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The Galileo Lectures
by RNZ
A lecture series marking 400 years since Galileo used a telescope to view the solar system and transformed our understanding of Earth’s place in the Universe.
Episodes
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Lecture 6 - The Square Kilometre Array
Brian Boyle, Director, Australian National Telescope Facility Stretching over a continent and comprised of over 5000 antennas, the Square Kilometre Array is proposed to be the world's largest radio telescope and one of the most ambitious pieces of scientific infrastructure ever built. It will...
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Lecture 5 - Neutrinos: Ghosts of the Universe
Dr Jenni Adams, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury. More than 50 trillion solar neutrinos pass through your body every second! Abundant but elusive, these particles have truly amazing properties and provide a new way to look out at objects in our galaxy and beyond.
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Lecture 4 - Comets and asteroids: clues to our origin and threats to our survival
Professor Jack Baggaley FRAS FRSNZ, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury Comets and asteroids provide us with vital clues as to how the solar system was born. Small sized asteroids may reach the ground as meteorites, sometimes producing impact craters or exploding...
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Lecture 3 - The search for other planets, other life
Alan Gilmore, Mt John Observatory, University of Canterbury The realisation that stars are just distant suns, like our own, led to speculation about the existence of other planets, and other life forms. The first extra-solar planet orbiting a 'normal' star was detected in 1996. More than 300...
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Lecture 2 - The mystery of the first stars
Dr Grant Christie MNZM, Research Astronomer, Stardome Observatory The first stars formed when the Universe was less than 2% of its current age. At this early epoch the conditions were very different to those that exist now so exactly how these stars got started and what they were like remains a...
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Lecture 1 - Galileo's Telescope
Associate Professor Ruth Barton, The University of Auckland When Galileo turned his telescope to the stars he saw spots on the sun, mountains on the moon, and moons about Jupiter. The moons of Jupiter, he wrote, proved the glory of the Medici name (and this gained him the position of…
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A lecture series marking 400 years since Galileo used a telescope to view the solar system and transformed our understanding of Earth’s place in the Universe.
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