The Sharmicast Episode 464

First object from outside the solar system.

Welcome to Sharmicast, a 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 university and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay,

the director of technology and citizen science at the Astronomical Society the Pacific

and the director of cost-of-quest.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

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

Very well.

And is there some kind of news?

Maybe?

Give me news, give me anything to shamelessly self-promote.

Should we encourage people to go to our Patreon campaign?

Yes, yes, we should do that.

Go to our Patreon campaign.

So you can support Fraser and I by going to patreon.com slash astronomy cast.

And once our Patreon is consistently bringing in enough money to fund Susie and Chad, the

next step is we want to grow this project.

We want to do new and interesting things and we've been doing this as volunteers for 10

years and we'll keep doing it as volunteers.

But we'd love it if you gave us the freedom to get paid and put more effort into it and

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