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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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