Things You Thought You Knew - A Constellation Prize

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🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

How did Uranus get its name? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explain all the things you thought you knew about the names of the planets and moons in our solar system, the formation of the moon, and the constellations.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a 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	Neil deGrasse Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist.
0:21.0	And today's show is going to be things you thought you knew.
0:25.0	And old-timers out there know there's only one person I do that with
0:29.0	and that's Chuck, Chuck Nice.
0:32.0	Yes.
0:33.0	Always good to have you, man.
0:35.0	Always a bad guy.
0:36.0	So you're ready to have things you thought you knew explained?
0:38.0	Yes, because we could do millions of these.
0:42.0	If the criteria is...
0:45.0	I don't know.
0:50.0	You get... You've future-proofed this...
0:53.0	That's right.
0:56.0	There will be no short and some topics, my friend.
1:00.0	All right, let's get to this.
1:02.0	I occasionally get questions about naming of things in my field.
1:08.0	And let's take, for example, the names of the moon,
1:15.0	the planets and their moons.
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