Telescopes

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of telescopes.

Talks about Telescopes

15:25

Natasha Hurley-Walker

How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies

Posted Apr 2017
12:51

Katie Bouman

How to take a picture of a black hole

Posted Apr 2017
13:46

Tabetha Boyajian

The most mysterious star in the universe

Posted Apr 2016
5:25 Under 6 minutes

Aomawa Shields

How we'll find life on other planets

Posted Jan 2016
15:38

Wendy Freedman

This telescope might show us the beginning of the universe

Posted Aug 2015
16:14

Sara Seager

The search for planets beyond our solar system

Posted May 2015
4:19 Under 6 minutes

Jedidah Isler

How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe

Posted Apr 2015
17:39

Andrew Connolly

What's the next window into our universe?

Posted Sep 2014
6:38

Jeremy Kasdin

The flower-shaped starshade that might help us detect Earth-like planets

Posted Apr 2014
4:24 Under 6 minutes

Lucianne Walkowicz

Finding planets around other stars

Posted Aug 2011
14:08

Anil Ananthaswamy

What it takes to do extreme astrophysics

Posted Apr 2011
18:30

Dimitar Sasselov

How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets

Posted Jul 2010
16:26

Andrea Ghez

The hunt for a supermassive black hole

Posted Dec 2009
15:52

Garik Israelian

How spectroscopy could reveal alien life

Posted Oct 2009
21:23

Jill Tarter

Join the SETI search

Posted Feb 2009
19:00

George Smoot

The design of the universe

Posted Nov 2008
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