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7:18
Erika Hamden
What it takes to launch a telescope
11:29
Sheperd Doeleman
Inside the black hole image that made history
12:51
Katie Bouman
How to take a picture of a black hole
15:25
Natasha Hurley-Walker
How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies
13:46
Tabetha Boyajian
The most mysterious star in the universe
16:14
Sara Seager
The search for planets beyond our solar system
4:19
Jedidah Isler
How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe
5:25
Aomawa Shields
How we'll find life on other planets
4:48
Wilton L. Virgo
How does your smartphone know your location?
15:38
Wendy Freedman
This telescope might show us the beginning of the universe
6:38
Jeremy Kasdin
The flower-shaped starshade that might help us detect Earth-like planets
17:39
Andrew Connolly
What's the next window into our universe?
4:24
Lucianne Walkowicz
Finding planets around other stars
14:08
Anil Ananthaswamy
What it takes to do extreme astrophysics
18:30
Dimitar Sasselov
How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets
15:52
Garik Israelian
How spectroscopy could reveal alien life
16:26
Andrea Ghez
The hunt for a supermassive black hole
21:23
Jill Tarter
Join the SETI search
19:00
George Smoot
The design of the universe
6:42
Roy Gould + Curtis Wong
A preview of the WorldWide Telescope
16:09
Patricia Burchat
Shedding light on dark matter
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