Vera Rubin Observatory with Zeljko Ivezic

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Will the Rubin Observatory prove Einstein wrong? Neil deGrasse Tyson & Chuck Nice answer queries about the new observatory, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), and our next big tool to uncover the universe with Zeljko Ivezic, Director of Rubin Observatory Construction.

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0:00.0	So Chuck, we brought the whole room into observatory for an episode.
0:04.8	Yes, we did.
0:05.7	They fit in one chair.
0:06.9	The entire team, 400 people, right here right now.
0:11.9	Coming up on StarTalk.
0:15.7	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:18.2	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:24.1	StarTalk begins right now.
0:29.6	This is StarTalk.
0:31.9	Neil deGrasse Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:34.8	Got with me, Chuck Knight, Chuckie, baby.
0:36.3	Hey, what's happening, Neil?
0:37.3	All right. Yeah. Well, good. Today's your birthday. Oh. It is. Today. Yes. Yeah, it was a day that will live in infamy for my parents. Okay. And you're 29 today. Yeah, exactly. Forever 29.
0:54.2	Yeah.
0:54.8	So recently we did a, what's up with that on the recent release from the Rubin Observatory.
1:04.1	Okay.
1:04.6	That amazing swath of data that came out.
1:08.6	Right.
1:08.9	And we said that we got to do more than just me reciting what I learned.
1:15.6	Oh.
1:16.0	Let's get people from...
1:17.3	Let's go straight to the source.
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