Ep. 602: The New Colors of Gamma Rays - Getting Shorter

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 602: The New Colors of Gamma Rays - Getting Shorter by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay The Earth's atmosphere protects us from a Universe that is definitely trying to kill us. But it also blocks our view of the entire cosmos, like seeing X-rays and gamma radiation. Space telescopes are changing our view of the most extreme events in the Universe.

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0:00.0	A Astronomy Cast Episode 602, New Colors of Gamma Radiation.
0:12.4	Welcome to Astronomy Cast, a weekly fact-based journey to the Cosmos, where we help you
0:15.7	understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.
0:18.7	I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of Universe Today and with me, as always, Dr. Pamela Kay.
0:23.7	I see your scientist for the Planetary Sciences, you and the Director of Cosmicquest.
0:28.1	Hey Pamela, how you doing?
0:29.1	I'm doing well.
0:30.1	How are you doing, Fraser?
0:31.8	Good.
0:32.8	Oh, man.
0:33.8	Summer has already arrived.
0:35.5	We skipped spring.
0:37.0	We've gone straight to summer.
0:39.2	Temperatures are ludicrous here.
0:40.9	It's just amazing.
0:41.9	It's amazing.
0:42.9	It's so funny.
0:43.9	It's like one day, everything is dark and dismal.
0:45.6	And the next day, you're wondering if this is the year we buy in our conditioner.
0:49.9	It's crazy.
0:50.9	We're having full-on spring here today, but tomorrow it's supposed to snow.
0:56.9	So I'm looking at our apple tree and hoping for the best right now, because it was in full
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