Do you want to say that again, Becky?

I just realised I'm not brogmitty.

Lovely.

There's a real possibility that Roman tells us our standard model of evolution of the universe.

It's very, very wrong.

We've discovered around 6,000 exoplanets to date, but what we haven't done much of is actually look at what

they're made of.

Hello, welcome to the Supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society with me, science

journalist Izzy Clark, an astrophysicist, Mrs. Dr. Becky Smithers.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I got married like 10 days ago and I'm still on a high.

But today it's all about the next generation of space telescopes.

Ooh, I think we say it a lot, but I feel like we're living in a really exciting time for astronomy.

In terms of observational astronomy, there seems to be so many ambitious missions and observatories on the horizon.

Yeah, definitely. And I mean, maybe everyone says this through whatever. You know, if you lived through like Hubble launching, you're like, oh, this seems like it's a great time it's so ambitious and things and you know jadwstee

it was a great time and so ambitious but it does feel like we're coming to the end of the lifetime

or have already come to the end of a lifetime of like the first generation of space telescopes

and now we're thinking okay that was great but what can we do

better and what do we need to still answer you know the remaining science questions and that's

where a lot of the missions from ESA and NASA are coming from at the minute and it does just feel

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