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Astronomycast Episode 406, stellar cannibalism.

Welcome to Astronomycast, a weekly, facts-based journey through the cosmos.

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

I'm Professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and the director of CosmoFest.

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

I'm doing great. I was mentioning before the show. It's the hearing run season here on the west coast of Canada.

It's wildlife to an extent. You can't even imagine. Hundreds of eagles, hundreds of thousands of seagulls,

herring row, piling up on the beaches, snow drifts. It's a sea lions, whales.

If you ever want to see the greatest accumulation of nature ever, check it out, west coast, in March.

The Mississippi estuary is awesome, but nowhere near that awesome. You truly have gotten the massive awesome birds and mammals.

Yeah, let's get two of them. We get one in the spring, and we get the one in the fall when the salmon do their run up the river.

It's a game that eagles all come back and feast. But yeah, it's a great time.

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