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The Supermassive Podcast — 116 episodes

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1

Why Is There Motion in the Universe?

2

How Do Space Telescope Work?

3

Did Gravity Wipe Out The Dinosaurs?

4

Into the Space Debris Swamp

5

Our Artemis II Debrief

6

When Space Goes Rogue....

7

Black holes in the lab and meeting Ryan Gosling

8

What is the Hubble Tension?

9

2026: The year in space... And at sea?!

10

Q&A: Meteors, Artemis II, and Space Bathtubs

11

How to Time Travel

12

Slingshots, Christmas Presents & Alien Communication

13

Protecting Our Dark Skies

14

Supermassive Gone Rogue

15

A Watery History of Mars

16

Mercury, Gemini and Pringles

17

Don't Panic…but a solar storm could be a disaster

18

Are we Living in a Black Hole?

19

Supermassive Q and A...Live!

20

What Shape is Space?

21

Astronauts. Do we need them?

22

Where are Earth's rings?

23

Why isn't Pluto a planet?

24

BONUS - Why aren’t stars closer together?

25

Is Time Real?

26

BONUS - Mole People on Mars

27

What is Gravity?

28

BONUS - Can we gravitationally "hitch hike" out of the Solar System?

29

Returning to the Moon - with ESA Astronaut Matthias Maurer

30

BONUS - Can A Star Orbit Another Star?

31

Sample Return Missions - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

32

EMERGENCY BONUS - Asteroid 2024 YR4

33

BONUS - Could we capture a primordial black hole?

34

The Search for Space Aliens

35

Q&A - Space Potatoes and Christmas Stars

36

BONUS - Why can't anything go faster than the speed of light?

37

The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts

38

BONUS - Nuclear Pasta & G-Astronomy

39

Strange Stars and Bizarre Binaries

40

BONUS - A Bumper Edition

41

Untangling the Cosmic Web

42

BONUS - What distorts time?

43

We Made It To Mercury!

44

BONUS - Galaxy Spin and Saving Herstmonceux Observatory

45

Venus aka "Earth's Evil Twin"

46

BONUS - Overmassive Galaxies

47

Q&A - Black Hole Special

48

BONUS - Lumpy Space Potatoes

49

The Major Lunar Standstill

50

BONUS - Why does the Aurora Borealis look better on my phone?

51

Voyager: Where no-one has gone before...

52

BONUS - Wobbly Planets and Baby Names

53

Into The Interstellar

54

BONUS - Dust, stars and alien streetlights

55

Quakes in Space

56

BONUS - Double Yolker Galaxies

57

The End of the World

58

Do We Live In A Multiverse?

59

BONUS - Could Space Junk Block JWST's View?

60

Neptune... At Last!

61

BONUS - Space News Bulletin

62

Q&A - Spice Girls, Black Holes, and Ice-Cream in Space

63

BONUS - Have you heard of "Ploonets"?

64

Uranus the Oddball

65

BONUS - Team Enceladus or Team Europa?

66

Here Comes the Sun...with NASA's Head of Science

67

BONUS - Aimless telescopes & beyond the Milky Way

68

Most of the Universe is missing...

69

BONUS – White holes, astrology and why is Venus so hot?

70

A (brief) History of Astronomy

71

BONUS - Why do Gas Giants exist?

72

BIG Observatories

73

BONUS - Are Lunar Poles Arbitrary?

74

40: Becky Loves Saturn

75

39: BONUS - Do black holes stop time?

76

39: Jupiter The Monster

77

38: BONUS - More Comets, Less Asteroids

78

38: Gettin' Gravitational Wave-y

79

37: BONUS - The Supermassive Mailbox

80

37: Q&A - Black Hole Burps and Space Station Pacman

81

36: Stargazing with Team Supermassive

82

Double Astronaut Special: Returning to the Moon

83

34: How to Deflect an Asteroid

84

33: Q&A - The Year in Space

85

32: JWST First Images... FINALLY!

86

31: Life on Mars - LIVE from Standon Calling

87

30: Rocky Planets Rock

88

29: Gas Giants are Weird

89

28: How to Kill a Galaxy

90

27: How to Build a Galaxy

91

26: The Marvellous Moon

92

25: A Supermassive Q&A!

93

24: Eclipses & Expeditions

94

23: The End of the Universe

95

22: JWST - Seeing the First Stars

96

21: Icy Worlds

97

20: Firey Worlds

98

19: Radiation Belts and Billionaires

99

18: A Hunk of Space Junk

100

17: Hunting for Planet 9

101

16: Mysteries of the Kuiper Belt

102

Neutron Stars - with Jocelyn Bell Burnell

103

A Star Is Born

104

New Year, New Universe

105

Gamma Rays & Christmas Stars

106

Radio Skies & Strange Signals

107

Humans In Space - with Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti

108

The Power of Space Probes

109

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

110

Down To Earth

111

Looking for Alien Life

112

Exploring Exoplanets

113

Under the Space Weather

114

Our Neighbourhood Star

115

It's All Relativity...

116

Seeing The Invisible Universe