Cosmic Queries: Telescopes

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this Cosmic Queries episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson answers fan questions about radio and microwave telescopes, from the Hubble to the VLA to the James Webb Space Telescope.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:21.0	On your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist,
0:25.0	and this is Star Talk.
0:31.0	Colin Joes, Colin. Welcome to Star Talk.
0:34.0	It's great to be here, Neil.
0:35.0	So you wrote for Saturday Night Live some years ago, do you still?
0:38.0	I've been there seven years now.
0:40.0	So you're still there?
0:41.0	Yeah, I'm still there. I'm one of the supervising writers there now,
0:43.0	and it's been great. Yeah, it's been a good run.
0:45.0	Excellent, excellent. And I did a little bit of homework on you.
0:48.0	So you were comedian, dude, in college as well.
0:51.0	Yeah, I worked for this magazine called The Harvard Lampoon.
0:54.0	This magazine called.
0:56.0	We're, you know, Conan O'Brien and people started out.
0:59.0	And so I did that basically way more than I did any of my classes,
1:03.0	including my astronomy class.
1:05.0	So you flunked out of school is what you're telling me here.
1:08.0	All the great ones.
1:09.0	Yeah, through. I got through.
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