29: Gas Giants are Weird

The Supermassive Podcast

Izzie Clarke

Astronomy, History, Science, Physics

4.6 • 556 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

From hexagonal shaped storms to spinning sideways, Izzie and Dr Becky are exploring our weird and wonderful Gas Giants. Joining them are Dr Tom Stallard from the University of Leicester and Dr Robert Massey, Deputy Director of the Royal Astronomical Society. Plus editor, Richard Hollingham, takes a trip to the Royal Astronomical Society’s library to see Galileo’s first observations of Saturn’s rings and William Herschel’s notebook from when he discovered Uranus.

See Jupiter's fast rotation (thanks to Dr James O'Donoghue) https://twitter.com/physicsJ/status/1519023430053818368

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1:10.6	Cheapto is really, really big.
1:13.1	You could fit 1,300 earths inside it.
1:16.5	The rings are only 50 million years older so,
1:19.2	which means they didn't exist
1:20.5	when the majority of the dinosaurs were around.
1:23.0	Gas giants.
1:23.9	It kind of does what it's on the tin.
1:28.1	Hello and welcome to the Supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society with me,
1:33.5	science analyst, Izzy Clark and astrophysicist Dr Becky Smith.
1:37.5	This month is the month I've been waiting for. We are talking about my favourite planet,
1:42.8	Saturday. No, hang on, Becky.
1:45.3	We've talked about this.
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