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Chris Irwin
Astrophysicist Dr. Christopher M. Irwin, a Zuckerman postdoctoral scholar at Tel Aviv University's School of Physics and Astronomy, known for research on shock breakout and cosmic explosions.
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Oct 1, 2026
Dr. Chris Irwin -- Prepare to be Shocked!
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44:02Chris IrwinGUEST
And sometimes, um, these stars are on quite tight orbits, and they can even spiral into each other and, and merge together into a single star.
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44:16Chris IrwinGUEST
Um, and when it happened, it was accompanied by this sort of, um, long and quite red signal-
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46:37Chris IrwinGUEST
So a- anyway, there's-- This is why I say, you know, when people ask that I work on shock waves, because, um, there's all these sorts of different systems in astrophysics, um, where we expect to find shock waves, and we expect them to be bright and, um, so rather than picking a favorite, I just say that I work on the-