Ep. 559: The Surface of the Sun

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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559: The Surface of the Sun Astronomy Cast 559: The Surface of the Sun by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay A brand new telescope has completed on Maui's Haleakala, and it has just one job: to watch the Sun in unprecedented detail. It's called the Daniel K. Inouye telescope, and the engineering involved to get this telescope operational are matched by the incredible resolution of its first images.

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0:00.0	A astronomy cast, episode 559, the surface of the sun.
0:12.6	Welcome to Astronomy Cast, a weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos, where we help you
0:16.2	understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.
0:19.0	I'm Fraser Cain, publisher of Universe Today.
0:21.4	With me, as always, is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute
0:27.4	and the Director of Cosmic Wquest.
0:29.8	Hey, Pamela, how you doing?
0:30.8	I'm doing well, and I'm so pleased to say that since our last episode, when we said that
0:37.1	we're looking for help with Cosmic Wests open-source project, I've had a number of astronomy
0:42.6	cast people show up on Cosmic Wests Discord, and we're pulling together a great group of
0:48.8	humans.
0:49.8	So, thank you all the humans out there interested in helping us with Cosmic Wests.
0:55.5	I'm a let's say a person didn't hear that first call for help and may still want to throw
1:01.6	some code into the, I don't know, my analogy is for the card here.
1:08.0	Falling into the GitHub.
1:09.0	Yeah, throwing some code at the GitHub.
1:12.6	How can people get involved?
1:13.8	The best thing that you can do is go over to CosmicWquest.org, click on the Discord
1:18.5	link, and say hi in the Volunteers Reporting for Duty Channel, and we will add you
1:25.5	to our coders group, add you to the GitHub repo, and off we shall fly open-source away.
1:32.8	That sounds great.
1:34.3	All right, so a brand new telescope has been completed on Maui's Haliakla, and it has
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