TEDxBucharest - Joe Liske
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Joe is an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching, Germany. He spends much of his time working on the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). This future giant telescope will be Europe's premier ground-based facility in the coming decades and is expected to revolutionize astronomy. Joe is also the host of the succes... Read more
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- -: TEDxBucharest - Joe Liske
January 19, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Joe is an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching, Germany. He spends much of his time working on the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). This future giant telescope will be Europe's premier ground-based facility in the coming decades and is expected to revolutio...
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- -: TEDxVorobyovy-Gory - Vladimir Lipunov - Global Robotized Net Of Celestial Sky Monitoring
April 3, 2011 (about 13 years ago)The astrophysicist Vladimir Lipunov talks about his project MASTER which is robotized network of telescopes spread all over Russia. TEDxVorobyovy-Gory - "Cosmos" - took place on Saturday, March 19th, 2011 at Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow. The year of 2011 named in Russia as The Yea...
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- -: TEDxVorobyovy-Gory - Anatoly Zasov - Birth of new stars
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Anatoly Zasov, astrophysicist, professor of Sternberg Astronomical Institute presents his vision about birth of stars and star systems. TEDxVorobyovy-Gory - "Cosmos" - took place on Saturday, March 19th, 2011 at Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow. The year of 2011 named in Russia as The ...
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- -: Roy Gould: WorldWide Telescope
February 29, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft's Curtis Wong give an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope -- a technology that combines feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the world and the heavens, and weaves them together holistically to buil...
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- -: Andrea Ghez: The hunt for a supermassive black hole
December 3, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com With new data from the Keck telescopes, Andrea Ghez shows how state-of-the-art adaptive optics are helping astronomers understand our universe's most mysterious objects: black holes. She shares evidence that a supermassive black hole may be lurking at the center of the Milky W...
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- -: Dimitar Sasselov: How we found hundreds of Earth-like planets
July 21, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and his colleagues search for Earth-like planets that may, someday, help us answer centuries-old questions about the origin and existence of biological life elsewhere (and on Earth). How many such planets have they found already? Several hundreds. T...
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- -: TEDxMidAtlantic 2011 - Jane Rigby - Putting Telescopes into Space
December 1, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dr. Jane Rigby is an Astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. She serves as Deputy Operations Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope. As a user of the Hubble, Spitzer, Chandra, and Herschel space observatories, and the Keck and Magellan observatories on Earth, her res...
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- -: The Drake Equation and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
July 16, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/03/The_Search_for_Extra-Terrestrial_Life Astronomer Ian Morison explains how scientists assess the likelihood of discovering extraterrestrial life, using a formula called the Drake Equation. ----- Professor Ian Morison describes our attempts to detect ...
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- -: The Hubble Heritage: A Legacy of Images from Deep Space
January 20, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/26/Ian_Morison_400_Years_of_the_Telescope Gresham Professor of Astronomy Ian Morison discusses some of the most memorable images from NASA's nearly 20-year-old Hubble Space Telescope. ----- A lecture to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the first ...
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- -: Hubble's Legacy: Imaging the Beauty of the Universe
June 9, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/02/23/Ian_Morison_Hubbles_Heritage Gresham College astronomy professor Ian Morison presents stunning Hubble Space Telescope images of "the most beautiful objects that we have in our Milky Way and beyond." ----- The lecture considers the legacy of both Edw...
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