Mystery space debris on a Queensland beach, Hayabusa2's close encounter with asteroid Torifune, ancient secrets from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, TESS's first microlensing exoplanet, a twelve-billion-year-old galaxy mega-merger, and the edge of the solar system — all in today's edition.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:00 Mystery Spheres on a Queensland Beach
04:30 Hayabusa2's Torifune Flyby
08:00 3I/ATLAS's Ancient Birthplace
12:00 TESS's Microlensing Exoplanet
15:30 Six-Galaxy Mega-Merger
19:00 New Horizons & the Solar Wind
22:00 Sign-off
Links & Sources
• Australian Space Agency — space.gov.au
• JAXA Hayabusa2 Press Release — global.jaxa.jp
• ESO VLT / 3I-ATLAS study — eso.org
• NASA TESS Mission — science.nasa.gov/tess
• Z.L. Wen et al., galaxy mega-merger preprint — arXiv.org
• SwRI New Horizons SWAP study — swri.org
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