Free Astronomy Public Lectures
By Swinburne University of Technology
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Description
Each month, from February to November, the Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing presents a free public lecture at the Hawthorn campus of Swinburne University of Technology.
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Unlocking the Universe's Secrets with James Webb Space Telescope (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | This is a special State of the Universe lecture for National Science Week in August 2022. Presented by the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (CAS) at Swinburne University of Technology. Successfully launched on 25 December 2021, NASA’s succes | 11/18/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Australia's growing role in the global space industry (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | In astronomy, we use cutting edge instruments and techniques to learn more about our Universe. But what about turning that focus back to Earth? More and more of our daily activities depend on space and it provides a unique perspective of our planet. In | 9/29/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Flash of Discovery (Free Astronomy Public Lecture) | Behind the serenity of the night sky, hides an ever-changing Universe of brilliant explosions. Join us online for an interactive lecture uncovering the State of the Transient Universe with Dr Jielai Zhang as part of National Science Week 2020. | 8/16/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Friendly stars and where to find them (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Most of our understanding of stars and how they evolve is based on the assumption that they are completely isolated in space, never interacting with one another. However, studies over the last decade have shown that many more stars than we thought exist | 4/21/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Exploring Einstein's Universe with Neutron Stars, Black Holes and Gravitational Waves (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Einstein dreamt of a Universe in which space and time were curved by matter, and how black holes would represent the ultimate manifestations of his physics, and the possibility of a new type of radiation - gravitational waves. Sadly he died before the d | 10/18/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Dark Universe (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Sara Webb and Grace Lawrence on Friday 28 February 2020. When we look to the stars, what we see is a fraction of the universe – only around 5%. Astronomers observe that a mysterious ‘dark universe’ of strange and enigmatic dark energy | 2/27/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Truth and awe in astronomy (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Professor Sheila Kannappan on Monday 16 December 2019. Since ancient times, humans have been drawn to understand the heavens while at the same time observing them with a spiritual sense of wonder. In this talk Professor Kannappan will trace | 12/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The unintended humour of the Universe (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Tiantian Yuan on 29th November 2019. Scientific research is not only fun but also funny. In this end of the year talk, Tiantian Yuan explains how the universe makes us laugh and think. | 11/28/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Cosmic Perspective (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Edward (Ned) Taylor on Friday 18 October 2019.At its most basic, astronomy is an attempt to understand the nature of the universe in which we find ourselves. As such, understandings of astronomy have always had a profound impact on how w | 10/17/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Never-Ending Story of a Star (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Renee Spiewak on Friday 20 September 2019. Like humans, stars often live their long lives in pairs, called binaries. At the end of their lives, they experience drastic transformations, rather than simply ending, and these transformations gr | 9/19/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Space law - It's not rocket science (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Kim Ellis on Friday, 19 July 2019. This will be an informative lecture on how Australia is making a splash on the international space arena as the Australian Space Agency turns one. We will also be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the mo | 7/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The vivid lives of stars (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Poojan Agrawal on the 21st June 2019. Beyond the twinkling dots in the night sky, there are all sorts of stars that are beautiful and fascinating their own sense. I will share the story of how we came to understand these stars as we know th | 6/20/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Watching a Little Gas Cloud on its Way into the Galactic Supermassive Black Hole (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Prof. Andreas Burkert on 29th March 2019. The Galactic Center is one of the most fascinating and extreme places in the Milky Way. Harboring a supermassive black hole with a mass of order four million solar masses, it experiences cycles of a | 3/28/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Things that go bump in the night: fast radio bursts and the search for life beyond Earth (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Daniel C Price on 22nd February 2019. Thanks to new, more powerful technology, astronomers can search the skies faster and with more resolution than ever before. In this public lecture, I will talk about two exciting fields in astronomy: | 2/21/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Breakthrough! The detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star merger (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Assoc. Prof. Tara Murphy on 23 November 2018. On August 17th 2017 the LIGO-Virgo interferometer detected gravitational waves from a neutron star merger in a galaxy 130 million light years away. This was a breakthrough for physics and astron | 11/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The rapidly growing world of Indigenous astronomy (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Duane Hamacher and Krystal De Napoli on 1st June 2018. The subject of Indigenous astronomy has skyrocketed in recent years all around the globe. A constant stream of emerging research is changing what we think we know about Aboriginal kn | 11/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Hidden Features: Discovery space in a reluctant Universe (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented on 19 October 2018 by Dr Michelle Cluver. The more we learn about the universe, the mosre it tends to surprise us. This is one of the most exciting aspects of science - making unexpected discoveries! In this talk I will present some recent sci | 10/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Deeper, Wider, Faster: Chasing the fastest bursts in the Universe (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Assoc. Prof. Jeff Cooke on 11 May 2018. When you look up a the night sky, it appears static and unchanging. However, a closer look using telescopes finds it to be wildly violent. Objects explode, erupt and burst on all time scales, from mil | 6/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cosmic mirages: seeing dark matter with gravitational lenses (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Prof. Mike Hudson on 16th March 2018. Most of the matter in the Universe is dark matter: an elusive particle that is completely invisible. But we can “see” this matter by studying how it distorts the light from galaxies in the distant U | 3/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The fast radio burst mystery (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Emily Petroff on 9 February 2018.Most things in the universe happen over millions or even billions of years but some things change on the timescales of human life and can be seen to change in a matter of months, days, or even seconds. Th | 2/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Seeing double - Looking at the Universe with gravity's eyes (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Thomas E. Collett on Tuesday 14 November 2017.Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that light rays are bent when they travel past a massive object. In this talk, we will explore tests of this prediction and view some of the s | 11/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The most ancient spiral galaxies seen through nature's largest telescopes (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Tiantian Yuan on Friday 29 September 2017.One of the most prominent features of galaxies today is the manifestation of elegant spiral arms. We live in a beautiful grand-design spiral galaxy called the Milky Way. Our Solar System, includi | 9/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The violent Universe: explosions, transient events, and gravitational waves (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Igor Andreoni on Friday 20 October 2017.The ancients considered the Universe unchanging, and had a special name for the planets, which they regarded as “wanderers”. Any changes in the night sky were seen as portents of doom – and a re | 9/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"When life got really big" - Tales from a rock whisperer (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Prof. Patricia Vickers-Rich on Friday 7 July 2017.We have been plotting the history of life around the world and climate over more than 1 billion years. Tonight we will zero in on a time when the Earth's first animals came into the picture | 7/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Small, medium, large: what galaxy sizes reveal about their past (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Rebecca Allen on Friday 12 May 2017. Galaxies are the largest structures of matter in our Universe. Our own Milky Way has been studied in glorious detail. We know it has billions of stars, around most of which planets are likely to be fo | 5/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The rocket science in everyday life in your backyard (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr. Themiya Nanayakkara on 21st April 2017.Over the last century, our understanding of the Universe has grown by leaps and bounds whilst posing new questions and testing our very fundamental knowledge and understanding of things around us. | 4/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cosmology: from the Big Bang to the formation of atoms (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Assoc. Prof. Emma Ryan-Weber on 10 February 2017.The whole Universe was in a hot dense state, then nearly 14 billion years ago expansion started. Wait... is the Bang Bang true and how do we know? In this talk Associate Professor Emma Ryan-W | 3/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The world's largest radio telescope in your backyard (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr. Tyler Bourke on 24th March 2017.Australia is part of an international effort to build the World's largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). In fact, one of the two telescope arrays that make up the SKA will be built in | 3/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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LIGO, gravitational waves and the new astronomy (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | On September 14, 2015, gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes rippled through the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). The measurement of these ripples would ultimately lead to the first direct detection of gravita | 1/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Into the heart of darkness: supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies - 2016 (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Prof. Darren Croton on 21 October 2016.Black holes are among the most bizarre objects predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity. Many people may not realise that our own galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole at its centre that i | 10/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Discovering the unexpected: Pulsars, fast radio bursts and aliens? | Presented by Prof. Matthew Bailes on 30 September 2016. Almost 50 years ago Jocelyn Bell built a new telescope with her supervisor Antony Hewish that had an unusual property: it had high time resolution. The radio sky was thought to only change on long | 9/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Life in the Universe - origins and discoveries (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by on 22 July 2016 by Rebecca Allen. In the vast cold reaches of space life has been able to gain a foothold and flourish on at least one planet- ours. We know that water is critical to life, but we do not know how Earth got it. In this talk, | 8/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Making darkness visible (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented on 17 June 2016 by Allan Duffy. In the last 50 years astronomers have come to realise that there exists an invisible type of mass in the Universe, outweighing all of the atoms in every star, planet and person five times over. It's responsible | 8/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Heavy elements in Red Giant Stars (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented on 20 May 2016 by Amanda Karakas. Most of the elements in the periodic table heavier than hydrogen and helium were forged in stars. Through the combined studies of stellar spectroscopy, nuclear physics, geochemistry, and astrophysics, humans h | 8/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cosmic cartography: making maps of the Universe (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented on 15 April 2016 by Dr Elisabete da Cunha.Almost one hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble revolutionised our understanding of the Universe and our place in it when he discovered that it extends beyond the Milky Way. Since then, astronome | 4/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Planets: From our Solar System to new Exoworlds (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented on 18 March 2016 by Elodie Thilliez and Matthew Agnew.The Solar system is a remarkable place filled with wonderfully varied worlds. Travelling outwards from the sun we first encounter the hellish, rocky bodies of Mercury and Venus, continue to | 3/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Black hole binaries - a unique love story (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Pablo A. Rosado on 18th February 2016.One of the greatest scientific discoveries of all times was achieved last week: the first detection of gravitational waves, emitted by a black hole binary. This discovery follows decades of intense w | 2/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Exploring the universe with the world's largest radio telescope (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented on 4 December 2015 by Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith. What is Dark Matter? How did the solar system form? Was Einstein right about the nature of gravity? Are we alone in the universe? To tackle these fascinating questions and more, an international cons | 12/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Tune into the skies: how to do cosmology in the radio (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Laura Wolz on Friday 23 October 2015. Radio telescopes have made numerous appearances in media and films due to their huge, mechanical appearances contrasting with the natural background. The gigantic size of the dishes are essential for | 10/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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New windows into the Universe : From cosmic dawn to today (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Associate Professor Kim-Vy Tran on Friday 9 October 2015.Since Galileo's time, our ability to study the universe has been driven by our ability to collect light from distant objects. Due to tremendous technological advances in the last few | 10/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Putting immunity under the microscope (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Prof. Sarah Russell on 11 September 2015.2015 has been decreed the International Year of Light by the United Nations, and in recognition of this we expand our public astronomy lecture series from telescopes to microscopes. Our immune system | 9/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Galaxies and black holes (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Prof. Roger Davies on 4 September 2015.Using exceptional data from Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered supermassive black holes, with masses ranging from millions to billions times the mass of the Sun, at the very centre of m | 9/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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State of the Universe V - The Spectrum Strikes Back (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Celebrate the International Year of Light and National Science Week 2015 with Assoc. Prof. Chris Fluke, as he hosts his fifth annual review of the State of the Universe. This year, the focus is on the visual Universe. No supercomputers. No radiotelescop | 8/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Astronomy in the blink of an eye: transient events in the Universe (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Emily Petroff on 19 June 2015.Most things in the Universe happen over millions or even billions of years but some things change on the timescales of human life and can be seen to change in a matter of months, days, or even seconds. These so | 7/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Observatories of Chile (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Prof. Jeremy Mould on 7th May 2015.The skies of northern Chile are considered the best in the world for astronomy at visible through millimetre wavelengths. Most of the observatories are in the Norte Chico and Atacama regions. Cerro Paranal | 5/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How the Universe grew up (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Prof. Karl Glazebrook on 10th April 2015.The Universe began in the Big Bang now firmly established at 13.7 billion years ago. But then what? How did the hot expanding hydrogen of the early Universe turn in to the magnificent tapestry of the | 4/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Should we announce ourselves to the galaxy? The debate on Messaging to Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (METI) (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by James Benford on 13th March 2015.Messaging to Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (METI) is an issue dividing those who want to announce our presence to the cosmos by broadcasting to the nearer stars and those who advocate international consulta | 3/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Planet formation through radio eyes (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by David J. Wilner on 13 February 2015.Where did the Earth come from? How can we know? How can particles no larger than those in smoke come together to make a planet thousands of kilometers wide? Amazingly, radio telescope observations of mate | 2/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Tour of the Universe (and Selected Cosmic Mysteries) (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Katherine Mack on 7th December 2014.Everything humanity has ever seen or experienced represents a tiny speck in a vast and mysterious Universe. What else is out there, and how are we figuring it out? What puzzles still wait to be solved? | 12/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The role of hydrogen in the evolution of galaxies (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Assoc Prof. Virginia Kilborn on 7th November 2014. Hydrogen gas is one of the main components in a galaxy like our own Milky Way - but we can't see it when we gaze into the night sky. I will take you on a journey of the unseen parts of our | 11/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The search for gravitational waves - Ripples from the dark side of the Universe (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Prof. Sheila Rowan on 17th October 2014.The information carried by these signals will give us new insight into the hearts of some of the most violent events in the Cosmos - from black holes to the beginning of the Universe. A global network | 10/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Women in Astronomy (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Pamela Gay on 7th October 2014. Scientific literacy is required if we want our global society to succeed, but for a variety of reasons, science isn't a passion for most people, and most of the people in science are stereotypical white me | 10/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Into the heart of darkness: Supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies - 2014 (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Associate Professor Darren Croton on 19th September 2014.Black holes are amongst the most bizarre objects predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity. Many people may not realise that our own galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole | 9/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Night at the Keck (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Jeff Cooke, Mark Durre and Associate Professor Michael Murphy on 18th July 2014.Swinburne University of Technology astronomers will share their stories of discovery using twin 10-metre telescopes at the W M Keck Observatory atop Mauna Ke | 7/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Shadows of the Big Bang: The search for pristine gas fueling galaxies (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented Assoc. Prof. John O'Meara on 6th July 2014.Through the combination of large telescopes, advanced computer simulations and advancing theory, cosmologists have made significant progress in describing the universe on the largest scales and over c | 6/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Light pollution or who stole the night? (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Nick Lomb on 16th May 2014.Melbourne is brightly lit at night. Some lighting is needed for safety, security and to make the city centre an attractive place, but is it all necessary? Why are we lighting the sky when no one lives there? In | 5/14/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Witnessing the deaths of the first stars in the Universe - from Hawthorn (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Jeff Cooke on 11th April 2014.In this talk, I will take you back to a time shortly after the Big Bang when the first stars emerged from the darkness. Many of these stars were much more massive than our Sun and ended their short lives as | 4/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Galaxies from the dawn of time (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Ivo Labbe on 21st March 2014.The arrival of modern space telescopes, such as the Hubble Space Telescope have ushered in a true golden age in astronomy. We can now peer farther and deeper into the universe than ever before and are getting | 3/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Hunting for Astronomical Fossils with Keck (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Professor Duncan Forbes on 11th February 2014.Ancient star clusters are the fossils of the astronomical world. They formed at early times in the Universe and many have survived to the present day. New discoveries made with the Keck Observat | 2/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Einstein and Astronomers: An Ongoing Cosmic Saga (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Eyal Kazin on 8th November 2013.Astronomers and Physicists have an interesting ongoing relationship. Normally, physicists explain natural phenomena, and tell astronomers what they should be probing in space. Once in a while, however, ast | 11/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Observing echoes of the Big Bang in the Universe's most distant light (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Associate Professor Chris Blake on 11th October 2013.As we peer out into space, what is the most distant light we can see? The answer is the cosmic microwave background radiation, the faint afterglow of the hot Big Bang across the sky, whic | 10/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CosmoQuest: Science inside (powered by you!) (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Pamela Gay on 13th September 2013.In order to handle the onslaught of data coming from space and ground-based telescopes, many astronomers are turning to the public for aid. The team behind the new CosmoQuest virtual research centre is b | 9/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Understanding the Universe (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Syed Uddin on 9th July 2013.Just over a century ago the fixed stars we see in the night sky were the limit of the entire Universe. The Universe was assumed to be static. Now we have discovered that our Universe is not only expanding but is | 7/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Understanding our weird Universe: common sense won't save you (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Jonathan Whitmore on 17th May 2013Two foundational physical theories of science: Quantum Physics and General Relativity are counterintuitive descriptions of reality. They also form the foundation upon which much of our modern technology | 6/16/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The "Gran Telescopio de Canarias" (GTC): First Light of the Largest Optical Telescope on Earth (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Professor Rafael Guzman on 3rd May 2013.The GTC is the last -and the largest- of the new generation of large ground-based observatories that have opened up a new era of discoveries in astronomy at the dawn of the XXIst Century. The GTC has | 5/2/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Chasing dead stars (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Anna Sippel on 19th April 2013.Stars don't shine forever - and especially very massive stars don't live very long before ending their lives as neutron stars or black holes. In this lecture we will focus on the endpoints of the evolution of | 4/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The lives of stars: from birth to death (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Assoc. Prof. Sarah Maddison on 22nd March 2013.When we look up into the night sky, almost all the light we see comes from stars: single stars, stellar clusters, and even giant ensembles of stars that make up galaxies. How and where do stars | 3/21/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Old galaxies in the aging universe (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Pierluigi Cerulo and Nicola Pastorello on 15th February 2013.As part of a 14 billion years old expanding universe, we are able to directly experience only a tiny part of its history. In order to reconstruct the evolutionary history of the u | 2/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Night in the Life of an Astronomer (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Lee Spitler on 7th December 2012.Through a visual journey, you will travel with an astronomer, Dr. Lee Spitler, on an observing trip to the remote 6.5-metre Baade Magellan Telescope. In the still Chilean night, you will collect astronomy | 12/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mapping the Universe (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr. Rita Tojeiro on 23rd Nivember 2012.Over the last few decades astronomers have made enormous leaps in charting the Universe around us. Now, with accurate positions for millions of galaxies, we are finally able to trace the Cosmic Web in | 11/22/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cosmic Fireworks (also known as When Galaxies Collide) (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Prof. Richard de Grijs on 26th October 2012.Studying galactic interactions is like sifting through the forensic evidence at a crime scene. Astronomers wade through the debris of a violent encounter, collecting clues so that they can reconst | 10/25/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Into the heart of darkness: supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies - 2012 (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Associate Professor Darren Croton on 5th October 2012.Black holes are amongst the most bizarre objects predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity. Many people may not realise that our own galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole at | 10/4/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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100 years of galaxy redshifts (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Prof. Karl Glazebrook on 9th September 2012.On Sep 17th 1912 Vesto M. Slipher at Lowell Observatory measured the first redshift of a galaxy and established their large velocities, this laid the groundwork for Hubble's discovery of the expan | 9/9/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Astronomy from the Antarctic Plateau (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Professor Jeremy Mould on 20th July 2012.Dome A on the Antarctic Plateau may be the best site for astronomical telescopes on Earth, In the Mawson centennial year we should note that Australians have been pioneers in collecting these site te | 7/19/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Secret Life of an Elliptical Galaxy (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Christina Blom-Smith on 12 June 2012.Despite their uniform appearance elliptical galaxies often have complex and disturbed formation histories. Without the presence of gas, dust and star formation, that we see readily in spiral galaxies, it | 6/11/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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From grains to planets (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Catarina Ubach and Francesco Pignatale on 25th May 2012.Solar System bodies such as planets, meteorites and comets are all created from small grains during the protoplanetary disk phase. The chemical composition of all these objects is intr | 5/24/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Learning about the sub-atomic world from observations to the edge of the Universe (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Assoc. Prof. Chris Blake on 18th April 2012.Scientists have been trying to understand the building blocks of matter for millenia. What are the fundamental particles and forces that shape the sub-atomic world? Even today, we are faced with a | 4/17/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Dynamic Universe (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Professor Shri Kulkarni on 28th March 2012.That occasionally new sources ("Stella Nova") would pop up in the heavens was noted more than a thousand years ago. The earnest study of cosmic explosions began in earnest less than a hundred years | 3/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Next 50 Years of Space Exploration: Hunting for Life in the Solar System (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Michael Shara on 14th Feburary 2012.This is based on a current exhibition a the American Museum of Natural History that Dr Michael Shara has curated. Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration offers a vision of space travel as | 2/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dynamics in the solar system (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Assoc. Prof. Sarah Maddison on 20th October 2011.The clockwork-like motion of the planets around the Sun is well understood thanks to Newton's universal law of gravitation. Using Newtonian physics and some simple mathematical equations, we | 12/31/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The ATLAS Experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider - status and outlook (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Prof. Geoff Taylor on 2nd December 2011The Large Hadron Collider is operating beautifully well. Data from the highest energy particle collisions produced in the laboratory is being amassed at rates never before achieved. The big experiments | 12/1/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Into the heart of darkness: Supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies - 2011 (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Darren Croton on 15th June 2011. Black holes are amongst the most bizarre objects predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity. Many people may not realise that our own galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole at its centre that is | 6/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies - dealings with publishers, editors, typesetters and creating an academic textbook (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Glen Mackie on 15th April 2011.Galaxies have been observed from ultra high energy gamma rays to long wavelength radio waves, providing fundamental insights into their formation and evolution. Until now, astronomy atlases preferentially s | 4/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Are we alone?: 50 years of SETI! (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by A/Prof Charles Lineweaver (ANU) on 19th November 2010.The scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been going on for 50 years. So far, no signals from intelligent aliens have been detected. Presented by Associate Profe | 3/22/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Scientific Revolution: the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Jonathan Gardner on 23rd February 2011.Astronomy is going through a scientific revolution, responding to a flood of data from the Hubble Space Telescope, other space mission and large telescopes on the ground. In this talk, I will discus | 2/22/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gravitational Lensing: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Professor Richard Ellis on 7th September 2010.In 1919, Arthur Eddington demonstrated Einsteins's prediction that the Sun's gravity deflects the path of light rays. This phenomonon, termed 'gravitational lensing' is now one of the most power | 9/16/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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From Games to Galaxies (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Christopher Fluke on 20th August 2010.Advancements in modern astronomy are increasingly dependent on access to powerful computing facilities. This talk introduces the exciting new world of CPU-powered astronomy, which is taking us from c | 8/19/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Cosmic Dark Ages (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Emma Ryan-Weber on 16th April 2010.How did the elements come into existence, and how we can use them to count the number of stars in the early Universe? This talk will reveal the dark ages of the Universe. | 4/16/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Extreme Side of Pulsars (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Sarah Burke-Spolaor and Lina Levin on 19th February 2010.Pulsars are the compact cores of dead stars that periodically flash radio beams at Earth. The regularity of their flashing makes them somewhat like highly accurate clocks--however not | 3/3/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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