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# | Question | Spoken By |
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1 |
Introduction to the gallery (brief version) |
Exhibit Curator David Devorkin |
2 |
Introduction to the gallery (extended version) |
Exhibit Curator David Devorkin |
3 |
What did Johannes Kepler find out about planetary orbits? |
Astronomer Jay Pasachoff |
4 |
What is this man doing? |
Astronomer Jay Pasachoff |
5 |
Where are Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus? |
Educator Katie Nagy |
10 |
Did Galileo use the telescope to prove that the Earth moves around the Sun? |
Astronomer Owen Gingerich |
11 |
What are some of the telescope's greatest contributions to astronomy? |
Astronomer Owen Gingerich |
12 |
Who invented the telescope? |
Educator Beth Wilson |
13 |
How did Herschel make his map of the Milky Way? |
Educator Beth Wilson |
20 |
What was Henrietta Swan Leavitt's great discovery? |
Educator Beth Wilson |
21 |
How does this blink comparator work? |
Educator Beth Wilson |
22 |
Do astronomers today use blink comparators? |
Educator Beth Wilson |
30 |
Who used this instrument?
|
Educator Shauna Edson |
40 |
What am I looking at? |
Educator Beth Wilson |
41 |
What is a pigeon doing here? |
Exhibit Designer Rebekah Brockway and Educator Katie Nagy |
42 |
What did COBE tell us about the birth of the Universe? |
Astronomer John Mather |
43 |
What are you working on now? |
Astronomer John Mather |
44 |
How does someone get to use a big telescope? |
Astronomer Caty Pilachowski |
45 |
What's it like to observe at the Mayall Telescope? |
Astronomer Caty Pilachowski |
46 |
What research are you doing now? |
Astronomer Caty Pilachowski |
48 |
How do astronomers today use Johannes Kepler's findings about planetary orbits? |
Astronomer Jay Pasachoff |
49 |
Why can I see right through this telescope mirror? (brief version) |
Exhibit Curator David Devorkin |
50 |
Why can I see right through this telescope mirror? (extended version) |
Exhibit Curator David Devorkin |
51 |
What made it possible for you to make the discovery? |
Astronomer Vera Rubin |
52 |
Is being a woman in astronomy an issue for you today? |
Astronomer Vera Rubin |
53 |
What led you to study the large-scale structure of the Universe? |
Astronomer Margaret Geller |
54 |
How did you make this map? |
Astronomer Margaret Geller |
55 |
What questions are there still about the largest structures? |
Astronomer Margaret Geller |
56 |
Why did you build this camera? |
Astronomer Tony Tyson |
57 |
How did this camera contribute to the discovery of dark energy? |
Astronomer Tony Tyson |
60 |
When did you first want to become an astronaut? |
Astronaut John Grunsfeld |
61 |
How many times have you been to the Hubble Space Telescope? |
Astronaut John Grunsfeld |
62 |
What is your responsibility during this mission? |
Astronaut John Grunsfeld |
63 |
What are you taking on this historic flight? |
Astronaut John Grunsfeld |
64 |
Why does the Wide Field Camera have all these holes in it? |
Astronaut John Grunsfeld |