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stem stories with Mr Hearing and our guests is Janet
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Terry, Um, from the planetarium.
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It is I.
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And today we're gonna do something that client loved to
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do with the planetarium is Look up.
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We're gonna look up with me.
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My new Degrassi Taison life among the stars to me.
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I couldn't think of anything more exciting to read about.
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Look up with me, You girls seen recent story, but
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life among the stars By Jennifer Burn Louis Training under
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rain Everyone should have their minds blown once a day.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson was born curious.
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The secrets of a 1,000,000,000 Galaxies lie there waiting for
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him to explore and their cosmic mysteries.
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He just had to look out up beyond the city.
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Lights up at the shining stars up through the Milky
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Way and past the veil of the night sky.
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Follow Young Neil's journey as he discovers the wonders of
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space, the thrill of science and the joy of sharing
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the beauty of our amazing universe.
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Look up with me, Neil DeGrasse Tyson on life among
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the stars by Jennifer Berg Illustrations by Iran Mom with
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an introduction by Neil DeGrasse Tyson Most grown ups have
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forgotten what it is like to be a kid.
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Some don't remember on purpose, hurting life along as fast
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as they can for other memories of being a kid,
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since they fade from view.
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I'm a full grown grown up and that I'm so
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grown up.
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But I have grown up kids my own, but I
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still feel like a kid.
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I feel like a kid my entire life by because
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I'm a scientist.
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Scientists are kids who never lost their natural child with
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curiosity about the world.
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Kids who lose that curiosity, usually around middle school, become
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normal adults.
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But kids who retained the curiosity curiosity eventually become scientists.
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Neither either in their hearts earned their professions.
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So even as a group, as you grow never stopped
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being a kid, this will guarantee that the world evil
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the universe itself becomes remains your playground of curiosity.
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What a beautiful sentiment.
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Bye, Mr Tyson, As a scientist myself at the planetarium,
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I love these words.
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Never forget about being a kid.
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Let's read her story.
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Look on an autumn afternoon in 1958 in the city
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of New York on the third planet, out from the
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sun in the milky way galaxy.
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A little baby boy was born, knew the grassy Tyson
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opened his eyes, and there was the universe just waiting
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to be discovered.
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At first, Neil's World was small, his building blocks and
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little books, his yo yo's and gyroscopes.
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During the days New went to school, to the park
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and to museums.
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At night, he looked out the window of his apartment
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building and saw other buildings, streets and street lights and
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in here in their small bits of sky.
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But two, one day New went to New York City's
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famous hiding planetarium.
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As he sat beneath the high art of the theater.
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Out went the lights in Shazia waza Neal's mind was
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launched into outer space in a single instant.
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His world expanded 100 times, ah, 1000 times.
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Even more projected on the huge dome above his head
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was the night sky with countless thousands of stars, a
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gigantic, spectacular, beautiful Cosmo New I never Knew existed, and
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in that moment his life was changed forever.
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Neil started reading everything he could about the planets, moons
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and stars.
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He wondered where comments came from what makes Galaxies spin.
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How big is outer space?
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Hey, learned the word astrophysicists, the kind of scientist who
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studies all those things, the kind of scientists he wanted
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to become someday.
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No pace to glow in the dark stars all over
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the ceiling, in the shapes of constellations.
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At night.
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With the lights out, it felt as though his bed
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were floating in the huge magnificence of space.
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After exploring the skies with binoculars and a small telescope,
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New was determined to get a bigger, more powerful tower
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telescope to bring the heavens even closer to his eyes.
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And they figured out just how to do it.
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The holds for two entire years after school.
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Neil Walker Neighborhood dogs make once small ones healthy ones.
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Scruffy one's have 50 cents a walk.
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He worked hard and finally got his telescope.
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Night after night.
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New carried his heavy telescope up to the roof of
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his building.
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Nervous neighbors called the police to report a tall burglar
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with a dangerous weapon.
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When the officers were private, New explained it was a
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telescope and showed them the beauty of his favorite planet,
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Saturn, magnified 100 times its golden globe, its icy rings
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in many moons.
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So although they arrived with fear and suspicion.
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They left with awe and wonder.
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Because of his passion for astronomy, Neil won a scholarship
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for a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to view a
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toners total solar eclipse.
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Surrounded by star gazers, researchers and scientists, Neil was beginning
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to find his people his future.
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Then, at only 15 New was invited to give his
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first astronomy lecture.
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He was paid $50 which equals 100 dog walks, and
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made him realize he could actually make a living by
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talking about the universe he loves so much.
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In college and graduate school, Neal's mind travel farther than
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I never had before, flying into outer space with runaway
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stars, diving into the core of black holes and leaping
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from galaxy to galaxy.
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And when Neo wasn't being his cosmic.
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So he enjoyed being his dancing sell, his real sin
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wrestling self and his picture taking self or most of
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all, his laughing self.
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What Neil graduated, he made sharing the wonders of the
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cosmos, his world as a teacher, a researcher and a
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writer. He wrote a magazine column in the made up
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in the made up character Marlin, a five billion year
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old visitor from the and Rahm idiot drama I'll galaxy
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who answer people's questions about astronomy and the cost posts
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than you got what just might be the coolest job
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on Earth.
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He became the director of the Hind Planetarium in the
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very place that expanded Neil's world so many years before
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it became his turn to expand.
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Hours Today, in his desk, dazzling Sky shows, Neal takes
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us to the edge of the universe, inside the center
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of the stars and back to the beginning of time.
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Not only does Neil bring us the stars in the
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sky, but through books and tourist TVs and radio shows,
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he has become a star himself, right here on Earth,
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a superstar of science shining his brake light on the
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secrets of the universe.
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New believes everyone should have their minds blown at least
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once a day, and he does his best to make
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sure that happens.
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The wonders of the universe are always with new day
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and night at the beach.
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Neal thinks about the eight minutes and 20 seconds that
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Sunbeams take, traveling through space at the speed of light
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to land on his nose and toes, toe warm his
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entire body when they'll see Scott's stars with his window
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at night.
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He thinks about how their light took thousands of years
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to get here and that there are newborn stars whose
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lights haven't got to earth but won't get to Earth
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for 1000 more years into the future.
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Invisible stars for now.
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Then he closed his eyes and goes to sleep in
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his beloved cosmos.
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As much as Neil loves the amazing fax of the
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universe, he has also fascinated by the mysteries and the
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unknowns. And they're just beginning to be knowns and the
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barely knowns.
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The mysteries, the mysterious pull of invisible dark matter, the
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push of dark energy expanding our universe ever larger, ever
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faster the wormholes, the festive light passageway through speed, through
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space and through time, all the mind blowing secrets that
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will be explored.
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But the next generations of scientists and the next, perhaps
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you one simple wish Neil has for the future is
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that all of us, every person on earth, go outside
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at night.
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Look up, look up.
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Look up at the moon, the stars and the planets
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and think about the fact that we have made that
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were made of the very same stuff they are of
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the Stardust Adams of long ago exploded stars and that
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we're all part of the very same thing.
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This amazing, beautiful, spectacular, mind blowing universe that is our
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home. This is our world.
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This is us.
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I think what I love about this story the best
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is that Mr Tyson.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson has one wish for all of us.
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And that's that Each of us have our mind blown
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every day.
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Go out.
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Get your mind blowing today.
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Thank you.