My first love was for the night sky.

Love is complicated.

You're looking at a fly-through of the Hubble Space Telescope Ultra-Deep Field,

one of the most distant images of our universe ever observed.

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When I was 14 years old, I was interested in science --

fascinated by it, excited to learn about it.

And I had a high school science teacher who would say to the class,

"The girls don't have to listen

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A hundred years ago this month, a 36-year-old Albert Einstein

stood up in front of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin

to present a radical new theory of space, time and gravity:

the general th

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How do you find a dinosaur?

Sounds impossible, doesn't it?

It's not.

And the answer relies on a formula that all paleontologists use.

And I'm going to tell you the secret.

First, find rocks of the rig

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There are more than a trillion galaxies in the universe.

And my team discovered an extremely rare one,

a galaxy that doesn't look quite like anything observed before.

This galaxy is so peculiar,

that

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I'm thrilled to be talking to you by this high-tech method.

Of all humans who have ever lived,

the overwhelming majority would have found what we are doing here

incomprehensible, unbelievable.

Because

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[SHAPE YOUR FUTURE]

I love the universe.

The vastness, the mystery,

the astonishing beauty of the stars.

I love everything about it,

and I've devoted my life to studying it.

From atoms to galaxies,

fr

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Transcriber:

Have you ever taken your 3-D glasses off at the cinema?

The picture looks blurry

and it can be difficult to see exactly what is happening.

This is because 3-D glasses trick our brain int

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Lily James Olds: Hi, Katie, welcome.

Katie Mack: Thank you. Thanks for having me.

LJO: So happy to have you.

I would love if, for those of us who are not astrophysicists,

you could return and help us

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Sometimes when I'm on a long plane flight,

I gaze out at all those mountains and deserts

and try to get my head around how vast our Earth is.

And then I remember that there's an object we see

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