Emily Kwong

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4,795 appearances 100 recordings 11 series first heard Jul 2025 last heard 16 Sep

Emily Kwong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 98 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 26.

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Short Wave · Shooting stars are just pea-sized rocks... and other space wonders · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

Well, that's because you are a real scientist, Regina Barber.

I imagine when you were a kid and gazed into the night sky, you asked technical things of the cosmos.

Like, what are you made of chemically?

I mean, you're not wrong, Emily.

I wanted to know what a meteor was.

You know, I didn't take it at face value as a little kid that they were actually stars falling from the sky.

And the truth of what they are is much cooler.

So today's shortwave asks the question.

Twinkle, twinkle, little shooting star.

Tell us what you actually are.

I brought my friend and NASA team member, Melissa Rice, to tell us what exactly we're putting our hopes and dreams on, which many of you know are not exactly stars, but we'll talk about what they really are and all their varieties.

I'm your host, Emily Kwong.

And I'm scientist-in-residence Regina Barber.

And this is Shortwave, the daily science podcast from NPR.

Okay, Regina, so through your powerful connections as an astrophysicist, you managed to get us an interview with a real-life NASA scientist to help us understand the true meaning of shooting stars.

Yeah, so I brought my friend Melissa Rice.

She's a planetary scientist.

She works on Mars rovers.

So cool.

And I like to tell people she drives robots on another planet.

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