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Radio 4 broadcast. The first of Professor Hawking’s 2015 Reith lectures delivered 24 November 2015 at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Professor Hawking describes the history of scientific thinking...
Radio 4 broadcast. The second of Professor Hawking’s 2015 Reith lectures delivered 1 December 2015 at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Professor Hawking describes the history of scientific thinking...
This series of videos explains the "hows and whys" of asteroid hazards: Why are some asteroids hazardous? Why are they difficult to find? And how can the risk of impact be predicted? Produced by...
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts a reboot of Carl Sagan’s COSMOS, the landmark 1980 PBS series that explored all aspects of the universe. The new version features an upgrade of the Cosmic Calendar,...
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...
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...
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.
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...
A documentary drama by Patricio Guzman on the high altitude desert in Chile called Atacama. Atacama is highly significant to archaeologists for preserving the oldest known mummies in the world, and for being...
To celebrate its 50th anniversary year, the European Southern Observatory released the documentary Europe to the Stars: ESO’s first 50 years of Exploring the Southern Sky. The movie tells the story of the...
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