BONUS - Nuclear Pasta & G-Astronomy
The Supermassive Podcast
Izzie Clarke
4.6 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The Supermassive Team takes on your questions; What are Brown Dwarfs? How can photons have different energies? Do frozen stars exist? And they get extremely distracted by the concept of nuclear pasta. Even Producer Richard gets involved.
Here's the paper mentioned by listener Hanna, Thermodynamics of Frozen Stars
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of the Supermassive Podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society. |
| 0:09.1 | With me, science journalist, Izzy Clark, astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smethurst and the Society's deputy |
| 0:15.2 | director, Dr. Robert Massey. Yeah, these bonus episodes are the place where we dive into |
| 0:20.4 | the ever-growing supermassive mailbox and answer your questions. Yeah, these bonus episodes are the place where we dive into the ever-growing |
| 0:21.2 | supermassive mailbox and answer your questions. Now, some of you might remember our bonus |
| 0:26.4 | episode back in April this year, where we had an Instagram DM from some of our listeners |
| 0:31.6 | called The Adventures of Buckley. They had recently found out that they were having a baby |
| 0:36.0 | and had asked us to help find some astronomy-themed names. |
| 0:41.6 | No pressure from us, by the way. |
| 0:44.3 | It's like desperately anxiously being like, oh, come up with some good ones. |
| 0:47.8 | Oh, gosh, don't make a mistake. |
| 0:51.0 | And we were so excited because we've had an update from them. |
| 0:54.4 | And it says, |
| 0:55.7 | Hi, all, me and my partner really loved the episode, Wobbly planets and baby names. |
| 1:01.0 | I was so gobsmacked and had pure excitement the day I got the notification of the episode and saw the name. |
| 1:06.9 | I instantly listened to it without her. |
| 1:10.0 | Thank you so much for answering our question. |
| 1:13.0 | We absolutely fell in love with the name Lyra so much |
| 1:15.8 | and it was instantly our top choice for a girl, |
| 1:18.1 | but we were having a baby boy. |
| 1:20.7 | But I would still like to introduce you to our baby boy, Leo, |
| 1:24.8 | born September 18th, under the supermoon moon which we unfortunately missed. I think we'll |
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