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Astronomycast, episode 297 from Monday, March 11, 2013. Space stations, part two, mere.

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 Kane, I'm the publisher of university and with me is Dr. Pamela Gaea, professor at Southern Illinois University.

How are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing?

Good, good, a little stuffed up, a little bit of a head cold, chest cold thing going on, and I know you're suffering from your seasonal allergies.

Yeah, and the seasonal allergies like to cause other things to get to grow with the pollen and the sinuses is so charming.

Yeah, so it's beautiful, but you don't want to go out and check it out because it's just going to attack you with its colony goodness.

Death from the plants, instead of death from the skies.

Death from the plants, triphids.

All right, so we've got any interesting announcements?

Do we still have any openings for people looking to join our astronomy classes?

Yes, so there are, and this only pertains to the people who are watching it live.

There are five more hours to sign up for the few remaining spots in our cosmology class.

So go to CosmoQuest.org slash classes to learn more, and we will be repeating that later on.

So go express your interest in the email if you want to sign up for our later date.

And Dr. Mr. Francis, he joined us on, I guess he's the the Buller Hat astronomer.

Yes.

But he joined us on the weekly space hangout on Friday and sort of got to tackle the big updates to dark matter,

the potential discovery of dark matter.

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