Building LISA, Humanity's Biggest Telescope

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Fraser Cain
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Published5 months ago
Duration53:43
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🔴 [Interview+] No YT ads https://studio.youtube.com/video/AUS8A9J3d5g Gravitational waves revolutionised Astronomy. But LIGO, VIRGO and KAGRA only operate in one spectrum. To detect longer waves we need bigger telescopes. Much bigger. Ones that don't fit on Earth. That is where LISA comes in, which will be humanity's biggest telescope. 🟣 Guest: Dr. Stefano Vitale  https://www.metroaerospace.org/mas2018/plenary-speaker-stefano-vitale 00:00 Intro 02:43 The evolution of gravitational wave search 05:33 Proving the concept with LISA Pathfinder 15:34 What will LISA see? 31:09 What are the next steps for LISA? 43:17 What happens after LISA? 50:02 Current obsessions 51:43 Final Thoughts 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE NEWSLETTER Read by 70,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe for Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

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