A Deep Dive Into The Bizarre Future of Telescopes

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Hoping to see deeper into the universe, scientists and engineers are designing some of the largest and weirdest telescopes ever conceived. Come with our guest host Astro Alexandra on a tour of the telescopes of the future.

Hosted by: Astro Alexandra

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:56 Advantages of utilizing multiple telescopes for comprehensive astronomical research
4:51 The Extremely Large Telescope and the Giant Magellan Telescope
10:36 The Square Kilometer Array Observatory and interferometry
13:58 SPACE TELESCOPES!
14:52 Origins
17:43 LUVOIR
19:47 Habex
21:40 Athena
24:07 SPIDER
25:29 Lunar Crater Radio Telescope
28:57 Sun Based Telescope
30:13 How Telescope technology has changed
31:35 Outro

Correction:
26:40 The image here is actually Opportunity, not Perseverance.
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49 thoughts on “A Deep Dive Into The Bizarre Future of Telescopes”

  2. I hate “human hair” size comparisons in these videos. I fully understand WHY you do it. It’s to make it more relatable to the masses. But, please also start including the ACTUAL measurements with the ACTUAL deviations for us science aficionados? It’s OK, we can handle it. Thank you! – Science Geeks

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  7. I can't with this style of superpolished editing and method speaking. Very professional. And good for everyone who likes it!

    I watch a lot of stuff, interestingly Sci show stands out in this respect, almost AI-like narration that just isn't for me. Well, I better go watch that other stuff then, bye & cheers!

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  11. I want to see a ridiculous headline with maximum repeats of an abbreviations: "At 9:33pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) the GMT (Giant Magellan Telescope) was observing the GMT (Galactic Microwave Topography) and discovered a GMT (Gravitational Micro Turbulence) event in progress!" 🤣

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  15. 700 petabytes a year? for scientists all over the world? lmao good luck with that…. we will have to mail the data to scientists around the world because our internet, in particular upload, is worse that most 3rd world countries…… Australia is trying to fly before it learns to crawl.

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  24. Vera Rubin Observatory absolutely deserves a mention here! Astro Alexandra did a wonderful job covering the breadth of different telescope technology, and is a great presenter and communicator – would love to see more long form content from her! <3 Vera Rubin, in my opinion though, is more exciting than all of these covered in this video – whilst it's yet another ground-based optical telescope, it brings two game-changing features – constant observation across the whole night sky, and an acompanying alert system for when it notices things changing. This isn't just exciting for academics, but for amateur stargazers, who will be asbolutely vital in following up these alerts and diving deep into the changes detected. Be it new intersellar comets passing through the solar system, or new super nova, Vera Rubin opens the door for not just fantastic discoveries, but for yet more amazing citizen science! <3

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  25. NSF sent the groups of scientists working on those mirrors that they have to pick between 1 or the other as they can’t find both any more. I believe this happened recently.

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  34. The observable universe expanding faster and faster seems like such an easy thing to answer. As it gets bigbecause the light outside, it is finally reaching our eyes a bigger circle. We'll move faster than a smaller circle. Even if they're actually moving at the same speed, it will appear faster. So it's not actually getting faster faster. It just appears faster and faster. Because we're so tiny and it's so big. As it gets bigger, it will just seem faster.

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  38. 7:00 That's crazy!!

    And, thank you for using the correct phrasing to describe the relationship…

    One one-thousandth the width of; Not: A thousand times smaller than…

    It's hard to believe that an educational YTer finally said it right!

    😆

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  42. I looove just how weird and creative the little bits stack up to solve similar problems. This is why science should be free for people to learn from, and together we can build a wondrous future.

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  45. Not to seem a luddite (I have always been into science) but exactly how, as a species, do we benefit from these multi-$Billon science projects? I can see the utility of exploring physics and chemistry. The more we know about how things go together the better we can be at making the things we need or want. So basic research is ultimately useful and worth the expense. But how do we as a species benefit from research into astrophysics? Please help me to understand. (Now let the opprobrium begin from all the people who did not read my introductory sentences and consider me to be merely an anti-science luddite.)

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  48. I am easily distracted by how pretty she is. She is super professional, the fault is entirely mine, I keep getting lost in admiration. I can barely remember anything about the actual information covered.

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