Super-Duper Novas with Michael Shara

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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When will the last supernova be? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice explore types of novas, freaky binary star systems, core collapse, standard candles, and the explosive future of Betelgeuse with astrophysicist Michael Shara.

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0:00.0	Chuck, it's great to have colleagues who are the world's expert on something, just arms reach down the hallway.
0:05.9	Yeah, I would not know what that is like.
0:08.6	In this case, stars that blow up.
0:11.0	Cool.
0:11.5	That is so cool.
0:12.9	Coming up on StarTalk.
0:16.6	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:19.2	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:24.8	StarTalk begins right now.
0:32.0	This is StarTalk.
0:34.3	Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:37.6	We're going to do cosmic queries today.
0:40.2	Chuck.
0:40.9	Hey, Neil?
0:41.9	Did you collect the cosmic query?
0:43.3	I did.
0:44.9	And they're not just random this time.
0:46.8	No, they are not.
0:48.7	They were solicited on the topic of stars that blow up.
0:53.3	Oh, and by that, we mean those nasty stars that are just mean to all the other stars.
0:59.0	Oh, that's how that works.
1:00.5	Yeah.
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