Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of The Supermassive Podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society with me, science journalist Izzy Clark, astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smethurst and the society's deputy director, Dr Robert Massey.

This is the place where we dive into the supermassive mailbox and answer all of your incredible questions

but oh my goodness what a month for astronomy so i feel like this is going to be like a bumper bonus

episode with some questions but like a lot that we need to talk through so where do we begin shall we

start northern lights yeah yeah it's got course, of course. And guys, I have to let you know. I saw them. I'm so glad. Finally, finally. I did what I did WhatsApp you and say, go out and look. For those who don't remember, Izzy missed it when there was the big storm in May, when they could be seen across the UK.

I might have been at a hendoo.

Well, you know, honestly, priorities.

So was it Thursday?

You saw them?

Was it Thursday the 10th that they were visible?

It was.

So I had been peering at my window looking north for most of the evening.

And I just think where I was originally was too built up.

And I just couldn't quite make it, make them out.

And my partner and I were, honestly, we were sitting in bed fully PJs on.

And I was just talking about how disappointed I'd been.

I was like, I just don't understand why this keeps happening.

And he just turned around and went, let's just have one more look.

And as we did that, we went into our living room.

I'm quite lucky because we overlook a very dark park.

And this massive band of red just sort of I was like it looking into the distance

like is that or is that a street line and then it just traveled through the sky and was honestly

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