Astronomy often feels distant, but it has always been closer to everyday life than we think. As astronomer Lekshmi Rajagopal explains, it’s simply physics applied to space, built on observation and a desire to understand how the universe works and where we come from. What has changed over time is not the curiosity, but the tools, from watching the sky with the naked eye to detecting signals across the universe in ways that were not possible before.
At the same time, people have always been observing the sky in practical ways, using patterns to guide time, movement, and daily decisions with consistency and accuracy, even without formal scientific language. So what happens when we start to take those ways of knowing seriously?
In this episode of Connecting The Dots, Lekshmi helps us unpack what astronomy really is, where it shows up in everyday life, and why the way we teach and talk about science shapes who feels like they belong in it.
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