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Series Title
Walkabout the Galaxy
Keywords
Europa; dwarf planet; cosmological magnet fields
Disciplines
Astrophysics and Astronomy | Physics
Description
Where would you go and what would you bring with you if you could explore any object in the universe? Our cosmologist Jim Cooney wants to look for aliens underneath Europa's icy shell. This shell's complicated fractures may owe something to a new form of ice discovered in a delightfully simple experiment. Further out, a dwarf planet beyond Neptune has a ring unlike any we've seen before, and a delightfully complicated experiment may explain the origin of cosmological magnetic fields.
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Date Created
2-15-2023
Item Type
Podcast
Type
article
Length of Episode
43:03
Recommended Citation
Colwell, Joshua; Dove, Adrienne; Cooney, James; and Martin, Audrey, "Whacky Water and Weird Rings" (2023). Walkabout the Galaxy Podcast. 232.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/walkaboutthegalaxy/232
