Special | 26m 58s Video has closed captioning.
The universe is made up of billions of galaxies. But what is a galaxy? On this episode of D4K, Dr. Amber Straughn, a Research Astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center answers students’ questions about galaxies and space. Host Joan Cartan-Hansen also asks Straughn about the James Webb Space Telescope and what advances it offers for scientific research.
Aired: 09/17/12
Major Funding Provided by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation
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