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Hey, Shortwaveers, Regina Barber here with Burley McCoy and Wana Summers.

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you're a beloved producer here on Shortwave.

And we've gathered you here today to talk through some of the latest science headlines

that are giving us joy and tickling our brains.

Thanks for coming to play with me.

No problem. I heard we are talking in our stellar space shouts and super sneaky fish.

And then we'll learn why waves are rising off the California coast

on this episode of Shortwave from NPR.

Okay, Regina, I can definitely identify with this idea of shouting into space

a lot of the time, especially when I'm at home. Let's start there.

Yeah, me too.

So a couple weeks ago, NASA lost contact with Boyd your two.

This is the spacecraft that launched in 1977 and has traveled well beyond our solar system

and is still sending back data.

And they were worried they'd lost contact for good,

but they reconnected to it last week by shouting at it across 12 billion miles or so.

Okay, and what exactly do you mean by shouting?

Yeah, so NASA periodically sends messages to make sure Boyd your two is pointing its receiver towards Earth.

And a few weeks ago, there was an error in a code that was sent out

that resulted in the receiver pointing the wrong way, just two degrees.

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