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Transporting the James Williams Face Telescope
The host introduces the panelists and explains the rules of their game while discussing the James Williams face telescope. They speculate on the size of the container holding the telescope and ultimately learn that it was 110 feet long.
What's that you spy on the horizon, just out of sight? If you have a telescope handy, you can hone your gaze on...more telescopes! From pocket spyglasses to Extremely Large (a real telescope name), join us and special guest Julian Huguet as we set our sights on the far-reaching world of these incredible devices. How we wonder what they are...
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[Truth or Fail]
Finding llamas with telescope vibration
Predicting weather with telescopes and clouds
Tracking bees with LIDAR
[Trivia Question]
Space Telescope Transporter for Air, Road, and Sea (or STTARS) length https://www.nasa.gov/universe/how-to-ship-the-worlds-largest-space-telescope-5800-miles-across-the-ocean/
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/follow-the-sttars-to-find-nasas-webb-telescope/
[Fact Off]
Artificial guide stars made from lasers for optical telescopes on Earth
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/811748
https://www.llnl.gov/news/guide-star-leads-sharper-astronomical-images
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/aot-2014-0025/html
Gravitational lensing and turning space itself into a telescope
[Ask the Science Couch]
The history of radio telescopes (first non-optical telescope)
https://massivesci.com/articles/radio-astronomy-sagittarius-karl-jansky/
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/2005ASPC..345....3J
https://public.nrao.edu/news/silent-as-the-night-why-radio-astronomy-doesnt-listen-to-the-sky
https://science.nasa.gov/ems/05_radiowaves/
[Butt One More Thing]
Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) & Gamma-Ray Urgent Archiver for Novel Opportunities (GUANO)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ...900...35T/abstract
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2004-047A
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