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Astronomy Cast Episode 320, Layers of the Sun

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos

to 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 University Day, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University,

Edwardsville, and the director of CosmoQuest. Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well. How are you doing, Fraser?

Doing really well, so this is a very special episode of Astronomy Cast.

I feel like every episode is a very special episode, but this is a very special episode of Astronomy Cast

that we are actually recording live as a Google plus hangout from the YouTube studio in Los Angeles.

And my attic.

Yeah, the YouTube creator space in Los Angeles and Pamela's attic in Southern Illinois.

And you can all watch along as we use it.

So we're actually in a green room at the creator space.

And hopefully you'll be able to see a little bit of behind the scenes when we will post more videos later on.

So what's happening there?

Well, I think the most exciting thing is its harvest season, which means the leaves are yellow and the pollen levels are high,

but the apple cider is in large amounts.

So a couple of quick announcements.

One announcement is that for those who watched, we did a special episode of the Weekly Space Hangout just on Friday to talk about Common Ison.

This was actually a collaboration with the Discovery Channel, Discovery Channel Canada and the Discovery Science Channel out of the United States.

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