Podcasts about Betelgeuse

El último peldaño (02/05/2025) SEDE VACANTE: ¿EL CÓNCLAVE DEL ÚLTIMO PAPA? El mundo ha despedido a un líder que marcó una era en la Iglesia Católica. El Papa Francisco, el primer pontífice hispanoamericano, deja un legado donde abogó por la humildad, la justicia y el compromiso con los más vulnerables. Desde su histórica encíclica "Laudato Si", que puso el medioambiente en el centro del debate global, hasta su incansable lucha por los derechos de los emigrantes y los pobres, su pontificado estuvo lleno de momentos que desafiaron lo establecido y abrieron nuevas puertas para la Iglesia. Pero su muerte también reaviva una antigua profecía: la de San Malaquías, un arzobispo irlandés del siglo XII que, según algunos, predijo el número exacto de papas hasta el fin de los tiempos. Francisco ocuparía el puesto 112 en la lista, el último “Pedro el Romano”, quien, según la profecía, guiaría a la Iglesia en tiempos de tribulación. ¿Estamos ante el cumplimiento de esta visión? ¿Qué nos depara el futuro del Vaticano? El pasado 21 de abril, cuando el planeta se enteraba de la muerte del pontífice, “El último peldaño” estaba en Roma. La suerte (o el destino) nos permitió vivir esa jornada histórica en plena Plaza de San Pedro, en Vaticano. En este programa especial, analizaremos los hitos de su liderazgo, el impacto de su partida y el misterio que rodea su sucesión. Para ello contamos con Bernardo Pérez Andreo (Doctor en Teología y Filosofía, escritor, dirige el Departamento de Filosofía y Sociedad en el Instituto Teológico de Murcia. Asimismo, coordina el Máster y el Programa de Doctorado en Teología, fruto de la colaboración entre el instituto y la Universidad de Murcia); Carlos Alberto Iurchuk (Investigador, divulgador y director del canal argentino “Demonios”); José Ignacio Carmona (Escritor, investigador, conferenciante y experto en simbolismo) y Francisco Barrera (Investigador, Presidente de la S.I.B. “Betelgeuse” de Granada y colaborador del programa), con el que también hablamos brevemente sobre "grandes apagones y OVNIs" . Dirección y presentación: Joaquín Abenza. Producción y documentación: María José Garnández. Blog del programa: http://www.elultimopeldano.blogspot.com.es/ Programas emitidos en 7 TV: https://www.la7tv.es/blog/section/el-ultimo-peldano/ WhatsApp +34 644 823 513 Programa emitido en Onda Regional de Murcia

Up in Orion's shoulder sits Betelgeuse, a supergiant star near the end of its life. The surface of Betelgeuse has been roiling and pulsing for centuries, as long as humans have recorded its modulated luminosity. Dr. Jared Goldberg is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics in the Flatiron Institute in New York City. Dr. Golberg has been developing computer models for Betelgeuse to help understand and interpret its oscillations over time.

It's a good thing that as a society, we're more open to discussing mental health and the challenges it poses for many people. University of Sydney reporter Ben Fragiadakis investigated this transformation on what used to be a very taboo topic. What he found were the unintended consequences of such openness. And despite all the attention, serious doubts remain among experts about our approach to treating mental health.Lifeline 13 11 14Beyond 1300 22 46 36 Host/Reporter: Ben FragiadakisExecutive Producer: Lea RedfernSupervising Producer: Simon BradyMusic ‘Betelgeuse' / Kunal Shingade ‘Come Back Home' / OlexyImages'Contemplation' / Janusz WalczakMore stories from University of Sydney:Salience - https://www.salienceatsydney.org/More stories from The Junctionhttps://junctionjournalism.com/

Our latest interview with Robert Edward Grant reveals a new discovery at the intersection of Metatron's Cube, the Vitruvian man, and the Last Supper Painting by Leonardo da Vinci. What does all of this mean for the ancient past and future of humanity? What encrypted messages were left behind to us from the polymaths that came before? We explore the significance of Orion in relation to time and space, the divine game of life or simulation, and the hidden messages within pyramids and ancient myths. In this podcast, we delve into the concept of miracles and synchronicity, emphasizing the importance recognizing the patterns around us. We further explore the nature of time, reality, and the call to authenticity, culminating in a powerful message about embracing one's divinity and the transformative power of love.Robert Edward Grant is the best-selling author of PHILOMATH, ‘POLYMATH' and ‘NEUROMINED'. Mr Grant is an artist, sculptor, musician, music theorist (Creator of a novel music temperament called ‘Precise Temperament Tuning in 432.081hz') and a prolific inventor. Additionally, he is also a prodigious artist, sculptor, music theorist, musician, and author of several research and patent publications spanning biology, DNA combinatorics, number theory, sacred geometry, and physics. Robert has also been involved in serval films, podcasts, and series such as 'CodeX' streaming on Gaia TV. He also leads exploratory reseach travel + adventure expeditions to the Great Pyramid of Giza and more.✦ WATCH CodeX on Gaia TV (FREE TRIAL)

Taking the character of Harley Quinn to another level, a multiversal level, by fusing her cosplays with other universes, such as her Venomized Harley, a Marvel/DC crossover; her Jinx Harley, an Arcane crossover; or her BeetleHarley, a Beetlejuice fusion; and more — @AsylumHarley joins me this week!We're talking her Harley cosplays, what she plans to do with them or new ones in the future; we're talking Beetlejuice, the movie(s) and her Lydia Deetz cosplay, our top horror films/franchises, and more! Thank you for bearing with the late release, but Ep. 182 is ready to go! Join us!▾ Cosplay Of The Week!: ▾ http://instagram.com/Convincible_Cosplay_____________►

La estrella más deseada ahora mismo entre los aficionados a la astronomía se llama T Coronae Borealis. Es una estrella muy modesta, de apenas magnitud 11, así que sólo puede verse con telescopios bastante potentes. Pero T Coronae Borealis tiene algo que otras estrellas no tienen: currículum. En 1866 se iluminó de repente y pasó a tener magnitud 2, perfectamente visible a simple vista; al cabo de unas semanas perdió su brío y volvió a la oscuridad. En 1946 el mismo proceso ocurrió de nuevo, y la pregunta es: ahora que estamos cerca de 2026 ¿va a repetirse de nuevo el fenómeno? T Coronae Borealis es lo que en astronomía se conoce como una *nova*, una estrella que aumenta su brillo repentinamente para luego volver a apagarse. Es, de hecho, una nova *recurrente*, de las que esconden algún mecanismo que hace que se enciendan periódicamente. En el programa de hoy os explicamos cuál es ese mecanismo, pero también os advertimos que las novas no son mecanismos de relojería: unas pocas son bastante regulares, pero las demás se adelantan o se retrasan, a veces durante años. Os contamos también por qué en estas primeras semanas de 2025 ha habido bastante expectación con su posible "aparición" en el cielo. En el momento de publicar este capítulo, 26 de abril de 2025, la erupción todavía no ha ocurrido. En La Brújula ya os hablamos una vez sobre las novas, aunque en aquella ocasión eran las novas rojas, un fenómeno ligeramente diferente al de T Coronae Borealis. Fue en el episodio s06e22, y en aquellos momentos se predecía que la estrella doble KIC 9832227 se encendería en forma de nova roja en el año 2022. Esa predicción no se cumplió, y con el tiempo se descubrió que los datos iniciales eran erróneos. Actualmente no se cree que vaya a encenderse en los próximos años. Si os interesan los fenómenos estelares curiosos, en este programa os hemos mantenido informados de unos cuantos a lo largo de los años: en el capítulo s03e17 os hablamos de la supernova que se encendió en la galaxia M82, la más cercana en lo que llevamos de siglo XXI; en el episodio s09e18 os hablamos sobre el dramático oscurecimiento de Betelgeuse; y en el s07e20 os contamos en qué quedó aquella historia de que una estrella albergaba una megaestructura alienígena (spoiler: en que no la alberga). El episodio reciente en el que os hablamos de las enanas blancas es el s13e17. Este programa se emitió originalmente el 14 de abril de 2025. Podéis escuchar el resto de audios de La Brújula en la app de Onda Cero y en su web, ondacero.es

E' uscito "Betelgeuse", il nuovo brano del duo pop rap, Skark e Groove.Betelgeuse è una riflessione sul tempo, sulla perdita e sulla memoria. La canzone nasce da un'esperienza personale di Groove, la scomparsa del suo cane Snoopy, e si trasforma in un viaggio universale sull'assenza e su come le persone che amiamo continuino a vivere dentro di noi, come fotogrammi impressi nell'universo.Testo & Musica: Shark e GrooveProduzione: GrooveLabel: The Palma Music & Reload Music - Powered by SonyProject Managment di Antongiulio Iorfida Direzione Artistica di Rosario Farò Shark, all'anagrafe Giuseppe Costanzo (Siderno, 28/05/1993) e Groove, Antonio Callà (Mammola, 18/12/1994) sono un duo pop/rap calabrese fondato nel 2009.Molto amati dai giovani, hanno conquistato non solo il pubblico italiano, ma anche quello canadese, statunitense, tedesco e argentino. Il loro brano più famoso è Il mondo gira che ha raggiunto 3,5 Milioni di visualizzazioni su Youtube.Nel 2015 partecipano alla sesta edizione di Italia's Got Talent conquistando il terzo posto sul podio e il primo nella categoria Musica.giovannicertoma.it

Orion is packed with stars that are much bigger, brighter, and heavier than the Sun. But only one of them is likely to draw hisses from Harry Potter fans: Bellatrix. Its name comes from Latin, and means “female warrior.” The name was applied to one of Harry Potter’s nastiest foes – Bellatrix Lestrange. Regardless of its name, the star itself is impressive. It’s almost eight times the mass of the Sun, so it “burns” its nuclear fuel in a hurry. As a result, the surface of Bellatrix is tens of thousands of degrees hotter than the Sun. Combined with its great size, that makes the star thousands of times brighter than the Sun. Because of its high-speed reactions, Bellatrix won’t live very long. The star is about 25 million years old – just half of one percent the age of the Sun. Yet it will expire in a few million years. It’s probably not massive enough to explode as a supernova. Instead, it will expel its outer layers in a more gentle process. That will leave a small, hot, dense corpse – a feeble ending for a powerful star. Orion is in the west and southwest at nightfall. Look for its three-star belt, parallel to the horizon. The hunter’s brightest stars, Betelgeuse and Rigel, stand above and below the belt. Bellatrix is the next-brightest, to the upper right of the belt. It’s among the brightest stars in the night sky. Script by Damond Benningfield

Why don't moon landers just heat themselves to live through the lunar night? Will Betelgeuse's explosion cause a lot of gravitational waves? Is it even theoretically possible to accelerate close to the speed of light? And in our free bonus question on Patreon, what is my dream space mission? Answering all these questions and more in this Q&A show.

Why don't moon landers just heat themselves to live through the lunar night? Will Betelgeuse's explosion cause a lot of gravitational waves? Is it even theoretically possible to accelerate close to the speed of light? And in our free bonus question on Patreon, what is my dream space mission? Answering all these questions and more in this Q&A show.

Send us a textHappy Poetry Month!This week we welcome Matt Forrest Esenwine, poetry's champion and ambassador, to the podcast to talk about his new anthology, A Universe of Rainbows: Multicolored Poems for a Multicolored World. What do Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring, Peru's Vinicunca mountain, the star Betelgeuse, and a drop of water have in common? Rainbows!Are you looking for a poetry anthology with kid appeal that also packs in fascinating science about all sorts of rainbows from sundogs to rainbow lorikeets, rainbow eucalyptus, and rainbow nebula? If so, check out A Universe of Rainbows, released this week and featuring contributions from such greats as Nikki Grimes Matt Forrest Esenwine Renee M. LaTulippe Joyce Sidman Irene Latham David L. Harrison Heidi E. Y. Stemple & Jane Yolen Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Alma Flor Ada & F. Isabel Campoy Rebecca Kai Dotlich Marilyn Singer Charles Waters Laura Purdie Salas Charles Ghigna Lee Wardlaw Janet Wong Allan Wolf Georgia HeardEach selection explores a new rainbow--and not just the ones in the sky. In haiku, free verse, and other forms, the poets capture marvels like crystals, pilot glories, Gouldian finches, and marble caves. Acclaimed illustrator Jamey Christoph brings each rainbow to life in brilliant color and playful detail. Book GiveawayEmail diane@drdianeadventures.com by 4/11/25 for your chance to win a copy of A Universe of Rainbows: Multicolored Poems for a Multicolored WorldLinksMatt Forrest Esenwine's WebsiteGet to Know Matt Forrest Esenwine on Ep 12 of the Adventures in Learning PodcastOrder Matt's booksSupport the showSubscribe & Follow: Stay updated with our latest episodes and follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, and the Adventures in Learning website. Don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! *Disclosure: I am a Bookshop.org. affiliate.

Astronomy Daily | Space News: S04E66In this exciting episode of Astronomy Daily, host Anna takes you on a journey through the latest developments in space exploration, featuring stranded astronauts preparing for their return, groundbreaking telescope observations, and a busy week of space launches. From the International Space Station to the far reaches of the cosmos, this episode is filled with news that will spark your curiosity about our universe.Highlights:- Stranded Astronauts Return Home: After an unexpected 300-day stay at the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are set to return home aboard SpaceX's Dragon capsule, Freedom. Learn about the technical challenges that led to their extended mission and what this means for future space travel.- SKA Low Telescope's First Image: Discover the remarkable achievement of the SKA Low telescope, which has captured its first image of 85 galaxies, each with supermassive black holes at their centers. This groundbreaking instrument is set to become the most sensitive radio telescope, revealing more than 600,000 galaxies once fully operational.- Upcoming Space Launches: Get ready for an action-packed week with multiple launches from SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and Galactic Energy. From Starlink missions to the final batch of satellites for Kinese, the commercial space sector continues to thrive with increased launch activity.- Successful Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission: Celebrate the success of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost 1 mission, which completed its lunar operations and collected over 119 gigabytes of data. This mission marks a significant milestone for commercial lunar exploration and sets the stage for future missions to the Moon.- James Webb Space Telescope's Carbon Dioxide Discovery: Uncover the groundbreaking observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, which captured direct images of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of distant planets, providing insights into planetary formation and the potential for habitability.- Betelgeuse's Imminent Supernova: Explore the fascinating story of Betelgeuse, the red giant star in Orion, as it approaches the end of its life. Learn about the potential spectacle of its supernova and the safety of Earth in relation to this cosmic event.For more cosmic updates, visit our website at astronomydaily.io. Join our community on social media by searching for #AstroDailyPod on Facebook, X, YouTubeMusic, TikTok, and our new Instagram account! Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.Thank you for tuning in. This is Anna signing off. Until next time, keep looking up and stay curious about the wonders of our universe.00:00 - Welcome to Astronomy Daily01:05 - NASA astronauts prepare for return after extended ISS stay07:30 - SKA Low telescope captures first image of galaxies12:15 - Upcoming space launch schedule18:00 - Firefly Aerospace's successful lunar mission22:30 - James Webb's carbon dioxide discovery27:00 - Betelgeuse's potential supernova✍️ Episode ReferencesNASA Astronaut Return Details[NASA](https://www.nasa.gov)SKA Low Telescope Insights[SKA Observatory](https://www.skao.int)Space Launch Information[SpaceX](https://www.spacex.com)Firefly Aerospace Mission Details[Firefly Aerospace](https://www.fireflyspace.com)James Webb Space Telescope Discoveries[NASA JWST](https://www.nasa.gov/webb)Astronomy Daily[Astronomy Daily](http://www.astronomydaily.io/)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news--5648921/support.

Astronomers saw a rare type of supernova in the galaxy NGC 2891. Finding out what was so special about it and why is it a perfect example of why we need the Vera Rubin Telescope as soon as possible.

Sirius, Procyon, and Betelgeuse form a giant triangle in the southern sky known as the Winter Triangle. And like Orion's Belt, it can make for an excellent pointer and guidepost to the winter night sky.

Two bright orange stars pass high across the south this evening: Betelgeuse, at the shoulder of Orion the hunter; and Aldebaran, the eye of the bull, well to its upper right. An even redder star perches below Orion’s feet, although you need binoculars or a telescope to see it. Hind’s Crimson Star is one of the most remarkable stars in the galaxy. It pulses in and out like a beating heart. Each beat changes the star’s size by tens of millions of miles. The star is quite near the end of its life. It no longer produces nuclear reactions in its core, although it does produce them in a thin shell around the core. At a minimum, Hind’s Crimson Star is hundreds of times wider than the Sun. But the star is unstable. The energy from the shell around the core heats the star’s outer layers, causing them to puff up. As these layers expand, they cool, then fall inward again. Each cycle takes about 14 months. The surface of the star is so cool that it shines reddish orange. But that’s not the only reason for its color. A lot of carbon has been dredged from its interior and pulled to the surface. The carbon absorbs blue light, enhancing the red. Some of the carbon and other elements are being blown into space, forming a cloud of dust grains around the star. Eventually, the star’s outer layers will all blow away, leaving only its hot, dense core – a tiny stellar corpse known as a white dwarf. Script by Damond Benningfield

Astrophysicist Asa Stahl says there's lots to see in the night sky during 2025, including meteor showers, Saturn losing its rings, even a star going nova! (But probably not Betelgeuse.) And a dustbuster on the moon.

El último peldaño (31/01/2025) LA NUBE QUE PARÓ EL TIEMPO Y OTROS ENIGMAS DE “BIZKAIA FORTEANA” El 31 de enero de 1978, hace ahora justamente hoy 47 años, el vuelo 502 de la compañía aérea “Aviaco”, entre Valencia y Bilbao se vio obligado a dar un giro de 180º en su rumbo al encontrarse al llegar al aeropuerto de Sondika con un opaco manto de nubes grises, que sin embargo emanaban un brillo que deslumbró a los pilotos. Cuando penetraron en aquella extraña nube lo que ocurrió fue increíble. Esta noche vamos a conocer una serie de sucesos que podrían calificarse de “forteanos”, sucesos “condenados por la ciencia” como aquellos que recopiló el pionero Charles Fort en su mítico libro, pero ocurridos en las tierras vascas de Vizcaya. Nos lo contó el investigador y escritor Adrián Basilio, autor del libro “Bizkaia forteana”, donde reune 33 casos llenos de misterio ocurridos en esa zona del norte de España. TESTIGOS IRRACIONALES DE OVNIS (CAPÍTULO FINAL) Llegamos al final de la serie donde hemos pretendido mostrar la realidad de un fenómeno mediante las “declaraciones” (en este caso reacciones constatadas) por parte de testigos totalmente veraces y no influenciados (contaminados) por el relato de otras vivencias: los animales. Pero antes de llegar a las conclusiones no podemos dejar de mencionar dos parcelas que complementan nuestro estudio que estamos realizando de este espinoso tema. Una de ellas son las desapariciones en sus dos vertientes: momentáneas y permanentes. Y la otra, las agresiones que, estadísticamente hablando, representan un número mínimo de casuística, pero no por ello hay que desestimar. Con el nuestro colaborador y presidente de la S.I.B. “Betelgeuse” de Granada, Francisco Barrera, os ofrecemos el desenlace de una serie de entregas que han visto el fenómeno OVNI desde un prisma pocas veces considerado. Dirección y presentación: Joaquín Abenza. Producción y documentación: María José Garnández. Blog del programa: http://www.elultimopeldano.blogspot.com.es/ WhatsApp: 644 823 513 Programa emitido en Onda Regional de Murcia

Ahora le agregamos otra estrella a nuestro lienzo en el cielo BETELGEUSE

In Greek mythology, Orion and Scorpius were mortal enemies. So the gods placed them on opposite sides of the sky. When one is rising, the other is dropping from view. The constellations have a lot in common. And so do their best-known stars – Betelgeuse in Orion, and Antares in Scorpius. Both stars are red supergiants. Both are many times more massive than the Sun, and a hundred thousand or more times brighter. And each is destined to explode as a supernova – probably within the next million years. Betelgeuse and Antares also are hundreds of times wider than the Sun. So even though they’re hundreds of light-years away, they’re big enough for astronomers to see them as disks instead of just pinpoints of light. In fact, they’re among the first stars to have their size measured directly. Antares was measured 100 years ago. Astronomers used a special device attached to the 100-inch telescope at Mount Wilson in California – the largest telescope in the world at the time. It gave them a diameter of more than 400 times the size of the Sun. As technology has improved, astronomers have found that Antares is probably about 50 percent larger than that. So if Antares took the Sun’s place, it would engulf the four innermost planets – including Earth. Betelgeuse is in the east at nightfall. Antares is on the other side of the sky – low in the south-southeast at dawn. Tomorrow, it’s close to the lower left of the Moon. Script by Damond Benningfield

Astronomy Cast Ep. 740: Sneaky Stars! By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Jan 13, 2025. Why stars can't be trusted! If you're an astronomer you depend on accurate observations of stars, but there's a problem. Stars are sneaky! Changing in size, brightness, color, they hide their chemistry, their age and even their companions from all but the cleverest observers. Stars explode precisely when they intend to. Betelgeuse took a brightness plunge, T CrB refused to go nova, and other failures to be predictable irk observers for good reasons. Let's talk about it.   SUPPORTED BY YOU! This Episode is made possible thanks to our Patrons on Patreon. Join at the Galaxy Group level or higher to be listed in our YouTube videos.  Thanks to: Andrew Poelstra, BogieNet, Brian Cagle, David, David Truog, Ed, Gerhard, Schwarzer, Jeanette Wink, Siggi Kemmler, Stephen Veit 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H24hCeBsNI Streamed live on Jan 13, 2025. Why stars can't be trusted! If you're an astronomer you depend on accurate observations of stars, but there's a problem. Stars are sneaky! Changing in size, brightness, color, they hide their chemistry, their age and even their companions from all but the cleverest observers. Stars explode precisely when they intend to. Betelgeuse took a brightness plunge, T CrB refused to go nova, and other failures to be predictable irk observers for good reasons. Let's talk about it.   SUPPORTED BY YOU! This Episode is made possible thanks to our Patrons on Patreon. Join at the Galaxy Group level or higher to be listed in our YouTube videos.  Thanks to: Andrew Poelstra, BogieNet, Brian Cagle, David, David Truog, Ed, Gerhard, Schwarzer, Jeanette Wink, Siggi Kemmler, Stephen Veit    We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.  Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too!  Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations.  Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

Streamed live on Jan 13, 2025. Why stars can't be trusted! If you're an astronomer you depend on accurate observations of stars, but there's a problem. Stars are sneaky! Changing in size, brightness, color, they hide their chemistry, their age and even their companions from all but the cleverest observers. Stars explode precisely when they intend to. Betelgeuse took a brightness plunge, T CrB refused to go nova, and other failures to be predictable irk observers for good reasons. Let's talk about it.

El último peldaño (17/01/2025) EL EXPERIMENTO “UNIVERSO 25” El experimento "Universo 25" fue un estudio realizado por el etólogo John B. Calhoun en la década de 1970, donde se creó un hábitat ideal para ratas en un espacio cerrado. A medida que la población de ratas creció, comenzaron a surgir comportamientos anómalos, como la agresión, la apatía y la descomposición social. A pesar de tener acceso a recursos abundantes, la población eventualmente colapsó. Este experimento se interpretó como una advertencia sobre los efectos del hacinamiento y la sobrepoblación en las sociedades. En última instancia, reflejó preocupaciones sobre el futuro de la humanidad en entornos urbanos densamente poblados. Nos presentó este interesante experimento nuestro asesor científico Israel Ampuero, doctor en Bioquímica. “LOS VILLARES”: EL ÚLTIMO CASO PERFECTO. DEBATE HOMENAJE A DIONISIO ÁVILA El 16 de julio de 1996, sobre las 12 del medio día, Dionisio Ávila, un agricultor jubilado de Los Villares (Jaén) afirmó haber visto un objeto extraño posado en un campo cerca de su casa, así como la presencia de tres humanoides con los que se comunicó telepáticamente. La experiencia se repitió en fechas posteriores, lo que generó gran revuelo en la comunidad ufológica nacional. Según su relato, el objeto emitía luces y tenía un aspecto metálico con unas misteriosas inscripciones. Tras el suceso, se realizaron investigaciones, pero no se encontraron pruebas concluyentes. Este caso se convirtió en uno de los más importantes de finales del siglo XX en España. El pasado 9 de enero falleció Dionisio Ávila, contaba con 92 años. El programa de esta noche es nuestro homenaje a su memoria. Contamos con el investigador y escritor Cristian Puig, que nos trae unos documentos históricos y la colaboración de investigadores que estudiaron el caso de primera mano, como David Ruiz, y los miembros de la S.I.B. Betelgeuse de Granada Francisco Barrera (presidente) y Antonio Salinas (Jefe del Departamento de Ufología) . Dirección y presentación: Joaquín Abenza. Producción y documentación: María José Garnández. Blog del programa: http://www.elultimopeldano.blogspot.com.es/ WhatsApp: 644 823 513 Programa emitido en Onda Regional de Murcia

The Daily Quiz - Science and Nature Today's Questions: Question 1: Which constellation features Betelgeuse, the first star whose size was measured, in 1920? Question 2: What is the atomic number for thalium? Question 3: According to Boyle's Law, what increases when a gas is compressed to half its size? Question 4: Deoxyribonucleic acid is better known as what? Question 5: How many faces does a dodecahedron have? Question 6: What is a male panda known as? Question 7: What is the name of the minute organisms found drifting near the surface of seas and lakes? Question 8: Which Small Breed Of Cattle Is Found Wile In The Tibetan Plateu , North Of The Himalayas Question 9: How many legs does a crab have? This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stew and Smith from It Doesn't Hold Up podcast join Flixwatcher to review Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice (1988) is a fantasy horror comedy directed by Tim Burton and starring Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse, a sleazy ‘bio-exorcist', Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis as Adam and Barbara, the unfortunate couple who die and return to their house to be haunted by the new inhabitants which include Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz, a teenage goth. Beetlejuice set the tone for Tim Burton's films of the 1980s and 1990s and 2024 saw the long awaited sequel which would star a number of the original cast. Beetlejuice balances creepy horror with genuine laughs, mainly down to Keaton's sex pest antagonist and Ryder's charming Lydia (Ryder was only 15 when she filmed this!). Recommendability for Beetlejuice was pretty high, taking into account the nostalgia and also the lack of real plot. Decent scores for the remaining Flixwatcher categories give a very respectable overall score of 4.52. [supsystic-tables id=382]     Episode #368 Crew Links Thanks to the Episode # 368 crew of Stew and Smith from It Doesn't Hold Up podcast   Please make sure you give them some love   More about Beetlejuice For more info on Beetlejuice can visit Beetlejuice IMDB page here or Beetlejuice Rotten Tomatoes page here. Final Plug! Subscribe, Share and Review us on iTunes If you enjoyed this episode of Flixwatcher Podcast you probably know other people who will like it too! Please share it with your friends and family, review us, and join us across ALL of the Social Media links below. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse … DYING?!

La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las últimas noticias de la actualidad científica. En el episodio de hoy: Cara A: -Betelbuddy, la posibilidad de que Betelgeuse tenga una compañera (9:00) Este episodio continúa en la Cara B. Contertulios: Sara Robisco, Juan Carlos Gil, Francis Villatoro, Héctor Socas. Imagen de portada realizada con Midjourney. Todos los comentarios vertidos durante la tertulia representan únicamente la opinión de quien los hace... y a veces ni eso

La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las últimas noticias de la actualidad científica. En el episodio de hoy: Cara B: -Promo AICAD. Consigue tu título oficial de posgrado online en https://www.aicad.es (00:01) -Bacteria Conan (Deinococcus radiodurans) (02:43) -Problema de ajuste fino en la visión SETI-optimista (28:43) -Cubos de datos para el estudio de la Tierra (1:27:03) -Señales de los oyentes (1:49:13) Este episodio es continuación de la Cara A. Contertulios: Sara Robisco, Francis Villatoro, Héctor Socas. Imagen de portada realizada con Midjourney. Todos los comentarios vertidos durante la tertulia representan únicamente la opinión de quien los hace... y a veces ni eso

Happy New Year, here's an episode recorded in October. Its a continuation of our conversation on Brood of Vipers, our latest caper. This week's other topics include a couple of sequels that just fell short of the originals. Want more from us? Check out these links: - Ryan's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/myers291/ (make him use it) - Jeff's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/jmyersonfires/

The bright orange star that marks the shoulder of Orion gets most of the attention, but the hunter’s blue-white heel is even brighter. And it faces a similar fate: Both stars will blast themselves to bits. The shoulder is represented by Betelgeuse. The supergiant star has been unpredictable in recent years. It’s grown dramatically fainter and brighter – the result of “puffs” of gas from its surface that are many times the size of the Sun. The heel is marked by Rigel. The star appears to be more than 850 light-years away, although there’s a good bit of wiggle room. The details of its mass, size, and brightness all depend on that number. But the best estimates say that Rigel is about 20 times more massive than the Sun, dozens of times wider, and tens of thousands of times brighter. Rigel’s color tells us that its surface is much hotter than the surface of Betelgeuse. Rigel might once have looked like Betelgeuse does today. But changes in its core caused the star to shrink and get hotter. Sometime in the next couple of million years, the core will die and collapse. Rigel’s outer layers will explode as a supernova. That will seed the space around it with the raw materials for future stars and planets. Rigel is low in the east-southeast at nightfall. It’s to the right of Orion’s three-star belt, which extends upward from the horizon. Rigel is the seventh-brightest star system in the night sky, so you can’t miss it. More about Rigel tomorrow. Script by Damond Benningfield

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The Invisible Force Behind Betelgeuse's Strange Behavior Dive into the mystery of Betelgeuse's intriguing companion star! Scientists have found evidence of a sun-sized "Beetle Buddy" orbiting the red supergiant, helping explain its puzzling 2,170-day brightness cycle. Learn how this companion acts as a cosmic snowplow, clearing paths through Betelgeuse's dust clouds and potentially influencing its eventual supernova. In this episode, we explore: How astronomers detected the hidden companion What this means for Betelgeuse's future supernova Why this companion orbits at a surprisingly close distance The role of dust and debris is Betelgeuse's brightness changes How the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could revolutionize our understanding with its powerful coronagraph technology. Coming soon: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may give us our first direct look at Betelgeuse's mysterious companion through advanced spectroscopy and imaging!

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SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 132*Could Betelgeuse Actually Be Two Stars?A new study raises the intriguing possibility that the red supergiant Betelgeuse may not be on the brink of supernova, as previously thought. Instead, it might be a binary star system. This revelation, reported in the Astrophysical Journal, suggests that an unseen companion star could be causing Betelgeuse's pulsing brightness, challenging the long-held belief of its impending explosion.*Richard Branson to Co-Pilot Space Perspective's First Manned Balloon FlightVirgin Group founder Richard Branson is set to co-pilot Space Perspective's first manned stratospheric balloon flight. The flight promises a gentle ascent to 100,000 feet, offering panoramic views of Earth without the high G-forces of traditional Space tourism, marking a new era in high-altitude experiences.*Australia's Ambitious Spaceport PlansDespite not launching an orbital mission in over 50 years, Australia is gearing up to expand its spaceport capabilities. Proposals for new spaceports in Western Australia and Queensland are on the table, aiming to position Australia as a key player in the global Space industry.Skywatch: November Night SkiesExplore the November night skies with highlights including the Andromeda Galaxy, the Crab Nebula, and three meteor showers. Discover the celestial wonders visible this month and the fascinating stories behind them.www.spacetimewithstuartgary.comwww.bitesz.com

What's up, dudes? It's a fun, light hearted episode today with special guests Anthony Caruso from ‘Tis the Podcast and CM Chuck from Just Another Friday Night! That's right! We're talking the ghost with the most, Beetlejuice!In the 1988 film, Adam and Barbara Maitland are newly deceased. When their idyllic home is suddenly invaded with artsy yuppies and their gothic daughter, they call on the moldy bio-exorcist. Consequently, Betelgeuse falls for Lydia and after supernatural shenanigans, tries to marry her. Long story short, the good guys win. In the recent sequel, Lydia almost loses her daughter to a homicidal ghost. Reluctantly, she turns to Betelgeuse to save her. Unbeknownst to her, his succubus ex-wife is out for revenge for her murder. Unfortunately, the happy ending comes at the price of Lydia's hand in marriage. Or does it?Black and white striped suit? Check. Scary ghost face? From the rear. Spectral lip sync? Only to Day O (The Banana Boat Song)! Oh, and MacArthur Park! So grab your handbook for the recently deceased, draw a door, and go the Other World with this episode on "Beetlejuice!"'Tis the PodcastFB: @tisthepodcastTwitter: @tisthepodIG: @tisthepodcastFB Group: Tis the Podcast GroupJust Another Friday NightYouTube: @JAFNpodcastFB: @JAFNpodcastTwitter: @JAFNpodcastIG: @jafnpodcastGive us a buzz! Send a text, dudes!Check us out on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Totally Rad Christmas Mall & Arcade, Teepublic.com, or TotallyRadChristmas.com! Later, dudes!

Today's episode Matthew and Nort review 1988 American gothic dark fantasy comedy horror film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren based on a story by McDowell and Larry Wilson. The plot revolves around a recently deceased couple. As ghosts, they are not allowed to leave their house. They contact Betelgeuse, a sleazy "bio-exorcist", to scare the house's new inhabitants away.  We are a comedy movie review podcast where Matthew & Nort take turns watching and reviewing a movie the other host has not seen. They go over the entire plot with spoilers and discuss how they feel about the film. They also talk about fun facts, box office, actors, and how the movie impacted us.Join our Patreon to support the show and get ad-free podcast episodes, full access to our exclusive Patron Discord, and get access to a secret podcast called Flight School where we watch and review a TV Pilot voted on by the Patrons! You get all of that for the low price of $5! Sources for So, You Finally Watched Support the lovely people who created stuff for the show:Art by: Meraki2019Deep Voice by: MarlarIntro music by: Ozeyzin GET THE MERCH!Scroll down the page to find our shows! GET THE CHIBI SHIRT!https://encounterco-shop.fourthwall.com/pages/byshow We are a part of The Encounter Co. network! Check out all the other awesome shows on the network! Follow us on Twitter at:Show: @SYFWPodNort's Twitter: @NortSauwce Other Socials:Instagram: SoyoufinallywatchedpodTik Tok: SyfwpodcastYouTube: So, You Finally Watched Podcast If you liked the show be sure to leave a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts & Spotify so we can get the word out about our show! Also tell a friend or two! Thanks for listening!  Nort has another podcast with his co-host and wife Anna called Reading isn't for Kids! The pair review and discuss children chapter books, YA books, and sometimes comics. Check it out here! If you want to check out Nort's actual play podcast click this link! The show is called Grim Encounters and it is a campy horror actual play podcast using the Chill 3rd Edition ruleset for seasons 1-3 and season 4 is a campy sci-fi Fallout setting. Best place to start is Season 1, Season 2, or Season 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYLtwPRhnU8 Ralph Wilkins hosts.  Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. From Oct 21, 2022. This show is all about Betelgeuse and supernovas (supernovae? Let's call the whole thing off). What will happen to Betelgeuse? How bright will it get? When will it go supernova? Will we get to see it? How do we predict supernovas?   A new study points to a rapid dimming (like the one we saw in 2019!) just before it obliterates itself in a violent release of energy that will make it brighter than anything else in the night sky.   But please do help us out by subscribing to the channel, if you don't already: https://www.youtube.com/awesomeastron...   And if you want to hear more from us we have 2 podcast episodes each month: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast...  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Yr24VA... Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/fnhxs94a  Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/awesome...  TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science/A... Music by Star Salzman   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.  Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too!  Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations.  Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

====================================================SUSCRIBETEhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNpffyr-7_zP1x1lS89ByaQ?sub_confirmation=1=======================================================================EL FASCINANTE LABORATORIO DE DIOSDevoción Matutina para Adolescentes 2024Narrado por: Mone MuñozDesde: Buenos aires, Argentina===================|| www.drministries.org ||===================28 DE OCTUBREORIÓN«Vi la ciudad santa, la nueva Jerusalén, que bajaba del cielo, de la presencia de Dios. Estaba arreglada como una novia vestida para su prometido» (Apocalipsis 21:2).EXISTEN 88 CONSTELACIONES RECONOCIDAS POR LA UNIÓN Astronómica Internacional. Todas ellas están compuestas por grupos de estrellas que parecen crear formas de animales, seres humanos u objetos diversos cuando se observan en el cielo. Algunas constelaciones son más fáciles de identificar, como la constelación de Orión. Se asemeja a la imagen de un guerrero o cazador en compañía de sus dos perros de caza, representados por las constelaciones Canis Malory Canis Menor.¿Qué te parece verla con tus propios ojos? Al ser una de las constelaciones más grandes que existen, es visible en prácticamente todas las regiones habitadas de la Tierra. Para encontrarla, basta con buscar tres estrellas en hilera, conocidas como las Tres Marías» . Forman el cinturón de Orión. Cerca de ellas, pueden verse cuatro estrellas brillantes, dos arriba y dos abajo, formando una figura que se asemeja a las alas de una mariposa.Sobre Orión, Elena G. de White describió: «El 16 de diciembre de 1848, el Señor me dio una visión. [...] La atmósfera se partió, arrollándose hacia atrás, y entonces pudimos ver en Orión un espacio abierto de donde salió la voz de Dios. Por aquel espacio abierto descenderá la santa ciudad de Dios (Primeros escritos, cap. 5, p. 63). No es casualidad que una de las estrellas pertenecientes a la constelación de Orión se llame "Betelgeuse» . En hebreo, su nombre significa «portal de la casa de Dios".Al igual que el apóstol Juan, Elena G. de White vio la Ciudad Santa descender del cielo. Un día, todos nosotros veremos también ese momento. Aprovecha hoy la oportunidad para hacer una sincera oración mientras observas la constelación. ¡Pídele a Dios que te ayude a estar preparado para ese GRAN DÍA! 

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest and most famous stars in the northern night sky, has varied in brightness with an elusive pattern ever since observations began. Many theories exist as to why it ebbs and flows with apparently two distinct rhythms – one shorter and another around 2000 days long.But just recently two independent astronomical teams have unveiled papers suggesting the existence of an orbital companion circling the red giant. About the size of our own sun, the “Betelbuddy” may whizz round Betelgeuse, almost skimming its surface, every 2000 days. And why haven't we seen the Betelbuddy before? Because, from here, it would be a million times fainter than Betelgeuse itself, as one of the authors, and long-time Betelgeuse watcher, Andrea Dupree of Harvard and Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics explains.Back here on earth, Omar Yaghi of Berkeley, University of California and colleagues have been designing a new material that can scrub carbon dioxide out of the air in minutes. They have patented this type of Covalent Organic Framework (COF) and are hoping to scale up production such that a few hundred tonnes deployed around our biggest cities could solve our CO2 crisis.But then what do you do with all those gigatonnes of CO2? Maybe one thing would be to use solar power to convert it into plant food. Robert Jinkerson and colleagues describe in the journal Joule a proposal to transform global food production into “Electro-Agriculture”, growing plants, fungi and algae on acetate made from solar energy. Their proposal would also shrink the global footprint of farming to allow more natural habitat.And finally, Michael Frachetti of Washington University in St Louis has published an archaeological survey of two lost conurbations in the mountains of southern Uzbekistan that he and colleagues rediscovered in the last few years. He argues that the scale and complexity of these dwelling, and their location over 2000m, way above normal agricultural altitude mean we need to reconsider these stops on what would have been the Silk Road, around 600-1000 CE, perhaps even pointing at a very early industrial economy.Presented by Roland Pease Produced by Alex Mansfield with Andrew Lewis(Image: Orion sink to Kashimayarigadake. Credit: I love Photo and Apple.)

On October 13, SpaceX and Elon Musk successfully launched their Starship rocket into low-Earth orbit. Then, in a milestone moment for space technology, they successfully captured the rocket's Super Heavy booster with “chopstick” arms on the launch tower upon reentry, marking the first time a booster was ever caught in mid-air.The achievement is a mind-blowing feat of human engineering — one that hasn't gotten nearly the recognition that it deserves. Today on Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I talk with must-read space journalist Eric Berger about the role of SpaceX in the new, 21st-century Space Race, the significance of the company's achievements, and our potential to become a spacefaring, inter-planetary species.Berger is the senior space editor at Ars Techica, and is the author of both Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX and his most recent excellent book, Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age.In This Episode* Starship's big reentry (1:43)* Race (back) to the moon (8:54)* Why Starship? (11:48)* The Mars-shot (18:37)* Elon in the political area (22:10)* Understanding SpaceX (24:06)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversationStarship's big reentry (1:43)James Pethokoukis: After the launch tower caught that booster stage of the rocket, I saw someone on Twitter a day later say, “Hey, do you guys remember over the weekend when SpaceX sent a Statue-of-Liberty-sized object to space and then caught it when it came back down? That was amazing!”So two things: First, as a space guy, what was your reaction? Two, beyond the sheer coolness of it, why was this an important thing to happen?It seemed inconceivable a few years ago, but now, all of a sudden, it's the future of rocketry, just like that.Eric Berger: Just from a space perspective, it's epic to see, to use your adjectives, the Statue of Liberty comparison. I mean, it's a small skyscraper, but they essentially launch that thing to space at thousands of miles per hour, then it slows down, it comes back right where it took off from, hovers, and it falls precisely into these two arms that are designed to catch it. The cool thing is that we'd never seen anything like that before. It seemed inconceivable a few years ago, but now, all of a sudden, it's the future of rocketry, just like that.the significance of this, of course, is SpaceX has shown that with the reusability of the Falcon 9 rocket, it can really change the economics of launch. This year they've launched 101 times. No country had ever done that many launches before in a year. They're going to launch 95 percent of all the mass into orbit this year with primarily the Falcon 9 Rocket, and all that's because the first stage is entirely reusable, they're flying them more than 20 times now, and so they're just taking that and scaling it.What was amazing about the tower catch this weekend was the fact that it really removes the need for landing legs. You may think, “Well, what's the big deal about that?” Well, there's a lot of mass involved with those landing legs: You need powerful actuators to drive them, you need hydraulic fluid, and that's a lot of dead mass in the vehicle. Also, it's not insignificant to transport the rocket from wherever it lands, either on a boat or on land, to the factory and to refurbish the rocket and launch again. Ideally, with this step, they're eliminating days from that process of reuse and ideally, in the future, they're literally going to be catching the rocket, setting it back on the launch mount and then potentially flying again.So it's not just the Starship, right? So for the other launches, is this is going to become the landing procedure?No, it will be just for Starship. They will continue to fly Falcon 9 as is. That's a mature product, everyone's pretty comfortable with that vehicle. But, look, other companies have tried different things. When Rocket Lab was trying to reuse its small Electron vehicle, its plan was to have the first stage come back under a parachute and then basically swoop in with a helicopter and catch it so that the rocket didn't fall into the ocean. That ended up not working.It seems very whimsical.Well, it made sense from an engineering standpoint, but it was a lot more difficult to snag the rocket than they ended up finding out. So, up until now, the only way to get a rocket back vertically was on a drone ship or landing straight up, and so this is a brand new thing, and it just creates more efficiencies in the launch system.What is the direction now, as far as launch costs and the continued decline of launch costs if this will be the new landing procedure for Starship?It's impossible to say that, of course. We can look to a Falcon 9 for an analog. SpaceX sales started out selling Falcon 9 for $60 million, it's upped that price to about $67 or $68 million — still the lowest-cost medium-lift launch vehicle in the world, but that's the price you or I or NASA would pay for a rocket. Internally, the estimate is that they're re-flying those vehicles for about $15 million. So, in effect, SpaceX has taken the cost of the lowest-price vehicle on the market and divided it by four, basically.Starship, of course, can lift much more payload to orbit than Falcon 9. By some measures, five to 10 times as much, eventually. And so if they can get the cost down, if they can make the first and second stage reusable, I think you're talking about them bringing the cost down potentially another order of magnitude, but they've got a lot of work to get there.I think the second most common comment I saw on social media — the first one being like, “This is amazing, I'm crying, this is so cool” — the second one is, “Why is NASA not using this Starship to get to the moon?” It seems like progress is being made quickly, and you mentioned the costs, I think people are just befuddled. It's a question you must get a lot.The reality is that if we want to go to the moon before 2030, we probably need to do it with a combination of NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Starship. It's a complicated answer, but the reality is that NASA, in conjunction with Congress, has basically, over the last quarter of a century, pivoted away from reusable launch vehicles, and at one point in the early 2000s, they were actually funding three different reusable launch vehicles. The most famous of those, of course, was the Space Shuttle. It stopped funding the Space Shuttle in 2011 and it went back to developing this large, expendable rocket called the Space Launch System. That was the tried and true pathway, and no one really had faith in what SpaceX is doing. And so now here we are, almost 15 years later, and SpaceX has gone out and proved it with the Falcon 9, the Falcon Heavy, and now Starship.The reality is that if we want to go to the moon before 2030, we probably need to do it with a combination of NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Starship. In 2021, NASA did select Starship as its lunar lander. So Starship is a critical part of the architecture. Probably the most challenging part, actually, is getting down to the lunar surface and then getting back up reliably. And so Starship plays a key role, and I just really think that it's inevitable that Starship and potentially Blue Origin's architecture will be how humans get to the moon and back, but we're kind of in an interim period right now.Is it just sort of too late to switch?Yeah, it is. It's too late to switch. You could conceive of scenarios in which humans launch in Crew Dragon, transfer over to a Starship, and then come back in Crew Dragon, but even then you've got some challenges. And the problem — problem is the wrong word, but one of the major issues with Starship is that it has no redundancy when you come back and land. It has got to nail the landing or people inside of it die. So you're going to want to see hundreds of Starship launches and many, many successful landings in a row before you put people on the vehicle. And to have the idea of launching humans from Earth to the moon at this point, we're pretty far from that. I would think a decade from now, at least, and by then China will be on the moon. And so it's really a matter of, do you want to sort of continue to delay the human return of the moon, or do you want to take the tools that you have now and make your best run for it?Race (back) to the moon (8:54)Since you brought it up, are we going to beat China to the moon with the SLS?Very much an open question. The SLS Rocket is basically ready. In its current form, it performed very well during Artemis I. It's obviously super expensive. You may have seen the Europa Clipper launch on Monday of this week, that launched on a Falcon Heavy. For almost a decade, Congress mandated NASA that it launched on the SLS rocket, and that would've cost 10 times as much. NASA paid about $200 million for the Clipper launch on Falcon Heavy, SLS would've been in excess of $2 billion, so it's a very expensive rocket, but it does work, it worked well during Artemis I. The best way we have right now, Jim, to get astronauts from Earth out to lunar orbit is SLS and the Orion deep spacecraft vehicle. That will change over time, but I think if we want to put humans on the moon this decade, that's probably the best way to do it.Is it going to be a close call? I don't want to overemphasize the competition aspect, but I guess I would like to see America do it first.It's going to be close. NASA's current date is 2026 for the Artemis III moon landing. There's no way that happens. I think 2028 is a realistic no-earlier-than date, and the reality is SpaceX has to make a lot of progress on Starship. What they did this past weekend was a great step. I think the key thing about the fact of this weekend's launch is that it was a success. There were no anomalies, there's going to be no investigation, so SpaceX is going to launch again. As long as they continue to have success, then they can start popping these off and get to some of the really key tests like the in-space propellant transfer tests, which they hope to do sometime next year.[W]hen you're on the moon, there's no launch tower, there's no launch crew, you've just got the astronauts inside Starship, and if that vehicle doesn't take off on the moon, the crew's going to die. So it's got to work.What Starship will do is it'll launch into low-earth orbit, and then it'll be refueled, and it'll go to the moon, and you need lots of launches to refuel it. And then really the key test, I think, is landing on the moon, because the South Pole is pretty craterous, you've got to have high confidence in where you land, and then the big challenge is getting back up to lunar orbit safely.Think about it: When you watch any rocket launch, you see this very detailed, very intricate launch tower with all these umbilicals, and all of these cables, and power, and telemetry, and stuff, and humans are looking at all this data, and if there's any problem, they abort, right? Well, when you're on the moon, there's no launch tower, there's no launch crew, you've just got the astronauts inside Starship, and if that vehicle doesn't take off on the moon, the crew's going to die. So it's got to work. And so that's really a big part of the challenge, as well, is getting all that to work. So I think 2028, for all that to come together, is a realistic no-earlier-than date, and China's pretty consistently said 2030, and they're starting to show off some hardware, they recently demonstrated that suggests they have a chance to make 2030.On sale everywhere The Conservative Futurist: How To Create the Sci-Fi World We Were PromisedWhy Starship? (11:48)What is the commercial case for Starship, assuming that these next launches continue to go off well? What is it supposed to be doing here on Earth and in Earth orbit?The next big race is to deliver internet, not to a dish that you set up, but actually to your mobile phone. It's called direct-to-cell, and you need much bigger satellites for this. And so SpaceX needs the Starship to launch these satellites, so that will really be the commercial use case for Starship in the near term.Its primary function, and I think the most important function for SpaceX in the near term, is launching these much larger Starlink satellites. I think it's been pretty well proven that there's a large demand for broadband internet from low-earth orbit. Starlink has now up to four million customers and they're actually signing almost at an exponential rate. Then growth, the business is profitable. So that's been super impressive. The next big race is to deliver internet, not to a dish that you set up, but actually to your mobile phone. It's called direct-to-cell, and you need much bigger satellites for this. So SpaceX needs the Starship to launch these satellites, so that will really be the commercial use case for Starship in the near term.I think once the vehicle starts flying reliably, we're going to see where the commercial customers go because we've never really been in a launch environment where you're not really constrained by mass and, more importantly, by volume. You can just build bigger, less-efficient things. Instead of hyper-managing your satellite to be small, and light, and compact, you can kind of make trades where maybe you have a lower-cost vehicle that's bigger. The capability of Starship with its voluminous payload fairing and being able to lift a hundred or more tons to low-earth orbit for low cost — entirely new regime. And so I think it's a case of Field of Dreams, “If you build it, they will come,” and in the near term, Starship will be the business case, and longer-term we'll see some unique opportunities.You've been covering this for quite a while, documenting, books, including your most recent book. Really an amazing ride as a space journalist for you here.I've been covering space now for two decades, and really with a focus on commercial space over the last decade because I think that's where a lot of the excitement and innovation is coming from. But the reality is that you've got this whole ecosystem of companies, but the 800-pound gorilla is SpaceX. They're the company that has consistently had success. They are the only provider of crew transportation services for NASA, still, even five years after their initial success, and they're the only provider right now that's launching cargo missions to the space station. They've got huge Starlink satellites, constellation. As a journalist, you really want to understand the biggest, most dominating force in the industry, and that's clearly SpaceX, and so that's why I've chosen to dedicate a lot of time to really understand where they started out and how they got to where they are, which is at the top of the heap.The story that you lay out in your book, which came out last month — Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age — to me, it's still a story people mostly don't know, and one that I think a lot of non-space reporters don't understand. What are some common misunderstandings that you come across that make you feel like you need to tell this story?I think, until recently, one of the things that people might say about SpaceX is, “Well, what's the big deal? NASA's launched humans to orbit in the past, NASA's launched cargo, they had a reusable space vehicle in the Space Shuttle.” What's different is that SpaceX is doing this at scale, and they're building for a long-term plan that is sustainable.I'll give you an example: The Space Shuttle was reusable. Everything was reusable except the external tank. However, you needed a standing army of thousands of people to pour over the Space Shuttle after it came back from space to make sure that all of its tiles and every piece of equipment was safe. Now, when it was originally sold to Congress back in the 1970s, the program manager for the space shuttle, George Mueller said that the goal was to get the cost of payload-to-orbit for the Space Shuttle down to $25 a pound, which sounded great because then they were saying dozens of people could fly on the vehicle at a time. Well, of course, at the end of the day, it only ever flew at a maximum of seven people, and the cost of payload-to-orbit was $25,000. So yes, it was reusable, but it was the kind of thing that was super expensive and you couldn't fly very often. You could do limited things.It's really the first vehicle we ever developed to go to Mars. SpaceX is doing some of the same things that NASA did, but it's doing them better, faster, and a lot cheaper.SpaceX is proposing kind of an order-of-magnitude change. We went to the moon in the 1960s with the Lunar Module, and everyone remembers it carried two astronauts down to the lunar surface. And that whole thing launched on a giant stack, the Saturn V rocket. So if you were to take the Lunar Module and replace the astronauts and just use it to deliver cargo to the moon, it could take five tons down to the lunar surface. Starship, in a reusable mode, can take a hundred tons. If you send an expendable version of Starship, it's 200 tons. And oh, by the way, even if you're not bringing that Starship back, you're getting the whole first stage back anyway.And so that's really the promise here, is you're building a sustainable system in space where it doesn't cost you $6 billion to go to the moon, it costs you half a billion dollars or to go to the moon, and you can then go on and do other things, you can fill your Starship up with methane repellent and go further. It's really the first vehicle we ever developed to go to Mars. SpaceX is doing some of the same things that NASA did, but it's doing them better, faster, and a lot cheaper.That $25-a-pound number you gave for Space Shuttle, where are we with SpaceX? Where is SpaceX, or where are they and what's their goal in that context?They're getting down in a couple of thousand dollars a pound with a Falcon 9, and the idea is, potentially, with Starship, you get down to hundreds of dollars a pound or less. They have a big challenge too, right? They're using tiles on Starship as well. They showed some of them off during the webcast this weekend, and I think we have yet to have any kind of information on how reusable, or how rapidly reusable Starship will be, and we'll have to see.The Mars-shot (18:37)To the extent the public understands this company — this is my understanding — the point here is to build Starship, to further this satellite business, and then that satellite business will fund the eventual Mars mission and the Mars colonization. I think that's the public perception of what is happening with this business. How accurate is that? Is that how you look at it? I mean, that's how I look at it from my uninformed or less-informed view, but is that really what we're talking about here?Yeah, fundamentally, I think that is accurate. There is no business case right now to go to Mars. AT&T is not going to pay $5 billion to put an AT&T logo on a Starship and send a crew to Mars. There are no resources right now that we really can conceive of on Mars that would be profitable for humans to go get and bring back to Earth. So then the question is: How do you pay for it?Financially, the business case for Mars is not entirely clear, so you've got to figure out some way to pay for it. That was one reason why Elon Musk ultimately went with Starlink. That would pay for the Mars vision.Even when settlers went to the New World in the 1500s, 1600s, in United States, they were exporting tobacco and other products back to Europe, and there's no tobacco that we know of on Mars, right? Financially, the business case for Mars is not entirely clear, so you've got to figure out some way to pay for it. That was one reason why Elon Musk ultimately went with Starlink. That would pay for the Mars vision.I think that's still fundamentally the case. It's effectively going to be paying for the entire development of Starship, and then if it becomes highly profitable, SpaceX is not a public company, so they can take those revenues and do whatever they want with them, and Elon has said again and again that his vision is to settle Mars, and he's building the rockets to do it, and he's trying to find the funding through Starlink to accomplish it. That is the vision. We don't know how it's all going to play out, but I think you're fundamentally correct with that.I think when he mentions Mars, there are some people that just give it a roll of the eye. It just sounds too science fictional, despite the progress being made toward accomplishing that. It sounds like you do not roll your eyes at that.Well, it's interesting. He first really talked publicly about this in 2016, eight years ago, back when there was no Starship, back when they just were coming off their second Falcon 9 failure in about a year, and you kind of did roll your eyes at it then . . . And then they got the Falcon 9 flying and they started re-flying it and re-flying it. They did Falcon Heavy, and then they started building Starship hardware, and then they started launching Starship, and now they're starting to land Starship, and this is real hardware.And yes, to be clear, they have a long, long way to go and a lot of technical challenges to overcome, and you need more than just a rocket in a spaceship to get to Mars, you need a lot of other stuff, too: biological, regulatory, there's a lot of work to go, but they are putting down the railroad tracks that will eventually open that up to settlement.So I would not roll my eyes. This is certainly the only credible chance, I think, for humans to go to Mars in our lifetimes, and if those early missions are successful, you could envision settlements being built there.Elon in the political arena (22:10)Given SpaceX's accomplishments and their lead, is that company politics-proof? Obviously there's always going to be controversy about Elon, and Twitter, and who he gives money to, and things he says, but does any of that really matter for SpaceX?I think it does. We've already seen a couple examples of it, especially with Elon's very public entree into presidential politics over the last several months. I think that does matter. In his fight with Brazil over what he termed as free speech, they were confiscating Starlink, and so they were trying to shut Starlink down in their country, and that directly affects SpaceX. In California, over the last week we have seen a commission vote to try to limit the number of launches Falcon 9 launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base, and they clearly did that because they were uncomfortable with Elon's behavior publicly. So yeah, this is going to bleed over.Now, in the near term, there will be limited impacts because the US Department of Defense clearly needs SpaceX rockets. They need SpaceX's Starlink, they use a branded version of it called Starshield for military communications. The launch and Starlink capabilities are essential for the military. NASA is even more reliant on SpaceX for the International Space Station and beyond; the entire moon program runs through Starship, so it's not going to change in the near term, but longer term you could see this having impacts, and it's not clear to me exactly what those would be — I don't think you could really nationalize SpaceX, and I think if you did try to nationalize SpaceX, you would sort of destroy its magic, but I do think there will ultimately be consequences for the Elon's political activity.Understanding SpaceX (24:06)About Reentry, is there a particular story in there that you think just really encapsulates, if you want to understand SpaceX, and what it's doing, and where it's come from, this story kind of gets at it?The point of the book was to tell the story behind the story. A lot of people knew, generally, what SpaceX has accomplished over the last decade, or the last 15 years, but this really takes you behind the scenes and tells the stories of the people who actually did it.It's a company that's moving so fast forward that, like I said, there are all these challenges they're facing and they're just tackling them one-by-one as they go along.I think one of the best stories of the book is just how they were making this up as they went along. The very first time they were going to try to land on the barge was in January of 2015, the drone ship landing, and the night before that barge was going to set out to sea, the guy who had developed the barge realized that, wait a minute, if we come back with a rocket this week, we have nowhere to put it in the port of Jacksonville, because they were staging out of Jacksonville at the time. And there had been this whole discussion at SpaceX about where to put these pedestals, but no one had actually done it. That night, he and another engineer stayed up all night drinking red wine and CADing out designs for the pedestals, and they met the concrete pores the next morning and just built these pedestals within 24 hours. It's a company that's moving so fast forward that, like I said, there are all these challenges they're facing and they're just tackling them one-by-one as they go along.Elon has spoken about there's sort of this window of opportunity open for space. In the United States, at least, it was open and then it kind of closed. We stopped leaving Earth orbit for a while, we couldn't even get our people into Earth orbit; we had to use another country's rockets.Is this window — whether for space commerce, space exploration — is it sort of permanently open? Are we beyond the point where things can close — because satellites are so important, and because of geopolitics, that window is open and it's staying open for us to go through.I think he's talking about the window for settlement of Mars and making humans a multi-planetary species. And when he talks about the window closing, I think he means a lot of different things: One, the era of cheaper money could end — and that clearly did happen, right? We've seen interest rates go way up and it's been much more difficult to raise money, although SpaceX has been able to still do that because of their success. I think he's thinking about his own mortality. I believe he's thinking about a major global war that would focus all of our technological efforts here on planet Earth trying to destroy one another. I think he's thinking about nuclear weapons — just all the things that could bring human progress to a screeching halt, and he's saying, “Look, the window may be 100 years or it may be 20 years.” So he's like, “We should seize the opportunity right now when we have it.”Faster, Please! is a reader-supported publication. 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What makes the star Betelgeuse so special? What Constellation is Betelguese part of? How big is Betelgeuse compared to the Sun?

This week on The TruVue Podcast, we're diving into Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024), where the dead just keep walking! Tim Burton is back, and so is everyone's favorite undead bio-exorcist, Betelgeuse. With Michael Keaton reprising his iconic role and Jenna Ortega joining the chaos, we break down this sequel that's got “Dead Man Stalking” written all over it. When Lydia's daughter opens a portal to the afterlife, it's a supernatural train wreck of weddings, revenge, and soul-eating mayhem. All Aboard! for some wild, NSFW barbershop talk full of spoilers, jokes, and more. We bring the barbershop talk to the box office because it's not about the review, it's the conversation with the crew. Contact Us: YouTube: TruVue Podcast Instagram: @TruVuePodcast Facebook: TruVue Podcast X (Formerly Twitter): @TruVue_ Email: TruVueSocial@gmail.com Website: TruVuePodcast.com LinkedIn: TruVue Podcast Hashtags: #Beetlejuice2 #DeadManStalking #MovieReview #TruVuePodcast #MichaelKeaton #TimBurton #BarbershopTalk #JennaOrtega #MoviePodcast

Chris and Taylor review the dark fantasy comedy film, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. Set more than three decades after the first Beetlejuice, it follows Lydia Deetz, now a mother, struggling to keep her family together in the wake of a loss as the specter Betelgeuse returns to haunt her. A sequel to Beetlejuice (1988) and the second film of the Beetlejuice franchise, the film stars Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O'Hara reprising their roles alongside new cast members Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega, and Willem Dafoe. Follow us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepotential_podcast/ X: https://x.com/thepotentialpod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepotentialpodcast Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/thepotentialpodcast Thanks to our sponsor:  Keen:  Go to trykeen.com/potential now! As a new customer on Keen, you can try your first 5 minute reading for $1

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! The Ghost with the Most is BACK! Emmanuel rejoins the podcast to recap SDCC this year and the METV Toons Panel, expunge his history with Beetlejuice and dissect what Warner Bros. Discovery plans are for the foreseeable future! SUPPORT The Animation Guild and Voice Actor Guilds!  Looney Tunes News: Newly appointed Bill Damaschke says there are plans in place for a Theatrical resurgence of the Tunes in 2028! And in the same article, Puck News revealed the idea of selling The Looney Tunes to Disney was floated prior to AT&T's purchase of WB!  CartoonBrew: Looney Tunes in 2028! The Bizarre Entry into the Zeitgeist of Betelgeuse!  The full Animated series is available for free on Tubi and you can buy it now on DVD! Check out the free trial for Audible with a special podcast promo! www.audibletrial.com/Looney Plucky as Beetlejuice in The Return of Bat-Duck! (1992)  Beetlejuice and Bugs do battle in MultiVersus! Now Available to unlock! Follow Special Voice Guest Christopher Swindle who plays Beetlejuice in MultiVersus and Lego Dimensions! @SwindleTopher   Follow The Tooney Tenor! All Social Media @Thetooneytenor   Follow The Podcast! @ThisMeansPod!  

MUSICA supposed legal document was leaked claiming that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will BREAK UP on September 28th. It also details how the split will be announced and handled in the media. It's probably fake.In other musician's body news: Billy Corgan is finally showing all of us his port wine birthmark in an Instagram post and encouraging his followers to "find peace with who you are." Adele Announces An Extended Hiatus At Final Munich Show. The singer announced that she will start an extended hiatus in late November, clarifying that fans won't see her perform for a long time. Adele has 10 shows left, with her final concert scheduled for Nov. 23. “After that, I will not see you for an incredibly long time,” she said. “And I will hold you dear in my heart for that whole length of my break.”Oasis are teasing some possible U.S. dates. A digital Amazon Music ad in New York City's Times Square that read, "If we need to put up a billboard to get these guys to come to the States, here it is."TVEllen DeGeneres announced the "last comedy special of her career" on Netflix on September 24th. AND FINALLY"Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" hits theaters this Friday. So it's a perfect time to look back on the 1988 original. Here are some facts about "Beetlejuice" you might not know: 1. It won an Oscar in 1989 for Best Makeup. 2.  Anjelica Huston was originally cast to play Delia Deetz. She had to back out because of an illness, so the role went to Catherine O'Hara. 3. It was almost called "Scared Sheetless" after Tim Burton jokingly suggested it to Warner Brothers execs who didn't like the name "Beetlejuice". 4. Beetlejuice is named after a star called Betelgeuse, that's in the Orion constellation. 5.  Harry Belafonte's "Day-O" played at Glenn Shadix's funeral in 2010. He played Otho, the interior decorator.6. Beetlejuice only appears on screen for 17.5 minutes out of the 92-minute runtime.7. In 1990 there was development for a sequel called "Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian". Burton was too busy with "Batman Returns" so it didn't go anywhere.8. Burton wanted Sammy Davis Jr. to play Beetlejuice. Producer David Geffen was the one who suggested Michael Keaton.9. Some of the actresses who turned down the role of Lydia Deetz include Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Connelly, Molly Ringwald, Brooke Shields, and Diane Lane.AND THAT IS YOUR CRAP ON CELEBRITIES! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

MUSIC A supposed legal document was leaked claiming that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will BREAK UP on September 28th. It also details how the split will be announced and handled in the media. It's probably fake. In other musician's body news: Billy Corgan is finally showing all of us his port wine birthmark in an Instagram post and encouraging his followers to "find peace with who you are."  Adele Announces An Extended Hiatus At Final Munich Show. The singer announced that she will start an extended hiatus in late November, clarifying that fans won't see her perform for a long time. Adele has 10 shows left, with her final concert scheduled for Nov. 23. “After that, I will not see you for an incredibly long time,” she said. “And I will hold you dear in my heart for that whole length of my break.” Oasis are teasing some possible U.S. dates. A digital Amazon Music ad in New York City's Times Square that read, "If we need to put up a billboard to get these guys to come to the States, here it is." TV Ellen DeGeneres announced the "last comedy special of her career" on Netflix on September 24th.  AND FINALLY "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" hits theaters this Friday. So it's a perfect time to look back on the 1988 original.  Here are some facts about "Beetlejuice" you might not know:  1. It won an Oscar in 1989 for Best Makeup.  2.  Anjelica Huston was originally cast to play Delia Deetz. She had to back out because of an illness, so the role went to Catherine O'Hara.  3. It was almost called "Scared Sheetless" after Tim Burton jokingly suggested it to Warner Brothers execs who didn't like the name "Beetlejuice".  4. Beetlejuice is named after a star called Betelgeuse, that's in the Orion constellation.  5.  Harry Belafonte's "Day-O" played at Glenn Shadix's funeral in 2010. He played Otho, the interior decorator. 6. Beetlejuice only appears on screen for 17.5 minutes out of the 92-minute runtime. 7. In 1990 there was development for a sequel called "Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian". Burton was too busy with "Batman Returns" so it didn't go anywhere. 8. Burton wanted Sammy Davis Jr. to play Beetlejuice. Producer David Geffen was the one who suggested Michael Keaton. 9. Some of the actresses who turned down the role of Lydia Deetz include Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Connelly, Molly Ringwald, Brooke Shields, and Diane Lane. AND THAT IS YOUR CRAP ON CELEBRITIES! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Betelgeuse a binary star? Starliner is coming home empty. New Glenn is on schedule to launch NASA's next mission to Mars. NASA's solar sail unfurls.

Is Betelgeuse a binary star? Starliner is coming home empty. New Glenn is on schedule to launch NASA's next mission to Mars. NASA's solar sail unfurls.

This summer, scientists have their eyes and telescopes trained on the small constellation system T Coronae Borealis. They think it will explode as part of a periodic nova — a once-in-a-lifetime event according to NASA scientists. And so, with the help of astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance, we continue our journey farther and deeper into spacetime with a look at the stars: How they're born and how they die. Sarafina has always been drawn to one particular star: Betelgeuse, a red supergiant in the shoulder of the constellation Orion that is nearing the end of its life. What stages of life did Betelgeuse — or any star — go through before it reached this moment? This episode is part of our series Space Camp — all abut the weird, wonderful phenomena in our universe. Check it out here: https://npr.org/spacecampCurious about the night sky? Email us at shortwave@npr.org — we'd love to hear from you!Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy