I'm

Oh Thank you. I'm Astronomycast Episode 736, our annual holiday gift guide.

Welcome to Astronomycast, a weekly fact-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. I'm the publisher of the universe today with me, as always is Dr. Pamela Gay,

a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the director of CosmoQuest. Hey, Pamela, how are you doing? I am doing well.

It is snowing and it is beautiful and I don't have to leave my house and it actually feels like Christmas.

So this is the perfect day to be doing the gift guide.

Yeah.

Not snowing here.

We had like just a couple of flakes of snow and I'm ready.

I've got a snow plow now for my quad. I'm ready

to plow the snow when it comes. And of course, that means it won't come, right? But,

but yeah, but things are definitely gloomier, foggier, mistier, rainier. This is December on the west coast of Canada. It's time for our

holiday gift guide where we suggest ideas for presents for the space fans in your life. What books

are we reading? What games are we playing and what telescopes are we admiring?

We'll talk about it a second, but it's time for a break.

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