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The Supermassive Podcast

2: It's All Relativity...

Feb 20, 2020
38:16
This month, Izzie Clarke and Dr Becky Smethurst explore relativity, gravitational waves and the photographs that made Albert Einstein a household name. Astronomer Robert Massey joins us to talk through SpaceX's Starlink and what we can see in the night sky. Plus we have a special gift from poet laureate Simon Armitage.

With special thanks to Professor Toby Wiseman from Imperial College London and Royal Astronomical Society librarian, Sian Prosser.

You can send your questions to the team via podcast@ras.ac.uk or tweet @RoyalAstroSoc.

The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media production for the Royal Astronomical Society. 

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