In this Apogee Podcast, Cosmic discusses historical observations of the center of the Milky Way, and what current observations tell us about this fascinating and enigmatic object.
Did you hear that the Universe has 10x the number of galaxies? How did astronomers discover this, and what does it mean for the number of stars?
In this podcast, Dr. Knut Olson describes the SMASH survey & the citizen science project to analyze data from the SMASH Survey.
We know there’s dark matter, and there are galaxies, but are there galaxies entirely made up of dark matter? Astronomer Sarah Pearson joins Fraser to talk about what’s out there.
In this podcast extra episode we talk to Karen Masters from Haverford College, Pennsylvania about The Hubble Tuning Fork and Galaxy classification.
The first stars were weird. What’s the connection between the first stars and giant black holes? Was every galaxy once a quasar?
One of the most beautiful and scientifically interesting objects in space are the globular clusters, containing hundreds of thousands of stars. What are they and where did they come from?
What are galaxy clusters made of, besides galaxies? How can we use them to understand dark matter? And how can we make pretend ones on a computer?
It’s not just our Solar System that has a habitable zone, it turns out our entire galaxy has regions which would be hostile to the formation of life as we know it.