Welcome to Star Talk.

Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

Star Talk begins right now.

I am Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist and of course host of Star Talk.

For this episode, we're doing something we've never done before and might not ever do it again.

First, you might not know that we have a Patreon page where you can support what we do.

And when you become a Patreon member, basically become a patron of Star Talk,

you give us the latitude to experiment in many different ways of bringing science down to Earth.

Well, in this new tearing system, the entry level is $5 a month.

$4 a $5 what you do is you get to ask exclusive questions about the universe.

And these are exclusive sessions only for Patreon members.

It's a cosmic queries just for you.

And what we're going to do this time is give you a taste of what that has been.

Just at that entry level, there are other perks at other higher levels.

You can check it out, okay?

But for this episode, what we've done is getting the best of the Patreon cosmic queries.

And we put them together and I'm there fielding those questions with my comedic co-host Chuck Nies.

He reads me the questions I've never seen the questions before he reads them.

And we just have a fun time riffing and anyone can listen to this episode.

Previously, it was only available behind the paywall, basically.

And so now you'll get a taste of what will still live behind the paywall.

And these are exclusive questions and answers for Patreon members at that base level of $5 a month.

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