What is turbulence? You've probably experienced it before on a plane (or perhaps on a river) but you might not know precisely what it is. But turbulence is all around us, and in particular we find it on some of the largest scales in the unive

Dr. Ashley Villar -- Big Data in Astrophysics

Apr 1st, 2024 1h 3m

Astronomers deal with huge datasets, and they are about to get even bigger with the construction of the Vera Rubin Observatory. When you can detect a million supernovae per year, how do we make sense of this data and decide which ones are the

Dr. Frank Timmes -- Pulsing White Dwarfs, Neutrinos, and the Infrastructure of Research

Mar 1st, 2024 57m 55s

What are neutrinos and where do they come from? How do we know what's going on in the interior of a star when we can only see the surface? How does a paper get accepted into a scientific journal? We discuss these questions and more with Frank T

Dr. Erica Nelson -- Watching the First Galaxies Form

Feb 1st, 2024 59m 57s

How did the galaxies form and how can we learn about them? Professor Erica Nelson of the University of Colorado, Boulder tells us how we use the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to look back in time and learn about the initial formation of st

Dr. Abigail Polin -- A New Type of Supernova

Jan 1st, 2024 1h 3m

How do stars explode? It turns out there's more than one way, and Professor Abigail Polin has discovered a totally new way that stars can end their lives. We talk with Professor Polin about how that works and how scientists look at a supernova

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