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The Future of Space Telescopes

The Kepler mission has determined that terrestrial planets are extremely common, and may orbit most stars in the Milky Way. But these planets are difficult to directly image because they’re dense and small. Our Sun is about ten billion times brighter than Earth. Train a distant telescope on us, and it will be overwhelmed by the Sun’s rays. So how can we find terrestrial planets around stars light
Season 3 Episode 40 Length 10:34 Premiere: 09/20/17

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The Missing Mass Mystery
S3 E45 Length 11:02 Premiere Date 10/25/17

The Nature of Nothing
S3 E44 Length 11:29 Premiere Date 10/19/17

Absolute Cold
S3 E43 Length 07:04 Premiere Date 10/11/17

When Quasars When Quasars Collide STJC
S3 E42 Length 10:22 Premiere Date 10/04/17

Are the Fundamental Constants Changing?
S3 E41 Length 11:12 Premiere Date 09/28/17

The Future of Space Telescopes
S3 E40 Length 10:34 Premiere Date 09/20/17

Neutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?
S3 E39 Length 11:27 Premiere Date 09/13/17

White Holes
S3 E38 Length 12:25 Premiere Date 08/30/17

First Detection of Life
S3 E37 Length 10:34 Premiere Date 08/24/17

Extraterrestrial Superstorms
S3 E36 Length 10:49 Premiere Date 08/16/17

The One-Electron Universe
S3 E35 Length 09:11 Premiere Date 08/10/17

Dark Flow
S3 E34 Length 12:29 Premiere Date 08/02/17

The Secrets of Feynman Diagrams
S3 E33 Length 12:05 Premiere Date 07/26/17

The Real Star Wars
S3 E32 Length 12:38 Premiere Date 07/19/17

Solving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory
S3 E31 Length 11:52 Premiere Date 07/12/17

Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths
S3 E30 Length 11:39 Premiere Date 07/07/17

The First Quantum Field Theory
S3 E29 Length 12:15 Premiere Date 06/28/17

Anti-Matter and Quantum Relativity
S3 E28 Length 11:20 Premiere Date 06/21/17

Supervoids vs Colliding Universes!
S3 E27 Length 10:41 Premiere Date 06/07/17

The Fate of the First Stars
S3 E26 Length 10:47 Premiere Date 05/31/17

Martian Evolution
S3 E25 Length 10:39 Premiere Date 05/17/17

The Great American Eclipse
S3 E24 Length 08:55 Premiere Date 05/10/17

Are We Living in an Ancestor Simulation? ft. Neil deGrasse T
S3 E23 Length 12:16 Premiere Date 05/03/17

Are You a Boltzmann Brain?
S3 E22 Length 10:20 Premiere Date 04/26/17

The Oh My God Particle
S3 E21 Length 09:38 Premiere Date 04/19/17

Telescopes on the Moon
S3 E20 Length 09:11 Premiere Date 04/05/17

How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole
S3 E19 Length 10:56 Premiere Date 03/29/17

Superluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
S3 E18 Length 10:40 Premiere Date 03/22/17

Time Crystals!
S3 E17 Length 09:36 Premiere Date 03/15/17

The Race to a Habitable Exoplanet - Time Warp Challenge
S3 E16 Length 05:12 Premiere Date 03/08/17

The Treasures of Trappist-1
S3 E15 Length 08:47 Premiere Date 03/01/17

The Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!
S3 E14 Length 09:39 Premiere Date 02/22/17

Telescopes of Tomorrow
S3 E13 Length 09:49 Premiere Date 02/15/17

The Geometry of Causality
S3 E12 Length 10:34 Premiere Date 02/02/17

Why Quasars are so Awesome
S3 E11 Length 10:03 Premiere Date 01/25/17

The Phantom Singularity
S3 E10 Length 12:13 Premiere Date 01/19/17

The EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?
S3 E9 Length 09:29 Premiere Date 01/11/17

How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer
S3 E8 Length 11:01 Premiere Date 01/04/17

Have They Seen Us?
S3 E7 Length 13:02 Premiere Date 12/21/16

Escape The Kugelblitz Challenge
S3 E6 Length 07:51 Premiere Date 12/14/16

Pilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism
S3 E5 Length 12:18 Premiere Date 11/30/16

Strange Stars
S3 E4 Length 09:49 Premiere Date 11/16/16

Did Dark Energy Just Disappear?
S3 E3 Length 12:14 Premiere Date 11/09/16

What Happens at the Event Horizon?
S3 E2 Length 11:23 Premiere Date 11/08/16

Quantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Challenge Answers
S3 E1 Length 09:02 Premiere Date 11/02/16

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