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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...
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.
A short introduction to studying astrophysics at Oxford University by Professor Roger Davies.
Special documentary on Halley’s Comet, due to return this winter after 77 years. With accounts of seeing the comet in 1910 by Evelyn Hall(?) and Mrs Leonard Stein(?); Brian Harpur of Halley’s Comet...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: 50 Years of Postcards. DESCRIPTION: The turn of the century was the heyday of the postcard. Instant communication that became an institution. This collection at the Victoria and Albert...
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...
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...
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...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Long View. DESCRIPTION: Movietone looks at telescopes, from the archaic devices built by Sir William Herschel in the 18th Century to the latest proposals in Radio Telescopes. The most...
Since its launch on July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-ray Observatory has been NASA’s flagship mission for X-ray astronomy. These three short animations show the 3C438 galaxy.
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