Astronomycast Episode 526, Event Horizon Telescope and the first image, Black Hole.

Welcome to Astronomycast, a weekly, fax-based journey through the Cosmos where we help

you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of Universe Today, with me, as always, Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior

scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmos Quest.

Hey Pamela, how you doing?

I'm doing well. How are you on this? Oh my god, do you get to sleep so

once a week?

It has been the craziest week that I can remember in recent, in my recent space journalism history.

Obviously, the one that was all hands on deck was what is going to be the topic for today,

but we, the bear sheet lander, obviously crashed on the moon, which is sad.

Our thoughts to all the people who worked on it, and I really hope you take another crack at it.

And of course, the successful launch of the Falcon Heavy, all three boosters landed successfully.

It was amazing.

The coverage, the SpaceX coverage of that whole mission was perfect, except they lost the camera

feed as the central booster was landing. And so it was like, did it land it land?

And then they, they, they cut out. And then you're like, I don't know. And then,

and then it cuts back in there. It is standing on, of course, I still love you. So that was great.

And apparently they did catch or they, they fished out the fairings from the ocean.

And so every part of this mission was full of wind.

And, and it is the most SpaceX thing ever that they lose the video just as it gets to the

barge. It's, it's like that is pretty much a gimmick. It happens every time. Yeah, it's,

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