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TitleTopic / SubtopicLevelPresenterDate RecordedDuration (Min)Feedback
A flash from the early UniverseSynopsis:
Light from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago has reached Earth, setting a new record for the most distant astronomical object yet observed. The characteristics of the explosion show that massive stars were already forming only 630 million years after the Big Bang.		Astronomy / CosmologyHigh - ages 14-19Tanvir, NialNov 02, 20098Feedback
Antikythera Mechanism Part 1Synopsis:
New interpretations of the Antikythera Mechanism reveal that it could be used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of the ancient Olympiads. The 2,000-year-old box of intricate gearwork provides a glimpse of the engineering prowess of the Hellenic world. The team discuss their results here.\n		Astronomy / Solar SystemHigh - ages 14-19Jones, AlexanderDec 11, 20097Feedback
Antikythera Mechanism Part 2Synopsis:
New interpretations of the Antikythera Mechanism reveal that it could be used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of the ancient Olympiads. The 2,000-year-old box of intricate gearwork provides a glimpse of the engineering prowess of the Hellenic world. The team discuss their results here.		Astronomy / Solar SystemGeneral interest - all agesJones, AlexanderDec 11, 20098Feedback
Electronic Spectroscopy and Franck Condon Factors - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
Electronic spectroscopy and Franck Condon factors. The discovery of the spectrum of H3+ in the laboratory and in the atmosphere of Jupiter. Interstellar chemistry: Ion molecule reactions in space, grain surface catalysed processes and reactions in circumstellar shell. Interstellar masers.		Astronomy / AstrochemistryUndergraduate - ages 18 - 22Kroto, HarryApr 06, 200962Feedback
Mega-impact on MarsSynopsis:
Scientists have identified what could be the largest impact structure in the Solar System, created on Mars at about the same time as the Moon-forming impact on Earth.		Astronomy / Radio AstronomyHigh - ages 14-19Zuber, MariaDec 11, 200910Feedback
Optical (Electronic) Spectra From Space - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
Optical (electronic) spectra from space: comets. The detection of the pulsar in the Crab Nebula. The Three Degree Background. The detection by spectroscopy of the birth of stars.		Astronomy / CosmologyUndergraduate - ages 18 - 22Kroto, HarryApr 01, 200459Feedback
Origin of the Elements - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
Origin of the elements and the formation of molecules in the interstellar medium: Big Bang synthesis, stellar synthesis of He and C and other elements, interstellar scattering, interstellar species such as carbon monoxide and more complex molecules.		Astronomy / AstrochemistryHigh - ages 14-19Kroto, HarryMar 25, 200457Feedback
Overview of the Universe - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
An overview of the Universe and its component parts e.g. galaxies, stars, planets etc.		Astronomy / CosmologyHigh - ages 14-19Kroto, HarryMar 25, 200457Feedback
Radio Astronomy - Resolution Issues - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
Radio astronomy - resolution issues. The detection of long carbon chain molecules by radio astronomy. The conjectures on the origin of the chains in space and their possible relationship with the Diffuse Interstellar Bands that initiated the experiments that uncovered the existence of the C60 molecule. C60 extraction and interstellar dust.		Astronomy / Radio AstronomyUndergraduate - ages 18 - 22Kroto, HarryApr 08, 200456Feedback
Seeing the invisible: observing the dark side of the universeSynopsis:
It seems that most of the universe is made up of mysterious ingredients which we cannot see directly. Dr Bridle describes in pictures 'gravitational lensing', the bending of light by gravity, which is predicted by Einstein's General Relativity. Dr Bridle will review the current observations and upcoming surveys.		Astronomy / CosmologyUndergraduate - ages 18 - 22Bridle, SarahOct 01, 200960Feedback
The dark side of the universeSynopsis:
The emergence of cosmic structure is an outcome that has been studied by peering back through the mists of time to the remote depths of the universe as well as by deciphering the fossil structure of nearby galaxies. One of the greatest mysteries in the cosmos is that it is mostly dark.		Astronomy / CosmologyUndergraduate - ages 18 - 22Silk, JoeMar 22, 200765Feedback
The Development of Molecular Radio Astronomy and IR Techniques - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
The development of molecular radio astronomy and infra red techniques and the information they yield on the composition of the interstellar medium: interstellar clouds, stellar envelopes etc.		Astronomy / Radio AstronomyUndergraduate - ages 18 - 22Kroto, HarryMar 30, 200465Feedback
The eerie silence - are we alone in the universe?Synopsis:
Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus began one of the boldest scientific projects in history: the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).		Astronomy / Radio AstronomyHigh - ages 14-19Davies, PaulJan 26, 20100Feedback
The Exploration of MarsSynopsis:
After looking at Mars through telescopes for hundreds of years and seeing irrigation channels and it was believed that there could have been life on Mars. Many superstitions and movies made about life on Mars, including Orson Well?s War of the Worlds broadcast. Believed to be a curse on Mars because of all of the failed missions and satellites that were sent to Mars which also added to the speculation of life on Mars. Internationally there is only a 50% success rate on missions to Mars and missions run by NASA have a 72% success rate.		Astronomy / PlanetsUndergraduate ages 18-22Stevenson, RyanApr 22, 201010Feedback
The Mathematician Who Can`t Add Up - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
Emma was a post-graduate student at the University of Nottingham, completing a PhD in the field of theoretical cosmology. As an undergraduate at the University of Sussex she made history when she became the first woman to win the top prize at the Science, Engineering and Technology Student of the Year award despite tests at school which showed that Emma was not only slightly dyslexic, but that she also had very poor arithmetic skills and she says “a nearly non-existent visual memory.” Her project used ideas from particle physics to explain recent observations that the universe appears to be expanding at an ever increasing rate		Astronomy / Cosmology Middle - ages 11 - 14King, Emma14Feedback
The Status of Pluto as a Planet - or notSynopsis:
Nowrin Alam presents on the past, debate, and present status of Pluto as a planet and now as a dwarf planet.\n		Astronomy / Solar SystemHigh - ages 14-19Alam, NowrinApr 22, 20096Feedback
Tick, Tick Pulsating Star: How we wonder what you are? - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
The discovery of pulsars, neutron stars which form when massive stars explode (supernovae), took astronomers by surprise. Their discovery is described and the way in which these bizarre objects have led to an understanding of matter under extreme conditions.		Astronomy / PulsarsUndergraduate - ages 18 - 22Bell Burnell, JocelynMar 20, 199753Feedback
Touchdown on TitanSynopsis:
After an interplanetary journey of 7 ¼ years, the ESA's probe Huygens landed on the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Professor Zarnecki describes the journey of the probe as well as its final dramatic plunge to the surface and presents the results and prospects for future missions.		Astronomy / Solar SystemHigh - ages 14-19Zarnecki, JohnDec 03, 200781Feedback
Voyages through the heliosphereSynopsis:
A series of papers in Nature analyse recent observations from the outer limits of the Solar System, and help build up a picture of how the Sun interacts with the rest of the Galaxy.		Astronomy / Solar SystemHigh - ages 14-19Cummings, AlanDec 11, 200910Feedback

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