NASA Goes Nuclear // 4% Chance of Hitting The Moon // Big Dark Energy Results
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The Dark Energy Survey results are in, an asteroid strike on the Moon would be a boon to science, Mercury might not be totally dead, and NASA continued to test its nuclear rockets. And in Space Bites+ solving the mystery of cosmic expansion close to home.
00:00 Intro
00:15 4% Change of YR4 Hitting the Moon
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/asteroid-2024-yr4-has-a-4-chance-of-hitting-the-moon-heres-why-thats-a-scientific-goldmine
02:15 NASA's nuclear rockets are back
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasa-fires-up-nuclear-future-for-deep-space-travel
04:57 Big results from the Dark Energy Survey
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/dark-energy-survey-data-reveals-the-tighest-estimates-yet-on-cosmic-expansion
10:06 It's ALIVE (maybe)
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/mercury-may-not-be-dead-after-all
11:01 TESS spies 3I/ATLAS
https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatlas/2026/01/27/nasas-tess-reobserves-comet-3i-atlas/
12:06 Vote results
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12:34 Super-Eddington limit black holes
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/this-rapidly-growing-black-hole-is-challenging-super-eddington-accretion
14:37 Circinus Galaxy
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasas-webb-telescope-peers-into-the-heart-of-the-circinus-galaxy
16:24 Huge gravitational lens
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/an-almost-famous-galaxy-cluster-is-the-jwsts-picture-of-the-month
17:12 More space news
Host: Fraser Cain
Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov
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