[Space Bites] Eyes for Plato // Water Ice in Another Star System // Venus Tectonics

ESA’s PLATO mission gets its eyes installed, Webb finds water ice in another star system, could it be dark matter and not dark energy that’s evolving over time? And in our longer [Space Bites+] on Patreon, researchers have found that hardy bacteria are evolving to thrive in spacecraft clean rooms.

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00:00 Intro

00:20 Plato gets its eyes

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-plato-mission-just-got-dozens-of-cameras-installed

02:05 Cubesat telescope

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-cubesat-to-capture-a-supernovas-uv-spectrum

04:14 Water ice in another star system

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/water-ice-found-in-another-star-system

06:34 Evolving Dark Matter

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/could-dark-matter-be-evolving-over-time-and-not-dark-energy

09:13 Vote results

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09:55 Everything evaporates with Hawking radiation

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/everything-in-the-universe-could-decay-from-hawking-radiation

11:25 Venus tectonics

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/venus-might-have-tectonic-activity-after-all

13:25 Auroras on Jupiter

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/webb-watches-auroras-dance-in-jupiters-atmosphere

15:23 More space news in Guide to Space

16:13 [Space Bites+] bonus story

16:28 Patreon Q&A

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