Universe Today Podcast

BONUS STORY STARTS AT 15:26
Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ncr3QzZUREY
A planetary system that breaks all the rules. Colliding worlds reminds us of the Earth and the Moon. A super solar storm hit Mars too. An explanation for a seven-hour gamma ray burst. And in Space Bites Plus, thousands of stellar siblings found.
🔵 Vote for the best story here: https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/posts
00:00 Intro

00:15 Planetary System that Breaks All Rules https://www.universetoday.com/articles/cheops-discovery-defies-planetary-formation-rules

02:41 A Special Rocky World https://www.universetoday.com/articles/this-isnt-just-another-rocky-world-orbiting-a-red-dwarf-this-ones-special

04:32 Worlds Colliding https://www.universetoday.com/articles/scientists-find-evidence-of-worlds-colliding-11000-light-years-away

06:21 Plans for a Moon in a Bag https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/a-private-space-company-has-a-radical-new-plan-to-bag-an-asteroid/

07:47 Lunar Magnetic Mystery Solved https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-60-year-old-mystery-about-the-moons-magnetosphere-is-finally-solved

09:47 Vote results 10:12 Solar Superstorm Hit Mars https://www.universetoday.com/articles/esas-mars-orbiters-watch-solar-superstorm-hit-the-red-planet

12:00 Nobody Could Explain This https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-seven-hour-explosion-nobody-could-explain

15:26 Something’s Changing the Small Magellanic Cloud https://www.universetoday.com/articles/something-is-changing-the-small-magellanic-cloud

15:26 Bonus story https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-suns-great-escape

17:41 Vibe coding

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 13:51
Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YZD1WNKzbiQ
Could the Sun have a binary companion, are we the only observers in the Universe, will lunar bases be close to each other? And in Q&A+, could we grow crops in asteroid regolith?
00:00 Intro

00:23 [@SantiagoT75] Can the Sun be orbiting another star we just haven’t yet noticed?

04:54 [@silasmiller4417] Are we really the only true observer in the Universe?

07:25 [@terryhardaway3285] How hard would it be to put the ISS in lunar orbit or on the Moon?

10:00 [@Space_Whales42] How close do you think the Chinese base on the moon will be to the American base?

12:14 [@Noonyuh] What sort of internet bandwidth should we expect on our moon bases?

13:51 [@Squigglyboi] Did they test growing crops in asteroid regolith?

17:01 Outro

Full livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/jtVVWzfyB0w

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:49
Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/GvVZsDw3Xk0
If the robots take over, what would our biosignatures look like? is a galaxy's rotation tied to its black hole? what would happen to the Universe if dark matter disappeared? And in Q&A+, which scifi universe would I like to live in?
00:00 Intro

00:25 [@AriasThirdOfHisName] What will be left of us if robots take over?

04:52 [@Frosty.Winnipeg] Is the rotation of a galaxy tied in any way to the rotation of its black hole?

06:09 [@EdSceptic-y2e] What would happen if all the dark matter dissappeared?

11:19 [@christiandesalliers4663] Why does material must shead it's angular momentum before falling into a black hole?

14:58 [@BigC799] What three questions would I ask the Universe?

15:49 [@kimbarron4239] Which fictional universe would I like to live in?

17:40 Outro

Full livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/jtVVWzfyB0w

BONUS PART START AT 28:49
Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4caOfg5K8Is
Little Red Dots are one of the biggest mysteries from JWST so far. They could be galaxies. They could be supermassive black holes. But they also could be supermassive stars. In fact, this suggestion could help solve another big cosmological mystery about globular clusters. More details on that in this interview.
🟣 Guest: Dr. John Chisholm https://www.chisholmjohn.com/
📜 Little Red Dots as Globular Clusters in Formation https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.15935
00:00 Intro

01:41 Finding LRDs in JWST data

07:05 Probably not black holes

13:08 Globular clusters as possible descendants

18:56 The evidence for supermassive stars

28:49 Deepest JWST image yet

42:59 Current obsessions

45:10 Final thoughts

How does Vera Rubin's data stream work? Why are there data brokers and what's their function? Who can use the data and how you can do that? How will the discoveries be made and who will have naming rights? Finding the answers in this interview.
Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VKrpJODdEM0
🟣 Guest: Dr. Tom Matheson
https://antares.noirlab.edu/
00:00 Intro

01:34 How Rubin's data pipeline works

04:41 Data brokers

08:45 Who can access the data

10:02 How discoveries will work

15:55 How can one tap in the data

21:46 Final thoughts