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The Open Universe

Sownak Bose & Ana Bonaca

An unbounded journey through the archives of astronomy

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Episode 7: A secret ocean beneath Pluto’s icy volcanoes?

The Open Universe ·

2023/09/29

Volcanic explosions and surface flows on a frozen world?! Join us on board the New Horizons spacecraft on its journey towards the edge of the Solar System as it uncovers a distant world full of geological surprises.

01:00:52

Episode 6: The most epic journey in the lifetime of a...

The Open Universe ·

2023/07/20

Photons traveling through spacetime are cosmic messengers carrying with them rich stories of the past history of our cosmos. Find out how an otherwise innocuous observation of distant quasars in 1965 transformed our understanding of the composition of intergalactic space, and the phases of evolution our Universe underwent billions of years ago.

01:08:08

Episode 5: What is that beeping in the night sky?

The Open Universe ·

2023/05/09

For years, astronomers have been puzzled by the mysterious bursts of cosmic radio emission, until recently, two teams identified the origin of these events as extremely magnetic stars -- strong enough to disrupt credit cards on the moon!

51:31

Episode 4: The final voyage in the life of a star

The Open Universe ·

2022/10/24

Relive the story of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar who, as a 19-year old, came to a remarkable realization on board a ship journeying to start his physics scholarship in England. This discovery would lead to a bitter spat with one of the most eminent luminaries in the world of astronomy, and eventually reveal an astonishing feature of time and space – the existence of black holes.

32:56

Episode 3: How did a 1912 circular open up our Universe?

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2022/09/02

The vastness of space was unfathomable until a pioneer of "Big Data" found a regularity in the way some stars change brightness, a discovery which has ever since allowed us to precisely measure distances to stars throughout the Milky Way and beyond.

55:48

Episode 2: The ultimate fate of the Universe

The Open Universe ·

2022/07/29

Our universe appears to be an ever-expanding, or an open universe. Join us on a journey into the future to discover what this means for all the planets, stars, and galaxies.

40:22

Episode 1: Can seismic activity on stars help us...

The Open Universe ·

2022/06/17

Discovering small planets like the Earth orbiting other stars like the Sun is hard, but blobs of gas surfacing from stellar interiors can help.

03:48

Episode 0: What's all this about??

The Open Universe ·

2022/03/09

We hit our mid-life crises early and started a podcast about astronomy.

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