Dr. J and the World’s Biggest Telescope

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Joe Liske, host of Hubblecast, is also the top scientist on the European Southern Observatory’s European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), now under construction on a Chilean mountaintop. “Dr. J” tells us what this largest ever telescope will help us discover.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Biggest Telescope Yet, this week on planetary radio.
0:05.0	Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.
0:12.0	I'm at Kaplan to the Final Frontier.
0:12.8	I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.
0:15.4	Our guest this week is Dr. J.
0:17.7	No, not Julius, though you'll hear another basketball reference soon.
0:22.0	You may know our Dr. J is the host of
0:23.9	Hubblecast, but Joe Liska is also acting program scientist for the
0:28.6	European Extremely Large Telescope, Queen of the new generation of
0:33.1	superscopes now being built.
0:35.7	Bill Nye shares his thoughts about the near-miss by SpaceX as it tried to
0:40.0	soft land a Falcon 9 first stage at sea. And Bruce Betts goes Hoygen's happy in our
0:45.9	What's Up segment. Here with her regular update is the Planetary Society's senior
0:50.6	editor Emily Loch Tawala. Welcome back, Emily.
0:54.0	Where will we start around the solar system today?
0:56.0	I think we have to start on Mars and just congratulate the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity
1:01.3	team for reaching the top of the mountain.
1:04.0	Who knew opportunity would be a mountain climber?
1:05.7	And now she's on the top of Cape Tribulation,
1:08.1	taking a massive panorama.
1:09.8	It's going to be amazing.
1:10.9	Almost 11 Earth years in. It is pretty amazing. And she's got
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