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Starts With A Bang #44 - The Expanding Universe
One of the biggest conundrums in the Universe surrounds the question of how quickly the Universe is expanding. Questions like what is the Universe made of, how old is it, what is it's ultimate fate, …
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
Starts With A Bang #43 - Gravitational Microlensing
When we think about finding planets in the Universe, we typically look for ways to detect them as they orbit their parents stars, either affecting their star's position or velocity, or blocking or re…
Published on 6 years, 8 months ago
Starts With A Bang #42 - Black Holes And Gravitation
So, you want to know about black holes, including how we're seeing them, what happens when you fall into them, what our future plans for direct and indirect detection are, and how scientists are answ…
Published on 6 years, 8 months ago
Starts With A Bang #41 - Before The First Stars
After the Big Bang, it took only a few hundred thousand years for the Universe to form neutral atoms. But it took tens or even hundreds of millions of years for the first stars to turn on, and a whop…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
Starts With A Bang #40 - Pristine Matter and Future Space Telescopes
One of the great goals in our study of the Universe is to see past the currently-known frontiers. That means going farther, to greater and greater distances. It means going fainter, to smaller and le…
Published on 6 years, 11 months ago
Starts With A Bang #39 - The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Is there intelligent life out there in the Universe beyond planet Earth? If so, are they technologically advances, can they hear us, and are they broadcasting in ways that we could possibly detect th…
Published on 6 years, 11 months ago
Starts With A Bang #38 - Interstellar Interloper `Oumuamua
In 2017, the incredible happened: for the first time in history, we were able to identify an object passing through our Solar System that originated from outside of it! Interstellar interloper 'Oumua…
Published on 7 years ago
Starts With A Bang #37: The Outer Solar System
Our Solar System formed some 4.6 billion years ago from a molecular cloud that collapsed. Our proto-Sun formed along with a protoplanetary disk that eventually evolved into the Solar System we have t…
Published on 7 years, 1 month ago
Starts With A Bang #36: The Future Of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
I'm so pleased to welcome Dr. Erin MacDonald to the Starts With A Bang podcast, as we discuss the future of Gravitational Wave astronomy. From pulsars to merging black holes, to kilonovae to hopes of…
Published on 7 years, 2 months ago
Starts With A Bang #35 - Do We Live In A Multiverse
There's been a lot of speculative ideas put forth about the Multiverse, and I dare say that a great many of them are nothing more than wishful thinking. But that doesn't mean the Multiverse itself is…
Published on 7 years, 3 months ago