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EPISODE · Apr 28, 2019 · 4 MIN

How to see faint stars

from Question of the Week, from the Naked Scientists · host Dr Chris Smith

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... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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