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Pulsar Diamond Planet, Interstellar Comet & Fast Radio Burst Source Found

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Pulsar Diamond Planet, Interstellar Comet & Fast Radio Burst Source Found

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(00:00:00) Pulsar Diamond Planet, Interstellar Comet & Fast Radio Burst Source Found
(00:00:59) Fast Radio Burst Source Identified
(00:01:48) Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Origins
(00:02:43) Euclid's Milky Way Mosaic
(00:03:20) Vast Station Biotech Partnerships
(00:03:58) SpaceX Starlink Cadence

A planet orbiting a millisecond pulsar with soot clouds, possible diamonds, and a lemon-shaped body stretched by tidal forces has no known formation mechanism — and JWST just confirmed it. PSR J2322-2650b is the lead story in today's episode, and it represents a genuine hard edge of what planetary science thought it understood.

Also from JWST: astronomers have traced fast radio burst FRB 20250316A to a faint infrared object in galaxy NGC 4141, roughly 130 million light-years away — the first candidate extragalactic FRB source ever pinpointed. Meanwhile, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has been dated at approximately 12 billion years old, making it potentially the oldest object ever studied up close. Its deuterium-rich, carbon-13-depleted chemistry doesn't match anything in our solar system, pointing to planet-building chemistry running on entirely different inputs in the early galaxy.

On the infrastructure side, ESA's Euclid telescope released the largest high-resolution image of the Milky Way's centre ever captured — 60 million stars — which will serve as a baseline for NASA's Roman Space Telescope gravitational microlensing programme. Commercial space also moved forward: Vast signed MoUs with four biotech firms for microgravity research aboard Haven stations post-ISS. And SpaceX completed its 24th Starlink mission of the year, sustaining 56-hour booster turnarounds while Starship development runs in parallel.

Six stories. All signal, no filler.

This episode includes AI-generated content.

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