Richard Ellis: When Galaxies Are Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn (#337)

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Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 13 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Richard S. Ellis is professor of astrophysics at University College London and a world-renowned observational astronomer who has made numerous discoveries about the nature and evolution of the universe. He lives in Cambridge, UK. When Galaxies Were Born is Richard Ellis’s firsthand account of how a pioneering generation of scientists harnessed the world’s largest telescopes to decipher the history of the universe and witness cosmic dawn, the time when starlight first bathed the cosmos and galaxies emerged from darkness. Please join my mailing list 👉 briankeating.com/list for your chance to win a real meteorite 💥! Join me and ⁦Lawrence Krauss for an Onstage Dialogue ⁦at the San Diego Air & Space Museum Tuesday, Oct 17, 2023 at 7:00 PM: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-onstage-dialogue-brian-keating-lawrence-m-krauss-tickets-699430514497 Support The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast by supporting our sponsors: Post your free listing at LinkedIn Jobs https://www.linkedin.com/impossible Thanks HelloFresh! Go to https://www.hellofresh.com/impossible and use code 50impossible for 50% off plus free shipping! As an Into The Impossible listener, you can get 15% off a MASTERCLASS annual membership masterclass.com/impossible Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! https://www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts Please leave a rating and review: On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB On Spotify it’s here: https://spoti.fi/3vpfXok On Audible it’s here https://tinyurl.com/wtpvej9v Find other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast Support the podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Become a Member on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	As astronomers, we're very fortunate that it has huge public appeal.
0:10.0	And secondly, it's easy to understand the questions that we're addressing.
0:14.4	Where did the universe come from?
0:15.8	What's its fate?
0:17.2	You know, where did, is there life elsewhere in the universe?
0:19.8	You know, what is a black hole?
0:21.9	So the questions we're asking now are really quite simple. When did
0:25.5	Cosmic Dawn occur? You know, was it a gradual slow event or was it dramatic? You know, did the whole
0:32.4	universe switch on in style? or was it dramatic? You know, did the whole universe
0:33.7	which on in starlight's sort of in a short period?
0:38.6	And perhaps the most intriguing question,
0:40.7	given a James Webb is working so well, do we have the capability to recognize a first
0:47.7	generation stellar system? That is an object that's pristine, chemically pristine that is just emerging from darkness.
0:59.3	Welcome to your listeners to this episode of Into the Impossible, featuring esteemed award-winning professor and
1:05.0	author Richard Ellis, and his new book, When Galaxies are Born, The Quest for Cosmic Dawn.
1:12.9	How old is the observable universe?
1:15.1	How do the universe evolve to become what is observed today?
1:18.5	How are astronomers and cosmologists able to observe and measure extremes of time and space with ever greater precision in scale.
1:27.3	In this episode, you'll hear Professor Ellis tell the story of the quest for understanding
1:32.4	our Galactic origins.
1:34.0	He provides firsthand lived experience of the Revolution and Observational Cosmology
1:40.0	culminating in the James Webb Space Telescope and its most recent revelations.
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