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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 the universe today and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University Everett'sville and the director of CosmonQuest.

Hey Pam, how are you doing?

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

Good, I'm just returning back from a week of recording video down at the YouTube LA studios.

And so we've got tons of good stuff and that'll all be appearing in the YouTube feed on the universe today over the next couple of months probably.

And you got to experience what it's like to record in some place that is not only warm because I know we both freeze to death in our studios but also have like all the bells and whistles which is kind of awesome.

Yeah, it was great. It was just amazing to be able to use all of this all this great gear, cameras, lighting equipment.

Yeah, it was great and I really I really appreciated their assistance as well when we didn't know what we were doing which was most of the time.

So hopefully this will allow us to provide more professional recording type stuff in the future.

It's a call.

It's a call.

It's a call.

Just as a reminder to everyone that we record astronomy cast every Monday at noon Pacific three Eastern as a live Google plus hangout on air.

You can find that video in a bunch of places over on universe today.

We post it on Google plus on YouTube on Cosmo Quest.

So if you want to watch us live and then interact and ask us questions, you can do that every week Monday except for next week when we'll be recording a different time.

But normally every Monday at day.

All right, let's get rocking with the episode.

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