Dr. Ranadeep Dastidar -- Astrophysics at the Speed of Light
The Theory of Relativity was discovered by Einstein over a century ago, and it tells us how time and space are distorted when moving close to the speed of light. We mere earthlings don't get the oppo...
1 Heinä 1h 6min
Dr. Abigail Polin -- Astrophysics Q & A #3
Abigail Polin is back, and we are doing another astrophysics Q&A! This time, our questions come from a class of third graders in Indiana. You'll be surprised at how some of the simplest questions ca...
1 Kesä 1h 17min
Dr. Jeff Gerber -- Let's Talk Stars
This episode we get back to the objects that inspired the whole field of astrophysics -- stars. Those little points of light that first inspired us as children are incredible physics laboratories tha...
1 Touko 1h 5min
Dr. Charles Law -- All the Molecules in Protoplanetary Disks
Just how much do we know about how the planets formed? How much of this can we learn from getting images of young solar systems? Why does it help to look at the disk using radio waves instead of opt...
1 Huhti 50min
Dr. Daniel Polin -- The Biggest Digital Camera in the World
The Vera Rubin Observatory has just started taking its first data this month. We have a special guest (Dr. Daniel Polin) who helped in the construction of the camera for Rubin. This digital camera w...
1 Maalis 1h 14min
Dr. Gurtina Besla -- Dark Matter in the Milky Way
Most of the mass in the universe is invisible. We call it "Dark Matter", and the only reason we know it's there is because we can see how it gravitationally interacts with regular matter. For example,...
1 Helmi 1h 1min
Dr. Abigail Polin -- Astrophysics Q & A #2
What's the deal with black holes?
1 Tammi 1h 23min
Dr. Kaitlin Kratter -- Building a Solar System on the Computer
How did our solar system form? More generally, how does any solar system form? We get some of our answers to these questions by looking at newly-forming planetary systems in the first million years ...
1 Joulu 20251h 15min
