The Extreme Universe with Tim Paglione

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🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

What can gamma rays tell us about supernovae and galaxy formation? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chuck Nice sit down with astrophysicist Tim Paglione to explore high-energy cosmic phenomena, gamma rays, and the extreme events that create them.

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0:00.0	That particle shower, these extensive air showers, they'll come flying in and those muons will stream down to the surface.
0:06.4	A thousand just went through your body.
0:08.2	Wow.
0:09.5	Another thousand.
0:11.0	Oh.
0:12.3	Oh.
0:13.0	Another thousand.
0:15.4	But the interesting thing is their lifetime is so short that they shouldn't make it.
0:22.0	Welcome to StarTalk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:30.5	StarTalk begins right now. This is StarTalk. You know the Grass Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:40.4	We've got a cosmic queries lined up for you, and that means I got Chuck Nice in the house.
0:45.6	That's right.
0:46.4	What's up, Neil?
0:47.0	All right, good.
0:48.1	Feeling good.
0:48.7	Good.
0:49.3	You know, I'm mining my colleagues once again.
0:52.4	Sounds illegal.
0:54.9	Tim Paglio.
0:56.1	Tim, how you doing, man?
0:57.0	All right.
0:57.5	Welcome to StarTalk, your first time.
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