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Origins of Dark Energy with Adam Riess

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Nature, Nasa, Spacetime, Astronomer, Education, Quantum Physics, Physics, Multiverse, Space, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Scientist, Earth Science, Universe, Cosmos, Science, Astrophysics, Star Talk, Startalk, Climate Science, Astronomy, Astrophysicist

4.614.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

How did scientists discover evidence for dark energy? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Paul Mecurio explore dark energy, Hubble tension, and the beginning and end of the universe with astrophysicist and Nobel laureate, Adam Riess.

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0:00.0

Welcome to StarTalk.

0:04.0

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

0:09.0

StarTalk begins right now.

0:13.0

This is StarTalk.

0:18.0

Neil deGrasse Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist,

0:21.3

and I got with me co-hosting.

0:22.9

What's up? How you doing, man? I'm good, buddy. Good to see you. Good to see you again. Professional comedian. You got your own podcast. Yeah, inside out. Out and in? There you go. In Out Burger? Does they sponsor you? Yes. For those listening and watching, this is how not to host the show.

0:40.9

Have a guest and not know anything about it. Yes, it's called In and Out Burger. And the whole podcast is me interviewing people in the drive-thru window. In the drive-thru window. You want fries with that? So, you're an astrophysicist. The guy on my podcast i was i was along with paul mccartney

0:57.8

by the way oh no okay all you say name dropper yes but none of that impresses me as well you

1:04.9

you've got like a peabody award and an emmy award yes this is writing you i've been writer on the daily

1:10.8

show yeah and i worked on the daily show, yeah.

1:11.6

And I worked on the Colbert Report.

1:13.2

We love you, man.

1:14.0

Thank you.

1:14.2

I love you too, man.

1:14.8

Thanks for spending some time with us here. Absolutely. Always great. Making this happy. You know what we're going to talk about. Mm-hmm. The cutting edge of cosmology. Mm-hmm. Because everybody's talking about cosmology all the time.

1:25.1

But who gets in there?

1:28.5

And say, where's the edge?

1:30.1

And where's, we're people at fisticuffs. We like to mix it up here. Where can we get people at each other's throat? At each other's throats. Because then that's, actually, I mean mean the history of science shows that's how

1:44.3

discoveries emerge I have to say I've been doing a few of these with you and this one

1:47.6

has like is really cool really interesting because there is a lot of back and forth

1:52.9

on this and it's really it's really yeah yeah no it's good and a lot of people contenders

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