From notebook sketches to space-telescope data: explore how mapping starlight using the Herzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram helps us trace the life stories of stars across the universe.
Written in the stars: use microcontrollers and LEDs to model stellar life cycles, scaling billions of years into minutes while exploring stellar evolution.
We can’t image our home galaxy from the outside, so how do we study it? Learn how astronomers unveil the dramatic past of the Milky Way and peer into its future.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19; Topics: Astronomy / space, Engineering, News from the EIROs, Physics
This is the story of how scientists created an image of the region around the black hole at the centre of our galaxy by combining many telescopes into one virtual telescope the size of the Earth.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19; Topics: Astronomy / space, Engineering, News from the EIROs, Physics
Ever wondered what the solar wind means to us on Earth or what happens when the surface of the Sun erupts sporadically? Lucie Green from University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UK, describes some of the recent research into the Sun’s atmosphere.
Henri Boffin from ESOw1 in Garching, Germany, follows the mystery of gamma-ray bursts from their first discovery to the most recent research on these dramatic astronomical explosions.
