Under the Space Weather

The Supermassive Podcast

Izzie Clarke

Astronomy, History, Science, Physics

4.6 • 556 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Brits love talking about the weather, so Izzie Clarke and Dr Becky Smethurst are taking it up a notch. This month, the Supermassive team explore the solar wind, auroras on other planets and the European Space Agency Satellite that's on its way to the sun, Solar Orbiter.

With special thanks to UCL's Professor Andrew Coates and Lee Macdonald from Oxford's History of Science Museum.

Share your astrophotography and lockdown creations with the team via podcast@ras.ac.uk or tweet @RoyalAstroSoc.

For the next Royal Astronomical Society's "sew-cial" visit:
https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/ras-bicentennial-quilt

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Do we see auroras on other planets?
0:05.1	I'm not at a level where I can invent calculus.
0:08.5	How can that survive such high temperatures?
0:11.4	It's like a protective barrier really against the solar wind.
0:14.6	It's all about space weather.
0:19.6	Hello, welcome to the Supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society.
0:25.2	With me, science journalist Izzy Clark and astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smethyst.
0:30.4	This is a bit different, isn't it, Becky?
0:33.1	I can say that again. First of all, I can't see you, which makes me sad.
0:36.9	But because of lockdown,
0:38.0	we're all recording from our homes. A bit different to last time, wasn't it? We were recording at the
0:42.5	beginning of March in the very grand location of the Royal Astronomical Society's Council Room. And now I'm
0:49.3	sat on my lounge floor in a blanket fort recording this. Yeah, I've got loads of pillows surrounding me just to make it try and sound like a studio.
0:59.4	And I'm also sat here with my curtains closed on what is quite a sunny day.
1:02.9	So my neighbours are probably like, what the hell?
1:06.2	She's such a hermit.
1:08.1	Yeah, exactly.
1:09.3	So we've got these fun little USB microphones. And one thing that people might not know about Becky is that she is obsessed with ASMR. And I'm like, finally, you can fulfil your dreams. Exactly. It's not really the ASMR. It's the ASMR microphones that fascinate me. I've never had a good enough microphone to do it with. And now I'm just like, ooh, I want to stroke it. But anyone that doesn't know what this is, that's, what's it? Autonomous sensory meridian response. These weird little noises and clicks that make you feel weird is basically it. There is science behind it. It's supposedly that it's nostalgic for sort of like when your parents used to like hold you as a baby and they'd like
1:44.8	stroke your face of whatever and you get this sort of really like tingly nostalgia response that's
1:49.1	supposed to feel really nice and it's fun so that's a new YouTube series coming to you see.
1:53.8	Spaces. No but seriously like how are you adapting to all of this change? Yeah I'm just trying to
2:00.7	go through it with sort of a
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