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47: The Milky Way Explodes!

Oct 19, 201936 minSeason 1Ep. 47
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Episode description

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!

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

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Things we talked about in this episode:

The Podcast Social Club — Nov 22-23

The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics

Original research paper on the Milky Way explosion

Joss Bland-Hawthorn’s Conversation article about the research

The structure of the Milky Way

The Magellanic Clouds

The super massive black hole at the heart of the galaxy

Agctive Galactic Nuclei

ROSAT and FERMI

The GAIA survey

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