Hello and welcome to our first ever bonus episode of the Supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society with me, science journalist, Izzy Clark and astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smethers.

You asked, we listened. We'll be bringing you more from the supermassive mailbox in between our main episodes,

because let's be honest, our mailbox is now supermassive, officially classified, because there are so

many questions that have been sent in. So whether that's just fun emails that we'll be reading out,

your questions, or any other exciting space news, this is the place where we'll get it covered.

Yes. And so if you want to

add to the supermassive mailbox, then email podcast at rass.ac.uk tweet at royal astro sock. And we're

also on Instagram at supermassive pod. So Becky, Robert, are you ready? Born ready at this point,

is he? Yes. obviously. So a nice,

easy one to start us off. René Horn emailed to say, I'm not sure if any of you would be able to

answer this question, but how hard is life for an astronomer that's a morning person? Hard. That is me,

actually. Winter is me, actually.

Winter is your friend, let's put it that way, because you can observe like early

evening and not into the night time and not be grumpy in the morning.

It's not a problem weirdly for if you're a professional astronomer.

So like when I go to telescopes to use them for my own observing, you know, you just have to

change your time zone essentially to 12 hours opposite, whatever time zone you're in.

So if you're flying to Hawaii from the UK, it's great because you basically just stay on

UK time.

And then, you know, you're everybody's friend when you're the person that's really chirpy at like

8pm and everyone else is still like really jet-lacked.

What about you, Robert?

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