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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...
Lecture delivered by Professor Katherine Blundell of the University of Oxford at the Royal Society, London on 25 November 2010. The popular notion of a black hole "sucking in everything" from its...
This Learning Object consists of a three vodcasts by Jim Bennett, Director of the Oxford Museum of the History of Science, on the Newtonian telescope - why Newton designed it, and how it fits into the story...
While physicists attempt to understand the universe in their own way, Christian Gonzenbach draws on his experience as an artist-in-residence in the lab of Martin Pohl (University of Geneva, CERN) to do so...
The Earth and the moon have a vital connection. Without it, our planet would be unrecognisable. But what does the moon do for us? Through an immersive combination of real footage and photo real 2D and 3D...
The Hugyens probe was the most distant vessel to land anywhere in our solar system. Stunning images and data were sent back from Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. The scientific instruments aboard the probe...
Video of a fully functioning replica (made from Lego) of the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient scientific instrument designed to calculate astronomical positions and lunar events with unprecedented accuracy....
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...
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....
Series of six programmes in which Professor Stephen Hawking considers topics in cosmology. 1: Explores mathematics and how it revolutionised our view of the universe. Covers Ptolemy’s theory of the motion...
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