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Stargazing Oxford University
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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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Redder is better! Exploring the universe with the successor to Hubble
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.
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On the trail of the most energetic particles in the universe
Rafael Alves Batista, University of Oxford, gives a talk about cosmic rays. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
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Advanced LIGO: The Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Dr Philipp Podsiadlowski, University of Oxford gives a talk about gravitational waves in light of the recent detections by the LIGO detector.
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Things that go bump in the night: Exploding stars and black holes
Professor Rob Fender, University of Oxford talks through some observations of black holes.
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The Seven Wonders of Galaxy Zoo
Becky Smethurst shows how citizen science and the Galaxy Zoo project is helping researchers tackle difficult scientific questions.
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Astronomy at the Highest Energies Possible
Researcher Stephen Rayner talks on how astronomers study the highest energies possible to detect particle accelerators in space.
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