Revolving Around the Sun

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4.6 • 14.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

See the Sun with new eyes as we discuss the many ways this ball of plasma illuminates our past, present and future.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.0	This is Star Talk.
0:18.0	I'm Neil LeGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:21.0	And today, my comedic co-host is Chuck Nice.
0:24.0	This week, we're going to talk about something that people have been thinking about for millennia.
0:29.0	And we're going to do a whole show on it.
0:33.0	It's on the Sun.
0:35.0	You know, I really thought you were going with sex there.
0:37.0	I really didn't, Neil.
0:39.0	Same number of letters, begins with this.
0:41.0	The vowel in the middle.
0:43.0	There you go.
0:45.0	Okay, but the Sun is good.
0:47.0	We'll bring you back for that show.
0:49.0	But remember, this is a science show.
0:51.0	It has to be the science of sex.
0:53.0	The science of sex works for me.
0:55.0	We'll keep you on the list for that.
0:57.0	There's a source of light and a source of heat.
0:59.0	But it's a star, one of hundreds of billions in the Milky Way galaxy.
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