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Astronomy Cast Episode 402, Gravity Eyes, see the invisible with the force.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, a weekly fax based journey through the cosmos.

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

My name is Fritz McCain, 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, like so much at the US. I'm getting snowed on today and snow is always really exciting.

Really? Oh, it's so warm here.

It's like it's 13 degrees, it's beautiful sunny.

That's Celsius, everyone. Yeah.

That's Celsius. Yeah, we're done with winter. We're into spring.

This is, you know, the groundhogs didn't see a shadow, so it's smooth sailing from here on out.

See, our groundhog stopped hibernating yesterday.

Like, she was out eating the grass, and then today she's getting snowed on.

So we basically went from being like 15, 20 degrees Celsius to being 15, 20 degrees Fahrenheit.

Yeah. Yeah, groundhogs weren't meant for that.

Just to be clear, groundhog, this is the Punxitani groundhog, which is obviously the most accurate method of

weather forecasting known to man. Take that NASA, NOAA.

Whereas my groundhog is named George.

Do you detect, do you do your weather forecasting with your local groundhog and not the official Punxitani

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