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Explore "space telescopes" with insightful episodes like "Welcome to the Dark Side", "A thrilling era for space discovery", "Who Gets The First Peek At The Secrets Of The Universe?", "What’s the James Webb telescope searching for?" and "The Sunday Read: 'The Woman Who Might Find Us Another Earth'" from podcasts like ""NASA's Curious Universe", "Make Me Smart", "Short Wave", "Unexplainable" and "The Daily"" and more!

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Welcome to the Dark Side

Normal matter—the kind that makes up our home planet and everything we can see—adds up to just five percent of the known universe. The other 95 percent is dark matter and dark energy, a tag team that ranks among the biggest mysteries in all of science. NASA astrophysicists Jason Rhodes and Ami Choi explain how we study this dark side and why it’s making scientists reconsider what we think we know about the universe. NASA's Curious Universe is an official NASA podcast. Discover more adventures with NASA astronauts, engineers, scientists, and other experts at nasa.gov/curiousuniverse

NASA's Curious Universe

enNovember 07, 2023

A thrilling era for space discovery

NASA recently celebrated one orbit around the Sun since the James Webb Space Telescope became operational. On the show today, Caitlin Casey, professor of astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, is back to share some of the exciting discoveries her team has made in the first year of the $10 billion machine’s mission. She’ll also fill us in on the buzz over gravitational waves. Plus, why learning about the seemingly incomprehensible cosmos can keep us grounded.

Later, we’ll discuss dueling op-eds that arrive at the same conclusion: Immigration is good for the economy. Then, a listener calls in with a cocktail recipe, and a tortoise with the hiccups inspires this week’s answer to the Make Me Smart question.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “12 amazing James Webb Space Telescope discoveries across the universe” from Space

- “Webb telescope discovers oldest galaxies ever observed” from Phys

- “New 3D Visualization Highlights 5,000 Galaxies Revealed by Webb” from NASA

- “The James Webb Space Telescope is out of this world” from “Make Me Smart”

- “America’s Choice: Immigration or Bust” from The Wall Street Journal

- “Opinion | The left needs to win, not duck, the immigration debate” from The Washington Post

- “UPS Reaches Tentative Deal With Teamsters to Head Off Strike” from The New York Times

- “IMF raises global growth forecast despite China’s recovery ‘losing steam'” from CNBC

- “Nike is coming out with a soccer cleat specifically for women” from NPR

- “Boots and balls made for men an injury risk to women footballers” from BBC News

We want to hear your answer to the Make Me Smart question. You can reach us at makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.

Make Me Smart

enJuly 26, 2023

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Who Gets The First Peek At The Secrets Of The Universe?

The James Webb Space Telescope is by far the most powerful space-based telescope ever deployed by the United States. But it is only one instrument, and scientists all over the world have to share. The JWST's managers received more than 1,600 research proposals for what the telescope should look at.

When an astronomer or a team does get some much-coveted telescope time, they currently get exclusive access to whatever data they collect for a full year. But there is a movement in astronomy to make most results open-access right away. That might speed up the pace of scientific discoveries and open up the data to a much wider set of researchers. On the other hand, some astronomers worry that instant open access would mostly benefit researchers who already have advantages.

In this episode, NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce talks with Short Wave scientist in residence Regina G. Barber, who has firsthand experience competing for telescope time, about who gets dibs on the data, and how that could affect equity in astronomy.

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Short Wave

en-usFebruary 07, 2023

What’s the James Webb telescope searching for?

A lava planet, life on other worlds, the very first starlight in the universe — the most powerful space telescope ever built is ready to reveal many mysteries of the cosmos. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! unexplainable@vox.com We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Unexplainable

enJuly 20, 2022

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The Sunday Read: 'The Woman Who Might Find Us Another Earth'

On today’s episode of “The Sunday Read,” we tell the story of a woman who has spent her life trying to find the light of other worlds. We hope it can offer an escape when our own feels so dark.

This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.

enApril 19, 2020

Cosmic Queries: Telescopes

In this Cosmic Queries episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson answers fan questions about radio and microwave telescopes, from the Hubble to the VLA to the James Webb Space Telescope.

en-usMarch 28, 2013

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Episodes (6)

Welcome to the Dark Side

A thrilling era for space discovery

Who Gets The First Peek At The Secrets Of The Universe?

What’s the James Webb telescope searching for?

The Sunday Read: 'The Woman Who Might Find Us Another Earth'

Cosmic Queries: Telescopes