Best Triassic Podcasts (2025)

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universe,Late Triassic, Dinosaur Radiation and Ecosystem Complexity 1:08:08

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The late Triassic period, approximately 237 to 201 million years ago, represents a time of profound ecological expansion and evolutionary innovation on land. Terrestrial ecosystems that had slowly recovered from the Permian-Triassic extinction and diversified through the early and mid-Triassic were now entering a phase of increasing complexity. Arc…

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universe,The Permian Period, Rise of Reptiles and the Expansion of Terrestrial Ecosystems 35:24

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The Permian period, gauging roughly 299 to 252 million times agone , marked a vital chapter in the history of life on land. Following the late Carboniferous, the Earth had experienced dramatic ecological and geological metamorphoses. thick timbers of lycophytes, ferns, and seed ferns persisted, but numerous washes began to retire as the climate gre…

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universe,Early Jurassic, Dinosaur Dominance and Terrestrial Ecosystem Expansion 36:36

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The early Jurassic period, roughly 201 to 174 million times agone , marked a vital chapter in terrestrial life on Earth. Following the end- Triassic extermination, which excluded multitudinous archosaur, synapsid, and amphibian lineages, dinosaurs began to crop as the dominant terrestrial invertebrates. The ecological vacuum left by the exterminati…

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154 - The Origin of Dinosaurs (Where did they come from?) 1:03:28

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Where did dinosaurs come from? This is an interesting subject, one that Dinosaur George needed to bring in an expert, his assistant Noah. This is a great podcast filled with lots of paleo-information!!! Support the showBy Dinosaur George

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universe,Early Cretaceous,Flowering Plants and Dinosaur Diversification 30:27

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The Early Cretaceous period, roughly 145 to 100 million times agone , marked a critical transition in terrestrial ecosystems. Following the ecological dominance established by dinosaurs in the Late Jurassic, this period witnessed both the durability of dinosaur radiation and the first appearance of angiosperms, or unfolding shops. Dinosaurs maintai…

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universe,Mid-Cretaceou, Angiosperm Expansion and Dinosaur Evolution 33:38

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Themid-Cretaceous period, roughly 100 to 90 million times agone , marked a profound metamorphosis in terrestrial ecosystems. By this time, flowering shops, or angiosperms, had begun their global radiation, fleetly populating floodplains, open timbers, washes, and disturbed territories. Their emergence introduced new food sources, including leaves, …

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universe,Mid-Late Cretaceous, Angiosperm Peak and Dinosaur Specialization 32:00

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Themid-Late Cretaceous, roughly 85 to 75 million times agone , represents a critical phase in terrestrial ecosystem elaboration, marked by the global expansion of angiosperms and the continued diversification of dinosaurs. unfolding shops had come dominant across numerous tableland timbers, floodplains, littoral plains, and disturbed territories, d…

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universe,End-Cretaceous, Ecosystems on the Brink 32:15

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The final stages of the Cretaceous, roughly 66 to 67 million times agone , saw terrestrial ecosystems at their most intricate and connected state, yet decreasingly vulnerable to environmental disquiet. By this period, angiosperms had come the dominant foliage type across utmost tableland timbers, floodplains, and littoral plains, shaping both the s…

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153 - Lambeosaurus (Hatchet Head) 54:49

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A member of the hadrosaur family, this interesting dinosaur had a unique crest on its head. Join Dinosaur George as he explains the feature of this herbivore. Support the showBy Dinosaur George

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universe,Paleocen, Dawn of the Cenozoic and Mammalian Expansion 33:23

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The Paleocene time, gauging roughly 66 to 56 million times agone , marked the morning of the Cenozoic period and a transformative period for terrestrial ecosystems following the end- Cretaceous mass extermination. With the exposure ofnon-avian dinosaurs, ecological niches preliminarily dominated by megaherbivores and apex bloodsuckers came availabl…

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universe,Early Eocene, Tropical Expansion and Mammalian Adaptive Radiation 33:18

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The early Eocene, roughly 56 to 47 million times agone , marked a transformative period in Earth’s history, characterized by encyclopedically elevated temperatures, high atmospheric CO ₂ situations, and the expansion of tropical and tropical ecosystems. This period, known as the Paleocene- Eocene Thermal Maximum( PETM), created conditions that allo…

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universe,Oligocene, Cooling Climates, Grassland Expansion, and Mammalian Adaptation 33:48

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The Oligocene time, roughly 34 to 23 million times agone , was a period of profound climatic transition characterized by global cooling, the establishment of Antarctic ice wastes, and the emergence of more pronounced seasonality. These environmental changes unnaturally reshaped terrestrial ecosystems, driving the expansion of open territories simil…

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The Mountain Engine, How Earth Builds Giants 25:33

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Mountains look eternal, but that’s only because mortal life is too short to see them breathe. Part 1 begins with that idea the towering shapes we see as symbols of permanence are actually temporary puppets in a veritably slow cotillion . Mountains rise, deteriorate, shift, collapse, and rebuild across scales that stretch beyond imagination. To unde…

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152 - Torvosaurus & November Birthday Shoutouts 54:55

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Torvosaurus was a large theropod that roamed much of North America and Europe. Could this dinosaur have been larger than Tyrannosaurus rex? Listen to the podcast and find out. Support the showBy Dinosaur George

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Drylands: The Dark Horse of Carbon Cycling 24:16

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Drylands play a critical role in global ecosystems as well as the carbon cycle. We talk with ecologist Brooke Osborne about the fascinating world of biogeochemistry and dryland science. Covering 40% of the Earth's surface and hosting a third of the human population, heterogeneous drylands have low resource availability and therefore are highly sens…

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Universe,The Sun’s Magnetism, The Hidden Skeleton of Fire 26:50

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The Sun’s Magnetism The Hidden Skeleton of Fire ** Let’s settle into this one, because the Sun’s glamorous field is one of those effects that utmost people vaguely know exists, but nearly nothing really understands. And that’s fair — captivation inside a star is n’t intuitive. It’s not like the simple bar attraction you stuck on your refrigerator a…

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The Sun and the Birth of the Solar System 17:48

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Let’s step backward — way back — to the moment before the Sun was, before globes had names, before anything had settled into routeways . This part traces how the Sun surfaced from nothing but dust, gas, turbulence, and time. What this really means is that we’re zooming into the Sun’s origin story, not as tradition but as drugs playing out over mill…

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151 - Megistotherium (The Nightmare Dog) 1:00:18

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It was the largest known predatory mammal, capable of eating elephants. Join DG and learn more about the Greatest Beast! Support the showBy Dinosaur George

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Universe,Sun,Other Suns 15:42

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For utmost of mortal history, we treated the Sun as commodity unique. Not just important, but singular the only light important enough to shape a world, the only source of heat, the only star that signified. also we erected telescopes, cracked open the laws of drugs, and looked into the sky with sharper eyes. And the verity landed with quiet force …

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Universe,Sun,Aging Gracefully 20:07

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The Sun sits in a quiet order of stars known as G- type main- sequence stars. Nothing flashy. Nothing explosive. A star that has settled into a long, steady middle age where everything looks simple from the outside and possibly complex from within. What this really means is that we’re living in the most stable chapter of the Sun’s life, and that st…

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Universe,Sun,The Sun’s Magnetic Engine — The Invisible Architect 29:15

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Let’s take a breath before diving in, because this part is n’t just another chapter about heat or light. This is the part where the Sun stops being a glowing sphere and becomes a living, shifting, changeable machine erected from glamorous forces so involved and important that they dominate nearly every miracle we’ve explored so far. What this reall…

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Nanotyrannus or not? 57:55

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The biggest news in palaeontology this year dropped just in time for us to miss it with last month's episode but we're giving it the full hour this time. The idea that there's a miniature tyrannosaur running around in the Late Cretaceous alongside Tyrannosaurus has long been a contentious one, with most palaeontologists favouring the interpretation…

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Universe,Sun,The Sun Among the Stars 28:13

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Then’s the thing about the Sun we frequently imagine it as commodity huge and special because, from Earth, it dominates everything. But when you pull the camera back and look at it from a galactic scale, it becomes just one star among hundreds of billions. And yet, put away inside that ordinariness is a story worth telling. Understanding the Sun as…

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Universe,Sun,The Sun and the Planets 35:44

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Every earth, moon, and asteroid in our solar system owes its path, its meter, and its very actuality to one thing — the Sun’s graveness. It’s the anchor at the center of everything, the silent master around which all the worlds move. When you look at a chart of the solar system, it’s easy to suppose of globes simply circling the Sun like marbles on…

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Universe,Sun,Anatomy of the Sun 35:07

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When you look at the Sun, it seems simple — a bedazzling ball of light, constant and smooth. But that vision hides stunning complexity. Beneath that glowing face lies a churning, layered machine of tube, pressure, and emulsion. The Sun is n’t just a dynamo; it’s a living system, with each subcaste performing a specific part in maintaining balance. …

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150 - Dinosaur Extinction Explained 1:01:57

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We've all heard about the extinction of the dinosaurs, but has anyone really explained how we scientists think it happened? Dinosaur George will try to explain what extinction is, how it occurs, and what may have occurred when the asteroid struck the earth. Support the showBy Dinosaur George

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The Moon in Culture,The Moon and the Future of Humanity — Colonization, Technology, and the Return to the Silver World 24:17

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Humanity has always looked at the Moon and pictured. For glories, it inspired myth, guided timetables, and shaped culture. also, in 1969, we did what generations only imagined we walked on it. Neil Armstrong’s first step was monumental, but in numerous ways, it was only the morning. The Moon’s part in humanity’s story is now evolving from bystander…

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The Moon in Culture,The Future of the Moon — Colonies, Science, and Humanity’s Next Step 28:03

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For utmost of history, the Moon has been a symbol. also it came a destination. Now, it’s getting commodity differently entirely — a frontier. We’ve pictured about lunar colonies for nearly a century, but the difference moment is that this time, it’s not fantasy. We've the technology, the political will, and a growing list of reasons why humanity mi…

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149 - Nanotyrannus (The Small Tyrant) 1:03:02

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Nanotyrannus has been the subject of debate for over a decade. Some paleontologists thought it was a juvenile Tyrannosaurus while others, like Dinosaur George, said it was its own species. A new discovery has answered the questions and you'll hear details in this podcast. Support the showBy Dinosaur George

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The Moon in Culture, The Moon and Human Culture — Myths, Legends, and the Meaning We Gave It 25:20

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Long before telescopes or wisdom, long before humans indeed had metropolises or timetables, the Moon was formerly there — gaping back at us. It was the first timepiece, the first riddle, and perhaps the first glass. Every culture that ever lived under its gleam tried to explain it, name it, worship it, or sweat it. In this part, we’ll trace how the…

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The Moon in Culture, The Moon and Human Exploration — From Apollo to Artemis 25:56

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For as long as humans have was, the Moon has been the ultimate “ away. ” Every night it hangs there, distant but visible, offering both comfort and riddle. Ancient people could imagine gods living there. latterly, scientists began to imagine humans might one day walk there. The difference between those ages was n’t the size of the dream it was the …

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Nanosaurs & Good Lore 16:08

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This show is part of a series exploring Science Moab’s School to Science Program, connecting students with scientists in the field, the lab, and beyond. In this episode, we talk with mentor Emily Lessner, paleontologist for the Bureau of Land Management, and Shadis McDaniel, a recent Grand County High School graduate. Shadis joined Emily on a coupl…

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The Moon in Culture,The Future of the Moon, Humanity’s Next Home 26:25

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Psychologists have studied lunar associations for decades. The word lunacy comes from the belief that the Moon could stir madness or emotion. Studies have noway proven direct goods, but culturally, the connection persists. The Moon still represents change, cycles, emotion what we ca n’t control but must live through. Carl Jung saw it as an archetyp…

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S11E10 Spinosaur Tales oo woo oo 59:00

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Dave has *another* book coming out and so of course he wants to talk about it a bit on the pod. Happily for the listeners, this time out he has a coauthor and so we get to have palaeontologist and palaeoartist Mark Witton on as well so that Iszi has some support for once. The new book is on that most controversial of dinosaurs, Spinosaurus and its …

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The Moon in Culture,, Titan, The Methane World 25:22

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Still, Titan is the glass of Earth — except everything familiar there's made of commodity differently, If Europa is the ocean beneath the ice. On Titan, gutters inflow, rain falls, shadows drift, and swell coruscate in the sun. But none of it's water. The gutters and lakes are made of liquid methane and ethane, hydrocarbons that would be gas on Ear…

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The Moon in Culture,, The Ocean Beneath the Ice 24:45

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When you look at Jupiter through a telescope, its brilliance dominates everything. But ringing that giant world is a collection of moons that are worlds in their own right — each foreigner than the last. Among them, one stands piecemeal Europa. Europa does n’t have tinderboxes like Io, or the heavy atmosphere of Titan. From a distance, it looks lik…

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The Miracle of Lichen 23:32

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A lichen is a colony of algae or cyanobacteria living interactively with fungus and bacteria in a mutual or symbiotic relationship, but for Steve Leavitt, a lichen is a hotspot of diversity and an indicator of ecological health. Steve is in charge of one of the largest lichen collections in North America at BYU where he teaches and directs the Li…

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The Moon in Culture,, Moons Across the Universe 25:38

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The Hunt for Moons Beyond Our Solar System When Galileo refocused his telescope toward Jupiter in 1610 and saw four bitsy blotches moving around it, he intentionally began a revolution in how we view moons. For centuries, those four — Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto were the only known natural satellites ringing another earth. Fast forward to mo…

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Universe,The Moon in Culture, Science, and Imagination 32:24

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The Moon in Human Imagination Long before telescopes, rockets, or space suits, the Moon lived in our minds. It glowed over the first conflagrations, tracked the seasons, and shaped language, religion, and art. The Moon was n’t just a elysian object it was a companion, a glass, a god, and a riddle. Humanity’s connection to it's aged than writing its…

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148 - Are Birds Dinosaurs? 1:00:13

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Where did birds come from? Are they actual dinosaurs? Travel back with us as Dinosaur George and his assistant Noah discuss the origins of birds and how they are related to dinosaurs. Support the showBy Dinosaur George

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Universe,The Face of the Moon, Craters, Seas, and Shadows 33:48

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The Landscape of Silence When you look up at the Moon on a clear night, it feels nearly familiar — like an old snap you’ve seen too numerous times to really see presently. But that face gaping back at us is n’t stationary or simple. Every shadow, every pale upland and dark plain, every crater hem and glowing crest is a story — a record of four and …

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Moons, The Silent Architects of the Universe,The Face of Stone and Shadow 23:53

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Look up at the Moon on any clear night, and what you see is n’t just a glowing fragment it’s a chart of time itself. Every dark plain, every bright crater, every subtle argentine band is a subcaste of history stretching back billions of times. No other place in the solar system wears its history so openly. The Moon does n’t hide anything. It ca n’t…

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unevarce,Shadows of Creation, The Dance of Dark Matter and Dark Energy 19:37

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The Universe We Can not See When you peer into the night sky, the stars you see are only a tale of what truly exists. For centuries, astronomers believed the macrocosm was made of the same effects we find on Earth — matter that shines, burns, and reflects light. But as our tools stoned and our understanding strengthened, we uncovered a creepy verit…

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unevarce,The Cosmic Web, The Hidden Skeleton of the Universe 18:52

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Yet, in another sense, the web is eternal. Its pattern is ingrained in the fabric of the macrocosm — in the CMB, in the arrangement of worlds, and indeed in our tittles, which were born in stars fed by that same cosmic inflow. Every star, every earth, every living being owes its actuality to the web’s structure. It's the ultimate cosmic heritage — …

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unevarce,The Local Group, The Virgo Cluster and the Laniakea Supercluster 17:18

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Beyond Our Galactic Neighborhood For billions of times, the Milky Way and its companions have drifted together inside the Local Group, a small islet of light in an ocean of darkness. But beyond that islet lies a vast archipelago — hundreds of thousands of worlds, bound in clusters and fibers that stretch across space like a web spun by cosmic hands…

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Eureka at Cisco: Jurassic Mammals 21:54

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By Peggy Hodgkins

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147 - Patagotitan - (The Giant) 1:01:38

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Support the showBy Dinosaur George

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unevarce,The Local Group, Our Galactic Neighborhood 11:35

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A Family of worlds Though the Milky Way feels vast to us, it is n't alone in the macrocosm. Like people gathering in townlets, worlds gather into groups, bound together by graveness. Our home cluster is called the Original Group — a small family of worlds drifting together through the cosmic void. The Original Group spans 10 million light- times ac…

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unevarce,The Making of the Milky Way 10:39

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A Cradle in the Cosmic Web Roughly 13 billion times agone , in a quiet corner of the cosmic web, a small curl of gas and stars began to form. It was n't yet the Milky Way, but a protogalaxy, nestled within a halo of dark matter. Aqueducts of hydrogen flowed into it like gutters feeding a youthful ocean. These gas overflows were the lifeblood of its…

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unevarce,The Dawn Age of Light 11:03

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The Long Cosmic Night After the Big Bang, the universe began in fire. For hundreds of thousands of years, it was a sea of hot plasma, glowing but opaque, like a star stretched across infinity. Then came a moment called recombination, about 380,000 years after the beginning. Protons and electrons cooled enough to join together into atoms of hydrogen…