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Universe Today Podcast

Universe Today Podcast

By: Fraser Cain
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Public feed with [Space Bites+], [Q&A+], [Interview+] and other episodes. Free for everyone.Copyright Fraser Cain Astronomy Astronomy & Space Science Science
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  • [Q&A+] Understanding Universe's Scale, Mars Missions, Colonizing Gas Giant Moons
    Apr 16 2026

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 19:38

    Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/N1yFECYcRYs

    How can you wrap your head around the true scale of the Universe? Will humanity ever colonize gas giant moons? Can ISS missions compare to future Mars missions? And in Q&A+, did JWST produce any good science papers?

    • 00:00 Intro

    • 00:25 [@chiroptile2881] Will humanity ever colonize the gas giants' moons?

    • 04:32 [@nickstokes9386] How can you comprehend the scale of the Universe?

    • 08:16 [@SantiagoT75] Is space less beautiful for our human eyes?

    • 11:32 [@nephilim20111] Do ISS missions compare to future Mars missions?

    • 19:38 [@derrickdibble3860] Any good papers been released from JWST?

    • 22:36 Interviews with scientists

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    25 mins
  • [Interview+] Extracting Even More Gravitational Waves from The Pulsar Timing Array
    Apr 16 2026

    BONUS PART STARTS AT 27:40

    Watch here (with no ads and a bonus part) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nX5Ou28VGwQ

    LISA Interview https://youtu.be/AUS8A9J3d5g
    LIGO Interview https://youtu.be/_jmQVH9L8vI

    🟣 Guest: Dr. Chiara Mingarelli https://www.chiaramingarelli.com/

    📜 Fingerprints of Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Pulsar Timing Arrays https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.05722

    • 00:00 Intro

    • 01:41 Pulsar Timing Array

    • 09:27 Detecting individual mergers

    • 18:31 What's next?

    • 27:40 Alternative ways of detecting black holes

    • 41:14 Final thoughts

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    33 mins
  • [Q&A+] Eliminating Night Darkness, Voyagers' Lifetime, JWST's Planets
    Apr 14 2026

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:57

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    Can we eliminate darkness at night with an orbital reflector? How long do the Voyagers have left? Why didn't JWST inspect some of the potential ocean worlds? And in Q&A+, could we see the Great Attractor unobscured?

    • 00:00 Start

    • 00:26 [@Asmo-RL] Why are Mars and Venus un the habitable zone though clearly uninhabited?

    • 03:52 [@GigaSigma1] Can we put a reflector in orbit to eliminate darkness at night?

    • 07:03 [@MLBrilliance] Can we see the Great Attractor unobscured?

    • 11:01 [@bigglestintin] ow long will voyager 2's power last?

    • 15:57 [@everythingcompute] Why didn't JWST look at Kepler 22B?

    • 20:11 Outro

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    24 mins
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