Cosmic Collisions and Gluon Mysteries: NASA's Swift Mission Scrapped
About this episode
The episode discusses NASA's scrapped Swift mission, a major galactic collision involving the Milky Way, and new findings about gluons, along with various science reports.
SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 101 *NASA scraps its Swift rescue mission NASA has been forced to abandon its planned rescue mission to save the Swift Gamma Ray Space Telescope. *The Milky Way’s first big galactic collision Astronomers have discovered what was probably the first major galactic collision involving our home galaxy the Milky Way cannibalising a dwarf galaxy less than two billion years after the big bang. *Understanding the stuff atoms are made of New observations by the world’s largest atom smasher have revealed some of the basic fundamental physics of the universe, challenging long-standing theories of how gluons behave inside atomic nuclei. *The Science Report Australia records its first confirmed case of H5 N1 bird flu in a mammal on the nation’s main land. How bushfires are polluting water supplies with arsenic. Successful Phase 3 trials of a new Australian developed personalized mRNA cancer vaccine. The growing impact of plastic pollution on Lord Howe Island’s Sable Shearwaters rookery. Over 90% of Blue Mountains rainforests wrongly catalogued as eucalypt forests. The Skeptics guide to the ghost of the Crying Tree pub. Our guests: Alex Zaharov-Reutt from…
People in this episode
Host: Stuart Gary
Guests: Alex Zaharov-Reutt, Tim Mendham, Jonathan Nally
Topics covered
- NASA missions
- galactic collisions
- gluons
- H5 N1 bird flu
- mRNA cancer vaccine
- plastic pollution
Keywords
- NASA
- Swift mission
- galactic collision
- gluons
- H5 N1
- mRNA vaccine
- plastic pollution
- Blue Mountains
- Lord Howe Island
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Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: NASA, Swift Gamma Ray Space Telescope
Places: Australia, Lord Howe Island, Blue Mountains
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