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2022-12-14: How Can Matter Be BOTH Liquid AND Gas?

  • 17:53: So crazy to me that an observatory at the south pole observes the northern hemisphere sky because it needs the Earth to be in the way.

2022-11-23: How To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos

  • 00:23: There’s been a lot of hype about our shiny new observatories and the new windows to the universe that they open.
  • 06:34: ... makes a neutrino observatory the only type of observatory where you need to wait until your object ...
  • 11:43: To achieve all of this we need bigger and more sensitive neutrino observatories.

2022-09-21: Science of the James Webb Telescope Explained!

  • 08:00: These days, essentially all major observatories keep modern, searchable databases of most of what they look at.

2022-05-25: The Evolution of the Modern Milky Way Galaxy

  • 00:00: ... to use  one of the giant telescopes at the Las Campanas   observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile. I was  traveling with a much more ...

2022-04-20: Does the Universe Create Itself?

  • 10:30: ... symbolizes the observer. All the astronomers with their telescopes and observatories are aimed back at the Big ...

2022-02-23: Are Cosmic Strings Cracks in the Universe?

  • 10:09: ... as these beams pass over our gravitational wave   observatories. These are likely too weak to be seen at our current detectors such ...

2021-10-05: Why Magnetic Monopoles SHOULD Exist

  • 13:24: ... for magnetic monopoles coming from space - typically using cosmic ray observatories - or contributing to the Earth’s magnetic field - and in a number of ...

2021-09-07: First Detection of Light from Behind a Black Hole

  • 09:11: Over the next decade things will get better as new telescopes like the Vera Rubin Observatory come online.

2021-05-19: Breaking The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

  • 05:01: ... Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory measures ripples in the fabric of space caused by cataclysmic events up ...

2021-02-24: Does Time Cause Gravity?

  • 09:04: They’re from a number of different radio telescopes, but were collated by the Parkes Observatory in Australia.

2021-02-17: Gravitational Wave Background Discovered?

  • 00:00: ... wave background when the laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory ligo turned on in 2015 it quickly spotted exactly what it was built to ...

2020-10-05: Venus May Have Life!

  • 05:09: ... convincing that it’s real, although there’s still a chance that both observatories just happened to see a dip in the exact spot where phosphene produces an ...

2020-09-01: How Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of?

  • 08:36: Cecilia Payne set about analyzing the many spectra of stars that had been observed at Harvard Observatory.

2020-07-28: What is a Theory of Everything: Livestream

  • 00:00: ... at the university of california san diego director of the simon's observatory and host of the into impossible podcast where you will find the ...

2020-07-20: The Boundary Between Black Holes & Neutron Stars

  • 00:38: ... the LIGO and VIRGO gravitational wave observatories spot event after event, the excitement is shifting from the ...
  • 02:00: ... here’s a quick refresher nonetheless: The LIGO observatories in Washington State and Louisiana and the VIRGO observatory in Italy, ...
  • 02:30: ... August 14 2019, a gravitational wave hit the LIGO and VIRGO observatories one after the other in close succession, consistent with a wave ...
  • 02:55: From the arrival times at the three observatories, the location of the event could be narrowed down to some small arcs on the sky.

2020-01-13: How To Capture Black Holes

  • 00:24: ... September 2015 the laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory - LIGO - detected its first gravitational wave from the merger of two ...
  • 10:18: ... spotting these. The combined resolution of the two LIGO and the VIRGO observatories locates a gravitational wave source to a pretty large blob on the sky, ...

2019-10-07: Black Hole Harmonics

  • 01:08: ... detect with the miraculous work of the LIGO and VIRGO gravitational wave observatories. ...
  • 12:11: The observatories are seeing a new event roughly every 5 days on average, but sometimes on multiple days in a row.

2019-09-23: Is Pluto a Planet?

  • 05:00: ... of Percival Lowell, businessman turned astronomer. He built the Lowell Observatory in Arizona with that single ...
  • 05:12: In 1930, 14 years after Lowell’s death, but still powered by his observatory and his family’s fortune, Planet X was finally discovered.
  • 05:24: ... of photographic plates taken under the guidance of Vesto Slipher, Lowell observatory’s ...

2019-08-26: How To Become an Astrophysicist + Challenge Question!

  • 00:00: ... I'm an in grad school I scored a nice job working with the Gemini observatories This was a postdoctoral position a postdoc which means a short-term job ...
  • 03:35: ... way more astro postdocs than permanent positions whether at universities Observatories NASA or private foundations in my case. I got lucky I scored a ...

2019-08-12: Exploring Arecibo in VR 180

  • 00:13: ... organisms out there and to send the messages. It's the Arecibo Observatory And today, we've bought a 180 camera to check out this incredible radio ...
  • 02:46: ... this is only slightly terrifying we're standing at the top of Arecibo Observatory on a 900 ton structure supported only by these cables suspended from ...
  • 03:24: ... this link for that conversation Let me tell you a secret the Arecibo Observatory was originally conceived as a Military facility in the 1950s the height ...

2019-07-25: Deciphering The Vast Scale of the Universe

  • 01:05: ... at the Mt. Wilson Observatory on the outskirts of Los Angeles, California.This is where Edwin Hubble ...
  • 01:21: This is the Hooker Telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory. It is beautiful.
  • 08:27: ... that we need state of the art modern observatories like the Gemini Observatory, and the Event Horizon Telescope, and LIGO, ...

2019-06-20: The Quasar from The Beginning of Time

  • 04:01: ... it helps to be up here on a mountaintop. Although the air above the observatory is crystal clear, it still blurs distant light somewhat. Turbulence in ...

2019-06-06: The Alchemy of Neutron Star Collisions

  • 02:47: ... shot to prominence last year when the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave Observatories spotted the space-time ripples from the merger of a pair of neutron ...

2019-05-01: The Real Science of the EHT Black Hole

  • 04:24: ... Event horizon Telescope - the EHT - consists of nine radio observatories across the globe, from the south pole to Greenland - and the number is ...

2018-11-14: Supersymmetric Particle Found?

  • 05:45: For example, the IceCube Observatory is a one kilometer cube of the Antarctic glacier laced with photon detectors.
  • 10:55: The first step would be to look at the other big neutrino observatories.

2018-10-03: How to Detect Extra Dimensions

  • 01:17: And the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave observatories detected the resulting ripples.

2018-08-30: Is There Life on Mars?

  • 04:40: He built himself an observatory and dedicated his career to studying Mars.
  • 04:45: The Lowell Observatory is famous for the discovery of Pluto, but that was later.

2018-05-09: How Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever

  • 08:02: Gaia even helps us with the pulsar timing array, a galactic scale gravitational wave observatory which we spoke about recently.

2018-04-25: Black Hole Swarms

  • 06:04: Hailey and team used the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory to hunt for these, and surprise, surprise, they found them.

2018-04-18: Using Stars to See Gravitational Waves

  • 00:14: In some cases, we're going to need a gravitational wave observatory the size of a galaxy.
  • 00:31: We've already talked about the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, LIGO, and the first discovery of gravitational waves here.
  • 02:54: Observatories across the planet and in orbit around the planet swiveled to watch the afterglow of this collision.
  • 03:10: ... the Italian-based gravitational wave observatory, was online for the neutron star merger, and was extremely important in ...
  • 05:59: The international pulsar timing array is a massive effort spanning many universities and radio observatories around the world.
  • 06:27: This galaxy scale observatory is already in operation and has placed valuable limits on the amplitude of the gravitational wave background.

2018-03-21: Scientists Have Detected the First Stars

  • 03:26: Their edges experiment is part of the Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory in Western Australia.

2018-03-07: Should Space be Privatized?

  • 05:01: ... Hubble Space Telescope and other space-based observatories have revealed the deepest mysteries of our cosmos and keep a watchful ...

2017-12-13: The Origin of 'Oumuamua, Our First Interstellar Visitor

  • 01:38: Our focus will be on a paper by a Dutch team from Leiden Observatory, Portegies Zwart, et al., 2017, PZ 17 for short.

2017-11-29: Citizen Science + Zero-Point Challenge Answer

  • 01:57: ... perhaps the most impressive is Tim Puckett's effort out of his Puckett Observatory in ...

2017-10-04: When Quasars Collide STJC

  • 09:19: ... a supermassive black hole binary with a galaxy-sized gravitational wave observatory called a pulsar timing ...

2017-09-20: The Future of Space Telescopes

  • 00:27: ... recently talked about some of the most exciting new observatories currently being built. One of those, the James Webb Space Telescope, ...
  • 10:22: As we launch our new observatories, our vision will be keener, allowing us to peer more sharply and to ever greater depths into space time.
  • 11:00: ... week, we talked about the tantalizing rumor that the LIGO Observatory had detected gravitational waves from the merger of a pair of neutron ...

2017-09-13: Neutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?

  • 00:37: ... the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, LIGO, detected gravitational waves from a pair of merging black holes, ...
  • 00:49: We now have an observatory that can explore the most extreme gravitational phenomena in the universe.
  • 06:25: ... there's also the rumor that the Italian Gravitational Wave Observatory, VIRGO, also spotted the signal, which helps triangulate the location, ...
  • 11:49: "Gravitational Waves-- Rewinding Time" includes some fascinating behind-the-scenes footage at the observatories.

2017-07-19: The Real Star Wars

  • 09:31: ... launched a specialized missile that destroyed Solwind, a retired solar observatory ...

2017-04-19: The Oh My God Particle

  • 00:51: ... light was seen by the Fly's Eye Observatory, a collection of oversized tin cans that was an early experiment by the ...
  • 04:16: For example, the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina monitors a region around 3,000 square kilometers for high-energy cosmic rays.

2017-04-05: Telescopes on the Moon

  • 08:28: ... will launch over the next couple of years The International Lunar Observatory Association in combination with Moon Express formed the first private ...

2017-03-01: The Treasures of Trappist-1

  • 00:19: ... Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope, TRAPPIST, at the La Silla Observatory in ...

2017-02-15: Telescopes of Tomorrow

  • 00:22: ... PLAYING] The Hubble Space Telescope is the most important observatory ever built. Its stunning images and spectra have opened up incredible ...
  • 00:45: It's time for the next generation of great observatories.

2016-11-16: Strange Stars

  • 07:40: ... we pointed our radio telescopes and then the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory to that spot and found a young pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star ...

2016-11-02: Quantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Drake Equation Challenge Answers

  • 07:13: The Kepler Observatory points only in one direction, so those stars are spread along a column a few thousand light years long.

2016-07-20: The Future of Gravitational Waves

  • 00:14: ... September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, LIGO, detected the gravitational waves from the merger of two black ...

2016-02-11: LIGO's First Detection of Gravitational Waves!

  • 00:10: The Advanced LIGO Observatory has seen the spacetime ripples caused by black holes at the moment of merger.
  • 00:37: On September 18, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory switched back on after three years of upgrades.

2015-11-05: Why Haven't We Found Alien Life?

  • 00:26: ... Kepler Space Observatory has told us there are a couple of hundred billion nice, watery planets ...

2015-10-28: Is The Alcubierre Warp Drive Possible?

  • 07:09: ... week, we talked about gravitational waves, and whether the advanced LIGO Observatory has maybe seen ...
  • 07:31: It'll be an orbiting gravitational wave observatory designed to detect much higher frequency gravitational waves than advanced LIGO.
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