BONUS - Why do Gas Giants exist?
The Supermassive Podcast
Izzie Clarke
4.6 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of the Supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society. |
| 0:09.0 | With me, science journalist, Izzy Clark, astrophysicist Dr Becky Smeatherst, and deputy director of the Royal Astronomical Society, Dr Robert Massey. |
| 0:19.1 | We had some drama this month because we were locked out of the supermassive mailbox. |
| 0:25.9 | But luckily, we just got it back just in time for this bonus. |
| 0:28.6 | Also, Izzy, this is just written in my script? |
| 0:30.7 | I didn't know this. |
| 0:31.7 | What happened? |
| 0:33.6 | We went from a forwarding address to an actual email address, but I did not have the password |
| 0:40.0 | to the actual email address. I was like, hmm, I haven't had any emails in a while. Does everyone |
| 0:46.9 | hate us? And then realize like it had been changed over. And then I opened up the inbox and |
| 0:52.6 | everyone had sent in their messages and I was, |
| 0:55.5 | I had a lovely morning of just going through about a month's worth of email. It's like, oh, yay, |
| 1:01.4 | we are loved for you. And also we now have questions to answer as well. Yes. So let's get into that |
| 1:08.9 | pile of questions that we're now a month behind. And we've had two |
| 1:13.3 | great questions from Todd Young. And as he is the first priest, I think, to have ever emailed us, |
| 1:19.5 | I'm going to play the producer card and I'm going to allow both. Todd says, I discovered your |
| 1:25.1 | podcast a few months ago and have been binge listening. |
| 1:28.1 | I have two questions I haven't heard addressed. |
| 1:31.0 | In one episode, Robert mentioned a former constellation. |
| 1:34.6 | How do you get a former constellation? |
| 1:36.5 | And number two was with JWST looking back into the ancient universe |
| 1:40.8 | and with the universe expanding, |
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