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836: Orbit Size Telescopes, Meteors Destroying Satellites, Artificial Gravity | Q&A 186
In this week's Questions and Answers show, I answer what it would take to build a telescope as big as the Earth's orbit around the Sun, why SgrA* seems to have been rolled over on its side, and how we know the age of stars.00:00 Start01:50 [Tatooine] Could we have a telescope the size of Earth's orbit?08:11 [Coruscant] Why is SgrA* rolled over on its side?09:53 [Hoth] How do we know the age of stars?14:19 [Naboo] Could you have a collection of smaller mirrors working together?17:19 [Kamino] Why not build two Uranus missions?19:11 [Bespin] Why do white dwarfs explode at 1.4 times the mass of…
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