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. Topics will be discussed are Rushing Robots and Tons of Glass: Building the WEAVE Spectrograph, Quasars: Are They as Cool as They Sound? And so on.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
Certification
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Course Credit: University of Oxford
Course Curriculum
| Module: 1 | |||
| Planets, Planets Everywhere! | 00:13:00 | ||
| Robotic Planetary Exploration | 00:15:00 | ||
| Cosmology | 00:12:00 | ||
| Large Meteorite Impacts on Earth | 00:12:00 | ||
| Stargazing Open Day 2013 | 00:02:00 | ||
| Observing with the Naked Eye | 00:15:00 | ||
| Galaxies as a Plate of Fruit | 00:09:00 | ||
| Module: 2 | |||
| Astro Photography | 00:17:00 | ||
| Pluto – no more a planet | 00:11:00 | ||
| Killer asteroids | 00:13:00 | ||
| LOFAR and the SKA – The Universe in radio waves | 00:21:00 | ||
| A History of the Universe in 12 Minutes | 00:17:00 | ||
| Stepping into the unknown: the search for new planets | 00:14:00 | ||
| The Chelyabinsk Meteor | 00:14:00 | ||
| Module: 3 | |||
| Uncovering Black Holes and Hunting for Planets | 00:46:00 | ||
| Extra-solar planets: from science-fiction to reality | 00:11:00 | ||
| Galaxy Zoo | 00:09:00 | ||
| Cosmology – What We Don’t Know | 00:11:00 | ||
| Astrophotography | 00:15:00 | ||
| Black Holes | 00:13:00 | ||
| Are we special in the Universe? | 00:09:00 | ||
| Module: 4 | |||
| Exoplanets | 00:11:00 | ||
| Earth-like Planets (and where to find them) | 00:11:00 | ||
| Inflation – The “BANG” in Big Bang | 00:10:00 | ||
| Dark Matter – Are we still in the dark? | 00:11:00 | ||
| Colonisation of Mars – the Great Debate | 00:14:00 | ||
| Ancient Astronomies – 7000 years in the Kennett Valley | 00:18:00 | ||
| Spin Doctors: Creating a planet’s atmosphere in the lab | 00:14:00 | ||
| Module: 5 | |||
| Atmospheres in the solar system … and beyond! | 00:14:00 | ||
| Zooniverse: Live | 00:19:00 | ||
| Galaxy Zoo | 00:10:00 | ||
| Is our galaxy special? | 00:12:00 | ||
| The SKA | 00:13:00 | ||
| The Philae / Rosetta Comet Mission | 00:18:00 | ||
| Gloomy Worlds: Why are planets cloudy? | 00:16:00 | ||
| Module: 6 | |||
| From you to the largest structure in the Universe | 00:14:00 | ||
| The Philae / Rosetta Mission – Update | 00:18:00 | ||
| The Beagle expedition to Mars | 00:14:00 | ||
| How to see the world in a grain of sand | 00:09:00 | ||
| Spectromania! | 00:10:00 | ||
| Astronomy at the Highest Energies Possible | 00:10:00 | ||
| The Seven Wonders of Galaxy Zoo | 00:15:00 | ||
| Module: 7 | |||
| Things that go bump in the night: Exploding stars and black holes | 00:20:00 | ||
| Advanced LIGO: The Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy | 00:19:00 | ||
| On the trail of the most energetic particles in the universe | 00:19:00 | ||
| Redder is better! Exploring the universe with the successor to Hubble | 00:23:00 | ||
| Merging Galaxies: Making the Biggest Mess! | 00:08:00 | ||
| Taking Real Photos of Planets Outside the Solar System | 00:08:00 | ||
| Weighing Black Holes | 00:26:00 | ||
| Module: 8 | |||
| Galactic Archaeology: Mining Stellar Fossils in the Milky Way Halo | 00:23:00 | ||
| It’s a Star’s Life | 00:09:00 | ||
| I’m Spinning Around: Watching Galaxies Rotate (Or Not) | 00:11:00 | ||
| The Big Bang and a Multiverse | 00:27:00 | ||
| Quasars: Are They As Cool As They Sound? | 00:07:00 | ||
| Rushing Robots and Tons of Glass: Building the WEAVE Spectrograph | 00:09:00 | ||
| Assessment | |||
| Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Certification | 00:00:00 | ||
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