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  1. Planet Pluto, The: Maligned but Not Forgotten

    Subject
    Astronomy

    Dr. Dale Cruikshank from NASA reviews what we know about Pluto (including its atmosphere, of which he was the co-discoverer), why Pluto was re-classified as a dwarf planet in the fall of 2006, and what the...

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  2. Thebe Medupe: Cosmic Africa (2004)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Astronomy

    A recording of a public lecture exploring Africa’s ancient astronomical history.given by Thebe Medupe of the South African Astronomical Observatory at the Royal Society By shedding new light on...

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  3. Bringing Hearing to the Deaf: A Technical and Personal Account

    Subject
    Medical sciences; Physics

    Podcast of a seminar given by Professor Ian Shipsey of Oxford University at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh. Cochlear implants are the first device to successfully restore...

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  4. Dwarf Galaxy

    Director
    John Wise; Tom Abel
    Subject
    Astronomy

    Computer simulation showing a number of small galaxies which formed around 200 million years after the Big Bang.

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  5. Newton’s Optics (2011)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics

    This Learning Object consists of a three vodcasts by Jim Bennett, Director of the Oxford Museum of the History of Science, on the Newtonian telescope - why Newton designed it, and how it fits into the story...

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  6. Measuring the Universe: From the Transit of Venus to the Edge of the Cosmos (2012)

    Subject
    Astronomy

    This short film explains how the transit of Venus was used in previous centuries to make an accurate measure of the distance to the planets, giving astronomers their first inkling of the true scale of space.

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  7. Astrophysics: An Introduction (2008)

    Subject
    Astronomy

    A short introduction to studying astrophysics at Oxford University by Professor Roger Davies.

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  8. M1: Crab Nebula (2012)

    Subject
    Astronomy

    This film is one of a series from the Deep Sky Videos website which looks at the stellar objects catalogued by French astronomer Charles Messier. The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova with a pulsar...

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  9. Jocelyn Bell Burnell (2012)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Women’s studies

    A short podcast looking at the life and career of Jocelyn Bell Burnell the astrophysicist who discovered pulsars, the beams of radiation emitted by rapidly spinning neutron stars. Part of The New...

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  10. Where Does the Solar System End? (2013)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics

    Launched in 1977 to study the Solar system’s gas giant planets, Voyager 1 is still operating. But now it’s so far away that the Solar wind has weakened and a deluge of cosmic particles from intergalactic...

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