Happy Valentine's Day from Astronomy Daily! The cosmos has pulled out all the stops today — from astronauts docking at the space station to a dying star sending the universe a literal heart-shaped Valentine. Plus, the ring of fire eclipse countdown, why eclipses always arrive in pairs, a comet that flipped its spin, a six-planet parade to look forward to, and a chance of aurora tonight.
In this episode:
🚀 SpaceX Crew-12 launched yesterday and docks at the ISS today — a Valentine's Day arrival to end a month of skeleton-crew operations
🌑 Just 3 days until the "ring of fire" annular solar eclipse over Antarctica on February 17th
🌒 Why eclipses come in pairs: eclipse seasons explained — and 2026 has four eclipses across two spectacular seasons
💖 A dying star's cosmic Valentine: Mira A ejects a heart-shaped cloud of gas and dust 300 light-years from Earth
☄️ Comet 41P stuns scientists by flipping its rotation direction — what's behind this mysterious spin reversal?
🪐 Six-planet parade coming February 28 — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune line up at a civilised hour
🌌 Bonus: Possible Valentine's Day aurora from geomagnetic activity tonight
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00:00:00 --> 00:00:03 Happy Valentine's Day everyone. Welcome
00:00:03 --> 00:00:05 to Astronomy Daily, the podcast that
00:00:05 --> 00:00:07 brings you the latest space and
00:00:07 --> 00:00:09 astronomy news every single day. I'm
00:00:09 --> 00:00:10 Anna.
00:00:10 --> 00:00:13 >> And I'm Avery. And what a day to be
00:00:13 --> 00:00:15 talking about the cosmos. The universe
00:00:15 --> 00:00:17 has really pulled out all the stops for
00:00:17 --> 00:00:18 Valentine's Day this year.
00:00:18 --> 00:00:21 >> It really has. We've got astronauts
00:00:21 --> 00:00:23 arriving at the space station today. A
00:00:23 --> 00:00:25 dying star sending the universe a
00:00:25 --> 00:00:28 literal Valentine. possible aurora
00:00:28 --> 00:00:31 dancing across the skies tonight and a
00:00:31 --> 00:00:33 whole lot more. So, let's get into it.
00:00:33 --> 00:00:35 >> Ready when you are.
00:00:35 --> 00:00:37 >> Our top story today is a Valentine's Day
00:00:37 --> 00:00:40 rendevous, not between sweethearts, but
00:00:40 --> 00:00:42 between a Dragon spacecraft and the
00:00:42 --> 00:00:45 International Space Station. SpaceX's
00:00:45 --> 00:00:47 Crew 12 mission launched yesterday
00:00:47 --> 00:00:50 morning at Cape Canaveral at 5:15
00:00:50 --> 00:00:53 Eastern time. And as we speak, four
00:00:53 --> 00:00:55 astronauts are on their way to dock with
00:00:55 --> 00:00:58 the ISS later this afternoon.
00:00:58 --> 00:01:00 >> And what a crew it is. Commanding the
00:01:00 --> 00:01:02 mission is NASA astronaut Jessica Mir
00:01:02 --> 00:01:04 with Jack Hathaway as pilot. They're
00:01:04 --> 00:01:07 joined by issa astronaut Sophie Adena,
00:01:07 --> 00:01:09 whose mission has been named epsilon,
00:01:09 --> 00:01:12 and Rosscosmos cosminaut Andre Fedv.
00:01:12 --> 00:01:15 It's a truly international crew.
00:01:15 --> 00:01:17 >> This mission has been particularly
00:01:17 --> 00:01:19 urgent, Avery. The ISS has been
00:01:19 --> 00:01:21 operating with just three crew members,
00:01:21 --> 00:01:24 a skeleton crew, since mid January when
00:01:24 --> 00:01:27 crew 11 had to make an unexpected early
00:01:27 --> 00:01:29 return to Earth due to a medical issue
00:01:29 --> 00:01:32 with one of its members. That left NASA
00:01:32 --> 00:01:34 astronaut Chris Williams and two Russian
00:01:34 --> 00:01:36 cosminauts Sergey Cuts Verskov and
00:01:36 --> 00:01:38 Sergey Mikayv holding down the fort on
00:01:38 --> 00:01:41 their own. NASA has been clear that
00:01:41 --> 00:01:43 seven crew members is really what you
00:01:43 --> 00:01:45 need to maximize a science output on a
00:01:45 --> 00:01:48 station that costs around $3 billion a
00:01:48 --> 00:01:50 year to operate. So, there was real
00:01:50 --> 00:01:52 pressure to get this launch done
00:01:52 --> 00:01:54 quickly. SpaceX actually had the rocket
00:01:54 --> 00:01:57 and spacecraft ready ahead of schedule,
00:01:57 --> 00:01:59 but crew training and weather kept
00:01:59 --> 00:02:01 pushing the date. They lost two launch
00:02:01 --> 00:02:03 windows earlier in the week to bad
00:02:03 --> 00:02:05 weather along a flight path before
00:02:05 --> 00:02:07 finally getting off the ground
00:02:07 --> 00:02:09 yesterday. And in a lovely touch for
00:02:09 --> 00:02:11 Valentine's Day, the crew revealed their
00:02:12 --> 00:02:14 zero gravity indicator, a handmade
00:02:14 --> 00:02:16 crocheted model of Earth with four
00:02:16 --> 00:02:18 little satellites representing each crew
00:02:18 --> 00:02:20 member, plus a tiny moon for Commander
00:02:20 --> 00:02:23 Mir. It was made by Mir's childhood best
00:02:23 --> 00:02:25 friend and Hathaway's daughter. That's
00:02:25 --> 00:02:27 pretty adorable.
00:02:27 --> 00:02:29 >> It really is. Docking is expected at
00:02:30 --> 00:02:33 around 3:15 p.m. Eastern time today. So
00:02:33 --> 00:02:35 by the time many of you are listening to
00:02:35 --> 00:02:38 this, the ISS should be back to its full
00:02:38 --> 00:02:40 complement of seven. NASA administrator
00:02:40 --> 00:02:43 Jared Isaacman praised the teams, saying
00:02:43 --> 00:02:46 they brought crew 11 home early, pulled
00:02:46 --> 00:02:48 crew 12 forward, and did it all while
00:02:48 --> 00:02:51 preparing for the Aremis 2 moon mission.
00:02:51 --> 00:02:53 A busy few weeks at NASA to say the
00:02:53 --> 00:02:56 least. And speaking of the Artemis 2
00:02:56 --> 00:02:58 rocket, there was a fantastic photo from
00:02:58 --> 00:03:00 Kennedy Space Center this week showing
00:03:00 --> 00:03:03 the massive SLS Moon rocket photobombing
00:03:03 --> 00:03:06 the Crew 12 Falcon 9 on the neighboring
00:03:06 --> 00:03:09 launchpad. Two very different rockets
00:03:09 --> 00:03:11 side by side representing the present
00:03:11 --> 00:03:13 and future of human space flight.
00:03:13 --> 00:03:15 >> Now, we've been keeping you updated on
00:03:15 --> 00:03:18 this one, but with just 3 days to go,
00:03:18 --> 00:03:20 it's time for a final reminder. On
00:03:20 --> 00:03:23 Tuesday, February 17th, the first solar
00:03:23 --> 00:03:26 eclipse of 2026 will take place, an
00:03:26 --> 00:03:29 annular solar eclipse, or also known as
00:03:29 --> 00:03:31 a ring of fire eclipse.
00:03:32 --> 00:03:34 >> And here's the thing, this one is going
00:03:34 --> 00:03:36 to be witnessed by more penguins than
00:03:36 --> 00:03:38 people. The path of annularity, where
00:03:38 --> 00:03:40 you'd actually see that stunning ring of
00:03:40 --> 00:03:42 sunlight around the moon, cuts across a
00:03:42 --> 00:03:44 remote stretch of Antarctica and the
00:03:44 --> 00:03:47 Southern Ocean. At maximum eclipse, the
00:03:47 --> 00:03:50 moon will cover about 96% of the sun's
00:03:50 --> 00:03:53 disc, leaving that slim glowing ring
00:03:53 --> 00:03:55 visible for up to 2 minutes and 20
00:03:55 --> 00:03:57 seconds. But you'd need to be at one of
00:03:57 --> 00:03:59 the scientific research stations down in
00:04:00 --> 00:04:02 Antarctica, like the French Italian
00:04:02 --> 00:04:04 Concordia station or Russia's Mierney
00:04:04 --> 00:04:07 station. For the rest of the world,
00:04:07 --> 00:04:09 partial phases will be visible from the
00:04:09 --> 00:04:11 very southern tips of Chile and
00:04:11 --> 00:04:14 Argentina and across parts of southern
00:04:14 --> 00:04:16 Africa, including South Africa,
00:04:16 --> 00:04:19 Mosambique, and Madagascar. But if
00:04:19 --> 00:04:21 you're in Europe, North America, or most
00:04:21 --> 00:04:23 of Asia, no dice on this one, I'm
00:04:23 --> 00:04:24 afraid.
00:04:24 --> 00:04:26 >> Still, it's a reminder that eclipse
00:04:26 --> 00:04:29 season is upon us. And that brings us
00:04:29 --> 00:04:31 neatly to our next story. Have you ever
00:04:31 --> 00:04:33 noticed that solar eclipses and lunar
00:04:33 --> 00:04:36 eclipses seem to arrive in pairs? It's
00:04:36 --> 00:04:39 not a coincidence. Every eclipse is part
00:04:39 --> 00:04:41 of a predictable pattern during a short
00:04:41 --> 00:04:43 window known as an eclipse season.
00:04:43 --> 00:04:45 >> That's right. An eclipse season lasts
00:04:45 --> 00:04:48 about 31 to 37 days. And there are
00:04:48 --> 00:04:51 typically two each year, roughly 6
00:04:51 --> 00:04:53 months apart. They occur when the sun
00:04:53 --> 00:04:56 passes near one of the lunar nodes, the
00:04:56 --> 00:04:58 points where the moon's tilted orbit
00:04:58 --> 00:05:00 crosses the plane of Earth's orbit
00:05:00 --> 00:05:02 around the sun. During this window, the
00:05:02 --> 00:05:04 geometry lines up for eclipses to
00:05:04 --> 00:05:05 happen.
00:05:05 --> 00:05:07 >> And because the window is long enough to
00:05:07 --> 00:05:09 contain both a new moon and a full moon,
00:05:09 --> 00:05:11 which are always about 2 weeks apart,
00:05:11 --> 00:05:14 you almost always get a pair, a solar
00:05:14 --> 00:05:15 eclipse at new moon and the lunar
00:05:16 --> 00:05:18 eclipse at full moon, or vice versa. So,
00:05:18 --> 00:05:21 the annular solar eclipse on February
00:05:21 --> 00:05:24 17th is the opening act. Exactly 14 days
00:05:24 --> 00:05:27 later on March 3rd, the same eclipse
00:05:27 --> 00:05:29 season delivers a total lunar eclipse, a
00:05:30 --> 00:05:32 blood moon with the moon spending nearly
00:05:32 --> 00:05:35 an hour fully inside Earth's dark
00:05:35 --> 00:05:36 umbrell shadow.
00:05:36 --> 00:05:38 >> And that one is much more accessible.
00:05:38 --> 00:05:41 Observers in East Asia, Australia, the
00:05:41 --> 00:05:43 Pacific, and Western North America will
00:05:43 --> 00:05:45 have excellent views of the moon turning
00:05:45 --> 00:05:47 that gorgeous coppery color during
00:05:47 --> 00:05:48 totality.
00:05:48 --> 00:05:50 >> But wait, there's more. The second
00:05:50 --> 00:05:53 eclipse season of 2026 arrives in
00:05:53 --> 00:05:56 August, and this one is the blockbuster.
00:05:56 --> 00:05:59 On August 12th, a total solar eclipse
00:05:59 --> 00:06:01 will sweep across Greenland, Iceland,
00:06:01 --> 00:06:03 and northern Spain. That's the first
00:06:03 --> 00:06:07 total solar eclipse since April 2024.
00:06:07 --> 00:06:09 and much of Western Europe and North
00:06:09 --> 00:06:11 America will see at least a deep partial
00:06:11 --> 00:06:12 eclipse.
00:06:12 --> 00:06:16 >> Then 2 weeks after that on August 28th,
00:06:16 --> 00:06:18 a partial lunar eclipse rounds out the
00:06:18 --> 00:06:21 season. So 2026 really is shaping up to
00:06:21 --> 00:06:23 be a remarkable year for eclipse
00:06:23 --> 00:06:26 chasers. Four eclipses, two seasons, and
00:06:26 --> 00:06:29 some genuinely spectacular events. If
00:06:29 --> 00:06:30 you've been meaning to plan an eclipse
00:06:30 --> 00:06:32 trip, now's the time. We'll have much
00:06:32 --> 00:06:34 more on the March and August eclipses as
00:06:34 --> 00:06:36 they get closer, so stay tuned.
00:06:36 --> 00:06:39 >> And now for what has to be the most
00:06:39 --> 00:06:41 perfectly timed astronomy story of the
00:06:41 --> 00:06:43 year. Just in time for Valentine's Day,
00:06:43 --> 00:06:45 space has sent us a heart-shaped
00:06:46 --> 00:06:46 greeting.
00:06:46 --> 00:06:49 >> The star Mirror A, about 300 lighty
00:06:49 --> 00:06:51 years from Earth has ejected a cloud of
00:06:52 --> 00:06:54 gas and dust that forms a striking
00:06:54 --> 00:06:56 heart-shape around it. And this isn't
00:06:56 --> 00:06:59 just a pretty picture. It's a genuinely
00:06:59 --> 00:07:02 surprising scientific discovery. Mera A
00:07:02 --> 00:07:04 is a red giant star, one of the most
00:07:04 --> 00:07:06 famous variable stars in the sky. It was
00:07:06 --> 00:07:09 first documented all the way back in
00:07:09 --> 00:07:10 1596.
00:07:10 --> 00:07:12 As a star in the last stages of its
00:07:12 --> 00:07:14 life, it's been shedding material into
00:07:14 --> 00:07:17 space. But the amount and speed of this
00:07:17 --> 00:07:19 particular rejection caught astronomers
00:07:19 --> 00:07:22 off guard. The study led by Theo Corey
00:07:22 --> 00:07:24 at Sweden's Chalmer's University of
00:07:24 --> 00:07:27 Technology found that Mera A ejected
00:07:27 --> 00:07:29 roughly seven Earth masses of material
00:07:30 --> 00:07:32 in this burst. Using observations from
00:07:32 --> 00:07:35 both the very large telescope and the
00:07:35 --> 00:07:37 Alma radio array in Chile, the team
00:07:37 --> 00:07:39 discovered that gas fills the
00:07:39 --> 00:07:41 heart-shaped structure, while dust
00:07:41 --> 00:07:44 concentrates along the outer edges,
00:07:44 --> 00:07:46 creating a beautiful glowing outline.
00:07:46 --> 00:07:49 What's particularly fascinating is that
00:07:49 --> 00:07:50 the star appears to be acting like a
00:07:50 --> 00:07:52 lighthouse, illuminating its
00:07:52 --> 00:07:55 surroundings unevenly. Cory said that
00:07:55 --> 00:07:57 they were very surprised to see the
00:07:57 --> 00:07:58 structure and that the stars
00:07:58 --> 00:08:00 illumination of the surrounding dust
00:08:00 --> 00:08:03 varies in unexpected ways. And there's a
00:08:03 --> 00:08:06 companion star in this love story, too.
00:08:06 --> 00:08:08 Mirror B, a white dwarf star that orbits
00:08:08 --> 00:08:11 Mirror A, is already beginning to gather
00:08:11 --> 00:08:13 some of the ejected material. The
00:08:13 --> 00:08:15 researchers say they'll keep monitoring
00:08:15 --> 00:08:17 the expanding cloud because it could
00:08:17 --> 00:08:20 eventually affect Mirab though. We've
00:08:20 --> 00:08:22 got a cosmic couple exchanging material
00:08:22 --> 00:08:24 on Valentine's Day. You couldn't make it
00:08:24 --> 00:08:24 up.
00:08:24 --> 00:08:26 >> The study has been accepted for
00:08:26 --> 00:08:28 publication in the journal Astronomy and
00:08:28 --> 00:08:31 Astrophysics and the preprint is already
00:08:31 --> 00:08:34 available on archive. A truly heartfelt
00:08:34 --> 00:08:37 discovery. Literally. From hearts to
00:08:37 --> 00:08:39 head spinners, scientists have been left
00:08:39 --> 00:08:41 puzzled by a comet that has done
00:08:41 --> 00:08:43 something truly extraordinary. It's
00:08:43 --> 00:08:46 flipped its rotation direction.
00:08:46 --> 00:08:50 >> Comet 41P Tuttle Jacobini Creack, try
00:08:50 --> 00:08:52 saying that three times fast, was
00:08:52 --> 00:08:55 observed by NASA's Swift spacecraft back
00:08:55 --> 00:08:57 in 2017, slowing its rotation
00:08:58 --> 00:09:00 dramatically. It went from spinning once
00:09:00 --> 00:09:04 every 20 hours to once every 53 hours in
00:09:04 --> 00:09:06 just 60 days.
00:09:06 --> 00:09:08 To put that in context, the previous
00:09:08 --> 00:09:10 record for a cometary spinown was held
00:09:10 --> 00:09:14 by comet Hartley 2, which slowed from 17
00:09:14 --> 00:09:18 to 19 hours over 90 days. So, comet 41P
00:09:18 --> 00:09:20 changed its spin rate 10 times more
00:09:20 --> 00:09:23 dramatically in 2/3 the time. It's
00:09:23 --> 00:09:25 unprecedented.
00:09:25 --> 00:09:27 >> But that's not even the stranger part.
00:09:27 --> 00:09:29 New analysis of Hubble Space Telescope
00:09:29 --> 00:09:33 images by astronomer David Jwitt at UCLA
00:09:33 --> 00:09:35 has revealed that after slowing down,
00:09:35 --> 00:09:37 the comet's rotation appeared to
00:09:37 --> 00:09:39 actually reverse. It started spinning
00:09:39 --> 00:09:42 the other way. The culprit appears to be
00:09:42 --> 00:09:45 the comet's own outging. As comets
00:09:45 --> 00:09:47 approach the sun, they heat up and
00:09:47 --> 00:09:49 release jets of gas. When that gas
00:09:50 --> 00:09:52 escapes unevenly from the surface, what
00:09:52 --> 00:09:55 scientists call anisotropic outgassing,
00:09:55 --> 00:09:57 it creates a torque on the nucleus,
00:09:57 --> 00:09:59 gradually changing and eventually
00:09:59 --> 00:10:01 reversing its spin.
00:10:01 --> 00:10:03 >> Jed estimates that the nucleus is less
00:10:03 --> 00:10:07 than 0.7 km in radius, making it
00:10:07 --> 00:10:08 particularly susceptible to these
00:10:08 --> 00:10:10 forces. And here's the sobering
00:10:10 --> 00:10:13 implication. The lifetime of the nucleus
00:10:13 --> 00:10:16 to rotational instability is just a few
00:10:16 --> 00:10:18 decades, which is incredibly short
00:10:18 --> 00:10:20 compared to the thousands of years it's
00:10:20 --> 00:10:23 been in its current orbit. So, while the
00:10:23 --> 00:10:25 comet's orbit might be stable for
00:10:25 --> 00:10:27 millennia, its physical integrity is
00:10:27 --> 00:10:29 much more fragile, it raises the
00:10:29 --> 00:10:31 question of whether comets might not
00:10:31 --> 00:10:33 last as long as we previously thought,
00:10:34 --> 00:10:35 with their own internal forces
00:10:35 --> 00:10:38 eventually tearing them apart. The paper
00:10:38 --> 00:10:40 is available as a preprint on archive
00:10:40 --> 00:10:42 for anyone who wants to dig into the
00:10:42 --> 00:10:43 details.
00:10:43 --> 00:10:45 >> And finally, here's something for
00:10:45 --> 00:10:46 everyone to look forward to later this
00:10:46 --> 00:10:49 month. A rare six planet parade is
00:10:49 --> 00:10:51 building in the evening sky. And the
00:10:51 --> 00:10:53 best part, it's happening at a perfectly
00:10:53 --> 00:10:57 civilized hour. Throughout February, six
00:10:57 --> 00:10:59 planets are lining up across the sky in
00:10:59 --> 00:11:01 what astronomers call a planetary
00:11:01 --> 00:11:04 alignment. The parade features Mercury,
00:11:04 --> 00:11:07 Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, and
00:11:07 --> 00:11:10 Neptune, and the show peaks on February
00:11:10 --> 00:11:13 28th. Now, four of those, Mercury,
00:11:13 --> 00:11:15 Venus, Mars, and Jupiter, will be
00:11:16 --> 00:11:18 visible to the naked eye. Uranus, and
00:11:18 --> 00:11:20 Neptune, will require binoculars or a
00:11:20 --> 00:11:22 telescope. The best time to look is
00:11:22 --> 00:11:24 about 30 minutes after your local
00:11:24 --> 00:11:27 sunset, low in the western sky. You'll
00:11:27 --> 00:11:30 want a clear, unobstructed horizon.
00:11:30 --> 00:11:32 Mercury might be the trickiest to spot
00:11:32 --> 00:11:34 because of its low position near the
00:11:34 --> 00:11:36 horizon, but Venus and Jupiter should be
00:11:36 --> 00:11:38 unmistakable. They're the brightest
00:11:38 --> 00:11:40 objects in the evening sky after the
00:11:40 --> 00:11:43 moon. Now, this isn't quite as rare as
00:11:43 --> 00:11:45 the seven planet alignment we saw in
00:11:45 --> 00:11:47 February last year, which included all
00:11:47 --> 00:11:49 the classical planets plus Uranus and
00:11:49 --> 00:11:52 Neptune. That one won't happen again
00:11:52 --> 00:11:55 until 2040. But groupings of six planets
00:11:55 --> 00:11:58 are still pretty special. As astronomer
00:11:58 --> 00:12:00 Greg Brown from the Royal Observatory
00:12:00 --> 00:12:02 Greenwich has pointed out, while groups
00:12:02 --> 00:12:04 of three or four planets appearing
00:12:04 --> 00:12:06 together are relatively common, the more
00:12:06 --> 00:12:08 planets involved, the more orbital
00:12:08 --> 00:12:11 geometry has to cooperate. So, a six
00:12:11 --> 00:12:13 planet parade is definitely worth
00:12:13 --> 00:12:15 stepping outside for.
00:12:15 --> 00:12:17 >> Mark your calendars for February 28th
00:12:17 --> 00:12:19 and maybe start scoping out a good
00:12:19 --> 00:12:22 western facing spot with a low horizon.
00:12:22 --> 00:12:24 We'll remind you as the day gets closer.
00:12:24 --> 00:12:26 Before we go, one more little
00:12:26 --> 00:12:28 Valentine's Day treat. If you're in the
00:12:28 --> 00:12:30 northern United States or southern
00:12:30 --> 00:12:32 Canada tonight, you might want to step
00:12:32 --> 00:12:36 outside after dark and look north. NOAA
00:12:36 --> 00:12:38 forecasters are predicting possible G1
00:12:38 --> 00:12:41 minor geomagnetic storming this weekend
00:12:41 --> 00:12:43 driven by the combined effects of a
00:12:43 --> 00:12:45 coronal hole high-speed solar wind
00:12:45 --> 00:12:48 stream and a coronal mass ejection from
00:12:48 --> 00:12:50 earlier this week. So, there's a chance,
00:12:50 --> 00:12:53 no guarantees, but a chance to see the
00:12:53 --> 00:12:55 northern lights tonight and into Sunday.
00:12:55 --> 00:12:58 States like Michigan and Maine, and of
00:12:58 --> 00:12:59 course, our friends in Canada and
00:12:59 --> 00:13:02 Northern Europe have the best odds. What
00:13:02 --> 00:13:04 could be more romantic than watching the
00:13:04 --> 00:13:06 aurora dance across the sky on
00:13:06 --> 00:13:07 Valentine's Day?
00:13:07 --> 00:13:09 >> Imagine telling your date, "I arranged
00:13:09 --> 00:13:12 the northern lights just for you."
00:13:12 --> 00:13:13 Smooth move.
00:13:13 --> 00:13:15 >> Very smooth. Well, that's all for
00:13:15 --> 00:13:16 today's show. Whether you're spending
00:13:16 --> 00:13:19 Valentine's Day stargazing, watching a
00:13:19 --> 00:13:21 spacecraft dock with the space station,
00:13:21 --> 00:13:23 or just enjoying the cosmic love story
00:13:23 --> 00:13:26 of Mera A and its heart-shaped nebula,
00:13:26 --> 00:13:28 we hope the universe gives you something
00:13:28 --> 00:13:30 to smile about today. Don't forget to
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00:13:48 --> 00:13:49 happy Valentine's Day from all of us at
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