Ep. 551: Missing Epochs - Observing before the CMBR

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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551: Missing Epochs - Observing before the CMBR Astronomy Cast 551: Missing Epochs - Observing before the CMBR by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is the earliest moment in the Universe that we can see with our telescopes, just a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang itself. What will it take for us to be able to fill in the missing gap? To see closer to the beginning of time itself?

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0:00.0	A astronomy cast, episode 551, missing epochs observing before the cosmic microwave background
0:15.0	radiation.
0:16.0	Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos, where we help you
0:20.5	understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.
0:23.8	I'm Fraser Kain, publisher of Universe Today, with me as always.
0:28.3	Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director
0:33.4	of Cosmic Quest.
0:34.4	Pamela, how are you doing?
0:36.1	I am doing well.
0:37.8	How are you doing?
0:39.1	I'm doing great.
0:40.1	We are recording at funny times.
0:42.7	Time and space have new meaning.
0:44.4	You are somewhere probably in an airplane or visiting friends somewhere.
0:48.1	I might also be in an airplane.
0:50.4	It's a good plan.
0:51.4	Attending a Christmas party in California, maybe.
0:55.6	So everything is just going to be up in the air.
0:58.7	But we are recording ahead of time so that the schedule, when these shows come out,
1:06.2	happens right on time.
1:08.6	That's the plan.
1:09.6	We're so organized.
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