Book · 2021 · nyt:young-adult-hardcover=2021-03-28
Cosmic Queries
StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
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By the way with these questions in the latest book cosmic queries it's all about a celebration of questions it's and it's not these are questions we have answers to it's these are questions that have preoccupied us in civilization for millennia and so we address those questions in the book whether or not we have an answer for them.
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Also by the way uh we should mention that our guest today isn't the only one with a new book out and you've got a book based on cosmic queries that has a chapter that talks about the search for life oh yes indeed so thanks for mentioning that because i almost forgot i probably wouldn't have forgotten by the.
Dr. Tyson, just love you and love your Cosmic Queries book.
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Cosmic Queries by Neil deGrasse Tyson and James Trefil is a science book that explores profound astronomical questions, space exploration, and the enduring mysteries of the universe that have fascinated humanity for millennia. The book was featured and discussed across multiple episodes of StarTalk Radio and other podcast platforms. In September 2026, a listener named Chris Newbery called into StarTalk Radio to express his appreciation for the host and praise the book. Jordan Harbinger also discussed the publication on The Jordan Harbinger Show in June 2021, emphasizing that the book serves as a celebration of enduring civilizational questions rather than merely a dry collection of definitive answers. Earlier in March 2021, co-host Matt mentioned the book on StarTalk Radio while introducing a guest appearance by Sara Seager, prompting Neil deGrasse Tyson to elaborate on the book's contents, specifically highlighting a chapter dedicated to the scientific search for life on exoplanets. Through these varied discussions, the book was recognized as an engaging bridge between complex astrophysical concepts and the timeless curiosities of the general public.
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“by the way with these questions in the latest book cosmic queries it's all about a celebration of questions it's and it's not these are questions we have answers to it's these are questions that have preoccupied us in civilization for millennia and so we address those questions in the book whether or not we have an answer for them”
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“Dr. Tyson, just love you and love your Cosmic Queries book.”
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“also by the way uh we should mention that our guest today isn't the only one with a new book out and you've got a book based on cosmic queries that has a chapter that talks about the search for life oh yes indeed so thanks for mentioning that because i almost forgot i probably wouldn't have forgotten by the”
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“the lazy answer is our second star talk book published with National Geographic called Cosmic queries has an entire section on how astronomers find distances to things in the universe and it was called the distance ladder”
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“No, no, no, the lazy answer is our second StarTalk book published with National Geographic called Cosmic Queries, which has an entire section on how astronomers find distances to things in the universe, and it was called the distance ladder.”
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“that if you get cos nice big fat book makes a good gift but there's an entire a lot of energy was put many many pages on this”
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“and all of that is in Cosmic queries all of it all of it all of it and a whole section called The Cosmic distance ladder”
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“and by the way in the cosmic queries book okay that's one of the installments of the start talk book series in collaboration with National Geographic in that book there's an entire chapter there's an entire chapter on how the universe will die”
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“and we talk about big rip in the start talk book Cosmic queries uh Cosmic query is a fun book”
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“by the way in our second star talk book guess what it was title Chuck uh no go ahead Cosmic queries yes in our second start talk book uh one of the questions is what is the future of the universe and we show all the scenarios that and one of them is the Big Rip so if you get”
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“by the way I think in Cosmic queries we do talk about the crisis the cosmic uh I think it's in there in the in the future of the universe cosmology right right it's it's called Uh tension it's called a cosmic tension tension between these two different measurements so again in Cosmic queries I hate to sound like a”
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“by the way the namesake of this format cosmic queries became a book published by national geographic a couple of years ago”
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“so what you just said over the last four minutes there's an entire chapter in the start talk book called cosmic queries on that subject and it's called cosmic tension and it tells you how you get the distances and the standard candles and the micro background and the conflict it's all in a book cosmic queries inspired by the”
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“one of you will be chosen to receive a cosmic queries book signed by the man himself dr neil degrasse tyson”
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“our recent book on star talk cosmic queries there's a whole section on the formation of star systems and this migratory process so so i invite you to to check out that book it's a fun book and it's published by national geographic”
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“that's my segue my awkward segue to the book i just published okay called cosmic queries”
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“cosmic queries inspired by this very format and they're questions that people just ask that are so deep and so interesting and not all of them can we get to it on a podcast and so we have to like take it to the book and so there's a whole section in that book on the multiverse”
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“is uh you you post you posted something it's online which is a very clean and clear exposition of the multiple levels of the multiverse and that's what we referenced when we included when we fleshed out our section on the multiverse in cosmic query”
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“so sarah thank you again for being on star talk and for checking in for this so matt what do you have for us”
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“another another plug for cosmic queries if you like this format um and if you're listening you probably do because it's one of our most popular”
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“this entire episode is a shameless plug for the very latest star talk book nice that is just coming out and it and the the reason why it's a maybe it's maybe it's not shameless maybe it's full of shame the point is it's the title of the book is cosmic queries the book was inspired by this spin-off of”
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“the point is it's the title of the book is cosmic queries the book was inspired by this spin-off of the star talk flagship”
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“and in fact the final chapter of the cosmic queries book takes you there”
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“so we just encourage you to check out cosmic as the second star talk book national geographic press”
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“oh by the way i i have to i'm compelled that this format inspired a book a star talk book called cosmic queries it's it's uh march 2021 so actual queries from people no so what happens is there's some queries that are just so deep and and they spill out over this format someone says what is the meaning”
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“oh by the way i i have to i'm compelled that this format inspired a book a star talk book called cosmic queries”
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“so we collected the deepest questions ever asked and we put them in the cosmic query's book”
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“by the way there's a whole section of one of the chapters in the cosmic query book on this”
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“there's an entire section of the cosmic queries book that specifically addre addresses all the scenarios of how we will end and so i'm going to be”
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“and in fact star talk has another book coming out do you know this in the spring yeah okay spring 2021 it's you know what that book is called it's called i shouldn't be announcing yet because i don't think it's on shelves yet because they're still in production so don't don't look for it yet okay but it's called”
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“and in fact star talk has another book coming out do you know this in the spring yeah okay spring 2021 it's you know what that book is called it's called cosmic queries nice and in there is the whole discussion about the expansion of the universe and how it could in one scenario could end up in the big”