Welcome to Star Talk.

You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

Star Talk begins right now.

This is Star Talk.

I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.

And for this episode, it's a special cosmic queries edition

done in partnership with the Pocket Lab.

These are people who have deep interest and access to the world's science teachers.

And they conducted a seminar, a virtual seminar over Zoom, where 11,000 teachers showed up.

11,000. The theme of the conference is science is cool.

Well, we already know that.

We're just reaffirming that fact and perhaps telling some people it for the first time.

So now I bring you Star Talk cosmic queries with the Pocket Lab.

So for those unfamiliar with the form of Star Talk is a podcast.

And one, a very popular incarnation of that podcast is called Cosmic Queries,

where we solicit questions from the public.

And if it's on a topic outside of my expertise, then we bring in an expert.

And then I can be silent for a whole show and they answer the questions.

And this particular case is just chucking me.

So what questions were solicited to check that you didn't even tell me?

You're going to have to be, you're going to have to be the expert for everything here now.

If I don't know what answer is on you, my brother.

...