Did you know that our sun undergoes an 11-year cycle and is at the maximum of its activity this year? Juli thought that was the perfect time to talk to an expert and discuss everything we know and would like to know about our Sun! So for this podcast she had a conversation with Sowmya Krishnamurthy from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen. They talk about what causes the solar cycle, how the Sun compares to other stars in the Galaxy and how we can study the sun. They also discuss the Sun’s influence on Earth, how Aurorae are formed and the effects of space weather. Enjoy this episode!

MPI for solar system research: https://www.mps.mpg.de/en

Information about effects of solar storm in May 2024:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2024_solar_storms#Impact

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Double_trouble_Gaia_hit_by_micrometeoroid_and_solar_storm

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/12/24154779/solar-storms-farmer-gps-john-deer

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In this episode Juli talks to Eduardo Banados, a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. The two of them follow up on our previous episode about the James Webb Space Telescope and dive deeper into the early universe. They talk about the first billion years of cosmic history, how the first stars and galaxies formed during that time and how the universe went from a dark and neutral place to a luminous and ionized environment during the so-called epoch of reionization. Eduardo explains the role that supermassive black holes play in these processes and how all of this lead to the universe in which we live today. And they discuss all of this in the context of the new data that the James Webb Space Telescope is providing us on this specific epoch of the universe’s evolution.
You are in for a fantastics episode!

Eduardo’s Personal Website: https://www2.mpia-hd.mpg.de/homes/banados/index.html

Review Paper on Quasars at Cosmic Dawn pre-JWST: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ARA%26A..61..373F/abstract

Summary Review Paper on „The First billion years according to JWST“ based on the first 1.5 years of JWST data: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024arXiv240521054A/abstract

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In this episode, Juli talks to NASA scientist Matt Greenhouse about the James Webb Space Telescope. Matt explains what the JWST was built for, the tremendous technical developments that went into the telescope’s design and the challenges that had to be overcome in the process. They discuss the main scientific goals of the JWST and the most important results it has given us so far.

Images taken by the Webb: https://webbtelescope.org/images

The Webb’s science: https://webbtelescope.org/science

Animation of the Telescope Unfolding in Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzGLKQ7_KZQ

The Webb on Social Media:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nasawebb/

Twitter/X: https://x.com/NASAWebb

Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NASAWebbTelescope

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