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[Q&A] Dust VS Interstellar Travel, Nuclear Reactors on the Moon, My Favourite Lagrange Point
Will dust make interstellar travel impossible? Is Oumuamua unique in its weird cigar-like shape? How many nuclear reactors will we need on the Moon? …
1 year ago
[Q&A] Vera Rubin & Planet 9 SPECIAL
Will there be a northern hemisphere version of Vera Rubin? Or maybe we can put one straight in space? Can Vera Rubin detect alien spacecraft if they …
1 year ago
[Interview] Revealing the Secrets of Cosmic Dark Ages
What are the cosmic dark ages and what do we know about them? Why are the so hard to study? How can the Dark Age Explorer help with it and why does i…
1 year ago
[Space Bites] A THIRD Interstellar Object // Pack of Quasars // Tianwen-2 Looks Back
Astronomers have discovered a third interstellar object. NASA missions are getting prepared to be shut down. The most massive white dwarf has been fo…
1 year ago
[Q&A] Absent Planets from Our Solar System, Interstellar Black Holes, Non-Conventional Theories
Which type of planet that's not in the Solar System is the most interesting? Can we detect an interstellar black hole? Should science journalists rep…
1 year ago
[Q&A] Confidence in SpaceX, New Pale Blue Dot, A Day on Gas Giants
Did the recent streak of Starship failures change my confidence is SpaceX's future success? How can we measure the rotation of gas giant planets? Is …
1 year, 1 month ago
[Space Bites] Vera Rubin's ONLINE // Huge LISA Update // Record-Breaking JWST Exoplanet
The first pictures from Rubin are finally here, construction begins on the LISA mission, Webb directly images a Saturn-sized exoplanet, and do pulsar…
1 year, 1 month ago
[Q&A] SMBH Images, Primordial Gravitational Waves, Terraforming Tidally-Locked Planets
Does terraforming a tidally-locked planet make any sense? Are the images we got of our galaxy's supermassive black hole fake? Can we observe gravitat…
1 year, 1 month ago
[Q&A] JWST Image Artefacts, TRAPPIST-1 Planets from the Surface, Liquid Glass Space Telescopes
Why doesn't NASA remove the artefacts from JWST images? How would TRAPPIST-1 planets look from their surface? Why don't they just form space telescop…
1 year, 1 month ago
[Interview] Improving Nuclear Power Generators for Future Space Missions
Solar power has its limits. Some space missions will need an alternative source of power like RTGs. How can we make them better? Which fuel is optima…
1 year, 1 month ago