58: Astronomical Pancake Theory

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

Saturn and its rings

Evolution of the Solar System

Planetary disks around other stars

Galaxy formation and density waves

Photo of a black hole (see also Syzygy episode 35)

Accretion disk