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Black Hole Bonanza: StarTalk Live! With Janna Levin and Jenny Greene

StarTalk Radio

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The Infrared Goggles of the James Webb Space Telescope

As the universe expands, the light gets stretched out. By the time it reaches our telescope, it's redder than when it left its galaxy. So we need these infrared goggles. Thank God we don't have that technology for actual children. We are exploiting this. Magnifying effects of Einstein's general relativity in the distortion in the fabric of space and time to see where even that telescope would not have seen without that cluster.

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