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Astronomers once gazed upon the night sky and counted every star in the galaxy by hand. The process has evolved since then, but the thirst for celestial knowledge remains the same. Join astrophysicist Emily Levesque for an anecdote-rich jaunt through the technological history of photographing the cosmos and learn about the one constant that makes it all work: human curiosity.
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December 18, 2020 at 3:03 pm
Very interesting story! 🤓
Aryan Malik
December 18, 2020 at 3:03 pm
Ted , plz provide a subtitle of the video so that we can better understand what they r saying
NazAr
December 18, 2020 at 3:34 pm
Isn’t there caption ?
Rhi
December 18, 2020 at 3:40 pm
There are closed captions
Magnamic
December 18, 2020 at 3:05 pm
Amazing presentation. Thank you!
Lukman Maying
December 18, 2020 at 3:17 pm
Great sacrifice, gives greatest success… ☺️
Brahma Astra
December 18, 2020 at 3:21 pm
getting paid just for asking questions……..no answer then ………no answer now
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December 18, 2020 at 3:23 pm
Ok
Nirmala Verma
December 18, 2020 at 3:23 pm
Maza aa gya
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December 18, 2020 at 3:29 pm
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December 18, 2020 at 3:29 pm
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Crazeee Nigrifagritard
December 18, 2020 at 3:30 pm
I look forward to a day when astronomers take astrology over and reclaim their rightful name and birthright.
chas ames
December 18, 2020 at 6:33 pm
Or meteorologists start catching meteors.
See what I’m saying?
Crazeee Nigrifagritard
December 18, 2020 at 8:02 pm
@chas ames and lologists make sure that you loled..
ZesPak
December 18, 2020 at 3:48 pm
11:21 170 000 Light years away? I really thought there wouldn’t be anything there? Isn’t that too far to still be in the Milky Way yet too close to be in another galaxy?
Peter Knutsen
December 18, 2020 at 4:36 pm
Our galaxy, the Milky way, has two small satelite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud.
It’s thought that the Milky Way is around 100k light years in diameter, and our Sun is a little more than half-way out from the center, orbiting it once every 225 million years.
The center of our galaxy is an extremely large black hole – a so-called super-massive black hole.
ZesPak
December 18, 2020 at 8:20 pm
@Peter Knutsen didn’t know about the satellite galaxies, thx! Only knew about the 100 000 lightyear diameter (which would make 170k well outside our “disk”)
KGBz
December 18, 2020 at 4:03 pm
WHY are all Ted speakers just idiots….. Flat earth dopes
Chef Tyler
December 18, 2020 at 4:18 pm
Rip chilean observatory 🙃😭
Hard truth hall
December 18, 2020 at 5:24 pm
Yeah i saw something with the naked eye also 😅 five new planets rise up out of the Southwest night skies and move right over our head and not one word from anyone not even nasa. Oh its a fact. Go look back through the archives . In 2015 it formed a pentagon or pentagram shape.
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December 18, 2020 at 5:30 pm
…less murdery… 🙂
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December 18, 2020 at 5:55 pm
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December 18, 2020 at 6:02 pm
This ted talk gave me goosebumps all the way
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December 18, 2020 at 7:26 pm
For real this is how school should be
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December 18, 2020 at 6:03 pm
Mate,You nailed it as always and this is actually the first time am commenting on your page!🤗 So much love from my side.
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December 18, 2020 at 6:27 pm
Could have listened longer if the presentation style was geared towards adults rather than primary school. What a shame.
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December 18, 2020 at 6:31 pm
I seldom invest 15minutes into a TED Talk. This was time well-spent front to back and top to bottom.
I only follow one person on Twitter; Neil deGrasse Tyson. But I’ll bet he’s a fan on Emily’s.
Zenn Exile
December 18, 2020 at 9:00 pm
Emily is such a breath of fresh air. This is what we want to see TED. No more propaganda videos.
Daniela Arias
December 18, 2020 at 9:43 pm
Vera Rubin
Ssang Lee
December 18, 2020 at 10:21 pm
like ur body shape
Sasha Townsend - Tulsa
December 19, 2020 at 12:31 am
Wonderful. Thank you for your talk. I can imagine that watching this, young people will be inspired to study astronomy, and understand the humanity in the scientific method.
Lord LOC
December 19, 2020 at 2:26 am
I love hearing Emily give her talks. She is such a great science communicator and obviously a great scientist.
Daniel Reher
December 19, 2020 at 2:39 am
This is so cool
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December 19, 2020 at 3:35 am
Fabulous invention to me
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December 19, 2020 at 5:09 am
Can we finally make contact with others? Send message in this direction?
Amy Walker
December 19, 2020 at 5:35 am
Yesss💖🔆🤪
Alika Andrade
December 19, 2020 at 7:25 am
What a talented communicator!
Саша Фадеев
December 19, 2020 at 7:37 am
I came here only to declare my condemnation by the actions of the copyright holder in the Russian segment of YouTube
Hans Landa
December 19, 2020 at 7:50 am
тед превратился в распространитель повесточки и рекламы жырух
Doug Ewald
December 19, 2020 at 7:53 am
Now I finally know how the Lick Observatory got its name. Cool. Thanks Emily.
Natarajan AV
December 19, 2020 at 10:35 am
The way she is excited shows how hard she is in love with Astronomy ♥️
Space Facts Wax
December 19, 2020 at 10:49 am
Thank you for uploading. I had the chance to see a rocket launch in 2018. Memorable experience. I posted a pretty fun video of the journey to my page.
Fatma Elnuzaily
December 19, 2020 at 11:27 am
Amazing talk 😍
Sunil Kumar
December 19, 2020 at 3:16 pm
The interstellar events have nothing to do with our lives. The whole universe is mortal and will end one day.
Guy Incognito
December 19, 2020 at 8:27 pm
Man I kinda forgot how great TED talks can be when their not about things like “the power of unborn black gender non binary handicapped elves”…
Guy Incognito
December 19, 2020 at 8:27 pm
Man I kinda forgot how great TED talks can be when they’re not about things like “the power of unborn black gender non binary handicapped elves”…
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December 20, 2020 at 12:00 am
Strong speech…I cannot wait to see what the new telescope can bring to our knowledge
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Seymour Gull
December 20, 2020 at 3:23 am
the next Neil deGrasse Tyson highly potentially
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December 20, 2020 at 6:24 am
Proud to be in the same UW family!
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December 20, 2020 at 11:12 am
Seek God’s will daily.
John 3:16💞
Proverbs 8:17
Danny C
December 20, 2020 at 3:34 pm
So the Super Nova in this vid was 175,000 light years away, that’s trillions of miles away and It would take millions of years to reach it- was your god the creator of that too?!
Ombremort
December 20, 2020 at 3:04 pm
Ever since I was 5, I wanted to be an astrophysicist. Currently, I’m in high school. Let’s see if I can achieve my goals…
Dana Sam Apigo
December 23, 2020 at 2:36 am
You can do it. Good luck!
Vet Doc
December 20, 2020 at 3:24 pm
Loosing time&money for stuff nobody needs!
Better save this World because its the only one we will ever have.
Selin yalçın
December 20, 2020 at 10:30 pm
Please translate it into Turkish
PhotosbyErnesto
December 21, 2020 at 5:39 am
Very cool and it’s great to see and hear Emily’s enthusiasm and passion for the sky!
Jake Altemail
December 21, 2020 at 10:33 am
The dislikes are from the flat Earthers
Progressive
December 21, 2020 at 6:40 pm
lol
Rubyx Croft
December 21, 2020 at 1:20 pm
Great talk!
Jeremy JJ
December 21, 2020 at 8:26 pm
50 years ago a women giving a speech like this would have been unheard of. It isnt just the tech thats improved but our women granted the means and acceptance of pursuing the wonders of science.
Yugant Beniwal
December 22, 2020 at 6:47 am
What have I learnt from watching all these ted talks?
Me: Every video starts with audience clapping.
Larry Lester
December 22, 2020 at 1:55 pm
Emily Levesque is such a SUPERNOVA GIRL!!!:o
kusum verma
December 24, 2020 at 3:59 pm
This is incredible 💯
just sayin
December 24, 2020 at 7:10 pm
Very inspiring!
adonis heredia
December 24, 2020 at 10:17 pm
Yo miro esto para aprender inglés!. Quien más?