When fully operational, scientists predict the telescope will radically transform our view of the universe by allowing thestudy of previously undetectable objects, with new galaxies likely to be discovered at a rate of one every three minutes.
If her accent reflects her German origins and decades living in England, her tone expresses undiluted enthusiasm for theobjects she gets to study and elucidate to students, faculty and the public at large.
You really have to study these objects at all the different wavelengths of light to understand them so when you combine the two the whole picture is tremendously exciting.
In 1998 she took on the art establishment by authoring a study asserting that many of Duchamp's "found objects" weren't found at all but assembled by the artist (scholars aren't certain).
Trappist (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope) will study exoplanets by measuring at high precision the "brightness dips" that can be caused by objects transiting (passing in front of) their parent star.