Cosmic Queries – Comet NEOWISE

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🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Negin Farsad, and cosmochemist and author Natalie Starkey, PhD, answer fan-submitted questions about Comet NEOWISE, Halley’s Comet, the Oort Cloud, and much, much more!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.8	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.4	Star Talk begins right now.
0:12.9	This is Star Talk on the Illegraste Tyson, your personal astrophysicist, and your host.
0:21.8	This is a Cosmic Query's edition, and we were long overdue to get a Cosmic Queries on
0:28.0	the comet that has been in the sky.
0:31.1	And so I had to bring in some expertise for that, but before we get to that, let's introduce
0:35.3	my co-hosts for this episode, Nagine Farsad.
0:38.5	Nagine, welcome back.
0:39.7	Oh, hi, Neil.
0:41.3	How are you?
0:43.1	After your first visit to us, you didn't run away and not come back.
0:47.2	You came back.
0:48.2	I felt my head getting like larger with facts and knowledge, and I thought, let's do this
0:54.6	again.
0:56.6	OK, one day your head will not sit on the screen, and then we'll know we're doing the
1:01.2	right thing.
1:02.2	I'm taking measurements.
1:04.8	Nagine Farsad is a stand-up comedian, and if I remember correctly, you wrote a book called
1:10.7	How to Make White People Laugh.
1:12.7	Indeed.
1:13.7	That's a crazy title.
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