Glitching Neutron Star Mysteries & SpaceX Launch Countdown: Astronomy Discoveries of the Day | S02E22

0:00 Good aready, and welcome to Astronomy Daily for Wednesday, the nineteenth of July

0:05 twenty twenty three. My name is Tim Gibson. I will be your host

0:09 for today. As usual. I have Hallie, my AI assistant in the

0:13 studio with me and we are going to do a one story Wednesday, one

0:18 story from Hallie in one story from me. So over to you Hallie for

0:22 your story of today. Hi, Tim, here's my story for today.

0:34 Scientists discover glitched a neutron star that obliterated an asteroid then fired off a brilliant

0:39 explosion. The powerful magnetic star blasted out a fast radio burst and changed its

0:45 rotational speed as it ripped apart the space rock. A rapidly spinning neutron star

0:50 with an incredibly powerful magnetic field glitched when it destroyed a space rock. A

0:55 new study suggests the neutron star SGR nineteen thirty five plus twenty one fifty four,

1:00 which is located and estimated thirty thousand light years away near the center of

1:04 the Milky Way, appeared to a glitch by very briefly changing its rational speed

1:08 after an asteroid was pulled in by its gravity and ripped apart. The glitch

1:14 consisted of the star changing its rotational speed while also releasing a fast radio burst

1:19 FRB, a powerful blast of radio waves. In a new study of that

1:23 a glitched of star, astronomers can finally connect these mysterious bursts of radio energy

1:27 to these extreme star corpses known as magnetars. Like all neutron stars, magnetars

1:34 are born when a massive star runs out of fuel for nuclear fusion, a

1:38 process that creates the outward energy needed to stop a star from collapsing under its

1:42 own gravity. As the outer layers of the star are blown apart by a

1:46 powerful supernova or star explosion, the inner core collapses, berthing a stellar remnant

1:51 with the mass of the Sun squeezed into a width equivalent to the average city

1:55 on Earth one teaspoon of neutron star matter brought to Earth with their way one

2:00 billion tons. The collapse also pushes together the magnetic field lines of the dying

2:06 star, creating the universe's most powerful magnetic fields. Hence, this type of

2:10 neutron star boasting a powerful magnetic field is known as a magnetar. The Astronomy

2:15 Daily podcast Thanks for that, Hallie, and now here is a story from

2:21 me SpaceX aborts a Starlink satellite launch with five seconds left in countdown. This

2:28 was the second abort for SpaceX in less than a week. One of the

2:30 company's falconine rockets, which were scheduled to launch fifteen Starlink Internet satellites from California's

2:38 Foggy Vandenburg Space for Space on Wednesday, July nineteenth at twelve sorry at one

2:46 twenty five am local time, but it wasn't to be. The launch team

2:52 called off things just with five seconds left on the countdown clock. There are

2:59 thousands of launch can go wrong and only one way that it can go right.

3:02 SpaceX Zach Lupin said during the webcast of the planned launch, given that

3:08 we are overtly curious on the ground, and if the team or the vehicle

3:13 scene sees anything that just looks even slightly off, they'll stop the countdown.

3:19 SpaceX Atticus Vanderra uttered very similar words. On July fourteenth, after the launch

3:24 team called off the planned liftoff of a Falcon nine topped with fifty four Starlink

3:30 satellites from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. That rocket flew without incident.

3:36 The following day, acing its record tying sixteenth mission. It's unclear at this

3:44 point what caused Wednesday's aboard. The mission team did not specify the issue during

3:49 the webcast, which ended shortly after the launch was scrubbed. The weather was

3:53 good enough for the launch, despite the despite the thick. The thick flog

3:59 at Vanderby Lupin said that the rocket and the split stylink saturits are in good

4:03 health as SpaceX aims to launch again soon. The company said on via its

4:12 Twitter account that it's targeting Wednesday, July the nineteenth for the next liftoff.

4:16 Presumably that means a twenty four hour delay with a launch Wednesday night, California

4:21 time, which is early Thursday morning, July the twentieth. They Astronomy Daily

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