Uploaded December 2012 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago

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Dr. John Johnson's team of astrophysicists at Caltech tells us how to unravel the code embedded in the light we see as stars and why we're made of stardust. It doesn't get any more fundamental than this!

Animated by Jorge Cham
Featuring: John Johnson, Melodie Kao, Ben Montet and Jon Swift

Produced in Partnership with the Johnson ExoLab at Caltech with funding provided by the Caltech Innovation in Education Fund. The ExoLab is supported by The David & Lucile Packard Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Thanks to Meg Rosenburg and Crystal Dilworth.
Transcribed by Noel Dilworth.
Sound mixing by Laurence Yeung.

Links:
http://exolab.caltech.edu/
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