Philip Plait, PhD (born September 30, 1964) grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. , and got his first telescope when he was 5 years old. He attended the University of Michigan and received his PhD in astronomy at the University of Virginia.
Plait is an astronomer, sci-fi dork, TV documentary talking head, and all-around science enthusiast. The author of Bad Astronomy and Death from the Skies!, he writes the Bad Astronomy newsletter and lives in Colorado
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