EPISODE · Oct 19, 2019 · 35 MIN
47: The Milky Way Explodes!
from syzygy · host Chris Stewart
LIVE SHOW! We’re coming to the Podcast Social Club, Nov 22-23, in Thirsk, UK. Come join the audience for this fab podcast event!Help us make Syzygy even better! Tell your friends and give us a review, or show your support on Patreon: patreon.com/syzygypodSyzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypodThings we talked about in this episode:The Podcast Social Club — Nov 22-23The 2019 Nobel Prize for PhysicsOriginal research paper on the Milky Way explosionJoss Bland-Hawthorn’s Conversation article about the researchThe structure of the Milky WayThe Magellanic CloudsThe super massive black hole at the heart of the galaxyAgctive Galactic NucleiROSAT and FERMIThe GAIA survey
What this episode covers
A big win for astrophysics in the 2019 Nobel Prizes. And the new discovery that, not so long ago, the centre of the Milky Way galaxy exploded with stupendous energy, lighting up a region of our local universe called the Magellanic stream — enough that our distant ancestors a few million years ago would have seen it in the sky, and maybe wondered what the heck the gods were up to ...
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