Erika Hamden: What it takes to launch a telescope
إريكا هامدين: ما الذي يتطلبه إطلاق تلسكوب؟
TED Fellow Erika Hamden builds telescopes, with a focus on the ultraviolet, and develops sensor technology to make telescopes more efficient. Full bio
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number one, they are awesome.
رقم واحد، هي رائعة.
a new thing about the universe,
شيء جديد بخصوص الفضاء،
لرؤية الكون
from an idea into orbit.
من مجرد فكرة إلي المدار.
because I live it.
almost all the time and still keep going,
في أغلب الأحيان ومازلت أواصل التقدم،
red-shifted emission balloon,
المتوسطة ذو الإنحياز الأحمر،
to explode at the end of this story.
في نهاية هذه القصة.
for more than 10 years
أعمل على كرة النار
of incredible people who built it.
الأشخاص المذهلين الذين قاموا ببنائه.
some of the faintest structures known:
بعض الهياكل الأكثر ضعفًا والمعروفة:
whatever you're thinking of.
flow into and out of galaxies.
أنها تطفو داخل وخارج المجرات.
is to take our view of the universe
رؤيتنا عن الكون
every atom that exists.
of why galaxies look the way they do.
حول لماذا تبدو المجرات بذلك الشكل.
gets into a galaxy and creates a star.
مجرة ويخلق نجم.
but on the light sensor,
ولكن على مستشعرالضوء،
by a team that I joined
بفريق انضممت إليه
that this sensor would work really well
هذا المستشعر يمكن أن يعمل بشكلٍ جيد
very, very expensive sensors
باهظة الثمن جدًا جدًا جدًا
the machine I was using
anything electrical that we put in it.
أي شيء كهربي نضعه فيها.
there were other challenges,
وكان هناك تحديات أخرى،
than the previous state of the art
من الحالة الفنية السابقة
all kinds of new telescopes.
to see the universe and our place in it.
لرؤية الكون وموضعنا فيه.
as far as telescopes go,
يمكن لتلسكوب أن يكون،
and it's not on the ground.
وليس على الأرض.
from a giant balloon
من منطاد عملاق
في طبقة التراتوسفير،
is much cheaper than actual space.
هى أرخص بكثير من الفضاء الفعلي.
به الكثير من الاخفاقات:
again and again and again and again;
مجددًا ومجددًا ومجددًا ومجددًا،
least expect them:
baby falcon that landed
لكنه غاضب لأبعد حد حيث هبط
this was the greatest day
كان هذا أعظم يوم
in the New Mexico desert.
في صحراء نيومكسيكو.
my whole life -- into this project,
حياتي بأكملها... في هذا المشروع،
that that happened.
بأن هذا حدث.
right around sunset on that day
مباشرة بحلول غروب الشمس في ذلك اليوم
these balloons are spherical,
منتفخة بالكامل تكون دائرية،
in the New Mexico desert,
في صحراء نيومكسيكو،
I thought to myself,
فكرت في نفسي،
about why since that day.
في السبب منذ ذلك اليوم.
has been full of things
of people who built Hubble
heartbreaking failures,
إخفاقات تفطر القلب،
were a reason for them to give up.
سببًا في أن يستسلموا.
is happening in the universe.
what's happening in the universe, too.
ما الذي يحدث في الكون، أيضًا.
with that hydrogen.
مع ذلك الهيدروجين.
that discovery is mostly a process
you're pushing the limits of knowledge.
عندما تتخطى حدود المعرفة.
built anything before us has done:
and it really does --
وهو فعلًا كذلك...
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Erika Hamden - AstrophysicistTED Fellow Erika Hamden builds telescopes, with a focus on the ultraviolet, and develops sensor technology to make telescopes more efficient.
Why you should listen
Dr. Erika Hamden is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Arizona. Her observational focus is on measuring and mapping diffuse hydrogen around galaxies and within star forming regions in our own galaxy. Her current projects include FIREBall, a UV balloon-borne telescope; KCRM, a spectrograph for the Keck telescope; and Hyperion, a UV space telescope she is currently developing. Her work is driven by a desire to know and understand more about the universe around us.
Hamden received a bachelor's from Harvard in 2006 and a PhD from Columbia in 2014, both in astrophysics. She has held an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow and the R.A. and G.B. Millikan Prize Postdoctoral Fellow in Experimental Physics at the Caltech. She was awarded a Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship for her detector work in 2016. She worked as a chef for a year before beginning grad school and has a serious yoga practice.
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