Chris Barrow
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910 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Jun
Chris Barrow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're creating brand new stars.
So this patch of sky that we're looking at here, I want you to imagine you're holding your arm outstretched and you've got your two fingers pointed up.
So this patch of sky is about the size of your two fingernails and a bit of the top of your finger.
You might think that's a small patch of sky, but in astronomy terms, that's a big patch of sky.
Now, Euclid managed to do that in a day.
It would have taken 270 times longer to do that with the Hubble Space Telescope.
And that's just because Euclid's got this really wide view of the universe.
And because it's up above the Earth's atmosphere, which makes everything blurred out when we look with our telescopes from the ground, we can resolve all of the details of the stars in this dense region of our own Milky Way galaxy.
Professor Catherine Haymans there.
And that's all from us for now.
If you'd like to get in touch, though, do email us.
It's globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.
You can also find us on X at BBC World Service and use the hashtag Global News Pod.
Also, don't forget our sister podcast, The Global Story.
That goes in-depth and beyond the headlines on one big story.
This edition of The Global News Podcast was mixed by Chris Ablakwa.
The producers were Helena Burke and Paul Day.
The editor is Karen Martin.
I'm Chris Barrow, and until next time, goodbye.
Esa sent a message asking where they would park their car at the end of the week when they come to us.
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