This episode of Astronomycast is brought to you by Swinburn Astronomy Online, the world's longest running online astronomy degree program.

Visit astronomy.swin.edu.au for more information.

Astronomycast Episode 374, the Stern-Gurlach Experiment.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos, where we help you understand only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of Universe Today and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and the Director of Cosmic West. Hey Pamela, how you doing?

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

Good, although saying Director of Southern, professor of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is actually tough. I struggle with it every single week. I have struggled with it for almost 400 times now, but we made it through.

It line wraps.

Exactly, very long, very long title.

Okay, so we can talk about the handathon, but I think by the time people listen to this, it will have already happened.

It will, but it won't be too late to donate.

The weekend before this goes live on the internet, we are recording 36 straight hours of video on Google Hangouts and trying to raise money to keep Cosmic West going.

Without your help, we're kind of done for and I don't mean to sound black, but that is the actual literal truth.

I'm in the process of writing a giant NASA proposal, but if we get it, we won't get it until October and we need to keep things going until October.

And we can only do that with your help. So if you missed the Hangoutathon and you want to see me keep doing awesome citizen science projects that allow you to contribute to publishable NASA research, go donate.

Cosmic West dot org slash hangout a thon.

All one word every little bit helps $10 is more than an hour of a student's time and we need those students back.

That would be great.

And you know, you just watch, just watch Pamela go from a sane person to a crazy person over the course of 36.

You keep saying that, but it hasn't happened yet.

This third time is the charm.

I did confuse Prosecco and prosciutto last year, but that was a tongue twister.

...