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A mission to rescue a falling space telescope. More uses for the solar gravitational lens. The Euclid Space Telescope images the center of the Milky Way. And in Space Bites+, a star ate a planet.
00:00 Intro
00:15 Rescue mission for a falling telescope
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03:40 More Uses for the Solar Gravitational Lens
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07:43 Six Galaxies Become One
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09:44 Dying by the Wrong Rules
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11:40 Vote results
12:07 The Secret of Early Galaxy Growth
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13:54 The First Pair of Sibling Supernova Remnants
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16:07 Euclid Captures Milky Way’s Bulge
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/ESA_s_Euclid_captures_the_Milky_Way_s_crowded_heart
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A mission to rescue a falling space telescope. More uses for the solar gravitational lens. The Euclid Space Telescope images the center of the Milky Way. And in Space Bites+, a star ate a planet.
00:00 Intro
00:15 Rescue mission for a falling telescope
smithsonianmag.com/smithsonianmag/this-week-nasa-will-launch-a-first-of-its-kind-mission-to-save-a-space-telescope-that-has-observed-the-sky-for-nearly-22-years-180988998
03:40 More Uses for the Solar Gravitational Lens
universetoday.com/articles/the-solar-gravitational-lens-could-map-white-dwarfs-and-black-holes
07:43 Six Galaxies Become One
universetoday.com/articles/the-jwst-spies-six-galaxies-becoming-one
09:44 Dying by the Wrong Rules
universetoday.com/articles/a-star-dying-by-the-wrong-rules
11:40 Vote results
12:07 The Secret of Early Galaxy Growth
universetoday.com/articles/cosmic-dawn-fuel-discovery-unlocks-early-galaxy-growth-secrets-vla-fuel-discovery
13:54 The First Pair of Sibling Supernova Remnants
universetoday.com/articles/this-is-the-first-pair-of-sibling-supernova-remnants
16:07 Euclid Captures Milky Way’s Bulge
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/ESA_s_Euclid_captures_the_Milky_Way_s_crowded_heart
18:34 More space news
19:58 Bad naming in Astronomy
Host: Fraser Cain
Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov
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![Swarming The Rings of Saturn With Tiny Probes [NIAC 2026]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VqBVL2vwh04/mqdefault.jpg "Swarming The Rings of Saturn With Tiny Probes [NIAC 2026]
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📜 Actively Steerable Femtosat Constellations for In-situ Exploration of Saturn’s Rings, Atmosphere, and Magnetosphere
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Saturns rings are dense. Sending one flagship probe through them makes no sense. Itll most probably be lost. But sending a swarm of small cheap probes does. Even if a lot of them wont survive, youre still getting lots of data. This is exactly what this NIAC project is proposing.
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01:22 Observing Saturns rings
05:21 A swarm of satellites
21:56 Current obsessions
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