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Turning the Sun Into a Giant Telescope with Dr. Slava Turyshev1:03:49

Turning the Sun Into a Giant Telescope with Dr. Slava Turyshev

33K views • 4 years ago
Fraser Cain
Fraser Cain interviews JPL physicist Slava Turyshev about using the Sun's gravity as a lens to image distant exoplanets. They cover how the lens works, how a spacecraft would align with it, and mission design.
The Pope's Astronomer - Sixty Symbols36:11

The Pope's Astronomer - Sixty Symbols

157K views • 6 years ago
Sixty Symbols
Brady Haran interviews Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory, for Sixty Symbols. It is part of a three-video set along with the observatory's telescopes and its meteorite collection.