Everything you've ever wondered about stars with Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE is a space scientist and the author of 'Star Finder for Beginners'. Maggie joins Dan in the studio to chat about stars - from what stars actually are to how you can spot incredible constellations by looking at the night sky.
We also travel back to the Big Bang to discover how the Earth was created, explore some killer lakes in Africa and find out what amazing discovery was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry this week (which is basically like the Oscars for scientists)!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a podcast from the children's radio station Fun Kids. Listen on DAB digital radio across the UK or online at funkidslive.com. |
| 0:11.3 | Welcome to the Fun Kids Science Weekly. Hello, my name's Dan. Thank you so much for listening. This is the show that answers all of the hugest and most amazing |
| 0:22.6 | questions that our universe throws up. Today, we're talking about killer lakes. We'll learn more |
| 0:29.2 | about electricity as well. We'll get an expert in the Fun Kids Studio to answer one of the |
| 0:33.8 | questions that you have sent to my page at FunKidslive.com. And we've got quite a |
| 0:38.5 | spacey start to the show actually, right? In a sec, we are chatting to Dr. Maggie Adarin Pocock. |
| 0:44.5 | She is a space scientist. You might recognize her off of the telly. And we'll find out loads |
| 0:49.2 | more about all the stars in the sky with her. First, we're joining Finley on our Geology Rocks series, learning about |
| 0:57.3 | the creation of Earth. Geology rocks is your logical society. |
| 1:06.3 | Hiya! Bum's got me cutting the grass. The lawn looks very neat now, even if I didn't say so myself. |
| 1:13.6 | Oh, time for a rest, I think. |
| 1:16.6 | We don't think much about the ground beneath our feet. |
| 1:19.6 | It's just something that we stand on, or what we're mowing. |
| 1:23.6 | It's pretty weird to think that the ground is the surface of an enormous planet called Earth. |
| 1:33.2 | Want to see how it all started? Come on, I'll show you. |
| 1:36.4 | It starts with a bang. |
| 1:38.3 | The Big Bang! |
| 1:40.3 | The Big Bang was the start of the universe as we know it and that happened 13 billion |
| 1:48.0 | years ago. Back then the universe was very hot and squashed into a tiny space until it started |
| 1:56.3 | to expand very quickly. Most scientists agree this is how our universe started, but no one was there. |
| 2:04.6 | So how could they know? |
| 2:05.6 | It's mainly because they can see that the universe is still expanding outwards, |
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