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#449: 20,000 Black Holes, Polaris Dawn's Spacewalk & New Horizons' Deep Dive

#449: 20,000 Black Holes, Polaris Dawn's Spacewalk & New Horizons' Deep Dive

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries vor 2 Jahren

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Join Andrew Dunkley and Professor Fred Watson in this enthralling
episode of Space Nuts, where they delve into groundbreaking
discoveries and missions in the cosmos.

Episode Highlights:

Swarm of Black Holes: Explore the astonishing
possibility of a swarm of up to 20,000 black holes in a
well-known region of Space. Once thought to contain a single
intermediate-mass black hole, new findings suggest a much more
complex scenario.

- Polaris Dawn Mission: Discover the exciting details
of the Polaris Dawn mission, potentially the first crewed mission
to achieve a polar orbit around Earth. Learn about their
ambitious plans, including the first privately conducted
spacewalk, and the technical challenges they face.

- New Horizons Mission: Find out what the New Horizons
spacecraft is up to 18 years after its launch. After its historic
flyby of Pluto, the mission continues to break new ground by
examining the darkness of Space, providing insights into the
cosmic optical background.

- 00:00:00 Andrew Dunkley: Coming up on this episode of Space
Nuts

- 00:01:32 You can't go bluetooth through this panel I've got
because of time delay

- 00:02:35 Geordie says he got hay fever from living in
England

- 00:04:28 Astronomers have been hunting for intermediate
black holes for decades

- 00:15:00 The world will have to come up with a collective
noun for black holes

- 00:16:14 Professor Fred Watson talks to Andrew Dunkley
about the Polaris dawn mission

- 00:23:22 Andrew Dunkley dives into black hole; hopes all
goes well

- 00:24:26 New Horizons spacecraft has been sent off to
examine darkness of night sky

- 00:32:17 Professor Fred Watson: Thanks for your company,
Andrew Dunkley

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Episode References:

Hubble Space Telescope

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html

Polaris Dawn mission

https://polarisprogram.com/

New Horizons spacecraft

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html

Sky & Telescope

https://skyandtelescope.org/

French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)

https://www.cnrs.fr/en

Leiden Observatory

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/astronomy

Royal Observatory Edinburgh

https://www.roe.ac.uk/

SpaceX Crew Dragon

https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/dragon/

Falcon 9

https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/falcon-9/

Astronomy AstroDailyPod

https://astronomydaily.io/