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Astronomy cast episode 642 is the Sun normal?

Welcome to Astronomy cast for weekly facts based journey through 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 Universe today with me as always is Dr Pamela Gay.

I'm senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Wrestling. Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I am doing well. It is exciting times around here. My hair and my camera both decided it is time to celebrate the 80s and glitch and proper max headroom and frizzy curly style.

I think this works. We are going to go with it.

I caught humidity working on both of them at the same time. It is just wrecking cameras in hair.

Before we get into this week's episode, I just want to do a rare, shameless self promotion for something that we are doing on Universe today.

So as you probably know, well maybe people don't know this but when you support the Patreon for Astronomy cast, you are not actually supporting me or Pamela.

You are supporting the team that maintains Astronomy cast week after week after week. Our editors, our producers, everybody, the server hosting fees, all of that.

But we don't take a salary from this to nonprofit. But we both have Patreons. So for the Universe today Patreon, which supports the work I do with all of the giant team of writers that we have on Universe today, all of that, the video editors, auto editing and so on, we have been hovering on this 800 to 900 mark.

And people have been asking me to do some kind of book club. And so we decided we will do that if we can reach 1000 Patrons for Universe today.

So if you go to patreon.com slash universe today, join as a patron, help us reach that 1000 mark.

And it is a bit of a race we have mentioned in the Center channel. We are going to try and hit 1000 Patrons before either Space Launch System or the Space Ex-Star Ship launch.

Can you help us just show that we're the real rocket ship here? Pamela?

That is amazing. And yeah, we over at CosmoQuest, we are in the process of doing our final push, just like Astronomy cast through to mid-July and that hiatus.

And we're in the process right now of planning out this year's CosmoQuesticon. Normally we do cause my questicon in July, but no lies. I have no air conditioning in my house. And I like my team.

So we are not going to do CosmoQuesticon in July because I like my team. So instead we're doing an October, but our goal is to have everything planned out by July.

And to sell enough tickets that we don't have to do a hangout a thon this year. So we're selling tickets, links are over at CosmoQuest.org for our October event.

It's themed rockets and robots and we have an amazing slate of people. So go get your tickets today.

Awesome. Alright, so we've always assumed that we lived in a perfectly normal star system with a normal star, normal planets. It's all normal. But with our modern understanding of billions of stars, just how normal is our sun anyway?

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