The Astrophysics Podcast

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About The Astrophysics Podcast

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, planets, black holes, and the nature of space and time.Supported by the National Science Foundation under grant AAG-2206299.Music by Brittain Ashford.Produced in beautiful Lafayette, Indiana by Paul Duffell.Follow us on BlueSky!

Language: English
Type: podcast

Latest episodes(32)

1Dr. Chris Irwin -- Prepare to be Shocked!
1 Oct 202655m
Shockwaves are a familiar phenomenon here on Earth. In astrophysics, they play a role in some of the most powerful events in the universe, from exploding stars to gamma ray bursts. Shockwaves can…
2Dr. Ranadeep Dastidar -- Astrophysics at the Speed of Light
28 Jul 20261h 7m
The Theory of Relativity was discovered by Einstein over a century ago, and it tells us how time and space are distorted when moving close to the speed of light. We mere earthlings don't get the…
3Dr. Abigail Polin -- Astrophysics Q & A #3
28 Jul 20261h 17m
Abigail Polin is back, and we are doing another astrophysics Q&A! This time, our questions come from a class of third graders in Indiana. You'll be surprised at how some of the simplest questions can…
4Dr. Jeff Gerber -- Let's Talk Stars
4 May 20261h 6m
This episode we get back to the objects that inspired the whole field of astrophysics -- stars. Those little points of light that first inspired us as children are incredible physics laboratories that…
5Dr. Charles Law -- All the Molecules in Protoplanetary Disks
4 May 202651m
Just how much do we know about how the planets formed? How much of this can we learn from getting images of young solar systems? Why does it help to look at the disk using radio waves instead of…
6Dr. Daniel Polin -- The Biggest Digital Camera in the World
4 May 20261h 15m
The Vera Rubin Observatory has just started taking its first data this month. We have a special guest (Dr. Daniel Polin) who helped in the construction of the camera for Rubin. This digital camera was…
7Dr. Gurtina Besla -- Dark Matter in the Milky Way
4 May 20261h 2m
Most of the mass in the universe is invisible. We call it "Dark Matter", and the only reason we know it's there is because we can see how it gravitationally interacts with regular matter. For example,…
8Dr. Abigail Polin -- Astrophysics Q & A #2
4 May 20261h 23m
What's the deal with black holes?
9Dr. Kaitlin Kratter -- Building a Solar System on the Computer
4 May 20261h 15m
How did our solar system form? More generally, how does any solar system form? We get some of our answers to these questions by looking at newly-forming planetary systems in the first million years of…
10Dr. Tim Cunningham -- White Dwarfs Sometimes Eat Planets
4 May 20261h 15m
A white dwarf star is the compact, dense remnant of a once-thriving solar system. Long after the original star has died and turned into a white dwarf, it can still interact with its solar system. We…

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