Ep. 15: Listener Questions Answered

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Science

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2006

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We finally get organized enough deal with several listener questions: isnâ��t dark matter just regular stuff we canâ��t see? how can parts of the Universe be expanding faster than the speed of light? what will Betelgeuse look like when it explodes as a supernova? whatâ��s the speed of gravity? All these and more questions are answered.

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0:00.0	Astronomycast Episode 15 for Monday, December 18, 2006.
0:10.0	Listen to your questions answered.
0:12.5	Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos, where we help
0:16.5	you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.
0:20.2	My name is Fraser Kane and I'm the publisher of Universe Today, and with me is Dr. Pamela
0:23.9	Gay, a professor at the University of Southern Illinois, Edwardsville.
0:28.0	At Pamela?
0:29.0	Hey Fraser, how's it going?
0:31.0	Good, good.
0:32.0	Well, I'm really excited this week because we got lots of questions.
0:35.0	Actually, we've been kind of holding on to telling people we'd be answering questions, we've
0:38.6	been holding on to them for the better part of three months now, so we've got a bunch
0:43.5	of good questions to go through.
0:45.5	And we also got some great audio questions last week, which was wonderful.
0:52.3	So we were able to play a couple of those.
0:57.6	And if anyone else has questions from here on out, we'll be doing these questions shows
1:02.9	regularly.
1:03.9	So if you have questions either on an episode that we do or you've got just a more general
1:09.8	question about astronomy, just send it in and we're happy to give you a phone call and
1:14.4	say, record your side of the call so that we can actually get your voice on recording
1:21.2	to do the show.
1:22.8	So are you all ready?
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