How to pronounce “starlight” in English

And I thought, OK.Starlight-- Starbright. I said, you'll be the Starbright Children's something.And he said, OK.

So that was number two.Starlight, Starbright, you begin to see the pattern.Number three was that in 1999 I got incredibly angry-- pissed off, actually--

methods that rely on our knowledge of physics and our ability to measure theproperties of starlight with extreme precision.So I want to talk about two of those methods, the two methods that have resulted in by far the largest numbers

monitoring the stars Doppler shift. Now what really helps is another amazingproperty about starlight and that is if you do take a prism and you send say sunlight through it and spread it outinto this beautiful rainbow. You see the rainbow from all the way from the blue end to the red end. But then if you look

happening because when the planet goes in front of it, the star appears to get slightly fainter. The planet blocks asmall fraction of the starlight.Now in astronomy an eclipse where the body in front is really small compared to the body in back is called a transit

teacher. You're into public education to you appreciate that. But she was both My parents were orphans. I'm one of six, and I spent the 1st 11 years of my life in thehotel called Starlight off Route 66. My father, itinerant preacher and he earned his living going around to churches where they would invite him, and thenthey would pass around the plate and he'd get the offering after everyone else took from the building fund from the first lady's Fund from all that, and often he

And it's full of activities that teachers can do in the classroom.Those beams of starlight would bend in that warped space.

And you imagine that we're taking an image of a star every few seconds or every few minutes and just looking at that star over and over and over again.And the starlight drops when the planet goes in front of the star.And when the planet finishes going in front of the star, then the star returns to its normal brightness.

And then he was the head bartender when they open reopened the Starlight Room at the top of the Francis Drake Hotel.And the Starlight Room was sort of like the Rainbow Room here, right, basically, isn't it?Yeah, upscale hotel. And they did the same thing that the Rainbow Room did, is that they put the bartender on a pedestal.

That's the sample that's going to allow us to calculate the fraction of stars in our galaxy that host small, potentially habitable planets.of leftover starlight. To remove these blobs, the coronagraph has a special deformable mirror that can change shape by using hundreds of tiny pistons.

That is based on a spectrum.We collect the starlight with a big telescope.And we have a spectrograph, which is basically a prism here.

I won't tell you any of the middle.But what Starlight was in the last fiscal year-- we raised a little over $60 million.We served 5.2 million children and their moms and dads and their brothers and their sisters.

And he says, UCLA, as a taxpayer-funded public university, will strive in every way possible to buildAnd I did Starlight and Starbright and First Star and EDAR very happily.

And remember I told you that Earth is 100 times smaller than our Sun, but we're measuring area here, because it's the drop in brightnessas the planet blocks out the starlight, so that would be about a part in 10,000 to find an Earth-sized planet.It's amazing. If I had to ask any of you, at any time in you life, had you ever made a measurement to four decimal places,

That's the sample that's going to allow us to calculate the fraction of stars in our galaxy that host small, potentially habitable planets.and perfectly blocks out the starlight.

That's how recently we got a vast expansion again on the size of things.It takes hundreds of years for starlight to reach us from typical stars you might see in Cambridge tonight if it's clear.So someone there would not see us.

And he says, UCLA, as a taxpayer-funded public university, will strive in every way possible to buildSo you get the pattern-- Starlight, Starbright, First Star.

And he says, UCLA, as a taxpayer-funded public university, will strive in every way possible to buildI did a thing last night for Starlight where we approached "The Bachelor." And you would think that the ABC show "The

And he says, UCLA, as a taxpayer-funded public university, will strive in every way possible to buildWe would love to feature Starlight.

And he says, UCLA, as a taxpayer-funded public university, will strive in every way possible to buildBecause last night two of Starlight's special kids went with on a date to Magic Mountain.

Each of the boundaries between those layers of air refract the light, bending it this way and that.This is actually the same effect that makes starlight twinkle.But if that were the whole story, as you went up through the atmosphere, surely you wouldn't see these shadow bands.

And that first show back after 9/11, and there were maybe 1,000 people in the audience, and the orchestra not full whatsoever.Playing Simba and having to sing "Endless Night," where has the starlight gone?Dark is the day.

And it's full of activities that teachers can do in the classroom.And Einstein reasoned that if you could see beams of starlight coming right close to the sun, they would travel through slightly warped space.

for planets. So let's imagine for a moment we could transport ourselves to one of these, not the TRAPPIST ones, but some planets orbiting a slightly bigger star.So we think that what's happening is that the starlight is going through the atmosphere, but actually it's not, it's hitting a cloud

That's the sample that's going to allow us to calculate the fraction of stars in our galaxy that host small, potentially habitable planets.By using a space telescope with a coronagraph to separate starlight from planet light.

And what's so beautiful to me about this protagonist is how much hope he has, that in the middle of darknessand despair, he can still see starlight.And so that to me was something that you can sing about.

And this man, this is Dr. Henry Draper who was a medical doctor but was a real pioneer in stellar photography,and not just taking pictures of starscapes but using prisms to split the starlight into spectraand then photographing the spectra.

There was a guy named Tony Abou-Ganim, who got his start at the Balboa Cafe that some of you may have heard of.And then he was the head bartender when they open reopened the Starlight Room at the top of the Francis Drake Hotel.And the Starlight Room was sort of like the Rainbow Room here, right, basically, isn't it?

You want to actually get that wobble.You want to get that wobble measurement to confirm each one of these dips in starlight is actually a planet.But that takes a lot of telescope time.

conditions. So that's the Mustafar like planet from uh from that third Star Warsatmosphere. And that again relies on this amazing property of starlight that there are these missing colors, these

And it's full of activities that teachers can do in the classroom.Well, there's a small technical problem seeing beams of starlight come by the sun.

we're transmitting this from, from our star-- will see the starlight, but during the time of the laser flash, the star will appear to get much brighter.

you get that measurement of the wobbling star, and you pair it with the light curve, the light curve is giving you the estimatedThere's a lot of ways we've kind of figured out in the lab to get that starlight suppressed.

you get that measurement of the wobbling star, and you pair it with the light curve, the light curve is giving you the estimatedBut what it really does require, if you just kind of say we can do the starlight suppression, is it requires a big mirror in space,

are optical artifacts. They're not really out there in space. What's really out there should be a star whose lightis confined to just one pixel in the image. But because of all sorts of practical problems, the starlight spillsover many pixels in the detector, thereby spoiling our view of the much fainter dots, the planets that might be

So we actually know that they twinkle, in a sense, because of the reflection of the starlight off of tiny mirrors of dust.

And in that one instant, if you just compute the energy in gravitational waves, it's brighter than all the visible starlight

for planets. So let's imagine for a moment we could transport ourselves to one of these, not the TRAPPIST ones, but some planets orbiting a slightly bigger star.exaggerated. But the concept is that when the planet goes in front of the star, some of the starlight shines through the atmosphere.

That's it. And I'll explain it a little bit.The way that we're getting this planet's signature is, essentially, it's an indirect measurement, and we're looking at the star itself and the starlight.And we can tell when the star is kind of wobbling back and forth in our point of view, red shift and blue shift.

you get that measurement of the wobbling star, and you pair it with the light curve, the light curve is giving you the estimatedI don't know if you can see it, but there's this little tiny line that's just limning the planet, this little arc of starlight.

you get that measurement of the wobbling star, and you pair it with the light curve, the light curve is giving you the estimatedAnd if you look at what's needed to do this measurement, to get that little beam of starlight coming around the planet's edge, its silhouette,

It wasn't any more complicated than that.And that, really, was the first meeting or what became the Starlight Children's Foundation.So here we are.