Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Meet the crew for Artemis III, Weighing a dormant black hole, evidence for a long-gone early planet, how robot probes could take over the galaxy, and in Space Bites+, scanning 3I/ATLAS for alien signals.

00:00 Intro
00:18 Artemis III Updates
arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/nasa-assigns-crew-for-artemis-iii-sets-aggressive-timeline-for-flying-it
04:13 Weighing a Dormant Black Hole
universetoday.com/articles/orbiting-stars-give-clues-to-a-quiescent-black-holes-mass
05:43 How SMBHs Gain Weight
universetoday.com/articles/this-is-how-supermassive-black-holes-feed-themselves
07:22 Sgr A* Wind
universetoday.com/articles/theyve-been-searching-for-the-milky-ways-black-hole-wind-for-50-years-and-finally-found-it
08:42 Vote results
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09:18 Evidence for an Early Planet
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11:44 Observing Protoplanetary Disk’s Rotation
universetoday.com/articles/astronomers-make-live-observation-of-a-nearby-protoplanetary-disks-rotation
13:16 Cosmic Web Like You've Never Seen it Before
universetoday.com/articles/the-cosmic-web-like-youve-never-seen-it-before
15:14 David Kipping Has a New Take on the Existence of Advanced Life
universetoday.com/articles/david-kipping-has-a-new-take-on-the-existence-of-advanced-life-in-the-universe-and-the-numbers-are-n
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