Curiosity Rover Just Found Massive Fields of Polygons on Mars

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Interview with Vasiliy Kokorev about Little Red Dots https://youtu.be/zoHtCmCbcEU
Interview with Nobel Prize Winner Adam Riess about JWST https://youtu.be/hmJOz9qCk0M
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We have more pictures of the Falcon 9 crater on the moon. Starship arrives at port after landing in the ocean. The Link mission to save Swift has failed. Another reusable Chinese rocket lands. And in Space Bites Plus, a really clever way to redirect an asteroid with a nuclear weapon. All this and more in this week's Space Bites.

00:00 Intro
00:37 The Falcon Crater
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/nasas-lro-images-falcon-9-crater-on-moon-learns-new-details/
03:08 Starship Arrives to a Port
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/its-christmastime-at-spacex-as-company-salvages-starship-from-indian-ocean/
05:33 Mars' Field of Polygons
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/mars-curiosity-rover-discovers-massive-field-of-polygons
07:41 Link Failed. Swift Will Die Soon
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-updates-next-steps-for-commercial-swift-boost-mission/
08:59 China Lands A Rocket (Again)
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/the-floodgates-are-open-after-another-chinese-company-lands-a-reusable-rocket/
10:41 Fastest Star In The Milky Way
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-fastest-star-in-the-milky-way-will-test-relativity
13:21 LRD = Black Hole Star?
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-jwst-little-red-dots-could-be-black-hole-stars
15:47 Early Galaxies Are Bigger Than We Thought
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/whoa-the-jwsts-ancient-galaxies-are-much-more-massive-than-thought
17:56 Three Supermassive Black Holes
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/another-first-for-the-jwst-it-detects-three-supermassive-black-holes-in-the-same-galaxy
19:20 JWST Looks at Callisto
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/jwst-peeks-at-callistos-ancient-scars
20:49 Vote results
21:45 Star Formation is Slowing Down in the Andromeda Galaxy
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/hubble-reveals-that-star-formation-is-slowing-down-in-the-andromeda-galaxy
23:35 Helix Nebula
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/mothra-shows-us-a-star-being-recycled-in-the-helix-nebula
24:38 Carina Nebula
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/webb-captures-the-treasure-chest-at-the-heart-of-the-carina-nebula
25:49 Lion Nebula
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/webb-captures-clearest-image-yet-of-the-lion-nebula
26:33 More space news
28:03 Final thoughts


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