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🗓️ 1 October 2019
⏱️ 37 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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1:18.8 | Imagine... Imagine trying to look at the stars with a telescope. |
1:22.9 | Like, it's nighttime, there's no cloud. |
1:25.4 | You're far away from the city. |
1:31.1 | There's, it's absolute perfect conditions. The sky is just lit up with a million stars and you've got a nice, big, fancy new telescope with one of those motorized mounts and a |
1:36.8 | computer and you just say, go to Orion and it goes to Orion and it's all awesome, right? And you look |
1:42.6 | through the eyepiece and you're ready to go and you look through and you want to see that big zoomed in. |
1:47.6 | Like, it's going to be great. |
1:48.6 | It's going to be great. |
1:49.4 | And then someone walks up to you and shines a giant flashlight right into your face. |
1:58.8 | That would kind of maybe make stargazing a little bit challenging, don't you think? |
2:06.2 | You're wanting to look at the stars, but then there's a giant flashlight right in your face. |
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