102 Adventures in Astronomy | Emily Levesque
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Astronomy sounds like an awesome career choice — spend your nights sitting under the stars with a massive telescope finding new astronomical objects in the sky. But that's only the half of it, there's so much more...
In this episode I'm joined by Emily Levesque, astronomer and author of the book, The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers.
Emily shares how astronomers in this scrappy and evolving field are going beyond the machines to infuse creativity and passion into the stars and space and inspires us all to peer skyward in pursuit of the universe's secrets.
Tune in to learn…
-What an astronomers sees when they look though a telescope,
-What it's like to work at observatories in extremely remote areas,
-How easy it is to ruin a night of observing,
-What astronomers do most of the time (it's not looking through telescopes),
-About the guy who shot a telescope,
-About the telescope mounted in the back of a modified 747 plane,
-& so much more!
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Visit https://thelaststargazers.com/ for more info
Find Emily on Twitter: @emsque
And visit her website: https://www.emlevesque.com
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| 0:00.0 | A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview. |
| 0:07.9 | Hello and welcome to the 1002nd episode of Curiosityness. |
| 0:13.2 | I am Travis DeRose, the host, and welcome to the show where we learn about stuff that you might be curious to learn about. |
| 0:21.3 | And that's why I have on Emily Levick in this episode. |
| 0:25.1 | Emily is the author of a book called The Last Stargazers, and she's also an astronomer. |
| 0:30.1 | So astronomy's cool. |
| 0:32.0 | I think we can all admit that. |
| 0:33.4 | It's pretty awesome. |
| 0:34.3 | Everyone loves looking up at the stars, especially when you get to look through a telescope too. |
| 0:38.3 | But it's like this is kind of a behind the scenes look at what it's like to actually be an astronomer. |
| 0:44.8 | Like, are you actually looking through telescopes all night? Is that your whole job just sitting there looking at it? |
| 0:50.9 | Not really. There's a lot more to it. That's actually like a really small part of the job. |
| 0:55.8 | So it's really interesting to learn about kind of the behind the scene stuff of what's going on for an |
| 1:00.9 | astronomer, like visiting these remote observatories and that kind of stuff where you're not |
| 1:08.4 | even allowed to turn the headlights of your car on because they need to keep the light pollution down. And Emily just has a ton of really fun stories |
| 1:16.6 | about like a guy who shot a telescope that a telescope mounted on the back of a 747 plane. |
| 1:22.3 | It's crazy. And just all the crap that can go wrong to ruin a night of observing, it's |
| 1:27.1 | frustrating. |
| 1:28.2 | But I'm going to stop talking now. |
| 1:30.5 | We can get to the episode with Emily because she does a really great job of sharing this stuff and making it super fun. |
| 1:36.6 | So without further ado, here is episode 102 with Emily Leveck. |
| 1:43.7 | Okay, we're going. It's on. How you doing, Emily? |
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