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Starts With A Bang #56 - Dark Matter Substructure
Dark matter is often thought of as the glue that holds the Universe together. With five times as much gravity due to this unseen form of matter as co…
5 years, 9 months ago
Starts With A Bang #55 - The Cataclysmic Deaths Of Stars
When you look up at the sky, most of the points of light we see appear to be fixed. On night-to-night timescales, the distant stars and galaxies, wit…
5 years, 10 months ago
Starts With A Bang #54 - The Origin Of Stars
One of the great challenges for astronomy is to determine, in gory detail, how stars are formed from a mere cloud of molecular gas and dust. Although…
6 years ago
Starts With A Bang #53 - Exoplanets From Kepler To TESS And Beyond
How many planets are out there in the Universe? How many stars have planets, and what kinds of planets do stars of various types have? How close are …
6 years ago
Starts With A Bang #52 - The Thirty Meter Telescope
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. As we improve our optics, our instruments, and our observing techniques, we can reveal pr…
6 years, 1 month ago
Starts With A Bang #51 - Cosmology At The Edge Of Time
Have you ever wondered what the first moments of our Universe were like? Not just going back towards the hot Big Bang, but at the very first fraction…
6 years, 2 months ago
Starts With A Bang #50: The Hunt For Planet Nine And Beyond
What lies out there, in the outer Solar System, beyond the orbit of the last known planet? Up until 1992, you would have said Pluto and its moon (may…
6 years, 3 months ago
Starts With A Bang #49 - The LHC And The Future Of Physics
The Large Hadron Collider, located at CERN, is the most powerful particle accelerator and collider in human history, and the detectors that observe t…
6 years, 4 months ago
Starts With A Bang #48 - The Event Horizon Telescope
Earlier this year, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration revealed the first image that directly showed the existence of an event horizon ar…
6 years, 5 months ago
Starts With A Bang #47 - Ice Giants At The Solar System's Edge
What do we really know, and what mysteries are left to solve, about the outer worlds of our Solar System, and about the gas giant and ice giant world…
6 years, 6 months ago