Universe Today Podcast

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Fast Radio Bursts can be a key to dramatically improving cosmic distance measurements. A NIAC project suggests using it for a global cosmic positioning system. But at the same time it could be used to finally resolve the Hubble Tension. How will it work? Finding out in this interview.
🟣 Guest: Dr. Matt McQuinn
📜 NIAC project report: Solar system-scale VLBI to dramatically improve cosmological distance measurements https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.09141
📜 Solar System-scale Interferometry on Fast Radio Bursts Could Measure Cosmic Distances with Subpercent Precision https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acc947
00:00 Intro

02:12 What are Fast Radio Bursts

09:07 Measuring distances with FRBs

18:00 How to improve the accuracy of measurements

24:60 Cosmic Positioning System

43:11 Alternative use cases

51:18 Current obsessions

52:23 Final thoughts

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:00
🎬 Top-100 Sci-Fi/Space Movies https://www.patreon.com/posts/153930141
📺 Top-100 Sci-Fi/Space TV Series https://www.patreon.com/posts/153997969
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Which animal would be the make the best space pet? Who has priority access to Vera Rubin’s data? Is there a limit on how many telescopes can we put in a Lagrange point? And in Q&A+, what’s the current progress with spacesuits?
Full livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/s9XkvvAyx9g
00:00 Intro

00:25 [@churchdiscography] What kind of animal would make a good space pet?

01:30 [@jamesmnguyen] Do fish care about living in a microgravity environment?

02:22 [@trickymick] What is the process for flagging and following up on objects reported by the Vera Rubin?

06:26 [@IARRCSim] Do US scientists have priority for Vera Rubin's data?

07:17 [@Frosty.Winnipeg] Could a telescope on Earth use the moon as a star shade?

08:49 [@Nomad77ca] Is there a limit to how many telescopes we could put out at L1?

10:01 [@terryhardaway3285] Did 3I/ATLAS have any effect on objects in the Kuiper belt?

15:00 [@kasieream1248] Will spacesuits ever change much?

16:52 Outro

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The Habitable Worlds Observatory is our ultimate tool to see an Earth-sized world around a Sun-like star. But what will be the limits of its instruments? What will it realistically be able to see? Finding out the answers in this interview.
👉 HWO interview with Lee Feinberg https://youtu.be/0R3ykUkxH5M
👉 Coronagraph interview with Vanessa Bailey https://youtu.be/HXZMRagv66M
🟣 Guest: Celeste Hagee https://www.celestehagee.com/
📜 Bayesian Analysis for Remote Biosignature Identification on exoEarths (BARBIE) IV: Analyzing CO2 Detections in the Near-IR to Determine the Long-Wavelength Cut-off for the Habitable Worlds Observatory Coronagraph https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12353
00:00 Intro

01:43 What could HWO see

06:20 Celeste's research

19:06 Findings

28:16 The quest of confirming extraterrestrial life

35:04 Current obsessions

39:00 Final thoughts

This is an EMERGENCY podcast about Project Hail Mary. Fraser's joined by Producer Anton discussing the movie, as well as the recently released Top-100 lists for movies and TV shows.
⚠️‼️⛔️THIS CONTAINS SPOLERS for Project Hail Mary⚠️‼️⛔️
00:00 Intro

01:06 SPOILER ALERT

01:48 Project Hail Mary

27:51 Top-100 movies

35:36 Top-100 TV shows

Top 100 movies
Top 100 TV Shows

BONUS STORY STARTS AT 20:07
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NASA overturns its future exploration plans, Rubin pipelines are filled with juicy data, dwarf galaxies hide overmassive black holes, Titan Dragonfly is coming together. And in Space Bites+, charting the history of a galaxy’s evolution.
00:00 Intro

00:16 NASA Ignition https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasa-lays-out-ambitious-plans-f00or-moon-base-and-nuclear-mars-mission

06:49 First Follow-Up On Rubin’s Alert https://www.universetoday.com/articles/rubin-alert-leads-to-first-follow-up-observations-and-detection-of-four-supernovae

10:04 JWST Finds Overmassive Black Holes https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-jwst-finds-more-overmassive-black-holes-this-time-in-dwarf-galaxies

11:15 Did Triton Do It? https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-moon-that-tipped-a-planet

13:20 Milestone for Dragonfly https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasas-dragonfly-rotorcraft-begins-integration-and-testing-ahead-of-mission-to-titan

14:41 Vote results https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/posts

15:09 Baby Planets Directly Observed https://www.universetoday.com/articles/direct-confirmation-of-two-baby-planets-forming-around-a-young-sun-like-star

17:12 Team-Up for Saturn https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasas-webb-and-hubble-telescopes-look-at-saturn-in-a-different-light

18:44 Crab Nebula Evolution https://www.universetoday.com/articles/watching-25-years-of-expansion-in-the-crab-nebula-with-the-hubble

20:07 Galactic Archeology https://www.universetoday.com/articles/extragalactic-archaeology-a-new-method-to-understand-galaxy-growth-and-evolution

23:16 Project Hail Mary mini-review