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Episode 2 | 7m 36s
Dianna Cowern (aka Physics Girl) visited LIGO, one of the largest and most sensitive scientific instruments ever created, to find out how they detected gravitational waves for the first time.
Aired: 06/13/19
Video has closed captioning.Funding for STELLAR is provided by Draper with additional support from public television viewers like you.
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