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A Measurement Error That Will Captivate the World

April 24, 2019Original blog post

An astronomer at a telescope announces a discovery: a measurement error that will briefly captivate the world.

Transcript

[By a telescope] "I found something!" "Ooh! What is it?" "A measurement error that will briefly captivate the world!"

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-04-24-a-measurement-error-that-will-captivate-the-world/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Science › AstronomyStatistics
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