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Telescopes
A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Telescopes.
Talks about Telescopes
07:18
Erika Hamden
What it takes to launch a telescope
7 minutes 18 seconds
11:29
Sheperd Doeleman
Inside the black hole image that made history
11 minutes 29 seconds
15:25
Natasha Hurley-Walker
How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies
15 minutes 25 seconds
12:51
Katie Bouman
How to take a picture of a black hole
12 minutes 51 seconds
13:46
Tabetha Boyajian
The most mysterious star in the universe
13 minutes 46 seconds
05:25
Aomawa Shields
How we'll find life on other planets
5 minutes 25 seconds
15:38
Wendy Freedman
This telescope might show us the beginning of the universe
15 minutes 38 seconds
16:14
Sara Seager
The search for planets beyond our solar system
16 minutes 14 seconds
04:19
Jedidah Isler
How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe
4 minutes 19 seconds
04:48
Wilton L. Virgo
How does your smartphone know your location?
4 minutes 48 seconds
17:39
Andrew Connolly
What's the next window into our universe?
17 minutes 39 seconds
06:38
Jeremy Kasdin
The flower-shaped starshade that might help us detect Earth-like planets
6 minutes 38 seconds
04:24
Lucianne Walkowicz
Finding planets around other stars
4 minutes 24 seconds
14:08
Anil Ananthaswamy
What it takes to do extreme astrophysics
14 minutes 8 seconds
18:30
Dimitar Sasselov
How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets
18 minutes 30 seconds
16:26
Andrea Ghez
The hunt for a supermassive black hole
16 minutes 26 seconds
See all talks on Telescopes