Tag: NOIRLab
Aug 12th: Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors

Aug 12th: Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors

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Backyard Worlds Cool Neighbors, enlists the public to help identify brown dwarfs from data taken by the NASA Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WISE) satellite. Today podcast will talk about this new project and how the public can help find these elusive brown dwarfs.

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Aug 12th: Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors

Jul 8th: A New Way To Annihilate A Star

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A long hypothesized way for stars to end their lives by collisions of stars or stellar remnants in the densely packed area near a galaxy’s massive black hole. More about the first evidence for this new way for a star to end its life on today’s #365DaysOfAstro with @NOIRLab

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Aug 12th: Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors

Nov 12th: A Record Setting Gamma Ray Burst

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A recent gamma ray burst appears to be the brightest of all time and was observed very quickly by multiple instruments. In this podcast, Jillian Rastinejad discusses the discovery of this gamma ray burst and the follow up observations with the Gemini International Observatory

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