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

September 13th, 2024
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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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