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Q&A - Spice Girls, Black Holes, and Ice-Cream in Space
Episode 46
It's been a while, so Izzie, Dr Becky and Robert dive into The Supermassive Mailbox for a Q&A Special. How is the mass of a star determined? Does JWS…
2 years, 7 months ago
BONUS - Have you heard of "Ploonets"?
Episode 45
What is the furthest distance away we’ve ever observed? Why hasn't Venus lost its atmosphere from solar winds? Is Mercury a Ploonet? And how stable i…
2 years, 7 months ago
Uranus the Oddball
Episode 45
Izzie and Dr Becky have done episodes on Mars, gas giants, Saturn and Jupiter individually, so it’s about time that Uranus gets its own episode. And …
2 years, 7 months ago
BONUS - Team Enceladus or Team Europa?
Episode 44
What does Saturn look like? Why is Venus hotter than Mercury? Can the solar wind generate electricity on the Moon? Izzie, Dr Becky and Robert dive in…
2 years, 8 months ago
Here Comes the Sun...with NASA's Head of Science
Episode 44
This month, Izzie and Dr Becky are off to the Sun…Partly because the UK summer has been rubbish but mostly because there are a lot of things we still…
2 years, 8 months ago
BONUS - Aimless telescopes & beyond the Milky Way
Episode 43
Could we detect exoplanets outside of the Milky Way? Could the Euclid Telescope disprove what we know about dark energy and matter? Are we just point…
2 years, 9 months ago
Most of the Universe is missing...
Episode 43
The Supermassive Team have spent the last three years attempting to talk about ALL the stuff in space. But that only makes up 5% of our universe. Whe…
2 years, 10 months ago
BONUS – White holes, astrology and why is Venus so hot?
Episode 42
What’s a white hole and could one appear above the Earth tomorrow? Do different cultures sort stars into similar patterns? Why is Venus so hot and ho…
2 years, 10 months ago
A (brief) History of Astronomy
Episode 42
Dr Becky and Izzie dust-down the Supermassive Tardis to explore the history of astronomy. From fossilised baboon bones and baby lamas to Einstein and…
2 years, 11 months ago
BONUS - Why do Gas Giants exist?
Episode 41
Can JWST see galaxies at different life stages? What is a "former" constellation? And why do we see Jupiter in monochrome? This month, Izzie Clarke,…
2 years, 11 months ago