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Popular science videos

Public talk in Italian about astronomy with gravitational waves, the cosmic symphony, and the search for hidden melodies.

Astronomia Gravitazionale: la sinfonia cosmica e la ricerca delle melodie nascoste

Public talk in Italian about astronomy with gravitational waves, the cosmic symphony, and the search for hidden melodies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR_Jwwx2tFY

Join us on a journey into the depths of our Galaxy!

Continuous gravitational waves

Join us on a journey into the depths of our Galaxy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV4-DUalJ5I

Continuous Gravitational Waves – the movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xIAHdDipNg

Maria Alessandra Papa at TEDxCortina

Onde gravitazionali, messaggere del cosmo

Maria Alessandra Papa at TEDxCortina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8A2L5dG4S0

Popular science articles

Gravitational-wave searches

Gravitational-wave searches

Article on the Einstein@Home hompage about the search for continuous gravitational waves and their sources more

Continuous gravitational waves

Continuous gravitational waves

Einstein Online Band 13 (2021), 1012 more

Visual representation of astronomical data with constellation lines and colored dots.

Einstein@Home – gravitational waves for everybody

Reinhard Prix, Bernd Machenschalk and Benjamin Knispel, “Einstein@Home – gravitational waves for everybody” in: Einstein Online Band 13 (2020), 13-1001 more

Gravitational Waves on Home Computers

Gravitational Waves on Home Computers

MaxPlanckResearch 1/2017 more

Citizen scientists take on latest gravitational-wave data

Citizen scientists take on latest gravitational-wave data

article by D. Castelvecchi in Nature | News (2016) more

The Einstein@Home Project

The Einstein@Home Project

Article in LIGO Magazine (Issue 7, September 2015) more