Exploring Exoplanets

The Supermassive Podcast

Izzie Clarke

Astronomy, History, Science, Physics

4.6 • 556 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The worlds outside our solar system; exoplanets. This month, Izzie Clarke and Dr Becky Smethurst take on listener questions about exoplanets, celebrate 30 years of the Hubble Space Telescope with Robert Massey, and amateur astronomer Steve Brown shares his beginner’s guide to astrophotography.

With special thanks also to Dr Hannah Wakeford from the University of Bristol.

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0:00.0	Can you just be careful to slamming the door? I'm recording the podcast.
0:05.7	I'm missing a fair few things in lockdown.
0:07.9	Mini-Neptunes or Super Earths. What are they exactly?
0:12.1	Toy Story was released in 1994. No exoplanets around stars.
0:15.9	Patience is a must. Cups of tea will get you through.
0:18.7	Anything that manages to trump Saturn is to me the cool.
0:22.3	As technology goes on, we get more and more precise in our readings and of what we can find.
0:30.3	Hello, welcome to the supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society.
0:35.5	With me, science journalist Izzy Clark and astrophysicist
0:38.9	Dr Becky Smethurst. How are you, Becky? Are you still in your blanket fort from last month?
0:45.1	Not quite, no, since last month I turned 30 and I'm apparently old now, that means, so my bark is
0:49.9	killing me. So I'm in more of a pillow fort now because the blanket fort, I had to sort of prop
0:55.6	it up with my own head. And I just, I couldn't stay like that straight. It's sad for so long.
1:01.4	Because adults use pillow forts now everyone. Well, yeah. How's your month's been? I heard you on BBC
1:09.1	Radio 1. Yeah, that was so exciting. I woke up to my radio alarm one morning to hear Greg James freaking out about an asteroid making a close pass of Earth.
1:17.8	People probably heard about this this month, this one and a half mile asteroid that came within four million miles of Earth, which is actually not that close. It sounds close, but it's not. It's something like 16 times further away than the moon. So I just text in telling him it was nothing to worry about.
1:31.7	And then they got me on their newsbeat show to explain it afterwards as well, which is
1:35.3	awesome because I think we need more science on Radio 1, you know, for the younger audience.
1:40.3	Absolutely. You've done your public service there. Well done, Becky.
1:44.1	Exactly. I'm so excited for this month's episode. Purely because this topic is one of my favourites.
1:50.9	We're exploring the planet outside of our solar system, exoplanets.
1:56.3	Plus, we're celebrating 30 years of the Hubble Space Telescope and we have a beginner's guide to
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