Episode 52: Spectacular Stellar Streams

In this episode, the gang struggles to come up with a title (and Will manages to still get it wrong in the outro). More importantly, we are joined by PhD student Sophia Lilleengen, who tells us about her research into stellar streams and dark matter in the Milky Way, as well as her career in astronomy so far. Malena presents research about a quirky stellar stream and wonders if it could contain the answers to everything, all of it.

 

Sophia Lilleengen’s website: sophialilleengen.me

Twitter: twitter.com/sophililleengen

 

Space sound: 

aip.de/en/news/exploring-the-history-of-the-early-milky-way-with-sound/

Astrobite: astrobites.org/2022/02/14/analyzing-orphan-stream/