Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

Star Talk begins right now.

Welcome to Star Talk Radio, I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, I'm an astrophysicist with

the American Museum of Natural History right here in New York City, and I also serve as the

director of the Hayden Planetarium.

Come visit us sometime, and you can tell the front desk that you know me and you listen

to Star Talk and they'll still charge you to come in, but one and all are welcome.

And I'm here with my host for the day, Leanne Lorde, Leanne, welcome back, thank you, Neil,

how are you?

Oh my gosh, you should move in.

I really should.

Oh my gosh.

I love it here.

Professional comedian, that's what you like, pay your rent off of this rent.

I'm stealing cable, I'm stealing lodging, what?

I'm bootlegging everything I got.

I brought her on because we're in the cosmic queries part of Star Talk Radio, I sometimes

I think of it as Star Talk after hours or after hour.

So it's, it's where your questions come to us and we solicit them in advance, they come

to us from all manner of social media, sometimes Twitter, sometimes they're, we have a phone

and number, you can lay down your question also on Facebook.

So let's get right in and the topic today is exploration, yes it is, exploration of

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