[Space Bites] Historical Spacewalk // A Star with Insane Resolution // Iron Winds on a Planet

Polaris Dawn launches and completes the first private spacewalk, the surface of a giant star is resolved with incredible detail, Starliner comes home empty, and amazing new images of Mercury from BepiColumbo.

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• 00:00 Intro


• 00:16 First ever spacewalk


• 02:30 A star with incredible resolution


• 03:57 Mars spiders


• 06:04 Starliner returns


• 07:49 New Glenn delay


• 10:00 Starship updates


• 12:57 Mercury flyby


• 14:14 Vote results


• 15:07 Formation of Sag A


• 16:58 Iron winds on WASP-76b


• 18:15 Water on exoplanets


• 19:58 Guide to space


• 20:39 Asking for a favour

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