Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
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 everything we observe: the Lambda-Cold Dark Matter (ΛCD…
Published on 3 years, 3 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 objects in the Universe, we've observed close to 10…
Published on 3 years, 5 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 1.5 million kilometers away. There are all sorts …
Published on 3 years, 6 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 come in the form of stars, galaxies, or even clust…
Published on 3 years, 7 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 dark matter, and how they grew up in the context of t…
Published on 3 years, 8 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 opportunity to learn something new about what's out th…
Published on 3 years, 8 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 have astrophysical objects like gas, dust, plasma, a…
Published on 3 years, 10 months 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, and then will die, becoming a white dwarf below a…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Starts With A Bang #76 - Supermassive Black Holes
When it comes to the black holes that populate the Universe, they range from the very tiny, of only ~3 solar masses or so and with event horizons that span only a few kilometers, all the way up to th…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Starts With A Bang #75 - Instruments And Mega - Cameras
You know how it works, right? Point your telescopes at the sky, collect the data, and then send it off to the scientists for analysis and to compare with the predictions of your theories. Only, if th…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago