[Space Bites+] Starship Returns // More Evidence for Betelbuddy // Results from Chang’e-6 Moon Rocks

Patrons, send in your questions: patreon.com/posts/164654175BONUS PART STARTS AT: 19:02Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3DKTwnz0oAsStarship 13 flies and lands softly in the ocean. Astronomers see the companion star for Betelgeuse. A comet spun down, reversed direction and might tear itself apart. Did Webb see primordial Little Red Dots? On Space Bites+, measuring the heat working its way out of Io. All this and more in this week's Space Bites.Interviews mentionedLRDs with Dr. John Chisholm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4caOfg5K8IsLRDs with Dr. Vasily Kokorev https://youtu.be/zoHtCmCbcEUOBLIVION NIAC with Jeff Nosanov https://youtu.be/U6fZ2GryNhUTimecodes00:00 Intro 00:22 They Are Recovering The Starship https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spacexs-starship-deploys-starlink-satellites-during-13th-flight-test 03:45 More Evidence for Bettelbuddy https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2611/ 05:39 Bad News, Everyone https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/2026/07/28/commissioning-update-for-spacecraft-to-boost-nasas-swift/ 07:22 CAPSTONE-2 for Moon Docking https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/armd/nasa-announces-new-spacecraft-technology-demonstration-mission-at-moon/ 09:06 Chang’e-6 Rocks https://www.universetoday.com/articles/change-6-samples-reveal-how-earth-slows-solar-wind-striking-moons-near-side https://www.universetoday.com/articles/samples-of-lunar-rock-are-leading-scientists-to-rethink-the-moons-history 12:05 Self-Destructing Comet https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spin-reversing-comet-may-face-self-destruction 13:31 Vote results 14:13 Little Red Dots https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-distant-primordial-object-may-be-a-newborn-little-red-dot https://www.universetoday.com/articles/little-red-dots-could-be-ancient-globular-clusters-each-dominated-by-a-super-massive-star 17:40 Almost an Exomoon https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-first-confirmed-exo-satellite-challenges-our-definitions-of-planets-and-moons 19:02 BONUS Story https://www.universetoday.com/articles/juno-measures-the-heat-below-ios-restless-surface 21:36 Final thoughts