Ep. 718: Galaxy Series - Dwarf Galaxies

Astronomy Cast

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🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 718: Galaxy Series - Dwarf Galaxies by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Apr 30, 2024. It’s time to begin a new mini-series, where we’ll look at different classes of galaxies. Today, we’ll start with the dwarf galaxies, which flock around larger galaxies like the Milky Way. Are they the building blocks for modern structures? This video was made possible by the following Patreon members: Jordan Young BogieNet Stephen Veit Jeanette Wink Siggi Kemmler Andrew Poelstra Brian Cagle David Truog Ed David Gerhard Schwarzer THANK YOU! - Fraser and Dr. Pamela

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0:00.0	Oh, Oh, Astronomy cast episode 718 the Galaxy series dwarfs.
0:55.0	Welcome to astronomy cast our weekly facts based journey through the
0:57.8	cosmos where we help you understand not only what we know but how we know what
1:01.0	we know. I'm Fraser Kane I'm'm the publisher of the universe today with me,
1:04.0	as always is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist
1:06.0	for the Planetary Science Institute
1:08.0	and the Director of Cosmoquist.
1:10.0	Hey Pamela, how you doing?
1:11.0	I am doing okay enough.
1:14.6	I am recovering from discovering shampoo,
1:17.9	I am terribly allergic to.
1:20.4	So there was chaos on our normal recording today and I continued to be in a bit of Abendadrel Hayes, but I'm better than it was yesterday.
1:30.0	So thank you everyone for your patience.
1:32.0	All right, well hopefully you will be here cognizant and ready to explain galaxies.
1:39.0	Now I was, I did one of my live streams last night and I was talking about different kinds of
1:45.1	telescopes blah blah blah and I always recommend the first thing you do is you get a pair of binoculars and there's
1:50.0	like a sail on for Celestial Skymasters.
1:55.2	So the 20 by 80s are down from 200 US
2:00.5	to 140 US on Amazon. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Almost and then similar for the
2:06.0	25 by 70 and so I'm not sure what the story is. There's no ad this is not we're not sponsored I just noticed this and so if anyone's like oh I really
2:16.5	want to pick up a pair of astronomical binoculars if I don't know if the the sale
2:21.8	will last but they seem to be relatively inexpensive on Amazon in the US.
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