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Stargazing

Find out more about our night sky, from new planets to far-off galaxies and the vastness of the Universe. A series of short talks and presentations for the general public from leading astronomy researchers at the Oxford University Physics department - http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/

  • 23 minutes 15 seconds
    Redder is better! Exploring the universe with the successor to Hubble
    Rebecca Bowler, University of Oxford give a talk about the successor to the Hubble telescope - The James Webb Space Telescope - which will detect infrared radiation.
    28 March 2017, 2:58 pm
  • 19 minutes 5 seconds
    On the trail of the most energetic particles in the universe
    Rafael Alves Batista, University of Oxford, gives a talk about cosmic rays.
    28 March 2017, 2:52 pm
  • 19 minutes 35 seconds
    Advanced LIGO: The Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
    Dr Philipp Podsiadlowski, University of Oxford gives a talk about gravitational waves in light of the recent detections by the LIGO detector.
    28 March 2017, 2:47 pm
  • 20 minutes 13 seconds
    Things that go bump in the night: Exploding stars and black holes
    Professor Rob Fender, University of Oxford talks through some observations of black holes.
    28 March 2017, 2:20 pm
  • 15 minutes 4 seconds
    The Seven Wonders of Galaxy Zoo
    Becky Smethurst shows how citizen science and the Galaxy Zoo project is helping researchers tackle difficult scientific questions.
    13 March 2015, 5:43 pm
  • 9 minutes 53 seconds
    Astronomy at the Highest Energies Possible
    Researcher Stephen Rayner talks on how astronomers study the highest energies possible to detect particle accelerators in space.
    13 March 2015, 5:32 pm
  • 10 minutes 12 seconds
    Spectromania!
    James Gilbert, a researcher in astrophysics gives an exciting talk on how astronomy uses Spectroscopy - the study of the interaction between matter and radiated energy.
    13 March 2015, 5:23 pm
  • 9 minutes 19 seconds
    How to see the world in a grain of sand
    Peter Hatfield gives an astronomy talk entitled: How to see the world in a grain of sand and the entire Universe in a super computer.
    13 March 2015, 5:15 pm
  • 13 minutes 47 seconds
    The Beagle expedition to Mars
    The Beagle 2 probe had not been seen or heard from since December 2003 and had been presumed lost. Researcher Chris Linttot gives an overview and shows newly found images of the probe on the surface of Mars.
    13 March 2015, 4:55 pm
  • 17 minutes 41 seconds
    The Philae - Rosetta Mission (update)
    Researcher Colin Wilson gives an update on the Rosetta mission with the latest news on the Philae comet lander
    13 March 2015, 4:36 pm
  • 13 minutes 43 seconds
    From you to the largest structure in the Universe
    Robert Simpson, an astronomy researcher from Oxford takes us on a tour of the Universe, explaining the incredible distances and relative dimensions of space.
    19 December 2014, 4:48 pm
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