[Space Bites] Artificial Solar Eclipses // Mother of All Meteor Storms // Vera Rubin's First Light

A new mission can make solar eclipses on demand, what do supernovae and stellar flybys do to Earth’s climate, how asteroid 2024 YR4 will make the mother of all meteor showers, and Starship 36 explodes during testing. And on Space Bites+, how we could use a space elevator to extract water from Ceres. 🚀 [Space Bites+] No ADS. BONUS Story. For FREE: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday 💥 NSF's video: https://youtu.be/71AwkBt3ts?si=YznNNyumC9VakFu 💥 Scott Manley's video: https://youtu.be/0C_L-qgHsE0?si=UzpyqdtjHJDw2s4N 👉 Vote for the best story here: https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/community 00:00 Intro 00:25 Artificial solar eclipse with Proba-3 https://www.universetoday.com/articles/esas-new-mission-can-see-a-solar-eclipse-every-day 01:55 PUNCH sees a solar erruption https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasas-punch-mission-captured-images-of-a-huge-solar-eruption 03:08 Could stellar flybys change Earth's climate https://www.universetoday.com/articles/have-stellar-flybys-altered-earths-climate-in-the-past 05:43 Supernovae changing Earth's climate https://www.universetoday.com/articles/supernova-explosions-changed-earths-climate-and-shaped-humanitys-history 08:19 Mother of all meteor showers https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-potential-danger-to-satellites-due-to-ejecta-from-a-2032-lunar-impact-by-asteroid-2024-yr4 10:18 Vote results 10:57 China's Mengzhou abort test https://www.universetoday.com/articles/china-tests-the-crew-escape-for-its-new-lunar-capsule 12:36 Honda tests a reusable rocket https://global.honda/en/topics/2025/c2025-06-17ceng.html 13:42 Starship explodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71AwkBt3ts&ab_channel=NASASpaceflight 15:46 Vera Rubin's first light https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-first-images-from-vera-rubin-are-about-to-drop 17:50 More space news 18:54 Bonus story 19:12 Vancouver island 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/wI_Hk36bx7Q 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)