Feb. 20, 2026
"We Failed Them" — Starliner Bombshell as Artemis II Gets the Green Light
S05E44 | Friday, February 20, 2026 It's a big one today! We cover EIGHT stories including breaking news from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, a damning independent report into the Boeing Starliner crisis, two astonishing dark matter discoveries, the first ancient Jellyfish Galaxy, SpaceX rocket pollution science, and a cosmic farewell to a comet we'll never see again. Plus — yes — we briefly and responsibly address the UFO/UAP conversation. Stories in this episode: • Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal — Did NASA just clear the path to a March 6 launch? • Starliner Independent Report — NASA says 'we failed them' as Type A mishap is confirmed • UAP Files — Trump hints at declassification: should we get excited? • Hubble finds CDG-2: the most dark matter-dominated galaxy ever discovered • Jellyfish Galaxy spotted 5 billion years after the Big Bang — earlier than thought possible • First real-time observation of SpaceX rocket re-entry pollution cloud • First confirmed dark galaxy — a structure with no stars at all • Comet Wierzchoś at closest approach today — and it's never coming back
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Hello, and welcome back to Astronomy Daily. I'm Anna and
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I'm Avery.
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It's Friday, February the twentieth, twenty twenty six, and our
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producer has absolutely loaded us up. Today. We've got eight
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stories to get through.
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Eight, that's right, and honestly, they're all worth it. We've
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got huge breaking news from the Kennedy Space Center about
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Artemis two, a genuinely damning report that NASA itself has
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described as we failed them, some absolutely mind bending deep
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space discoveries. And yes, we are going to briefly talk
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about UFOs.
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We absolutely are, just briefly and responsibly.
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Responsibly that is the word. Right, let's dive in. There
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is a lot of ground to cover.
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I think this might be the biggest episode we've ever done,
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but there's plenty to cover today.
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We are going to start with the biggest space story
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of the week, and it's one that broke overnight. DASA
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has just completed its second wet dress rehearsal of the
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Artemis two Space launch System rocket, and from everything we're hearing,
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it went well.
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Really well. Actually, teams ran the SLS through a full countdown,
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fueling the rocket with its super cold liquid hydrogen and
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liquid oxygen, simulating launch day procedures right down to closing
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the orion crue caudal hatch, and they got all the
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way to T minus twenty nine seconds before wrapping up.
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That is exactly where they wanted to stop.
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And this matters enormously because the first wet dress rehearsal
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back on February second and third had to be called
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off early due to hydrogen fuel leaks at launch Pad
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thirty nine B. That was a setback. NASA had to
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go in and replace seals and there was very real
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uncertainty about whether they'd solve the problem.
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And it looks like they have. NASA is holding a
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media briefing this morning eleven am Eastern, and we'll be
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watching that closely, but the early word is positive.
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So for anyone who needs refresher on what this mission
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actually is, Artemis two is the first crude flight of
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the Artemis program. It's not a moon landing that comes
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later with Artemis three, but it is the first time
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humans will travel to lunar distance since Apollo seventeen in
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nineteen seventy two. We are talking more than fifty years
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and the.
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Crew is Commander Read Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist
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Christina cock All NASA, and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen from
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the Canadian Space Agency. They're going to fly around the
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Moon in a free return trajectory and come home ten days.
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No landing, but an absolutely historic journey.
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And if this morning's press conference gives the all clear,
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the launch window we're looking at is as early as
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March sixth, That is just two weeks away. Avery, What
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does that feel like to you?
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Honestly, it feels surreal. We've been living in the Artemis
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era for years now. Artemis ie flew in twenty twenty two,
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and it's been a long road to get here. But
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two weeks from now there could be four astronauts on
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their way to the Moon.
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We will have full coverage as things develop, and if
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that briefing produces any surprises, we'll update you in tomorrow's episode.
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For now, though, looking very good for Artemis three now.
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While NASA is very much in celebratory mode for this morning,
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yesterday they were facing a very different kind of news day.
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An independent review board release its full report into the
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Boeing Starliner crude flight test, and it is a damning document.
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Damning is the word. The report formally classifies the Starliner
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mission as a quote type A mishap, the most serious
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category in NASA's safety framework. That means it was an
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event that could have resulted in death or permanent disability.
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And NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman stood up in front of
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the cameras yesterday and said, and I'm paraphrasing here, we
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almost did have a really terrible day.
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We failed them, them being astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams,
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who launched in June twenty twenty four expecting to be
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gone for eight to ten days and ended up spending
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two hundred and eighty six days in orbit.
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Right, So let's just remind listeners how we got here.
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Boeing won a four point two billion dollar contract from
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NASA back in twenty fourteen to build the Starliner as
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a second commercial crew vehicle alongside SpaceX's Crew Dragon. Starliner
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ran into problems on its very first uncrewed test flight
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in twenty nineteen, needed a second unpiloted flight before it
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was deemed ready, and Butch and Sunny finally launched in
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June of last year.
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The trip up went ok. They docked successfully with the
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International Space Station, but during the rendezvous approach, the capsule
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experienced multiple helium leagues in the propulsion system and several
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of the maneuvering prusters failed. There was a moment where
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they temporarily lost with a report calls six degrees of
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freedom control. Had things gone differently in those minutes, had
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the thrusters not recovered, docking might not have been possible.
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And what's really chilling about reading the report is discovering
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just how many warning signs were there. The investigation found
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that NASA and Boeing were aware of concerns that weren't
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fully understood, but were considered acceptable for flight anyway. There
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was pressure, institutional pressure to make this mission succeed because
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the entire commercial crew program's credibility depended on having two
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viable crew vehicles.
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The report quotes unnamed massive personnel saying things like there
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was yelling in meetings, it was emotionally charged and unproductive,
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and if you weren't aligned with the desired outcome, your
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input was filtered out or dismissed. One person said they
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stopped speaking up entirely because they knew they'd be dismissed.
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That is a profoundly troubling portrait of an organization under pressure,
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and what makes it worse is this, One NASA worker
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told the investigation panel roughly eleven months after the mission,
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nobody within NASA or outside of NASA has been held accountable.
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Nobody Administrator Isaacman addressed that head on. He said there
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will be accountability. He said, the report reveals that advocacy
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for the missions success quote exceeded reasonable bounds and placed
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the mission, the crew, and America Space program at risk.
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He also made clear that NASA will not fly another
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crew on Starliner until the technical causes are understood, the
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propulsion system is fully qualified, and all sixty one recommendations
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from this report are implemented.
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Sixty one recommendations spanning technical, organizational, and cultural domains. Boeing,
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for its part, said they've made substantial progress and driven
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significant cultural changes.
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We'll see. It's worth noting, Butch and Sony are safe.
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They got home in a SpaceX crew drag in early
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twenty twenty five and have since retired from NASA. But
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this report is a stark reminder of just how close
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things came to going very wrong, and how important is
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that the lessons are actually learned.
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One more thing before we move on. Isaacman confirmed the
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eventual cost of Starliner's woes exceeded the two million dollar
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type A mishap threshold by quote one hundredfold, So not
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just a safety crisis, an enormous financial one too.
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All right, we promised you this, and here it is.
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President Trump has been making noise again about UAPs, unidentified
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aerial phenomena, and the possibility of releasing classified government files,
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including apparently what's actually going on at Area fifty one.
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And look, the serious astronomy community broadly keeps its distance
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from this territory for good reasons. We're not going to
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go deep on it today because there is genuinely not
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much new substance to report yet, its hints and statements
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rather than actual declassification.
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But and this is an honest butt, if genuine classified
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data about UAP encounters were actually released in a verifiable,
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scientifically usable form, that would be worth serious examination. The
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scientific community has actually been pushing for more transparency in
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this area for years. The issue has never been whether
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UFOs are real as a phenomenon. There are clearly things
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being observed that pilots and sensors can't immediately explain. The
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question is what they actually are.
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Right, And the history of these big reveals is, shall
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we say, not encouraging. You get a lot of heavily
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redacted documents, a lot of blurry footage, and then not much.
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Area fifty one, though that is a name. If files
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about what's actually been going on out there, and then
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Nevada Desert come out, even if it's all just experimental aircraft,
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that's going to be a fascinating day. Regardless.
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We will watch this space pun an tended. If something
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genuinely newsworthy emerges from the UAP file story, we will
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cover it properly. For now, back to the actual cosmos.
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Now, this is one of those stories that really makes
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you stop and think about how strange the universe is.
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has identified what may be the
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most heavily dark matter dominated galaxy ever discovered.
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The object is called CDG two and CDG stands for
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circumgalactic diffuse galaxy, which is already a fascinating description. It's
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an extraordinarily faint, low surface brightness galaxy that's basically invisible
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when you look at it. There are only a sparse
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scattering of faint stars, but according to the measurements, the
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vast majority of its total mass is dark matter.
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We should take a moment here to explain what dark
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matter actually is for anyone who's new to the show.
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Dark matter is the name we give to whatever makes
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up most of the mass of the universe that we
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can't see, can't di tech directly, and don't fully understand.
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We know it exists because of its gravitational effects, the
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way galaxies rotate, the way light bends around galaxy clusters,
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but beyond that, it remains one of the great unsolved
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problems in physics.
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And CDG two is interesting because it seems to be
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almost entirely dark matter. The few stars it contains are
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almost an afterthought. It's like finding a house that's built
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almost entirely of invisible walls. You could only see the wallpaper.
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What makes this particularly significant is that we've long theorized
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that galaxies like this should exist. In the standard model
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of cosmology, dark matter forms the scaffolding that ordinary matter
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gas stars planets falls into and clumps around, but most
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galaxies have converted a good portion of that gas into
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stars by now. CDG two seems to have barely bothered.
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The question is why why did so little star formation
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occur here? Was it stripped of its gas by interactions
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with neighboring galaxies? Is it in an unusually isolated environment.
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Those are the questions that will keep astronomers busy for
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a while, but as a window into dark matter's dominant
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role in shaping the cosmos, this.
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One is remarkable. Aimen to that.
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From one galaxy mystery to another, astronomers have spotted a
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candidate jellyfish galaxy, one of the most visually striking types
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of galaxies we know of, dating back to just five
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billion years after the Big Bang. And the reason this
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is extraordinary is because theory said this shouldn't be possible.
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Let me explain what a jellyfish galaxy is for anyone
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picturing an actual jellyfish floating through space, which honestly is
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not a bad mental image. A jellyfish galaxy gets its
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name from the long streamers of gas and young stars
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that trail behind it like tentacles. They form through a
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process called ram pressure stripping.
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Ram pressure stripping is a essentially what happens when a
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galaxy moves through the hot diffuse gas that fills galaxy
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clusters what astronomers call the inter cluster medium. The galaxy
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is moving so fast through this medium that it gets
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the cosmic equivalent of a blast of wind from the front,
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and the gas in its outer regions gets blown backwards,
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forming those trailing streams.
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Now. The reason this discovery is so significant is that
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ram pressure stripping was thought to require a dense enough
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cluster environment to operate, and in the early universe, five
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billion years after the Big Bang, clusters weren't expected to
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be dense enough. Yet the universe was younger, less evolved,
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clusters were less mature.
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And yet here we have what looks like a fully
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formed jellyfish galaxy from that early era. It challenges our
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timeline of how galaxy clusters developed and how ram pressure
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stripping operated in the young universe.
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There's also a bonus mystery here. The discovery may shed
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light on the so called red nugget galaxies compact red
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massive galaxies from the early Universe that have puzzled astronomers
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for years. The theory is that ram pressure stripping in
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jellyfish galaxies could be one of the mechanisms that transform
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normal star forming galaxies into those quiescent red nuggets. If confirmed,
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this single galaxy could be a crucial missing link in
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understanding how galaxies evolve.
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It does still need to be confirmed. It's officially a
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candidate at this stage, but the evidence looks strong. And
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this is exactly the kind of thing that makes deep
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sky astronomy so endlessly fascinating.
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All right, here's a story that's a little different in flavor.
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It's part wow, cool science, part should we be thinking
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about this more carefully? Yes.
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For the first time ever, scientists have observed a cloud
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of air pollution forming in near real time as a
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SpaceX rocket burned up during re entry into Earth's atmosphere.
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I burned up here. This isn't a failed mission. This
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stage where it re enters the atmosphere and disintegrates through
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the heat of reentry.
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