<div>"I was tracking down every signal that it picked up, and there was one signal that I couldn't make sense of." Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell gives Izzie and Dr Becky a neutron star 101 and tells them how she discovered pulsars in the 1960s. Plus, Dr Robert Massey takes on your questions and tells us what to look out for in the spring night sky. Book Club Recommendations </div><ul><li>Forgotten Women: The Scientists - Zing Tsjeng </li><li>Six Impossible Things - John Gribbin </li><li>The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) - Katie Mack </li><li>Vera Rubin: A Life - Jacqueline and Simon Mitton</li><li>Cosmos - Carl Sagan</li><li>The Book Nobody Read - Owen Gingerich</li></ul><div> Don't forget to send your questions or space book club recommendations to podcast@ras.ac.uk or tweet @RoyalAstroSoc using #RASSupermassive. The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media Production by Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham. </div><div> </div><hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

"I was tracking down every signal that it picked up, and there was one signal that I couldn't make sense of." Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell gives Izzie and Dr Becky a neutron star 101 and tells them how she discovered pulsars in the 1960s. Plus, Dr Robert Massey takes on your questions and tells us what to look out for in the spring night sky. Book Club Recommendations Forgotten Women: The Scientists - Zing Tsjeng Six Impossible Things - John Gribbin The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) - Katie Mack Vera Rubin: A Life - Jacqueline and Simon MittonCosmos - Carl SaganThe Book Nobody Read - Owen Gingerich Don't forget to send your questions or space book club recommendations to podcast@ras.ac.uk or tweet @RoyalAstroSoc using #RASSupermassive. The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media Production by Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"I was tracking down every signal that it picked up, and there was one signal that I couldn't make sense of." Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell gives Izzie and Dr Becky a neutron star 101 and tells them how she discovered pulsars in the 1960s. Plus, Dr Robert Massey takes on your questions and tells us what to look out for in the spring night sky. Book Club Recommendations&nbsp;<ul><li>Forgotten Women: The Scientists - Zing Tsjeng&nbsp;</li><li>Six Impossible Things - John Gribbin&nbsp;</li><li>The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) - Katie Mack&nbsp;</li><li>Vera Rubin: A Life - Jacqueline and Simon Mitton</li><li>Cosmos - Carl Sagan</li><li>The Book Nobody Read - Owen Gingerich</li></ul> Don't forget to send your questions or space book club recommendations to podcast@ras.ac.uk or tweet @RoyalAstroSoc using #RASSupermassive. The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media Production by Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

15: Neutron Stars - with Jocelyn Bell Burnell

The UK's #1 space podcast. Every month, science journalist Izzie Clarke and astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst whizz through the universe to explore the latest research with leading experts, dive to history from the society’s archives and take on your weird and wonderful questions about all things space. Can we gravitationally hitch-hike out of the solar system? Do we live in a multiverse? What is time? Plus Dr Robert Massey is on hand with his top star-gazing tips. Keep adding to The Supermassive Mailbox with your pictures and questions for the team. Send them to podcast@ras.ac.uk or follow them on Instagram <a href="http://instagram.com/supermassivepod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@SupermassivePod</a>. You can also support the team by buying their book, <a href="https://geni.us/jNcrw " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Year in Space</a>. The Supermassive Podcast is a <a href="https://www.boffinmedia.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Boffin Media</a> production for the Royal Astronomical Society. The producers are Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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The UK's #1 space podcast. Every month, science journalist Izzie Clarke and astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst whizz through the universe to explore the latest research with leading experts, dive to history from the society’s archives and take on your weird and wonderful questions about all things space. Can we gravitationally hitch-hike out of the solar system? Do we live in a multiverse? What is time? Plus Dr Robert Massey is on hand with his top star-gazing tips. Keep adding to The Supermassive Mailbox with your pictures and questions for the team. Send them to podcast@ras.ac.uk or follow them on Instagram @SupermassivePod. You can also support the team by buying their book, The Year in Space. The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media production for the Royal Astronomical Society. The producers are Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The UK's #1 space podcast. Every month, science journalist Izzie Clarke and astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst whizz through the universe to explore the latest research with leading experts, dive to history from the society’s archives and take on your weird and wonderful questions about all things space. Can we gravitationally hitch-hike out of the solar system? Do we live in a multiverse? What is time? Plus Dr Robert Massey is on hand with his top star-gazing tips. Keep adding to The Supermassive Mailbox with your pictures and questions for the team. Send them to podcast@ras.ac.uk or follow them on Instagram <a href="http://instagram.com/supermassivepod" rel="noopener noreferrer">@SupermassivePod</a>. You can also support the team by buying their book, <a href="https://geni.us/jNcrw " rel="noopener noreferrer">The Year in Space</a>. The Supermassive Podcast is a <a href="https://www.boffinmedia.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Boffin Media</a> production for the Royal Astronomical Society. The producers are Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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