The Supermassive Podcast

This is The Supermassive Podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society. Every month, science journalist Izzie Clarke and astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst take you through the universe with the latest research, history from the society’s archives and astronomy you can do from your own home. Support the team by buying their book, The Year in Space - https://geni.us/jNcrw You can send your questions to the team via podcast@ras.ac.uk or follow them on Instagram @SupermassivePod. The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media Production by Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham.

60: Q&A - Space Potatoes and Christmas Stars

59: BONUS - Why can't anything go faster than the speed of light?

59: The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts

58: BONUS - Nuclear Pasta & G-Astronomy

58: Strange Stars and Bizarre Binaries

57: BONUS - A Bumper Edition

57: Untangling the Cosmic Web

56: BONUS - What distorts time?

56: We Made It To Mercury!

55: BONUS - Galaxy Spin and Saving Herstmonceux Observatory

55: Venus aka "Earth's Evil Twin"

54: BONUS - Overmassive Galaxies

54: Q&A - Black Hole Special

53: BONUS - Lumpy Space Potatoes

53: The Major Lunar Standstill

52: BONUS - Why does the Aurora Borealis look better on my phone?

52: Voyager: Where no-one has gone before...

51: BONUS - Wobbly Planets and Baby Names

51: Into The Interstellar

50: BONUS - Dust, stars and alien streetlights

50: Quakes in Space

49: BONUS - Double Yolker Galaxies

49: The End of the World

48: Do We Live In A Multiverse?

47: BONUS - Could Space Junk Block JWST's View?

47: Neptune... At Last!

46: BONUS - Space News Bulletin

46: Q&A - Spice Girls, Black Holes, and Ice-Cream in Space

45: BONUS - Have you heard of "Ploonets"?

45: Uranus the Oddball

44: BONUS - Team Enceladus or Team Europa?

44: Here Comes the Sun...with NASA's Head of Science

43: BONUS - Aimless telescopes & beyond the Milky Way

43: Most of the Universe is missing...

42: BONUS – White holes, astrology and why is Venus so hot?

42: A (brief) History of Astronomy

41: BONUS - Why do Gas Giants exist?

41: BIG Observatories

40: BONUS - Are Lunar Poles Arbitrary?

40: Becky Loves Saturn

39: BONUS - Do black holes stop time?

39: Jupiter The Monster

38: BONUS - More Comets, Less Asteroids

38: Gettin' Gravitational Wave-y

37: BONUS - The Supermassive Mailbox

37: Q&A - Black Hole Burps and Space Station Pacman

36: Stargazing with Team Supermassive

35: Astronaut Special: Returning to the Moon

34: How to Deflect an Asteroid

33: Q&A - The Year in Space

32: JWST First Images... FINALLY!

31: Life on Mars - LIVE from Standon Calling

30: Rocky Planets Rock

29: Gas Giants are Weird

28: How to Kill a Galaxy

27: How to Build a Galaxy

26: The Marvellous Moon

25: A Supermassive Q&A!

24: Eclipses & Expeditions

23: The End of the Universe

22: JWST - Seeing the First Stars

21: Icy Worlds

20: Firey Worlds

19: Radiation Belts and Billionaires

18: A Hunk of Space Junk

17: Hunting for Planet 9

16: Mysteries of the Kuiper Belt

15: Neutron Stars - with Jocelyn Bell Burnell

14: A Star Is Born

13: New Year, New Universe

12: Gamma Rays & Christmas Stars

11: Radio Skies & Strange Signals

10: Humans In Space - with Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti

9: The Power of Space Probes

8: Journey to the Centre of the Earth

7: Down To Earth

6: Looking for Alien Life

5: Exploring Exoplanets

4: Under the Space Weather

3: Our Neighbourhood Star

2: It's All Relativity...

1: Seeing The Invisible Universe