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Vera Rubin Delivers Even More BIG Discoveries

The Brief

  • Rubin telescope finds Neptune's trojan asteroids, found by Queen's University Belfast students
  • Rubin finds two more dim satellite galaxies of the Milky Way
  • China unveils more of its plans for a crewed Moon landing
  • Segment on splitting a black hole in two and on the seeds of supermassive black holes
  • Also covered: Van Gogh's Starry Night mystery, Earth's space radiation shield being breached from within, Cat's Head nebula, Carina's Ghost, and Martian polar crater ice shifting with seasonal frost

Why watch · It gives a quick roundup of recent astronomy, space exploration and planetary science stories, each linked to a source article.

  • Vera Rubin Observatory
  • Neptune trojans
  • Milky Way satellites
  • Crewed Moon mission

Summarised by Claude from the video’s title and description – no transcript was available, so check the video for the details.

Chapters

  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 0:18Rubin finds Neptune's trojans
  3. 2:40Vera Rubin finds Milky Way's neighbours
  4. 3:58China unveils its Moon plans
  5. 5:45Splitting a black hole
  6. 7:29Seeds of supermassive black holes
  7. 10:08Van Gogh’s Starry Night mystery solved
  8. 11:47Vote results
  9. 12:09Earth’s “Impenetrable” Space Radiation Shield Was Just Breached From Within
  10. 14:03Cat's Head nebula
  11. 15:23Carina's Ghost
  12. 16:19Bonus story
  13. 17:42Final thoughts
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🔴 [Space Bites+] No ADS. BONUS Story. For FREE: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/posts/174587754 5-hour Patreon Q&A show: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/posts/patreon-q-2026-174012731 Rubin finds Neptune’s trojans and two new companions to the Milky Way, China reveals more of its plans to send humans to the Moon, finding the seeds of supermassive black holes. And on Space Bites+, how Mars has microclimates near its North Pole. 🔵 Vote for the best story here: https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/posts 00:00 Intro 00:18 Rubin finds Neptune's trojans https://www.universetoday.com/articles/queens-university-belfast-students-find-neptunes-elusive-trojan-asteroids 02:40 Vera Rubin finds Milky Way's neighbours https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-vera-rubin-has-found-two-more-of-the-milky-ways-dim-satellites 03:58 China unveils its Moon plans https://www.universetoday.com/articles/china-unveils-their-plan-for-a-crewed-moon-landing 05:45 Splitting a black hole https://www.universetoday.com/articles/what-could-split-a-black-hole-in-two 07:29 Seeds of supermassive black holes 10:08 Van Gogh’s Starry Night mystery solved https://www.universetoday.com/articles/new-research-resolves-the-mystery-behind-van-goghs-the-starry-night 11:47 Vote results 12:09 Earth’s “Impenetrable” Space Radiation Shield Was Just Breached From Within https://www.universetoday.com/articles/earths-impenetrable-space-radiation-shield-was-just-breached-from-within 14:03 Cat's Head nebula https://www.universetoday.com/articles/examining-the-cats-head-nebula-with-the-hubble-and-jwst 15:23 Carina's Ghost https://www.universetoday.com/articles/its-a-ghost-no-its-a-stellar-crche 16:19 Bonus story https://www.universetoday.com/articles/martian-polar-crater-ice-shifts-with-seasonal-frost 17:42 Final thoughts Host: Fraser Cain Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 70,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://www.universetoday.com/podcast Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.