Question of the Week - From the Naked Scientists   /     How to see faint stars - Naked Scientists Question of the Week - 19.04.29

Description

Sean asked "Why is it that when you look directly at a small faint star it disappears, but when you look at a point near it, you can see it again?" Ben McAllister has been searching far and wide for the answer to this cosmological conundrum...

Subtitle
Sean asked "Why is it that when you look directly at a small faint star it disappears, but when you look at a point near it, you can see it again?" Ben McAllister has been searching far and wide for the answer to this cosmological conundrum......
Duration
04:37
Publishing date
2019-04-28 23:00
Link
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/qotw/show/20190429/
Contributors
  Dr Chris Smith, The Naked Scientists
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Enclosures
http://nakeddiscovery.com/libsyn/Naked_Scientists_QotW_19.04.29.mp3
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