QUO Fast Radio Bursts

Our Lonely Galaxy ft. Nathan Deg

January 17, 2022 Queen's Observatory Season 3 Episode 7
QUO Fast Radio Bursts
Our Lonely Galaxy ft. Nathan Deg
Show Notes

We interview Dr. Nathan Deg, a Software developer for the Canadian Institute for Radio Astronomy:

  • Resides at Queen’s University and comes from Nova Scotia but was born in Kingston
  • focuses on numerical simulations of isolated and interacting pairs of galaxies
  • Achieved a bachelor’s from Saint Mary’s University and Astrophysics
  • And then a Masters and PhD in simulations of galaxies here at Queen’s
  • Left Canada for a little while and worked in University of Cape Town in South Africa

Parts of the Milky Way:


The Future of Radio Astronomy: the Square Kilometre Array, planned to be in Australia and South Africa.

Links to Science Outreach Material:


Special thanks to Colin Vendromin for the music, also thanks to Zac Kenny for the logo!