Cosmic Queries – X-ray Astrophysics

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🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Vote now for StarTalk to win a Webby Award! wbby.co/vote-pod18 Explore more than the eye can see as Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Chuck Nice, and Kimberly Arcand, Visualization and Emerging Technology Lead for NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, answer fan-submitted questions to uncover the X-ray universe and beyond. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/cosmic-queries-x-ray-astrophysics/ Photo Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. Potsdam/L. Oskinova, et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

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0:00.0	From the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and beaming out across all of space and time.
0:09.0	This is Startholome, where science and pop culture collapse.
0:15.0	This is Startholome, I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:31.0	And today, it's a Cosmic Query's X-ray Imaging Astrophysics Edition.
0:37.0	You didn't think we had one of those, did you?
0:39.0	Well, we did.
0:41.0	Because we have one of the world's experts in that very subject sitting with me right now.
0:49.0	I've got with me Kim Arcan, Kim. Welcome.
0:51.0	Thank you.
0:52.0	You're going to get your title correct here.
0:53.0	It's a long one.
0:54.0	Visualization and emerging technology lead for the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
0:59.0	Yes.
1:00.0	Wonderful.
1:01.0	And they didn't just pull you out of the ether.
1:03.0	You've got some chops.
1:05.0	I'm holding your book called Magnitude, Scale of the Universe.
1:10.0	I love this.
1:11.0	On the cover, it's got a mouse, a human brain, a bowling ball, a hot air balloon, and earth.
1:16.0	It's like, what scales are they?
1:18.0	And you open the book and it lays that stuff out.
1:21.0	And it talks about when things are big and small and how to think about them relative to one another.
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