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Astronomycast, episode 207 from Monday, November 15, 2010, Lyman Spitzer.

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

My name is Fraser Cain, I'm the publisher of University, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University at Woodsville.

How are you doing?

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

Good, how is your spare bedroom doing?

My spare bedroom is less overwhelmingly filled with things, but a new shipment is coming soon, so please order more t-shirts.

And we have skinny people ones too.

Great, so yeah, as we mentioned in the last show, we've got t-shirts, CDs, posters, all kinds of cool astronomy cast related stuff available.

You just go to astroghear.org, and you can see what we have on offer.

And yeah, and you can buy it and clear up Pamela's spare bedroom.

And I have to congratulate our audience, because you guys are overwhelmingly thin.

It was the most surreal discovery.

Smalls and mediums sold out first, and that was awesome and odd.

Lots of kids too.

So that's great.

All right, well time for another action-packed double-episode of Astronomycast.

This week we focus on Lyman Spitzer, a theoretical physicist and an astronomer who worked on star formation and plasma physics.

And then of course, this will lead us into next week's episode where we talk about the mission that bears his name, the Spitzer Space Telescope.

Now, when I hear the name Spitzer, I recognize it because of the mission, but when I hear the name Lyman, that also makes me think of something.

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