A astronomy cast, episode 591.

What are we going to do with all that space junk?

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts-based journey to the cosmos, where we help you understand

not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of University Day, with me as always is Dr. Pamela Gay.

I've seen your scientists for the planetary sciences, Stuart and Director of CosmicQuest.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well.

It's a new year.

We just survived covering the American Astronomical Society meeting.

And the days are finally getting longer thanks to the tilt of the Earth tilting towards

the sun.

Go, go tilt.

I heard a really troubling stat and I haven't looked into it too deeply, but that before

the internet age there were about 100 newspapers and television stations that had specific science

journalists who specialized.

There was a science section of the newspaper, a science section of the news.

There were specialists.

I can remember some of these people and we're now down to one.

There are-

Oh dear.

Essentially the career, the job of the science journalist is no longer existent in traditional

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