Leaving on a jet stream
Through tangled magnetic fields, super massive black holes and at least one otter, we explore how the phenomenal jets launched from the centre of galaxies are created.
How the other half spins: probing the huge gas cloud around the Milky Way
Our galaxy is not just made up of stars and dark matter, but a huge weight of dust, extending out much further than we can see. Now we’re starting to pin down the properties of our surrounding mysterious gas cloud, and new evidence shows that it’s busy doing it’s own thing.
How to say ‘Hi’ in Alien, and why it’s the worst idea on Earth
Using a laser we can carefully edit the telltale signs of the Earth’s presence, hiding ourselves away or announcing our presence to other life in the universe. But doing so may be fraught with unknowable consequences that we can never undo. Maybe it’s best to just stay behind the galactic sofa.
Copernicus and the made-up planets: simulating other earths
By building a simulation that goes from the scale of galaxies down to individual rocky planets we come to the realization that the earth is unremarkable, but far from typical, challenging our Copernican world view.