Dr. Maxim Lyutikov -- How do you make a Fast Radio Burst?
Some things happen out in the universe that are too powerful to make in a lab. Other phenomena are so coherent and well-ordered, we can't figure out how they can be made without a lab! Fast radio bu...
1 Mar 20251h 7min
Dr. Lindsey Kwok -- The Forensic Science of Supernovae
How do we know so much about supernovae, when all we see is this little point of light getting brighter and then dimmer over time? Given this minimal data, we can often say what type of star exploded,...
1 Feb 202555min
Dr. Paul Duffell -- The Universe on a Computer (with host Dr. Abigail Polin)
How big a computer do you need to simulate a supernova? Or a planet being formed? Or a black hole swallowing gas? Many astrophysicists spend their time developing computational models to simulate t...
1 Jan 20251h 10min
Dr. Brenna Mockler -- When Black Holes Get Hungry
What do black holes like to eat? Sometimes a steady diet of interstellar gas just isn't enough and a black hole needs to snack on a whole star. No judgment, we all get that way sometimes. But it ca...
1 Des 20241h
Dr. Dan Milisavljevic -- Into the Time Domain
Our universe isn't just a static, unchanging backdrop. It is constantly changing in time and we now have the technology to image it over and over again to explore all those changes. This is called T...
1 Nov 202455min
Dr. Katelyn Breivik -- How Binary Stars Evolve
What would our solar system be like if we had two suns? Actually, this situation could be more common than you might think, as most stars are in binary systems. If a star is in a binary pair, how do...
1 Okt 20241h 9min
Dr. Kyoungsoo Lee -- Our Galactic Neighborhood
What's the biggest thing in the universe, besides the universe itself? Well, stars live in galaxies, and galaxies live in large collections called galaxy clusters. Astronomers can study these titani...
1 Sep 20241h 10min
Dr. Jason Wang -- Taking a Photo of an Exoplanet
For centuries, all that we have known about planets was confined to our own solar system, and its occasionally-changing number of planets (eight as of now). But in the past several decades, astronome...
1 Aug 202446min
