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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...
Professor Brian Cox takes a global journey in search of the energy source of the future. Called nuclear fusion, it is the process that fuels the sun and every other star in the universe. Yet despite over...
An animated atlas of the night skies, it signposts and explains season-by-season, from anywhere on Earth. Animated vignettes turn points of light - stars, nebulae, galaxies - into supernovae, flashing...
Looks at the different stages in the birth and death of stars. Divided into 2 sections: Part 1 (13 minutes) explains how stars are composed of hydrogen and helium and how these gases fuel them; how all...
A 6-part series using state-of-the-art computer graphics to demonstrate the beautiful, astonishing and often dangerous phenomena of the Universe. Presented by Sam Neill. Individual programmes are: 1) Star...
Explains how by analysing the light from stars we can deduce everything we know about stars. Covers: radiation and wind from the sun (spectra, temperature, elements); history of classification of spectra;...
Four-part cosmology series on the universe, using accessible ideas to explain advances in cosmology and astronomy. In four parts: 1) Big Bang: explores ideas of Steven Hawking, Wendy Freedman, Bob Kirshner,...
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...
Multimedia astronomy. Information on 250,000 stars and 40,000 ‘deep space objects’ - nebula, star clusters and galaxies, which can be viewed from various perspectives. Also contains a number of...
The discovery of pulsars - neutron stars which form when massive stars explode (supernovae) - took astronomers by surprise. Jocelyn Bell Burnell of the Open University describes their discovery and the way...
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