Dr. Hickenlooper enthusiastically explains the rare phenomenon of an Astronomical Ellipses to a gathered crowd. She balances scientific jargon with personal anecdotes, revealing her own permanent retinal damage from a childhood observation that sparked her career in astronomy.
DR. HICKENLOOPER: Tonight you’re in for a real treat. I don’t know how many of you ever observed an Astronomical Ellipses before. Can we get a show-of-hands? [She raises her own hand] Nobody! Wow. OK, well, what you’re going to see is a very simple, dot, dot, dot: three pin-points of light inside yo
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