Synopsis
The Guide to Space is a series of space and astronomy poddcasts by Fraser Cain, publisher of Universe Today
Episodes
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[Q&A] Fighting Light Pollution, Venus Holding Its Atmosphere, Space Under New Administration
12/12/2024How can one fight light pollution? What will happen to space exploration in our modern political climate? Why doesn't Venus lose its atmosphere without a magnetosphere? Answering all these questions and more in this Q&A show.
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[Q&A] Milky Way from the ISS, Poking a Black Hole, Sun Bringing The Moon Closer
10/12/2024How don't comets lose all their mass really quickly? Where are all the photos of the Milky Way from the ISS? Can you reach out from orbit and poke a black hole with a stick? Answering all these questions and more in this Q&A show.
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[Interview] How Black Widow Pulsars Can Be A Sign of Star-Eating Aliens
09/12/2024Black Widow pulsars consume their partners. But if there were advanced alien species, it could be a perfect way to produce energy and move the stars around. They could also use pulsars as a global galactic navigation system. How exactly could they achieve it? Finding out in this interview.
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[Space Bites] Trump's New NASA Administrator // Artemis Delayed Again // No Oceans in Venus' Past
06/12/2024Trump announces his choice for the new NASA administrator, we’ve got a new date for Artemis III, Venus might have never had liquid oceans, and finding habitable planets around white dwarf stars.
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[Q&A] JWST in Different Spectra, Milky Way Losing Stars, Mystery of the Sun's Corona
05/12/2024Does building more JWSTs for different parts of the spectrum make sense? Are star types predetermined at their birth? Can you cook a pizza on the Sun? Why is the Sun's corona hotter than its surface? Are there binary supermassive black holes? Answering all these questions and more in this Q&A show.
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[Q&A] Funding New Space Stations, Pollution from Rocket Launches, Best Place for Space Factory | Q&A 276
03/12/2024Who will pay for the next-generation space stations that follow the ISS? How much do rockets pollute? Did James Webb make the observable Universe bigger? Answering all these questions and more in this Q&A show.
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[Space Bites] What's Inside Uranus // Dragonfly Launch Secured // Best JWST Image of 2024
29/11/2024Dragonfly is taking a Falcon Heavy to Titan, What’s inside Uranus?, Russia’s cargo ship delivers a stinky smell to the station, and testing robots to go under the ice on Europa.
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[Q&A] Fuel for Comet Tails, Detecting a Voyager's Crash, Driving Into Lava Tubes
28/11/2024Why don't comets run out of "tail fuel"? If Voyager crashes into something, can we tell it apart from a regular failure? What are the chances we will drive into a lava tube? Will satellite communication become dominant at some point? Answering all these and more in this Q&A show.
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[Interview] First Ever Steam World Found by JWST
27/11/2024James Webb recently detected a new kind of exoplanet. It's a steam world. How did they find it and what does it mean for the future of exoplanet search? Finding out in this interview.
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[Interview] Where Did The Mysterious JUMBOs in The Orion Nebula Come From?
27/11/2024JUMBOs, Jupiter Mass Binary Objects. Over 500 of them were detected in the Orion Nebula by JWST. But where did they come from? How did they form and why are they in binary pairs? My guest has a good guess about it.Guest: Jessica Diamond
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[Q&A] Funding Space Stations After ISS, Gravity Tractor Experiment, Digital Adaptive Optics
27/11/2024Where will the money come from for the next generation of space stations? Does NASA have plans for a gravity tractor experiment for the Apophis flyby? Which part of the Milky Way can we see? Can there be different types of black holes? Answering all these and more in this Q&A show.
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[Bonus] Cosmology, AI Doom, and the Future of Humanity
24/11/2024I just wrapped up an interesting conversation over at Doom Debates talking about the future of artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, Great Filter, Grabby Aliens and more. Check it out and subscribe to the channel.
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[Overtime Q&A] Detecting Warp Drive Ships, Good Telescope Under $200, Solar Gravitational Lens
23/11/2024If there is a faster-than-light spaceship, could we detect it? Can we use the Sun as a magnifying glass? Which telescope to get under $200? Can Juno meet Europa clipper? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Overtime Q&A.
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[Space Bites] No Booster Catch for Starship // A Star from Another Galaxy // New Explanation for Moons of Mars
22/11/2024Starship completes its 6th flight test, Webb analyzes a star in another galaxy and confirms the Hubble tension, again, and a new explanation for the moons of Mars. More interviews:
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[Interview] How Red Dwarf Stars Could Host Habitable Planets After All
21/11/2024We're still waiting for the results from JWST about the atmospheres on the TRAPPIST-1 planets. But is there a way for red dwarf planets to keep atmospheres on planets. Latest research seems to show that it might be possible.
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[Overtime Q&A] Conspiracy Theories in School, Preserving History, JWST Restrictions
20/11/2024Should they teach conspiracy theories in schools? How can we preserve history? How restricted is JWST because of its sunshield? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Overtime Q&A.
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[Interview] Can Anybody Stop SpaceX Now? (with Eric Berger)
19/11/2024Will SpaceX be able to deliver Starship in time for Artemis? Will Elon and Donald cancel SLS and replace it with Falcon Heavy? Is there any chance for real competition with SpaceX? How serious is the space race with China? Finding out the answers in this interview.Guest: Eric Berger
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[Interview] How The Moon's Bumpy Gravitational Field Can Help Launch Things From Its Surface
18/11/2024Moon has a non-uniform bumpy gravitational field. We can use these anomalies to launch stuff off the surface of the Moon with electromagnetic launchers. How exactly can we do it? Finding out in this interview.Guest: Dr. Pekka Janhunen
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[Space Bites] Zone of Avoidance Defied // Big Meteor Storm's Coming // Ozone Hole Shrinks
15/11/2024Some good environmental news, the Roman Space Telescope gets its mirror, astronomers defy the zone of avoidance, and moving stars halfway across the Milky Way
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[Interview] Are Membrane Telescopes The Future of Space-Based Astronomy?
14/11/2024Guest: Dr. Sebastian Rabien