The LIUniverse with Dr. Charles Liu
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S5E16 Our Weird, Wondrous Universe with Erika Hamden
How do distant galaxies form? If you have two distant clouds of hydrogen, why does one turn into a star and another doesn’t? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome Dr. Erika…
S5E15 Ruby Raindrops and Painted Peacocks with Munazza Alam
Are there really exoplanets with where it rains ruby and emerald raindrops? How do we measure the atmospheres of exoplanets light years away? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu…
S5E14 Astrophotography with Astronaut Don Pettit
Can the physics you learned in High School take you to the stars? Who is behind many of your favorite pictures of space? What is it actually like to live and work in space? You might be surprised to…
S5E13 Finding the “Bubbles” Exoplanet and Crocheting Dinosaurs with Victoria DiTomasso
How do we find exoplanets? What is the Milky Way’s “Thick Disk” and what makes it so special? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome Harvard astronomer Dr. Victoria DiTomasso, who…
S5E12 Supernovas and Space Gold with Dr. Ashley Villar
How do stars die? And what happens when they do? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome Dr. Ashley Villar, who teaches astronomy at Harvard and whose team studies supernovas as…
S5E11 Building Worlds with Luke Skywatcher
How do planetary systems form? If you wanted to observe them, where would you look and what would you look for? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome Luke Keller, professor of…
S5E10 Chuck GPT: Astrotech
How can a helicopter fly in space? How does LIGO detect gravitational waves? How do quantum electronic devices like Josephson junctions work? Could AI turn evil and destroy humanity? What about those…
S5E9 Chuck GPT: Answering Eerie Questions
Is universal expansion slowing? What is the Bubble Universe Theory? Will we control AI, or will AI control us? In this special Chuck GPT episode of The LIUniverse, we answer questions from the Annual…
S5E8 Serving Cosmic Brunch with Thresa Kelly
How do supermassive black holes actually form in the early universe? Is the Cosmological Constant not so constant after all? And what would be on the astrophysical menu at a Cosmic Brunch? To find…
S5E7 2025 Year-End Special
What were our joyfully cool cosmic things of 2025? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome three members of The LIUniverse production team: Jon Barnes, our Editor and…
S5E6 Venus, Interstellar Visitors, and Auroras with Dr. David Grinspoon
Are Coronal Mass Ejections dangerous to life on Earth? When are we finally going to plunge through the sulfuric acid clouds to measure the atmosphere of Venus. And what’s up with 'Oumuamua and…
Rings, Orbits and Space Storms with Dr. Phil Nicholson
How do planetary ring systems rings form, and what keeps them in line? What exactly is the Dragon Cloud of Saturn? And what’s up with quasi moon 2025 PN7? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host…
S5E4 Tiny Galaxies and Massive Black Holes with Dr. Matt Taylor
Can an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy have a supermassive black hole at its center? Are there galaxies with supermassive black holes that are offset from their galactic centers? To find out, Dr. Charles…
S5E3 Black Holes Colliding with Dr. Charlotte Olsen
How do very small galaxies form? What’s going on inside them? And what happens when black holes collide? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome astrophysicist and “Galaxy…
S5E2 Measuring the Stars with Astrostatistician Sabrina Berger
How does a star form? How does the universe form? And how can we use every bit of astronomical data to answer those questions? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome…
S5E1 Cosmic Raspberries and Life on Mars with Dr. Kelly Blumenthal
Have we discovered life on Mars? What does the center of our galaxy taste like? To find out, and to kick off Season 5 of The LIUniverse, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu have reached out all the…
S4E18 Chuck GPT Apocalypse, Part 2
It’s the end of everything! Welcome back to Part 2 of our season finale featuring Dr. Charles Liu, co-host Allen Liu, and our guest archaeology expert and author, Hannah Liu, MEd. (If you haven’t…
S4E17 Chuck GPT Apocalypse, Part 1
As our fourth season draws to a close, we’ve got an apocalyptic, 2-part ending lined up. That’s right, we’re talking Armageddon, and we don’t mean the 1998 Bruce Willis blockbuster. And of course, if…
S4E16 Finding Your Place in Space with Sadie Coffin
Who are the “Redshift Wranglers” and what can they tell us about the evolution of our universe? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome back astrophysics PhD candidate Sadie Coffin…
S4E15 Shredding and Stitching Stars with u/Andromeda321 (Yvette Cendes)
If a black hole shreds a star and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome Professor Yvette Cendes, (aka u/Andromeda321 on…
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The LIUniverse with Dr. Charles Liu has published 77 episodes since February 2023, covering topics in Astronomy, Fiction.
The LIUniverse with Dr. Charles Liu is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 37m.
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