A thrilling era for space discovery

Make Me Smart

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🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

NASA recently celebrated one orbit around the Sun since the James Webb Space Telescope became operational. On the show today, Caitlin Casey, professor of astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, is back to share some of the exciting discoveries her team has made in the first year of the $10 billion machine’s mission. She’ll also fill us in on the buzz over gravitational waves. Plus, why learning about the seemingly incomprehensible cosmos can keep us grounded.

Later, we’ll discuss dueling op-eds that arrive at the same conclusion: Immigration is good for the economy. Then, a listener calls in with a cocktail recipe, and a tortoise with the hiccups inspires this week’s answer to the Make Me Smart question.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “12 amazing James Webb Space Telescope discoveries across the universe” from Space

- “Webb telescope discovers oldest galaxies ever observed” from Phys

- “New 3D Visualization Highlights 5,000 Galaxies Revealed by Webb” from NASA

- “The James Webb Space Telescope is out of this world” from “Make Me Smart”

- “America’s Choice: Immigration or Bust” from The Wall Street Journal

- “Opinion | The left needs to win, not duck, the immigration debate” from The Washington Post

- “UPS Reaches Tentative Deal With Teamsters to Head Off Strike” from The New York Times

- “IMF raises global growth forecast despite China’s recovery ‘losing steam'” from CNBC

- “Nike is coming out with a soccer cleat specifically for women” from NPR

- “Boots and balls made for men an injury risk to women footballers” from BBC News

We want to hear your answer to the Make Me Smart question. You can reach us at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.

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