Cosmic Queries – Starquakes with Conny Aerts

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🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

What is a starquake? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen explore asteroseismology, the sun, and what’s happening on the insides of stars with astrophysicist Conny Aerts.

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0:00.0	Hey, StarTalkins, Neil here.
0:03.1	You're about to listen to an episode specially drawn from our archives to serve your cosmic curiosities.
0:10.5	The archives run deep.
0:11.9	If you enjoy this, take a peek at the full catalog on your favorite podcast platform.
0:18.2	There's a lot there to tickle your geek underbelly. Check it out.
0:23.6	Welcome to StarTalk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:31.6	StarTalk begins right now. This is StarTalk, Cosmic Queries Edition.
0:40.7	This one is titled Starquakes.
0:44.8	I've got as a co-host here, Matt, welcome back to StarTalk.
0:48.8	Thank you so much for having me.
0:50.2	It's nice to be back.
0:51.4	Yeah, so you solicited questions about like stars and star quakes from...
0:56.4	I'm very excited about this topic and so were the listeners. There's been a lot of, a lot of your
1:01.1	Patreon patrons have responded to this one and we're going to try and get through as many of these
1:04.3	as possible, but I can't promise all of them, I will try. I don't know a damn thing about
1:09.6	starquakes. So, yeah, I know. I'm excited. I live in
1:13.7	California where earthquakes are a problem, so I know how to deal with those. But I don't, if you're
1:17.3	involved in a star quake, is getting under a table still enough? Or how do we deal with it?
1:22.1	Yeah, we're going to find out for sure. So our guest with the expertise we need is Connie Arz. I think I pronounced that right.
1:30.9	Connie, welcome to StarTalk. Hi, glad to be here.
1:34.4	Excellent. Now, you're in from Belgium and the Netherlands. You have a dual appointment.
1:40.1	One, as the professor of astrophysics at, let me get this straight, in Leuven, Belgium,
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