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Starts With A Bang #106 - The Troublesome Hunt for Planet Nine
One of the most swiftly forgotten revolutions in all of science is our understanding of the Solar System out beyond Neptune. Although Pluto was dis…
1 year, 8 months ago
Starts With A Bang #105 - Dark Matter And Galaxies
Every January, I head to the American Astronomical Society's big annual meeting with an ulterior motive in mind. Beyond merely uncovering new scienti…
1 year, 9 months ago
Starts With A Bang #104 - The Magnetized Galactic Center
Have you ever wondered what the full story with the galactic center is? Sure, we have stars, gas, and an all-important supermassive black hole, but…
1 year, 11 months ago
Starts With A Bang #103 - Active galaxies and the universe
All throughout the Universe, galaxies exist in a great variety of shapes, ages, and states. Today's galaxies come in spirals, ellipticals, irregulars…
1 year, 11 months ago
Starts With a Bang #102 - The missing exoplanets
Up until the early 1990s, we didn't know what sorts of planets lived around stars other than our Sun. Were they like our own Solar System, with inner…
2 years, 1 month ago
Starts With A Bang #101 - Quantum Computing
Happy new year, everyone, and with a new year comes a spectacular new podcast! We normally cover an intricate and underappreciated aspect of astrophy…
2 years, 1 month ago
Starts With A Bang podcast #100 - Galaxies in the JWST era
It's hard to believe, but it was only back just a year and a half ago, in mid-2022, that we had yet to encounter the very first science images releas…
2 years, 2 months ago
Starts With a Bang #99 - Varying and evolving stars
You might not think about it very often, but when it comes to the question of "how old is a star that we're observing," there are some very simple ap…
2 years, 3 months ago
Starts With A Bang #98 - The Line Between Star And Planet
Out there in the Universe, there's a whole lot more than simply what we find in our own Solar System. Here at home, the largest, most massive objec…
2 years, 4 months ago
Starts With A Bang #97 - Tiny Galaxies and Us
When we look at our nearby Universe, it's easy to recognize our own galaxy and the other large, massive ones that are nearby: Andromeda, the major ga…
2 years, 6 months ago