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Oh Thank you. I'm Astronomycast, Episode 777, The Eddington Limit.

Welcome to Astronomycast from 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. I'm the publisher of the University. With me, as always, is Dr. Pamela Gay,

a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the director of Cosmast.

Hey, Pamela, how are you doing? I am doing well. The howling wind is tremendous. If you hear, if you hear what sounds like ghosts in the background, that is the wind, people. Right. That is the wind. Now, as usual, I can't hear it because we use Zoom to record and the modern technology has made it. So when your dogs are barking, I don't hear it. And so I'm definitely not going to hear the wind.

But yeah, here we are.

Now, I'm going to do something kind of mean, but it's for the best. And that is I'm going to say nice things about you and you're just going to have to take it. which is, you know, I think a lot of people, when they reach out to us about astronomy cast,

and they talk about like our scripts and sort of how we prepare, they don't realize

that there is no script, that this is entirely off of the top of our heads that I go in.

And what's nice is for me, I don't really even have to prepare at all. I write the intro,

which is sort of like my token donation to the cause. And I usually come up with the idea,

but often Pamela has ideas that she wants to express. But then she has to prepare. And she doesn't have to prepare just for whatever is going to be

the script. She literally has to prepare for anything that I might ask. And I don't know what I'm

going to ask. So how can she know what I'm going to ask? And so, Pamela, you are amazing

for being able to gather and prepare so much information. Be ready, sort of on your toes, nimble on your toes to handle whatever comes your way.

And in this case, there's going to be a lot of information about the Eddington limit.

And I don't know what I'm going to talk about.

You don't know what I'm going to talk about. It's true. You know what you're going to talk about. You don't know what I'm going to talk about.

You know what you're going to talk about.

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