Ep. 550: Missing Epochs - Observing the Cosmic Dark Ages

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Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 7 December 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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550: Missing Epochs - Observing the Cosmic Dark Ages Astronomy Cast 550: Missing Epochs - Observing the Cosmic Dark Ages by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Powerful observatories like Hubble and the Very Large Telescope have pushed our vision billions of light-years into the Universe, allowing us to see further and further back in time. But there are regions which we still haven't seen: the Cosmic Dark Ages. What's it going to take to observe some of these earliest moments in the Universe?

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0:00.0	It's finally cast, episode 550, missing E-pots, serving the cosmic dark gauges.
0:13.6	Welcome to the Toronto Becast, our weekly facts-based journey through the Cosmos will help you
0:17.5	understand not only what we know but how we know what we know.
0:20.2	I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of Universe Today with me as always, Dr. Pamela Gay, senior
0:25.3	scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of CosmicQuest.
0:29.5	Hey Pam, how you doing?
0:30.5	I'm doing well, Fraser.
0:32.5	How are you doing?
0:33.5	Good.
0:34.5	I hope you had a festive and fun Thanksgiving time with all your friends and we're family.
0:41.6	I did friends giving.
0:43.6	I was with some good friends of the show, David Joseph Wesley.
0:47.0	You did our theme music.
0:48.6	I crashed at his house with a bunch of other friends and oh my goodness, wait too much.
0:54.5	But we also arted a lot.
0:56.1	So you can now find my art up on Society6.
0:59.8	So, societyslicks.com slash star strider.
1:02.9	Go get yourself a planet.
1:05.4	I still recommend our version of this is cakes, cakes giving.
1:11.1	I like that idea.
1:13.1	Yeah, we just make cake and so I'm trying to figure out how to turn Christmas into just
1:16.8	pie, pies, miss.
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