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Professor Brian Cox has got a new TV show coming out. It’s called ‘Solar System’, and James Tytko went to meet him at BBC Broadcasting House to find out why, in his view, it’s the right time to revisit our cosmic back garden...

Brian - It felt like it was time to make a series really focused on the data that's coming in.

Now, for example, in this series, you'll see data from Juno around Jupiter of eruptions on Io. That's data from this year, 2024. So we see Io is the most volcanically active object in the solar system.

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And the reason is because of what's called the orbital resonance, so the way that the other Galilean satellites interact with Io, which means that it is in an elliptical orbit around Jupiter, which means there are tidal forces on it, which heats it up.

And so I like the sense that this is a snapshot of what's happening now and what we are observing now in the solar system.

James - Why are volcanoes so interesting to people studying the solar system? What are the big clues they provide to the big questions we want to ans

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