Tips for Happy, Healthy Aging (w/ Daniel Levitin) and a Massive Collision Helped Us Judge the Milky Way’s Age
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Curiosity Daily
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Discovery
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audio
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Astronomy
Education
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Self-Improvement
Publication Date |
Feb 18, 2020
Episode Duration |
00:10:57

Learn about research-based advice for staying happy in your later years, from neuroscientist and author Daniel Levitin. Then, you’ll learn about how a faraway star helped researchers figure out when the Milky Way was formed.

Additional resources from Daniel Levitin:

A Massive Collision Helped Us Judge the Milky Way’s Age by Grant Currin

  • Dating a galaxy crash. (2020). EurekAlert! dag011520.php">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/m-dag011520.php
  • Collision helped make the Milky Way -- and now we know when. (2020). EurekAlert! chm011320.php">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/yu-chm011320.php
  • staff, S. X. (2017, July 27). Milky Way’s origins are not what they seem. Phys.Org; Phys.org. 07-milky.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-07-milky.html
  • Smith, V. V., Tsuji, T., Hinkle, K. H., Cunha, K., Blum, R. D., Valenti, J. A., Ridgway, S. T., Joyce, R. R., & Bernath, P. (2003). High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of the Brown Dwarf Indi Ba. The Astrophysical Journal, 599(2), L107–L110. https://doi.org/10.1086/381248
  • Chaplin, W. J., Serenelli, A. M., Miglio, A., Morel, T., Mackereth, J. T., Vincenzo, F., Kjeldsen, H., Basu, S., Ball, W. H., Stokholm, A., Verma, K., Mosumgaard, J. R., Silva Aguirre, V., Mazumdar, A., Ranadive, P., Antia, H. M., Lebreton, Y., Ong, J., Appourchaux, T., … Yıldız, M. (2020). Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star ν Indi. Nature Astronomy. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0975-9 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.04653.pdf

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Learn about research-based advice for staying happy in your later years, from neuroscientist and author Daniel Levitin. Then, you’ll learn about how a faraway star helped researchers figure out when the Milky Way was formed.

Learn about research-based advice for staying happy in your later years, from neuroscientist and author Daniel Levitin. Then, you’ll learn about how a faraway star helped researchers figure out when the Milky Way was formed.

Additional resources from Daniel Levitin:

A Massive Collision Helped Us Judge the Milky Way’s Age by Grant Currin

  • Dating a galaxy crash. (2020). EurekAlert! dag011520.php">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/m-dag011520.php
  • Collision helped make the Milky Way -- and now we know when. (2020). EurekAlert! chm011320.php">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/yu-chm011320.php
  • staff, S. X. (2017, July 27). Milky Way’s origins are not what they seem. Phys.Org; Phys.org. 07-milky.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-07-milky.html
  • Smith, V. V., Tsuji, T., Hinkle, K. H., Cunha, K., Blum, R. D., Valenti, J. A., Ridgway, S. T., Joyce, R. R., & Bernath, P. (2003). High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of the Brown Dwarf Indi Ba. The Astrophysical Journal, 599(2), L107–L110. https://doi.org/10.1086/381248
  • Chaplin, W. J., Serenelli, A. M., Miglio, A., Morel, T., Mackereth, J. T., Vincenzo, F., Kjeldsen, H., Basu, S., Ball, W. H., Stokholm, A., Verma, K., Mosumgaard, J. R., Silva Aguirre, V., Mazumdar, A., Ranadive, P., Antia, H. M., Lebreton, Y., Ong, J., Appourchaux, T., … Yıldız, M. (2020). Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star ν Indi. Nature Astronomy. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0975-9 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.04653.pdf

Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing

 

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