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the moth podcast shares incredible true stories told live and for our next episode we're visiting space and all of us here today even tonight. We're on this spaceship Earth amongst all the chaos of the universe

whipping around the Sun stories about space travel science science, and wonder.

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Subscribe to the Moth Podcast to make sure you hear it. Hey Daniel what's the difference between a difference astronomer.

Ooh, I feel like this is a trap.

I don't know.

It seems like a simple question.

It's a constant debate we have in faculty meetings

in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Where do we draw the arbitrary dotted line?

Mm. Like are all astronomers physicists or are some physicist astronomers?

How does it work?

I feel like any answer I give here

is can generate a lot of angry emails.

Physicists or astronomers.

A lot of astronomers think of themselves as physicists first applied to questions of astronomy,

but also a lot of astronomers think of themselves as a very different breed of scientists

who tackle problems differently and think about things differently than physicists do.

All right, that wasn't so hard.

It was my best non-answer.

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