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Astronomycast, episode 291 from Monday, January 28, 2013, shock waves.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos, where 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 Day, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay at Professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

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

Doing great. So this is one of those episodes pulled out of time and space, and it's all wibbly wobbly, timey, whimy.

In that we're recording this about three weeks after the date that we're posting it.

And so today's topic, which is shock waves, is kind of apropos, because when we're recording this, it's actually in February, and the meteor just hit Russia.

And so we thought we already had shock waves on our list of topics, but we thought it would be cool to cover the topic.

So when we're talking about things that it sounds like we're predicting the future, we're actually not.

No, where we are just taking a topic that was very relevant and throwing it into the, into the recent stream of episodes.

So yeah.

And then the other thing is that I guess if people don't catch us in time, we're going to be at South by Southwest from March 8th,

well, March 7th to March 11th, but specifically the 8th, 9th and 10th.

And we're going to be joining NASA and Microsoft and a bunch of other people to, to hopefully run some live star parties.

There's going to be amateur astronomers out with telescopes.

We're going to be haunting that area.

It's going to be a live model of the, of the James Webb Space Telescope.

And we're going to try and run some actual live events right from South by Southwest.

So it's going to be a.

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