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60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: The Big Bang
Discover how scientists have calculated the exact volume of the noise created at the birth of the Universe with this video
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Level: 1 Introductory
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60 Second Adventures In Astronomy: Supernovae
Learn how all the elements in the Universe were formed, and where, exactly, your favourite silver necklace comes.
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Level: 1 Introductory
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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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Level: 1 Introductory
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60 Second Adventures In Astronomy: A day on Mercury
Find out how you'd pass the time on Mercury - where a single day lasts two years
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Level: 1 Introductory
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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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Level: 1 Introductory
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60 Second Adventures In Astronomy: Life on Mars
Discover how asteroids and microbes flying through space could hold the secret to life on Earth - and maybe even Mars
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Level: 1 Introductory
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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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Level: 1 Introductory
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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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Level: 1 Introductory
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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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Level: 1 Introductory
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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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Level: 1 Introductory
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60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Black holes
Is it possible to make your own black hole? DIY experts take note with this animation
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Level: 1 Introductory
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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: Gaia and the Killer Asteroids
How does Gaia detect any dangerous Earth-crossing asteroids?
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Level: 1 Introductory
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