Conny Aerts

No, it's not bad, because it will explode eventually, but that can take still some while, so...

You know, you don't want to go and look every day because you may need to have some patience.

Well, but I'm saying it's good because it enriches the galaxy with metals, with carbon, with oxygen, with iron.

And, you know, we need that as human beings.

Oh, but you see, we astrophysicists have to be very patient because the time scales for stars to do this kind of stuff, you know, that's like hundreds of thousands of years, you know.

Yeah.

It's just annoying that we human beings only live for like 100 years.

At most, yeah.

If we are lucky.

Yeah, we're very lucky.

In an astronomical timescale, that's instantaneous.

That's very, very short.

Well, the James Webb is fantastic, but I would not spend its time on starquakes.

And so let me explain why.

You know, James Webb can pierce very deep into the early universe in the infrared.

What I need as a seismologist is really long-term measurements.

And that's why we love measurements.

the Kepler mission of NASA and now the TESS mission and the future PLATO mission because they're staring at stars for years without interruption.

And so you don't want to spend James Webb on that because it has, as you say, so much other fantastic extragalactic science to do.

Yeah, that's very well described.