With more than 1600 planets detected around other stars, surely we know how many planets live closer to home in our own solar system, right? Not exactly! EE sorts through the tumultuous history, including a recent intriguing discovery, of the search for the mysterious, distant Planet X. Read the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/1NYUxyz

EE 179 The Search for Planet X

How do astronomers photograph a black hole? How often do planes get hit by lightning? What does the EPA actually do? Science is all around us and transforming our world at a rapid pace. Extragalactic astrophysicist Sabrina Stierwalt is here to guide you through it. She'll help you make sense of the everyday and the once-in-a-lifetime. Rights of Albert Einstein are used with permission of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Represented exclusively by Greenlight.

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