For Pancake Day (mmmmm, pancakes) we celebrate all the pancake-y things in the Universe, from Saturn's rings to planetary systems, from spiral galaxies to black hole accretion discs. It's no coincidence flat, round, spinny things are common in the cosmos — it's physics, innit!
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Things we talked about in this episode:
The Northern Podcast Festival in Hull, 16 May
Pancake day, a.k.a Shrove Tuesday
Angular Momentum and ice skating
Planetary disks around other stars
Galaxy formation and density waves
Photo of a black hole (see also Syzygy episode 35)