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Cosmic Queries – Astro-lore with Moiya McTier

Dec 6, 2022

50:04

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The Milky Way and Andromeda Have a Healthy Ego

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Mapping the Milky Way

02:41

Science Communication: Is There a Gap That Needs Filling?

01:34

Introduction

2min

Star Talk - Astrophysics and Folklore in Astrophysics

2min

Pale Blue Pod

2min

I Love Astrophysics and Folklore Mythology

2min

The Kepler Mission to Find Exoplanets

2min

The Milky Way, an Auto Biography of Our Galaxy

2min

The Milky Way and Andromeda Have a Healthy Ego

2min

Science Communication: Is There a Gap That Needs Filling?

2min

The Dark Emu

2min

10.

T-Mobile - What's the Best Deal on a Cell Phone?

3min

11.

StarTalk, Cosmic Worry - Part 2 - Astrophysics and Folklore

2min

12.

Why Didn't We Just Rename Our Constellations?

2min

13.

Are You Making Up Your Own Constellations?

2min

14.

Gemini - The Fast Constellation Story

2min

15.

Moya, God of War Above the Hunter

2min

16.

The God of War Over the Hunter

2min

17.

Is Pegasus Upside Down?

2min

18.

Is There a Constellation?

2min

19.

Getting Started With FanDul, America's Number One Sports Book

2min

20.

Teladoc - Get Yourself Back to Feeling Your Best

3min

21.

Star Call, Cosmos, Cosmology and Cosmology With Matt Kirschen

2min

22.

Is Dark Matter Coming Out of Black Holes?

2min

23.

What Do You Know About White Holes?

2min

24.

Mapping the Milky Way

3min

25.

Do You Think Astrology Is Folklore?

2min

26.

Astrologer, Priest, and Astrophysicist

2min

27.

The Next Mars Mission Should Have Life Detection Experiments?

2min

28.

What Happens to the Energy of the Red-Shifted Photons?

2min

29.

Can You Possibly Explain Ghosts With Physics?

2min

30.

I Love Science and Science and I Love the Old Man

2min

31.

Science and Folklore - Is There One Side of the Same Coin?

2min

Is it time to update the constellations? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen dive into astrophysics, folklore, and our ancient connection to the stars with astrophysicist Moiya McTier, Ph.D.

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Thanks to our Patrons Viny Adomonis, Thomas Blankenhorn, Weston Daniel L., Lauren Scott, and Aaryan Kukar for supporting us this week.

Photo Credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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