A new telescope that came online within the last six years is LIGO, the laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory. Daniel Johansson wants to know what other wavelengths or types of telescopes could bring us new views on the universe in the future. Baron Amin from Florida says if you had to design any instrument to begin answering more complex questions, what would be the ideal properties it would have?
What does space sound like? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Matt Kirshen explore space sonification projects and Chandra x-ray data with astronomy visualization expert Kimberly Arcand. Hear what the supermassive black hole at the center of The Milky Way sounds like…
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