Vera Rubin Finally Delivers Its First Big Discovery
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Vera Rubin finds a new dwarf planet, while Webb sees dwarf planets colliding in another system, Valles Marineris might still be volcanically active, and Hera gets its first picture of Didymus and Dimorphus. And on Space Bites+, a planet that shouldn't have an atmosphere, but does.
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00:00 Intro
00:21 Rubin’s First Dwarf Planet Candidate
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-rubin-observatory-finds-its-first-dwarf-planet-candidate
02:56 Colliding Dwarf Planets
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/colliding-dwarf-planets-created-a-cats-tail-1000-astronomical-units-long
05:54 Dead Planets Orbiting a Dead Star
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/dead-planets-orbiting-a-dead-star
08:54 Largest Canyon in The Solar System is Still Active
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-largest-canyon-in-the-solar-system-is-still-tectonically-active
11:23 Even More Evidence of The BetelBuddy
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/betelgeuse-is-disturbed-by-its-companion-star
13:17 Vote results
13:43 NASA’s Next UV Telescope
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasas-new-uv-space-telescope-will-launch-in-2031
17:38 Potential Targets For The Lazuli Private Telescope
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/27-exoplanet-targets-for-the-worlds-first-private-space-telescope
20:07 Hera’s Almost There
https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/First_light_Hera_resolves_two_asteroids_instead_of_one
21:32 More space news
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-brief-ish-history-of-meti-part-i-early-ideas-and-experiments
23:19 Bonus story
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/this-oddbal-reflective-lava-world-is-challenging-to-understand
24:15 Final thoughts
Host: Fraser Cain
Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov
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