Starship Returns // More Evidence for Betelbuddy // Results from Chang’e-6 Moon Rocks
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Starship 13 flies and lands softly in the ocean. Astronomers see the companion star for Betelgeuse. A comet spun down, reversed direction and might tear itself apart. Did Webb see primordial Little Red Dots? On Space Bites+, measuring the heat working its way out of Io. All this and more in this week's Space Bites.
00:00 Intro
00:22 They Are Recovering The Starship
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spacexs-starship-deploys-starlink-satellites-during-13th-flight-test
03:45 More Evidence for Bettelbuddy
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2611/
05:39 Bad News, Everyone
https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/2026/07/28/commissioning-update-for-spacecraft-to-boost-nasas-swift/
07:22 CAPSTONE-2 for Moon Docking
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/armd/nasa-announces-new-spacecraft-technology-demonstration-mission-at-moon/
09:06 Chang’e-6 Rocks
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/change-6-samples-reveal-how-earth-slows-solar-wind-striking-moons-near-side
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/samples-of-lunar-rock-are-leading-scientists-to-rethink-the-moons-history
12:05 Self-Destructing Comet
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spin-reversing-comet-may-face-self-destruction
13:31 Vote results
14:13 Little Red Dots
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-distant-primordial-object-may-be-a-newborn-little-red-dot
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/little-red-dots-could-be-ancient-globular-clusters-each-dominated-by-a-super-massive-star
17:40 Almost an Exomoon
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-first-confirmed-exo-satellite-challenges-our-definitions-of-planets-and-moons
19:02 More Space News
20:08 Final thoughts
Host: Fraser Cain
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