Host dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson did your new book astrophysics for people in a hurry you open by saying the universe is under no obligation to make sense what does that mean . I think up until the year 1600 when we had no particular tools to investigate the Natural World the five senses were the primary means we gave all information about the universe and not even knowing that our five senses had live and said everything you know, the thinking of letting tries to give you but it is not better run at 1500 it would go one direction than the telescope it was a decade within one another now it becomes available to us to transcend our senses to look inside a drop of pond water to see microorganisms doing the backstroke that the sensory system could not have detected with not for the microscope so the welcome to the universe tire living creatures living in a drop of water but today we know that from childhood but that made no sense at all without Royal Society in london when they make a discove
Please use ask nasa. Todays participants are thomas associate administrator at nasa headquarters in washington. Mchale astronomer at the belgium. Shaun kerry manager of nasa Spitzer Science Center in pasadena california. Sarah seager professor of Planetary Science in Massachusetts Technology in cambridge and carl lewis and with that, thomas can you start us off with what the big news of the day is . Thanks so much. Look ive been associate administrator for close to five months and ive just been in awe and am today. Were changing peoples lives every day and we launch into space and we know we stretch our information and inspire every day. And todays story is just that. Im excited to announce this team has used our space telescope to discover theres 7 earth size planets near the one star 40 light years away. Once more as you can see in this illustrations its that three of these planets marked in green are in habitable surface where i will questioned water can pull on the surface. That co
The first stars were born and open being the space frontier. Earlier this year nasa xo ounced the discovery of 7 planets. Ext well show you the News Conference talking about the findings. Its 40 minutes. Felicia fternoon im here. Nd were live world outside of our solar system. Well answer questions from those in the studio and on the media to asksocial the question via social media nasa. Use ask odays participants are thomas associate administrator at nasa washington. In chale astronomer at the belgium. Nasa kerry manager of Spitzer Science Center in california. Arah seager professor of Planetary Science in in achusetts Technology Cambridge and carl lewis and that, thomas can you start us off with what the big news of is . Day thanks so much. Ook ive been associate administrator for close to five awehs and ive just been in and am today. Changing peoples lives every day and we launch into we know we stretch our information and inspire every day. Is just that. Ory m excited to announce t
She discusses her latest book, the new better off. First up here is astrophysicists [applause] thank you welcome to the American Museum of natural history. Im your host for the evening and coauthor of this book talk, i am Neil Degrasse tyson. I serve as the frederick t rowes director of the Hayden Planetarium, a place we all went to as a kid. I was never the same after that. Come back and actually become director. I also want to welcome cspan into this event, they are recording it for book tv, so cspan is in the house. [applause] tonights book is called welcome to the university and i love saying that, welcome to the universe would go to planetarium director school they teach you how to speak like that. Let me immediately and reduce my coauthors, first, Michael Strauss. [applause] and richard, the third, these are my two coauthors. [applause] so just a bit of introduction, i taught for ten years at Princeton University from 1994 through 2003, before i transferred all of my activities h
First, we will have some presentations from our panelists and then we will answer questions. By socialuestion media, please use the hashtag. Todays participants are thomas, a director at nasa headquarters in washington. Sean carey, the manager of the Spitzer Center in pasadena,. Alifornia sarah, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of technology in cambridge. And nicole lewis. , start us offmas with the big news of the day. Homas thank you i have been the director for five months and i have been in a that we docience here. We are changing lives every day. We stretch the imagination and today is just that. I am excited to announce today that the doctor and his team have used our space telescope to determine seven earth sized planets orbiting about 40 lightyears away. What is more, as you can see in the illustration, is that three of these are in the habitable area where liquid water can pool on the surface. For the first time, we found as planets and wel can measure the masses and