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Astronomers once gazed upon the night sky and counted every star in the galaxy by hand. The process has evolved since then, but the thirst for celestial knowledge remains the same. Join astrophysicist Emily Levesque for an anecdote-rich jaunt through the technological history of photographing the cosmos and learn about the one constant that makes it all work: human curiosity.
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claim your “here within an hour” ticket right hereeeeeeeeeeee
Magnanimous
eArLy
The greatest men in the world have failed more than you have tried
That hits me in the neck
wjy
why
“I’ve never failed in my life. But I have discovered 10,000 things that don’t work.” -All sorts of people
Ted , plz provide a subtitle of the video so that we can better understand what they r saying
Isn’t there caption ?
There are closed captions
Amazing presentation. Thank you!
Great sacrifice, gives greatest success… ☺️
I look forward to a day when astronomers take astrology over and reclaim their rightful name and birthright.
Or meteorologists start catching meteors.
See what I’m saying?
@chas ames and lologists make sure that you loled..
11:21 170 000 Light years away? I really thought there wouldn’t be anything there? Isn’t that too far to still be in the Milky Way yet too close to be in another galaxy?
Our galaxy, the Milky way, has two small satelite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud.
It’s thought that the Milky Way is around 100k light years in diameter, and our Sun is a little more than half-way out from the center, orbiting it once every 225 million years.
The center of our galaxy is an extremely large black hole – a so-called super-massive black hole.
@Peter Knutsen didn’t know about the satellite galaxies, thx! Only knew about the 100 000 lightyear diameter (which would make 170k well outside our “disk”)
…less murdery… 🙂
Thank you for a very informative lecture. It was most enjoyable!
Cheers Gray
Australia
This ted talk gave me goosebumps all the way
For real this is how school should be
Could have listened longer if the presentation style was geared towards adults rather than primary school. What a shame.
like ur body shape