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[Space Bites] Sun’s Pole Revealed // Sun Shade vs Climate Change // Source of Cosmic Rays
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:21:32
Publish Date: 2025-06-13 17:00:00
Description:

Have we finally found the source of ultra-high energy cosmic rays? Our first look at the Sun’s south pole, New Glenn slips again, what kind of damage would rockets do to the ozone layer? And in Space Bites+, a pair of quasars that dominated Cosmic Noon.

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00:00 Intro
00:23 Source of cosmic rays
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-cosmic-rays-astrophysicists-closer.html
03:25 First ever view of the Sun's pole
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-solar-orbiter-is-giving-us-a-decisive-look-at-the-suns-poles
05:10 Detailed view of the Sun
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-suns-identity-crisis-solved
06:30 New Glenn launch slips again
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/second-new-glenn-launch-slips-toward-fall-as-program-leadership-departs/
08:12 Vote results
08:59 Rockets and the ozone layer
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-025-01098-6
11:10 Sunshade to combat climate change
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/would-a-planetary-sunshade-help-cool-the-planet-this-mission-could-find-out
13:01 Star formation in the center of the Milky Way
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-galactic-center-struggles-to-form-massive-stars
14:46 Colliding Galaxies
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/colliding-galaxies-tearing-at-each-other-with-gravity-and-radiation
15:45 A planet forming
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/youre-looking-at-a-newly-forming-planet
17:12 More space news
18:09 Bonus story
18:26 NASA's SMM

VIDEO VERSION
https://youtu.be/_8EZb6NOauo

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