Ep. 789: What Happens When a Planet's Star Dies
Astronomy Cast
Astronomy Cast
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to Astronomycast, Episode 789, What happens to to Planets when the Stars die? |
| 0:54.7 | Welcome to AstronomyCast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos, where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know. I'm Frisa Kane. I'm the publisher of the Universe Today with me, as always, is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Sciences to you and the director of Cosma Quest. Hey, Pam, how are you doing? I am doing well and I glitched it exactly the way it drives you crazy. |
| 1:15.6 | No, no, no, just to be clear, it does not drive me crazy at all. I never even noticed until one of our viewers mentioned this exact tick that you have. And now, as a supportive co-host, I had been mixing |
| 1:33.5 | it up just to sort of kick you off of your routine. And clearly, we go back to the standard |
| 1:41.1 | and you're back on your routine. So we need to go deeper. I think we need to |
| 1:44.8 | make the introduction and me asking how you are more complicated. Things are going to get weird. |
| 1:52.6 | And that's fine. This is, we need to pass through the valley of fire before we can come out |
| 1:56.8 | the other side. New, reforged, refreshed. |
| 2:04.1 | So we've both seen Project Elmerie. |
| 2:04.9 | Yes. |
| 2:05.6 | I found it deeply endearing. |
| 2:08.0 | Yes. |
| 2:08.2 | I am not acquainted by the Lego set, |
| 2:10.8 | but I may 3D print my own Rocky because Rocky is the bestest. |
| 2:15.5 | I mean, |
| 2:15.9 | when you see the making of and you see them running that guy around as a puppet, |
| 2:20.9 | that's crazy how much of that movie is practiced. |
| 2:23.1 | So, you know, are you going to love this movie? |
| 2:25.0 | Yes. |
| 2:25.7 | Are you going to have some scientific quibbles if it runs across something that you're actually |
| 2:32.3 | very good at? |
| 2:33.2 | Yes. |
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