using the 4MOST spectrograph on the VISTA Telescope.
Led by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Po…
Published on 2 weeks ago
James Webb Reveals a Hidden Supermassive Black Hole in the Early Universe
Season 2 Episode 283
New James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal that a seemingly ordinary young galaxy, seen just 800 million years after the Big Bang, hides a rapidly growing, dust-enshrouded supermassive black …
Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Record-Breaking Gamma-Ray Burst Near Light Speed
Season 2 Episode 282
Discover the fastest cosmic explosion ever recorded! We explore GRB 230307A, a gamma-ray burst detected by NASA's Fermi Space Telescope that reached 99.99998% of light speed—a breakthrough led by Uni…
Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago