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Brief History of Time, A (Cd-Rom) (1994 Multimedia)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

CD-ROM

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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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Molecules in Space (1985 Video)

Producer

Nick Brenton

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

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...

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Wonders of the Universe (2011)

Subject

Astronomy; Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 233 minutes), £19.99

Professor Brian Cox follows up his WONDERS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM series with this look at the universe; a series to answer some of the fundamental questions of existence. Tracing our origins from before the...

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Liberation of Algebra, The (1987 Video)

Producer

Glan Thomas

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL), £34.99

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...

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Hubble’s Canvas (2011)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 156 minutes), £16.99

From high above Earth’s atmosphere, the Hubble Telescope can see both nearby and distant objects. The images captured by the telescope have bought a new clarity to our understanding of deep space....

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Of Big Bangs, Stick Men and Galactic Holes (1991 Video)

Director

Martin Chilcott; Geoff Deenhan

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the big bang theory of the origins and structure of the universe, which is now under threat. Astronomers are finding great clusters of galaxies, vast empty voids in space and they are unable to...

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Extreme World of Ultra Extreme Lasers, The (2015)

Subject

Engineering; Physics

Video podcast. The largest and most powerful lasers in the world can be used to make some of the most extreme conditions possible on earth. Scientists around the globe are using these lasers to try to...

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Final Frontier? Horizon Guide to the Universe (2012)

Subject

Astronomy; Space science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

Since 1964, the BBC documentary series HORIZON, has been producing programmes about space science and astronomy, joining scientists as they have probed the secrets of the universe, from the origin of dark...

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Vanished Brilliance (1980 Video)

Subject

Astronomy; Physics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

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...

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