Artificial Solar Eclipses // Mother of All Meteor Storms // Vera Rubin's First Light

Artificial Solar Eclipses // Mother of All Meteor Storms // Vera Rubin's First Light

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Fraser Cain
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A new mission can make solar eclipses on demand, what do supernovae and stellar flybys do to Earth’s climate, how asteroid 2024 YR4 will make the mother of all meteor showers, and Starship 36 explodes during testing. And on Space Bites+, how we could use a space elevator to extract water from Ceres.

00:00 Intro
00:25 Artificial solar eclipse with Proba-3
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/esas-new-mission-can-see-a-solar-eclipse-every-day
01:55 PUNCH sees a solar erruption
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasas-punch-mission-captured-images-of-a-huge-solar-eruption
03:08 Could stellar flybys change Earth's climate
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/have-stellar-flybys-altered-earths-climate-in-the-past
05:43 Supernovae changing Earth's climate
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/supernova-explosions-changed-earths-climate-and-shaped-humanitys-history
08:19 Mother of all meteor showers
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-potential-danger-to-satellites-due-to-ejecta-from-a-2032-lunar-impact-by-asteroid-2024-yr4
10:18 Vote results
10:57 China's Mengzhou abort test
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/china-tests-the-crew-escape-for-its-new-lunar-capsule
12:36 Honda tests a reusable rocket
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/honda-yes-honda-tests-a-reusable-rocket
13:42 Starship explodes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71AwkBt3_ts&ab_channel=NASASpaceflight
15:46 Vera Rubin's first light
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-first-images-from-vera-rubin-are-about-to-drop
17:50 More space news
18:54 Bonus story
19:12 Vancouver island

Host: Fraser Cain
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Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov


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