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Astronomy Cast Episode 326, Atmosphere Dust.

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

We'll help you understand only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of University and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay,

a professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and the director of CosmoQuest.

Hey Pam, how are you doing?

I'm doing well. How are you doing today?

Good. Last week we were complaining about cold weather, but now it's been relatively balmy for the West Coast.

I totally hate you with love.

No, we have like four or five. It's going to be a white Christmas here unless something radical and unpredictable happens.

So we get a lot of questions from people about our questions show, which is what we used to do back in the day.

We would do our regular episode and then we would do a question show and people wondered,

how can we do the question show?

We do the question show every week live on Google+.

So if you ever want to join us and ask your questions about space and astronomy,

just watch us live on Google+.

We start at 12 o'clock Pacific 3 Eastern and we take about half an hour to do the show,

which we're doing right now, but then we also take your questions about space and astronomy

and handle them at the end.

So people are learning about that.

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