2. **Celestial Events:** - Rare blue super moon dazzled stargazers on a Wednesday night. - Saturn was visible alongside the moon. - It was the second full moon of August, hence the "blue" label. - The moon was unusually close to Earth, making it a super moon. - Next blue super moon is expected in 2037, but another regular super moon is anticipated at the end of September.
3. **Gravity and Dark Matter:** - Discussion on Isaac Newton's theory of gravity and Einstein's theory of general relativity. - New study from Sissa Askola International Superior D-Studi Avanzotti published in the Astrophysical Journal. - The study suggests Dark Matter interacts with gravity in a non-local way. - Dark Matter's nature, especially its interaction with gravity in smaller galaxies, remains a mystery. - The study introduces a new model of non-local interaction between Dark Matter and gravity. - Fractional calculus, a mathematical tool from the 17th century, was used in the study.
4. **Star Wars vs. Star Trek:** - Discussion on Star Trek's animated sitcom and its comedic approach. - Speculation on why Star Wars hasn't ventured into comedy. - Mention of various comedic takes on Star Wars by other creators.
5. **Exoplanet Discovery:** - NASA's exoplanet Hunting Satellite discovers a world with one of the longest known periods. - The gas giant, T-O-I-4-660-C, is about the size of Saturn and is 815 light years from Earth. - It has a year lasting 482.82 days and is one of the coldest planets spotted by NASA's test. - The discovery provides insights into the formation and migration of different types of systems.
6. **Sci-Fi Jokes:** - Why did the Borg go to therapy? They had too many assimilation issues. - Why did Anakin Skywalker cross the road? To get to the dark side.
7. **Closing:** - Reminder to join the conversation on the SpaceNuts podcast group on Facebook. - Access all episodes at spacenuts.io and bitesz.com. - Upcoming episodes with Steve on Monday and Tim on Friday. - Farewell from Tim and Hallie.
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Good day, everybody. And welcome to the Astronomy Daily Podcast
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for the first of September 2023. My name is Tim Gibbs and I will
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be your host for today's episode. Now, as usual, I have
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my digital A I assistant Hay here in the studio with me. How
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many days the podcast with your host K Gibbs?
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Now, Hay, have you got any interesting stories for us this
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week?
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I do indeed, Tim, one of them is a biggie. So hold on to your
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hat.
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Oh, intriguing. So back to you Hay for your stories of the
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week.
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A rare blue supermoon, the closest full moon of the year
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dazzled Stargazers. Wednesday night, Saturn joined the
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celestial spectacle visible alongside the moon at least
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where skies were clear. It was the second full moon of August.
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Thus the blue label and it was unusually close to Earth.
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Therefore, a supermoon, the moon appeared to be bigger and
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brighter than usual. Given its close proximity to Earth, just
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222 miles, 357 kilometers or so. The August 1st
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supermoon was more than 100 miles, 160 kilometers farther
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away. If you missed it, it will be a long wait.
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The next blue supermoon isn't until 2037 but another regular
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supermoon is on the horizon at the end of September, the last
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one of the year, Isaac Newton described his theory of gravity
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as a force that acts instantaneously across space. A
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planet immediately senses the effects of another astronomical
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object regardless of the separation between them.
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This aspect inspired Einstein to create the renowned theory of
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general relativity where gravity becomes a local deformation of
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spacetime. The principle of locality states that an object
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is directly influenced only by its surrounding environment.
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Distant objects cannot communicate instantaneously only
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what is here right now matters. However, in the past century,
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with the birth and development of quantum mechanics, physicists
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discovered that nonlocal phenomena not only exist but are
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fundamental to understanding the nature of reality.
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Now, a new study from CSA Escola International Superior D ST
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Avanza recently published in the Astrophysical Journal suggests
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that dark matter, one of the most mysterious components of
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the universe interacts with gravity in a nonlocal way.
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According to the authors, Ph D students, Francesco Bonetti and
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Giovanni Gondo along with their supervisor, Andrea Lappy. This
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discovery could provide a fresh perspective on the still unclear
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nature of dark matter. Dark matter is a fundamental
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component of nature.
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It is responsible for the formation of the structures we
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observe in the universe today and surrounds luminous matter in
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Galaxies contributing to the motion of the stars we see in
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the sky. However, the nature of dark matter, especially its
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interaction with gravity in smaller Galaxies remains
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mysterious.
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In recent decades, the scientific community has made
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great efforts to understand these enigmatic phenomena. But
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many questions remain unanswered to explore the nature of dark
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matter and its interaction with gravity. A new approach may be
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necessary explain the authors of the study. The new research from
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CSA has precisely explored this intriguing path.
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The study proposes a new model of non local interaction between
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the dark matter of a Galaxy and gravity. It's as if all the
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matter in the universe tells the dark matter in a Galaxy how to
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move state.
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The authors to model this non locality fractional calculus has
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been employed a mathematical tool first developed in the 17th
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century and recently found applications in various areas of
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physics. The power of this calculus had never been tested
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in astrophysics before we wondered if fractional calculus
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could be the key to understanding the mysterious
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nature of dark matter and its interaction with gravity.
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And surprisingly experimental results on thousands of Galaxies
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of different types have shown that the new model more
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accurately describes the motion of stars compared to the
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standard theory of gravity. Explain the authors.
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This non locality appears to emerge as a collective behavior
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of dark matter particles within a confined system proving
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particularly relevant in small sized Galaxies, a thorough
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understanding of this phenomenon could bring us closer what dark
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matter really is. Now back to you, Tim The Astronomy Daily
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Podcast.
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Now I saw a headline, the other day and it was why Star Wars
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needs its own answer to Star Trek. Lower deck. Star Trek's
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animated sitcom has brought comedy to the final frontier.
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Surely it's time that the Galaxy far, far away followed suit.
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Strange new worlds and lower decks are both unmistakably Star
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Trek, even though they hail from very different corners of the
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final frontier.
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The former plots, a similar course to Jean Roddenberry's
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original series, a live action TV show set on the flagship of
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the Federation crewed with familiar characters and steeped
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in cannon lower deck. Meanwhile goes where no Trek has gone
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before. Yes.
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The animated series has taken Kirk Spock and the rest of the
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original crew into the second dimension back in the 19
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seventies. But the veteran Fran franchise has never previously
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set its phases so bluntly too fun. The comedy show setting is
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also far from traditional seeing as the US S Rios is in the
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second division of star ships crewed by officers, unlikely to
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trouble even the footnotes of Federation history.
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Yet, when the two shows collided in those old scientists, the
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latest episode of strange new worlds, they were able to
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coexist organically more comic than your average SNW story and
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more serious than the standard LD Outing the crossover ensured
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that en signs and mana never seemed out of place alongside
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Spock Pike and not beyond the usual fish out of water time
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travel gags.
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Anyway, that's largely because load has never lost sight of the
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fact that it's first and foremost, a Star Trek show. It
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is an animated workplace sitcom that just happens to be set in
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the 24th century that Jean Luc Picard calls home.
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This is a show that laughs with the franchise's long established
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tropes rather than at them. And with the show's fourth season
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heading for Earth later this year on September the 7th 2023
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it's a formula that is a pro that has a proven track record.
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It leaves you wondering why Star Wars is yet to make a genuine
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comedy of its own or exception of James Bond.
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That's been such a gift for comedy writers as Star Wars
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beyond the all out goose spaceballs, family guy, et
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cetera, et cetera. George Lucas 's Galaxy far far away has
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provided rich pickings for everything from the big bang
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theory and friends to robot chicken.
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A large chunk of Kevin Smith's filmography and bad lip breeding
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videos about the relative merits of sticks and bacon. But beyond
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the numerous Lego Star Wars themed spinoffs and a Man's
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Wonderful Visions episode. I am your Mother Lucas film have
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traditionally been reluctant to play Star Wars for fun as
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they're happier to let other people write the gags and make
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the funny for themselves.
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So I ask myself, isn't it time? We had Star Wars funnies. Let me
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know what you think in a cosmos rich with planets beyond our
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solar system, a majority tread astonishingly close to their
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stars. But NASA's exoplanet Hunting Satellite has no spotted
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a world with one of the longest known periods, meaning it strays
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farther from its star adding to a, just a handful of such long
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distance planets.
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The newly found gas giant called to I 4660 C is about the size of
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Saturn resides in a star system about 815 light years from Earth
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and orbits its star every 482.82 days or 16 months. Among the
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2000 or so worlds detected by NASA's Tess transiting
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exoplanets survey satellite to I 46 XC is special for two
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reasons.
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Not only does does it have the longest year but at a frigid
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minus 100 and 10 °F, that's minus 78 °C. The newly found
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world is also one of the coldest among those spotted by tests.
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Astronomers are particularly excited about this discovery
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because based on what we know about the exoplanets we've found
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so far, nothing really looks like our.
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So solar system is Mail Moris, a graduate student from the
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University Of New Mexico and lead author of the new study
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said in a statement. So we want to find out how these different
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types of systems formed and migrated. Now? Hay, have you got
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a terrible joke for us this week.
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As we talking sci-fi this week here are a couple for you. Why
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did the board go to therapy because they had too many
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assimilation issues. Why did Anakin Skywalker cross the road
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to get to the dark side?
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That's truly terrible. Hay. But thank you very much. Indeed.
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That's it for this week. Folks don't forget you can join the
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conversation on our Facebook page, Space Nuts Podcast group.
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And you can get all of our current and previous episodes at
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Space nuts dot io and bites dot com.
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You can catch Steve on Monday for a full episode of myself on
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Friday for a good for a full episode. Thanks for listening
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this week. Thanks everybody and goodbye. See you next time on
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Astronomy Daily Podcast. Say goodbye, Hay, goodbye.
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Hay. Thanks for listening, everybody and see you next time
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on the Astronomy Daily Podcast, the Astronomy Daily Podcast.