"This is 19 99. I'm on the brooklyn bridge at two o'clock in the morning, and i'm looking up, how we roll it," says Ramona vaughan. "And you see the streaks of light? They're shooting stars." The planet uranus has its axis tipped 98 degrees, jut, rotating upside down. But what determines that being or because it's going backwardsw aski. If i, if you take something turning and then i turn it, and then i flip it, it's still turning,. Yes, it's cause the right hand rule.
Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Russell Peters answer fan-submitted questions on a variety of astrophysical topics including Pluto, the Andromeda Galaxy, the Magellanic Clouds, the Equator and the Earth’s axis, E = mc2, exoplanets, the Moon, and more!
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