Total Eclipse and Other Wonders

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🗓️ 6 April 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

From our narrow vantage point on Earth, how can we see what's out there, beyond our skies? We look to how scientists and scholars have studied eclipses, dark matter, deep-space transmissions from intelligent life and more, all in the hopes of painting a clearer picture of a vast and invisible universe.

Original Air Date: August 19, 2017

Interviews In This Hour:

How Eclipse Chasing Inspires Generations of Scientists — How Do We Investigate The Invisible Parts of the Universe? — Search For Life In All The Wrong Places — What Can You Hear In Space? — The Universe Is Under No Obligation To Make Sense To Us

Guests:

David Baron, Priya Natarajan, Seth Shostak, Don Gurnett, Neil deGrasse Tyson

Further Reading:

NASA: 2024 Eclipse Explorer

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0:00.0	It's to the best of our knowledge from PRX.
0:09.8	It's a rare phenomenon, but if you happen to be one of the millions of people in its path,
0:14.8	a solar eclipse is like opening a window directly onto the broader universe.
0:20.5	It's so brief and it's so spectacular.
0:24.1	Most total eclipses last less than three minutes.
0:26.4	So you are suddenly transported to what seems to be this other universe, and then all of a
0:32.6	sudden it's over and you're back where you started and you just want to experience it again.
0:37.0	You're an eclipse junkie.
0:38.7	I am, absolutely.
0:40.7	I'm Anne's Train Champs, and besides chasing eclipses, how else can we see what's beyond our skies?
0:47.7	This hour, striving to see in a vast and invisible universe.
1:08.2	Thank you. in a vast and invisible universe. It's to the best of our knowledge from PRX.
1:11.4	I'm Anne Strange Champs.
1:13.0	What is it like to stand in the path of a total eclipse?
1:17.2	So here I am on this tropical beach, and then all of a sudden, weird things started to happen.
1:25.9	David Barron, he's the author of American Eclipse.
1:30.3	I noticed that daylight looks off and a cool wind kicks up.
1:36.3	Colors were strange.
1:39.3	Shadows had become incredibly sharp like someone had turned up the contrast not on TV.
1:45.0	And then all of a sudden, the lights went out.
1:52.0	And I looked up in the sky and I felt like I had suddenly been transported to another planet.
2:03.6	There was this object I had never seen before.
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