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Starts With A Bang #74 - Galaxy Clusters And Their Environments
In the science of astronomy, it's important to see both the forest and the trees. Galaxy clusters, in many ways, serve as both. They're rich environments with stars, gas, dust, dark matter, black hol…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Starts With A Bang #73 - Ocean Worlds And So Much More
If you want to understand the origin of life in the Universe, you have three basic ways to do it. One is to search for intelligent aliens directly: through a program such as SETI. Another is to searc…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Starts With A Bang #72 - The Central Cores Of Galaxies
Practically every galaxy in the Universe has a supermassive black hole at their core. Ranging from millions to many billions of solar masses, these cosmic behemoths are capable of behaving as engines…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Starts With A Bang #71 - Rare Stars And Stargazers
Like everything in the Universe, stars are born, they live a little while, and then they die. But despite their similarities in terms of where they come from and what they're made of, these objects c…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Starts With A Bang #70 - The Accelerating Milky Way
When we think about the Universe as a whole, the accelerations that objects experience from our perspective are overwhelmingly due to the expansion of the Universe. Nearby, however, it's the local gr…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Starts With A Bang #69 - Machine Learning In Astronomy
When you think about how astronomy works, you probably think about observers pointing telescopes at objects, collecting data about their properties, and then analyzing that data to determine what tho…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Starts With A Bang #68 - Pulsars, Polarization And More
Swarming through our own galaxy, we've detected quite a few bizarre objects: pulsars. These rapidly spinning neutron stars are only a few kilometers across, yet contain more mass than our entire Sun.…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
Starts With A Bang #67 - Astroparticles And Dark Matter
If you look out at the Universe and measure all the matter out there, including stars, gas, dust, plasma, black holes, etc., it simply doesn't add up. You can't explain the gravitational effects you …
Published on 4 years, 9 months ago
Starts With A Bang #66 - XENON And Astroparticle Physics
Have you ever wondered what it's like to work as a small (but vital) part of a large collaboration, where hundreds or even thousands of experimental scientists get together to produce an experiment f…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
Starts With A Bang #65 - Ultracool Dwarfs
You might have thought that if we were going to find life anywhere in the Universe, our best bet would be to look at stars like our Sun, on account of the tremendous success of Earth. It's a good bet…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago