AaS! 113: Is the James Webb Space Telescope worth the wait?
Ask a Spaceman!
Paul M. Sutter
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🗓️ 1 October 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Why is infrared astronomy so hard? How do we fit giant telescopes into tiny rockets? What will the James Webb uncover? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine trying to look at the stars with a telescope. |
| 0:12.5 | Like, it's nighttime, there's no cloud. |
| 0:16.1 | You're far away from the city. |
| 0:18.7 | There's, it's absolute perfect conditions. |
| 0:22.0 | The sky is just lit up with a million stars, |
| 0:24.6 | and you've got a nice, big, fancy new telescope |
| 0:27.8 | with one of those motorized mounts and a computer, |
| 0:30.3 | and you just say, go to Orion, and it goes to Orion, |
| 0:33.1 | and it's all awesome, right? |
| 0:35.1 | And you look through the eyepiece, and you're ready to go, |
| 0:37.4 | and you look through, and you want to see that big zoomed in. |
| 0:40.5 | Like, it's going to be great. |
| 0:41.5 | It's going to be great. |
| 0:42.1 | And then someone walks up to you and shines a giant flashlight right into your face. |
| 0:51.8 | That would kind of maybe make stargazing a little bit challenging, don't you think? |
| 0:59.2 | You're wanting to look at the stars, but then there's a giant flashlight right in your face. |
| 1:03.3 | You can only do stargazing when it's dark. |
| 1:06.8 | That's why we do it at night, because there is no sun to get in the way of all the stars. That was why we do it away from cities, so there's no city lights. That's why we do it at night because there is no sun to get in the way of all the stars. |
| 1:11.3 | That was why we do it away from cities, so there's no city lights. |
| 1:14.1 | That's why we don't do it with supposed friends shining flashlights in your face when you're trying to do this. |
| 1:20.8 | You have to do it dark. |
| 1:21.8 | You have to get rid of the light pollution if you want to do some stargazing. |
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