[Space Bites+] Vera Rubin Finally Delivers Its First Big Discovery

<html><p>BONUS STORY STARTS AT 23:19</p><p>Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: </p><p>Vote for the best story here: <a href="youtube.com/@frasercain/posts"; target="_blank">youtube.com/@frasercain/posts</a></p&… Rubin finds a new dwarf planet, while Webb sees dwarf planets colliding in another system, Valles Marineris might still be volcanically active, and Hera gets its first picture of Didymus and Dimorphus. And on Space Bites+, a planet that shouldn't have an atmosphere, but does.</p><h3>Matt’s METI series</h3><ul><li><p>Part 1: <a href="universetoday.com/articles/a-brief-ish-history…; target="_blank">universetoday.com/articles/a-brief-ish-history… 2: <a href="universetoday.com/articles/a-brief-ish-history…; target="_blank">universetoday.com/articles/a-brief-ish-history… Intro </p></li><li><p>00:21 Rubin’s First Dwarf Planet Candidate <a href="universetoday.com/articles/the-rubin-observato…; target="_blank">universetoday.com/articles/the-rubin-observato…; </p></li><li><p>02:56 Colliding Dwarf Planets <a href="universetoday.com/articles/colliding-dwarf-pla…; target="_blank">universetoday.com/articles/colliding-dwarf-pla…; </p></li><li><p>05:54 Dead Planets Orbiting a Dead Star <a href="universetoday.com/articles/dead-planets-orbiti…; target="_blank">universetoday.com/articles/dead-planets-orbiti…; </p></li><li><p>08:54 Largest Canyon in The Solar System is Still Active <a href="universetoday.com/articles/the-largest-canyon-…; target="_blank">universetoday.com/articles/the-largest-canyon-…; </p></li><li><p>11:23 Even More Evidence of The BetelBuddy <a href="universetoday.com/articles/betelgeuse-is-distu…; target="_blank">universetoday.com/articles/betelgeuse-is-distu…; </p></li><li><p>13:17 Vote results </p></li><li><p>13:43 NASA’s Next UV Telescope <a href="universetoday.com/articles/nasas-new-uv-space-…; target="_blank">universetoday.com/articles/nasas-new-uv-space-…; </p></li><li><p>17:38 Potential Targets For The Lazuli Private Telescope <a href="universetoday.com/articles/27-exoplanet-target…; target="_blank">universetoday.com/articles/27-exoplanet-target…; </p></li><li><p>20:07 Hera’s Almost There <a href="esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/First_light_Hera_res…; target="_blank">esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/First_light_Hera_res…; </p></li><li><p>21:32 More space news <a href="universetoday.com/articles/a-brief-ish-history…; target="_blank">universetoday.com/articles/a-brief-ish-history…; </p></li><li><p>23:19 Bonus story <a href="universetoday.com/articles/this-oddbal-reflect…; target="_blank">universetoday.com/articles/this-oddbal-reflect…; </p></li><li><p>26:06 Final thoughts</p></li></ul><p></p></html>