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6 May 2020
How many megatonnes of TNT would it take to blow up a star?
5 May 2020
Space lasers, re-usable rockets, and space mining. They all may sound like science-fiction but they are closer to reality than you may think. We'll cover...
4 May 2020
Telescopes are big, but sometimes even the largest telescopes in the world aren't big enough. How do astronomers solve this problem? Telescope teamwork!...
30 Apr 2020
What happens when you add milk to your hot chocolate? It's something called turbulence - and this turbulence can shake aeroplanes and churn space gas to...
29 Apr 2020
What are black holes? How are they formed? What do we know about them? We'll cover the latest discoveries in black holes - from the first image of them to...
24 Apr 2020
How do astronomers look back in time? And when we do, what do we find out about the Universe's childhood?
22 Apr 2020
In this talk, Alex will discuss the amazing worlds in our own solar system and beyond, how they formed, how they were discovered and answer the question: is...
20 Apr 2020
We'll take a journey through the Solar System - from the Sun, to Neptune. We'll stop at some moons along the way and some of the smaller things in...
15 Apr 2020
How do stars form, where does the solar system come from, what are moons and how did ours get there?
14 Apr 2020
We will talk about how the Earth, Sun, and Moon all work together. We'll touch on day/night, seasons, and the phases of the Moon. We'll do a demo of...
21 May 2018
40 years ago the Voyager spacecraft hurtled towards the furthest regions of our solar system. On board was a golden record with the sounds and songs of Earth....