Quasar Quirks & Sky Surveys with Matt O’Dowd

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4.6 • 14.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Did the Milky Way used to be a quasar? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore quasars, the high energy universe, and the movie we’re making of the night’s sky with astrophysicist & host of PBS Space Time, Matt O’Dowd.

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0:00.0	Chuck, I love having Matt O'Dowd back on.
0:02.5	Definitely.
0:02.9	Catch us up on quasars, on the Verirubin telescope, on big data and AI.
0:08.4	Yeah, and I found out that Vera Rubin is actually not a sandwich.
0:14.7	Coming up on StarTalk.
0:18.4	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:20.9	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:26.9	StarTalk begins right now.
0:31.2	This is StarTalk.
0:33.6	Neil DeGrasse Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:36.4	Got with me, Chuck you nice.
0:37.6	Chuckie, baby.
0:38.1	What's happening?
0:38.6	How you doing?
0:39.2	Doing well. You know what edition of StarTalk this is? Which one would that be? The Matt O'Dowd edition. Oh, well, that's always good. Matt O'Dowd, welcome back to StarTalk. Such a pleasure to be here. It's my favorite subject. Oh, yes, it would be.
0:54.2	I got you an associate professor up at CUNY, Lehman College.
0:57.8	Exactly. Such a pleasure to be here. It's my favorite subject. Oh, yes, it would be.
0:57.8	I got you an associate professor up at CUNY, Lehman College.
0:58.2	Exactly.
0:58.8	Yeah.
1:01.6	And that's right across the street from my high school.
1:03.9	The Bronx High School of Science, don't I know it?
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