Gaia’s Final Scan, Milky Way’s Hidden Flares, and Unveiling New Planetary Mysteries: S28E10

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this is spacetime series 28 episode 10


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for broadcast on the 22nd of January


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2025 coming up on SpaceTime GIA one of


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the most important astronomical missions


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ever undertaken finally completes its


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Skys scanning phase the first ever


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detection of a mid infrared Flare from


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the Milky Way super massive black hole


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and discovery of a strange new type of


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Planet unlik anything in our solar


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system all that and more coming up on


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SpaceTime


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welcome to SpaceTime with Stuart


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[Music]




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Gary well it was one of the most


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important scientific missions ever


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undertaken the European space agency's


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Milky Way mppa Gaia spacecraft has


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finally completed The Skys scanning f pH


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of its journey in the process changing


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our understanding of our galaxy the


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2,000 kg probe has racked up more than


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three trillion observations of about 2


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billion stars and other objects over its


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past decade of operations in the process


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it's revolutionized science's


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understanding of our home Galaxy and its


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Cosmic neighborhood launched back in


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December 2013 guire is now almost out of


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fuel it uses about a dozen gram of cold


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gas per day in order to keep it spinning


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with pinpoints and accuracy that


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spinning allows it to be stable allowing


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it to focus on its primary Mission


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technology tests are now scheduled for


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the next few weeks before guy is moved


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into a sort of retirement orbit where


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future missions will be mapped out in


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the meantime two massive data releases


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from guia have already been tabled one


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for next year and another for the end of


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the decade the Treasure Trove of data


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collected by guia has given astronomers


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unique insights into the origins and


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evolution of our Milky Way galaxy see


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guy's been mapping the positions


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distances movements brightness changes


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composition and numerous other


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characteristics of billions of stars


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repeatedly monitoring them with its


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three instruments over the course of its


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Mission this is a neighborhood guide to


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deliver on its primary role building the


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largest and most precise map of the


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Milky Way showing our home Galaxy like


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no other Mission has ever done before in


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fact it's given us the best


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reconstructed view of how our galaxy


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might look to an outside obser


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this new impression of the Milky Way


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incorporates Sky data from a multitude


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of papers over the past decade and it


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contains major changes from previous


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models even basic ideas have been


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revised such as the rotation of our


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galaxy Central bar the warp in the


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Galaxy's disc the detailed structure of


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our spiral arms and Interstellar dust


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near the sun gu's repeated measurements


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of Stellar distances motions and


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characteristics are key to performing


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Galactic archaeology on our Milky Way


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galaxy in the process revealing missing


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links in our Galaxy's complex history


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helping scientists better understand its


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Origins from detecting the ghosts of


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other galaxies that have been


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cannibalized by the Milky Way and


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multiple streams of ancient stars that


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merged with the Milky Way early in its


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history def finding evidence for an


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ongoing collision with the Sagittarius


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dwarf Galaxy today Gia is rewriting the


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Milky Way's history and making


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predictions about its future in the


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process of scanning the stars in our own


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Galaxy guys also spotted other objects


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ranging from asteroids in our solar


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system to galaxies and quazars the


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bright and active centers of galaxies


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powered by monstrous super massive black


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holes outside our Milky Way for example


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guys provided pinpoint Precision Orbits


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for more than 150,000 asteroids and it's


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had such high quality measurements it's


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even been able to uncover possible moons


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around hundreds of these asteroids it's


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also created the largest


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three-dimensional map of about 1.3


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million quazars with the furthest


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shining bright when our universe was


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just 1.5 billion years old guys also


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discovered a new breed of black holes


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including one with a mass of nearly 33


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times that of our Sun hiding in the


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constellation at Quilla less than 2,000


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light years from Earth it's the first


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time a black hole of Stellar Origins


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this big has been spotted within the


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Milky Way we've already had three data


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releases from guia and they've changed


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our understanding of the Galaxy data


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release for is expected to contain some


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500 terabyt of information covering the


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first 5 and 1/2 years of the


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spacecraft's operations data release 4


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will also expand its binary star catalog


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the larger such catalog to date that's


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because guia has the unique ability to


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tease out tiny motions in pairs of


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celestial objects orbiting close to each


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other and it's already spotted


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previously hidden companions around


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bright stars Gia's exoplanet discoveries


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are also set to increase with the


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forthcoming data sets that's thanks to


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the longer frame time of observations


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making it a lot easier for guy to spot


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wobbling Stars they stars that are


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gently being tugged by the gravitational


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perturbations of orbiting planets it's


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been a fascinating Mission so far and


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although the data collection's now


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coming to an end the astronomers sifting


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through the data for the next two


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releases will undoubtly make discoveries


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that'll revolutionize our understanding


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of the cosmos this report from E TV what


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does the Milky Way look like from the


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outside no spacecraft can travel beyond


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our Galaxy so we can't take a selfie but


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during its lifetime Gia made 3 trillion


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observations of 2 billion stars and


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other objects giving us the best Insight


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yet of what our home Galaxy looks like


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Gia shows that our Galaxy's disc is


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Warped and Wobbles possibly caused by a


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collision with another smaller galaxy


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moving further out Gia also studied


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other galaxies around the Milky Way such


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as the large and the small melanic


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clouds and 40 other companions Gia


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revealed our Galaxy's turbulent history


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by tracking the movements of streams of


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stars Gia gives a unique view of our


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Milky Way scanning our galaxy from the


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inside out building a more detailed map


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than ever before fundamentally changing


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what we thought we knew about our home


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Galaxy where our sun is embedded among


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billions of


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stars this is space time still to come


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the first ever detection of a mid


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infrared Flare from the Milky Way super


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massive black hole and discovery of a


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strange new type of Planet unlike


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anything ever seen in our solar system


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all that and more still to come on space


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time


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[Music]


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astronomers have made the first ever


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detection of a mid infrared flare


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emanating from Sagittarius A star the


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Milky Way Central super massive black


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hole the observations reported on the


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prepress physics website archive.org are


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based on data collected by NASA's


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infrared web Space Telescope located


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some 27,000 light years away Sagittarius


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A star has about 4.3 million times the


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mass of our sun and it's the central


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Pivot Point around around which our


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entire galaxy rotates Sagittarius A star


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regularly exhibits flares that can be


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observed in multile wavelengths that


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allows scientists to see different views


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of the same flare and better understand


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how it emits light and how those


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emissions are generated but despite a


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long history of successful observations


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and even Imaging the cosmic Beast using


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the Event Horizon telescope in 2022 one


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crucial piece of the puzzle the mid


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infrared observations have been missing


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until now infrared radiation has longer


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wavelengths than visible light but


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shorter wavelengths than radio and mid


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infrared sits in the middle of the


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infrared band it allows astronomers to


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observe objects like flares which are


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often difficult to observe in other


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wavelengths because of the impenetrable


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clouds of gas and dust which block out


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the view from Earth see until this study


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no one had yet successfully detected


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Sagittarius A's variability in the mid


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infrared that left a gap in science's


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understanding of what causes these


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flares and therefore raise is questions


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about whether the theoretical models of


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the super massive black hole are


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actually complete one of the study's


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authors Joseph mcel from the Harvard


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Center for astrophysics says Sagittarius


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A's flare evolves and changes quickly in


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just a matter of hours and not all these


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changes can be seen at every wavelength


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for over 20 years astronomers have known


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what happens in the radio wave band and


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what happens in near infrared light but


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the connection between them the mid


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infrared was never 100% clear or certain


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Mel says these new observations in the


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mid infrared fills that Gap and connects


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the two mind you scientist still aren't


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100% sure what causes these flares so


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they rely on models and simulations


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which they then compare with


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observations to try and understand where


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it's all coming from now many


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simulations are suggesting that flares


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in Sagittarius A star are being caused


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by the bunching up of magnetic field


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lines in the super massive black holes


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turbulent acction disc a disc of matter


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surrounding the black holes Event


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Horizon on which material was being


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crushed and torn apart at the subatomic


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level before falling Beyond The Event


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Horizon and into the singularity of the


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black hole when two magnetic field lons


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approach they can connect to each other


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and then release a huge amount of energy


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now the byproduct of this so-called


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magnetic reconnection is synchrotron


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emissions that occurs when energized


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electrons travel at speeds close to the


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speed of light along the magnetic field


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lines and they can emit the high energy


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photons powering the flare but because


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the mid infared spectral range sits


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between the submillimeter and near


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infrared it keeps its Secrets Locked


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Away about the role of electrons which


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would need to be cool in order to


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release energy to power the flares the


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new observations are consistent with the


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existing models and simulations and that


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adds another little piece to the puzzle


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supporting the theory of what lies


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behind the flares the Research indicates


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that there may be a connection between


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the observed variability at millimet


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wavelength and The observed midinfrared


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flare emissions simultaneous observation


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using the submillimeter array telescope


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the nuclear spectroscopic telescope


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array Newar and the Chandra x-ray


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Observatory filled in the additional


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part of the story sadly no flares were


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detected during the X-ray observations


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likely because this particular flare


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simply didn't accelerate electrons to


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high enough energies but the team was


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successful when they turned to the


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submillimeter array which detected a


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millimeter W flare lagging roughly 10


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minutes behind the mid infrared flare it


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all adds to the puzzle pick


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this is spacetime still to come


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astronomers have discovered a strange


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new type of Planet unlike anything in


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our solar system and later in the


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science report a new study suggests that


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carrots can improve the treatment of


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type 2 diabetes all that and more still


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to come on SpaceTime


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[Music]


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astronomers have discovered a strange


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new type of Planet unlike anything ever


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SE in our solar system the findings


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reported in the astrophysical journal


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letters are based on new observations by


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NASA's web Space Telescope combined with


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simulated computer models the amazing


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Discovery provides another piece to the


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puzzle of understanding how planets and


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planetary systems are formed now so far


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more than 5,000 exoplanets that these


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planets orbiting around other stars have


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been confirmed and many are unlike any


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of the planets in our solar system


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making it difficult to guess what these


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strange worlds are like one of the most


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common types of exoplanets falls into


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the size range between the Earth and


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Neptune now astronomers have been


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debating whether these planets are


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earthlike rocky or terrestrial worlds


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but with thick hydrogen Rich atmospheres


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or whether they're more Neptune likee


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icy worlds surrounded by water- Rich


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atmospheres the so-called water worlds


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problem is previous Studies have all


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been confounded by layers of thick high


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clouds which seem to be a common feature


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on these types of planets that makes it


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difficult to study the atmosphere below


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the cloud deck and that's where the web


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Space Telescope comes in astronomers


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used web's infrared capabilities to peer


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through the clouds on one of these


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strange Worlds the planet called gj1214b


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is located just 48 light years away in


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the direction of the constellation of


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fuus and that makes it relatively nearby


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and consequently one of the EAS I


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examples of this kind of planet to study


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as astronomers looked at the data they


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were shocked to find that instead of a


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hydrogen Rich super Earth or for that


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matter a neptun likee water world the


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new data revealed concentrations of


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carbon dioxide comparable to the levels


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found in the dense CO2 atmosphere of


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Venus the study's lead author Everett


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scholen from the University of Arizona


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says the discovery was a surprise and


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there are many uncertainties still in


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the data the problem is the detected


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carbon dioxide signal from these


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observations was only tiny so careful


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statistical analysis needed to be


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carried out to ensure that the signal


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was even real the authors used


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theoretical models to run a plethora of


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whatif scenarios about the likely


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atmosphere of the planet in order to


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match the web


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observations and out of all these models


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the ones which best fit the data suggest


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a carbon dominated atmosphere very much


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like planet Venus this SpaceTime


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[Music]


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and time now to take another brief look


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at some of the other stories making use


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and science this week with the science


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report scientists have calculated that


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around 465,000 tons of methane were


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emitted from the nordstream subc


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pipeline when it was sabotaged and


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damaged in 2020 the findings reported in


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the journal Nature and nature


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Communications are based on three


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separate studies this is the largest


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recorded amount of methane released from


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a single transient event disturbingly


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however it only represents 0.1% of


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anthropogenic methane emissions for


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2022 in the nature paper the authors


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found around 465,000 tons of methane


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were emitted in the atmosphere


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equivalent to about 1.2% of all


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emissions from natural gas and 0.3% of


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methane emissions from Agriculture and


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accompany nature Communications paper


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suggest that some 14% of the Baltic Sea


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experienced dissolved methane


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concentrations five times greater than


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average natural levels in fact it may


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have impacted up to 23 Marine protected


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areas a second nature Communications


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paper looked at the secondary release of


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methane in the atmosphere after being


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dissolved in the seawater and it looked


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at the distribution of that methane


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which escape from the


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pipelines a new study suggests that


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eating carrots can improve the treatment


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of typee 2 diabetes you see carrots


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enhance the body's ability to regulate


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blood sugars and they positively


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influence the composition of gut


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bacteria type 2 diabetes treatment


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typically involves dietary changes in


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medication though many people experience


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side effects from the


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Pharmaceuticals a report in the journal


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clinical and transitional science found


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that carrots could offer a natural


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potentially side effect freeway to compl


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existing treatments the author studied


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the effects of carrots over 16 weeks on


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two groups fed a calorie match diet one


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group were given diet supplements which


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included 10% freeze dried carrot powder


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and the results showed that the group


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receiving the carrot powder exhibited


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improved blood sugar regulation as


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measured by glucose tolerance tests the


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studies showed that carrots alter the


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composition of the gut microbiome that


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billions of microorganisms living in the


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gut that play a crucial role in


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digestion and health carrots contain


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bioactive compounds that enhance the


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cell's ability to absorb sugar thereby


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aiding in blood sugar regulation these


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bioactive substances derived from


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unsaturated fatty acids are also present


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in other vegetables from the carrot


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family including parsley celery and


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parsnips while it might not be easy to


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insert it into your ear scientists that


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meta claim that your smartphone could


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soon be the equivalent of the fabled


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Babel Fish from The Hitchhiker Guide to


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the Galaxy see in hitchhiker law the


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Babel Fish was a small fish capable of


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real-time language translations well


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most existing machine learning


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translation systems are text oriented or


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they involve multiple steps often


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translating speech into text and then


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converting it into speech in another


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language the new model called seamless


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m4t does immediate speech to speech


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translations covering 101 languages a


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report of the journal Nature claims the


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new artificial intelligence model is


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capable of filtering out background


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noise and adjusting to speech variations


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with 23% more translation accuracy than


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other


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translators a Australia's largest


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telecommunications company Telstra has


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just signed on to spacex's starlink


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broadband internet satellite service


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with the details we joined by technology


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editor Alex Sahara Roy from Tech advice


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start live yeah now late last year the


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New Zealand company one NZ announced


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that it was launching satellite


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connectivity for regular mobile phones


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in this case the Galaxy flip 6 the fold


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6 the Galaxy s24 Ultra and the Oppo Find


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X8 funnily enough no mention of the


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iPhone there that's had emergency s


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satellite capabilities for the last


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couple of years with the iPhone 14


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onwards the tel has announced that it is


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bringing what is known as direct handset


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or satellite to mobile text messaging to


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customers in Australia and this is going


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to be for those people who don't have


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Mobile coverage it's not launched yet


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it's launching later this year the


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boiler plate text says that any LTE


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which is a 4G phone or above can can do


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this but given the new zealanders only


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specified a certain number of phones we


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yet to see what teler is going to be


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offering but satellite kind it is going


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to eventually also extend to data now


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this won't stop the 4G 5G and 6G


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networks being rolled out you get much


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faster connectivity ping times but it'll


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fill in all the black spots and 2025 an


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omage is the year that the tyrany of


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distance is yet once again smashed into


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ever greater irrelevancy is this just


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with starlink or is it with other


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satellite providers as well look so far


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it's only with starlink but Amazon is


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launching a whole bunch of satellites I


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mean China's launching satellites


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eventually there'll be other


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constellations that can do the same


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thing as well but musk has been


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launching rocket after rocket on SpaceX


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and styling has been launching version


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two satellites that can do much more in


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terms of bandwidth and data and speeds


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and latency so El my stying is first


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that others will undoubtedly follow


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that's Alex Sahara Roy from Tech advice.


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life


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