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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/
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3In this short stargazing talk, Luke Jew looks at the topic - The oldest light in the Universe.
Sergio Martin describes the evolution of the Universe. This talk describes the evolution of the Universe from its infancy up until its possible fates, describing general astrophysical questions such as the emergence of complexity, the first evidence for the existence of dark matter or the formation of galaxies.
Ellen Schallig gives a short talk on building the WEAVE spectograph.
In this flash talk, Josie Peters presents on the topic of quasars.
Darsh Kodwani gives a short talk on The Big bang and a multiverse.
Mark Graham gives a short talk on the rotation of galaxies.
In this short talk, Rebecca Esselstein gives an overview of a typical star's lifespan.
Payel Das gives a short talk on mining stellar fossils in the Milky Way halo.
Oxford astrophysicist Martin Bureau gives a talk on black holes.
Jean-Loup Baudino gives a short talk on planets outside the solar system.
Nathan Adams presents a short talk on merging galaxies.
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.
Rafael Alves Batista, University of Oxford, gives a talk about cosmic rays.
Dr Philipp Podsiadlowski, University of Oxford gives a talk about gravitational waves in light of the recent detections by the LIGO detector.
Professor Rob Fender, University of Oxford talks through some observations of black holes.
Becky Smethurst shows how citizen science and the Galaxy Zoo project is helping researchers tackle difficult scientific questions.
Researcher Stephen Rayner talks on how astronomers study the highest energies possible to detect particle accelerators in space.
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.
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.
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.
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