Thursday, March 13 2025 02:14 AEST

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EDITORIAL: The Star Trek Fan Film Conundrum

I’ve long been a champion of true fan films set in our beloved universe – hosting numerous Fan Film Done Right interviews, while so many other Trek podcasts don’t even give them a passing glance. But something caught my mind’s eye last week and it’s taken me a few days to conceptualise it in written form…

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A Marsquake, A Cryptic Tweet & Swirling Plasma

This week we’re taking a trip to the red planet to hear a Marsquake, checking in on Twitter for Blue Origin’s cryptic tweet & stopping by WA’s Curtin Uni where they’ve discovered some more interesting things about black holes…

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The Slowest Rotating ‘Cosmic Lighthouse’ Yet Discovered

Distant neutron stars typically spin a full 360 degrees within seconds. However, a new type of ‘radio transient object’ – so called as they are detected in radio waves – has emerged that rotate much more slowly. In the time it takes this cosmic lighthouse to rotate you could watch Interstellar twice before it completes a full spin.

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Mapping Ripples In A Cosmic Ocean

An international study led by Australian astronomers has created the most detailed maps of gravitational waves across the universe to date in three new research papers. The study also produced the largest ever galactic-scale gravitational wave detector and found further evidence of a “background” of these invisible yet incredibly fast ripples in space that can help unlock some major mysteries of the universe.

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How Saturn’s Rings Might Be Keeping A Youthful Appearance

Even though Saturn’s rings appear clean and young, they may be as old as the planet itself according to international researchers. It was previously thought that impacts with small rocky debris travelling through space – called micrometeoroids – would dirty and darken the rings over time, but in 2004 the Cassini spacecraft revealed the rings to be clean and bright suggesting that they are not very old.

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