Our Extreme Universe with Kimberly Arcand

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Aug 8, 202300:22:26Science & Medicine

Dr. Kimberly Arcand is a Visualization and Emerging Technology Scientist at NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard, and Smithsonian. In this episode of The Show About Science, Nate and D...

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