Science videos
Why we need Gaia![]() How old are the stars?
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Gaia's mission: solving the celestial puzzle![]() A space mission to create the largest, most-accurate, map of the Milky Way in three dimensions will revolutionise our understanding of the galaxy and the universe beyond.
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Guide to our Galaxy![]() A virtual journey showing the different components that make up our home galaxy, the Milky Way, which contains about a hundred billion stars.
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Supernova Sonata![]() A sound animation created to help understand the diversity of the SNe Ia observations detected by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey.
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Charting the Galaxy - from Hipparcos to Gaia![]() Episode 6 in Science
Watch video Charting the Galaxy - from Hipparcos to Gaia @ ESA vodcast series in which Rebecca Barnes introduces Gaia mission, its operations and scientific objectives. |
History of Supernovae detections![]() A history of Supernovae explosions as recorded on the IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) between 1985 and November 2013.
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Black Holes![]() Is it possible to make your own black hole? DIY experts take note.
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Large Hadron Collider![]() Why is the Large Hadron Collider not as dangerous as we thought?
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Special Relativity![]() Who had more fun in life, Albert Einstein or Richard Feynman?
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Dark Energy![]() Dark Energy explores how Einstein was right all along about the expanding Universe.
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