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Ep. 616: Hangout-A-Thon Episode 1 - The Great Observatories

Astronomy Cast

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 616: Hangout-A-Thon Episode 1 - The Great Observatories by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Well, you're familiar with the Hubble Space Telescope of course, but it's just one of NASA's Great Observatories. After Hubble came 3 more incredible telescopes. Each greater than the last! (That's not true… The first one was the greatest.) But together they would fill in almost the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

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Episodes 616 the Great Observatories. Welcome to astronomy Castle, weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos where we help you understand not only while

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where we help you understand not only what we know,

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but how we know what we know.

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I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of University Today,

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with me as always is Dr. Pamela Gay,

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a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute

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and the Director of CosmoQuest.

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Hey, Pamela, how you doing?

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I am doing well.

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I have been streaming for almost 13 hours now.

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Some of you out there listening to this

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aren't watching live.

1:24.9

We are recording this episode of Astronomy Cast

1:27.4

during the 2021 Hangoutathon as we work to raise funds

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to keep all of our programs going.

1:35.4

But we are taking this time to record a very special episode

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of Astronomy Cast on a topic.

1:42.1

Great episode.

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Great episode.

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Yeah, I can't believe we haven't done this yet.

1:46.5

Well, we've done it in pieces.

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