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

4/11/2025 • 15 min

What the bloomin’ hell is a Gravastar? Are fast radio bursts like solar flares on steroids? Plus an interesting question on multiverses that can't be summed up in a short sentence. Izzie Clarke, Dr Becky Smethurst and Dr Robert Massey dive into The Supermassive Mailbox and take on your questions. Keep sending in your wonderful ponderings. Email them to podcast@… Play episode

Returning to the Moon - with ESA Astronaut Matthias Maurer
BONUS - Can A Star Orbit Another Star?
Sample Return Missions - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
EMERGENCY BONUS - Asteroid 2024 YR4
BONUS - Could we capture a primordial black hole?
The Search for Space Aliens
Q&A - Space Potatoes and Christmas Stars
BONUS - Why can't anything go faster than the speed of light?
The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts
BONUS - Nuclear Pasta & G-Astronomy
Strange Stars and Bizarre Binaries
BONUS - A Bumper Edition
Untangling the Cosmic Web
BONUS - What distorts time?
We Made It To Mercury!
BONUS - Galaxy Spin and Saving Herstmonceux Observatory
Venus aka "Earth's Evil Twin"
BONUS - Overmassive Galaxies
Q&A - Black Hole Special
BONUS - Lumpy Space Potatoes
The Major Lunar Standstill
BONUS - Why does the Aurora Borealis look better on my phone?
Voyager: Where no-one has gone before...
BONUS - Wobbly Planets and Baby Names
Into The Interstellar
BONUS - Dust, stars and alien streetlights
Quakes in Space
BONUS - Double Yolker Galaxies
The End of the World
Do We Live In A Multiverse?
BONUS - Could Space Junk Block JWST's View?
Neptune... At Last!
BONUS - Space News Bulletin
46: Q&A - Spice Girls, Black Holes, and Ice-Cream in Space
45: BONUS - Have you heard of "Ploonets"?
45: Uranus the Oddball
44: BONUS - Team Enceladus or Team Europa?
44: Here Comes the Sun...with NASA's Head of Science
43: BONUS - Aimless telescopes & beyond the Milky Way
43: Most of the Universe is missing...
42: BONUS – White holes, astrology and why is Venus so hot?
42: A (brief) History of Astronomy
41: BONUS - Why do Gas Giants exist?
41: BIG Observatories
40: BONUS - Are Lunar Poles Arbitrary?
40: Becky Loves Saturn
39: BONUS - Do black holes stop time?
39: Jupiter The Monster
38: BONUS - More Comets, Less Asteroids

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