Let's try to be cast episode 553.

What we're looking forward to in 2020.

Welcome to the Stronomy Cast, our weekly facts-based journey through the Cosmos, to where we

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

I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of University and with me is always Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior

scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of CosmQuest.

Hey Pamela, how you doing?

I am doing well.

I survived our 40-hour string last weekend and we are doing good and it's looking like

2020 has the potential to be a explosively awesome year.

Oh, I hope in a good way.

All right, well it's hard to believe it, but we survived another trip around the sun.

Now it's time to take a whole journey all over again, but with new news.

Let's take a look at some of the space and astronomy stories that we're looking forward

to in 2020.

Yeah, of course the big news is that Battle Juice is definitely probably dimming.

Yes, so there's no probably on it.

Battle Juice is currently dimming to the point that it is a lower magnitude, a lower brightness,

which is a higher number of magnitudes because astronomers do stuff backwards.

No, no, it all just depends on whether you're above or below the zero.

Yes, but I guess no, it is a bigger hold on.

The large number, the faint or the object?

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