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Astronomy Cast, episode 282 for Monday, November 26, 2012.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our book, the facts-based journey through the cosmos.

We'll 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 Day, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gaye, a professor at Southern Illinois University.

A balance film.

I'm doing well, just shivering a little bit, which somehow seems appropriate for discussing the seasons.

Yes, exactly.

Yes, we are recording in very cold places in our houses, and that's going to come through the recordings.

We're going to try and keep the energy level up.

Ask very warm questions.

We're acutely aware of the changing seasons in our northern hemisphere homes today.

One thing that I would like people to know is, as always, record this episode as a live hangout on Google+.

You can come, you can watch us record the episode live.

One of the cool things that we do is we stick around after we do our recording for about half an hour or so,

and answer questions and sort of continue the conversation.

We're happy to both answer and discuss the topics that we're talking about in the show,

but also just anything about space and astronomy.

If you have some weird what-if scenarios, they don't require too much math.

We can throw them at Pamela and just demonstrate her massive brain.

And traumatize me in the process.

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