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00:00:11 --> 00:00:14 dun oh and another big episode looking
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00:00:37 --> 00:00:40 day hie what's happening hi there my
00:00:40 --> 00:00:42 favorite human it's all happening of
00:00:42 --> 00:00:45 course oh really really everywhere all
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00:00:49 --> 00:00:51 few bits and pieces from the astronomy
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00:00:52 --> 00:00:54 there's something new every day and I
00:00:54 --> 00:00:56 don't want to miss a thing I know it's
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00:01:00 --> 00:01:03 it's the same as yours okay which is
00:01:03 --> 00:01:05 which one the meteors which are due
00:01:05 --> 00:01:07 across November oh of course I love to
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00:01:09 --> 00:01:10 you've got that story I'll have that
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00:01:14 --> 00:01:17 lead hi oky doy human wait what's up did
00:01:17 --> 00:01:19 you say giant unrolling space telescopes
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00:01:22 --> 00:01:25 hie KY sounds amazing Cy indeed all
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00:01:35 --> 00:01:37 for Expedition 72 crew members are
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00:01:51 --> 00:01:54 laboratory NASA astronaut Nick hay and
00:01:54 --> 00:01:56 Rose Cosmos cosmina Alexander goranov
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00:02:41 --> 00:02:44 p.m. on Monday the cargo dragon is
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00:03:44 --> 00:03:47 resistive exercise device the duo also
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00:03:53 --> 00:03:55 Ivan Banner assisted alexe opinan with
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00:04:00 --> 00:04:02 part of his day studying piloting
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00:04:04 --> 00:04:06 while gorinov concluded an experiment
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00:04:14 --> 00:04:17 hay the southern tets will reach their
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00:04:19 --> 00:04:21 northern tets on November 12th while the
00:04:22 --> 00:04:23 two showers only produce around five
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00:04:25 --> 00:04:27 viewing conditions they are often very
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00:04:47 --> 00:04:49 northern tets may be more obstructed By
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00:04:52 --> 00:04:54 full viewing of both showers will last
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00:04:58 --> 00:05:00 the next big meteor shower the leonids
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00:05:01 --> 00:05:05 November
00:05:05 --> 00:05:08 17th a three-person Chinese crew
00:05:08 --> 00:05:09 returned to Earth early Monday after
00:05:09 --> 00:05:11 more than 6 months aboard the tiang gong
00:05:11 --> 00:05:14 space station State News Agency shinoa
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00:05:25 --> 00:05:27 three men had traveled to Tong gong in
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00:07:20 --> 00:07:23 astronomy oh one of my favorite favorite
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00:07:25 --> 00:07:27 Kyper belt and the or Cloud the region
00:07:27 --> 00:07:32 Beyond Neptune uh we well poal Pluto is
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00:07:34 --> 00:07:37 objects out there the Subaru telescope
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00:07:56 --> 00:07:58 astronomers have uncovered new objects
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00:08:19 --> 00:08:22 other planetary systems than previously
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00:08:40 --> 00:08:44 flying through it Dr fumi Yoshida
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00:08:51 --> 00:08:53 Kyper belt objects beyond the known one
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00:08:56 --> 00:08:59 a major Discovery the primordial solar
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00:09:06 --> 00:09:09 process in our solar system Dr Wes
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00:09:17 --> 00:09:19 study's lead author explains our solar
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00:09:36 --> 00:09:38 confirmed our Kyper belt isn't all that
00:09:38 --> 00:09:41 small and unusual after all compared to
00:09:41 --> 00:09:44 those around other stars our search for
00:09:44 --> 00:09:47 life in the universe is hindered by the
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00:10:01 --> 00:10:04 which were irrelevant so anything we do
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00:10:06 --> 00:10:09 prerequisite moves us closer to finding
00:10:09 --> 00:10:12 the true prerequisites for
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00:10:18 --> 00:10:21 was much larger and therefore much less
00:10:21 --> 00:10:24 unusual than we thought it's not only
00:10:24 --> 00:10:27 eliminates a small parent nebula from
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00:10:39 --> 00:10:42 finding alien life New Horizon's
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00:10:44 --> 00:10:48 investigator Dr Alan Stern says this
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00:10:56 --> 00:10:58 this discovery probably would not have
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00:11:00 --> 00:11:03 capabilities of the Subaru telescope the
00:11:03 --> 00:11:05 number and distribution of objects at
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00:11:09 --> 00:11:12 very least the Subaru telescope's
00:11:12 --> 00:11:14 results indicate that new discoveries
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00:11:35 --> 00:11:38 space-based telescopes are remarkable
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00:12:04 --> 00:12:07 size as amazing as the James web Space
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00:12:41 --> 00:12:44 comes to telescope mirrors all you
00:12:44 --> 00:12:46 really need is a reflective surface it
00:12:46 --> 00:12:48 doesn't need to be coated onto a thick
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00:13:01 --> 00:13:04 all that matters so why not use just a
00:13:04 --> 00:13:07 thin sheet of reflective material you
00:13:07 --> 00:13:09 could just roll it up and put it on your
00:13:09 --> 00:13:12 launch vehicle we could for example
00:13:12 --> 00:13:15 easily launch a 40 m roll of aluminium
00:13:15 --> 00:13:17 foil into space of course things aren't
00:13:17 --> 00:13:19 quite that simple you would still need
00:13:20 --> 00:13:22 to unroll your membrane telescope back
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00:13:31 --> 00:13:34 the broad sheet mirror in principle you
00:13:34 --> 00:13:35 could do that with a thin support
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00:13:44 --> 00:13:47 problem even in the vacuum of space the
00:13:47 --> 00:13:50 shape of such a thin mirror would deform
00:13:50 --> 00:13:52 over time solving this problem is the
00:13:52 --> 00:13:55 main focus of this new paper once
00:13:56 --> 00:13:58 launched into space and unfilled the
00:13:58 --> 00:14:00 membrane mirror wouldn't deform
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00:14:04 --> 00:14:09 focus on the order of visible light when
00:14:09 --> 00:14:11 the Hubble was launched its mirror shape
00:14:11 --> 00:14:12 was off by less than the thickness of a
00:14:12 --> 00:14:15 human hair and it took correct
00:14:15 --> 00:14:17 correcting lenses an ENT and an entire
00:14:17 --> 00:14:20 shuttle mission to fix it any shifts on
00:14:20 --> 00:14:22 that scar would render our membrane
00:14:22 --> 00:14:24 telescope useless so the authors took a
00:14:24 --> 00:14:27 well-used trick of astronomers known as
00:14:27 --> 00:14:30 Adaptive Optics this technique Adaptive
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00:14:35 --> 00:14:37 atmospheric Distortion actuators behind
00:14:38 --> 00:14:40 the mirror distort the mirror's shape in
00:14:40 --> 00:14:42 real time to counteract the twinkles of
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00:14:44 --> 00:14:46 shape of the mirror imperfect to account
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00:14:49 --> 00:14:51 similar trick could be used a for a
00:14:51 --> 00:14:53 membrane telescope but if we had to
00:14:53 --> 00:14:55 launch a complex actuator system for the
00:14:55 --> 00:14:57 mirror we might as well go back to
00:14:57 --> 00:15:00 launching rigid telesc Scopes but what
00:15:00 --> 00:15:03 if we simply used Laser Pro projection
00:15:03 --> 00:15:06 instead by shining a laser projection
00:15:06 --> 00:15:08 into the mirror we could alter its shape
00:15:08 --> 00:15:11 through radiative recoil since it's
00:15:11 --> 00:15:13 simply a thin membrane the shape would
00:15:13 --> 00:15:15 be significant enough to create optical
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00:15:20 --> 00:15:22 the authors have called this technique
00:15:22 --> 00:15:25 radiative Adaptive Optics and through a
00:15:25 --> 00:15:27 series of lab experiments have de
00:15:27 --> 00:15:29 demonstrated that it could work
00:15:29 --> 00:15:32 doing this in deep space is much more
00:15:32 --> 00:15:34 complicated of course than doing it in
00:15:34 --> 00:15:37 the lab but the work shows the approach
00:15:37 --> 00:15:39 is worth exploring perhaps in the coming
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00:16:00 --> 00:16:02 well that's another episode done and
00:16:02 --> 00:16:05 space dusted for another Monday I hope
00:16:05 --> 00:16:07 you enjoyed our little Adventure through
00:16:07 --> 00:16:10 space space science and Astronomy Today
00:16:10 --> 00:16:11 some interesting stories from the
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00:16:13 --> 00:16:15 yeah we never know what's going to turn
00:16:15 --> 00:16:16 up we'll be watching out for those
00:16:16 --> 00:16:19 meteors though this month the orionids
00:16:19 --> 00:16:21 were a bit of a fizzer from where I was
00:16:21 --> 00:16:23 last month but I'm hoping the tours are
00:16:23 --> 00:16:25 going to be a spectacular display
00:16:25 --> 00:16:27 meteors are always something to watch
00:16:27 --> 00:16:29 out for and I know they are one of your
00:16:29 --> 00:16:32 favorite things oh yeah meteors for sure
00:16:32 --> 00:16:34 along with robots Moon buggies the orc
00:16:34 --> 00:16:37 cloud and asteroids and yeah yeah just a
00:16:37 --> 00:16:38 few of my favorite things there thank
00:16:38 --> 00:16:41 you how about we say good night Alie
00:16:41 --> 00:16:43 okay see you all next week for astronomy
00:16:43 --> 00:16:45 daily
00:16:45 --> 00:16:51 bye the podcast with your host Steve
00:16:51 --> 00:16:54 Dunley no hi we cannot make our own
00:16:54 --> 00:16:57 giant unrolling Space Telescope with tin
00:16:57 --> 00:17:02 foil put it back in the kitchen fry