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The John Batchelor Show

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The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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This is

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is CBS, I and the world, behind the black. I'm John Bachelor with Bob Zimmerman

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and we take a look at astronomy, big astronomy. Now Bob in the past has been not thrilled by big

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astronomy because it builds these enormously expensive telescopes that can't find

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homes.

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Bob is it doing better?

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This really isn't, sorry, John, this really isn't about big astronomy.

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This is about the fundamentals of astronomy itself.

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I had a work of the Hubble Space Telescope

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this really interesting picture of a baby star

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and the nebula that surrounds it.

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And the picture is really hard to figure out what you're looking at.

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It's its nebula streams and jets and a bright

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star, but it doesn't really appear to have a coherent arrangement. And so I posted and I posted the description that scientists have what they think they're looking at and the point of this is that astronomy as a fundamental problem.

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When you, when they, when they look at an object, they only can see it from one angle.

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They can't take a walk around and see it from multiple angles to try to understand what the

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three-dimensional shape of the object is.

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And so when you get an object like this,

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almost all the work has to do with trying to disentangling

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and figuring out what you're looking at.

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And this is a fundamental call of all astronomy that must be

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recognized when you look when you deal with any astronomical research. So let's go to

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