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60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Taking a Galactic Census
Counting stars in the sky is easy - but how do we know how far away they are?
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60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Event horizons
Just what is the point of no return? German physicist, Karl Schwarzchild calculated the event horizon of black holes. And it can tell us more about the eventual fate of all the galaxies.
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60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Dark energy
Dark Energy explores how Einstein was right all along about the expanding Universe. We never should have doubted him
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60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Dark matter
Fritz Zwicky was a Swiss astronomer who discovered Dark Matter in the Universe. But what's the matter with dark matter?
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60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Large Hadron Collider
Turns out the Large Hadron Collider is not as dangerous as we thought
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60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Special relativity
Who had more fun in life, Albert Einstein or Richard Feynman? Whichever one of them was travelling faster
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60 Second Adventures In Astronomy: Exoplanets
How have scientists studied distant stars to learn more about exoplanets, the invisible planets that orbit them?
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60 Second Adventures In Astronomy: The rotating moon
Discover how the Moon's orbit means we always see its best side...
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Mars: A collection
OpenLearn has been covering the scientific research into our neighbour in space for nearly twenty years. Dip into our archive...
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Big moon rising
David Rothery doesn't think the supermoons we're due to see deserve that much attention. Here's why...
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Meteoric
Rocks hurtling through space shape the surface of the moons and planets as collide – and now you can use your skill and knowledge to make your own mark. Can you cover a target percentage of a planet or a moon’s surface with impact craters – by choosing meteroids based on size, make-up and speed and aiming them at your chosen target.
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Mythbusting moons
Would we have tides if we had no Moon? Is a ‘supermoon’ an important event? Can moons have moons? Enjoy this short animation.