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Listen Again: Through The Looking Glass

TED Radio Hour

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The Hubble Space Telescope

Hubbel made this discovery almost a hundred years ago, but the images that we have of and Andromeda to day are so different. It's really just amazing how much detail we can now achieve with the observing tools that we have available to us to daye emily levec on the ted stage showing a photo of the vera reuben observatory in chile. This telescope will photograph the entire southern sky every few days over and over, following a preset pattern for ten years. Computers and algaritms affiliated with the observatory will then compare every pair of images taken of the same pa sky, looking for anything that's gotten brighter or dimmer,. Like a variable star,

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