JPL is NASA's jet propulsion laboratory and it's nestled in the golden hills of Pasadena, California. According to press materials, JPL's function is to engineer and fabricate cool ass shit that's like so dope. A little girl came up to me and she was probably like eight or something and she asked me if I work for NASA. "I don't work for NASA, but I am an astrophysicist," he said.
Stars. Black holes. THE GAWDANG UNIVERSE. Astrophysicist and cosmologist Katie Mack (@astrokatie) joins to tell us her most embarrassing moments as a cosmologist, to debunk some physicist myths and give the nuts + bolts of everything form particle physics to gravitational waves and existential mysteries. Walk away with cocktail party comprehension of everything from the itty-bitty quarks that make you to the neutron stars banging together across the cosmos. More than anything, get perspective about your life on this, our little pale blue dot.
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