Largest JWST Image // First Private Interplanetary Mission // Space Bubbles VS Climate Change

Rocket Lab is launching the first-ever private mission to Venus. Europe is considering space-based solar power. A new method to detect exoplanets. More evidence about the Moon’s origins. Webb’s largest every image. All that and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites.

00:00 - Intro
00:48 - First Private Mission to Venus by Rocket Lab
03:19 - MIT Space Bubbles Could Help Fight Climate Change
05:09 - Europe Is Going for Space-Based Solar Power
07:47 - More Evidence that Moon Came from Earth
09:56 - Why Betelgeuse Dimmed After All
12:11 - Thanks to GAIA We Know Exactly How the Sun Dies
14:58 - New Way to Look for Exoplanets
17:13 - Did We Finally Get a Photon Ring of M87
18:43 - The Largest Image Webb has taken so far
19:49 - Outro

Host: Fraser Cain
Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov
Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov

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[idleeric]

Maximum Points to Rocket Lab for funding the ride to Venus. Amazing.

[ax]

Love the work done on this series from the value of the news to the animations of the videos, great work!

[ioresult]

The Hertzprung-Russel animation is AMAZING!

[xliquidflames]

I always thought it was funny that in the movie Man of Steel when Superman's parents are preparing his ship to launch, Kal asks, "Did you find a world?" And the robot answers, "We did. It's orbiting a main sequence yellow star as you said it would."

Why would they call it that? They don't have the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

[IAmPamPoovey]

I'm really excited to hear about this new method to detect exoplanets! Thanks for the videos!

[rolandmine]

3:50 common let’s not turn this into snowpeircer lol

[Threedog]

First, regarding the blocking solar bubbles, I read a science fiction book in the 80s where the villain used advanced technology to create a shade to block the sun to destroy the earth with a big freeze. So, that’s not a new idea.

Second, if we were to transmit significant enough energy from space to earth, wouldn’t that energy eventually make global warming even worse?

[devcodes]

Thanks for making this video!!! I listening and your explanations!

[mih]

35° is a nice summers' day here in Oz, enjoy. :)

[Raz.C]

Solar Panels is a strange topic, since they're so strangely distributed...
What I mean by that is, if you use Google Earth (or such) to look at ANY Australian city, you're going to find solar panels on almost every roof (slight exaggeration, but certainly more than 50% adoption). Many European cities are similarly solar-panel-positive. However, if you look at cities in the united states, it's VERY hard to find ANY solar panels, let alone find areas where most people are using them. (Denver was the only city I found with multiple solar paneled roofs, but even then, solar panels only covered about 2% of the roofs I could see). I don't doubt that there are probably cities in the usa that have MUCH higher adoption of solar panels, it's just hard to find them in a random search. Unlike a random search of roofs in Australian or European cities.

So what that means, is that people here in Australia, or people in Europe are going to have a VERY different opinion and different outlook on solar power and its future, than will those people in the usa, who are from a city where they've never seen a single solar panel. Thus it's going to be very hard to have a sensible conversation about the reality and the future of solar power until these kinds of discrepancies are overcome.

[Jenab]

The odds of an exoplanet's orbit being near enough in line with Earth to transit the star is about 1%, so there should be a hundred times as many exoplanets as we've been able to see among the stars that we are able to examine for exoplanets.

[NormReitzel]

Not just the gasses, but the isotopic ratio as well.

[greggweber]

17:17 Remember when the photographer took the lens cap off, waved it in a circle and then replaced it. How long is a modern "exposure" compared to the orbital distance covered by light or anything else?
If light comes from random directions not enough time to ask the many questions that come to mind.

[taqyon]

Wasn't "Stephan’s Quintet" the largest yet with over 1000 images? 690 is rookie numbers 😄

[Postntalkmemes]

Great video, Lots of research with your hard work make this one for the viewers. Hats off.
The mission, which is being funded by the Planetary Society, will use a specially designed spacecraft called Akatsuki (Japanese for "Dawn") to study Venus' atmosphere. This could also be a key step in the search for life elsewhere in the universe. What viewers think?

[KenMathis]

I wonder if spaced based power makes more sense if you think of it in terms of providing base power to even out the variability of other renewables. It could be used to lessen the need to store power, and its cost should be compared to the combined cost of renewable power generation + storage versus generation alone.