4 Tiny Missions Answering the Biggest Questions in Astrophysics

The Astrophysics Pioneers program is funding four innovative new missions that read like a best-hits album of the most exciting astronomical frontiers: from galaxy evolution and exoplanets, to neutron star mergers and astroparticle physics. Hosted by: Caitlin Hofmeister SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowspace ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Charles Copley, Drew Hart, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, GrowingViolet, Ash, Laura Sanborn, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/programs/astrophysics-pioneers https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-selects-4-concepts-for-small-missions-to-study-universe-s-secrets https://www.nsf.gov/attachments/300822/public/9_NASA_APD_Programs_and_Budget_Update_Paul_Hertz.pdf https://news.arizona.edu/story/uarizona-will-lead-nasa-space-telescope-mission-reveal-unseen-dynamic-lives-galaxies https://www.kold.com/2021/01/14/university-arizona-lead-telescopic-mission-with-nasa/ https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-astro-091916-055240 https://aasnova.org/2019/07/30/making-it-rain-in-the-circumgalactic-medium/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/asna.201713343 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0204-1 https://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2021/01/sc-aspera-mission https://optics.org/news/12/2/8 https://web.archive.org/web/20160706034142/http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/hubble_essentials/quick_facts.php https://pandorasat.com/ https://www.llnl.gov/news/lab-will-co-lead-nasa-mission-study-stars-planets https://www.universetoday.com/149824/nasa-has-chosen-4-new-pioneer-missions-aspera-pandora-starburst-and-peuo/ https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/128/967/094401/meta https://www.theredstonerocket.com/tech_today/article_eea07ae4-5b3c-11eb-9a0a-f712394eaadf.html https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/merging-neutron-stars-generate-gravitational-waves-and-celestial-light-show https://www.qmul.ac.uk/spa/pprc/research/neutrino-physics/anitapueo/ https://www.snowmass21.org/docs/files/summaries/CF/SNOWMASS21-CF7_CF0-NF4_NF0-IF10_IF0_Vieregg-222.pdf https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02892 https://physics.wustl.edu/news/nasa-selects-astrophysics-mission-detect-ultrahigh-energy-neutrinos https://news.psu.edu/story/646449/2021/02/03/academics/antarctic-balloon-mission-chosen-nasa-pioneers-program https://www.icrc2019.org/uploads/1/1/9/0/119067782/icrc_july2019_vieregg.pdf https://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~anita/about/science-overview https://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/uhen/anita/ http://stratocat.com.ar/fichas-e/2006/MCM-20061214.htm https://home.cern/science/engineering/restarting-lhc-why-13-tev https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00923 Images: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13758 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10657 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10543 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NanoRacksCubeSatLaunch_ISS038-E-056389.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10395 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20314 https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2019/17/4493-Image.html?page=6&keyword=galaxy&filterUUID=4c394bbb-b21e-43ab-a160-2a4521d70243 https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2020/01/4615-Image?page=3&keyword=galaxy&filterUUID=4c394bbb-b21e-43ab-a160-2a4521d70243 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30949 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10663 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13815 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13297 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13663 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13496 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12797 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13778 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13510 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12740 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13220 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13041 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13427 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13427 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20186 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ANITA-4_prior_to_launch.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12994 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3848 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11209