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Stephen Hawking believed that we have just 100 years to populate a new planet if the human species is to survive, but is there another planet out there that we could call home? In this BBC documentary,...
An account of space exploration and discovery from the first attempts to magnify the sky to space travel. Contains computer-created footage, actual footage shot from spacecraft and archive film. Narrated by...
Four-part cosmology series on the universe, using accessible ideas to explain advances in cosmology and astronomy. In four parts: 1) Big Bang: explores ideas of Steven Hawking, Wendy Freedman, Bob Kirshner,...
The ‘grand tour’ of Voyager 2 - the space probe that started to explore the outer solar system beginning in August 1977, and led to the outer reaches of the solar system. These pictures of the larger...
Tracks some of the development from 1992 to 1997 of a space mission to be launched towards Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn, in October 1997. Follows two experiments being developed at the University...
Multimedia astronomy. Information on 250,000 stars and 40,000 ‘deep space objects’ - nebula, star clusters and galaxies, which can be viewed from various perspectives. Also contains a number of...
NASA pictures from the Viking space probe, launched in 1975. Shows the volcanoes and frozen polar regions of Mars, and shows how information about Mars is valuable in measuring the earth’s evolution....
Richard Feynman’s 1964 lecture to Caltech undergraduates entitled ‘The Motion of Planets Around the Sun’, presenting his own geometric proof to explain the elliptical orbits of the planets.
The 166th series of Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, delivered by earth scientist Dr James Jackson. The lectures relate phenomena on the surface of the earth to their causes deep within. 1: Explorers,...
In 1994 the space probe Magellan burned up after a decade in orbit around Venus. It produced extraordinary images of the planet’s surface but also revealed a mass of geological puzzles that threaten to...
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