5: Exploring Exoplanets
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The worlds outside our solar system; exoplanets. This month, Izzie Clarke and Dr Becky Smethurst take on listener questions about exoplanets, celebrate 30 years of the Hubble Space Telescope with Robert Massey, and amateur astronomer Steve Brown shares his beginner’s guide to astrophotography.    With special thanks also to Dr Hannah Wakeford from the University of Bristol. Join the Royal Astronomical Society for an online series of talks exploring their collection. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-overlapping-collections-across-the-atlantic-tickets-105821880092 The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media Production by Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham 
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