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Starts With A Bang #116 - Disintegrating exoplanets
Out there in the Universe, each star represents an opportunity: a chance for a stellar system to develop that just might possess something remarkable…
11 months ago
Starts With A Bang #115 - Dwarf galaxies in isolation
Sure, it's easy to look out at the Universe and take stock of what we find. Although spiral and elliptical galaxies house the majority of the Univers…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Starts With A Bang #114 - Pluto and Charon
Out there in the Universe, there are tremendous, uncountable numbers of planetary systems just waiting to be discovered. But stellar systems won't ju…
1 year ago
Starts With A Bang podcast #113 - Weird stars
When it comes to stars, most of them, for most of their lives, behave in a very similar fashion to the Sun. In their cores, they undergo nuclear fusi…
1 year, 1 month ago
Starts With A Bang #112 - Galactic Archaeology
When we look out at our home galaxy, the Milky Way, we have to recognize that even though it's been growing and evolving for 13.8 billion years, we'r…
1 year, 2 months ago
Starts With A Bang #111 - Black Hole Jets
In this Universe, there are a few objects that are just larger, and a few events that are just more powerful, than others. As far as size goes, the c…
1 year, 3 months ago
Starts With A Bang #110 - Optical Interferometry
It's hard to imagine, but it was only five years ago, in 2019, that humanity feasted our collective eyes on the first direct image of a black hole's…
1 year, 4 months ago
Starts With A Bang #109 - Launching a galactic cone
When you think of an active galaxy, what picture comes to mind? Do you think about a monstrous supermassive black hole feasting on tremendous stores …
1 year, 5 months ago
Starts With A Bang #108 - A Future Particle Collider
Right now, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator/collider ever built. Accelerating protons up to 299,792,455 m/s,…
1 year, 7 months ago
Starts With A Bang #107 - Binary Stars And Modified Gravity
On the largest of cosmic scales, the best description we have of our Universe is known as the ΛCDM model with an inflationary hot Big Bang: our conse…
1 year, 7 months ago