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Astronomycast episode 412, the color of the universe.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos, where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of the university and with me is Dr. Pam Leque, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and the director of Cosmerequest.

Hey, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing?

Well, come back from the UK.

Thank you.

Check the public.

Yes.

It is a beautiful country. I highly recommend it, but if you go in the spring, you may get hay fever and snow simultaneously and that sucks.

Yes, that you bring all the crazy weather with you.

So just to let people know, we're kind of nearing the end of the press in verse.

Yeah, it's so we started the show back in 2006 and we had Rebecca Bemro's Fetter do some editing for us for a while.

I did some editing for a while. I should not be allowed to do audio editing.

And then we hired an actual audio editor, Preston Gibson.

He was an undergraduate here at SIUE at the time.

And for almost 10 years, he has been the person that made our episodes sound awesome for all of you.

And this is his last season. He's worked with us while he was an undergraduate. He's worked with us while he was a graduate student.

He is now a full-fledged adult out in the normal workforce.

And he's actually going to focus on his real career.

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