StarTalk Radio

Things You Thought You Knew - Fun with Fusion

Jan 10, 2023

47:53

Creator website

Episode guests

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Chuck Nice

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

How Do You Make Fusion?

02:39

The Sun Will Never Make a Sign.

04:17

I Just Want to Be in the Room Where It Happens

02:11

Introduction

2min

Are They Just Making Me, What Are They Doing?

3min

What Are the Charges of Two Protons?

2min

What Is Thermo Nuclear Fusion?

2min

How Do You Make Fusion?

3min

What Is Fusion?

3min

Star Talk With Neil DeGrasse Tyson

5min

The Sun Is Propping Up the Sun

3min

Stars Are Not in a Delicate Balance

3min

10.

The Sun Will Never Make a Sign.

4min

11.

The Greatest Gift Astrophysicists Have Given to Civilization

3min

12.

The Death of Stars Seeds the Universe With the Ingredients of Life

3min

13.

How Do You Make a Star?

2min

14.

The Spiral Density Wave in the Traffic

5min

15.

What's Happening in the Clouds?

5min

16.

I Just Want to Be in the Room Where It Happens

2min

What is thermonuclear fusion? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice break down the Department of Energy’s breakthrough, thermonuclear fusion at the center of stars, supernovae, and how stars are born.

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Photo Credit:

NASA/ESA/ESO/Wolfram Freudling et al. (STECF)

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