COSMIC VOYAGERS: Exploring the Moon, Black Holes, and Beyond🌒

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 14 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly!

This episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly we continue our bigger and better podcast where we answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about International Observe the Moon Day from a real-life astronaut.

Dan starts with the latest science news, how the Boeing Starliner completed its journey back to earth, why adopting pigs has improved the well-being of school pupils and Astronaut Jake Foster from the Royal Observatory Greenwich tells us all about International Observe the Moon Day and what we can learn from the moon?

Then we delve into your questions where Dan explains the difference between petrol and diesel & the National Space Centre's Ed Turner answers Calan's question asking what's inside a black hole?

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the Therizinosaurus

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Justin Stebbing from Anglia Ruskin University about why the Biomedical Sciences is the best kind of science?

What do we learn about?

The Boeing Starliner's return to earth
International Observe The Moon Day from Astronaut Jake Foster
What's inside a black hole?
Is Biomedical Sciences the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Welcome along Explorer.
0:02.0	It's time for a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
0:06.0	So let's get to it.
0:10.0	My name's Dan. This is the show that zooms you away from planet Earth. We uncover all the unique
0:16.4	and strange things around the universe, so much that you've never heard of before,
0:21.2	and then we pop you back down.'s about a half an hour journey this
0:25.0	week we'll take a look at something in space that is so powerful not even light
0:30.7	can escape it.
0:35.0	What is a black hole? Black hole is basically a massive, massive star
0:37.0	that has reached the end of its life.
0:39.0	It's run out of fuel and it's collapsed under its own gravity
0:42.0	into a singular point in space. We call it a singularity.
0:48.3	Also our quest to find the greatest science ever has us looking at the strange field of
0:55.7	biomedical sciences.
0:58.7	The average life expectancy is over 80 but it seems to be increasing all the time.
1:04.9	But it's not just about living to old ages, living a healthy life and enjoying life hear all about a
1:13.2	problems on the way.
1:14.0	And you can hear all about a dinosaur that has confused everyone.
1:20.0	It's all on the way in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:25.0	Let's start with your science in the news then.
1:30.0	Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has completed its journey back to Earth.
1:36.0	We've heard so much about this story recently.
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