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Documents the discovery of Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and the collaboration of astronomers to monitor and study the event. Discusses the search for the progenitor star and discusses basic...
Part 1 (1983): Pictures from the Anglo-Australian Telescope. Part 2 (1987): Pictures from the Anglo-Australian Telescope. Includes slides of Halley’s Comet, many different emission nebulae (e.g.Rosette...
Pictures from the Anglo-Australian Telescope. Features views from the 1973 1.2m UK Schmidt telescope on Siding Spring Mountain in outback New South Wales (northern counterpart at Mount Palomar).
Band 1: Examines the relationship between stellar structure and nuclear physics. Band 2: Shows the tandem accelerator at Caltech, California which is used to recreate stellar conditions in order to obtain...
The birth and death of stars. Discusses dust in interstellar space and the formation of stars. Gravity is shown to play a major part in the necessary increase of density and temperature, leading to the...
Historical account of the formation of carbon-12. Nuclear astrophysics suddenly ‘took off’ as a science in the early 1950s when some exciting experiments brought nearer an understanding of nuclear...
Twelve 12-minute programmes. 1: A ride into space. 2: Venus and Mercury. 3: Earth and Mars. 4: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus. 5: Orian and related bodies. 6: Includes footage of a total eclipse of the sun. 7: A...
Investigates the properties of the super-dense matter of white dwarfs, stars so compact that they are as massive as the sun but only the size of the earth.
Describes the birth and death of stars. Filmed at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux, and at the Department of Astrophysics at Oxford University.
Shows some of the most important observations that have helped astronomers learn about the Crab nebula. First shows observations in the visible part of the spectrum. These include long exposures with...
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