Ep. 560: Betelgeuse

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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560: Betelgeuse Astronomy Cast 560: Betelgeuse by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay You might be surprised to hear that we've never done an episode of Astronomy Cast featuring Betelgeuse. Well, good news, this is that episode. Let's talk about the star, why it might be dimming, and what could happen if it explodes as a supernova.

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0:00.0	A Stronycast, episode 560.
0:08.0	Battlejuice.
0:09.0	Battlejuice.
0:10.0	Battlejuice.
0:11.0	Welcome to this Tronycast.
0:13.4	Our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos will help you understand not only what
0:17.1	we know, but how we know what we know.
0:19.2	I'm Frisercane, publisher of the universe today with me as always is Dr. Pamela Gay, a
0:23.9	senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of CosmoQuest.
0:28.1	Hey Pamela, how you doing?
0:29.4	I am doing well.
0:30.4	How are you doing, Frisercane?
0:32.6	I'm doing great.
0:34.4	And I mentioned this in the preamble, but I just wanted to say this again, which is a
0:39.4	huge congratulations to our good friend Dr. Edo Neal, who just announced that he's going
0:43.7	to be working at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in their media department.
0:48.0	Ian is a terrific science journalist, one of the best in the business, and it's a pretty
0:53.6	good fit that he's now working over at NASA.
0:56.5	He was the editor for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Mercury.
1:04.1	He has been a columnist for discovery and seeker.
1:06.6	He did some work with us at universe today, and this is great.
1:10.2	So congratulations Ian.
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