Nagine, we learned all about colliding galaxies and the formation of planets.

I had no idea how much banging and colliding and smashing there was in this universe.

All the time. Coming right up on StarTalk.

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson here, you're a personal astrophysicist.

This is going to be cosmic queries on the formation of planets in the universe.

I got with me, my co-host, Nagin Fasad, McGin.

Oh, my God, hello.

Welcome back.

I'm so excited.

I've, like, peeped at some of these questions, and they are query-licious. Oh, query-licious. I love that. Very good. And just a reminder, you still have your Fake the Nation podcast. That's right. Every week. Every week. And it's a delight anytime I hear you on, wait, wait, don't tell me.

Thank you. That's the NPR, right? It's an NPR mainstay.

An NPR mainstay, I've got a lot of tote bags to prove it. We have a good time.

All right. Let me introduce you to my guest today. He's a longtime friend and colleague, Mordecai, Mark

Meckloh. Mortykeye. Well, hello, Neil. It's weird to... It's only been 307 years that we've

known each other. Yeah, so we, I mean, we came up together, you know, through graduate school,

not at the same graduate school, but we're about the same generation.

And it was, he's one of the earliest hires into our brand new department of astrophysics.

Number one.

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