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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!
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.
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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.
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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.
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