Join renowned astrophysicist Brian Cox as he takes you on an exciting journey through the fascinating story of Betelgeuse and its impending supernova explosion! In this captivating video, Brian delves... continue reading

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From YT: In This Video I Show You A Comparison Between The Greatest Space Telescope Ever, My Universities $32,000 Telescope and my very own Telescope!

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YouTube: The merging of two neutron stars was detected by gravitational waves and then by telescopes in all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. This is a historic detection as it demonstrates: - the... continue reading

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Join Phil for a tour of our capital-M Moon, from surface features, inside to the core, and back in time to theories about its formation.

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"We named the whole shebang after the sun." YouTube: In today's Crash Course Astronomy, Phil takes a look at the explosive history of our cosmic backyard. We explore how we went from a giant ball of... continue reading

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From YT: The open cluster M67 has traditionally been considered a possible birthplace for the Sun, though computer modelling may throw a spanner in the works? Will astronomers ever learn where our star... continue reading

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The Deep Sky team explains why some stars appear spiky in some photographs of stars.

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The newest series from the guy who does the Sixty Symbols and related videos. From YT: Charles Messier's "anti-list' of objects in space has become iconic in the world of astronomy. We'll making videos... continue reading

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Sixty Symbols is in Australia talking to one of the former Nottingham members and amateur astronomer Paul Haese about the Southern night skies.

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The Sixty Symbols team looks at some witches in space.

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From YT: Studying supernovae and the accelerating universe - and a bet over a bottle of whisky. It's our take on the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, won by Saul Perlmutter, Brian P Schmidt and Adam G Riess.

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From YT: A dramatic collision of two moons may explain why our Moon is very much two-sided. Professor Mike Merrifield briefly discusses a recent paper in Nature. Check it out at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal... continue reading

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From YT: Axial precession is the reason the Earth's axis has a long-term but quite dramatic "wobble", as explained here by Roger Bowley and Mike Merrifield.

posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,686 views • 7:57

Water on Mars and oxygen in the Orion Nebula - two recent news stories are discussed by Sixty Symbols astronomer Professor Mike Merrifield.

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From YT: A galaxy dubbed NGC 6744 is being hailed at the Milky Way's galactic twin... Find out why?

posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 10 months ago • 1,263 views • 5:20

Some of the Sixty Symbols team explain star classification and how our sun is presently a G2V star.

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 4 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,518 views

The Earth's radius is often quoted when describing the size of exoplanets, such as those recently discovered by the Kepler telescope. Why? and other interesting bits about the discovery of planets outside... continue reading

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