The First Results from the James Webb Space Telescope (with Dr. Alex Filippenko)
Dr. Alex Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley) Mar. 8, 2023 We have a new supersensitive eye in the cosmic sky. Parked nearly one million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope (JW...
13 Mars 20231h 29min
Our Boldest Effort to Answer our Oldest Question: Breakthrough-Listen Search for Intelligent Life
For centuries, humans have gazed at the night sky and wondered if any intelligent life forms like us might be out there. In 2015, the Breakthrough Foundation gave a $100 million grant to the Universi...
20 Feb 20231h 25min
Spacetime Symphony: Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes
Talk by Dr. Lynn Cominsky (Sonoma State University) Gravitational waves are predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. They travel at the speed of light, but are much harder to detect than...
26 Jan 20231h 9min
100 Years of Einstein's Relativity (And How it Underlies Our Modern Understanding of the Universe)
With Dr. Jeffrey Bennett (University of Colorado) 2015 marked the 100th anniversary of Einstein's completion of his General Theory of Relativity, the comprehensive theory of space, time, and gravity....
29 Dec 20221h 19min
Space Weather and the Question of Human Survivability (with Dr. Tom Berger)
The Sun can unleash violent “space weather” -- storms that can radiate X-rays and even gamma rays into space, send giant clouds of magnetic plasma slamming into the Earth and other planets, and spray ...
12 Dec 20221h 32min
Is Anyone out There: The Hundred-Million Dollar "Breakthrough: Listen" Project
with Dr. Dan Werthimer of the University of California, Berkeley What is the possibility of other intelligent life in the universe and how might we detect signals from alien civilizations? Dr. Werth...
5 Dec 20221h 17min
A Planet for Goldilocks: Kepler and the Search for Living Worlds
With Dr. Natalie Batalha (NASA, Kepler Mission Project Scientist) NASA's Kepler Mission launched in 2009 with the objective of finding "Goldilocks planets" orbiting other stars like our Sun -- those ...
31 Okt 20221h 29min
The Fast Radio Sky: A New Window on the Violent Universe
In this episode, Dr. Victoria Kaspi (McGill University) introduces us to a brand-new mystery in the skies -- superfast bursts of radio waves whose source is still unknown. These energetic bursts come...
25 Okt 20221h 24min
