Brad Milkey
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7,988 appearances
48 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5d ago
Brad Milkey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A field of view, meaning this can get an image of a part of the sky that shows you a hundred times more context, a hundred times more of the universe than Hubble ever did.
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And with all that extra data, scientists will see a lot more stuff.
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They're hoping they can make new discoveries about how the universe is not just expanding, but expanding faster, about dark matter, the stuff that makes up a huge chunk of the universe despite us never being able to see it, and this will be able
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To see these tiny little specks next to all those stars.
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Those are exoplanets revolving around their own suns.
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Many of them.
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Matthew says every day this telescope will be capable of sending home more than a terabyte of data, a thousand gigabytes beamed from a million miles away.
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All that, NASA says, will be quickly shared with the scientific community.
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So once it's processed,
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But even if you're not one of those researchers, even if you're not sure what the images are telling us, even if you don't care this is the rare government project that finished nine months early and under budget, a fact NASA is very proud of.
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Well, there's also the human story, the person this telescope was named after.
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She was called the mother of Hubble.
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Nancy Grace Roman was born in nineteen twenty five, the daughter of a geophysicist.
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At eleven, she started an astronomy club at school.
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She became a researcher and was eventually asked to work at this new space program at a place called NASA.
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Along the way, she was lobbying whoever she could, the powers that be, saying our best telescopes shouldn't be on the ground.
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They should be up in space.
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She is the
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Her namesake now begins a five-year mission.
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It could conceivably go ten years or even longer.
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