Ep. 649: Highlights From NASA's Holiday Ruining History

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 649: Highlights From NASA's Holiday Ruining History by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Have you ever noticed that significant space and astronomy events seem to happen during the holidays? It's not a coincidence. There's actually a reason why. Today we'll talk about some of the key events that happened during holidays and the underlying rationale.

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0:00.0	Oh
0:30.0	A astronomy cast episode 649 why does everything happen on the holidays?
0:55.3	Welcome to astronomy cast our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos
0:58.6	We help you understand not only what we know but how we know what we know I'm
1:02.8	Frizer Kane I'm the publisher of universe today. I've been a space and astronomy
1:06.4	journalist for over 20 years with me is Dr. Pamela Kay a senior scientist for
1:11.2	the planetary science institute and the director of cosmocrest. Hey Pamela how
1:15.0	you doing? I am doing well I am super excited that this is our pen ultimate show
1:23.8	Our pen ultimate show and next week so normally we would like end the season
1:30.3	with the show that we recorded before 4th of July but with JWST's images
1:35.3	coming out next week we're hanging on a little bit longer than normal. Yeah so
1:40.0	we're going to stick around for two extra week two extra shows and be able to
1:44.4	talk about the images of the first images from from James Webb but we'll be
1:50.2	a couple of days late in when we record it because the images are coming out on
1:54.2	the 12th so we'll probably record it on the 13th and then but I think it'll
1:58.6	the episode will still come into your hands at roughly the same time so you
2:02.9	don't need to worry about it but we will be changing our schedule for if you
2:07.0	want to watch the show live we'll be changing the schedule so that we will be
2:10.5	able to talk about it after the fact so so stay tuned for that it'll be this
2:16.1	season will definitely go out with a bang hopefully not with a bang hopefully
2:21.0	more with pretty pictures sure I metaphorically have you ever noticed that
2:29.2	significant space and astronomy events seemed to happen during the holidays
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