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Examines the disputes surrounding the Hubble constant started 60 years ago by American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble. In 1929 he discovered that all of the galaxies are rushing away from us and concluded...
Six programmes portraying the birth, life and death of stars emphasising their importance for navigation and calendar making.
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...
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...
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...
Deals with the progression from nebula to red giant to white dwarf to cold black dwarf in the main sequence stars and also gives an account of heavier elements in the ‘super giants’.
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