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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 …
5 years 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 o…
5 years, 1 month ago
Starts With A Bang #64 - Galaxies Without Dark Matter
Over the past 2 years, an exciting development has finally arisen: scientists have measured a large number of small, diffuse galaxies exquisitely wel…
5 years, 2 months ago
Starts With A Bang #63 - Exoplanets, TESS, And Beyond
Over the past 30 years, we've gone from zero exoplanets to thousands. With each new generation of telescopes, observatories, and scientists, we build…
5 years, 3 months ago
Starts With A Bang #62 - Black Holes And ALMA
It was only back in the early 2000s that scientists were struggling to identify and weigh the small number of supermassive black holes that we'd been…
5 years, 4 months ago
Starts With A Bang #61 - Astronomical Instruments And Injustices
When most of us think of astronomy, we think about two types of scientists: the observers who point their telescopes at the sky and collect data, and…
5 years, 5 months ago
Starts With A Bang #60 - The End Of The Dark Ages
When we look out at the Universe today, we see that it's full of stars and galaxies. And yet, we can only see those stars and galaxies because the sp…
5 years, 6 months ago
Starts With A Bang #59 - Active Galaxies
When we look out at the galaxies in the Universe, almost all of them have supermassive black holes at their centers: millions or even many billions o…
5 years, 6 months ago
Starts With A Bang #58 - Gravitational Waves From Space
When it comes to gravitational waves, our terrestrial laser interferometers have provided us with unparalleled success in terms of direct detection. …
5 years, 7 months ago
Starts With A Bang #57 - The Universe's Newborn Stars
Even today, the Universe is forming enormous numbers of new stars: from various nebulae throughout our galaxy to mighty starburst galaxies where the …
5 years, 8 months ago