We are made of star stuff: Jocelyn Bell Burnell at TEDxVienna

Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Visiting Professor in Oxford (UK). She inadvertently discovered pulsars as a graduate student in radio astronomy in Cambridge, opening up a new branch of astrophysics -- work recognised by the award of a Nobel Prize to her supervisor. Subsequently she has worked in many roles in many branches of astronomy, working part-time while raising a family. Increasing the number of women in science is important to her. In her spare time she gardens, listens to choral music, collects poetry with an astronomical theme, and is active in the Quakers (Religious Society of Friends).
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[@royleon3525]

I spent the last 30 years of my working life contracted to ESA. In all those years I have never heard this well known story explained so succinctly. Thank you so much Professor Burnell.

[@dangmefinnish]

I swear I would have paid attention in physics and chemistry classes if my teacher used her method.

[@stephness8553]

I love Her!! She’s not crazy, She’s brilliant!

[@CPatwal]

one of the few TED talks, I listened without skipping any portion :-)

[@FrostyJ85]

Brilliant person.

[@wilsonkwatson]

Brilliantly entertaining and educational! 👏🏻

[@NeverMakingVideos]

She's right about female physics professors being a bit more insane than the already insane male ones. One of my professors live tweeted tumble drying a towel

[@renatarybinska5367]

How do you know all this Jocelyn, your really smart, I really appreciate kind of how you know all this, its so unbelievable

[@e.r.4077]

Fabulous. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@senpaiii55]

Why does this video not have views that too over a period of 7 goddamn years

[@moni2415]

A great lecture for dummies. ;) Thank you so much, Ms Bell Burnell.

[@louisebean9428]

We are the universe!

[@aryrios154]

Like... literally. That's so cool though.

[@caveman9471]

I Remember asking My Grandma About Anything Interesting that she knew about Ancient Aztecs/Mayans and she Told me that Our Ancestors use to Emphasize that " We Came From the Stars" Now I don't know if This Lady and The Aztecs Knew each other but Apparently Have the same Idea. 😎

[@subbanarasuarunachalam3451]

i dedicate this to my friend Gururaja Rao my ertswhile colleague in A.D.E. Bangalore who was a great astophysics enthusiast. Unfortunately nature took him away a few years back!

[@luisaraoz6733]

F A N T A S T I C !!!! A must watch video.

[@oingpla]

Why have so few watched this?

[@AdolfoRufatt]

Outta this world!!!

[@MrSridharMurthy]

The catastrophic explosion of a star reminds me of something similar I witness in nature namely ' pollenation' when the seeds burst out of ripened fruit or flower of a plant to aid in dispersal and germination. Is this the way nature work ? I wonder !

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

Actually, the 1st and 2nd generation stars of the universe are called seed stars. They literally seeded the universe with the elements needed for life to be able to exist..

[@biriistenapcan8605]

She found the pulsars but no one said that she found i saw before minutes a video about i almost famous new york times pls watch it

[@marianaortiz7993]

Ella es perfecta, maravillosa profesora Joselyn Bell!!

[@xxBLKSNXxx]

But who made the star stuff?

[@CineSoar]

We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon, And we got to get ourselves back to the garden. - CSN&Y

[@TommyCartesian]

I’m a Quark Star made of Strange Quark matter. ⭐️

[@sidecarbod1441]

But are you also 'charm'?

[@wr1818]

Now I get it why we say that when we die we turn into stars which was actually tje opposite

[@evelyne7071]

It’s not clear to me whether some of the planets are formed before the star sparks into life or they are made after. It may be both in a dynamic system…..ever evolving…..never static.

[@nervenavar2649]

The impression of cuckoo style characters are infact the geniuses. Jocelyn Bell had made me understand better why we are here and definition of Stars.

[@aryangoswami7512]

Conclusion is we are immortal

[@doctauglyd9861]

Everything made from everything

[@TheGuiltsOfUs]

"for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return" - Bible

[@nrsjac1325]

Amen

[@sidecarbod1441]

Yeah, that's right, and all those stars forming and then exploding only took 6 days.

[@yovavhopfenberg5289]

If we are actually stars, are our thoughts and intentions also the result of those dead stars?

[@ihcterra4625]

We aren't stars, we just grow out of the elements that formed in stars.

[@lastdor]

@@ihcterra4625 Does this fact negate the assumption that I have raised

[@ihcterra4625]

@@lastdor which?

[@sandramedina9482]

@@ihcterra4625 I’m a star.

[@ihcterra4625]

@@sandramedina9482 Alright hold tight I'm a highway star.

[@kevanbarley1225]

Explosions + time = astrophysicists

[@aryrios154]

So we are the Universe come to be aware of itself, we could say...

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

You could even compare earth to what is was portrayed as in Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. An enormous supercomputer. Yes, the 7 billion minds on this planet form a supercomputer, albeit with excruciatingly high latency due to communication speeds never exceeding about 10 bytes/second(speech). But what has been achieved on this planet was never done by a single individual, but by many. On that note, Elon Musk's neuralink is intended to remove that 10b/sec barrier.

[@Brandazzo22]

whoa whoa whoa hold up, those answers came from evangelical students in rural America lololol. Every urban citizen of a modern country reserves the right to disassociate themselves from those who live in backroads!!!

[@ndalahwakulwa3145]

well presented.

[@HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat]

０．０

[@Riddlemethis0079]

We've been cursing that fish for coming out of the ocean....while all of this was started by stars.....😡

[@HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat]

Why curse that fish?

[@Riddlemethis0079]

Because it is believed that all life was once in the water but then one fish came out on land and adapted to live on it which later led to further evolution of life on land....and in turn us humans

[@ksilebo]

she sould get a nobel price.. oh wait...

[@JudgeFredd]

"inadvertently" because she's a woman ?

[@marcmitchell679]

no we aren't!