Dec 14, 2015
Feature Guest: Henry Joy McCracken
Last month scientists announced the shocking discovery of 574
monster galaxies from the ancient universe. There are surprisingly
many such giant galaxies, and they seem to appear more suddenly and
earlier than astronomers predicted. How might this finding upend
our understanding of galaxy and structure formation in the
universe? To help us answer that question we’re joined by the
discovery’s co-investigator Henry Joy McCracken.
This episode is dedicated to my wife Denise Fong, on our 6 month
anniversary. Denise and I met at the 10th episode celebration of
The Star Spot over 3 years ago. It has been a great pleasure to
work with you Denise to grow our show and to further public
education for astronomy, our common passion. - Justin
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About Our Guest
Henry Joy McCracken has worked as a researcher at the Institut
d'Astrophysique de Paris in France since 2003. He received his
masters from the University of Victoria and his PhD from the
University of Durham. His interests include galaxy formation and
evolution and the evolving relationship between dark matter and
normal matter.