Crazy-Spinning Asteroid // NASA’s Budget is Back // Medical Evacuation from ISS

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Rubin spots a rapidly spinning asteroid, Congress restores NASA’s funding, Crew 11 is back on Earth for a medical emergency, the Pandora Space Telescope launches. And in Space Bites+, two new exoplanets around a red dwarf could help push the habitable zone out.

00:00 Intro
00:15 Rubin Discovers A Record-Breaking Asteroid
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/rubin-observatory-spots-fastest-spinning-asteroid-ever
02:15 NASA Budget Is Safe For Another Year
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/nasas-science-budget-wont-be-a-train-wreck-after-all/
04:57 First Ever Medical Evacuation from The ISS
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasa-to-return-spacex-crew-ahead-of-schedule
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/follow-spacexs-returning-crew-11-mission-wednesday-night
07:04 Pandora Launched
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Ee8Z-sbSU
09:09 Vote Results
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09:38 A Supernova That Shouldn’t Exist
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-supernova-that-shouldnt-exist
11:43 Solving the Mystery of Blue Flashes
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/solving-the-mystery-of-blue-flashes
14:06 Cool Space Images
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/young-stellar-objects-are-prominent-in-a-new-hubble-image
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/when-baby-stars-throw-tantrums
16:54 More space news
17:33 AI as the Great Filter
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Host: Fraser Cain
Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov
Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov


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