William Shatner and Neil deGrasse Tyson – Star power – CBS Sunday Morning

William Shatner and Neil deGrasse Tyson -Star power

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Nov 16, 2025 When “Star Trek” legend William Shatner and America’s favorite astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson share the stage, sparks can fly on an astronomical level. They talk with Luke Burbank about their bromance built on an appreciation of science; the two-man show (“The Universe Is Absurd!”) that grew out of a trip to the South Pole; and how curiosity about the cosmos can help keep one young.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYNy7mbtv08

And then they did the extended version… omg… sci-fi and science!

Extended interview: William Shatner and Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Nov 16, 2025 Extended Interviews | CBS Sunday Morning In this web exclusive, “Star Trek” legend William Shatner and Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson talk with Luke Burbank about teaming up for a stage show, “The Universe Is Absurd!” in which they discuss the wonders of science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_lDOpiqI_g

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William Shatner and Neil deGrasse Tyson -When stars collide

By Luke Burbank, November 16, 2025 / 10:15 AM EST / CBS News

Not long ago in Seattle, an astronomical event of sorts happened: Two superstars collided. William Shatner, of “Star Trek” fame, and Neil deGrasse Tyson, America’s favorite astrophysicist, took to the stage to explore the nature of exploration. Think of it as sort of Martin & Lewis, but with more quantum mechanics.

“It’s a bromance,” said Tyson. “I think what Bill Shatner and I have together should be the textbook definition of the bromance.”

“If we have a bromance,” said Shatner, “I’d be very privileged.”

The two grew close last year on an upscale cruise to Antarctica, where they ended up being the after-dinner entertainment. “The organizer said, ‘Why don’t we put the two of you on this mini-stage that they have on the ship, and we just chew the fat?'” said Tyson. “And then the organizer said, ‘Why don’t you guys take this on the road?'”

Their first port of call? Seattle, where they debuted a wide-ranging, sometimes meandering, but always intriguing stage show they’re calling “The Universe Is Absurd!”

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How a new planetarium show helped scientists unlock a cosmic secret

Scientists say a new planetarium show about the Milky Way has helped them unlock one of the solar system’s many secrets. Experts at the American Museum of Natural History in New York were fine-tuning a scene about the Oort Cloud that's far beyond Pluto. Scientists have never glimpsed this region, but when museum experts projected their scene onto the planetarium dome, created using simulation data, they saw a spiral shape. They published their findings in The Astrophysical Journal earlier this year. The planetarium show “Encounters in the Milky Way” opens to the public on Monday.

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An accidental discovery: astronomers find a spiral structure in the Oort cloud by chance after data from a simulation were visualized in preparation of a new space show at the Hayden Planetarium

☑️ news https://apnews.com/article/museum-planetarium-oort-cloud-b0050c65ebff830812b505cdd8c476ec
☑️ research paper https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adbf9b

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Neil deGrasse Tyson - Wikipedia

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Wikipedia

Entrance to the Rose Center for Earth and Space @ American Museum of Natural History

Was fun stumbling across this one night. I was so used to looking at the building from the walkway embedded in the park which is far enough back to take in the whole thing.

Wandering around close to the entrance presented this fun reflection play.

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A Lunar Landscape

Song of the Day October 5 2023

In honor of the birth of Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" dated October 2, 2023

https://youtu.be/5Qon72VKH30?si=w3hK4HdPL1Q1bmMm

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #October5 #NeildeGrasseTyson #HaydenPlanetarium #Astrophysist #TheLateShow #StephenColbert #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #2020s

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Wikipedia

Song of the Day October 5 2023

In honor of the birth of Neil deGrasse Tyson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" dated October 2, 2023

https://youtu.be/5Qon72VKH30?si=w3hK4HdPL1Q1bmMm

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #October5 #NeildeGrasseTyson #HaydenPlanetarium #Astrophysist #TheLateShow #StephenColbert #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #2020s

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Wikipedia