Eyes for PLATO // Water Ice in Another Star System // Venus Tectonics

Eyes for PLATO // Water Ice in Another Star System // Venus Tectonics

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Fraser Cain
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ESA’s PLATO mission gets its eyes installed, Webb finds water ice in another star system, could it be dark matter and not dark energy that’s evolving over time? And in our longer [Space Bites+] on Patreon, researchers have found that hardy bacteria are evolving to thrive in spacecraft clean rooms.

00:00 Intro
00:20 Plato gets its eyes
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-plato-mission-just-got-dozens-of-cameras-installed
02:05 Cubesat telescope
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-cubesat-to-capture-a-supernovas-uv-spectrum
04:14 Water ice in another star system
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/water-ice-found-in-another-star-system
06:34 Evolving Dark Matter
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/could-dark-matter-be-evolving-over-time-and-not-dark-energy
09:13 Vote results
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09:55 Everything evaporates with Hawking radiation
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/everything-in-the-universe-could-decay-from-hawking-radiation
11:25 Venus tectonics
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/venus-might-have-tectonic-activity-after-all
13:25 Auroras on Jupiter
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/webb-watches-auroras-dance-in-jupiters-atmosphere
15:23 More space news in Guide to Space
16:13 [Space Bites+] bonus story
16:28 Patreon Q&A


Host: Fraser Cain
Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov
Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov


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