Polaris Dawn launches and completes the first private spacewalk, the surface of a giant star is resolved with incredible detail, Starliner comes home empty, and amazing new images of Mercury from BepiColumbo. 🌞 Asteroseismology interview: https://youtu.be/pfbo4Ffzf9I 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:16 First ever spacewalk 02:30 A star with incredible resolution 03:57 Mars spiders 06:04 Starliner returns 07:49 New Glenn delay 10:00 Starship updates 12:57 Mercury flyby 14:14 Vote results 15:07 Formation of Sag A 16:58 Iron winds on WASP-76b 18:15 Water on exoplanets 19:58 Guide to space 20:39 Asking for a favour 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/gwWYzlXOIsw 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Support Universe Today Podcast