The Astrophysics Podcast

By: Paul Duffell
  • Summary

  • Once a month, Purdue University's Professor Paul Duffell discusses astronomy and astrophysics with experts from around the world. Duffell and guests discuss supernovae, galaxies, planet formation, black holes, and the nature of space and time.

    Supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant AAG-2206299.

    Music by Brittain Ashford.

    Produced in beautiful Lafayette, Indiana by Paul Duffell.

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Episodes
  • Dr. Dan Milisavljevic -- Into the Time Domain
    Nov 1 2024

    Our universe isn't just a static, unchanging backdrop. It is constantly changing in time and we now have the technology to image it over and over again to explore all those changes. This is called Time Domain Astronomy, and Danny Milisavljevic is an expert in this field. He spends a lot of his time on the forensic science of exploding stars, to gain clues about the underlying processes that caused the explosion in the first place.

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    55 mins
  • Dr. Katelyn Breivik -- How Binary Stars Evolve
    Oct 1 2024

    What would our solar system be like if we had two suns? Actually, this situation could be more common than you might think, as most stars are in binary systems. If a star is in a binary pair, how does that affect its life and death? Dr. Katelyn Breivik of Carnegie Mellon University tells us all about these systems and what scientists and other curious minds can learn from them.

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Dr. Kyoungsoo Lee -- Our Galactic Neighborhood
    Sep 1 2024

    What's the biggest thing in the universe, besides the universe itself? Well, stars live in galaxies, and galaxies live in large collections called galaxy clusters. Astronomers can study these titanic clusters of galaxies to learn about how they grow and merge with each other to assemble the universe we live in today. Dr. Kyoung-Soo Lee takes us on a journey to the largest scales in the cosmos.

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    1 hr and 10 mins

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