Asteroid Flybys, Cosmic Mysteries, and the Search for the Universe's Ghost Signals

Asteroid Flybys, Cosmic Mysteries, and the Search for the Universe's Ghost Signals

Today on Astronomy Daily: Japan's Hayabusa2 pulls off a nail-biting high-speed asteroid flyby, James Webb finds the same unexplained chemical mystery on Titan AND Pluto, a neutrino detector may have caught the universe's oldest supernova echo, a wild new theory tries to solve the black hole information paradox, we wrap up the weekend's aurora action, and we look at when NASA's New Horizons might finally cross into interstellar space.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:00 Hayabusa2's flyby of asteroid Torifune
4:30 Mystery molecule found on Titan and Pluto
8:00 Have we heard the universe's oldest echo?
11:30 A new fix for the black hole information paradox
15:00 Weekend aurora wrap-up
17:00 Forecasting New Horizons' exit from the Solar System
20:30 Outro

LINKS & SOURCES
β€’ JAXA/ISAS β€” Hayabusa2# Torifune flyby
β€’ Paris Observatory / arXiv β€” Titan & Pluto mystery absorption feature
β€’ Super-Kamiokande Collaboration β€” Neutrino 2026 (UC Irvine)
β€’ Study on black hole remnants β€” 7D Einstein-Cartan torsion model
β€’ NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
β€’ Southwest Research Institute β€” New Horizons termination shock forecast

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