Bug Splat Galaxies with Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Nagine, we learned all about colliding galaxies and the formation of planets. I had no idea how much banging and colliding and smashing there was in this universe. All the time coming right up on Star Talk. Welcome to Star Talk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide. Start talk. Begin. Right now.

Thanks. is Star Talk. Neil DeGrasse Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist. This is gonna be Cosmic Quarries On The formation of planets in the universe. I got with me my co host, Nagin Fasada. Oh my god, hello. Welcome back. Uh I'm so excited. I have s I've I've like peeped at some of these questions and they are Quarelish. I love that.

Very good. And just a reminder, you s you still have your Fake the Nation podcast. That's right. Every week. And it's a delight anytime I hear you on Wait Wait Don't Tell me. Thank you. NPR Mainstay. I uh an NPR Mainstay, I've got a lot of tote bags to prove it. We have a good time. All right. Let me introduce you to my guest today. He's a longtime friend and colleague, Mordecai Mark McLo. Mordecai. Well, hello, Neil. It's it's weird to it's only been Thirty.

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