Exploring Exoplanets, with Seth Shostak – StarTalk All-Stars

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🗓️ 6 December 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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SETI Institute Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak, is back to host StarTalk All-Stars and go exploring exoplanets with guest Jason Wright, Associate Professor of Astronomy at Penn State, and co-host Chuck Nice. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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0:00.0	This is StarTalk.
0:03.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:08.4	Welcome, one and all, to StarTalk All Stars, and I'm your All Star host of the evening
0:13.8	Seth Shostak.
0:15.3	Senior astronomer at the SETI Institute that's S-E-T-I, almost my name, but that's coincidence.
0:21.8	SETI is an acronym and it stands for the search for extra terrestrial intelligence.
0:26.5	In other words, not just a life in space, but life that's as clever as you are or maybe
0:30.4	even more so not to take anything away from your cleverness.
0:33.6	And joining me as co-host is the very funny Chuck Nice Chuck.
0:37.6	He's Seth.
0:38.6	How are you?
0:39.6	I'm okay.
0:40.6	How are you doing over there?
0:41.6	Doing well, man.
0:42.6	Yeah.
0:43.6	Good to be here.
0:44.6	Are you interested in planets?
0:45.6	You know, I'm interested in this one planet that we're on.
0:48.2	I'm definitely interested in that.
0:49.9	No, I think it's very exciting to actually talk about the planets that we know.
0:57.7	The fact that there may be, I don't know, 600 million.
1:01.9	Was that the last figure that I heard?
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