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Astronomy Cast Episode 305 from Monday May 6, 2013, the spacecraft that wouldn't die.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos, where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of the universe today, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gaia Professor at Southern Illinois University, Everett's Phil, in the director of CosmoQuest.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing Fraser?

Good, so I just need to sort of let people know that if you hear this sound in the background, there are sparrows just outside your window.

It's that time of year where the baby sparrows have fledged and they can fly, but they still want mommy and daddy to feed them.

So there's lots of angry, hungry baby sparrows in the eaves of our house, sometimes in the sighting of our house.

I'm very demanding.

Yeah, so it's tornadoes, it's sparrows, I think I'll take the sparrows.

So just another reminder that we're going to be doing, hang out a thorn on June 15th.

15th through 16th, we're starting at noon Eastern, we're carrying through midnight tell at least noon on Sunday the 16th noon Eastern.

We're working on pulling together guests, we're going to have mat art labs, death by puppets, Phil play will be joining us, we're going to have how to raise your geeks, Susan Murf.

And we're even going to bring you the cast of Beyond the Wall, and we're going to try and figure out all that crazy science that might possibly, but maybe not explain the weather in the Game of Thrones series.

Oh, great. Finally, someone will answer that.

Yeah, I don't know if we'll answer, but we'll try.

And you're going to be joining us with the virtual star party and more.

So go learn more by going to CosmoQuest.org slash blog.

It's the latest post up at the top of the page.

It may start to slide down, but we will keep a link at the top of the page up until the hang out a thorn.

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