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Astronomy Cast, episode 278 from Monday, October 29, 2012, animals in space.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, 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 Cain, I'm the publisher of university and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

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

Good, so as we are recording this right now, Hurricane Sandy is chewing up the eastern seaboard of the United States.

We want to send our warm wishes and hopes for safety for everyone involved there.

Please keep your head down.

And we were just noting this before the show.

If it does not count your power, enjoy this opportunity to see the Milky Way for the first time.

Except how are they going to hear us if they've had their power?

Never mind.

Yeah, metaphysics.

They're going to watch it on YouTube through their cell phones and then they're going to look up and notice

that there's a cloud of stars in the sky.

It's a great use of battery life during emergency circumstances.

Yeah, exactly.

And I also wanted to think, you know, I put a quick post into astronomy cast a couple of days ago,

sort of mentioning our new super awesome phases of the moon app, which we've just updated.

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