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- 0:00Heidi Campo: Welcome back to another exciting Q A
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- 0:21Heidi Campo: I'm your host for this episode, Heidi Campo.
- 0:24Filling in for Andrew Dunkley. Joining me
- 0:27today is Professor Fred Watson,
- 0:29astronomer at large. How are you today, Fred?
- 0:33Professor Fred Watson: I'm fine, thanks. I'm still at large, uh,
- 0:36which is always good. Uh, no, very well,
- 0:38thank you Heidi, and I hope you are too.
- 0:40How's the weather doing in Houston? You were
- 0:43concerned about the heat and the
- 0:46rain and.
- 0:47Heidi Campo: Oh, it's been beautiful. Last, uh, couple
- 0:49days have really been nice. I actually sat
- 0:51out, um, on the, on that patio. We have a
- 0:54little patio in our backyard. Had a little
- 0:56sparkling water, watched my dog play in the
- 0:59yard and it was pretty nice. I think they
- 1:01sprayed for the mosquitoes recently. So those
- 1:03have calmed down.
- 1:05Professor Fred Watson: Yeah, that's right.
- 1:06Heidi Campo: And no hurricanes yet, which is, let's knock
- 1:09uh, on wood because that's my favorite part
- 1:12right now is not having.
- 1:13Professor Fred Watson: Hurricanes as it would be.
- 1:16Yeah.
- 1:18Heidi Campo: All right, well, we have uh, our first
- 1:21question today is uh, from
- 1:23Greg from Minnesota, also a
- 1:26hurricane free zone. You're safe
- 1:29from the hurricanes, Greg. I hope you're
- 1:31enjoying not having them in Minnesota.
- 1:34And uh, Greg says, g' day, Fred.
- 1:37And howdy Heidi. I'm Greg from
- 1:40Minnesota usa and I have a question about
- 1:42photons and quantum energy levels.
- 1:45We know that energy is quanticized,
- 1:48that therefore photons can only exist
- 1:51at certain discrete energy levels. We also
- 1:54know that space is expanding and that travel
- 1:56traveling through the expanding space saps
- 1:58energy from the traveling photons. What
- 2:01happens when a photon has been traveling so
- 2:04long, so far that the energy it
- 2:06carries drops below the minimum allowed
- 2:09quantum energy level? Does it
- 2:11disappear? I love the podcast and I'm looking
- 2:14forward to your answer.
- 2:17Professor Fred Watson: Yeah, this is, ah, I think this is a great
- 2:20question and it certainly had me scratching
- 2:22my head, Heidi. Uh, it sent me
- 2:25to um, the Fermilab,
- 2:28which of course is uh, one of the
- 2:31key, uh, nuclear physics facilities
- 2:34in your country. Uh, they
- 2:37um, have a marvelous website called
- 2:40uh, Physics Questions People Ask Fermilab.
- 2:42And I think the, the
- 2:45nuances of the answer, uh, are probably best
- 2:48expressed by uh, the, the
- 2:51um, the account that I've
- 2:54got in front of me which is by uh, one
- 2:57of their uh, PhD physicists. In fact,
- 3:00uh, Lila is the editor of the Office of
- 3:03Public Affairs, Lila Belcora,
- 3:06who says, and I think this
- 3:09puts it a little bit into
- 3:11perspective let's put aside the
- 3:14idea of a photon losing energy
- 3:17in transit as an explanation for
- 3:19redshift. A photon doesn't lose energy
- 3:22unless it collides with a particle. Uh,
- 3:26photons can scatter off interstellar
- 3:27electrons, for example. Uh,
- 3:30photons carry energy, but they don't lose
- 3:33energy just because they travel.
- 3:36And this is the key to it, as
- 3:39Lila says, the key to understanding the
- 3:41dilemma of a redshifted photon.
- 3:44And that's to say, one that's traveling
- 3:46through space, uh, through expanding space.
- 3:49And so the space has expanded, the photon has
- 3:51been redshifted. It's got, uh, a lower energy
- 3:54level. Uh, the key to understanding that
- 3:57dilemma is that not all observers will
- 3:59measure the same energy of the photon. Let's
- 4:02say an observer is traveling with a star or
- 4:04galaxy and sees a photon in the yellow
- 4:06portion of the spectrum. An observer who is
- 4:09moving with respect to the star, and it
- 4:11doesn't matter if it's a star or the observer
- 4:13moving away sees the same photon in the
- 4:16red part of the spectrum. That's okay. It
- 4:19doesn't violate the principle of
- 4:20conservation, conservation of energy, because
- 4:23they make their measurements in different
- 4:25reference frames. So,
- 4:28um, that's a complicated way of
- 4:31saying, uh, that,
- 4:33um, uh,
- 4:36yes, uh, photon energy is quantized,
- 4:39but it's never going to reach a stage
- 4:42when it falls, uh, below
- 4:44the minimum allowed quantum energy level.
- 4:47So it doesn't disappear. Um, I
- 4:50hope, Greg, that explains, uh, the answer to
- 4:53your question. Uh, it's one that had me
- 4:55scratching my head for quite a while. And I
- 4:57thought that Lila's comment in the Fermilab
- 5:00website actually put it very well. Uh, if you
- 5:03want to follow up on that, it's pretty easy
- 5:04to find. Just look for inquiring minds,
- 5:07physics questions people ask Fermilab, and,
- 5:10uh, uh, have a look at it. It's um, very
- 5:13nicely written and perhaps lays
- 5:16to rest some of the things that we do think
- 5:17of. We take for granted that photons are
- 5:20losing energy because they get red sh.
- 5:22Shifted, but they're only redshifted in our
- 5:24frame of reference. Ah, that's the
- 5:27interesting nuance, uh, to this question.
- 5:32Heidi Campo: Yeah, I'm still wrapping my head around that
- 5:35one. That's so interesting. Whenever you go
- 5:38anywhere close to the world of quantum,
- 5:41it's just everything changes. All the
- 5:44rules change.
- 5:45Professor Fred Watson: That's right, they do. Um, a lot of
- 5:48it's completely counterintuitive, uh, but
- 5:51it seems to work. We, uh,
- 5:54hear about in quantum physics, uh, for
- 5:57example, entanglement, this idea that
- 6:00you can bring two particles together and
- 6:02they'll behave as one particle. Even though
- 6:04you then separate them, uh, they still think
- 6:07they're one particle. That is quite
- 6:10counterintuitive.
- 6:12Heidi Campo: Yeah, there was a cute little movie that came
- 6:15out recently. Um, it had Chris Pratt
- 6:18and. Oh, my gosh, everyone's
- 6:21gonna make fun of me because I can't remember
- 6:22the girl's name. She's the girl who's from
- 6:24Stranger Things. She's very, she's very
- 6:27famous right now. But their whole. The whole
- 6:29premise was once particles
- 6:32touch, then they're never separated. And it
- 6:35was kind of a, like a love story type thing.
- 6:37It was kind of cute. But, yeah, once
- 6:39particles have. Have touched, you never lose
- 6:41that connection. It was kind of cute.
- 6:44Um, well, our next question is from
- 6:47Russell, and this is an audio question.
- 6:51So we are. I'm going to give Fred a second to
- 6:53cue that up, and then we are going to play
- 6:56that question for you guys to listen to you
- 6:58now. And then Fred is going to answer that
- 7:00question for all of you. So here is
- 7:03Russell's question.
- 7:05Mikey: Hello, Fred and Andrew. This is Russell, uh,
- 7:08from Reading in the uk. Um, there's been a
- 7:11recent suggestion that the universe is inside
- 7:13a black hole. But my understanding is that
- 7:16the event horizon of a black hole is a. Not a
- 7:18thin membrane, but extends all the way down
- 7:21to the singularity. Um, this means that
- 7:24light and everything else can only travel in
- 7:25one direction, which is towards the
- 7:27singularity. So it would be immediately
- 7:30obvious if we were inside a black hole,
- 7:32because you could only see in one direction,
- 7:34which is away from the singularity.
- 7:38What have I missed? Thanks for the great
- 7:40show.
- 7:40Professor Fred Watson: So Russell's asking what he missed,
- 7:44and I don't think he missed anything,
- 7:45actually, because, um,
- 7:49you know, the idea of the
- 7:51universe being a black
- 7:54hole or the whole universe being within a
- 7:56black hole is extremely,
- 7:59um, speculative and
- 8:03really does not have the,
- 8:06uh, imprimatur of the scientific
- 8:09community. And that's just another way of
- 8:11saying nobody believes it. Um, and so,
- 8:14um, uh, you know, questions like that, I
- 8:17think are very good ones because intuitively
- 8:19you would expect that to be the case.
- 8:22Now, um, just pursuing this a bit
- 8:25further. The people who
- 8:28work on theories that perhaps the universe is
- 8:31inside a black hole, they are
- 8:34not stupid. So they're
- 8:37people who have big, great
- 8:39insights in physics. Uh, and so I
- 8:42suspect, um, their thinking is
- 8:45along the lines that if we are,
- 8:49if we're in a black hole, we're not just
- 8:51within the event horizon. We
- 8:53may well be within the singularity. Because
- 8:56a black hole is a singularity. It's A point
- 8:59where physics breaks down. Uh, it's
- 9:01basically a point of zero dimensions
- 9:04and infinite density. Um, are
- 9:07we inside that? Uh,
- 9:10if so, that would mean all bets are off. We
- 9:12wouldn't have any idea how physics worked.
- 9:15But the universe seems to be pretty well
- 9:17behaved and we can understand it from the
- 9:19physical laws that we have. Um, if we're
- 9:21inside the event horizon, then we should see
- 9:24evidence somewhere of the black hole itself.
- 9:27Uh, like the kind of thing that Russell
- 9:29suggested, uh, like going only one way. We
- 9:32see no evidence whatsoever of that kind of
- 9:35thing. The universe, uh, as far as we can
- 9:38tell, is isotropic. That basically means
- 9:40it's the same in all directions, give or take
- 9:43a bit of structure that we find from
- 9:45galaxies. Nevertheless, it's more or less the
- 9:47same in all directions. And that seems to fly
- 9:49in the face of the idea of a black hole
- 9:52universe. So uh, I think Russell's asking
- 9:55what he's missing. I don't think he's missing
- 9:57anything. I think he's facing the same sort
- 9:59of challenge as people who propose this idea
- 10:02have to face. Uh, there's quite a lot of
- 10:04material on this topic on the web. Uh,
- 10:07not too hard to find. Um, it might be
- 10:10worth a poke around. Russell, uh, nice to
- 10:12hear your accent coming from reading down
- 10:15there. I know reading not that well, but I do
- 10:18know it in uh, in uh, south, uh, the
- 10:21south of England.
- 10:24There you are.
- 10:25Heidi Campo: That was a good question. Um, I,
- 10:27I recently re. Watched the movie Oppenheimer
- 10:30and they brought up the, with quantum physics
- 10:33and yeah, um, everything they said something
- 10:35about, you know, about, you know, anybody can
- 10:38do math and, but for the real theory it's
- 10:41like can you hear the music? Can you see
- 10:43what can't be seen? And I think that that's
- 10:46really. We do get a lot of people writing in
- 10:49with questions who think like that. We have a
- 10:52lot of very creative, very
- 10:55scientific minded people who are,
- 10:57I mean you guys are, you guys all should be
- 11:00scientists because some of the questions we
- 11:01get are very, very
- 11:04deep scientific thoughts.
- 11:08Professor Fred Watson: Okay, we checked all four systems and.
- 11:10Heidi Campo: Being with a girl, space nets, um,
- 11:13and that. Let's bring that to our next
- 11:15question which is going to be Paul
- 11:18from Melbourne, Australia. He says
- 11:21quick question. Hello, Heidi, Fred and
- 11:23Andrew. When Isaac Newton noticed an
- 11:26apple falling from the tree, did the
- 11:29planet Earth ever so slightly get
- 11:32tugged toward the apple as it fell
- 11:35to the ground? Thanks. Love the show.
- 11:38That's Paul from Melbourne with another
- 11:41deep, thoughtful question.
- 11:43Professor Fred Watson: Yeah, I think the answer is yes
- 11:46as well. Uh,
- 11:48you know, um, when we think of the, and
- 11:51this is the Newton idea that gravity was a
- 11:54force. Einstein told us it's actually
- 11:56something different from that. It's a
- 11:57distortion of space. But, uh, just stick with
- 12:00Newton's idea for the moment. Um, the
- 12:03mutual attraction between the
- 12:06apple and the Earth goes both ways.
- 12:09The gravity of the apple would also be
- 12:11attracting the Earth, Uh, but not
- 12:14to any significant degree, of course, because
- 12:16of the, you know, the ratio of their masses
- 12:18is so high. But there would be, um,
- 12:21an infinitesimal nudge of the Earth
- 12:24up towards the Atlanta. Um, I
- 12:27think. So the answer is yes. Um, uh,
- 12:30it's a great question, Paul. Uh, Paul might
- 12:33also be interested to know that the apple
- 12:34tree is still there. Uh, that Newton
- 12:37is, uh, reported to have seen
- 12:40the apple falling down. Um,
- 12:44the place where he worked out his theory of
- 12:46gravity. He was actually in quarantine
- 12:48from Cambridge in a place called
- 12:50Lincolnshire, which is further north than
- 12:52Cambridge, when he lived in the
- 12:55family manor because they were, uh, well, uh,
- 12:58very well healed family. But his bedroom
- 13:00window overlooked this apple tree in
- 13:03the orchard. Uh, and so maybe it was
- 13:06looking out of his bedroom window that he saw
- 13:08apples falling and made him think about this
- 13:11force that pulls stuff down to the ground,
- 13:14which is the same force that keeps the Earth
- 13:16in its orbit around the sun and keeps the
- 13:18moon in orbit around the Earth. Um, so,
- 13:20um, it's nice that the apple tree is still
- 13:22there. It's got a fence, uh, around it now,
- 13:24so nobody cuts it down.
- 13:26Heidi Campo: Does it still produce fruit?
- 13:28Professor Fred Watson: Uh, I don't know the answer to that, Heidi.
- 13:30Um, it might just be a little bit elderly
- 13:32because that was all in the 1680s when that
- 13:35was happening. So. 1660s. I beg your pardon.
- 13:38When that was happening.
- 13:38Heidi Campo: That would be pretty crazy. I'm just thinking
- 13:40of the capitalist thought with that is. Okay,
- 13:43we're gonna sell, um, Newton apple juice,
- 13:46and it's gonna be from this tree, and we're
- 13:48gonna brand it as. This is the genius. This
- 13:50is what genius? The genius apple juice.
- 13:54Professor Fred Watson: I think you're right on the money there. Uh,
- 13:55and that's probably, that's probably the fact
- 13:57that it doesn't produce apples anymore is why
- 13:59that hasn't happened.
- 14:01Heidi Campo: Yeah, unfortunately.
- 14:06Professor Fred Watson: Three, two, one.
- 14:09Mikey: Space nuts.
- 14:11Heidi Campo: All right, well, our very last question today
- 14:13is from Mikey, and this is also another
- 14:16audio question, so I'm going to give Fred a
- 14:19chance to cue that up, and then we are going
- 14:21to play that for all of you to hear Mikey's
- 14:24question, and then Fred will answer that. So
- 14:26I'm going to go ahead and play that now.
- 14:28Mikey: Hey Fred and Andrew, I hope you're doing
- 14:30well. This is Mikey once again from Illinois.
- 14:33Um, I wanted to talk about the European Space
- 14:35Agency's solar orbiter. And
- 14:38I know that it was the first
- 14:41spacecraft to ever take images of the north
- 14:44and south pole of the sun, which is a huge
- 14:46thing because every time we've taken any
- 14:49photos it's been from the ecliptic plane.
- 14:51Um, and that got me thinking, was that
- 14:54spacecraft or is that spacecraft the
- 14:57only thing to ever make that orbit that
- 14:59wasn't in the ecliptic plane? Man made or
- 15:02not? Is there anything else in our solar
- 15:04system that takes that, that
- 15:07kind of orbit or was that
- 15:09spacecraft the only thing ever in our
- 15:12solar system to orbit outside of the
- 15:15ecliptic plane? Um,
- 15:18that's just, it's hurting my head thinking
- 15:20about that. Uh, hopefully that
- 15:23question makes sense to you guys and I can't
- 15:25wait to hear the answer.
- 15:27Heidi Campo: I can't wait to hear the answer either. This
- 15:29is a really good question with
- 15:32quite a thought provoking idea to
- 15:35it. I, I've never thought of that as well. We
- 15:37don't really often see pictures of the top
- 15:40and bottom of the celestial bodies.
- 15:43Professor Fred Watson: Yes, that's right. Um, so the, the,
- 15:46so the answer to, to um, Mikey's question,
- 15:49um, which is, does anything
- 15:52in the solar system orbit outside
- 15:55the ecliptic plane? The ecliptic plane being
- 15:57the plane in which the planets, uh, and most
- 16:00of the asteroids orbit the sun. And the
- 16:02answer is yes, um, comets do. So
- 16:05comets come in to uh, the inner
- 16:08solar system in their very elongated orbits
- 16:10from pretty well all angles. Uh, and
- 16:13so they sometimes come from the, you know,
- 16:16above the ecliptic plane, sometimes from
- 16:17below it. Uh, and um,
- 16:20that's why we think that the source of comets
- 16:23is actually a spherical shell of
- 16:26cometary material, uh because they do come in
- 16:28from all angles. So uh, it
- 16:31stands to reason that they're uh, their
- 16:34origin. If there is a cloud of these things
- 16:36outside the, outside the
- 16:39domain, uh, of the planets as we think there
- 16:42is, then it would be spherical and we call
- 16:45it the Oort cloud. It was Jan Oort, a great
- 16:47Dutch astronomer who postulated that. So
- 16:50comets do, they're natural objects that do
- 16:53orbit well outside the plane of the ecliptic.
- 16:56Um, but in terms of uh, spacecraft,
- 16:59uh, no, um, there
- 17:02are spacecraft that are above uh,
- 17:05and below the ecliptic. In fact, Voyager 2 is
- 17:08the classic example that ah,
- 17:10uh, is heading out of the solar system well
- 17:13below the plane of the ecliptic. It's well to
- 17:16the south of the ecliptic plane, which is why
- 17:18the only radio telescope in the world that
- 17:21could communicate with it is here in
- 17:22Australia. Uh, because we see that
- 17:26part of the sky. Um, but uh,
- 17:29you're absolutely right, Mikey, that uh, this
- 17:32is the first time a, uh, spacecraft
- 17:35has seen the poles of the sun.
- 17:38Um, and it's actually, um, only
- 17:41at the moment. I think the tilt
- 17:44of the spacecraft's orbits to the ecliptic is
- 17:47only about 15 degrees. It's not very high,
- 17:49but it's still enough to be able to see over
- 17:51the top and uh, uh, of the sun.
- 17:55Uh, sorry, uh, it's the bottom of the sun, if
- 17:57we put it that way, because I think it's the
- 17:58south polar region that's been imaged. Uh,
- 18:01but they are, uh, esa, the European Space
- 18:04Agency, have plans to increase the tilt of
- 18:07the orbit. So we'll see, we'll have a much
- 18:10better view of the Sun's south
- 18:12pole. Um,
- 18:15the process of
- 18:17changing the angle of an orbit is actually
- 18:21quite expensive in terms of fuel. It's
- 18:23not a straightforward thing to do. Uh, so
- 18:26it's uh, you know, it's very ambitious thing
- 18:29to do for the
- 18:32operators and the mission controllers for the
- 18:34um, Solar Orbiter spacecraft to be able to do
- 18:37that. Uh, it's obviously been built into the
- 18:39mission. The spacecraft um, actually went
- 18:41into orbit around The sun in 2020. So
- 18:44it's been working for five years. And I think
- 18:46the mission profile has this steady increase
- 18:49of the, of the orbital angle. Uh,
- 18:52what's perhaps even more interesting than
- 18:54that is what they found at the Sun's poles,
- 18:56uh, the south pole. And that is
- 18:59uh, a, uh, confusion of magnetic
- 19:01fields. Uh, the Sun's magnetism is
- 19:04very bizarre. Unlike the Earth, where the
- 19:06magnetic fields are strongest, uh, around the
- 19:09poles of the Earth, it's the opposite way
- 19:12around on the sun. At least at the moment,
- 19:14uh, it's something that changes with the
- 19:16Sun's 11 year cycle. Uh, so
- 19:19at the moment the Sun's magnetic activity is
- 19:22really mostly around its equator rather
- 19:25than at the poles. And there's a jumble of
- 19:27magnetic fields, uh, being discovered at, ah,
- 19:30the poles, which is probably due to the
- 19:33fact that at the peak of the Sun's activity,
- 19:36which is where we are now, the magnetic field
- 19:38of the sun actually switches from north to
- 19:41south. Uh, and so that might be why we're
- 19:43seeing this confusion at the pole of the Sun.
- 19:46So yeah, great question and such an
- 19:49interesting spacecraft as well. I once again
- 19:52encourage you to get online and check out
- 19:54Issa's solar orbiter there's some fabulous
- 19:57stuff on the web with many, many images of
- 20:00what's happening, uh, near the sun's poles.
- 20:03Heidi Campo: Yeah, I think I was reading about that one
- 20:05recently too. And yeah, I mean, really, this
- 20:08industry is picking up. There's so much
- 20:10happening every day it's hard to keep track
- 20:12of.
- 20:12But uh, we mentioned this a little bit before
- 20:15we started recording, but Fred, you
- 20:18subscribed to so many, um, news resources and
- 20:21it's your morning routine. I've got one
- 20:23question for you about how much time do
- 20:26you dedicate a morning to reading through
- 20:29the space news and updating, updating
- 20:32yourself to stay up to date? Can you walk us
- 20:34through a little bit of what that routine
- 20:35looks like for people who want to, you know,
- 20:38who kind of aspire to be a little bit more
- 20:40like you and have that discipline?
- 20:42Professor Fred Watson: It's um. I always feel that I spend
- 20:45too much time doing it because I've always
- 20:48got things that I want to achieve
- 20:51during the day. And usually it's writing an
- 20:53article or, you know,
- 20:56at the moment I'm trying to get my head
- 20:58around some, uh, some legal
- 21:00stuff that I'm involved with in terms of, um,
- 21:04uh, acting, uh, on behalf of.
- 21:08I won't say what it's about, but it's
- 21:10astronomy related, uh,
- 21:13you know, legal, legal issues. So that,
- 21:15that's the kind of thing that I should be
- 21:17really getting onto. But my head really wants
- 21:19to soak in what's coming out in the science
- 21:22news. So sometimes it's an hour, uh, in the
- 21:25morning that I spend delving into these
- 21:28stories. Uh, because you, you know, you see a
- 21:31headline and uh, especially when
- 21:33you're, I mean, I've spent my entire life
- 21:36working in this field. So it's stuff that,
- 21:39that has basically been second nature
- 21:42to me. So quite often I'll see a headline and
- 21:44think, but wait a minute, if that's the case,
- 21:47then this mustn't be right. And that
- 21:49mustn't be right. And that sucks me in
- 21:52straight away. It's like clickbait almost.
- 21:55And it works perfectly for me, uh, because
- 21:58it, I see a headline, it immediately raises
- 22:00questions. So yeah, I've got to look at that
- 22:02story. So yes, it's probably,
- 22:05you know, as I said, it's part of the morning
- 22:07routine. I would say
- 22:09typically half an hour, but often it's more
- 22:12like an hour and sometimes all morning if
- 22:14there's really interesting stuff going on.
- 22:17Heidi Campo: Well, thank you for sharing your uh, all
- 22:20the knowledge with us.
- 22:21Professor Fred Watson: Oh, well, uh, yes, it's all secondhand
- 22:24knowledge. Well, a lot of it is. Some of it
- 22:26is stuff I've worked on myself, but. But a
- 22:28lot of, uh, what I do is really,
- 22:31um, in a sense, it's my way of paying homage
- 22:34to these fabulous scientists who are working
- 22:36around the world on stuff that's very close
- 22:38to my heart and yours, too, Heidi, in
- 22:41space, uh, research and astronomy.
- 22:44So, um, it's a great way to
- 22:47perhaps give back to those researchers,
- 22:50uh, a little bit of the kudos that, uh,
- 22:53they deserve, uh, on a wider platform,
- 22:56which is, I guess, what Space Nuts is.
- 22:58Heidi Campo: Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's. That's how I
- 23:00originally found the podcast is. I just
- 23:02wanted a different medium to start learning
- 23:04more about space. And here we are.
- 23:06Professor Fred Watson: There you are. Yeah, you definitely got
- 23:08sucked in, Heidi.
- 23:09Heidi Campo: I got sucked in. Your. Your, uh, your
- 23:12orbit was strong.
- 23:14All right, everybody, well, this has been
- 23:16another wonderful episode. Thank you so much
- 23:19for tuning in. Please keep your amazing
- 23:21questions coming. You guys really are half
- 23:23the show, and we appreciate you and we look
- 23:25forward to these questions. Um, with that
- 23:28being said, I have nothing else to say. Fred,
- 23:31do you want to sign us off?
- 23:33Professor Fred Watson: Yeah, just, uh, keep. Keep an eye on what's
- 23:36going on. Space astronomy, uh, is looking up,
- 23:38as we all say, uh, and it's true, certainly,
- 23:41of space science as well. So keep on looking
- 23:43up, keep on tuning into Spacenauts, and we'll
- 23:46catch you next time.
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