Crash Course Astronomy - Season 1 Episode 40 Gamma-Ray Bursts
Gamma-ray bursts are not only incredible to study, but their discovery has an epic story all its own. Today Phil takes you through some Cold War history and then dives into what we know. Bursts come in two rough varieties: Long and short. Long ones are from hypernovae, massive stars exploding, sending out twin beams of matter and energy. Short ones are from merging neutron stars. Both kinds are so energetic they are visible for billions of light years, and both are also the birth announcements of black holes.
Year: 2015
Genre: Documentary
Country:
Studio: YouTube
Director:
Cast: Phil Plait
Crew: Phil Plait (Writer)
First Air Date: Jan 15, 2015
Last Air date: Dec 24, 2015
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 46 Episode
Runtime: 12 minutes
IMDb: 8.00/10 by 1.00 users
Popularity: 6.661
Language: English
Keyword : astronomy
Season
Season 1
Episode
Introduction to Astronomy
Naked Eye Observations
Cycles in the Sky
Moon Phases
Eclipses
Telescopes
The Gravity of the Situation
Tides
Introduction to the Solar System
The Sun
The Earth
The Moon
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Jupiter's Moons
Saturn
Uranus & Neptune
Asteroids
Comets
The Oort Cloud
Meteors
Light
Distances
Stars
Exoplanets
Brown Dwarfs
Low Mass Stars
White Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulae
High Mass Stars
Neutron Stars
Black Holes
Binary and Multiple Stars
Star Clusters
Nebulae
The Milky Way
Galaxies, Part 1
Galaxies, Part 2
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Dark Matter
The Big Bang, Cosmology Part 1
Dark Energy, Cosmology Part 2
A Brief History of the Universe
Deep Time
Everything, The Universe...And Life