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b'The universe is big \\u2013 really big.* Galaxies, for instance, are often large enough to hold a trillion stars. But how did these heavenly heavyweights come to be? Hear how still-mysterious dark matter is implicated in the birth of galaxies.\\nAlso, gamma ray bursts - explosions more energetic than anything since the Big Bang - take place somewhere in the visible universe every day. What are they, and could they obliterate life on Earth?\\nAnd, the biggest cosmic mystery de jour: dark energy. Why new, super-size telescopes may finally reveal just what it is.\\nWe\\u2019re living large on \\u201cBig, Really Big.\\u201d\\n*appreciative nod to Douglas Adams\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nGeorge Djorgovski - Astronomer, California Institute of Technology\\n\\n\\nSandra Faber - Astronomer and Chair of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California at Santa Cruz; leads the CANDELS survey that uses the Hubble Space Telescope to image more than\\n\\n250,000 distant galaxies\\n\\n\\nDaniel Perley - Astronomer, University of California at Berkeley\\n\\n\\nEd Stone - Former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and physicist at the California Institute of Technology\\n\\n\\nRichard Panek - Author of The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality\\n\\n\\nDescripci\\xf3n en espa\\xf1ol\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'