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I want to thank the Simons Foundation for supporting all of our initiatives here where we do private events, events that are science themed or science inspired and its really with the support that we are able to using these events, were excited to shout at simon. I want to mention before i do this, our guest is an amateur astronomer, he will be out in the cold gardens, applaud a lot louder. Hes out in the cold garden tonight and helping us and the claim is that the cloud sphere, is right about exactly as we sent it in the last question and also we will have a book signing for the glass univers...

Quite the tv is on twitter and facebook and we want to hear from you. To us at twitter. Com book tv or post a comment on our facebook page, they spoke. Com book tv. This is Henrietta Leavitt who was looking at a way to get to these magnificent images. Who was looking at images taken from south america because the whole sky had to be covered. There was an observatory built in peru to photograph stars of the Southern Hemisphere and she was looking at images of the Magellanic Clouds and she discovered 4000 variable stars and made a fundamental discovery about the pattern of variation that the sta...

Director of the hayden planetarium, place we all went to as a kid and i was never the same after that. I came back and actually became director. We also want to welcome cspan into this event. They are recording it for book tv. Cspan inhouse. Pan is [applause] tonights book is called welcome to the universe. I love saying that, welcome to the universe. When you go to the planetarium director school, they teach you how to speak like that. Let me immediately introduce my coauthors. First, michael strauss. [applause] these are my two coauthors. [applause] have a seat so just a bit of an introducti...

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For the first time, magnetic fields have been detected in three massive, hot stars in our neighboring galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. While magnetic massive stars have already been detected in our own galaxy, the discovery of magnetism in the Magellanic Clouds is especially important because these galaxies have a strong population of young massive stars. This provides a unique opportunity to study actively forming stars and the upper limit to the mass that a star can have and remain stable.