Extended Classic: Cosmic Queries: General Astrophysics 101

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🗓️ 7 October 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Curious about general astrophysics? Join us for class this week as Prof. Neil Tyson and assistant Leighann Lord explain some of the basics. Now extended with 12 minutes of Neil, Bill Nye and Steven Soter swapping Carl Sagan stories in the “Cosmic Crib.”

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:22.0	Welcome to Star Talk Radio.
0:23.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:25.9	I'm an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History right here in New
0:29.8	New York City.
0:30.8	We also serve as director of the Hayden Planetarium, combined check us out sometime.
0:36.8	I've got with me, Leanne Lord, comedian extraordinaire.
0:40.0	Leanne, welcome back to Star Talk.
0:42.0	Thank you, Neil.
0:43.0	Good to be back.
0:44.0	I got you for this special needs of this hour, special needs that didn't come out right.
0:51.3	Special needs.
0:52.3	Are you a special needs?
0:53.3	Well, you know what actually I think it did come out right because these questions make
0:56.5	me feel very special.
0:57.5	It's all because this is the Cosmic Queries part of Star Talk Radio.
1:01.3	And these are questions from our listeners.
1:05.1	And we got some like seriously knowledgeable listeners out there.
1:09.5	Very impressed.
1:10.5	These questions are very challenging.
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