Cosmic Queries– Exoplanetary Exploration with Dr. Aomawa Shields

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🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Exoplanets? Low Mass Stars? Goldilocks zones? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Negin Farsad explore the universe of exoplanets, science communication, and acting with astronomer and speaker Dr. Aomawa Shields.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.0	This is Star Talk.
0:17.0	I'm Neil Grass-Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:20.0	And today we're going to do cosmic queries with my co-host, Nagin Farsad.
0:26.0	Nagin, welcome back to Star Talk.
0:28.0	Oh my God. Hello. Thank you so much for having me, Neil.
0:32.0	Hello. So you, you, you, you're getting around.
0:36.0	This, first you had this book. What is it?
0:38.0	How to make white people laugh? What was the name of that book?
0:42.0	It correct. It was, it's called how to make white people laugh.
0:44.0	I remember that. That's right.
0:48.0	That's because you technically are not a white person.
0:50.0	You're something else.
0:51.0	Yes. I'm just like this bag of ethnic is what I like to call myself.
0:56.0	Bag of ethnicity.
0:58.0	Yeah. Yeah. So you're born where?
1:00.0	I'm one of the one of these nice Iranian-American Muslims.
1:04.0	Okay. And talking about white people.
1:08.0	Yeah. That's what we're looking at America and figuring it out.
1:14.0	Yeah. No, don't even try because we can't even figure it out. I don't know.
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