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Stellar Flares Near the Milky Way’s Black Hole
Season 3 Episode 308
This episode explores how the South Pole Telescope detected powerful millimeter-wave stellar flares near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole.
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3 weeks, 2 days ago
Einstein’s Law and the Dearth of Two-Sun Planets
Season 3 Episode 307
New astrophysical research suggests that general relativity helps explain why planets are rare in binary star systems. As close stellar pairs evolve,…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
A Dark Matter Sheet Shapes the Motion of the Milky Way
Season 3 Episode 306
New research suggests the Milky Way and Andromeda lie within a vast, flat sheet of dark matter stretching millions of light-years. Using detailed com…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Did Earth’s Water Come from Space? New Clues from Lunar Samples
Season 3 Episode 305
This episode examines new evidence from Apollo-era lunar samples suggesting that most of Earth’s water did not come from asteroid or comet impacts.
By…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Enceladus and the Chemistry of Life Beneath Icy Moons
Season 3 Episode 302
Laboratory experiments in Japan and Germany have recreated the subsurface ocean conditions of Enceladus, Saturn’s icy moon.
By cycling simple chemical…
1 month ago
Dark Energy Survey Reveals New Clues About the Expanding Universe
Season 3 Episode 304
After six years of observations, the Dark Energy Survey has delivered its most precise analysis of cosmic expansion, based on hundreds of millions of…
1 month ago
How Supermassive Black Holes Grew So Fast in the Early Universe
Season 3 Episode 303
New research from Maynooth University sheds light on how supermassive black holes formed so quickly after the Big Bang. Advanced simulations show tha…
1 month ago
Habitable Worlds Observatory: Searching for Life Through Direct Exoplanet Imaging
Season 3 Episode 301
The Habitable Worlds Observatory is a planned space telescope designed to identify signs of life on distant planets by capturing direct images of the…
1 month ago
Binary Stars and Magnetars: Cracking the Mystery of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts
Season 3 Episode 301
Using China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), astronomers have found strong evidence that some fast radio bursts originate in…
1 month, 1 week ago
SETI@home: How Millions of PCs Hunted for Alien Life
Season 3 Episode 299
For over 20 years, SETI@home turned millions of personal computers into a global supercomputer, analyzing massive radio data in the search for extrat…
1 month, 1 week ago