TED Fellow and astronomer Erika Hamden leads the team building FIREBall, a telescope that hangs from a giant balloon at the very edge of space and looks for clues about how stars are created. She […]
At the center of a galaxy more than 55 million light-years away, there's a supermassive black hole with the mass of several billion suns. And now, for the first time ever, we can see it. […]
Our universe is strange, terrific and vast, states astronomer Natasha Hurley-Walker. A spaceship cannot carry you into its depths (yet)– but a radio telescope can. In this mesmerizing talk, Hurley-Walker shows how she probes the […]
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