Science Spotlights

Afterglow: Dispatches from the Birth of the Universe

Oct 31, 2012

Lawrence M. Krauss, John C. Mather, Amber Miller, Lyman Page and David Spergel discuss how the cosmic background radiation is poised to reveal when the first stars formed, what happened in the fraction of a second after the Big Bang, and the answers to a host of other bold questions about the cosmos.

Shining a Light on Dark Galaxies

Oct 29, 2012

Dark galaxies – galaxies with few if any stars and made predominately of dense gas – have been impossible to detect directly until now. Members of an international team of astronomers discuss their discovery and the place these galaxies hold in the universe.

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.