Uploaded November 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The Zwicky Transient Facility is an extremely large camera (600+ megapixels!) mounted inside a telescope in California. It will survey the sky looking for things that change: asteroids, novae, supernovae, and so on. This video explains how it works and what it will do.
The Zwicky Transient Facility is an extremely large camera (600+ megapixels!) mounted inside a telescope in California. It will survey the sky looking for things that change: asteroids, novae, supernovae, and so on. This video explains how it works and what it will do.







![What happens if you expose a Peep to vacuum?
Its Easter time, which of course means its time to find out what happens to a Peep when you suck all the air out of a room. The results are... interesting.
More info: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/04/16/peep_pull_what_happens_you_expose_a_peep_to_a_vacuum.html
Recorded at the Texas A&M Universitys Physics and Engineering Festival in March 2014. http://physicsfestival.tamu.edu/
[Note: I know, I held the phone vertically while recording this. I had to; there were kids around and I didnt want them in the video to protect their privacy.] What happens if you expose a Peep to vacuum?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UEetdatpUO0/mqdefault.jpg)


