Lunar Water Disparities Explored, Asteroid 2024 YR4’s Moonbound Journey
(00:00:00) Lunar Water Disparities Explored, Asteroid 2024 YR4's Moonbound Journey
(00:00:46) Lunar Water Differences
(00:03:47) Asteroid 2024 YR4: From Earth Threat to Lunar Target
(00:06:33) Singing Stars and Galactic History
(00:18:56) The Science Report
(00:25:11) Show Wrap
SpaceTime Series 28 Episode 45
The Astronomy, Space and Science News Podcast
Uncovering Lunar Water Discrepancies, Asteroid 2024 YR4's Moon Targeting, and Stellar Seismology Insights
In this episode of SpaceTime, we delve into the intriguing findings from China's Chang'e 6 sample return mission, which reveal that the Moon's far side is significantly drier than its near side. This discovery sheds light on the geochemical differences between the two hemispheres and offers fresh perspectives on lunar evolution and the implications for the Moon's origin.
Asteroid 2024 YR4: From Earth Threat to Lunar Target
Next, we track the journey of asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially garnered attention as a potential Earth impactor. However, new observations indicate that this 60-meter-wide asteroid is now on a collision course with the Moon, raising the likelihood of an impact to 3.5%. We discuss its unique characteristics and the ongoing studies aimed at understanding its origins and physical properties.
Singing Stars and Galactic History
Additionally, we explore how stellar seismology is revealing the evolutionary history of stars in the open cluster Messier 67. By analyzing the oscillations of these stars, astronomers can map the history of the Milky Way and gain insights into stellar evolution. This innovative approach provides a deeper understanding of the life cycles of stars and their contributions to galactic archaeology.
00:00 Space Time Series 28 Episode 45 for broadcast on 14 April 2025
00:49 Findings from Chang'e 6 about lunar water distribution
06:30 Implications for lunar evolution and origin theories
12:15 Asteroid 2024 YR4's trajectory and characteristics
18:00 Transition from Earth impactor to Moon target
22:45 Stellar seismology insights from Messier 67
27:00 Summary of recent astronomical discoveries
30:15 Science report: Genetic engineering and the dire wolf
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00:00 - Space Time Series 28 Episode 45 for broadcast on 14 April 2025
00:49 - Findings from Chang’e 6 about lunar water distribution
06:30 - Implications for lunar evolution and origin theories
12:15 - Asteroid 2024 YR4’s trajectory and characteristics
18:00 - Transition from Earth impactor to Moon target
22:45 - Stellar seismology insights from Messier 67
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This is Spacetime series 28, episode 45.
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Coming up on Spacetime, why does the
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lunar far side have less water than the
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near side? Asteroid 2024 YF4, which came
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to fame after it was designated a
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possible Earth impact earlier this year,
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now appears to be targeting the moon.
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And how singing stars exposed their
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galactic past. All that and more coming
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up on Spaceime.
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Welcome to Space Time with Stuart
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[Music]
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Garry. Lunar rocks collected by China's
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Changi 6 sample return mission suggested
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the moon's far side is far drier than
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its earth-facing side. The findings
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reported in the journal Nature add to
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the intriguing dichotomy between the
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moon's two faces and offer potential new
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insights into lunar evolution. The
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analysis of Mar bassalts are showing
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scientists the lunar farides mantle
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contains far less water than on the near
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side. Over the past two decades,
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extensive studies of lunar samples from
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nearside rocks have demonstrated a
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highly heterogeneous distribution of
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water in the moon's interior.
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Concentrations range from roughly 1 to
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200 micrograms per gram. But the new
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data from the far side indicates water
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concentrations there are just 1 to 1 12
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micrograms per gram. Notably the crust
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exposed on the surface of the procarium
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creep terrain on the lunar side as a
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higher thorium concentration than the
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other two primary lunar geochemical
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provinces. The filled sporadic highlands
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and the south pole eken basin on the
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lunar far side. The thing is both
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thorium and water are considered
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incompatible elements during magmatic
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processes meaning they preferentially
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remain in the melt rather than becoming
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incorporated into the crystallizing
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materials. This geochemical behavior
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suggested the mantle beneath the south
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pole akin basin may contain lower
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abundances of water. Now to confirm this
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hypothesis, the authors focused on
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analyzing water content and hydrogen
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isotopes in melt inclusions in apatite
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within the Changi 6 Maria bassalt
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samples which were the first lunar rocks
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returned from the far side. The results
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indicate that the parent magma of these
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bassaltants contain 15 to 168 micrograms
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per gram of water. The authors estimated
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that the mantle source of the Changi 6
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bassalts had a water content of 1 to 1.5
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microgram per gram. significantly lower
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than for the near side mantle. Now, this
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disparity points to a potentially
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hemispheric dichotomy in the moon's
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interior water distribution, and that
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mirrors many other asymmetrical features
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observed on the lunar surface. The new
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estimates of the lunar farside matter's
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water content marks a significant step
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forward in refining science's
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understanding of the bulk silicut lunar
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water content. It provides important
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constraints in the giant impact
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hypothesis of the moon's origin and
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underscores the role of water in the
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moon's long-term evolution. This is
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space time. Still to come, asteroid 2024
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YF4, which came to fame after it was
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designated a possible Earth impactor
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earlier this year, now appears to be
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targeting the moon, and how singing
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stars expose their galactic past. All
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that and more still to come on
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[Music]
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Spaceime. Asteroid 2024 YF4, which came
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to fame after it was designated a
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possible Earth impactor, now appears to
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be targeting the moon. The widely
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spinning 60 meter wide space rock was
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discovered back on December the 27th
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last year, just a few days after
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Christmas with early observations
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suggesting a possible collision with the
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Earth on December the 22nd, 2032. Now,
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of course, that was based on very early
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orbital data. NASA and the European
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Space Agency placed the odds of a direct
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impact with the Earth as high as 3%. And
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this potential threat quickly gained
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international attention among the public
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and media. The thing is, the figures
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were still based on very early tracking
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of the asteroid's orbit. And as more and
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more detailed observations came flooding
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in over the following weeks earlier this
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year, including studies by the European
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Southern Observatory's VT, the Very
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Large Telescope in Chile, those risks
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eventually began dropping and dropping
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and dropping until they eventually
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became negligible. Asteroid 2024 YF4 was
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no longer likely to hit the Earth. But
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as the risk to Earth diminished, the
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chances of a collision with the moon
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began to grow. In fact, it's now
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standing at
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3.5%. And that makes YF4 one of the
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largest objects in recent history that
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could impact the moon. Meanwhile, as
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this near-Earth asteroid continues
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moving away from the Earth moon system
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on the outward leg of its four Earthyear
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journey around the sun, astronomers
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using the Gemini South telescope in
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Chile examined the rock in multiple
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wavelengths, creating a
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three-dimensional image, showing that it
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shaped more like a flat disc, a bit like
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a not quite round hockey puck rather
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than a potato, which most asteroids look
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like. They also discovered that it was
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tumbling at a rate of around once every
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20 minutes. And astronomers using the
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Mosfire spectrograph on the kek
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observatory on Monarch in Hawaii were
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able to determine the physical
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properties and potential origins of YF4
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revealing it to be a solid stony sype
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asteroid rich in silicates that likely
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originated from an asteroid family in
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the main asteroid built between Mars and
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Jupiter. The findings have been reported
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in the astrophysical journal letters and
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on the pre-press physics website
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archive.org. This is spaceime. Still to
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come, how singing stars expose the
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galactic past. And later in the science
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report, there's been a lot in the news
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about the extinct dire wolf being
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resurrected through genetic engineering.
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But how true really are those claims?
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All that and more still to come on
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[Music]
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Spaceime. Astronomers studying the open
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star cluster Messia 67 have used stellar
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seismology to help them determine how
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the stars in the cluster have evolved
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over cosmic time. The findings reported
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in the journal Nature are allowing
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scientists to map the history of the
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Milky Way and other galaxies,
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accelerating knowledge in the field of
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astrophysics. Located some 2700 light
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years away, and containing some 1,080
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solar masses, Messier 67 is one of the
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best studied star clusters. Yet,
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estimates of its physical parameters,
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such as its age, its true mass, and the
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number of stars it contains of a given
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type, vary substantially. What is known
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is that the stars in this cluster were
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all born at the same time from the same
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molecular gas and dust cloud with the
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best estimate suggesting about 4 billion
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years ago. Now, that means any
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differences between individual stars in
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the cluster must be due primarily to
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their stellar mass. Now, from what
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astronomers can tell, M67 has around 500
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stars, including at least 150 white
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dwarves and more than 100 sunlike stars,
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as well as numerous red giants. These
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are revolved stars, which have moved off
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the main sequence. That's where stars
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are burning hydrogen into helium in
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their stellar cores. The ages and
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prevalence of sunlike stars in the
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cluster has led some astronomers to
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hypothesize that it's possible that this
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could be the stellar nursery of our own
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local star, the sun. However, computer
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simulations disagree on whether our
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solar system would have survived an
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ejection from M67. And the cluster
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itself would probably not have survived
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such an ejection event anyway. The
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cluster now contains no main sequence
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stars bluer than spectrotype F white
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stars. That's because any brighter stars
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of that age would have already left the
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main sequence. In fact, when stars in
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the cluster are plotted on the Herzbrung
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Russell diagram, there's a distinct
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turnoff representing the stars which
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have terminated hydrogen fusion in the
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core and are now destined to become red
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giants. But that's not unusual. You see,
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as a cluster ages, the turnoff moves
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progressively down the main sequence
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towards cooler stars. That's because
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hotter stars burn through their nuclear
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fusion process quicker while cooler
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stars like our sun tend to live much
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longer. The study's lead author Claudia
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Reyes from the University of New South
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Wales studied 27 of the stars in the
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cluster to better understand how stars
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of different masses but similar
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compositions have evolved differently.
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Reyes says while these stars are all the
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same age, it's their mass which gives
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away how quickly they've evolved. The
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study also opens new ways to learn more
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about what the sun will do as it gets
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bigger and older. The thing is,
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verifying the age of a star is one of
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the most difficult things you can do in
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astronomy. That's because the age of a
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star isn't revealed by its surface. It's
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what happens inside that shows
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astronomers how old a star really is.
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Reyes and colleagues were able to
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precisely determine a star's age based
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on its oscillation frequencies.
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basically how the star vibrates, how it
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rings and that depends on the physical
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properties of the matter inside the
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star. It gives clues about stellar
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density, temperature and age. This is
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the first time researchers were able to
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interrogate the ringing across a cluster
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of stars in order to learn more about
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their internal structure. To do this,
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they use data from the Kepler K2 mission
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as a primary way to observe or listen.
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Reyes says the process is a bit like
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listening to an orchestra and
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identifying instruments based on their
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sound. The frequency by which an
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instrument's vibrating or ringing
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depends on the physical properties of
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the matter that the sound's traveling
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through. That's why a violin doesn't
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sound like a grand piano. And it's the
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same for stars. And we can see that
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vibration or the effects of that
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vibration. That is the sound just like
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you can see the vibration of a violin
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string. The biggest stars have the
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deepest sounds, while smaller stars have
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more high-pitch tones. But of course,
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it's not that simple. No one star plays
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just one note at once. Each star has a
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complete symphony of sounds coming from
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its interior. And these sounds exist as
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waves of energy, a vibration moving
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through particles, solid, liquid, or
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gas. Reyes says each star is like a
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breathing ball of gas, cooling down and
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heating up, causing slight changes in
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its brightness. And it's these
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fluctuations in brightness that Reyes
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and colleagues were watching for and
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then measuring in order to gauge the
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sound frequencies. As stars in the main
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sequence mature towards the red giant
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phase, their frequencies change and they
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behave differently and these changes can
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help track their evolution. The
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frequency differences between the many
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modes played by the star can give clues
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about its interior properties. And by
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studying 27 stars in the M67 open
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cluster, the authors could for the first
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time observe the relationship between
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small and large frequency differences in
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giant stars. And that can now be applied
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to individual stars. You see, to better
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understand the formation and evolution
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of galaxies, scientists need to know the
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ages of all its components, including
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the stars. Reyes says the study will
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lead to an accurate identification of
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the mass and age of stars in the Milky
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Way. Something yet to be achieved. We
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have found that the seismology of stars
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can give a different tool to get the
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ages and it is way way more precise than
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traditional method. So what we do is we
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use the oscillations of stars that have
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convective envelopes to measure the
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frequencies at which they resonate and
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we then compare those frequencies with
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the models that we have and we can
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estimate very good masses and age. We
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know in the file diagram where the stars
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that have convective envelopes lie. So
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our sun is a very good example of that
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but also most of the giant stars. So we
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target those and we observe the very
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small variations in their brightness and
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then we observe them for a long time as
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long as possible but we are limited of
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course by telescope capacities but then
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those we take those light curves and we
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transform them into the frequency space
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and that's what the oscillations that we
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measure come from and you use that to
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calculate stellar age stellar
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revolution. That's right. Because we
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have very good models and our models
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actually can predict very accurately
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where every one of those frequency peaks
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will lie in a frequency spectrum. Why
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did you choose M67? M67 is a very
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special cluster for a number of reasons.
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One of them is that it has very similar
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to solar composition which very good
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because our models are best calibrated
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to the sun normally. So another good
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reason is that it is not very obscure by
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D. We have a good look at them at those
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stars. And another good reason is that
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is very well populated. So from the main
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sequence to from lower evolutionary
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phases until the later evolutionary
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phases we have an amazing sample of
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stars that we can observe very clearly.
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You knew they all formed in the same
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molecular dust cloud. So they had a
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similar composition. you knew they
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started out at roughly the same time, so
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they're the same age. And by looking at
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how stars of different masses evolved,
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you were able to fine-tune your your
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hypothesis. Exactly. Because we know
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that the difference between two of them
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is mostly related to the mass that they
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started with. So it's not related to any
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other factor like chemical composition
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or distance or dust or anything like
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that. So yes, we can observe the entire
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sequence of frequencies and basically
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it's the next best thing as to just
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following a star for billions of years
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and seeing how it evolves. Of course we
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cannot do that but we can look at this
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very nice thickness of stars and this
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will allow you to get a better
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understanding of our sun as well. Yes.
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So the stars that we particularly target
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in this study are stars that are more
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evolved than the sun which is like
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looking into our sun's future. So what
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we learned from this study one of the
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things that we learned is that we have
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evidence of how deep that convective
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envelope with will actually reach. So we
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have predicted this and we have indirect
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methods of getting this information of
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how deep the envelope actually reaches.
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But now we have very direct indication
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of the depth of that envelope and it is
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what will happen to the sun. Is our
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schedule of the sun accurate at this
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stage? So what does including our sun
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when they run out of hydrogen in it core
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they begin to puff up. So as the core
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will become even more dense, its outer
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layers will become more expanded and yes
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they will reach where the the radius
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where the earth is located. But it is
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still so so far in the future but a lot
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sooner than that as the sun continues to
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heat up a lot sooner than that the earth
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will become uninhabitable anyway. Um
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well at least that's that's the
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hypothesis that I was taught. Yeah. Well
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before the earth is engulfed by the sun.
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Yes. It will become uninhabitable but
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the sun has a good billion of years in
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its current state. So nothing will
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happen for a long time. Star quakes tell
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me about them. So star quakes are very
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similar to earthquakes that we are
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familiar with just that they happen in
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stars but the cause of the quakes are
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different. So for example in the earth
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we are familiar with the tectonic plates
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running into each other. That is what
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causes these earthquakes. In stars they
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have this bubbling outer layer of gas.
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It's like water boiling in a pot. I
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think so. Yeah. So what happens is that
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convective envelopes need to transport
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energy from the core to the surface very
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efficiently so that stars can keep from
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collapsing. Right? So these bubbles when
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they reach the surface they burst and by
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bursting they send ripples through the
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entire star and that is what causes the
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star wicks and I think it's really
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fascinating that we have we can learn so
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much from that and does magnetism play
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an important role in this because we
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know that things like coronal mass
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ejections and stellar flares are
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triggered by magnetic ropes that are
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being twisted as the star rotates at
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different rates. Does that play a role
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in this or is that independent from
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perculations of plasma that lead to star
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quakes? Yeah. So a study of magnetism
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using seismology is a very active and
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one thing that it does that is really
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interesting is that the magnetism in the
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core of a star can actually suppress
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that oscillations and leave us with a
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partial power spectrum. So that is one
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one of the areas where magnetism can be
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observed in a source moon. And where
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would you like to take this research to
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next? It's very interesting because this
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research other than let us know a lot of
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what is going on underneath the outer
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layers of the stars as it is one of the
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main outcomes of this study was to find
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out specifically when the outer layer
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reaches this greater depth. So the other
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outcome of this study is that we can get
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even more precise ages for a particular
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subset of stars everywhere in the galaxy
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not only in the cluster M67. So next for
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us is to look for stars in this
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particular phases everywhere in the
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gate. So we can then use that data for
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galactic archology which is the search
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for reconstructing the history of the
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galaxy. That's Claudia Reyes from the
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University of New South Wales and this
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is
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[Music]
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Spacetime. And time now to take a brief
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look at some of the other stories making
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news in science this week with a science
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report. Two new studies have linked
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diabetes drugs such as ampic, which
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lowers blood glucose, showing it may
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also lower the risk of Alzheimer's and
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dementia. A report in the Journal of the
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American Medical Association found that
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one study looked at Alzheimer's
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diagnosis in patients taking a class of
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drugs that includes glucagenike peptide
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1 receptor agonists GLP1 RAS and another
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class of glucoseing drugs known as
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SGT2is. They found that patients taking
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the newer drugs had lower rates of
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Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
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Meanwhile, the second study pulled
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together the results of previous
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clinical trials, finding that GLP1
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ragt2is were associated with a reduction
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in dementia or cognitive impairment.
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The company behind efforts to resurrect
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the woolly mammoth, the thyloine, and
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the dodo now claim they've achieved what
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they're describing as the deextinction
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of the dire wolf. It's a species that
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went extinct about 10,000 years ago.
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Colossal biosciences claim it's produced
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three very cute little puppies named
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Romulus, Remis, and Kalesi based on
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genetically engineered greywolf genomes.
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However, according to Professor Philip
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Seden from the University of Vitago,
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greywolves and direwolves, despite the
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wolf part in their names, aren't closely
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related, having parted ways from a
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common ancestor some 6 million years
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ago. In fact, he says the African
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jackals probably more closely related to
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real
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direwolves. The company simply
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introduced a series of genetic changes
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to a grey wolf to produce greywolf pups
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with direwolf features, such as paler
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coats and potentially a slightly larger
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size.
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A new study shows that farmers had been
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transporting fish up into the Pyrenees
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mountains between modern day Spain and
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France into local Pyrenees waterways and
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lakes as early as the 7th century. A
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report of the journal Nature
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Communications found the lakes in the
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highest mountains of Europe didn't
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originally have fish, but evidence of
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people introducing them to these areas
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has been found dating from the 14th and
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15th centuries. The author studied a
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sedimentary core in Lake Rudon in the
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Spanish Pyrenees, finding data from fish
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parasites and fish prey dating back to
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the early 7th century, a time when the
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region was likely used for sheep
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farming. And that suggests that fish
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must have been brought there earlier
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than previously thought. Of course,
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today this lake is home to about 60,000
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brown trout, descendants of those
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original fish transported up by early
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farmers.
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There's a growing spread of
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misinformation online about the
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nutritional value of various
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supplements, but Tim Menum from
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Australian Skeptics says it's possible
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to protect yourself and tell the
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difference between what's good advice
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and what's not if you follow some simple
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rules. Nutrition, especially online
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recommendations for nutrition, you go
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through your Tik Toks and all that sort
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of stuff, is fraught with bad
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information, bad advice from people who
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really don't know what they're talking
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about. and wellness influencers are the
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people who often up there use this
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product and you know stick your mouth
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full of cinnamon or whatever or take the
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big one was apple cider vinegar which
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will cure anything going apparently all
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these things are recommended you go
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online you see these things everywhere
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this will guarantee the cure you of this
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particular problem I remember when
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echynatia was a big thing everyone had
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to take echania yeah I mean echynatia
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was a is that a homeopathic treatment it
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was a herbal treatment supposedly cure
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you for cold the fish oil it was largely
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overstated about sort what what it could
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actually do for you. And there also
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concerns about its quality and how old
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it is and how well it quality is
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especially a problem that you don't know
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how it's made and how true it is. I
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mean, despite what it says on the label,
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that's not necessarily a guarantee,
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especially if it's taken as a food
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supplement, not as a medicine thing,
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because the medicine things are more
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closely reviewed. Hopefully, the food
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things are less closely reviewed, except
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if they're poison, right? There's a big
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overlap there between what's a good diet
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or a nutritional product rather than a
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medical product. And that's part of the
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problem is is that in many cases the
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nutritional product is regarded as food
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and that's a different authority to the
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medical regulatory bodies. So what you
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have is that with nutrition anyone can
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get actually that happens with medicine
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as well. So people get online they go a
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Tik Tok a 3minut video about yeah use
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this thing it's worked for me and I got
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this great body etc. And you too can
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have this if you take this product. I
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had a great body once but I had to give
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it back. Yeah. Okay back to our story.
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So the thing about a lot of this stuff
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is that obviously you got to take it
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with a grain of salt. That's
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metaphorical. But the global dietary
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supplement industry is not some little
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thing. It's worth globally about 150
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billion US. So people talk about big
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farmer etc. Well, they should talk about
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big supplement or big homeopathy or big
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nutrition etc. This is a giant industry
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made up of lots of little different
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things and some of them major, some of
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them tiny, some of them promoted by one
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person on Tik Tok, others promoted by
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organizations that we hope would know
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better. But how do you tell? That's hard
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actually because a lot of these people
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are very convincing. They got
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confidence. They will use anecdotal
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evidence which is not worth very much.
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And a lot of them doctors, train medical
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practitioners to spru their claims. Yes.
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Unfortunately, there you'll always find
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some qualified person to promote any
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particular pseudocience, pseudo
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medicine. Yeah, the things to do. First
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of all, check your reasoning for trying
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to follow this. Is it fear? Is it anger?
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Why are you paying any attention to this
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at all? That's a bit of a hard one to
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do. Uh next, check who's saying it. Do
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they have qualifications? Do they know
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what they're talking about? Are they
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lying? But then if you say you can get a
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medical doctor to endorse something
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anywhere and then try and find some
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critical reviews of this thing. My
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advice I found in my experience is that
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if you say for instance apple cider
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vinegar, Google in apple cider vinegar
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skeptic, right? You add the word skeptic
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and you will find alternative views. So
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check your motivation, check the
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authority and check the facts and you
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will find you discover a lot of weird
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things. That's Tim Mendum from
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Australian Skeptics.
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