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Deals with a range of physical processes applied to astronomy, e.g. polarization, synchrotron radiation, Cerenkov radiation.
The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,400 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or ...
Historical account of the formation of carbon-12. Nuclear astrophysics suddenly ‘took off’ as a science in the early 1950s when some exciting experiments brought nearer an understanding of nuclear...
Band 1: Examines the relationship between stellar structure and nuclear physics. Band 2: Shows the tandem accelerator at Caltech, California which is used to recreate stellar conditions in order to obtain...
Band 1: The theory behind the modern spectroscopic analysis of light from stars demonstrated with the aid of conventional and computer graphics. Band 2: Astrophysicists now have enough observations to be...
Describes the birth and death of stars. Filmed at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux, and at the Department of Astrophysics at Oxford University.
Discusses interstellar matter, taking an historical approach to the discoveries of molecules in space. Radio telescopes and astronomic spectrometers are seen at work. Taking part in the programme are Dr...
Looks at the work of William Rowan Hamilton in Dublin and George Boole in Cork. Uses Hamilton’s discovery of quaternions to Booles’ The Laws of Thought’, as the foundations for work in the fields of...
Through recent observations made by radio telescopes scientists are now beginning to understand the origin of the universe, which had a hot and explosive beginning. As a result galaxies were formed during...
The solar eclipse of 30 June 1973 was observed in Africa south of the Sahara. The film sets out the nature of the work involved in mounting an eclipse expedition both on the ground and in the air. The French...
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