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Listen Again: Through The Looking Glass

TED Radio Hour

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Using Telescopes for Astronomy

The first instances of using telescopes for astronomy began just a few years after the last naked eye super nova. We can venture into uncharted territory and ask questions we didn't even know we had. Where did we come from? S universe going? What is our place in because sometimes big discoveries only happen if we're willing to fall down the rabbit hole. I just about fainted iangov u, something to reach for. But first, back to emily leve. She says that long before oscar duhalday spotted the super nova with his naked astronomers were using something almost as primitive to make sense of the sky - small plates of glass.

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