About 100 years ago, we could only see the universe through visible light, but now we study it using other types of electromagnetic radiation like ultraviolet, X-rays, and radio waves. Now we are also detecting other amazing things like cosmic rays, neutrinos, and gravitational waves coming from beyond our galaxy, the Milky Way. We’ve also learned that the northern lights are caused by particles from the sun, not just magical colors in the sky. Join us as Professor Michael Albrow discusses these new astronomies and the methods by which scientists discovered them.

Professor Michael Albrow is a scientist emeritus at Fermilab near Chicago, with a Ph.D. from Manchester University. He worked at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the Rutherford Laboratory, and Stockholm University before joining Fermilab in 1991. Albrow contributed to the discovery of the top quark in 1995 and the Higgs Boson in 2012. He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society.