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Feb 2023
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The Invisible World of Gravitational Wav...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Information about the universe is all around us. But there’s more than meets the eye! Gravitational waves are the invisible ripples in spacetime caused by supermassive interstellar activity. Join astrophysicists Ira Thorpe and Judy Racusin on an exploration of how NASA studies these unseen bends in time and space. 
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