[Space Bites] INCREDIBLE Discovery From Lucy // Most Powerful Ion Engine // Slime Mold Universe

Lucy made an incredible discovery. One of the strangest exoplanetary systems ever seen. Understanding the Universe with slime mold. And the most powerful ion engine passes the test.

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00:00 Intro
00:15 Dinkinesh's contact binary moon
https://www.universetoday.com/164152/what-wow-that-new-asteroid-image-from-lucy-just-got-even-more-interesting/
01:36 Polar Circumbinary Planet Disk
https://www.universetoday.com/164077/this-is-a-first-an-exoplanet-in-a-polar-circumbinary-disc-surrounding-two-stars/
03:37 JWST sees CO2 on a centaur
https://www.universetoday.com/164066/jwst-detects-carbon-dioxide-in-a-centaur-for-the-first-time/
05:28 Slime mold and the Universe
https://www.universetoday.com/164120/what-can-slime-mold-teach-us-about-the-universe/
07:23 Vote results
https://youtu.be/xubOa8xR2lw
07:54 Can Gaia detect gravitational waves
http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03474
09:37 Most powerful ion engine test
https://www.universetoday.com/164072/the-most-powerful-ion-engine-ever-built-passes-the-test/
11:30 Newsletter
https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter
12:13 Euclid's first images https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_s_first_images_the_dazzling_edge_of_darkness
13:46 Water Map
15:00 Apple Podcasts reviews
17:22 More on asteroids and space exploration

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