AaS! 146: Astro101 Part 8 - What is the Future of Astronomy?

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Paul M. Sutter

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🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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It’s time for school! The Astro101 series will cover some of the most important questions in astronomy. In today’s lesson, we’ll have: What does it take to have a career in astronomy? What does a professional astronomer actually do? What can you do to help astronomy? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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0:00.0	Welcome back, class. This is our final session of Astro 101. Remember that student presentations begin next week and there will be a final exam.
0:21.9	Check your syllabus for this schedule.
0:23.9	I hope you've been taking notes.
0:25.8	In this series, we've explored all sorts of cool astronomy.
0:31.2	We've talked about so many random astronomy words like right ascension and declination and nucleosynthesis.
0:42.0	We've talked about galaxies evolving. We've talked about the future of the universe. We talked
0:47.7	about stars being born. It's been a really fun series for me. I hope it's been fun for you.
0:54.9	But before I return to your normal, regularly scheduled, random walk through astronomy,
1:04.8	astrophysics, and physics, that is your typical Ask a Space Man experience,
1:09.8	I wanted to close things out today by exploring astronomy.
1:15.1	Not astronomy, like we've done seven episodes on astronomy,
1:19.6	but astronomy is a job in the 21st century
1:22.3	and not some abstract concept that's done by other people.
1:25.6	And I want to talk about some of the challenges
1:28.2	that face modern day astronomy. And I know that some of you who are listening are aspiring
1:34.9	astronomers. I get a lot of questions on social media, especially high schoolers who are
1:40.8	very stressed out, which I suppose is typical for the high school experience.
1:45.9	But like they want to be an astrophysicist. They want to be an astronomer. They want to be a
1:50.3	scientist. And they're trying to set things up because they're looking ahead at college.
1:54.5	And they say, how do I do that? What do I do? Tell me what to do so I can do that thing.
1:59.2	I don't blame you from being stressed out.
2:01.9	Some of your parents of aspiring astronomers.
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