[Space Bites] INCREDIBLE Discovery From Lucy // Most Powerful Ion Engine // Slime Mold Universe

Lucy made an incredible discovery. One of the strangest exoplanetary systems ever seen. Understanding the Universe with slime mold. And the most powerful ion engine passes the test. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:15 Dinkinesh's contact binary moon https://www.universetoday.com/164152/what-wow-that-new-asteroid-image-from-lucy-just-got-even-more-interesting/ 01:36 Polar Circumbinary Planet Disk https://www.universetoday.com/164077/this-is-a-first-an-exoplanet-in-a-polar-circumbinary-disc-surrounding-two-stars/ 03:37 JWST sees CO2 on a centaur https://www.universetoday.com/164066/jwst-detects-carbon-dioxide-in-a-centaur-for-the-first-time/ 05:28 Slime mold and the Universe https://www.universetoday.com/164120/what-can-slime-mold-teach-us-about-the-universe/ 07:23 Vote results https://youtu.be/xubOa8xR2lw 07:54 Can Gaia detect gravitational waves http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03474 09:37 Most powerful ion engine test https://www.universetoday.com/164072/the-most-powerful-ion-engine-ever-built-passes-the-test/ 11:30 Newsletter https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter 12:13 Euclid's first images https://www.esa.int/ScienceExploration/SpaceScience/Euclid/Euclidsfirstimagesthedazzlingedgeofdarkness 13:46 Water Map 15:00 Apple Podcasts reviews 17:22 More on asteroids and space exploration 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/c6z1octUAak 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)