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Bad news for the planets of Barnard Starr. Measuring the atmosphere on a rocky world within the habitable zone. Identifying the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. How the Milky Way flipped its disk. And on Space Bites Plus, how global Martian dust storms can be even worse.

00:00 Intro
00:19 Bad news for Barnard's Star exoplanets
universetoday.com/articles/astronomers-determine-that-exoplanets-around-barnards-star-are-extremely-uninhabitable
02:27 Rocky + Habitable Zone + Atmosphere
universetoday.com/articles/the-first-breath-of-another-world
04:11 Testing the Limits of Relativity
universetoday.com/articles/a-star-orbiting-our-galaxys-supermassive-black-hole-tests-the-limits-of-relativity
06:24 Milky Way Flipped Its Disk
universetoday.com/articles/the-milky-way-flipped-its-disk-billions-of-years-ago
07:54 The Type of Meteorite that Killed the Dinosaurs
universetoday.com/articles/researchers-narrow-down-the-type-of-meteorite-that-killed-the-dinosaurs
09:07 Vote results
09:29 Asteroid Turned Out To Be a Comet
universetoday.com/articles/astronomers-catch-a-dark-comet-red-handed
11:45 Van Gogh in Space
universetoday.com/articles/the-dark-energy-cameras-new-image-is-reminiscent-of-van-gogh
13:01 Psyche flyby
universetoday.com/articles/nasas-psyche-spacecraft-captured-a-time-lapse-video-of-its-mars-flyby
14:16 More space news
15:44 Problem with YouTube

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