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- 0:00Warning. The following podcast contains an entertaining look at astronomy, physics, and
- 0:04space news throughout the known universe. Listeners have been known to learn about astronomical
- 0:08phenomenon, the scientific method, and expanded vocabulary to include terms like quasar asterism
- 0:13and uranus. Listen, that's your own risk. Go ahead. When made
- 0:23of stars, medium stars, madies, When maida stars you could be from
- 0:34high they would new Mexicomas. Where are stars? When we are made of
- 0:55stars? Joined by my good friend doctor Sean Cruisin from Columbus State Universe Citi's
- 1:00Coca Cola Space Science Center. I'm Wes Carol Morning Sean, Good morning,
- 1:04Wes. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. I did, how about
- 1:07you. Oh, it was fantastic. Got to spend it with the family
- 1:11and the granddaughter. It was wonderful. And you know, I'm thankful for
- 1:14a lot of things. And one of the things I'm thankful for is really
- 1:18awesome space stories in the news, and we are chock full of those today,
- 1:23my friend, we have some pretty good ones, and I'm almost struggling
- 1:26to figure out which one to start with. I guess we'll start with a
- 1:32solar system that was discovered within the Milky Way. This is pretty neat.
- 1:38Yeah, so this is a great story. Obviously, there's lots of solar
- 1:42systems in the Milky Way, but this one's all orbiting in a very special
- 1:46way. It's like their mathematically harmonized in their orbits. In other words,
- 1:55in the language of astronomy, we would say every planet in this solar system,
- 2:00which is six by the way today that we know of, have perfectly
- 2:06resonant orbits. In other words, they're all mathematical intervals of the other orbits.
- 2:12Now, that is not the way our Solar system is. We do
- 2:15have some we do have some orbital and rotational resonances that occur in the Solar
- 2:22system, and they're interesting certainly. I mean, for instance, the Moon
- 2:25in its orbit around the Earth and its rotation on its own axis has a
- 2:31one to one resonance. We see the same side of the Moon all the
- 2:35time as a result of that, that gravitational tidal locking. So that's an
- 2:39example of the kind of thing we're talking about. But get this, this
- 2:44new solar system discovered in the direction of Coba Baronices, which is a really
- 2:47cool constellation. It's about one hundred light years away. These planets have resonances
- 2:53that look like this. The innermost planet orbits its parent star three times,
- 3:00exactly as the next planet out orbits two times, so they line up every
- 3:08second orbit for the second planet three to two resonans. Okay, now that
- 3:16that was the only interesting thing to be like. Okay, we have some
- 3:19things like that in our solar system too. But wait, there's more.
- 3:22So this happens also for the second and third closest planets to the Sun.
- 3:30So every three orbits of the second planet, the third planet has two orbits.
- 3:36It also happens for the third and fourth planet, so every three orbits
- 3:39of the third planet, the fourth planet gets two orbits three to two,
- 3:45three to two, three to two resonances for every planet out to number four,
- 3:51which is amazing. Now there's two more planets left, a fourth and
- 3:55fifth planet. The fourth planet orbits its parents stre out every forty one days.
- 4:00So that tells you that all of these planets are really close to their
- 4:03parents star. They're all shorter orbits than mercury is around our own Sun.
- 4:09For instance, that number five planet every forty one days, the number six
- 4:15planet every fifty four days. That is a four to three orbit resonents.
- 4:25But that means this. That means every few orbits you're gonna get the fifth
- 4:32I'm sorry, the sixth planet in the Solar system lining up with the first
- 4:36planet in the Solar system every six orbits, which also means this wes if
- 4:43you go out long enough, they all line up. Which that happens in
- 4:49our Solar system. Never, it never happens. People love to talk about,
- 4:56well, what happens when all the planets in our Solar system line up?
- 4:59They never do, friends, And when I say never, there is
- 5:01a long enough time that if you give it that length of time, yes,
- 5:05they will finally line up. But it's older than the than the life
- 5:10of the entire universe, so it hasn't happened yet. So this is a
- 5:15very different kind of resonant solar system. The harmony of the spheres is actually
- 5:23a thing in this particular crazy mixed up, perfectly synchronous Solar system. So
- 5:30we're talking about six planets very very close to the star. And does that
- 5:36play into this? Is that part of why that? Or is it just
- 5:40make it easier mathematically to calculate this? Or is it as it starts?
- 5:44So I would say, the first thing is that right, it gets these
- 5:47resonances are small. They're small numbers three to two and four to three and
- 5:53things like that, one to six. They're all single digit kind of numbers.
- 5:57It's not like twenty two, you know, one hundred and fifty three
- 6:00or something like that. So, yes, that makes it a little bit
- 6:02easier for us to get our heads around. But the reason that they think
- 6:06it's probably more likely is simply because this system hasn't experienced the impact of a
- 6:16near pass with another star, or the impact of some giant rogue proto planet
- 6:25flying through the interior of the Solar System and smashing into the planets that are
- 6:29there. It hasn't had the kind of gravitational mix ups and interactions that have
- 6:33obviously occurred in our Solar System and quite frankly occur in most solar systems.
- 6:40They think that this thing is about a one and one hundred systems, So
- 6:44it's not one in a million, it's not one in a thousand, but
- 6:46it's one in one hundred. It's still pretty rare, right, So ninety
- 6:50nine percent of solar systems don't end up in this perfectly synchronous set of orbital
- 6:58resonances. So when you say that it hasn't been tainted by something else that's
- 7:01come into it, does that mean that this is the normal way, This
- 7:05is the natural way, untainted, they would all be this way. So
- 7:10yes, So it's thought that all solar systems likely start out with these kind
- 7:15of synchronous orbits of its protoplanets that end up being planets. But then something
- 7:23comes along and disturbs that. But when you say that's the way it's supposed
- 7:26to be, actually not so. More commonly the disturbances happen, right,
- 7:30that's the common thing. So the common thing is you get you get these
- 7:33weird things flying through the Solar system at odd orbital angles, and they're probably
- 7:38protoplanets or their escaped moons or their giant comets, or you have a gravitational
- 7:43interaction with a nearby star because you're in a binary system or something, and
- 7:46something messes up this synchronicity, shall we say, So it starts out that
- 7:50way, but it doesn't last long. By the way. You can read
- 7:54this story on AP news. This is a great story on ap news dot
- 7:57com is where we found today and it's a really interesting system. But it
- 8:01tells us something fundamental about the way solar systems form. In general, they
- 8:07probably start out this way and the majority of the time they simply don't last
- 8:11long. You know, you can balance a pencil on it, it's a
- 8:16raser for a little while, but it doesn't generally stay there because it's an
- 8:20unstable balance point. You can think of this as kind of like that.
- 8:22It's an analogy of that. It's an unstable configuration. But once in a
- 8:28while we find them, and this time we actually found one using the NASA's
- 8:33Tests and Telescope space telescope and the European Space Agency's CHIOPS space telescope, which
- 8:39are both designed to find exoplanets planets around other stars. So really cool story,
- 8:43great discovery. Check it out on ap news dot com. All right,
- 8:48let's move to another galaxy, because this is a really cool story.
- 8:52Protoplanetary disc found in this other galaxy. Yes, in another galaxy not so
- 8:58far far away. As it turns out, it's one of the most nearby
- 9:01galaxies that we can imagine. It's the large Magellanic Cloud. It's a companion
- 9:07galaxy to the Milky Way, but for the very first time outside the Milky
- 9:13Way, astronomers have located a solar system in formation, a baby solar system,
- 9:20a tadpole to the frog, so to speak. It's not even a
- 9:24solar system yet. It's a proto planetary disk of material. It will become
- 9:30a solar system at some point when the very processes that you and I were
- 9:33just discussing in the last story carry themselves out over time. This is a
- 9:37discovery from a couple of very famous telescopes, the European Southern Observatory's very Large
- 9:43Telescope it's creative name, the VLT, and also the Autacama Large Millimeter and
- 9:50submillimeter array. We know that one is Alma, so the VLT telescope and
- 9:54the Alma telescope. That data combined from both of those instruments were used by
- 9:58a t of astronomers led by an astronomer by the name of Anima Cloud,
- 10:03an associate professor at Durham University in the United Kingdom, and this is a
- 10:09a publication published in Nature. So they use the combined data from these two
- 10:13very famous telescopes to identify the protoplanetary disc and then measure its rotation using the
- 10:22Doppler effect from the Alma telescope, and they figured out that this thing is
- 10:26rotating in such a way that it can only be that disc of material forming
- 10:31around its parent star. A really cool story, and the very first time
- 10:37that that's ever been seen outside of the Milky Way. Okay, So,
- 10:41and how far away are we talking about? You say it's a galaxy,
- 10:43not so far away. How far away are we talking? I mean it's
- 10:46a mere one hundred and sixty thousand light years, which sounds like a really
- 10:52long way to walk, honestly, skill that each light year is about six
- 10:56trillion miles and there's one hundred and sixty thousand of those, guys, It's
- 10:58still not what you and I would think of as close. Yeah, but
- 11:03in terms of galaxy separation, it's right there on the doormat of the Milky
- 11:07Way. It's literally not even outside the front yard fence. It's right on
- 11:11the doormat. It is a galaxy in orbit around the Milky Way, a
- 11:16companion galaxy. So so, my dad, anytime I was a kid or
- 11:22a teenager and asked for a ride somewhere, he would always just say walking
- 11:24ain't crowded. And that was always a good point, because you know,
- 11:26it was easy, easy to you know, remind us that we could always
- 11:31just use our feet. In this case, you can't. You probably need
- 11:33the help of space whales if you're caught up on your Star Wars lore,
- 11:39at least with the Ahsoka series. So this is this is so we see
- 11:43it now as being this very young developing system hypothetically, and this is where
- 11:52I think just and I know it's not really this is just me sort of
- 11:54being a little rhetorical, but this is the fascination with this whole time concept
- 11:58about looking into space, looking at something that's happening one hundred and sixty thousand
- 12:03light years away. Were we able to find the space whale and get there,
- 12:07it would have obviously had one hundred and sixty thousand years that it could
- 12:11have progressed and become a much more developed. Do we have any idea what
- 12:16it might be like at this stage based on that? Yeah, So here
- 12:20here's what we have to think of in terms of those time scales. And
- 12:24it's a really good point that anytime we're looking deep in space, we're also
- 12:28looking back in time. Typically, when we talk about looking at other galaxies,
- 12:33we are talking about at the very small and millions of years, if
- 12:37not tens or even hundreds of millions of years, if not billions of years.
- 12:43So one hundred and sixty thousand years is actually the small change in the
- 12:48couch cushions in terms of time look back time, and so it's really not
- 12:54that long in the star's lifetime, which can last up to ten billion years.
- 13:01Right, So so one hundred and sixty thousand years out of a ten
- 13:05billion year life cycle is it's like yesterday. So yeah, there's been some
- 13:09development in that time, but at the rate at which these protoplanetary discs develop,
- 13:13it's been kind of minimal. So if you could jump on your space
- 13:16well and actually get there, you'd say, okay, yeah, those those
- 13:20little clumps look a little bit more like planets now, but not a lot
- 13:22more like planets. So still just to get the right timescale, it's not
- 13:28that far, not out of infancy yet. We're not to Toddler yet or
- 13:31anything exactly. All right, that's fair, All right, let's talk about
- 13:35Artemis two. This is we're starting to feel the eventual launch of Artemis two.
- 13:41We got a year to go, but this is a cool moment.
- 13:45The astronauts have put their name on the rocket. Yes, so the astronauts
- 13:52who are going to travel to the Moon on Artemis two. And when I
- 13:54say to the Moon, they're going to go around it and come back home.
- 13:58They're not yet landing on it in the Artemist two mission. But the
- 14:01Artist two mission includes NASA commander Reid Weisman, NASA pilot Victor Glover. He
- 14:07will be the first black person to leave lower Earth orbit. We have NASA
- 14:13Mission specialist Christina Cook. She will be the first woman to leave low Earth
- 14:18orbit. She also has Native American ancestry. And then we have the Canadian
- 14:22Space Agency's astronaut Jeremy Hansen. He will be the first non American to leave
- 14:28Low Earth orbit. So there'll be a lot of firsts in terms of people
- 14:31milestones when this vehicle leaves the Earth's orbit and takes off for a cis lunar
- 14:39orbital injection, which just means they're going to go around the back side of
- 14:41the Moon. Okay, well you forgot one. This is the first guy
- 14:45named Reid Wiseman that'll go into out there, so that's he's a first as
- 14:48well. I said, want him feel left out? I mean, has
- 14:52Reid left lower Earth orbit? As they kind of worded it like he had,
- 14:56but oh maybe he had. I don't know. He'll be the first
- 14:58guy named Reid. He'll be the first guy named Reid Wiseman to go behind
- 15:01the Moon. How about that. I mean that's for sure true, since
- 15:05no one's really left low Earth orbit since the Apollo Misians. I'm pretty sure
- 15:07he wasn't on those. I just want him to feel included. He doesn't
- 15:11need to be left out of all of these firsts, poor guy. I
- 15:16mean, I will say this. This is I get tripped up sometimes I
- 15:18am reading wording from the story's origin origin, which is space dot Com.
- 15:22Uh yeah, So I'm not throwing them under the bus, but I'm just
- 15:26saying I think he is the first person named Reid Wiseman. Yeah, I
- 15:31think so. I think he deserves credit for that. I mean that's and
- 15:35he's also the first guy named Reid Wiseman to sign a rocket. I guess
- 15:41at least a moon rocket anyway. Yeah, all right, enough of that.
- 15:46So this rocket was signed at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center over in
- 15:52Huntsville, Alabama. The portion that was signed is actually kind of a mating
- 15:56ring. It's kind of an adapter between the capsule and the rocket. You
- 16:00know, sometimes you'd have to you know, when you're trying to use the
- 16:03right USB connection, you got to use an adapter or something anyway. So
- 16:06this this adapter fits the capsule onto what's called the SLS or the Space Launch
- 16:11System, the Mighty Moon rocket. And so they were able to go in
- 16:15and inspect that docking ring. It is a giant metal ring that's approximately five
- 16:22foot you know high or something, and and it's really cool. They can
- 16:26walk inside it. They have to put on their clean room suits in order
- 16:30to do that, and they sign their names on the inside, and they're
- 16:33they're getting ready to go to the Moon. Now Here comes kind of a
- 16:36fun punchline for us, which is I have I have a former student here
- 16:38at Columbus State University who is an intern here at the Coke Cola Space Science
- 16:42Center. His name is Zach Coker. Zach sent me a picture about six
- 16:47months ago of him signing the inside of that same ring. So I text
- 16:51him this morning asking did they scribble out his name and write over I'm not
- 16:53haven't got back yet from Zach, so I'll be waiting to hear whether his
- 16:56name is still there or the astaurants actually signed over his name, but anyway,
- 17:00so that was something kind of fun getting ready for a potentially historic around
- 17:07the Moon mission slated for late twenty twenty four at this time. Coming up
- 17:12after a quick break, a cannibal CME is coming. No big worry,
- 17:18no concerns there at all. We'll talk about that right after this. All
- 17:42right, CMEs are coming, They've already launched their en route. They're on
- 17:48their way. Do we need to be concerned? Yes? The end,
- 17:59this is gonna be uh, not good. Everybody dive under the bed.
- 18:03Danger, danger, it's coming. I mean, that's not gonna do any
- 18:07good. So I mean you can if you want to, if it makes
- 18:10you feel better, but that's really not gonna do you any good. Yeah,
- 18:11I would think not. So are what are we looking at here?
- 18:15What's coming towards this coronal mass ejections? And uh and what does that mean
- 18:21for us in the next hours? Really? Yeah? So okay, let
- 18:26me be serious for a moment. You're you're fine, You're fine, everybody
- 18:30you're fine. Likely likely you're fine. So here's what happened. If you
- 18:36listened to last week's show, we warned you people. We told you,
- 18:41we're your friends, we're here to help. We're doing a public service,
- 18:44ladies and gentlemen. We discussed the fact that there were some very large sunspot
- 18:48groups on the Sun and you should watch out for them exploding and hurling millions
- 18:55of tons of deadly radiation at the Earth. Well, guess what, you
- 18:59didn't listen. If you weren't, that's right, and that's all the more
- 19:02reason to listen every week, because we try to prepare you for these sorts
- 19:06of things. We do our best, and we did give you the all
- 19:11right. So here's what happened. Those big sunspots actually did explode, and
- 19:15there were four, at least four really big sunspot eruptions that resulted in four
- 19:23coronal mass ejections, all moving at different speeds. See, when this happens,
- 19:29the fasty ones catch up with the slowly ones and they add up to
- 19:33each other. I mean they add on to each other. And the last
- 19:37one was the fastiest one of them all. It's the fourth one. So
- 19:41so all of those coronal mass ejections from those giant sunspot groups that we warned
- 19:45you about last week are all going to pile up and arrive at the Earth
- 19:49at the same time, and this friends is what is known as a cannibal
- 19:53cannibal CME. They eat each other, or more more appropriately, it's almost
- 20:00like a constructive interference in the wave phenomenon where they add up to each other,
- 20:04right, So they add on to each other and you get the crest
- 20:08of this activity all arriving at the same time. The biggest of the CMEs
- 20:14was launched on November twenty eight, and by the way, go check out
- 20:18spaceweather dot com. Go look at the archive for November twenty eight, because
- 20:23that video is pretty darn impressive of this giant eruption of a sunspot group on
- 20:30the Sun. So check out the I'm sorry it occurred on the twenty eighth.
- 20:33You check out the archive for the twenty ninth. The next day they
- 20:37had the video up and so check out the archive for November twenty ninth spaceweather
- 20:41dot com. You will see that largest of the giant solar flares that led
- 20:47to a very fast moving coronal mass ejection. So this giant cannibal CME is
- 20:55gonna swallow up the previous other three. It's going to add to the radiation
- 20:59effect all arriving at the Earth same time, and it's going to spark what
- 21:03we know as a geomagnetic storm. So this cannibal CME, or the stacked
- 21:11up version of four CMEs arriving simultaneously has been predicted by the Noah forecasters the
- 21:18NAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to strike our planet December first, friends,
- 21:23as we're recording the show that's tomorrow. So I hope, I hope you're
- 21:27listening for the live you know, posts of this show. You want to
- 21:32be the first listeners because you're going to find out some information that might affect
- 21:36you within twenty four hours. This is one of those times. So you'll
- 21:38be wanting to watch for northern lights in the mid latitude states of the United
- 21:45States in the overnight hours from November thirtieth into December first, and in the
- 21:52overnight hours from December first into December second, just in case there's still some
- 21:56residual CME arriving a little bit late. So there you have it, friends,
- 22:00December first, a strong geomagnetic storm is predicted by the National Oceanic and
- 22:07Atmospheric Administration due to the effects of four coronal mass ejections stacking up into one
- 22:12giant cannibal. Cme. Now we're joking about this being a bad thing.
- 22:18Uh, what are the what are the bad things that could happen? What
- 22:22does people just need to put on sunscreen and suck it up and they'll be
- 22:25fine. I mean, you know, so when we talk about bad things,
- 22:30h we're not necessarily talking about effects to individuals, Like it's gonna make
- 22:36your skin tan. No, that's silly, that's not that's not gonna happen.
- 22:38But it could knock your power out right, so you can have overserge
- 22:45of power grids. That can be a problem. So folks should unplug all
- 22:48their TVs and toasters tonight, Is that what you're saying. I mean,
- 22:52just start yanking them out of the walls. And I mean really, if
- 22:57you have that really fan see you know, oled TV, you might want
- 23:02to go ahead and unplug that overnight, yea, or at least make sure
- 23:03it's on a surge protector. That's good advice. But you might wake up
- 23:07in the next morning with no power, and so you might want to have
- 23:10a few extra blankets around, you know. I'm just saying it's that time
- 23:14of year you should have the blankets, and you should have you know,
- 23:17maybe charge up all of your flashlights if you got the rechargeable lanterns and flashlights,
- 23:22jack your batteries. Yeah, that's the kind of thing you want to
- 23:25think about. That's good. Yeah, I like that safety tip. So
- 23:27again we sound like we're joking, but in nineteen eighty nine, this actually
- 23:30did happen. A giant CME knocked out a power transformer station in Quebec.
- 23:37That blocked out That blacked out I should say a lot of the northeast and
- 23:41eastern Canada in the winter in nineteen eighty nine. So these kinds of things
- 23:48actually do happen. It can also cause communications outages, It can affect satellites
- 23:52in orbit, so there are real effects. Again, hiding under your bed
- 23:57not necessary. The one thing I would say though, is this, if
- 24:00you have a New York to London flight, if you're on a plane in
- 24:06the polar latitudes, they polar routes to make it a little bit shorter,
- 24:11you can receive extra doses of radiation during these kinds of storms. That's a
- 24:15great point as the one time that actual personal effects might take place. So
- 24:21check your flight. You know, checkspaceweather dot com and you know, just
- 24:26do your best, that's all I'm gonna say. All right, so let's
- 24:29go back to two thousand and two. There was new data. I guess
- 24:34it's been observed and we're learning more about this event that happened, but a
- 24:40gamma ray burst that physically disturbed the Earth's ion a sphere. There's a group
- 24:45from Italy that went back and looked at an event that took place in two
- 24:51thousand and two. They gathered lots of data from multiple different sources, and
- 24:57they looked at something strange that occurred in the Earth's ionosphere, and it also
- 25:04affected things like lightning sensors and satellites which detect large explosions on the surface of
- 25:12the Earth. And so this Italian group looked at all of those data simultaneously
- 25:18and said, Wow, it appears that something from outer space actually affected the
- 25:25Earth's ionosphere to a level that lightning detectors and explosion detection satellites were actually recording
- 25:34signals, shall we say, of this event. And so by putting all
- 25:38that data together, they realized that the only thing strong enough to do this
- 25:44was some kind of a gamma ray burst. Now, This gamma ray burst,
- 25:49as it turns out, was correlated to an event that was recorded by
- 25:52astronomers at the time from a supernova that occurred approximately two billion light years away.
- 26:00So this is a significant distance from the Earth. It's not at the
- 26:06outer reaches of space and time, but it's not close either. It's a
- 26:10pretty pretty far distance. And it appears that this wave of a gamma ray
- 26:14burst arrived at the Earth in two thousand and two and pummeled the Earth's atmosphere
- 26:21and magnetic field for eight hundred seconds. Eight hundreds it's over ten minutes you're
- 26:29doing the quick calculations. So that's a long time, right for just being
- 26:33bombarded by large doses of gamma rays so large that it actually contorted the Earth's
- 26:41iono sphere and shoved it down into lower layers of the atmosphere of the Earth.
- 26:48And this doesn't happen very often. Gamma ray burst experts estimate that maybe
- 26:55once every ten thousand years an event like this is even possible. The lead
- 27:00author on the study, named Mirco Piersante, had this great quote, it
- 27:07was probably the brightest gamma ray burst that we have ever detected. Now,
- 27:12when saying ever detected. That means in the modern era, when we have
- 27:17gamma ray detectors, this is probably in terms of how bright it was at
- 27:21the source and its arrival here at the Earth, the most powerful gamma ray
- 27:25burst ever detected. Pierre Sante went on to say, there has been a
- 27:30great debate about the possible consequences of a gamma ray burst of this kind in
- 27:36our own galaxy. So if this thing happened, you know, in some
- 27:40distant galaxy two billion light years away, what would happen if it one of
- 27:44these kinds of explosions, again, likely a supernova going off. What would
- 27:48happen if that occurred in our own home galaxy, the Milky Way, which
- 27:52is a lot closer than two billion light years. Well, people have cocted
- 27:59conjects for years that these kinds of events could be tied to what are known
- 28:04as mass extinction events in the fossil record. Here on Earth, it seems
- 28:10that at various times in history, large numbers of species all died out simultaneously.
- 28:18Most of the time, paleontologists and geologists will argue for earth bound causes
- 28:23for these kinds of events, but astronomers have long said, well, yeah,
- 28:29that's fine, except there are these things that go off in space called
- 28:32gamma ray bursts, and that could also do it. So this is new
- 28:36evidence that, wow, it really could happen, because one at this great
- 28:41distance actually had a measured effect on the Earth's atmosphere, particularly the ionosphere,
- 28:48measured by the digital instruments of the modern age, shall we say, and
- 28:53so we know, then we can extrapolate from that how much greater the effect
- 28:59would be if this thing happened nearby. And yes, it appears that those
- 29:03would definitely have life altering consequences. When I say those, I mean the
- 29:08gamma rays of a much greater intensity, all arriving at the Earth simultaneously.
- 29:17A supernova in our own galaxy could release a huge burst of gamma rays and
- 29:22could very well reach out and touch the Earth in a drastic way, so
- 29:26says the author of the Universe today dot com article that we're referring to right
- 29:30now. So check out this article in its entirety at Universe today dot com.
- 29:34But this could in fact trigger a series of events which can allow excess
- 29:40ultraviolet radiation to pummel the Earth because the ozone layer would be tampered with and
- 29:47just cause death and destruction. So has that happened in the past. We're
- 29:52not saying it has never been proven. However, it's a really interesting scenario.
- 29:59And again read on Universe today dot com. We still don't really know
- 30:02where the hult came from. I mean, I'm just saying it's possible.
- 30:04Anything is possible. All right, let's talk about the Co Cola Space Science
- 30:07Center. I know that you guys have come out of your Thanksgiving mode and
- 30:14you're working your way into the Christmas holiday mode. I know that you're going
- 30:18to have some adjusted hours and all that kind of info and special shows and
- 30:22programming you guys will have up on your website. We are and that's the
- 30:26best way to find out all the information about any of our events or our
- 30:29hours is just to visit our website www dot cc SSC dot org, Charlie
- 30:36Charlie SamSam Charlie dot org, or follow us on Facebook. Become a Facebook
- 30:40follower of the Space Science Center just because we post cool stuff once in a
- 30:42while. And beyond that, I would say that we will be open until
- 30:48the twentieth of December. Will open that day and then on the twenty first
- 30:51of December, We're going to be closed until after the holiday, so if
- 30:53you don't make it here by the twentieth of December, we will see you
- 30:57in twenty twenty four, right after the new year, and we'll be open
- 31:00up again with all kinds of adventures taking place, including our brand new exhibit,
- 31:06the Guzzle Vortex, sponsored by our our friends at Brenton Whitney. Sean
- 31:11and I thank you for listening, and we'll do this again next week.
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