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Astronomycast Episode 178th Monday, February 22nd, 2010.

Mysteries of the Universe Part 1

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

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 Universe today.

And with me is Dr. Pamela Gampre-Fesser at Southern Illinois University, Evertsville.

Hi Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing World Fraser. How are you doing?

Very well. I had a great trip down in the United States.

I took the kids on an impromptu road trip.

We went down through California and Disneyland and San Diego Zoo and all that.

It was really good. And the weather was nice.

That's awesome.

Yeah, it was good. And you were in South Africa.

The irony, of course, is you were in America while I was out of the country.

On the wrong side of the United States.

So now we're all finished with the Milky Way.

It's time to move on to the biggest mysteries of all.

The mysteries of the Universe.

Let's wonder about dark matter and dark energy and the very nature of reality itself.

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