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Neil deGrasse Tyson returns!

I Think You're Overthinking It

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Are We Still Discovering Shocking Things About Our Solar System?

As we get better, higher resolution images of planets in our solar system or even data from distant stars, are we still discovering shocking things about these bodies? Or is it sort of confirming or within the neighborhood of things we thought we would have? Let me tell you the biggest shocker of them all. We go look for planets that don't orbit our Sun, exoplanets. And we say, okay, we must be representative of all solar systems. It's actually called the Copernican principle. Noting that you're not special. That's what I'm saying.

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