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6:42
Roy Gould + Curtis Wong
A preview of the WorldWide Telescope
Posted
Feb 2008
7:18
Erika Hamden
What it takes to launch a telescope
Posted
May 2019
8:44
John C. Mather
How the James Webb Space Telescope will unfold the universe
Posted
Apr 2022
15:38
Wendy Freedman
This telescope might show us the beginning of the universe
Posted
Aug 2015
26:55
Heidi Hammel and Nadia Drake
The marvels and mysteries revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope
Posted
Nov 2022
15:25
Natasha Hurley-Walker
How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies
Posted
Apr 2017
12:51
Katie Bouman
How to take a picture of a black hole
Posted
Apr 2017
17:39
Andrew Connolly
What's the next window into our universe?
Posted
Sep 2014
11:08
Phil Plait
The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes
Posted
Mar 2019
13:32
Karin Öberg
The galactic recipe for a living planet
Posted
Apr 2020
6:38
Jeremy Kasdin
The flower-shaped starshade that might help us detect Earth-like planets
Posted
Apr 2014
4:59
Alex Gendler
The woman who stared at the sun
Posted
May 2021
11:29
Sheperd Doeleman
Inside the black hole image that made history
Posted
Apr 2019
16:26
Andrea Ghez
The hunt for a supermassive black hole
Posted
Dec 2009
14:08
Anil Ananthaswamy
What it takes to do extreme astrophysics
Posted
Apr 2011
13:19
Jennifer Heldmann
SpaceX's supersized Starship rocket — and the future of galactic exploration
Posted
Jun 2022
21:23
Jill Tarter
Join the SETI search
Posted
Feb 2009
7:15
Maria Popova
Humanity's search for cosmic truth and poetic beauty
Posted
May 2022
18:30
Dimitar Sasselov
How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets
Posted
Jul 2010
15:52
Garik Israelian
How spectroscopy could reveal alien life
Posted
Oct 2009
4:24
Lucianne Walkowicz
Finding planets around other stars
Posted
Aug 2011
14:52
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
The search for the invisible matter that shapes the universe
Posted
Jul 2022
16:14
Sara Seager
The search for planets beyond our solar system
Posted
May 2015
5:57
Jessie Christiansen
What the discovery of exoplanets reveals about the universe
Posted
Jan 2023
15:20
Emily Levesque
A stellar history of modern astronomy
Posted
Dec 2020
4:19
Jedidah Isler
How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe
Posted
Apr 2015
16:09
Patricia Burchat
Shedding light on dark matter
Posted
Aug 2008
19:00
George Smoot
The design of the universe
Posted
Nov 2008
13:24
Karen J. Meech
The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system
Posted
Jun 2018
13:46
Tabetha Boyajian
The most mysterious star in the universe
Posted
Apr 2016
4:48
Wilton L. Virgo
How does your smartphone know your location?
Posted
Jan 2015
16:25
Emma Teeling
The secret of the bat genome
Posted
Oct 2012
14:12
Suzanne Talhouk
Don't kill your language
Posted
Jan 2014
14:13
Juna Kollmeier
The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made
Posted
Jun 2019
15:53
Robert Lang
The math and magic of origami
Posted
Jul 2008
13:22
Dallas Taylor
What silence can teach you about sound
Posted
Aug 2020
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