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Henri Boffin and Douglas Pierce-Price from ESO, in Garching, Germany, investigate our celestial ancestry.
Ages: 16-19;
Ever wanted to take a closer look at the stars? Rachel Dodds from the Faulkes Telescope Project explains how you can do just that – together with your students and without even leaving your classroom!
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Jonathan Swinton pushes back the frontiers of knowledge – in his kitchen.
Ages: 16-19;
Mark Tiele Westra from the European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) in Garching, Germany, elucidates the source of power on Earth: the Sun
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Richard West describes the excitement and joy of discovering a new comet.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Ever wondered what - and who - lies behind the beautiful and fascinating astronomical photographs and observations made with modern telescopes? Douglas Pierce-Price from ESO, the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, describes a day in the life of the Very…
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
One hour and 34 minutes after the bright tail of the Kosmos 3M rocket disappeared from view, more than one hundred students are checking their watches nervously. The first signal from their satellite should arrive any minute. Barbara Warmbein, from the European Space Agency in Noordwijk, the…
Ages: 16-19;
An ambitious Australian school project sent spiders into space to experience microgravity. 'Spiders in Space' will form the basis of a future project involving many more schools worldwide. Lachlan Thompson and Naomi Mathers, from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, explain how it all started.
Ages: 14-16;
Uffe Gråe Jørgensen from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, describes the search for Earth-like planets elsewhere in our galaxy.
Ages: 16-19;
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Fusion in the Universe: we are all stardust
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
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The Faulkes Telescopes: real-time, remote-control astronomy for schools
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
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The neutron teaspoon
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
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Fusion in the Universe: the power of the Sun
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
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The joy of discovery: a personal experience
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
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Running one of the world’s largest telescopes
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
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Launching a dream: the first European student satellite in orbit
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space, Engineering
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Spiders in Space : a collaboration between education and research
Topics: Biology, Astronomy / space, General science
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Are there Earth-like planets around other stars?
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
