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Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids

Can a Telescope see backwards in time?

Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids

Atomic Entertainment Group LLC

Education For Kids, Kids & Family

4.43.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

When and how were Telescopes invented? What do Telescopes allow us to see? Can a Telescope see the origin of the Universe? Have you started your FREE TRIAL of Who Smarted?+ for AD FREE listening, an EXTRA episode every week & bonus content? Sign up right in the Apple app, or directly at WhoSmarted.com and find out why more than 1,000 families are LOVING their subscription! Get official Who Smarted? Merch: tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies and more, at Who Smarted?

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0:00.0

Pts, hey, smarty pants, trusty narrator here.

0:05.5

Right now, I'm someplace super cool with an amazing view.

0:10.1

See if you can guess where I am.

0:11.9

Hint number one, it's nighttime.

0:14.1

Hint number two, I'm at the top of an elevated area.

0:17.5

Hint number three, I'm in a large, dome-shaped building with an open roof and a clear

0:23.1

view of the night sky. And final hint. I'm about to look into an incredible instrument that will

0:29.5

allow me to peer far out into space and see things way up close. So any guesses where I am? Did you say

0:36.7

a space observatory? Nice job if you got that.

0:41.0

And if you said, the lavatory, that's where I'm going next. Okay, next order of business.

0:51.2

I'm here at the space observatory to visit my good friend, Sky.

0:55.0

Besides having a super cool name, Sky also has a super cool job.

1:01.0

She studies planets, stars, and other celestial bodies.

1:05.0

Smarty Pants, what do you think her job is called?

1:08.0

Is it A, an astronaut?

1:10.0

B, a planetologist, or C, an astronomer?

1:14.7

If you said C, an astronomer, you're right. Sky has graciously invited us all to the observatory

1:22.0

to discuss telescopes and some of the progress being made in space exploration.

1:29.4

Why, hello there, trusty.

1:31.7

Glad you and the smarty pants could make it.

1:34.5

Are you kidding? I wouldn't miss this for the entire universe.

1:37.4

In fact, I was hoping to see some of the universe tonight.

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