Penn Professor Mark Devlin on “The Colbert Report”
Cosmologist Mark Devlin appeared on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” on Thursday, Aug. 13 to discuss his BLAST project, a Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope. The telescope, designed by a Penn-led collaboration, collected data 120,000 feet above Antarctica in 2006. Flying the telescope above much of the atmosphere allowed the BLAST team to observe the distant universe at wavelengths nearly unattainable from the ground.
Devlin, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences, was the subject of the 2008 documentary “BLAST!,” which followed the team of cosmologists from Sweden to Antarctica as they launched the high-altitude telescope above the earth’s atmosphere.
To watch Devlin’s interview from “The Colbert Report,” click here.
Originally published on Aug. 14, 2009
