Stellar Salvage: SpaceX's Starship Recovery and the Age of the Universe
SpaceTime with Stuart Gary August 26, 202600:27:56

Stellar Salvage: SpaceX's Starship Recovery and the Age of the Universe

SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 102 *SpaceX’s Starship arrives at Christmas Island After some 24 days at sea, a SpaceX recovery team has successfully towed its test flight 13 Starship into the remote Australian Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island.  The unplanned operation was hastily put together after the spacecraft unexpectedly held together following its splashdown off the Western Australian coast. *How old really is the universe? Astronomers have come up with a new way to work out the age of the universe finding it to be 13.6 billion years old – some 200 million years younger than previously thought. *Einstein’s general relativity theory still stands More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic general theory of relativity, it remains science’s best understanding of gravity and the universe on the cosmic scale. *The Science Report A new study shows that carrying a little extra weight could be beneficial as you get older. People lacking human connections more likely to turn to AI chatbots for companionship. The Southern Ocean and parts of the Pacific may be the best places to fertilise to remove CO2. How dogs have learnt to understand human facial expressions. Alex on Tech: The Galaxy passport sized Z Fold 8 tops the sales figures.

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