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EPISODE · May 20, 2018 · 32 MIN

Episode 06: Galaxy Pile Up Causes Cosmic Chaos!

from syzygy · host Chris Stewart

Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.Find us on Twitter: @syzygypod twitter.com/SyzygyPodOr just visit us at home: syzygy.fmEmily at the University of York: www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/Chris online: kipstewart.com——————————Some of the things we talk about in this episode:The Galactic Pile Up paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0025-2A good article about the pile up: https://www.sciencealert.com/galaxy-megamergers-in-the-early-universe-protoclusters-spt2349-56-dusty-red-coreSyzygy Ep 01: https://www.syzygy.fm/podcast/2018/4/4/episode01Rogue planets:: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planetThe ESA’s Gaia mission: http://sci.esa.int/gaia/ https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_creates_richest_star_map_of_our_Galaxy_and_beyondThe Whirlpool Galaxy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_GalaxyThe Magellanic Clouds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellanic_CloudsThe Local Group of galaxies: https://www.universetoday.com/30286/local-group/Size comparison of Andromeda and the Moon: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/01/moon_and_andromeda_relative_size_in_the_sky.htmlThe Virgo Supercluster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgo_SuperclusterThe Millennium Simulation Project: https://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/virgo/millennium/A video zoom into the universe from the Millennium Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74IsySs3RGUMinute Physics video on how the simulation was done, with some awesome graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP-C_B8nSmw

Astronomers have spotted a cluster of 14 galaxies far, far away, so piled up on top of each other, and so soon after the Big Bang, that they’re forcing the theorists to check back over their models and simulations of how the universe evolved. It’s an episode chock-full of big things, from galaxies, to clusters of galaxies, to superclusters, to filaments of superclusters … It’s all a bit overwhelming really.

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