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Under our Night Sky

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Using a Radio Telescope

I love being an invisible astronomer. It's great fun. There are so many different invisible colors out there that human beings haven't volved to see, because mostly our atmosphere actually absorbs a lot of those things. Not radio, but er. We'd have to have gigantic eyes if we wanted to see radio,. You know, it it's, it's really interesting to be able to see and study things that that light simply cannot allow us to see. So we can see very, very distant galaxies, for example, er. And we can really start to study the dark and dusty regions of our galaxy.

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