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A Second Wave of Aurora... But Could There Be a Third?! · Made of Stars

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Speaker 1: Warning. The following podcast contains an entertaining look at astronomy, physics,
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Speaker 3: I'm West Carol, joined by my good friend doctor Sean
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Speaker 3: Cruiser from Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center.
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Speaker 2: Hey Sean, Hey Wes, what a week we're having.
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Speaker 3: You know, we started this week really when we did
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Speaker 3: our show a week ago and we told everybody, oh
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Speaker 3: my gosh, there might be some northern lights in our
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Speaker 3: city again. You know that once every one hundred years
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Speaker 3: thing that happened twice in five months, and that there
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Speaker 3: was a chance this remarkable event was going to happen again.
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Speaker 3: And I remember telling all of my friends, hey, be ready,
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Speaker 3: you missed it last time, be ready this time, and
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Speaker 3: hopefully you learned your lesson from five months ago, and
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Speaker 3: you listened to us talking about it on Made of Stars,
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Speaker 3: many of them some had, but many of the ones
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Speaker 3: that weren't already on board missed the show. They had
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Speaker 3: to go back and listen to it and went, oh wow, okay,
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Speaker 3: so this is maybe gonna happen.
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Speaker 2: And then it did a again.
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Speaker 3: And I can remember over the course of the day,
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Speaker 3: you and I were tracking all the conditions. We were
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Speaker 3: watching it closely. There was a point I think where
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Speaker 3: maybe you were focused on other things.
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Speaker 2: I started sending.
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Speaker 3: You some of the readings that I was checking out,
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Speaker 3: and then when Luke finished with school, he was checking
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Speaker 3: it out.
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Speaker 2: And then it was like, this might really happen again.
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Speaker 3: And it was almost like those days I know when
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Speaker 3: I was a kid here in the Southeast and you're
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Speaker 3: just like, man, maybe we're going to get snow, and
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Speaker 3: you're watching all the conditions and then maybe three flakes
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Speaker 3: come down and you go, well, that was nothing, Come on,
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Speaker 3: we can do better than that. But then sometimes those
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Speaker 3: conditions are just right and you go outside and there's
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Speaker 3: you know, a couple of inches coming down, and you're like, oh,
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Speaker 3: so we got a few inches. We got a little
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Speaker 3: more than a few inches, actually, because yes, we got
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Speaker 3: Aurora for the second time in five months to the day,
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Speaker 3: which is pretty special. But yeah, and ultimately I piled
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Speaker 3: the boys in the car and came out to your
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Speaker 3: place because you had a better view of it than
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Speaker 3: we had here. We were able to see them from
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Speaker 3: my house, but it was much better fishing, if you will.
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Speaker 3: From your house, we had a great view of the
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Speaker 3: sky and what's even better as we got there and
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Speaker 3: then it got even more intense. So pretty special. But
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Speaker 3: let's talk about what we had well.
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Speaker 2: So first of all, if you're a regular listener to
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Speaker 2: the show, you know that Luke is Wes's Sun, And
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Speaker 2: if you're really paying attention, you know that Luke Wes's
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Speaker 2: Sun is a big fan of watching the weather, so
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Speaker 2: he tracks thunderstorms and hurricanes and these kinds of things.
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Speaker 2: Or he really enjoys this. I would say it's a hobby,
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Speaker 2: but he's basically semi pro. Now I believe he's borderline.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I would think if somebody would throw him
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Speaker 3: a few bucks, he would take it, you know, he'd
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Speaker 3: go pro.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, I think we're winning him over to the
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Speaker 2: hobby of now watching space weather, or at least including
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Speaker 2: that in the cadre of things that he includes with
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Speaker 2: weather watching space weather now being a part of that because,
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Speaker 2: as Wes mentioned a minute ago, they all came out
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Speaker 2: to our place out in the country and we have
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Speaker 2: darker skies. I'm an astronomer. I don't live in the city.
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Speaker 2: I try to get away from city lights. So I
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Speaker 2: tried a little extra commute for some really nice dark skies.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, we could see Aurora borealis at latitude thirty
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Speaker 2: two point five just north of Columbus, Georgia, and what
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Speaker 2: we call Harris County, and so well what everybody calls
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Speaker 2: Harris County anyway, So you got a special name for it.
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Speaker 2: It's what we call Harris County. The rest of them,
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Speaker 2: I don't know what they call it. It's just a
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Speaker 2: dark place to go look at Aurora Borealis in Georgia anyway.
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Speaker 2: So the notion is this, there was enough of a
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Speaker 2: storm coming from the sun that it spawned basically the
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Speaker 2: top two thirds of the planet to be glowing enough
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Speaker 2: that we could see these bright northern lights clearly in
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Speaker 2: a southern location here south of Atlanta, Georgia. And it
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Speaker 2: was a great display in west when you came out right,
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Speaker 2: we actually saw it with our naked eye. So a
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Speaker 2: lot of people were getting aurora pictures. And that's because
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Speaker 2: your phone great phone cameras, by the way, these days, right,
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Speaker 2: they'll take time exposures and they'll stack those images and
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Speaker 2: you can do, you know, a prolonged time exposure and
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Speaker 2: pick up things in the sky that you don't necessarily
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Speaker 2: see with your unaided eye. Called that the naked eye
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Speaker 2: back in my day. So they were barely naked eye
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Speaker 2: visible for a while. But I will just say that
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Speaker 2: by the time you and your boys got out, there
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Speaker 2: was a flare up of these aurora, these northern lights,
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Speaker 2: Aurora borealis, and they were quite easily visible to the
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Speaker 2: unaided eye. And when that was going on, they were
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Speaker 2: producing some spectacular photos.
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Speaker 3: I was able to just step outside once it was
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Speaker 3: dark and just look, and I could see just the
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Speaker 3: hints of pink and purple sort of in the sky, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, and up to the north.
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Speaker 3: And that's when I took my phone out, took pictures,
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Speaker 3: and then immediately sent one to you and went, am
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Speaker 3: I seeing what I think I'm seeing? Because it was
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Speaker 3: very similar to what happened five months prior. And then
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Speaker 3: you sent me photos from your place, and I went, okay,
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Speaker 3: this is this is game on, now this is And
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Speaker 3: I have a few friends down in Florida who were, yeah,
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Speaker 3: reporting seeing it that far down so uh, you know,
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Speaker 3: parts of Florida were able to pick up the the
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Speaker 3: aurora down there as well. Now I don't think we
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Speaker 3: quite got to Puerto Rico again, but at least we
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Speaker 3: got into northern Florida that I that I could confirm
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Speaker 3: from people that I know, but yes, it really And
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Speaker 3: and friends that are in in Columbus in the in
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Speaker 3: the city lights were saying, I didn't see anything, that's
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Speaker 3: nothing going on. And I was trying to, you know,
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Speaker 3: walk them through some of their camera settings so that
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Speaker 3: they could get photos of things. Some were able to
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Speaker 3: do that, some just gave up and went out, I'll
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Speaker 3: just see other people's pictures.
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Speaker 2: Well and so And by the way, the five months
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Speaker 2: ago that West has referred to a couple of times
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Speaker 2: was the May tenth, twenty twenty four event that was
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Speaker 2: one of the strongest auroral storms or displays of Aurora
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Speaker 2: borealis in the last hundred years, right, So that was
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Speaker 2: basically one hundred year storm that took place back in
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Speaker 2: May noted that this didn't quite get to that level,
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Speaker 2: but man, it was close. It was, at least in
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Speaker 2: terms of what it looked like here and how far
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Speaker 2: it got down at least into the continental US. Again
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Speaker 2: a little short of the May tenth event, but boy
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Speaker 2: was it representative of the kind of storm that the
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Speaker 2: May tenth event was. And so you could, you know,
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Speaker 2: in these very southern latitudes, you could easily see this
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Speaker 2: phenomenon typically reserved to our friends in Canada or Alaska
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Speaker 2: or Finland or something like that, we are seeing them
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Speaker 2: in Georgia and Mississippi and Florida and places like that
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Speaker 2: in the southeast. They were seating in the Southwest too.
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Speaker 2: They're literally we're seeing it all around the world. That
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Speaker 2: evening space dot com one of the sites that we
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Speaker 2: reference often. One of their observers that they had quoted
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Speaker 2: on their site said three hours of magic. So there
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Speaker 2: were a particular three hours of time where the storm
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Speaker 2: was just a little extra intense. If you know anything
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Speaker 2: about auroral displays, they don't typically last that long. That
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Speaker 2: was a long one, right, So that was, you know,
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Speaker 2: on the scale of your typical outbreaks of Aurora borealis
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Speaker 2: three hours is quite a long time. So that again
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Speaker 2: occurred on October tenth. What spawned all that, Well, there
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Speaker 2: was a very big sunspot group on the Sun. It
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Speaker 2: was called Active Region thirty eight forty eight. Now that's
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Speaker 2: a catalog number, but that giant sunspot group, roughly the
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Speaker 2: size of the planet Jupiter, erupted on October the eighth
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Speaker 2: and blasted a Mount Everest sized mass of charged particles
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Speaker 2: or plasma out away from the Sun, out into the
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Speaker 2: Solar System. Oh wait, directed almost perfectly at the Earth. Right,
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Speaker 2: So all of that was kind of a perfect storm
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Speaker 2: of conditions on the Sun's side of things. Now you
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Speaker 2: have what's called a coronal mass ejection. It's traveling through
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Speaker 2: the Solar System directly at the Earth at about two
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Speaker 2: point nine million miles per hour or about two thousand
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Speaker 2: times faster than an F sixteen fighter jet according to
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Speaker 2: space dot Com. So now you have that that going on. Well,
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Speaker 2: then something actually happened at the Earth as well. A
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Speaker 2: crack opened up in the Earth's magnetic field. It was
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Speaker 2: a very in the density of the magnetic field of
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Speaker 2: the Earth, which was anti aligned with the net magnetic
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Speaker 2: field of the particles coming in anyway, just trust me
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Speaker 2: when I say conditions were right for another storm like this.
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Speaker 2: So we had a display of northern lights al most
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Speaker 2: as intense as the one hundred year storm that we
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Speaker 2: had just five months ago. And it's all because all
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Speaker 2: of these conditions stacked up to being just right. Now.
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Speaker 2: Let's make no mistake. We're having more flair activity right
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Speaker 2: now because the Sun is at a high point in
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Speaker 2: its cycle of eleven years. We call that solar maximum,
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Speaker 2: so we have the maximum number of sunspots and solar
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Speaker 2: activity taking place right now. So it's not entirely surprising
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Speaker 2: that we have these big storms in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 2: They'll bleed into twenty twenty five because this is basically
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Speaker 2: solar maximum taking place in the current eleven year sunspot cycle.
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Speaker 3: And no reason to think that this activity on the
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Speaker 3: Sun is going to slow down anytime soon either.
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Speaker 2: Right, Well, so I report just out today. Friends, you're
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Speaker 2: hearing it here on Made of Stars, but it's coming
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Speaker 2: from our good friends at spaceweather dot com. They're good friends,
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Speaker 2: because you know, I feel like they're friends. We just
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Speaker 2: read their website like every single day religiously and maybe
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Speaker 2: multiple times a day anyway, spaceweather dot com reporting that
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Speaker 2: Sunspot Group thirty eight fifty six, Remember the last one
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Speaker 2: was thirty eight forty eight thirty eight to fifty six,
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Speaker 2: the new Sunspot group has developed what is classified as
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Speaker 2: a beta gamma delta magnetic field. This has nothing to
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Speaker 2: do with animal house. This has everything to do with
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Speaker 2: the complexity of the magnetic field within the Sunspot Group
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Speaker 2: on the Sun. It basically means it's all twisted up,
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Speaker 2: and this big giant, twisted up magnetic disturbance on the
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Speaker 2: solar surface is ripe for creating flares. There's an eighty
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Speaker 2: percent chance of M class flares, the second strongest category
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Speaker 2: of flare, and a twenty percent chance of an X
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Speaker 2: class flare that is the top group of our top
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Speaker 2: type of flares classification for flares. It's an X class
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Speaker 2: flare that exploded on October eighth and led to the
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Speaker 2: October tenth event. Today, October seventeenth, Giant Sunspot Group thirty
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Speaker 2: eight fifty six, wearing a sweatshirt that says beta gamma
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Speaker 2: delta is ready to release X class flares potentially, so
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Speaker 2: keep an eye out on spaceweather dot com and an
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Speaker 2: associated site or it's a related site. Spaceweatherlive dot com.
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Speaker 2: Spaceweatherlive dot com is the website where you can go
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Speaker 2: and actually see the real time data from the interaction
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Speaker 2: between the Sun's magnetic field and the Earth's magnetic field.
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Speaker 2: All of their parameters are basically explained on the site.
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Speaker 2: But right at the top of that site, there's a
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Speaker 2: something looks like a giant speedometer, and when the sphenometer
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Speaker 2: is in the red, it's time to go out and
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Speaker 2: look for solar flares. Right that's Aurora borealis breather. It's
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Speaker 2: time to go out and look for the aurora phenomenon
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Speaker 2: because that is an indicator that a giant solar flare
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Speaker 2: is affecting the Earth's magnetic field in a strong way.
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Speaker 2: That's what happened on May tenth. That's also what happened
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Speaker 2: on October tenth. It could happen again in the next
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Speaker 2: forty eight hours. Keep your eye on spaceweather dot com
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Speaker 2: and spaceweatherlive dot com.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we don't want to say we're making it happen,
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Speaker 3: but when we say it might happen, it's been happening.
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Speaker 3: That's all. That's all we can really say. And we're
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Speaker 3: not saying anything's guaranteed. We're just saying be ready just
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Speaker 3: in case, because it could happen.
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Speaker 2: Now, this isn't lead to note we're two for two
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four, right, I mean we And I
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Speaker 2: almost I almost ignored my own warning back in May.
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Speaker 2: It was only a happenstance of walking outside to see
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Speaker 2: what the dog was doing or something that I actually went, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 2: there's aroar that I talked about today, look at that.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, Well, this is and this isn't the only reason
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Speaker 3: to look at the sky, because if you're keeping an
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Speaker 3: eye on things on h space with space, which one
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Speaker 3: is this is space weather, so this is also a
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Speaker 3: space weather story. But this this story is around a
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Speaker 3: lot of different places. But but if you're tracking the
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Speaker 3: conditions like Sean was talking about, and and you're keeping
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Speaker 3: an eye on it, and then you know and you're thinking, well,
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Speaker 3: we're getting close to the red, we're starting to get
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Speaker 3: up to the eight the nine range, and those are
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Speaker 3: good indicators that things are going to maybe be this
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Speaker 3: far south. If you're doing that, I just know there's
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Speaker 3: already a reason to be staring at the sky at
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Speaker 3: night anyway, so you know, maybe these things might coincide
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Speaker 3: and you get a chance to do both. But we've
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Speaker 3: had some some good and I realized that I guess
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Speaker 3: the views are getting a little bit less uh less clear,
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Speaker 3: less visible. We had a couple of peak days really
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Speaker 3: to have a look at Comet te Atlas. But I again,
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Speaker 3: you got some better views out now. I did not
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Speaker 3: make it out to your place for that, but I
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Speaker 3: have now gone out thrice to have a look, different
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Speaker 3: locations each time. Finally was able to find them in
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Speaker 3: my neighborhood. Find the comet at just the right angle.
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Speaker 3: It's it's high enough now from the horizon where I'm
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Speaker 3: able to see it. I've got one spot over my
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Speaker 3: neighbor's house. I suppose I should let him know why
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Speaker 3: I'm standing out near his yard with binoculars and my
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Speaker 3: phone taking pictures. I guess I should just let us
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Speaker 3: I should he and our buds. So he probably sees
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Speaker 3: me and just shakes his head and he goes, it's
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Speaker 3: West doing some space stuff. Who knows.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I have many of those kinds of relationships in
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Speaker 2: my life. Oh look, Shawn's doing space stuff. I think
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Speaker 2: is what that is. I don't know space right, so
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Speaker 2: comment t atlas uh Chu Chin Shawn. Atlas Chu Chin
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Speaker 2: Shawn the Chinese word for purple mountain. It's the purple
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Speaker 2: mountain of servatory where this comment was discovered in China,
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Speaker 2: later confirmed by the Atlas program to be a comet
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Speaker 2: and not an asteroid, which they thought at Purple Mountain first.
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Speaker 2: That's why it's got the double name right there. And yes,
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Speaker 2: spaceweather dot com, hold on before we talk about this comment,
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Speaker 2: let me just hat tip doctor Tony Phillips at spaceweather
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Speaker 2: dot com because for more than two decades I've been
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Speaker 2: following his site very closely and encouraging generations of my
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Speaker 2: astronomy students to follow his website. Friends, if you just
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Speaker 2: want to know what's going on in the daytime or
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Speaker 2: nighttime sky in terms of activity with the sun or
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Speaker 2: cool things like this comet coming around, or red sprites
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Speaker 2: or Steve or any of the other kinds of really
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Speaker 2: cool phenomenon we watch for in the night sky. Spaceweather
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Speaker 2: dot com one of the best space news sites out there.
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Speaker 2: It's ostensibly a sun monitoring website, but it is so
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Speaker 2: much more than that. So become a regular follower friends
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Speaker 2: of spaceweather dot com and hey, let me just put
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Speaker 2: in a plug. You can even sign up for their
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Speaker 2: service where they will text you and tell you that
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Speaker 2: the aurora phenomenon are going on and taking place. There's
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Speaker 2: a small fee for that, but I'm signed up. I
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Speaker 2: get the Tony Phillips texts from spaceweather dot com when
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Speaker 2: things are going on in the sun. So all right,
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Speaker 2: so comment teaatless. There is a fantastic picture on spaceweather
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Speaker 2: dot com today. And if you're listening to the show
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Speaker 2: in the Future Future Future, go back to October seventeenth
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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four. You can do that right there.
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Speaker 2: They have an archive link right there in the upper
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Speaker 2: right hand corner. Go back to October seventeenth. Check out
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Speaker 2: this photograph. It's an amazing photograph of comment teatless and
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Speaker 2: it's structure. Within the core of that comment, you're actually
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Speaker 2: seeing some kind of bowshocks being created by jets of
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Speaker 2: material being shot off the comet itself into what we
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Speaker 2: call the coma or the head of that comet. And
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Speaker 2: it's some beautiful structures right there an amazing photograph. But
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Speaker 2: the point is that comment Teatless is putting on a
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Speaker 2: show right now. And as Wes said, it's moving further
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Speaker 2: from the Earth each day, which means it's just a
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Speaker 2: little bit smaller in the sky each night, But it's
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Speaker 2: also moving up away from the sun, so you can
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Speaker 2: get it in a little bit darker skies. So there's
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Speaker 2: two factors going on, getting a little further away each night,
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Speaker 2: but also getting further away and out of twilight each
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Speaker 2: night where you can see it in a darker sky.
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Speaker 2: So this show is going to continue right on through
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Speaker 2: the weekend here of this week and into next week,
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Speaker 2: probably the rest of the month of October of twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty four. It will look really good. So keep an
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Speaker 2: eye on the western skies. You need a fairly flat
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Speaker 2: western horizon. Check about eight thirty pm local time a
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Speaker 2: good time to be looking for this comment. Check out
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Speaker 2: comment t atlas. Lots of great photographs taking place. Look
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Speaker 2: if you have any friends at all on Facebook, if
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Speaker 2: you have a single friend on Facebook, you've probably seen
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Speaker 2: this comet because it's pretty easily photographable. It's one of
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Speaker 2: those objects big enough, bright enough people can just get
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Speaker 2: it with their cell phones, and so lots of people
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Speaker 2: posting up Teatles pictures out there, and by the way,
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Speaker 2: I'm all for it. I love all those pictures. Keep
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Speaker 2: getting them there, keep posting them on Facebook. Really cool event.
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Speaker 2: Share it with everybody. Let's build some excitement and enthusiasm
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Speaker 2: about the nighttime sky.
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Speaker 3: Something about an eclipse and something about a comet that
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Speaker 3: gets people excited. Well, coming up after a quick break,
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Speaker 3: SpaceX having a pretty good couple of days they've strung together.
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Speaker 3: We'll talk about that next. I think I undersold it
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Speaker 3: by saying a good couple of days, because it's really
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Speaker 3: been a little over a week, but they've had a
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Speaker 3: good series of wins and some very cool optics on
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Speaker 3: top of that. One of the coolest things that you
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Speaker 3: can see from a company that launches rockets into space.
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Speaker 3: And we've talked many times about the folks at SpaceX
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Speaker 3: landing boosters vertically and it always looks like something from
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Speaker 3: science fiction when it's a really big one and they
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Speaker 3: sort of just kind of grab it and sit it down.
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Speaker 3: That's extra special to see and witness. And I've seen
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Speaker 3: people that I've never seen talk about space things talking
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Speaker 3: about that that's how cool that is exactly.
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Speaker 2: You know, when you make a dent in the consciousness
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Speaker 2: of those people who don't typically even care about space
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Speaker 2: or think that anything to do with space is just
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Speaker 2: a waste of time and money. When you have those
20:52
Speaker 2: people going, wow, that was pretty neat. Yeah, and that's
20:56
Speaker 2: an undersubding, it just gives you some perspective, right yep, okay,
21:01
Speaker 2: So and then if you mix into that batch of
21:04
Speaker 2: brownies a total space gig like myself, friends, this is
21:09
Speaker 2: one of the most amazing things imaginable and so Wes,
21:16
Speaker 2: I think you understood it by saying a pretty good week. Yeah,
21:19
Speaker 2: it's an amazing week.
21:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, eight days and you go back, well, you go
21:24
Speaker 3: back to the seventh because last week when we did
21:26
Speaker 3: the show, we talked about the launching of the hairspace craft,
21:32
Speaker 3: which that came after they had uh oh, we're having
21:35
Speaker 3: some complications with one of our rockets, so we might
21:38
Speaker 3: be grounded for a little while. We need to go
21:41
Speaker 3: ahead and launch this now before the hurricane, and they
21:43
Speaker 3: were able to successfully do that, so that really sort
21:46
Speaker 3: of started it, which in its own right means they
21:48
Speaker 3: corrected whatever the issues were and were able to get
21:51
Speaker 3: back off the ground for that. That's the starting point
21:53
Speaker 3: for all of this.
21:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you think that the starting point, they were
21:57
Speaker 2: still under a launch band by the FAA, So that
22:03
Speaker 2: was that's how they began this eight day run. Now,
22:06
Speaker 2: the mission that Wes just described is the European Space
22:10
Speaker 2: Agency's Harris spacecraft, which is which is launched to go
22:14
Speaker 2: out and check out all the damage done by NASA's
22:16
Speaker 2: Dart spacecraft on a couple of poor little asteroids who
22:20
Speaker 2: were mining their own business out there. But anyway, that's
22:21
Speaker 2: a different story. But that was happening as Hurricane Milton
22:24
Speaker 2: was bearing down on Florida, so you're right, they did
22:27
Speaker 2: have to get it up and out of there quickly.
22:29
Speaker 2: The FAA granted an exemption in part because of the hurricane,
22:33
Speaker 2: but also in part because they weren't actually using the
22:36
Speaker 2: second stage in a way that the second stage would
22:39
Speaker 2: return back to Earth and it was the second stage
22:42
Speaker 2: of the Falcon nine rocket that had the complication. Okay,
22:44
Speaker 2: so that's why they got the temporary, you know, stay
22:48
Speaker 2: of launch ban and got to go ahead and launch
22:51
Speaker 2: that mission. So that happened on October seventh. They launched
22:55
Speaker 2: a really important European Space Agency mission. Then on October thirteenth,
23:01
Speaker 2: they pulled off one of three of the coolest things
23:05
Speaker 2: I've ever seen happen with a rocket mission. First of all,
23:10
Speaker 2: they're launching a rocket that's bigger than the Saturn five.
23:15
Speaker 2: It's taller than the most powerful rocket ever built by
23:19
Speaker 2: humanity at the time, the Saturn five rocket that took
23:22
Speaker 2: astronauts to the Moon. Starship from SpaceX is bigger than that.
23:28
Speaker 2: The actual spacecraft or the second stage of Starship is
23:31
Speaker 2: the size of the Space Shuttle, and I don't think
23:35
Speaker 2: people have a perspective of how big that thing is.
23:38
Speaker 2: It is gigantic, all right. So, first of all, on
23:43
Speaker 2: October thirteenth, SpaceX launched that vehicle successfully. You might have
23:49
Speaker 2: been here. They were having a few technical problems with that. Yes,
23:52
Speaker 2: part of their agile engineering model. They launched, they watch
23:55
Speaker 2: things blow up, they fix the problems, launch again as
23:57
Speaker 2: fast as possible, and eventually have success. And I say eventually,
24:01
Speaker 2: in short periods of time have success. That's their track record. Okay,
24:06
Speaker 2: So not only did they launch both the largest rocket
24:11
Speaker 2: ever and have a successful flight of both the main
24:15
Speaker 2: booster and the space vehicle, they also as the main
24:20
Speaker 2: booster was coming back down, they were able to navigate
24:24
Speaker 2: that main booster right back to the launchpad to the
24:28
Speaker 2: tower where it launched and grab it out of the
24:32
Speaker 2: air with a pair of chopsticks like Bruce Lee with
24:37
Speaker 2: a fly. If you don't know what I'm talking about,
24:44
Speaker 2: google it all right anyway, So they have a mechanism
24:49
Speaker 2: attached to their launch tower that they have an inside
24:53
Speaker 2: name called Mechazilla, and Mechazilla is just two big giant
24:58
Speaker 2: arms that protrude at ninety degree angles from their launch
25:02
Speaker 2: tower and act like a giant pair of chopsticks. And
25:06
Speaker 2: as this massive booster was coming back down under rocket
25:09
Speaker 2: control retrorocket control, they were able to simply grab it
25:15
Speaker 2: and hold on to it, so it didn't really have
25:18
Speaker 2: to land, which means it didn't need landing gear and
25:22
Speaker 2: platforms and all of that kind of stuff that Falcon
25:25
Speaker 2: nine uses, because all of that just adds weight and complexity. Anyway,
25:31
Speaker 2: if you can get rid of all of that but
25:33
Speaker 2: still use the engines just to get you close enough
25:35
Speaker 2: to the launch tower, and if you have a giant Mechazilla,
25:39
Speaker 2: you can grab that rocket right out of the air
25:43
Speaker 2: the very first time you ever try it. So there's
25:49
Speaker 2: the rest of that. Friends, it's not like it's not
25:53
Speaker 2: like the Falcon Nines where they were trying to land
25:55
Speaker 2: them time and time again on a barge out in
25:57
Speaker 2: the ocean, and they missed and they failed, and they missed,
26:00
Speaker 2: they failed, and eventually they got it right and everybody cheered. No,
26:04
Speaker 2: this was the very first time, Like, Hey, wouldn't it
26:07
Speaker 2: be cool if we could just kind of grab our
26:09
Speaker 2: booster with a big pair of tongs, like a hot
26:13
Speaker 2: dog off the grill? What if we did that a
26:16
Speaker 2: giant hot dog. They grabbed the giant hot dog. It
26:22
Speaker 2: was a very bf hot dog, and they grabbed it
26:26
Speaker 2: with a pair of tongs.
26:29
Speaker 3: Stands for beef by the way.
26:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, beef and risotto. And they grabbed it with a
26:37
Speaker 2: giant pair of tongs so it didn't have to land
26:39
Speaker 2: and it worked like a Duck Dodger's cartoon from Bugs Bunny.
26:46
Speaker 2: Who does this? Who does this? SpaceX the very first time? Incredible?
26:55
Speaker 2: My three cool moments in recent space history. That one.
27:03
Speaker 2: The next one was the twin boosters West described a
27:05
Speaker 2: minute ago from Falcon Heavy. By the way, we have
27:09
Speaker 2: a Falcon Heavy story in just a moment, yep, and
27:13
Speaker 2: then a cherry red Tesla roadster flying off, you know,
27:21
Speaker 2: orpening around a common orbit with the sun, flying off
27:24
Speaker 2: about to the orbit of Mars and coming back and
27:26
Speaker 2: visiting the Earth, and you know, some dead guy in
27:29
Speaker 2: a spacesuit or something waving from the steering wheel. Anyway,
27:32
Speaker 2: I've got that on a T shirt because it's just
27:34
Speaker 2: that cool and I'm just that nerdy. So the cherry
27:37
Speaker 2: red Tesla roadster, the parallel landings of the side boosters
27:41
Speaker 2: of the of the Falcon Heavy, and grabbing a starship
27:44
Speaker 2: out of the air with a mechazilla are three of
27:47
Speaker 2: the coolest things I've ever seen in my life period.
27:52
Speaker 2: And they've all come courtesy of SpaceX.
27:55
Speaker 3: All right, So this isn't a huge accomplishment, an amazing thing.
28:00
Speaker 3: You would think they would take a couple of days
28:02
Speaker 3: and just kind of go, hey, let's high five and
28:05
Speaker 3: maybe have an adult beverage to celebrate.
28:09
Speaker 2: Do you think that, No, they wouldn't do that at all.
28:12
Speaker 3: They would get right, they would get right back to
28:14
Speaker 3: it and the following day it's.
28:18
Speaker 2: The Europa Clipper. That's the way SpaceX does things. Friends,
28:24
Speaker 2: They're not standing on their laurels or dangling boosters from
28:28
Speaker 2: Mechazilla's no, no, they have the Falcon Heavy three Falcon
28:34
Speaker 2: nines duct taped together and you twist the fuse and
28:38
Speaker 2: light it all at the same time. Anyway, so if
28:40
Speaker 2: three Falcon heavies duct taped together. Launched the Europa Clipper,
28:44
Speaker 2: one of NASA's next very important missions to the planet
28:48
Speaker 2: Jupiter to study a potentially life bearing moon that's Europa
28:51
Speaker 2: with liquid water oceans. That launch successfully occurred the next day,
28:57
Speaker 2: October fourteenth. So you catch the Mechazilla on the thirteenth,
29:02
Speaker 2: you blast Europa Clipper on the fourteenth on a Falcon
29:05
Speaker 2: Heavy and have no boosters, come back and successfully land.
29:10
Speaker 2: Oh what happened? Well, it's because they had to burn
29:13
Speaker 2: out all their fuel to get this was such a
29:15
Speaker 2: heavy payload. They knew they were going to lose these boosters,
29:17
Speaker 2: so all three of those boosters were lost. But that
29:21
Speaker 2: was the intention all the time anyway. So successful launch
29:24
Speaker 2: of Europa Clipper, a five point two billion dollar NASA
29:28
Speaker 2: space mission. Another success. But wait, the very next day,
29:34
Speaker 2: October fifteen, SpaceX launches from Cape Canaveral Air Station, a
29:42
Speaker 2: starlink mission. It's like, okay, well they're launching their own
29:45
Speaker 2: telecommunication satellites say it's the next day. And with that
29:51
Speaker 2: launch of the Falcon nine rocket, that was their one
29:55
Speaker 2: hundredth launch of twenty twenty four. One hundred launches have
30:02
Speaker 2: taken place courtesy of SpaceX in the year twenty twenty
30:06
Speaker 2: four by October fifteenth, two hundred and ninety one days
30:12
Speaker 2: into the year, not even three hundred days, which means
30:16
Speaker 2: they have a launch cadence of less than three days
30:19
Speaker 2: apart since January first. The previous record of maximum number
30:28
Speaker 2: launches in a year held oddly enough by SpaceX. I
30:32
Speaker 2: feel like I'm talking about Patrick Mahomes here all of
30:34
Speaker 2: a sudden, breaking his own records. The previous record was
30:38
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, where SpaceX launched ninety six times
30:41
Speaker 2: in the entire year of twenty twenty three. The new
30:46
Speaker 2: record one hundred launches by October fifteenth of twenty twenty four,
30:53
Speaker 2: and they're still going, Friends, and the SpaceX Starlink mission
30:59
Speaker 2: did land their boosters safely back at the Spacepad, making
31:03
Speaker 2: the three hundred and fifty third time three hundred and
31:08
Speaker 2: fifty three times that SpaceX has successfully landed their boosters. Friends,
31:14
Speaker 2: if you're just a casual fan of space and space
31:17
Speaker 2: news and space exploration. Maybe you're just like a little
31:21
Speaker 2: bit like, Okay, yeah, SpaceX they're pretty cool. I guess
31:23
Speaker 2: they're doing some cool stuff. This is ridiculous in the
31:30
Speaker 2: history of any kind of space exploration. This track record,
31:36
Speaker 2: this launch cadence, this record of success, the diversity of
31:40
Speaker 2: the kinds of rockets being launched, the diversity of kinds
31:43
Speaker 2: of missions they're having success with, is unprecedented in human history.
31:49
Speaker 2: Be glad you're living at a time where you get
31:53
Speaker 2: to see this happening. You might think by my comments that, oh, well,
31:57
Speaker 2: he's just an Elon Musk fanboy is isn't that cute? No,
32:02
Speaker 2: not necessarily. In fact, it's really Gwynn shot Well as
32:05
Speaker 2: the chief operating officer of SpaceX, that I believe is
32:08
Speaker 2: doing the majority of the heavy lifting here. Although certainly
32:10
Speaker 2: inspired by Elon. This is just an incredible group of
32:15
Speaker 2: engineers pulling off these feats. Friends. If you watch the video,
32:19
Speaker 2: it's almost stereotypical, and I don't like the stereotype. But
32:23
Speaker 2: it's just a bunch of millennials like cheering like they're
32:27
Speaker 2: at a PEP rally. Every time you see them. And
32:30
Speaker 2: it's fun to me to see this because they're obviously
32:33
Speaker 2: having fun and they're having a tremendous amount of success too.
32:37
Speaker 2: Hats off today for the last eight days of SpaceX success.
32:43
Speaker 3: And you say you feel like you're almost covering Patrick Mahomes.
32:45
Speaker 3: You're covering it with the same enthusiasm as Chris Collinsworth
32:48
Speaker 3: does Patrick Mahomes.
32:49
Speaker 2: So that's good.
32:50
Speaker 3: We like to hear the enthusiasm coming out. After one
32:53
Speaker 3: more quick break, we're going to talk about a partnership.
32:57
Speaker 2: For the new moonsuit. We'll get to that right after this.
33:18
Speaker 3: All right, Axiom Space has actually a couple of partnerships
33:22
Speaker 3: that they'll be working along with the moon suit. And
33:25
Speaker 3: I saw the name Prada. It's that Prada. Like Prada,
33:30
Speaker 3: they're gonna be.
33:33
Speaker 2: Prada. I think about Space Exploration, Wes, I always think Prada.
33:37
Speaker 2: Are we gonna get like a Kardashian model in this
33:39
Speaker 2: thing at some point? Like?
33:40
Speaker 4: How does this work?
33:41
Speaker 3: I don't know how when you get Prada involved, what
33:44
Speaker 3: are the requirements.
33:45
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say that we're not gonna get a
33:48
Speaker 2: Kardashian model involved.
33:50
Speaker 3: Maybe Patrick Mahomes will put one on and model it.
33:53
Speaker 2: For us or some tight ends girlfriend.
33:58
Speaker 3: It could be any of those things could happen. I
34:01
Speaker 3: was like, when they're covering a Chiefs game, and if
34:03
Speaker 3: my home throws an interception, you would think it was
34:05
Speaker 3: the greatest interception ever thrown in the history of football.
34:08
Speaker 2: Anyway, sorry, I mean it was a great interception he
34:14
Speaker 2: threw there.
34:14
Speaker 3: Anyway, I can do it, because I know you're a
34:17
Speaker 3: Broncos fan and it sounds like you're just hating on
34:20
Speaker 3: a division rival. But I can do it all I
34:22
Speaker 3: want to, not even in the same conference anyway. I mean,
34:26
Speaker 3: if I'm being that obvious, then the answer is just yes.
34:33
Speaker 2: All right. So what does Prada have to do with
34:35
Speaker 2: the Denver Broncos. Not much. They did get new uniforms
34:38
Speaker 2: this year, but they couldn't afford Prada as a collaborator,
34:41
Speaker 2: so they didn't get that. But what Prada did collaborate
34:44
Speaker 2: on is with a company called Axiom Space. You might
34:47
Speaker 2: know Axiom Space because they're the ones that have the
34:49
Speaker 2: contract to develop the new suits for the for the
34:53
Speaker 2: Artemis program for lunar exploration on the surface of the Moon.
34:57
Speaker 2: And who do they bring as a partner to make
34:59
Speaker 2: things cool? The company Prada and now Prada working with Axiom,
35:06
Speaker 2: has unveiled their new spacesuit design at the International Astronautical
35:10
Speaker 2: Congress in Milan, Italy. Good place for Prada by the way.
35:15
Speaker 2: So Axiom Space and Product revealed for the first time
35:19
Speaker 2: that the flight design of the Axiom Extra vehicul or
35:22
Speaker 2: Mobility Unit or the ax EMU spacesuit will be used
35:27
Speaker 2: for NASA's Artemis three mission. And it has been jointly
35:31
Speaker 2: developed by Axiom and yes that Prada. So it's not
35:38
Speaker 2: only going to save your life in a very harsh
35:42
Speaker 2: and difficult environment, it's also going to look great while
35:46
Speaker 2: it does it. And is that the point? Maybe that's
35:51
Speaker 2: the point. Well, there's certainly. According to Axiom's website, they're
35:55
Speaker 2: blending the creativity and engineering aspects to enhance the next
36:00
Speaker 2: generation space suit design. So that's what's happening.
36:05
Speaker 3: Does this make the cost of the suits more because
36:07
Speaker 3: I would think that you know, you're not getting product cheap,
36:10
Speaker 3: are you? I mean, I don't know, there's not. Is
36:12
Speaker 3: there a PRODA outlet somewhere that they're able to go
36:14
Speaker 3: to for material? I don't know how this works.
36:17
Speaker 2: Is it PROD or is it a knockoff. This is
36:19
Speaker 2: what we want to know. No, it's the real product,
36:22
Speaker 2: according to According to Axiom This is a quote from
36:26
Speaker 2: Matt Onler, Axiom Space president, who says this quote, Our
36:30
Speaker 2: elite teams have redefined spacesuit development, establishing new pathways to
36:36
Speaker 2: innovate solutions or to innovative solutions, and applying a state
36:40
Speaker 2: of the art design approach for the AXMU. We have
36:44
Speaker 2: broken the mold. The Axiom Space Product Partnership has set
36:49
Speaker 2: up a new foundational model for cross industry collaboration, further
36:54
Speaker 2: expanding what's possible in commercial space. End quote Matt Oler,
37:01
Speaker 2: president of Axiom Space.
37:06
Speaker 3: Pretty significant. There a nice grab I think for Prada
37:10
Speaker 3: because you didn't see you don't see it coming. It's
37:12
Speaker 3: not one of those obvious things that you would see, right,
37:15
Speaker 3: I mean, this is kind of one of those out
37:17
Speaker 3: of the box I think. I mean to me, it
37:19
Speaker 3: just seems like an odd like I wouldn't expect to
37:22
Speaker 3: see Prada on a on a NASCAR, you know, I
37:25
Speaker 3: I wouldn't expect to see it.
37:27
Speaker 2: And then if you do, you.
37:28
Speaker 3: Just kind of go, well, that's a nice grab for them.
37:31
Speaker 2: I think, you know it is, right, I mean, so
37:35
Speaker 2: if you think about it from a public relations standpoint
37:37
Speaker 2: for Prada, when an Artemis astronaut walks on the surface
37:42
Speaker 2: of the Moon and somewhere on that suit, it's kind
37:45
Speaker 2: of be a logo. I don't know, is it on
37:47
Speaker 2: the patch in the back of the neck or is it,
37:49
Speaker 2: you know, one of those tags that kind of on
37:51
Speaker 2: the end theme where it rubs on you the wrong way.
37:54
Speaker 3: I don't expect it will be somewhere that will be
37:56
Speaker 3: highly visible.
37:59
Speaker 2: Well, it's the taks they do not remove in the
38:01
Speaker 2: state of California. I'm not sure.
38:02
Speaker 3: It might even be like backwards inside the helmet, like
38:06
Speaker 3: in the mask, right, so you can any camera angle
38:09
Speaker 3: is gonna get it, you know, like like an ambulance
38:12
Speaker 3: in the rear view mirror.
38:13
Speaker 2: So good for them, Good for them anyway it is. Look,
38:18
Speaker 2: it's just cool, right, So we were just talking about
38:21
Speaker 2: SpaceX and they have a certain cool factor Axioms getting
38:25
Speaker 2: in on the game. They're making those new spacesuits for
38:30
Speaker 2: the Artemis Astronauts another level of cool by inviting Prada
38:34
Speaker 2: to help on the creative design.
38:37
Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about We have one more story
38:39
Speaker 3: for this week, and this is the Giant star cluster,
38:42
Speaker 3: and it's just spewing out huge stars.
38:45
Speaker 4: What's this?
38:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, So a star cluster is a place where a
38:51
Speaker 2: cloud of gaseous material, mostly hydrogen, led to the development
38:55
Speaker 2: of many stars that formed, all geographically similar location, all
39:00
Speaker 2: forming together. Typically they're gravitationally bound, so this group of
39:04
Speaker 2: stars kind of holds onto each other. If you look
39:06
Speaker 2: in the nighttime sky this time of year, you might
39:08
Speaker 2: see a glimpse of the Pleiades or the Seven Sisters
39:11
Speaker 2: star cluster. That's kind of one of these objects, right,
39:14
Speaker 2: It's a family of stars all born together out of
39:17
Speaker 2: the same cloud of gas and dust. Well, now, the
39:20
Speaker 2: Gaia telescope, working in conjunction with astronomers from space well
39:25
Speaker 2: or from James's Webspace telescope, have discovered a star cluster
39:29
Speaker 2: in a nearby galaxy, a companion galaxy to the Milky Way.
39:33
Speaker 2: That galaxy is called a large Mandelanic cloud, and the
39:36
Speaker 2: star cluster inside of that is just spitting stars out.
39:42
Speaker 2: It's forming the stars, but it's ejecting them at a
39:45
Speaker 2: high rate of speed. This team of astronomers analyzing data
39:49
Speaker 2: of this object, called the Tarantula nebula in the large
39:52
Speaker 2: Mandellanic cloud have discovered fifty five high speed stars being
39:58
Speaker 2: ejected from the cluster a year out of here. So
40:05
Speaker 2: they're just being thrown out, and so it's interesting to say, well,
40:11
Speaker 2: is this an unusual phenomenon or does this happen with
40:15
Speaker 2: every star cluster that's formed. Speculations are that right now
40:21
Speaker 2: this is one of the most massive star clusters ever observed,
40:25
Speaker 2: and maybe it's just a little bit unusual. Maybe this
40:28
Speaker 2: is not typical behavior for a star cluster. Obviously this
40:32
Speaker 2: will lead to further studies, but a very interesting result
40:37
Speaker 2: of a star cluster just spitting out its children, shooting
40:42
Speaker 2: massive stars out into space at high rates of speed
40:45
Speaker 2: in the large vigilantic cloud nearby the Moky Way galaxy.
40:50
Speaker 2: So there you go from guy A Telescope and the
40:52
Speaker 2: James Webspace Telescope.
40:53
Speaker 3: I'm not going to say that there is a sponsorship
40:56
Speaker 3: opportunity there, but I'm just pointing out that, you know, well,
41:00
Speaker 3: there is the opportunity there. I'm not gonna say that
41:01
Speaker 3: it's gonna happen, but you know, you know, much like
41:04
Speaker 3: Prada working with the moonsuits, you know, maybe little Debbie
41:08
Speaker 3: could jump in there with the star crunch for this
41:10
Speaker 3: and they could come up with something, just a little
41:13
Speaker 3: something for that.
41:14
Speaker 4: Hey, let's talk about.
41:15
Speaker 3: Music under the Dome because coming up in a couple
41:18
Speaker 3: of weeks, we got another opportunity to uh be there
41:23
Speaker 3: for this incredible concert experience unlike anything else I would
41:28
Speaker 3: say anywhere in the known universe.
41:31
Speaker 2: I would say that as well, because I only know
41:34
Speaker 2: of one. So it's one of one. Music under the
41:37
Speaker 2: Dome at the Coca Cola Space Science Center at Columbus
41:39
Speaker 2: State University. Friends, if you've not been down for one
41:42
Speaker 2: of these concerts, please check out the tickets. If you're
41:44
Speaker 2: anywhere in our listening area, come down well. And even
41:47
Speaker 2: if you're not, just travel in. Okay, it's on a Tuesday,
41:51
Speaker 2: you could come, you know, over the weekend hang out.
41:53
Speaker 2: We got an airport. Come on, Southern Barbecue. We do
41:56
Speaker 2: have an airport. You're right about that. We have the
41:57
Speaker 2: Columbus Airport. You can fly right here into town. There
42:01
Speaker 2: are a lot of friendly, friendly uber drivers here in
42:04
Speaker 2: the city that will take you around anyway. So here
42:07
Speaker 2: at Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center on Tuesday,
42:11
Speaker 2: November fifth, will be the next Music Under the Dome Concert.
42:14
Speaker 2: It's going to feature the students and faculty of the
42:17
Speaker 2: Schwobes School of Music here at Columbus State University that
42:21
Speaker 2: will be performing inside of our Omnosphere Theater planetarium with
42:26
Speaker 2: original graphics done specially for this show, choreographed to the music.
42:32
Speaker 2: It's a South It's a I didn't say that. Well,
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Speaker 3: Sean just in the last week, I have passed fifteen
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Speaker 3: hundred podcasts that I have produced and are available online,
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Speaker 3: and Made of Stars is about to hit. We'll hit
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Speaker 3: two hundred and a couple of weeks on Halloween, our
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Speaker 3: two hundredth episode and certainly many other episodes from Radio
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Speaker 3: Days of us together on podcasts. But I just felt like,
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Speaker 3: you know, we always talk about you celebrate the milestones
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Speaker 3: that end in zero or five, and that ends with
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Speaker 3: two zeros, So that's a good amount. But I appreciate
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Speaker 3: you being a part of so many of those shows,
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Speaker 3: and one weekledge our listeners for being a part of
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Speaker 3: this ride with us. So we're approaching two hundred here,
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Speaker 3: plus the ones from Radio Days, and then you know
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Speaker 3: there's thirteen hundred others you know, they go on top
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Speaker 3: of that. So it's been a fun ride, my friend.
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Speaker 2: Congratulations wes A. That's a true milestone for you and
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Speaker 2: your broadcast group, and it's been it's been my pleasure
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Speaker 2: to be able to be part of these podcasts and
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Speaker 2: just spread our mutual love of the nighttime sky and
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Speaker 2: all things space to all the listeners out there. So
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Speaker 2: thank you listeners for tuning in. Be sure and share
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Speaker 2: you know we'd love to grow the listener group, not
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Speaker 2: because we want to make vast amounts of money. We
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Speaker 2: just like to impact people's lives and get them excited
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Speaker 2: about space and space exploration. So yeah, sare share this
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Speaker 2: podcast with other folks and if you enjoy it, tell
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Speaker 2: us why. If you hate it, tell us why. We
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Speaker 2: may not fix it, but you know we'll at least
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Speaker 2: listen to you. So so yeah, thank you for listening
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Speaker 2: to our show. Uh and West, congratulations on these milestones.
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