Telescopes of Tomorrow | Space Time

Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Super telescopes are coming! Thanks to The Great Courses Plus for sponsoring this episode of Space Time. Try a 30 day trial of The Great Course Plus at http://ow.ly/Fxt1306GoOa NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is now 27 years old, but a new generation of telescopes are on their way. Find out about the James Webb Space Telescope, the Giant Magellan Telescope and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.

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The telescopes of tomorrow will see in infrared and ultraviolet. They will peer through space and scan across time. They will allow us to find new supernovae, spot potentially hazardous asteroids, better understand dark energy and peer into the earliest moments of space time.

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Written by Alexandra Yep and Matt O’Dowd
Hosted by Matt O’Dowd
Produced by Rusty Ward
Graphics by Grayson Blackmon
Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)

Resources:
The James Webb Space Telescope https://jwst.nasa.gov
The Giant Magellan Telescope https://www.gmto.org/
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope https://www.lsst.org

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