Neil DeGrasse Tyson Finds Kryton, or at its sun

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson Finds Kryton, or at its sun

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It is, in Earth terms, LHS 2520 a red M-dwarf 27 light years away. The Kryptonians call it Rao. From our perspective it's in the southern hemisphere constellation Corvus (The Crow).

And for some reason I can't make the embedded YouTube thing work here, so here's a llink to a six minute YouTube video where he discusses the questions posed by DC comics and how he went about helping to solve them.
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Your YT link is httpS, you need to cut it to http for it to work.
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Poo. Can't seem to find a link without the "https:" Does the link take you to a viewable video at least?
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Broomstick wrote:Poo. Can't seem to find a link without the "https:" Does the link take you to a viewable video at least?
Um, https is secure connection, you get such link when you're logged into youtube or gmail. To make it unsecured, and this embeddable, simply delete s from link:

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Not exactly what she asked. Yes, the original link works just fine.
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