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”We Failed Them” — Starliner Bombshell as Artemis II Gets the Green Light · Space News Today

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  Hello and welcome back to Astronomy
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  Daily. I'm Anna.
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  >> And I'm Avery. It's Friday, February the
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  20th, 2026, and our producer has
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  absolutely loaded us up today. We've got
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  eight stories to get through.
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  >> Eight. That's right. And honestly,
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  they're all worth it. We've got huge
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  breaking news from the Kennedy Space
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  Center about Artemis 2. A genuinely
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  damning report that NASA itself has
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  described as we failed them. some
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  absolutely mindbending deep space
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  discoveries. And yes, we are going to
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  briefly talk about UFOs.
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  >> We absolutely are. Just briefly and
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  responsibly.
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  >> Responsibly. That is the word. Right.
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  Let's dive in. There is a lot of ground
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  to cover.
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  >> I think this might be the biggest
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  episode we've ever done, but there's
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  plenty to cover today.
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  >> We are going to start with the biggest
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  space story of the week, and it's one
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  that broke overnight. NASA has just
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  completed its second wet dress rehearsal
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  of the Aremis 2 space launch system
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  rocket. And from everything we're
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  hearing, it went well.
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  >> Really well, actually. Teams ran the SLS
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  through a full countdown, fueling the
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  rocket with its super cold liquid
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  hydrogen and liquid oxygen, simulating
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  launch day procedures right down to
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  closing the Orion crew codle hatch. And
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  they got all the way to tminus 29
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  seconds before wrapping up. That is
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  exactly where they wanted to stop.
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  >> And this matters enormously because the
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  first wet dress rehearsal back on
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  February 2nd and 3rd had to be called
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  off early due to hydrogen fuel leaks at
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  launchpad 39B. That was a setback. NASA
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  had to go in and replace seals. And
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  there was very real uncertainty about
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  whether they'd solved the problem.
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  >> And it looks like they have. NASA is
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  holding a media briefing this morning,
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  11:00 a.m. Eastern, and we'll be
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  watching that closely, but the early
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  word is positive.
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  >> So, for anyone who needs a refresher on
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  what this mission actually is, Artemis 2
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  is the first crude flight of the Aremis
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  program. It's not a moon landing that
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  comes later with Artemis 3, but it is
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  the first time humans will travel to
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  lunar distance since Apollo 17 in 1972.
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  We are talking more than 50 years.
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  >> And the crew is commander Reed Weisman,
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  pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist
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  Christina all NASA, and mission
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  specialist Jeremy Hansen from the
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  Canadian Space Agency. They're going to
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  fly around the moon in a free return
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  trajectory and come home. 10 days, no
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  landing, but an absolutely historic
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  journey. And if this morning's press
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  conference gives the all clear, the
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  launch window we're looking at is as
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  early as March 6th, that is just 2 weeks
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  away. Avery, what does that feel like to
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  you?
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  >> Honestly, it feels surreal. We've been
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  living in the Aremis era for years now.
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  Artemis 1 flew in 2022, and it's been a
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  long road to get here, but 2 weeks from
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  now, there could be four astronauts on
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  their way to the moon.
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  >> We will have full coverage as things
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  develop. And if that briefing produces
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  any surprises, we'll update you in
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  tomorrow's episode. For now though,
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  looking very good for Artemis 3.
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  >> Now, while NASA is very much in
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  celebratory mode for this morning,
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  yesterday they were facing a very
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  different kind of news day, an
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  independent review board released its
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  full report into the Boeing Starlininer
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  crude flight test, and it is a damning
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  document.
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  >> Damning is the word. The report formally
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  classifies the Starlininer mission as a
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  quote typea mishap, the most serious
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  category in NASA's safety framework.
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  That means it was an event that could
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  have resulted in death or permanent
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  disability. And NASA administrator Jared
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  Isaacman stood up in front of the
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  cameras yesterday and said, and I'm
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  paraphrasing here, "We almost did have a
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  really terrible day. We failed them."
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  them being astronauts Butch Wilmore and
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  Sunni Williams who launched in June 2024
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  expecting to be gone for 8 to 10 days
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  and ended up spending $286
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  days in orbit.
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  >> Right? So, let's just remind listeners
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  how we got here. Boeing won a $4.2
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  billion contract from NASA back in 2014
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  to build the Star Liner as a second
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  commercial crew vehicle alongside Spac
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  X's Crew Dragon. Starlininer ran into
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  problems on its very first uncrrewed
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  test flight in 2019, needed a second
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  unpiloted flight before it was deemed
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  ready, and Butch and Sunni finally
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  launched in June of last year.
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  >> The trip up went okay. They docked
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  successfully with the International
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  Space Station. But during the rendevous
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  approach, the capsule experienced
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  multiple helium leaks in the propulsion
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  system and several of the maneuvering
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  thrusters failed. There was a moment
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  where they temporarily lost what a
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  report calls six degrees of freedom
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  control. Had things gone differently in
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  those minutes. Had the thrusters not
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  recovered, docking might not have been
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  possible. And what's really chilling
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  about reading the report is discovering
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  just how many warning signs were there.
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  The investigation found that NASA and
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  Boeing were aware of concerns that
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  weren't fully understood but were
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  considered acceptable for flight.
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  Anyway, there was pressure,
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  institutional pressure to make this
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  mission succeed because the entire
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  commercial crew program's credibility
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  depended on having two viable crew
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  vehicles. The report quotes unnamed NASA
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  personnel saying things like, "There was
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  yelling in meetings. It was emotionally
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  charged and unproductive. And if you
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  weren't aligned with the desired
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  outcome, your input was filtered out or
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  dismissed." One person said they stopped
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  speaking up entirely because they knew
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  they'd be dismissed.
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  >> That is a profoundly troubling portrait
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  of an organization under pressure. And
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  what makes it worse is this. One NASA
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  worker told the investigation panel
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  roughly 11 months after the mission,
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  "Nobody within NASA or outside of NASA
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  has been held accountable. Nobody."
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  >> Administrator Isaacman addressed that
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  headon. He said there will be
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  accountability. He said the report
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  reveals that advocacy for the mission
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  success quote exceeded reasonable bounds
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  and placed the mission, the crew and
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  America's space program at risk. He also
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  made clear that NASA will not fly
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  another crew on Starlininer until the
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  technical causes are understood. The
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  propulsion system is fully qualified and
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  all 61 recommendations from this report
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  are implemented. 61 recommendations
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  spanning technical, organizational, and
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  cultural domains. Boeing, for its part,
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  said they've made substantial progress
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  and driven significant cultural changes.
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  We'll see.
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  >> It's worth noting Butch and Sunni are
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  safe. They got home in a SpaceX Crew
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  Dragon in early 2025 and have since
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  retired from NASA. But this report is a
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  stark reminder of just how close things
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  came to going very wrong and how
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  important it is that the lessons are
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  actually learned.
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  >> One more thing before we move on.
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  Isaacman confirmed the eventual cost of
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  Starlininer's wos exceeded the $2
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  million typea mishap threshold by quote
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  a hundfold. So, not just a safety
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  crisis, an enormous financial one, too.
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  >> All right, we promised you this and here
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  it is. President Trump has been making
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  noise again about UAPs, unidentified
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  aerial phenomena, and the possibility of
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  releasing classified government files,
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  including apparently what's actually
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  going on at Area 51.
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  >> And look, the serious astronomy
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  community broadly keeps its distance
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  from this territory for good reasons. We
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  are not going to go deep on it today
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  because there is genuinely not much new
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  substance to report yet. It's hints and
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  statements rather than actual
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  declassification.
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  But, and this is an honest butt, if
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  genuine classified data about UAP
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  encounters were actually released in a
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  verifiable, scientifically usable form,
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  that would be worth serious examination.
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  The scientific community has actually
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  been pushing for more transparency in
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  this area for years. The issue has never
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  been whether UFOs are real as a
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  phenomenon. There are clearly things
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  being observed that pilots and sensors
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  can't immediately explain. The question
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  is what they actually are.
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  >> Right? And the history of these big
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  reveals is, shall we say, not
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  encouraging. You get a lot of heavily
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  redacted documents, a lot of blurry
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  footage, and then not much.
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  >> Area 51, though, that is a name. If
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  files about what's actually been going
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  on out there in the Nevada desert come
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  out, even if it's all just experimental
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  aircraft, that's going to be a
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  fascinating day. Regardless, we will
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  watch this space. Pun intended. If
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  something genuinely newsworthy emerges
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  from the UAP file story, we will cover
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  it properly. For now, back to the actual
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  cosmos.
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  >> Now, this is one of those stories that
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  really makes you stop and think about
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  how strange the universe is. NASA's
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  Hubble Space Telescope has identified
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  what may be the most heavily dark matter
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  dominated galaxy ever discovered. The
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  object is called CDG2 and CDG stands for
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  circumgalactic diffused galaxy which is
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  already a fascinating description. It's
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  an extraordinarily faint low surface
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  brightness galaxy that's basically
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  invisible when you look at it. There are
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  only a sparse scattering of faint stars,
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  but according to the measurements, the
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  vast majority of its total mass is dark
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  matter. We should take a moment here to
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  explain what dark matter actually is.
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  For anyone who's new to the show, dark
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  matter is a name we give to whatever
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  makes up most of the mass of the
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  universe that we can't see, can't detect
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  directly, and don't fully understand. We
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  know it exists because of its
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  gravitational effects. The way galaxies
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  rotate, the way light bends around
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  galaxy clusters, but beyond that, it
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  remains one of the great unsolved
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  problems in physics.
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  >> And CDG2 is interesting because it seems
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  to be almost entirely dark matter. The
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  few stars it contains are almost an
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  afterthought. It's like finding a house
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  that's built almost entirely of
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  invisible walls. You can only see the
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  wallpaper. What makes this particularly
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  significant is that we've long theorized
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  that galaxies like this should exist. In
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  the standard model of cosmology, dark
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  matter forms the scaffolding that
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  ordinary matter, gas, stars, planets,
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  falls into and clumps around. But most
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  galaxies have converted a good portion
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  of that gas into stars by now. CDG2
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  seems to have barely bothered.
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  >> The question is why? Why did so little
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  star formation occur here? Was it
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  stripped of its gas by interactions with
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  neighboring galaxies? Is it in an
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  unusually isolated environment? Those
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  are the questions that will keep
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  astronomers busy for a while, but as a
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  window into dark matter's dominant role
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  in shaping the cosmos. This one is
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  remarkable.
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  >> Amen to that.
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  >> From one galaxy mystery to another,
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  astronomers have spotted a candidate
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  jellyfish galaxy. One of the most
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  visually striking types of galaxies we
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  know of, dating back to just 5 billion
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  years after the Big Bang. And the reason
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  this is extraordinary is because theory
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  said this shouldn't be possible. Let me
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  explain what a jellyfish galaxy is for
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  anyone picturing an actual jellyfish
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  floating through space, which honestly
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  is not a bad mental image. A jellyfish
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  galaxy gets its name from the long
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  streamers of gas and young stars that
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  trail behind it like tentacles. They
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  form through a process called RAM
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  pressure stripping.
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  >> Ram pressure stripping is essentially
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  what happens when a galaxy moves through
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  the hot diffused gas that fills galaxy
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  clusters. What astronomers call the
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  intercluster medium. The galaxy is
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  moving so fast through this medium that
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  it gets the cosmic equivalent of a blast
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  of wind from the front and the gas in
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  its outer regions gets blown backwards
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  forming those trailing streams. Now, the
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  reason this discovery is so significant
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  is that RAM pressure stripping was
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  thought to require a dense enough
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  cluster environment to operate. And in
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  the early universe, 5 billion years
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  after the Big Bang, clusters weren't
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  expected to be dense enough yet. The
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  universe was younger, less evolved.
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  Clusters were less mature.
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  >> And yet, here we have what looks like a
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  fully formed jellyfish galaxy from that
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  early era. It challenges our timeline of
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  how galaxy clusters developed and how
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  RAM pressure stripping operated in the
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  young universe.
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  >> There's also a bonus mystery here. The
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  discovery may shed light on the
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  so-called red nugget galaxies. Compact
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  red massive galaxies from the early
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  universe that have puzzled astronomers
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  for years. The theory is that RAM
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  pressure stripping in jellyfish galaxies
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  could be one of the mechanisms that
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  transform normal star forming galaxies
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  into those quiescent red nuggets. If
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  confirmed, this single galaxy could be a
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  crucial missing link in understanding
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  how galaxies evolve.
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  >> It does still need to be confirmed. It's
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  officially a candidate at this stage,
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  but the evidence looks strong, and this
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  is exactly the kind of thing that makes
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  deep sky astronomy so endlessly
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  fascinating. All right, here's a story
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  that's a little different in flavor.
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  It's part wow, cool science, part should
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  we be thinking about this more
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  carefully? Yes. For the first time ever,
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  scientists have observed a cloud of air
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  pollution forming in near real time as a
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  SpaceX rocket burned up during re-entry
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  into Earth's atmosphere. And I want to
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  be clear about what we mean by burned up
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  here. This isn't a failed mission. This
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  is the normal end of life process for a
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  rocket stage where it re-enters the
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  atmosphere and disintegrates through the
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  heat of re-entry.
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  >> So these things happen routinely and
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  what scientists have now been able to do
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  using atmospheric monitoring instruments
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  is actually watch in something close to
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  real time the chemical cloud that forms
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  as the rocket material vaporizes.
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  Metals, aluminum oxide particles,
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  various combustion products, all of it
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  lighting up in the instruments. And this
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  matters because we're launching things
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  at an everinccreasing rate. SpaceX alone
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  is launching dozens of missions per
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  year. If every re-entry deposits a cloud
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  of metallic particles and other
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  pollutants into the upper atmosphere,
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  and we're doing this hundreds of times a
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  year, what does that add up to over a
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  decade?
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  >> The honest answer right now is we don't
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  fully know. This is genuinely new
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  science. Researchers have been raising
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  concerns about the potential impact of
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  rocket exhaust and re-entry pollution in
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  the stratosphere for a few years now,
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  but being able to observe it in real
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  time to actually characterize what's
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  happening is a significant step towards
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  understanding the cumulative effect.
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  >> It's one of those stories where the
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  science itself is fascinating, but the
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  implications quietly deserve more
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  attention than they're getting. The
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  space economy is booming. That's
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  wonderful in many ways, but what are the
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  environmental costs of a high cadence
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  launch industry is a question that needs
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  answering and researchers are now
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  developing the tools to start answering
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  it. Something to watch and full credit
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  to the scientists making these
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  observations. Pioneering work.
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  >> Now we come to a story that, and I say
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  this with genuine enthusiasm, is about
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  as mindbending as astronomy gets.
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  Researchers may have confirmed the very
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  first true dark galaxy. Not just a
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  galaxy dominated by dark matter like
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  CDG2 we discussed earlier, but a galaxy
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  made almost entirely of dark matter with
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  effectively no stars at all.
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  >> A dark galaxy in theory is a region of
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  space where dark matter has clumped
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  together in sufficient quantity to form
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  a gravitationally bound structure.
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  essentially a galaxyshaped thing, but
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  where ordinary matter has never clumped
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  enough to form stars or has been
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  stripped away entirely. We've theorized
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  they should exist for decades, and now
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  we may finally have one.
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  >> I want to sit with that for a second. A
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  galaxy, a structure that has all the
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  gravitational signatures of a galaxy
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  with no stars in it. You literally
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  cannot see it with any optical
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  telescope. It's detectable only by its
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  gravitational effects on nearby visible
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  matter.
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  >> It's like detecting a ghost by watching
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  how other people react to the room it's
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  standing in.
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  >> That is exactly the right analogy.
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  Actually, the way astronomers identify
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  these objects is by looking at how their
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  gravity warps the light and motion of
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  surrounding galaxies. And when they do
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  the maths on the candidate identified in
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  this new research, the numbers point to
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  a massive dark matter structure with
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  essentially no luminous component.
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  >> If confirmed, this would be a genuinely
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  landmark moment in cosmology. We've
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  known for decades that dark matter
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  vastly outweighs ordinary matter in the
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  universe, roughly 5:1. But actually
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  finding a structure that is purely dark
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  matter with no ordinary matter
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  hitchhiking along inside it would be
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  extraordinary observational proof of how
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  dark matter can organize itself
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  independently.
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  >> The researchers are being appropriately
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  cautious. This requires further
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  confirmation and independent
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  verification, but the evidence is
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  compelling. We'll keep you posted as
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  this one develops. And we close today
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  with something a little different in
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  mood, something poetic actually.
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  >> Comet C/2024E1
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  known as comet where Kosh after its
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  discoverer. As we mentioned earlier in
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  the week, is making its closest approach
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  to Earth today. Right now, as you listen
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  to this, the comet is passing at roughly
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  the same distance from us as the sun,
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  about one astronomical unit, and it's
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  putting on a genuinely beautiful display
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  for those with telescopes or binoculars
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  in the right conditions.
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  >> There are images out already, a gorgeous
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  30inut exposure taken last week from
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  Chile, showing a 5° long ion tail.
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  That's 10 times the width of the full
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  moon in the sky, plus three shorter dust
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  tails. The coma of the comet glows green
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  from the breakdown of dicarbon molecules
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  by sunlight.
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  >> But here's what makes this one special
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  and why we wanted to close the show with
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  it. Comet where Kosh is on a hyperbolic
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  orbit,
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  >> which means it is not coming back.
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  >> It is not coming back. This comet has
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  traveled from the outermost reaches of
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  the solar system, swung around the sun,
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  passed close by our little blue dot, and
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  when it leaves, it will leave forever.
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  Its orbit carries it out of the solar
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  system entirely into interstellar space.
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  It will become a wanderer between the
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  stars.
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  >> You know, we had 3i.atls ATLS this
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  season. The interstellar object that
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  came into our solar system from
• 19:38
  somewhere else entirely. That was a
• 19:40
  visitor from interstellar space. Comet
• 19:43
  where Kosh is going the other direction.
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  It's leaving. We're waving goodbye to a
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  comet that no human will ever see again.
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  And I find that genuinely moving. So, if
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  you have clear skies tonight or this
• 19:57
  weekend and you can get to a dark spot
• 20:00
  with a pair of binoculars, it is worth
• 20:02
  trying to find it. Check the astronomy
• 20:05
  apps for its exact position. It is
• 20:07
  bright enough to see.
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  >> Last chance, a cosmic farewell.
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  >> And that's a wrap on a genuinely packed
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  episode of Astronomy Daily. Eight
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  stories, breaking news, accountability
• 20:20
  journalism, mindbending deep space
• 20:23
  science, and a cosmic goodbye.
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  >> Thank you so much for spending part of
• 20:28
  your Friday with us. If you enjoyed
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• 20:36
  >> You can find us at astronomyaily.io
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• 20:47
  And if Artemis 2 gets a launch date
• 20:50
  confirmed today, we'll make sure that's
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  front and center.
• 20:53
  >> Until then, keep looking up.
• 20:56
  >> Clear skies, everyone.
• 21:08
  Stories told.