A group of undergraduate students from University of Chicago discover the early universe’s brightest gravitationally lensed galaxy. Learn the fascinating story of how this gravitational lens was discovered and what we can learn about the early universe from this discovery on today podcast.
Apr 29th: Natural Binocular Finds A Baby Galaxy On A Cosmic Merry-Go-Round
Astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array or ALMA get a help from Natural Binocular to find a baby galaxy on a cosmic merry-go-round.
Sep18th: Dr. Merav Opher: The Shape of the Sun’s Heliosphere
Time for weekly news roundup. This week @WSHCrew will talk about Venus, dark matter gravitational lensing, and diamond planets.
Jul 11th: Hundreds of New Gravitational Lenses
In this podcast @halfastro will discuss with Dr. Xiaosheng Huang and his students who discovered hundreds of new gravitational lenses, the techniques to analyze the data and the challenges.
Feb 11th: Fritz Zwicky and the Zwicky Transient Facility
Fritz Zwicky discovered dark matter, gravitational lensing, supernovae and neutron stars. And he also worked on a few more controversial ideas like, uh, tired light. Let’s learn more about Zwicky.
Jul 30th: Gravitational Lensing
The most powerful telescopes in the Universe are completely natural, and the size of a galaxy cluster. When you use the gravity of a galaxy as a lens, you can peer right back to the edges of the observable Universe.
Apr 11th: Awesome Astronomy’s April 2017
Discussion with @awesomeastropod about van allen radiation, sun as gravitational lens at #365DaysOfAstro