Earth has a whole crust, you know. It's not pleasant to have earthquakes, but it's fantastic to have starquakes. Stars are hot-cashespheres, and they also move up and down. We can use these starquakes to learn what's inside the star. And that's just like seismologists of the Earth,. They are the only happy people. Yes, absolutely. I'm hiding under a table while my pets are going crazy. What beautiful data we're getting right now. The data.
What is a starquake? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen explore asteroseismology, the sun, and what’s happening on the insides of stars with astrophysicist Conny Aerts.
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