The Lab With Brad

What’s your cosmic mailing address?

Join us for a look at the large scale structure of the universe.

Check out our latest attempt at Episode One.

Take 129 of Episode One: The defenestration of Episode One

Here are a couple of videos on the great attractor, and the large scale structure of our universe.

What is the GREAT ATTRACTOR? Will It Absorb us? What's DARK FLOW?

The Great Attractor

Phil’s 200th episode!

It happens to be Phil’s 200th time doing this madness. We talk about where the show is going, and some interesting experiments we might do.

Check out our latest attempt at Episode One.

Take 128 of Episode One: Getting down to business

Here’s a link to the episodes I did, long ago, on lucid dreams and out of body experiences.

Ep 123: A tale of two books, part 2

And here are a few articles regarding electric bacteria.

Electric bacteria create currents out of thin—and thick—air

New biobatteries use bacterial interactions to generate power for weeks

Technique identifies electricity-producing bacteria

The galactic shuffle

Galaxies come in all shapes and sizes, and they keep bumping into one another and becoming even stranger.

Check out our latest attempt at Episode One.

Take 124 of Episode One: Cartoons, puppets, and figuring out which Jeff.

Here are a couple of sites about the different types of galaxy.

Galaxy Types!

Types | Galaxies

Here’s an article about dwarf galaxies.

Dwarf Galaxies

And here’s an article about Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s largest globular cluster.

Omega Centauri is the Milky Way’s largest star cluster

Half an episode

Our host, me, is a bit under the weather, so we just squeeze in a bit more black hole business.

Check out our latest attempt at Episode One.

Take 127 of Episode One: Disasters, without music!

Here’s an article about the still theoretical stupendously large black holes.

Black Holes Could Get So Humongous, Astronomers Came Up With a New Size Category

Here are a couple of articles on the actual size of black holes, and the strange horizons they possess.

What is a black hole's actual size?

How much space does a black hole take up?

The darkest thing in the universe

Nobody knows what it is, but we can see what it does. Join us for a talk about dark matter.

Here’s an article about how we mapped where dark matter is in our universe.

Mysterious dark matter mapped in finest detail yet

Here’s an article about a galaxy that is almost entirely made of dark matter.

A Galaxy has Been Found that's Almost Entirely Dark Matter

And here’s an article about a galaxy that apparently has no dark matter.

Mystery of Galaxy's Missing Dark Matter Deepens

The brightest thing in the universe

Join us for a look at quasars; the brightest thing in the universe.

While talking about my recent mad scientist activities, I mentioned a couple of old episodes. Here are links to said episodes.

Ep 311: Building brain bits for bots based on big beasties

Ep 230: In search of intelligent animals

And here’s a little something about quasars.

Quasars: Definition & Facts About Brightest Objects in the Universe

The birth of stars

Clouds of dust collapse to form stars, but the actual process is far more complicated and interesting.

Here are a few links about the youngest known objects in the night sky.

3 of the Youngest Stars in the Universe (That we Know)

What's the oldest star in the universe? What about the youngest?

Astronomers May Have Found a Star That's Just 33 Years Old

The creator and destroyer of worlds

Several kinds of supernova, and a rogue supermassive blackhole.

Check out our latest attempt at Episode One.

Take 121 of Episode One: Phil, interrupted

Here’s an article on a possible rogue supermassive blackhole.

Astronomers Spot a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole, Hurtling Through Space Leaving Star Formation in its Wake

Neutron stars and little green men

Join us as we talk about how neutron stars managed to masquerade as a signal from aliens.

Here are a few videos on pulsars and neutron stars.

Pulsars and Neutron Stars

What is a Pulsar?

Pulsars & Quasars Infiltrate the Sky

From little to smaller to slightly larger

Join us for a look at red dwarves, brown dwarves, white dwarves, and carbon stars.

Check out our latest attempt at Episode One.

Take 119 of Episode One: An itch of crackheads, and Patrick has a cow

Here’s a bit about a brown dwarf that is a bit brighter than it should be.

The Curious Case of the Mysterious Over-Luminous Brown Dwarf

Here’s another brown dwarf.

Neither Star nor Planet: A Strange Brown Dwarf Puzzles Astronomers

Here’s an article, sadly out of date, that talks about how you can get a look at a carbon star for yourself.

Carbon Stars Will Make You See Red

Here’s a bit about carbon stars in general.

Carbon Stars

Here’s an article about a carbon star near its death.

Mysterious death of carbon star

Here’s a little on how stars like our sun die.

The End Of The Sun

And here’s a bit about the forces that keep white dwarves from collapsing.

Degeneracy