Pamela Gay and the Image Detective this week on planetary radio.

Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society

with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

Astronomer and podcast host Pamela Gay also runs Cosmo Quest, where anyone can conduct great science.

We'll talk with her about the site's newest citizen scientist opportunity,

one that looks down on our own beautiful planet.

Later we'll take a few extra minutes with Bruce Betts

to talk about the discovery of rings around the distant dwarf planet

Halmea. Of course the big astronomy news this week was the detection for the first time

of colliding neutron stars an event long predicted to be the birthplace of the

heaviest elements including uranium silver, and gold.

I talked about it a couple of days ago with Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye, the Science

guy.

Bill as we speak, it was just this morning that more institutions than I have ever

seen put out the word of a discovery that is pure gold.

Oh, Matt, that's horrible.

Get it. You get it.

You got it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I get it.

Platinum. So what happened to everybody is these two neutron stars collided way way out in deep space and not only

did we I say we did scientists here on Earth detect the light and electromagnetic waves from this thing we detected

the mythical gravitational waves which were predicted in relativity and there they are.

Not only does energy, light, travel at the speed of light, so somehow does gravity.

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