- 134
- Episodes
- 7
- Transcribed
- 110
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About Starts With A Bang podcast
The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. There’s a cosmic story uniting us. We’re determined to bring it to everyone.
- Publisher
- Ethan Siegel
- Category
- science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Oct 2015
- Latest episode
- 24 Oct 2026
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7 of 134 episodes have a transcript.
24 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Starts With A Bang #134 - Stellar streams and the dark universe
5 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Starts With A Bang #133 - The Milky Way's center
8 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Starts With A Bang #132 - Space in the ultraviolet
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Starts With A Bang #134 - Stellar streams and the dark universe
Published 24 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And as you were mentioning, the dark matter is distributed throughout the halo of the galaxy, a large halo. First of all, that means that it's also in the inner regions of the galaxy. It's not only on the outskirts. So even if you have streams that are relatively close to the center, you can still measure the dark matter that is inside of that orbit. But most of the stellar streams from dwarf galaxies are actually farther out. They're quite far out in the halo, so we can measure a big chunk of this dark matter halo still. We're not going to get the... We're not going to get the outermost outskirts of the dark matter halo, but most of it we can actually probe with these dwarf galaxy stellar streams. […]
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- Julie Kiel Holm
- Cara Battersby
- Carlos Vargas
- Ava Polzin
- Lana Tilke
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- YouTube views
- 1,558,762
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 73 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 37 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100
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- Quality
- 61
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 92
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