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Astronomy Cast

Ep. 621: Gas Giants

Astronomy Cast

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Astronomy Cast Ep. 621: Gas Giants by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay For the longest time the only gas giant planets that we knew about were Jupiter and Saturn. But now, in the age of extrasolar planets, astronomers have discovered thousands of gas giants across almost as many star systems. What new discoveries have been made about gas giants, both here in the solar system and across the Milky Way?

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Astronomy cast episode 621 gas giants

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Welcome to Astronomy cast are weekly fax based journey through the cosmos

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We help you understand not only what we know but how we know what we know

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I'm Fr. Cain publisher of university with me as always is Dr. Pamela gay

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I see you just for the planetary science institute and the director of cosmocrest. Hey Pamela. How you doing?

1:09.6

I I'm doing okay. I am currently looking forward to the discussion

1:15.0

I know I'm going to have this evening with my Canadian husband about how we need to leave the US

1:19.8

well, well, so counterpoint

1:21.8

My part of Canada has been detached from the rest of Canada thanks to brutal weather

1:31.0

So you probably heard we got we got hit with a an atmospheric river that dropped

1:37.0

Hundreds of millimeters of rain over the course of 24 hours

1:42.1

washing out every single road highway bridge

1:46.4

Um

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Railway line leading from from the wet from Vancouver out to the rest of the country

1:53.8

So we're logistically cut off from the rest of Canada although everything into the state still works

1:59.2

So we can still you know pick up American food which is which is great but uh, but yeah, so it's so it's pretty weird and

2:07.6

I think things really it's gonna take us months to get back online. So I will give people regular updates

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um

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As as we go through this unfolding disaster we're definitely in

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You know, we've declared an an emergency and yeah, I'm I missed me and I didn't take my power out and we got a light

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