StarTalk Radio · 2025-07-01 · 65 min · 10,618 words

Super-Duper Novas with Michael Shara

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Chuck, it's great to have colleagues who are the world's expert on something just arms reach down the hallway. Yeah, I would not know what that is like. In this case, stars that blow up. Cool. That is so cool coming up on Star Talk.

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We're gonna do cosmic queries today. Chuck. Hey, Neil? Did you collect the cosmic queries? I did.

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