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Starts With A Bang #86 - Stars In The Universe
Episode 86
All throughout the Universe, we see stars and galaxies everywhere we look. But as we look to greater and greater distances, we're only seeing the lig…
3 years, 4 months ago
Starts With A Bang #85 - Planetary Formation
Episode 85
Although it seems like a long time ago, it was as recent as the early 1990s that we had no idea whether planets in the Universe were universal, commo…
3 years, 5 months ago
Starts With A Bang #84 - Cosmological Mysteries
From the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang up through and including the present day, one cosmic picture is sufficient to describe practically every…
3 years, 6 months ago
Starts With A Bang #83 - The Longest Gravitational Waves
Since the advanced LIGO detectors first began operating in 2015, we've not only directly detected our first gravitational wave signals from merging o…
3 years, 8 months ago
Starts With A Bang #82 - JWST And Infrared Astronomy
It's now been nearly a full six months since the JWST was launched, and we're on the cusp of getting our first science data and images back from some…
3 years, 8 months ago
Starts With A Bang podcast #81 - The Local Bubble
When we look out at the Universe, what we see is typically what we think of: the points of light. Depending on the scales we're looking at, this can …
3 years, 9 months ago
Starts With A Bang #80 - The Cosmos, James Webb, and Beyond
Have you ever wondered how it is that we know all we do about galaxies? How they formed, what they're made of, how we can be certain they contain dar…
3 years, 10 months ago
Starts With A Bang #79 - The Far Infrared Universe
Every time we've figured out a different way to look at the Universe, going beyond the capabilities of our own meagre senses, we've opened up an oppo…
3 years, 11 months ago
Starts With A Bang #78 - From Failed Stars To SETI
When you start looking at the Universe, you realize that there are more signals out there than are simply generated by stars. On the one hand, you ha…
4 years ago
Starts With A Bang #77 - Stellar Destruction
Some stars, as they go through their life cycles, will die of natural causes. They'll burn through their fuel until they can fuse elements no longer,…
4 years, 1 month ago