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Zooming in on the Source of Gravitational Waves
October 16, 2017
Education Video
How LIGO, Virgo and a variety of telescopes zoomed in on the location for the source of FW170817.
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Final Flight of Neutron Star Pair
October 16, 2017
Education Video
Animation of binary neutron star merger
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Hearing the Wave
October 16, 2017
Education Video
Try listening for the nearly hidden gravitational wave in LIGO's data.
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GW170814
September 27, 2017
Education Video
Animation of GW170814
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Simulation of the binary black-hole coalescence GW170104
June 1, 2017
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Simulation of the binary black-hole coalescence GW170104
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Space-Time Disturbances GW170104
June 1, 2017
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A mathematical simulation of the warped space-time near two merging black holes, consistent with LIGO's observation of the event dubbed GW170104.
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LIGO Scientists Speak at the 2016 World Science Festival
September 27, 2016
Education Video
Physicist and author, Brian Greene, interviews a panel of LIGO research scientists during a public lecture at the World Science Festival held in New York City on June 23, 2016
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Mike Landry TedxYYC
September 27, 2016
Education Video
Physicist Michael Landry describes LIGO's first direct detections of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, discoveries that have opened an entirely new field of astronomy, effectively allowing us to listen to the universe.
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LIGO: Opening a New Window Onto the Universe
February 15, 2016
Education Video
This video narrative tells the story of the history and legacy of LIGO from the genesis of the idea to the detection in September 2015.
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LIGO: The First Observation of Gravitational Waves
February 15, 2016
Education Video
On September 14, 2015, LIGO observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime. This video narrative tells the story of the science behind that important detection.
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Journey of a Gravitational Wave
February 11, 2016
Education Video
LIGO scientist David Reitze takes us on a 1.3 billion year journey that begins with the violent merger of two black holes in the distant universe. The event produced gravitational waves, tiny ripples in the fabric of space and time, which LIGO detected...
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Interferometer Response to a Gravitational Wave
November 18, 2015
Education Video
Clip from "Einstein's Messengers" illustrating how LIGO's interferometers will respond to a gravitational wave.
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Neutron Star Merger
November 4, 2015
Education Video
Animation of binary neutron star merger
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What Are the Sources of Gravitational Waves?
October 1, 2015
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Part 2 of Gravitational Waves Q&A with Caltech's Kip Thorne, Rana Adhikari, and Sarah Gossan. Sarah Gossan explains what types of sources cause gravitational waves.
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Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves: What Will It Mean?
October 1, 2015
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Part 3 of Gravitational Waves Q&A with Caltech's Kip Thorne, Rana Adhikari, and Sarah Gossan explaining what the direct detection of gravitational waves will mean.
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What are Gravitational Waves?
October 1, 2015
Education Video
Part 1 of Gravitational Waves Q&A with Caltech's Kip Thorne, Rana Adhikari, and Sarah Gossan. Kip Thorne explains what gravitational waves are.
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Gravitational Waves
July 10, 2015
Education Video
An animation of artist's concept of gravitational wave propagation.
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LIGO: On the Front Lines of Space-Time
February 27, 2015
Education Video
LIGO Laboratory is poised to open an entirely new window on the universe by detecting gravitational waves from colliding black holes and neutron stars with its newly updated instrumentation. The name LIGO stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational O...
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Two Black Holes Merging (view from the side)
November 4, 2014
Education Video
A visualization of the last few orbits of a binary black hole merger. The camera is roughly in the orbital plane of the merger.
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Two Black Holes Merging (view from above)
November 4, 2014
Education Video
A visualization of the last few orbits of a binary black hole merger. The camera is above the orbital plane of the merger, looking down.
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Gravitational Wave Astronomy -- Opening a New Window on ...
July 23, 2014
Education Video
Martin Hendry describes how Einstein's theory of gravity shapes our modern world, and how lasers, at the heart of the most sensitive scientific instruments ever built, are opening a whole new way of studying the cosmos.
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Einstein's Messengers
March 1, 2005
Education Video
Einstein's Messengers is an award-winning documentary on LIGO, NSF's Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. The video examines how LIGO is spearheading the new field of gravitational wave astronomy and opening a whole new window on the un...
 
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