We know how the stars shine, but how do you make a star? We take an all-night ride on a high-flying jet – an airborne observatory called SOFIA – to watch astronomers investigate how a star is born.
As for how the universe was born, we know about the Big Bang but modern physics suggests that similar cosmic explosions may be happening all the time, and even hint that we could – in principle – create a new universe in a laboratory. What does this mean, and how could we do it?
From stars to universes, how it all came to be.
Guests:
Zeeya Merali– Journalist and editor for the Foundational Questions Institute, author of A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes
Nick Veronico– Manager of SOFIA Communications for NASA Ames Research Center and Universities Space Research Association
Felix Reimann– Freelance photographer
Huub Rottgering– Director of Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands
Dietmar Lilienthal– Manager, DLR SOFIA Institute, Germany
Cornelia Pabst– Astronomer, Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands
Charlie Kaminski– Engineering and Maintenance Manager, SOFIA
David McAllister– Deputy Program Manager for Operations, SOFIA, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
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