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Astronomy Cast, episode 332, stellar collisions.

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

We will help you understand only what we know, but how do we know what we know?

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of the universe today, and with me, it's Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.

I'm the director of the cosmic quest. Pamela, how are you doing?

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

Good. How are you feeling? You're a little sick last week.

Today is my first day without taking all the cough and sinus and everything medicine, and so I seemed to have my brain back, and my voice is mostly back.

And like last week where I sounded like I'd cross-bred with a garbage disposal unit.

It wasn't pretty.

No, no, we were trying to catch up. We were like, can we use it?

There's no way I can be able to record on the money.

Maybe on the Wednesday, you're like, I think so. No, there's no way I can record on the Wednesday.

And then on the Friday, I think no, there's no way you're recording on the Friday.

You literally were not even getting out of bed on the Wednesday, and there was no way you were going to record

going into a coughing fit on the Friday.

So we just started to pull the plug, and now we're going to catch up this week.

I think I slept as much last week as in the entire month of December.

Good. Well, you need to rest.

And now, as I mentioned in the pre-show, fortunately, someone came along and just did all your work for you.

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