Free Astronomy Public Lectures
By Swinburne University of Technology
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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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CleanCosmic mirages: seeing dark matter with gravitational lenses (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Most of the matter in the Universe is dark matter: an elusive particle that is completely invisible. But we can “see” th… | 3/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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 year… | 2/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSeeing 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 … | 11/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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 mani… | 9/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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 na… | 9/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | CleanVideo"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 … | 7/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSmall, medium, large: what galaxy sizes reveal about their past (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Rebecca Allen on Friday 12 May 2017. | 5/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe rocket science in everyday life in your backyard (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr. Themiya Nanayakkara on 21st April 2017. | 4/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCosmology: 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 … | 3/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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… | 3/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLIGO, 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 Gravi… | 1/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanInto 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. In this talk Professor Darren Croton from the Centre for Astrophysics … | 10/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDiscovering 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 supe… | 9/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLife 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… | 8/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMaking 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 invis… | 8/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHeavy 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 we… | 8/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCosmic 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 ou… | 4/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPlanets: 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 wonderf… | 3/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 19 | CleanVideoBlack 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… | 2/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanExploring 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 rig… | 12/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTune 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 d… | 10/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNew windows into the Universe : From cosmic dawn to today (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Laura Wolz on Friday 23 October 2015. Presented by Associate Professor Kim-Vy Tran on 9 October 2015. Since … | 10/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPutting 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 … | 9/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGalaxies 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 di… | 9/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanState 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 fift… | 8/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAstronomy 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 … | 7/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanObservatories 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 astro… | 5/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow 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 bi… | 4/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShould we announce ourselves to the galaxy? The debate on Messaging to Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (METI) (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Messaging to Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (METI) is an issue dividing those who want to announce our presence to the cosmo… | 3/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPlanet 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 larg… | 2/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA 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 spe… | 12/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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 lik… | 11/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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 int… | 10/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWomen 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, … | 10/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanInto 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 pre… | 9/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA 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 Tec… | 7/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShadows 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 simula… | 6/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLight 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 this talk we will discuss good and bad lighting and consider the effects of night-time lighting on safety, on the environment, on nocturnal animals and, most importantly, on our health. We will end by discussing what we can do individually and collectively to improve the night-time environment. | 5/14/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWitnessing 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… | 4/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGalaxies 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 ha… | 3/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHunting 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… | 2/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEinstein 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. Norma… | 11/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanObserving echoes of the Big Bang in the Universe's most distant light (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | As we peer out into space, what is the most distant light we can see? The answer is the cosmic microwave background radiatio… | 10/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCosmoQuest: 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-ba… | 9/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanUnderstanding 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… | 7/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanUnderstanding our weird Universe: common sense won't save you (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Jonathan Whitmore on 17th May 2013 Two foundational physical theories of science: Quantum Physics and Gener… | 6/16/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe "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 … | 5/2/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChasing 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 … | 4/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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 se… | 3/21/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOld 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 univ… | 2/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA 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 Spi… | 12/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMapping 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 char… | 11/22/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCosmic 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 forens… | 10/25/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanInto the heart of darkness: supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies - 2012 (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Black holes are amongst the most bizarre objects predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity. Many people may not r… | 10/4/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean100 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 … | 9/9/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAstronomy 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 astronomica… | 7/19/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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 … | 6/11/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom 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 c… | 5/24/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLearning 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 … | 4/17/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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 … | 3/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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… | 2/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDynamics in the solar system (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | The clockwork-like motion of the planets around the Sun is well understood thanks to Newton's universal law of gravitation. … | 12/31/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe ATLAS Experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider - status and outlook (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Prof. Geoff Taylor on 2nd December 2011 The Large Hadron Collider is operating beautifully well. Data from the… | 12/1/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanInto 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 … | 6/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies - dealings with publishers, editors, typesetters and creating an academic textbook (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Galaxies have been observed from ultra high energy gamma rays to long wavelength radio waves, providing fundamental insights… | 4/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAre 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… | 3/22/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Scientific Revolution: the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Jonathan Gardner (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) on 23rd February 2011. Astronomy is going through a sci… | 2/22/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGravitational 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 t… | 9/16/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom Games to Galaxies (Free Astronomy Public Lectures) | Presented by Dr Christopher Fluke on 20th August 2010. Advancements in modern astronomy are increasingly dependent on acces… | 8/19/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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 co… | 4/16/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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 per… | 3/3/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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