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Rubin spots a rapidly spinning asteroid, Congress restores NASA’s funding, Crew 11 is back on Earth for a medical emergency, the Pandora Space Telescope launches. And in Space Bites+, two new exoplanets around a red dwarf could help push the habitable zone out.

00:00 Intro
00:15 Rubin Discovers A Record-Breaking Asteroid
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02:15 NASA Budget Is Safe For Another Year
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04:57 First Ever Medical Evacuation from The ISS
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07:04 Pandora Launched
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09:09 Vote Results
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09:38 A Supernova That Shouldn’t Exist
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11:43 Solving the Mystery of Blue Flashes
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14:06 Cool Space Images
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universetoday.com/articles/when-baby-stars-throw-tantrums
16:54 More space news
17:33 AI as the Great Filter
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Host: Fraser Cain
Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov
Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov


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