The Supermassive Team are investigating strange blasts of energy in space called Fast Radio Bursts. What are they and where do they come from? Dr Stuart Ryder from Macquarie University in Australia joins Izzie, Dr Becky and Robert to help explain.
Christmas Present Ideas
Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s talk - A Journey into The Cosmos
Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition at Royal Museums Greenwich
Telescope SeeStar S50
Image stabilising binoculars
Cosmos (book) from DK
The Impossible Man by Patchen Barrs.
The Little Book of Cosmic Catastrophes by Sarah Webb
The Night Sky Almanac for 2025 by Radmila Topalovic, Storm Dunlop and Wil Tirion
Keep sending your brilliant questions and photos to podcast@ras.ac.uk (mailto:podcast@ras.ac.uk) or on Instagram @SupermassivePod.
The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media production for the Royal Astronomical Society. The producers are Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham
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
The Major Lunar Standstill
BONUS - Why does the Aurora Borealis look better on my phone?