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19 Facts About Philip Plait

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Philip Plait has worked as part of the Hubble Space Telescope team, images and spectra of astronomical objects, as well as engaging in public outreach advocacy for NASA missions.

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Philip Plait has written two books, Bad Astronomy and Death from the Skies.

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Philip Plait has appeared in several science documentaries, including How the Universe Works on the Discovery Channel.

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Philip Plait has said he became interested in astronomy when his father brought home a telescope when Plait was 5 years old or so.

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Philip Plait attended the University of Michigan and received his PhD in astronomy at the University of Virginia in 1995 with a thesis on supernova SN 1987A, which he studied with the Supernova Intensive Study .

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Philip Plait went on to perform web-based public outreach for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and other NASA-funded missions while at Sonoma State University from 2000 to 2007.

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Philip Plait established the badastronomy website in 1998 and the corresponding blog in 2005.

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Philip Plait's work has appeared in the Encyclopædia Britannica Yearbook of Science and the Future and Astronomy magazine.

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Philip Plait is a frequent guest on the SETI Institute's weekly science radio show Big Picture Science.

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Philip Plait has contributed to a number of television and cinema productions, either onscreen as host or guest or in an advisory role offscreen.

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Philip Plait has appeared in numerous science documentaries and programs including How the Universe Works.

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12.

Philip Plait was a science advisor for the 2016 movie Arrival and the 2017 CBS TV Series Salvation.

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Philip Plait was the head science writer of the 2017 show Bill Nye Saves the World on Netflix.

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From 2008 to 2009, Philip Plait served as the president of the James Randi Educational Foundation, which promotes scientific skepticism, a position he eventually stepped down from in order to focus on the "Bad Universe" television project.

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Philip Plait has been a regular speaker at widely attended science and skepticism events and conferences, such as The Amazing Meeting, Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, and DragonCon.

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16.

Philip Plait writes and speaks on topics related to scientific skepticism, such as advocating in favor of widespread immunization.

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17.

Setter and Philip Plait run Science Getaways, a vacation company that provides science-based adventures.

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Philip Plait began publishing explanatory Internet postings on science in 1993.

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Philip Plait's conference explained how to defend Earth from asteroids.

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