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Airs
on PBS April 10, 2009
10:00pm Pacific Time/Eastern Time,
9:00pm Central Time/Mountain Time
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Galileo
peers through his telescope in a still from the
documentary 400 Years of the Telescope.
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Adam Reiss, Ph.D., Professor of
Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, describes
his team's startling
discovery that the expansion of the Universe was
actually accelarating, not decreasing, in
400 Years of the Telescope.
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Christopher Corbally, Ph.D., S.J.,
Vice Director at the
Vatican Observatory, describes the church’s
reaction to Galileo’s discoveries, in 400
Years of the Telescope.
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Lawrence Krauss, Ph.D., Professor
of Earth and
Space Exploration at Arizona State University,
explains "dark energy" in 400 Years
of the
Telescope. Behind him is the Kitt Peak National
Observatory (KPNO), located above Sonoran Desert
on the Tohono O'Odham Reservation near
Tuscon, Arizona
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Steven Beckwith, Ph.D., VP for Research
at the
University of California, Immediate Past Director
Hubble Space Telescope Science Institution, and current
Advisory Board Chairman, describes the incredible
in-space Hubble optic repair in 400 Years
of the Telescope.
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Mark Giampapa, Ph.D., Deputy Director,
National Solar Observatory, explains the significance
of Galileo’s discoveries in 400 Years
of the Telescope.
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Wendy Freedman, Ph. D., Director
of the Carnegie
Institute Washington Observatories, describes the
discoveries of Edwin Hubble, in 400 Years
of the Telescope.
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Owen Gingerich, Ph.D., Professor
Emeritus of Astronomy and of the History of Science
at Harvard University at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics explains Copernicus’ view of
the heavens in 400 Years of the Telescope.
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Galileo's
early discovery of moons orbiting the planet
Jupiter unlocked mysteries of the universe that
remain significant today.
(photo
credit: JPL 1979)
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Gemini
Observatory: Northern Operations Center,
located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on the summit
of the large dormant volcano, Mauna Kea, in Hawaii,
is one of the sites visited in 400 Years
of the Telescope.
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Kitt
Peak National Observatory (KPNO), located
above Sonoran Deserton the Tohono O'Odham
Reservation near Tuscon, Arizona is one of the sites
visited in 400 Years of the Telescope.
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The
South African Astronomical Observatory
(SAAO), located near Sutherland, South Africa, is
one of the sites visited in 400 Years
of the Telescope.
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The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
(CFHT), located near the Mauna Kea Observatory on
the volcano
Mauna Kea in Hawaii is one of the sites visited in
400 Years of the Telescope.
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