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How do we study the stars? - Yuan-Sen Ting

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Our best technology can send men to the Moon and probes to the edge of our solar system, but these distances are vanishingly small compared to the size of the universe. How then can we learn about the galaxies beyond our own? Yuan-Sen Ting takes us into deep space to show how astronomers study the stars beyond our reach.

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Meet The Creators

  • Educator Yuan-Sen Ting, Amali Vaz, Gautham Narayan
  • Director Tolga Yıldız, Serin İnan
  • Composer Ismail Genc
  • Sound Designer Himalaya Sound
  • Script Editor Alex Gendler
  • Narrator Addison Anderson

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