Why Planets Are Round

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Why are planets round? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explain why the universe keeps creating spheres. What is so special about spheres?
We explore why soap bubbles, cold pigeons, planets, and the sun are all round. Learn about asteroid Ceres’ upgrade to dwarf planet and how Saturn got its rings. We also get into disks: why are some object spheres and other are disks?
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00:00 - Introduction: The Universe Love Making Round Things
00:48 - Surface Tension in Soap Bubbles
2:34 - Why Birds Get Round
3:43 - Why Planets & Stars Are Spherical
6:25 - Ceres & Spheres in Zero Gravity
8:25 - How Planets Have Rings
10:09 - Galactic Disks

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@StarTalk 2 ай бұрын

Do you still believe in flat Earth?

@pablohcm 2 ай бұрын

Never did 😎 ,,,Love from 🇯🇲

@immunitycorrupts3641 2 ай бұрын

maybe an alternate universe but even then that's a stretch. but could there be such a universe? seeings how there could be infinite amounts. various accounts. what if gravity was stronger causing planets to be flat?

@adolf4030 2 ай бұрын

Indeed @@rileynguyen8880

@mrhomes204 2 ай бұрын

Well the earth is mostly covered in water, and that water is not carbonated, so technically it’s flat

@bjchorny 2 ай бұрын

I thought it's a round planet on a flat universe

@shelly_lee 2 ай бұрын

@2:56 that explains my weight gain in the winter months, i am just puffing up to stay warm

@johnheath4305 2 ай бұрын

I stay fat in the summertime because I like air-conditioning

@skellig5867 2 ай бұрын

😊

@lemongavine 2 ай бұрын

You’re in perfect shape….round

@AC-lt5ro 2 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@marisabella2650 2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@mikeplantagenet2983 2 ай бұрын

If the Earth was flat, cats would have pushed everything off it by now.

@baymax8276 Ай бұрын

woah😂😂 or should i say mewooaahhhh😹😹

@melaninqueen6199 2 ай бұрын

“I can’t afford Cold Duck, I’m drinking Cold Pigeon”😂😂😂

@LupeCoded 2 ай бұрын

That had me crying. 😂😂😂😂

@michaelccopelandsr7120 2 ай бұрын

Still better than "Cold Turkey."

@Chalepastel 2 ай бұрын

bbrrrrr

@lemongavine 2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@Kube_Dog 2 ай бұрын

You can tell a lot about someone's intelligence by what they find funny.

@joeburton9947 2 ай бұрын

3:25 Chuck made a perfect pigeon noise🐦‍⬛

@markpashia7067 2 ай бұрын

Yup, so I ain't buying his comment that he never saw a pigeon.

@Ryne4S 2 ай бұрын

When you’re so early that there are no angry flat earther’s unpopular comments around

@a5cent 2 ай бұрын

Damn. They are the most entertaining part 😢

@conradgittins4476 2 ай бұрын

Well, it's flat in places.

@baconatorrodriguez4651 2 ай бұрын

Faaaake. Enjoy being sheep, rounders - them, probably

@backstabingpike 2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂🦄

@TheSilverShadow17 2 ай бұрын

When you're so early that you witnessed the formation of the Moon after Theia crashed into Earth.

@apocbible 2 ай бұрын

New camera? Picture is sharp 👌

@Mestizajee_ 2 ай бұрын

That star talk money lol

@Matt.Thompson.1976 2 ай бұрын

4K baby! Heck yeah!

@pjcarrera2251 2 ай бұрын

The sun has badass gravity is a sentence I've never heard before lol

@grisslebear 2 ай бұрын

That's how it can hold on to it's gas.

@alswedgin9274 2 ай бұрын

imagine if it didn't..

@alswedgin9274 2 ай бұрын

@@grisslebear and thaat gas creates gravity.

@Kube_Dog 2 ай бұрын

@@alswedgin9274 Neil TheGas Tyson.

@emersonberania3997 2 ай бұрын

Imagine Uranus if it didn't hold it gas😂😆

@afrainaideentertainment 2 ай бұрын

God bless u Dr Tyson n chucks for the COMEDY, IT MAKES LEARNING EXTREMELY EASY N FUN! THANK U SIR! FROM NIGERIA!

@HandMeDeals 2 ай бұрын

Does Chuck interrupting him constantly annoy you?

@afrainaideentertainment 2 ай бұрын

@@HandMeDeals u dont know how learning works

@zbynekvesely2613 2 ай бұрын

i love that after corona years, they are finally both in the same room :)

@Kube_Dog 2 ай бұрын

It was inevitable. Tyson's extraordinary mass was bound to suck everything into it's gravity well. Soon Chuck will be absorbed into Tyson like a McDonald's breakfast biscuit.

@AnonymousFreakYT 2 ай бұрын

The opposite of cold pigeon is "cat sunning itself" - stretched out as long as possible to maximize surface area-to-volume ratio.

@STST 2 ай бұрын

I am an ex flat earther. I would LOVE the chance to talk with you Neil and Chuck. I've learned a lot since leaving the belief system of flat earth and gaining my trust back into science. From Dunning Kruger to Cognitive dissonance, to personal bias and tribalism. We have a LOT to talk about Startalk. Your own flat earth debunk is one of the most viewed videos on the channel. An actual chat on here with somebody that once believed the earth was flat would probably "break the internet" My email is in the description on my channel. Please get in touch 🙏

@primonomeultimonome 2 ай бұрын

Hey @STST! If you get the chance, please tell Neil that the curve of the horizon is demonstrably detectable at much lower altitude than he declared in the past. 😉

@gulfy09 2 ай бұрын

Your brain washed up

@peterdarr383 2 ай бұрын

I met a FlatLander who pointed to a pond maybe 50 feet across and asked if it was curved or flat !! He was really fired up about Earth being flat.

@Kobe8DaGreat24 2 ай бұрын

They don't talk to traders.

@humbleevidenceaccepter7712 2 ай бұрын

@@peterdarr383 That pond was imperceptibly curved.

@forcingclimateinfo7014 2 ай бұрын

....! In underlying sentences Neil T have spoken about the earth's changes in a smart way for years in my head anyway. Thanks from Sweden!

@josepht5331 2 ай бұрын

Today is my Friday… I think I’ll go get myself some ‘Cold Pigeon’ to celebrate the weekend 😂 🍾

@ouronia1 2 ай бұрын

Dr. Tyson explains everything and anything so well. Love him.

@CptnHowdy2475 2 ай бұрын

I am so happy someone finally gave the difference between spherical and round. I've been trying to tell people this for a while now and they always give me that WTF look!

@ConductorK85 2 ай бұрын

God bless you, sir. You make understanding science simple. I wish teachers in my day had the intelligence and the integrity to explain things the way you do. I may have chosen a different path in life.

@Kube_Dog 2 ай бұрын

Get up off your knees, worshipper.

@JimmyOlsson 2 ай бұрын

Love these two talk! Always highly entertaining and highly educational!

@wk4240 2 ай бұрын

These video sessions are great , great host and commentator.

@alexlopez2439 2 ай бұрын

I love you guys! Perfect duo to educate. I wish I had both of ya in school teaching me. I would have loved going into this field!

@leeFbeatz 2 ай бұрын

What a fantastic episode! Although in regards to van Allen belt built light operabilities….. we need to chat, there is objectively deeper understanding 🙏❤️❤️🙏

@derrickking7338 2 ай бұрын

Chuck and Tyson I njoy watching u 2

@user-js1bz7ev4g 2 ай бұрын

You are one of three persons i want to meet before they die in my life. Big Respect professor Neil deGrasse Tyson.

@muggachase407 2 ай бұрын

For wat ?? Lol

@whatabouttheearth Ай бұрын

@@muggachase407 Why you bitter about life?

@whatabouttheearth Ай бұрын

@@muggachase407 Why you bitter about life?

@muggachase407 Ай бұрын

Nice try wrong guy

@tanadarko6991 Ай бұрын

I love this stuff. I wondered at this during the solar eclipse I witnessed a few years ago - but the explanation is so much simpler than I imagined it would be!

@marckonno 2 ай бұрын

I love to laugh and learn 😄 Thank you guys for providing such good content for years!

@sandraf425 2 ай бұрын

the pigeon sounds chuck casually made 🐦🤣🤣🤣 gold 🤩 never change chuck

@BrickCityWill 2 ай бұрын

Also snowballs would have been a fun example to pack in there 😂

@jaymiller2268 2 ай бұрын

I have been wondering why planets are round for a while now, so this was super exciting to see come out & then watch. Thank you for the always great educational content.

@user-vs6sv5yq1p 2 ай бұрын

I am enjoying my chance to catch each podcast , very educational ✊🏽❤️💯

@bipolarminddroppings 2 ай бұрын

The rebuttal to almost every Flerf "argument" is one word: Gravity. Why can't the world be flat? Gravity. Why doesn't the atmosphere fly away? Gravity. Why don't we get flung off into space by the spinning Earth? Gravity. Desertphile did the world a favour with his famous youtube clip!

@jennifersilves4195 2 ай бұрын

You obviously don't understand how gravity works. 😉

@ericgolightly8450 2 ай бұрын

@@jennifersilves4195I don't really care if what you said is wrong, what does the winking emoji mean?

@whatabouttheearth Ай бұрын

The problem is that most flat earthers deny the existence of gravity and space

@whatabouttheearth Ай бұрын

The problem is that most flat earthers deny the existence of gravity and space

@LaynoProd 2 ай бұрын

“is it big enough (mass & gravity) to be a sphere?”…THAT IS PROFOUND I CAN APPLY THAT WISDOM TO MANY AREAS OF LIFE THANK YOU NEIL 💎🤯🙏🏽 with gratitude, LaynoProd

@dawnhansen7886 2 ай бұрын

Educational Entertainment to the MAX ❕️I Love StarTalk ❤

@jmcota1964 2 ай бұрын

Great videos from you two!! I love your educational and entertaining content!!

@mr.t361 2 ай бұрын

Good one. Great expaining👏👏

@MaxHohenstaufen 2 ай бұрын

If soap bubbles wanna be round, cold pidgeons wanna be round, planets, stars, everything in the universe wanna be round, what's so damn wrong about my belly wanting to be round as well?

@jennifersilves4195 2 ай бұрын

Not a thing.

@Tydar 2 ай бұрын

Your belly is overcoming gravity. It's not in 0 G.

@anthonybille4069 2 ай бұрын

I was eating a Bagel when I read this. I Feel you on that one, brother. 😂

@mikepletka Ай бұрын

That’s a fair point my man I support you 😅

@metalzonemt-2 2 ай бұрын

I'm not fat, it's just the forces in the universe conspiring against me.😎

@whatabouttheearth Ай бұрын

🤔 Lipids are hydrophobic and naturally turn into spheres in water. Cell membranes are lipids. This is how the first cells originated in water. We are made of cells. We are all fat.

@whatabouttheearth Ай бұрын

🤔 Lipids are hydrophobic and naturally turn into spheres in water. Cell membranes are lipids. This is how the first cells originated in water. We are made of cells. We are all fat.

@ScoobyYTP 2 ай бұрын

Forces pulling in all directions to create spherical object. Nice and self-explanatory, a five year old can understand it. A comprehensive example would be a bubble in a bath. It is spherical because of the balance of forces acting on the thin film of liquid surrounding the gas inside.

@KoRntech 2 ай бұрын

You've clearly not had the pleasure of reading Flat Earth Friends and such comments, if you value your sanity don't but if you dare glance just be prepared to figure out where we went wrong in society. 😐

@maxwell4546 2 ай бұрын

Have fun. :) I freaking love Chuck.

@Kube_Dog 2 ай бұрын

Please... he's the absolute worst on multiple levels.

@peterlyall6789 2 ай бұрын

This Star Talk episode was very good in a roundabout way.

@jameslightell13 Ай бұрын

I have a question: one that is often taken for granted. If space has finite dimensions and everything in the universe is within this space, what is keeping all objects in space from falling to the bottom of space if any thing? Are celestial bodies free-falling or is there something keeping them suspended / buoyant? Is there a way to even test this given our perspective as observers in the universe? I hope you can answer.

@TheMR-777 23 күн бұрын

Not an expert :), but I think that's what is referred to as Dark matter, and Dark energy.

@Wis_Dom 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Neil and Chuck. That was great, informative and funny!

@michaelccopelandsr7120 2 ай бұрын

Disclaimer and Trigger warning: This video contains copious amounts of truth and common sense. These values have been found to break what ever flat-earthers use to think with.

@DunwellAntwi 2 ай бұрын

I love the way Star Trek gets most of the facts straight. 🖖🖖🖖

@gulfy09 2 ай бұрын

Fake world you live in

@PaulSinnema 23 күн бұрын

I like the physics. I’m just a dude listening in and loving what you teach me. Thanks Neil (and Chuck).

@DJ_DAV_iD 2 ай бұрын

Great new video quality 👌🏻

@Brand_One 2 ай бұрын

You guys get a new camera? Looks really good.

@IansUToob57 2 ай бұрын

Flat Earthers are all around the globe. 😂

@user-ce9dq7op9d 2 ай бұрын

What a punchline to such a remarkable joke😅

@PostControlla 2 ай бұрын

Flat Earthers have StarTalk channel blocked because of comments like this lol

@MrSamPhoenix 2 ай бұрын

At the very edge of the disk 💿

@kcollo24 2 ай бұрын

dude 😂😂🙌🔥

@bbuny10 2 ай бұрын

This comment amuses me ahaha!

@jointheleanrat 24 күн бұрын

The SLO Mo Guys and cold pigeon... Great piece! ❤

@AfrikanGod1 2 ай бұрын

Always fantastic Dr Neil!! Thank you for the Knowledge

@therewillbecatswithgwenhwyfar 2 ай бұрын

Team Pluto!❤😂

@Kube_Dog 2 ай бұрын

Tyson has recently exceeded the mass and circumference of Pluto. We should petition him to be named the new ninth planet.

@monkerud2108 2 ай бұрын

something cool about liquid in orbit, is that as you make them larger, the less the surface tension is able to hold it together in a sphere, and the larger you make it, the more powerful in relation to surface tension the tidal forces become, and so you should eventually be able to see the tidal force on a large enough blob. see is a bit of an exaggeration :P

@alswedgin9274 2 ай бұрын

like an ac next to a soap bubble.

@peterdarr383 2 ай бұрын

The ISS is only about 13 feet across at most. Not big enough to see an elongation of a water bubble ?? And that would be like ALL the water up there !!

@rezzokii8080 2 ай бұрын

❤Learning something new everyday 😊 and more knowledge to know 😅

@JSSTyger 2 ай бұрын

These guys are so well rounded.

@michaelallen2358 2 ай бұрын

Chuck and NDT 4 president and vice President.

@rayg.2549 2 ай бұрын

Let's get that campaign started!!!! 🥹🇺🇸

@alexanderpaul352 2 ай бұрын

Too young

@i.o957 Ай бұрын

He would be the worst president in the history of the us. Too full of himself

@entropytheory8875 Ай бұрын

@@i.o957I like NDT but totally agree lol

@actyon20 2 ай бұрын

Loved it, the background, the jokes, you Neil and Lil Chuck . God bless!

@EarlyB_sa 2 ай бұрын

Love from the mother land South Africa❤ i really enjoy watching this channel real fun way to learn and laugh😂

@antialluvion5118 2 ай бұрын

Relativity question. If I were to go the speed of light, time stops for me relative to people who are going slower than me. But what would happen if I were to oscillate in basically the same position in space but oscillate at the speed of light? Would time stop for me in this situation also? I'm not really thinking about an object like myself but I was thinking about all the subatomic particles. From quarks to electrons, All of these things are energy that I imagine is never sitting in a state of stillness. And it is always moving then I would assume it would move at the speed of light regardless of whether it was traveling across great distances or in a stable position in space by oscillating or something like that. So I was just thinking that if this was true then the very things that form all matter are essentially not moving in time and we are all constructed of this material which would almost suggest that in some regards we aren't moving in time... Or it could be the case that the energies that make us aren't moving in time but collectively as more macro objects the macro object can move through time even though it's constituent parts don't move through time because they oscalate at the speed of light? Absolutely nobody is going to answer this. And I can't find anything on Google about this. I'm sure it's ridiculous but would love to satisfy the curiosity if somebody with expertise in this area could provide some insight

@Marvelomarv 2 ай бұрын

Fruits being in spherical shape.......meanwhile, the banana is just a rebel 😂😂😂

@JohnB1163 2 ай бұрын

If you have watched the astronauts on the ISS playing with water you should have noticed that in the zero gravity that water floating in the air takes on a spherical shape which by the way is actually it's natural shape

@ziegweid 2 ай бұрын

Surface area/volume efficiency 😂

@JohnB1163 2 ай бұрын

@@ziegweid Exactly, and what will it do in a gravity field? In a gravity field it will take the shape of the container that holds it or if not contained it will go to the lowest possible point it can get to

@gulfy09 2 ай бұрын

How can anyone drink or eat anything

@JohnB1163 2 ай бұрын

@@gulfy09 They have specialty containers and specific foods for the astronauts so that they can still get proper nutrition and stay hydrated in the zero gravity of space while also keeping them and the ISS safe

@yourguard4 2 ай бұрын

@@gulfy09 gravity is not required for drinking/eating. You can swallow even when standing on your head.

@wolfeddie 2 ай бұрын

Man, i enjoyed this episode! 👏👏👏

@sapelesteve 2 ай бұрын

I must say Neil & Chuck that that was a really round about way of explaining roundness! 👍👍🤔🤔

@ZeroIQ2 2 ай бұрын

it's actually shocking how many flerfs (flat Earthers) there are

@mindblown42069 2 ай бұрын

Why are galaxies disc shaped? Should they not be more round also?

@sketcher2459 2 ай бұрын

Difference in scale and angular momentum

@kangarune 2 ай бұрын

That's orbit. Most orbits are on a plain. There are galaxies that aren't so organized though

@espenstoro 2 ай бұрын

Lots of them are elliptical or round.

@biglebonski 2 ай бұрын

Can you guys please do an episode on the potential need to revise our current understanding of the universe based on recent observations? It seems only a matter of time before we have to conclude the universe is much older than we now think. Thank you!

@Nefville 2 ай бұрын

I'll never unsee Saturn as being partially flattened now, a spheroid. I knew it was but I never noticed it in images of Saturn. Very cool.

@ayezz2811 2 ай бұрын

You know I really can not genuinely fathom the fact that there are people out there who truly believe it’s flat These replies are out of hand man yall need school 😭😭

@gulfy09 2 ай бұрын

Keep believing NASA

@primonomeultimonome 2 ай бұрын

@@gulfy09 Get an education.

@qkqk6954 2 ай бұрын

Have you seen the globe proof on the series genius by stephen hawking?

@gulfy09 2 ай бұрын

@@qkqk6954 tv crap nope... they feed your mind with stupidity

@gulfy09 2 ай бұрын

@@primonomeultimonome wake up space is just nonsense

@frogz 2 ай бұрын

it's easy to make a cubic soap bubble, you just need 9 others to pull it into shape, or a wire frame

@michaelhennaut3141 2 ай бұрын

Need 6 bubbles. A cube has 6 sides not 9. And it's not a true cube because of round sides.

@jasonyoung7705 2 ай бұрын

@@michaelhennaut3141 A square (well cube) bubble was made on the program QI. it took a wire frame, which had bubbles pressing on other bubbles, to flatten the sides (well thats how it looked)

@markl3893 2 ай бұрын

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@fldon2306 2 ай бұрын

Seen photos of a square bubble!

@alswedgin9274 2 ай бұрын

multiple bubbles competing to create the illusion of 1 bubble that has the shape you want...

@KoppanyE 2 ай бұрын

I have seen a cube shaped soap bubble. OK, it was surrounded by several bubbles, but still it looked cool. 😊

@sbloome77 2 ай бұрын

Love the educational content ❤

@AtlanLD 2 ай бұрын

I'm getting sad bc NDT's hand is shaking a little and I hope he's not sick

@jtgullickson6117 2 ай бұрын

Chuck Nice, you are a rockstar🔥 love you man!! Keep making Startalk your jam!!

@MaskedBishop 2 ай бұрын

We will always love you, Pluto! ❤

@Yahweh4ever 2 ай бұрын

Wow these videos are so interesting!

@lovelywaz 2 ай бұрын

All the Flat Earthers got triggered by the title and that thumbnail pic.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@uwu-ed7nn 2 ай бұрын

Question , if you had a lazer in space , would ot shine all the way until it hit something ? Or would it fade out?

@ericgolightly8450 2 ай бұрын

If the photons in the laser are all parallel, it would shine until it hit something.

@Shadismic 2 ай бұрын

Greetings to the great professor Tyson and you Chuck, Equal pressure from all around a mass forms spheres too, if the material is in a formable state. Could the hardly measurable factor of gravity just be replaced by pressure and still result in the same outcome? Could space have weight? Would that make us stop trying to measure gravity and start try to measure pressure instead? Would that reinterpret the swelling of the oceans under the moon because the moon then would create a pressure shadow with its mass, that would then take the earth out of balance because of that swelling and make earth wobble a bit, creating grinding friction that then heats earths core? Could the way we see things now still change in the future?

@christophermatiti 2 ай бұрын

Mr Neil im a big fan 🎉please 🙏 reviews 3 body problem please Mr neil im from South Africa 🇿🇦

@GregMerritt-ws8tq 2 ай бұрын

I've literally survived hypothermia by getting as round as possible.

@jeremycraft8452 2 ай бұрын

That’s my overall strategy for avoiding hypothermia altogether.

@GregMerritt-ws8tq 2 ай бұрын

@@jeremycraft8452 I imagine there's a possibility that's ingrained on us on an instinctual level even.

@stevend.bumgarner6134 2 ай бұрын

When the conquistadors first traveled around the tip of Argentina, they met natives who were much larger than them who lived in the frozen lands of Patagonia, wore little clothes and kept themselves warm by crouching into a tight ball.

@kevinfletcher1999 2 ай бұрын

I’ve seen a square bubble. Stephen Fry made one on QI.

@Asia-yy1kh 2 ай бұрын

I've learned so much

@PlutosMoon22 Ай бұрын

Glad to hear Pluto's Moon mentioned ☺️

@ukdnbmarsh 2 ай бұрын

some flat minded folks just dont understand the gravity of the situation

@centaur7607 2 ай бұрын

😂

@DaraGaming42 Ай бұрын

Neil Just had to get them Round to this typE of thinking , this is science on a global scale

@brentlee1043 2 ай бұрын

Question: Does that make the Earths Moon a dwarf Planet also.

@sketcher2459 2 ай бұрын

Three reasons the earths moon isn't a dwarf planet. 1. It orbits our planet. 2. Much smaller than dwarf planets. 3. Not in hydrostatic equilibrium (enough mass for its self-gravity to pull it into a roughly spherical shape)

@DrMeikoHayakawa 2 ай бұрын

Earth's moon cannot be a dwarf planet cuz moon is under the Earth's gravitational influence. There are 3 criterion for any object to be considered a planet: 1)The object must orbit the Sun. 2)The object must be spherical in shape due to its own gravity. 3)The object must have cleared its orbit of other debris. For Pluto which is a dwarf planet it orbits sun, and has enough gravity to be spherical, but lacks the gravity required to clear and accumulate all the debris into itself. -Moon orbits earth.

@NickLavic 2 ай бұрын

@@sketcher24591. True 2. Our moon is actually unusually large. It is larger than Ceres and Pluto combined. 3. The moon is spherical.

@davidt3956 2 ай бұрын

Yes. It's one reason astrologers such as Tyson rejected the committee's definition of a planet.

@AdH104 2 ай бұрын

The Moon is much smaller than dwarf planets? How can you say that when you look at the following examples? Diameter relative to the Moon; Pluto 68% Eris 67% Haumea =45% Makemake 41% Gonggong 35% Charon 35% Quaoar 32% Ceres 27% Orcus 26% Sedna 26% Salacia 24% The Moon doesn’t orbit the Sun independently, the same goes for any of the Moons in the Solar System, anything is officially a Moon when it orbits a planet. Pluto is a dwarf planet but if it was within Earths gravitational field it would no longer be a dwarf planet, it would be a Moon

@johnVidBozo 2 ай бұрын

Neil is great by himself but Chuck takes it to another level. I think it's time for a shot of cold pigeon!

@deolihp Ай бұрын

This is really interesting

@tysonleyba430 2 ай бұрын

maybe in 4D or 5D were actually flat haha

@derrickking7338 2 ай бұрын

1st comet….GET IT….??😅

@rosecityusa6120 2 ай бұрын

I do actually. 🥱

@DXARMY4LIFE 2 ай бұрын

Atta boy

@Romamb 2 ай бұрын

Fabulous education.

@HughJass-jv2lt 2 ай бұрын

Star Trek *UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY* 😎😎

@The_Nonchalant_Shallot 2 ай бұрын

Flat Earth Society would like to know your location.

@ray1956 2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@londonmmc Ай бұрын

Near the edge of the

@gralant22 2 ай бұрын

Great episode! Please let me ask, does a spining black hole flatten out as well as any other objeft?

@gralant22 2 ай бұрын

Oh nevermind, at the end i got my answer😅

@mikeuk666 2 ай бұрын

The disc around it does

@louisrobitaille5810 Ай бұрын

6:09 Ceres is like Pluto's ancestor 😂. It too used to be a planet, in the 1600s iirc (with Juno, Pallas, and Vesta), then got demoted to "big asteroid" when we started to find more celestial objects in the asteroid belt and now it got promoted to "dwarf planet".

@BGTats144 2 ай бұрын

LMAO my twin brother is a flat earther and says Neil deGrasse Tyson is a globe earth priest WTF...he literally thinks globe earth is a religion..

@AK_14564 2 ай бұрын

Chuck looks like his been through something tough, i hope you are alright man, we love ya Great video as always

@kirandeepchakraborty7921 2 ай бұрын

Nothing short of brilliant ✨

@stembaba 2 ай бұрын

Wow, what a fascinating insight into the shape of planets and celestial bodies! Neil deGrasse Tyson's explanation about why things in the universe are round, both due to surface tension and gravity, really sheds light on the wonders of physics and the forces at play in space. It's incredible to think about how the universe itself conspires to create these spherical shapes, from planets to stars to galaxies. Even the exceptions, like Saturn's flattening due to rapid rotation or galaxies formed from disks of gas and dust, highlight the complexities and nuances of celestial formations. Truly mind-blowing stuff! 🌌🔵 #SpaceScience #UniverseWonders #CosmicPhysics

@sweepingtime 2 ай бұрын

I'm assuming that there is no fixed number as to when a mass makes the change from being uneven to becoming spherical, because many planets are made of different amounts of materials, thus becoming spheres at different rates.

@lukasmusinskas1951 2 ай бұрын

Love this channel

@notapplicable-zn9us 2 ай бұрын

Every time I listen to Neil deGrasse Tyson I want to become an Astrophysicist; even at my advance age. How many youth has he inspired to pursue this profession, I wonder?

@ReallyVerySexy 2 ай бұрын

That is so true. ❤❤❤