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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, ... 00:24: ... September 2015 the laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory - LIGO - detected its first gravitational wave from the merger of two ...
	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. 00:31: We've already talked about the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, LIGO, and the first discovery of gravitational waves here.
	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. 00:37: ... the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, LIGO, detected gravitational waves from a pair of merging black holes, an ... 06:25: ... there's also the rumor that the Italian Gravitational Wave Observatory, VIRGO, also spotted the signal, which helps triangulate the location, but not ...
	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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