Cosmic Queries – Discovering Exoplanets with Gáspár Bakos

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🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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How do we discover more exoplanets? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Matt Kirshen explore telescopes, exoplanets, and more with professor of astrophysics and Principal Investigator of HATNet Exoplanet Survey, Gáspár Bakos.

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0:00.0	On the next episode of StarTalk, it's a cosmic queries featuring the expertise of a colleague of mine from Princeton University.
0:08.6	The name is Gaspar Bakosch and he is at the Department of Astrophysics there where he has developed a system of small telescopes to discover exoplanets.
0:22.2	So we're going to find out how does that work?
0:24.5	Why does a small telescope still get to contribute to a field that's on the frontier?
0:30.2	And we also learn how these satellite trails that we've read all about and seen videos of,
0:35.6	launched from rockets and how they affect the data that he's searching for,
0:41.1	as well as the beauty and majesty of the night sky that we've all missed ever since cities have become electrified.
0:48.3	All coming up on StarTalk.
0:52.9	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:55.6	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
1:01.3	StarTalk begins right now.
1:05.9	This is StarTalk.
1:07.6	Neil deGrasse Tyson here.
1:09.1	You're a personal astrophysicist.
1:11.4	And this is yet another cosmic queries edition.
1:14.8	I got with me Matt Kirschian, Matt.
1:16.4	My co-host, how are you doing, man?
1:17.6	I'm very good.
1:18.4	I'm excited about this topic.
1:20.6	Not least, because a couple of weeks ago, as a birthday present from my wife,
1:25.6	I went to Mount Wilson Observatory for a lecture and then a look through the big telescope.
1:30.6	So I never...
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