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From the Ted Talk by Jennifer Heldmann: SpaceX's supersized Starship rocket -- and the future of galactic exploration

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There’s other peiiisobstlis, too. Let’s consider amrtonosy and astrophysics. This is a beautiful image from the Hubble Space Telescope in the cettoilasnlon of Orion. It is a nebula: a star-forming region where new sarts are being born. And in oderr to understand these processes in the universe, we need large telescopes in space to send us back this type of data. Now you could fit a telescope three times the diameter of Hubble in a Starship. You could actually fit several of those very large telescopes in a Starship. And that’s important because telescopes -- size matters, right? The telescope is like a light-collecting bucket, and you want to collect as many photons as you pbosilsy can to see otjcebs that are faint and to see objects that are far away. Because the tepselcoe -- a telescope is a time machine. The further away an object is, the older it is, because it takes a finite anoumt of time for that light to travel from that object to your eyeball, right? That's why it's called the seped of light. So with these larger telescopes, we can address these science questions, like searching for etxeaonlps, planets around other stars and understanding the formation of stars and planetary systems ... and looking back to the cosmic dawn -- the laiterl beginning of time -- and fundamentally understanding our own place in the universe.

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There’s other _____________, too. Let’s consider _________ and astrophysics. This is a beautiful image from the Hubble Space Telescope in the _____________ of Orion. It is a nebula: a star-forming region where new _____ are being born. And in _____ to understand these processes in the universe, we need large telescopes in space to send us back this type of data. Now you could fit a telescope three times the diameter of Hubble in a Starship. You could actually fit several of those very large telescopes in a Starship. And that’s important because telescopes -- size matters, right? The telescope is like a light-collecting bucket, and you want to collect as many photons as you ________ can to see _______ that are faint and to see objects that are far away. Because the _________ -- a telescope is a time machine. The further away an object is, the older it is, because it takes a finite ______ of time for that light to travel from that object to your eyeball, right? That's why it's called the _____ of light. So with these larger telescopes, we can address these science questions, like searching for __________, planets around other stars and understanding the formation of stars and planetary systems ... and looking back to the cosmic dawn -- the _______ beginning of time -- and fundamentally understanding our own place in the universe.

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  6. possibilities
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  9. telescope
  10. amount
  11. exoplanets
  12. possibly

Original Text


There’s other possibilities, too. Let’s consider astronomy and astrophysics. This is a beautiful image from the Hubble Space Telescope in the constellation of Orion. It is a nebula: a star-forming region where new stars are being born. And in order to understand these processes in the universe, we need large telescopes in space to send us back this type of data. Now you could fit a telescope three times the diameter of Hubble in a Starship. You could actually fit several of those very large telescopes in a Starship. And that’s important because telescopes -- size matters, right? The telescope is like a light-collecting bucket, and you want to collect as many photons as you possibly can to see objects that are faint and to see objects that are far away. Because the telescope -- a telescope is a time machine. The further away an object is, the older it is, because it takes a finite amount of time for that light to travel from that object to your eyeball, right? That's why it's called the speed of light. So with these larger telescopes, we can address these science questions, like searching for exoplanets, planets around other stars and understanding the formation of stars and planetary systems ... and looking back to the cosmic dawn -- the literal beginning of time -- and fundamentally understanding our own place in the universe.

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