I Visited the First Gravitational Wave Detector! LIGO | STELLAR

Thank you to Draper and its Hack the Moon initiative for supporting PBS Digital Studios | Learn more at https://wehackthemoon.com We’ve been waiting to verify the existence of Gravitational Waves for over 100 years and I actually got to go to LIGO to see exactly how they proved it! I know, this video is a bit different from most Physics Girl videos. It s part of a new PBS miniseries called Stellar, done in collaboration with Matt O’Dowd from @PBSSpacetime and Joe Hanson from @It sOkayToBeSmart. Over six episodes we travel to telescopes, go inside space research centers, and chat with amazing scientists. Next up is Joe s episode where he visits one of the telescopes that was part of world-spanning Event Horizon Telescope. Check out the other episodes in this series: The Quasar from The Beginning of Time | STELLAR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqCPnXHKO5c Seeing a Black Hole with a Planet-Sized Telescope | STELLAR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUpKta9yfCk&feature=youtu.be You ll be able to see future episodes on the Physics Girl, Space Time and It’s Okay to be Smart YouTube channels, as well as the PBS Digital Studios Facebook page. Stellar is a part of the PBS Summer of Space. They ll be lots of awesome space related content all summer long on PBS. See what s happening at https://www.pbs.org/summer-of-space/ #SummerOfSpacePBS #astrophysics #space Special Thanks to Michael Landry, Amber Strunk, and the whole LIGO Hanford team for all their help making this episode. Hosted by Dianna Cowern Written by: Sophia Chen, Dianna Cowern, Andrew Kornhaber, Eric Brown Directed by: Eric Brown and Andrew Kornhaber Producer: Randa Eid Director of Photography: Eric Brouse Sound: Theodore Kinney Production Assistant: Alexander Robino Editing: Pavel Ezrohi Graphics: Murilo Lopes Assistant Editing: Daniel Sircar Produced By: Kornhaber Brown