The Star Spot, with Justin Trottier, is a space themed podcast and radio show focusing on all aspects of astronomy and space exploration. Episodes feature timely news along with fascinating interviews with guests of wide-ranging background: scientists, engineers, artists, politicians, and entrepreneurs. Topics are broad, from the latest space mission to how the universe began to why humans explore.
Our guest today is Victoria Kaspi, the Lorne Trottier Chair in
Astrophysics, the Canada Research Chair in Observational
Astrophysics and Professor of Physics at McGill University. She
earned her PhD working under nobel prize winning astrophysicist
Jospeh Hooton Taylor, Jr. and went on to work at MIT, the
California...
