Science Spotlights

Spotlight Live: Dark Energy Camera

Oct 12, 2012

Interview with Fermilab researchers Brenna Flaugher and Joshua Frieman on the Dark Energy Camera and how its 570-Megapixel, light capturing capability may help us find an answer to one of the biggest mysteries in physics – why the expansion of the universe is speeding up. Date and time to be announced.

Spotlight Live: Hubble's eXtreme View

Oct 4, 2012

Pascal Oesch, a Hubble Fellow at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and Michele Trenti of the Kavli Institute of Cosmology, University of Cambridge, discuss the Hubble telescope deepest ever image of the universe.

Spotlight Live: The Phoenix Galaxy Cluster

Aug 28, 2012

Michael McDonald, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at MIT, and Bradford Benson, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, answer questions about the Phoenix Galaxy Cluster -- a newly discovered, record-breaking cluster that now has astronomers re-thinking how they are formed and evolve.

2012 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics: A Discussion with Michael Brown and David Jewitt

Aug 17, 2012

Two winners of the 2012 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics reflect on the discovery of the Kuiper Belt at the outer edges of the solar system, the excitement of exploring a frontier long thought empty, and what the episode over reclassifying Pluto says about the public’s perception of science.