Links for those interested in seeing Jeff’s recent TV interviews and listening to podcast interviews: WEHT -Evansville, IN: Tri-state area readies for total solar eclipse. Evansville, IN – 14News: One year to total eclipse; press conference with astronomer/educator Jeffrey Bennett. Denver Ch. 2 (9/13/22): Boulder astrophysicist and author has a new book that’s all about […]
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The First Black Hole Image: What is It and Why Should You Care?
Please see this post on Medium. I’ve also made a video version of that you can see at this Youtube link.
CU Model Solar System in the News
The Daily Camera published this article about our efforts to update the CU Scale Model Solar System, being led by Jimmy Negus.
Post-Eclipse Interview on Fox News
Here is an interview of Jeffrey Bennett after the August 21, 2017 eclipse Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
TV interviews prior to the eclipse
Here are two interviews of Jeffrey Bennett before the August 21, 2017 eclipse:
Scott Kelly’s Time Dilation
I was asked to comment about how time dilation affected astronaut Scott Kelly during his “year in space,” leading to this article at the Huffington Post: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Scott Kelly Aged More Slowly In Space, And He’s Right We’ve got the math to prove it. by: David Freeman Astronaut Scott Kelly got countless […]
What Are Gravitational Waves, and Why Should You Care?
This post also appears (with an extra illustration) on my Huffington Post blog page. The short answer: Gravitational waves are an important prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, published a century ago. Because this theory changed the way we understand the nature of space, time, and gravity, it also fundamentally changed our perception of […]
Daily Camera: Boulder Author Sends 7th Book to Space
This article was published in the Boulder Daily Camera. By Amy Bounds, Daily Camera Staff Writer Jeffrey Bennett, a Boulder astrophysicist and educator, recently sent his seventh science book into space. An advance copy of his latest children’s book, “I, Humanity,” was among the 7,700 pounds of cargo successfully delivered Dec. 9 to astronauts on […]
VIDEO: Jeff Interviewed for 9News Climate Change Story
Featured on 9NEWS Maya Rodriguez, KUSA
Denver Post: For Boulder astrophysicist, it’s all relativity
Published in the Denver Post As an astrophysicist, Jeffrey Bennett grapples with big ideas all the time. When the cosmos is your beat, your thinking has to be as unbounded as a Voyager spacecraft. So in this centennial year of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, Bennett has taken on a big task: A lecture tour […]