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Astronomy Cats

Episode 668

The Crisis in Cosmology

Welcome to Astronomy Cats for Weekly Facts Based Journey Through the Cosmos

We're helping to understand not only what we know but how we know what we know. I'm Fritz Rican,

the publisher of University with me is always his doctor Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the

planetary science institute and the director of Cosmology. Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I am doing well. How are you doing? Doing great. Yeah, nothing to report.

That I think in 2023 is really the best any of us can ever ask for. Yeah, the weather is fine,

the snow is gone. I'm getting out and doing a bunch of hikes and stuff in the nature even though

it's still kind of winter time but still. Gardens coming along. Thanks. I saw the comet last night.

It sucks but yeah it's gotten quite diffuse at this point so it's although it's bigger and brighter.

It's also more of a just a cloud. It's spread out so the weather isn't given places. It's surface

brightness is really low. That's right. So you really don't get that nice little tight nucleus with

the with the tail. You just get this. It looks like a little cloud in the sky but still it's easy

to find like it's it's so easy to find because it's it was right beside or some minor like right

beside the little dipper and then it's moving towards kathyopia. So if you have never seen a comet

you can't see with your eyes you but you can see it in a pair of binoculars or small telescope

it's easy to find and that's nice as opposed to one where it's in a in a fairly difficult

constellation discovered but unfortunately completely inaccessible now to the folks in the

southern hemisphere. So this one is just for the folks in the north. So we haven't already. We

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