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The Square Kilometre Array

by Rosie Bolton
The Square Kilometre Array
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 8 years ago | 4736 views
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Rosie Bolton describes the importance of this huge project and some of the interesting problems which needed to be solved in its planning and implementation.

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Discovery of a dynamic atmosphere at one of Saturn’s moons, Enceladus

by Michele Dougherty
Discovery of a dynamic atmosphere at one of Saturn’s moons, Enceladus
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 11 years ago | 2118 views
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In recent years, Enceladus, Saturn's sixth largest moon, has become a major attraction for scientists, with many believing it offers the best hope we have of discovering other life in our solar system. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been orbiting Satu....

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The end of the world in 2012? Science communication and science scares

by Jocelyn Bell Burnell
The end of the world in 2012? Science communication and science scares
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 11 years ago | 6070 views
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21st December 2012 marks an ending of the Mayan calendar and is asserted by some to mark the end of the world. This scare is examined from an astronomical point of view, followed by some reflections on what the scare tells us about the communication ....

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Chasing Venus: the race to measure the heavens

by Andrea Wulf
Chasing Venus: the race to measure the heavens
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 11 years ago | 1766 views
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New York Times Best Selling and award-winning author Andrea Wulf tells the extraordinary story of the first global scientific collaboration set amid warring armies, hurricanes, scientific endeavour and personal tragedy. On 6 June 1761 and 3 June 1769....

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The eerie silence – are we alone in the universe?

by Paul Davies
The eerie silence – are we alone in the universe?
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 2278 views
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Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus began one of the boldest scientific projects in history: the Search for Extraterrestri....

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Touchdown on Titan

by John Zarnecki
Touchdown on Titan
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1526 views
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After an interplanetary journey of 7 ¬ years, the ESA's probe Huygens landed on the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Professor Zarnecki describes the journey of the probe as well as its final dramatic plunge to the surface and presents the r....

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Antikythera Mechanism Part 1

by Alexander Jones
Antikythera Mechanism Part 1
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 2009 views
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New interpretations of the Antikythera Mechanism reveal that it could be used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of the ancient Olympiads. The 2,000-year-old box of intricate gearwork provides a glimpse of the engineering....

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Voyages through the heliosphere

by Alan Cummings
Voyages through the heliosphere
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1399 views
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A series of papers in Nature analyse recent observations from the outer limits of the Solar System, and help build up a picture of how the Sun interacts with the rest of the Galaxy.

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Mega-impact on Mars

by Maria Zuber
Mega-impact on Mars
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1718 views
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Scientists have identified what could be the largest impact structure in the Solar System, created on Mars at about the same time as the Moon-forming impact on Earth.

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A flash from the early Universe

by Nial Tanvir
A flash from the early Universe
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1948 views
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Light from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago has reached Earth, setting a new record for the most distant astronomical object yet observed. The characteristics of the explosion show that massive stars were already forming only 630 million yea....

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Overview of the Universe

by Harry Kroto
Overview of the Universe
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 3135 views
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An overview of the Universe and its component parts e.g. galaxies, stars, planets etc.

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Origin of the Elements

by Harry Kroto
Origin of the Elements
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 3011 views
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Origin of the elements and the formation of molecules in the interstellar medium: Big Bang synthesis, stellar synthesis of He and C and other elements, interstellar scattering, interstellar species such as carbon monoxide and more complex molecules.

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