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We know how the stars shine, but how do you\xa0make\xa0a star?\xa0We take an all-night ride on a high-flying jet \u2013 an airborne observatory called SOFIA \u2013 to watch astronomers investigate how a star is born.\nAs for how the universe was born, we know about the Big Bang but modern physics suggests that similar cosmic explosions may be happening all the time, and even hint that we could \u2013 in principle \u2013 create a new universe in a laboratory.\xa0What does this mean, and how could we do it?\nFrom stars to universes, how it all came to be.\nGuests:\n\n\nZeeya Merali\u2013 Journalist and editor for the Foundational Questions Institute, author of\xa0A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes\n\n\n\n Nick Veronico\u2013 Manager of SOFIA Communications for NASA Ames Research Center and Universities Space Research Association\n\n\nFelix Reimann\u2013 Freelance photographer\n\n\nHuub Rottgering\u2013 Director of Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands\n\n\nDietmar Lilienthal\u2013 Manager, DLR SOFIA Institute, Germany\n\n\n Cornelia Pabst\u2013 Astronomer, Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands\n\n\n Charlie Kaminski\u2013 Engineering and Maintenance Manager, SOFIA\n\n\nDavid McAllister\u2013 Deputy Program Manager for Operations, SOFIA, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices