{"id":189,"date":"2008-07-15T00:30:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T13:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2008-07-15T00:30:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T13:30:05","slug":"067-dr-pamela-gay-arms-of-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"067 &#8211; Dr Pamela Gay &#8211; Arms of the Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In astronomical news recently &#8211; it was announced that the Milky Way has two less arms than originally thought.  How?  Why?  And what&#8217;s a galaxy to start with?  To answer these questions, I talk to Dr Pamela Gay, an astronomer from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, who tells us all why this is so.<\/p>\n<p>Also featured on today&#8217;s show are the Brain Teaser, Listener of the Episode, some news in science including the a new name for minor planets and some petrol-head maths, and some listener Feedback.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/~brainsmatter\/BM067-PamelaGayMilkyWayArms.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 67<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This episode of Brains Matter is brought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/astronomy.swin.edu.au\/sao\">Swinburne Astronomy Online<\/a><br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/astronomy.swin.edu.au\/sao\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/SAOLogo.png?t=1212883097\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nPlease vote for this podcast this month at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/one_vote2.php?pod_id=40939\" title=\"Podcast Alley - Your Podcast Library\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/images\/podcastalley_icon.gif\" alt=\"PodcastAlley.com Feeds\" border=\"0\" height=\"15\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can donate by clicking on the button above, and subscribe by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=257301606\">subscribing in iTunes <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/iTunesWord.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/BrainsMatter?a=4FXvoj\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/digg.jpg\"> digg this<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In astronomical news recently &#8211; it was announced that the Milky Way has two less arms than originally thought. How? Why? And what&#8217;s a galaxy to start with? To answer these questions, I talk to Dr Pamela Gay, an astronomer from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, who tells us all why this is so. Also featured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,8,16,20],"tags":[354,110,365,164,368,369,242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}