It's the size of a squash course and it could be the brightest object in the night sky excluding the moon.

I am looking forward to the home gravitational wave detector to push the boundary back a bit.

All the planets are indeed moving away from the sun very, very slowly.

Hello and welcome to the supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society with me, science

journalist Izzy Clark and astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smethurst.

This month we're celebrating the Year in Space, coincidentally.

The title of our book, which is out next month, Izzy.

Like, can you believe it's already?

I'm so excited.

Oh, my God.

We do, yeah.

But in all honesty, it's just been a really exciting year for space exploration as well.

Yeah, plus the emails were piling up.

And we just needed to do something about it.

So, that's the story of everybody's life.

So Becky and Robert are here as usual.

But I've also decided to give our editor Richard Hollingham a microphone for this episode

to two.

Hello.

He disembodied voice.

So I asked this in January and I enjoyed it so much that I want to do it again.

So everyone, to start things off, what is your favourite space fact from this year that you can bring to the table?

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