"Origins, Organics & Orbital Endings"
Today's episode is packed with landmark science. JWST has chemically fingerprinted interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and concluded it formed 10–12 billion years ago — before our Sun was born. NASA's Perseverance rover has made the most robust organic detection yet in Jezero Crater. ESA's Euclid telescope has released an unprecedented 60-million-star portrait of the Milky Way's galactic heart. And we cover the controversy over NASA's plan to sink the International Space Station in the Pacific, a remarkable finding about underground life in the aftermath of the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and the discovery of the first-ever pair of sibling supernova remnants.
🕐 CHAPTERS
00:00 — Introduction
01:30 — JWST reveals 3I/ATLAS formed up to 12 billion years ago
05:00 — Perseverance's most robust Mars organic detection
08:00 — Euclid's record-breaking image of the Milky Way's heart
11:00 — ISS deorbit plan faces legal and environmental challenge
13:30 — Chicxulub asteroid created 8-million-year underground habitat
16:00 — Jellyfish Nebula's long-lost sibling supernova remnant found
18:00 — Outro
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