Ep. 597: The Expansion of the Universe

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 597: The Expansion of the Universe by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay It's been a while since we checked to make sure the Universe was still expanding. Yeah, apparently, that's still a thing. But in the last few years powerful new telescopes and expansive surveys have given us much more knowledge about what's happening. Especially at the earliest times.

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0:00.0	A Stronomycast Episode 597 The expansion of the universe revisited.
0:13.0	Welcome to Astronomycast, her weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos to really help
0:16.4	you understand not only what we know but how we know what we know.
0:19.7	I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of the universe today, with me as always as Dr. Pamela Gay,
0:24.1	a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of CosmonQuest.
0:28.6	Hey Pam, how are you doing?
0:29.8	I am doing well.
0:31.7	How are you doing, Fraser?
0:33.4	Okay.
0:35.6	There's been a big outbreak of COVID here on Vancouver Island.
0:40.2	It's been pretty bad.
0:41.9	My son's high school had, I think, eight cases and they had to quarantine about 90 people.
0:50.1	It got into a nursing home here in the region.
0:54.7	There are a couple of schools, so it's like the worst case of COVID.
0:59.0	I know I'd been sort of glad to be living on an island far and away from everything,
1:04.4	but we still have to keep our defenses up and clearly it broke through the defenses
1:12.8	and it's been having a party here in my part of Vancouver Island.
1:19.4	Yeah, it's kind of a pain.
1:22.9	It seems like this is going around.
1:24.4	I'm personally, we're trying to quarantine our different segments of our house.
1:31.1	My husband got some stomachs, something last weekend, not the one that was yesterday
1:37.4	but the one that was a week before and ended up in the ER and they had him on mask and
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