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  1. Design for an Alien World (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Cameron Balbirnie
    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    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...

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  2. Jets and Black Holes (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Cameron Balbirnie; Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at some attempts to explain the observed phenomena of cosmic jets emaning from stars and from galaxies. Considers some of the techniques used by astronomers to image the jets and speculates on their...

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  3. Staying Alive: A Thoroughly Modern Microbe (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Robin Brightwell
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £55.00 (+VAT +p&p) VHS, non-higher education 1999 sale: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) higher education - master tape for re-editing and copying 2000 sale: £35.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) VHS

    We all need the ‘E. coli’ bacterium, but a virulent form, ‘E. coli’ 0157, recently struck a group in Roberton, a village in the Scottish Borders, killing 20 people. Looks at the history of ‘E....

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  4. Staying Alive: The Tougher Sex (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Robin Brightwell; Liz Gray
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p) VHS, non-higher education 1999 sale: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) higher education - master tape for re-editing and copying 2000 sale: £35.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) VHS

    With women living on an average of six years longer then men, and with 4000 women centenarians and only 500 men, examines statistical, genetic and archaeological evidence to show whether women’s longevity...

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  5. Cosmic Recycling (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the birth and death of stars and the interstellar matter that keeps the whole cosmic cycle turning. Infrared astronomy has revealed previously hidden details of starbirth behind dust clouds....

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  6. Design for an Alien World 1 (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Cameron Balbirnie
    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Tracks some of the development through 1992 of a space mission that will be launched towards Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn, in 1997. Closely follows two experiments being developed at the University...

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  7. Mapping the Milky Way 1 (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Astronomers show recent evidence that our galaxy, the Milky Way, has the form of a spiral galaxy, with a dense concentration of stars rotating around a central disc. But from our position in the outer...

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  8. Our Invisible Sun (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows how the most dramatic phenomena that we see on the surface (photosphere) of the sun, such as sunspots and flares, are produced by still enigmatic invisible magnetic forces. Some of the most violent...

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  9. Venus Unveiled (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Cameron Balbirnie
    Subject
    Astronomy; Geology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Explores a sequence of space missions that have gradually revealed the surface of Venus, which lies unseen beneath dense cloud cover. Uses evidence from Soviet landers, the altimetric maps of the US Pioneer...

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  10. Good Seeing (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the new generation of large ground-based optical telescopes which will use lasers and flexible mirrors to compensate for atmospheric distortions and improve the ‘seeing’ from earth. In...

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