Stargazing

Will there be humans living on Mars in the next 50 years? Is this a good thing, or something that should be completely avoided? Chris Lintott and Colin Wilson debate the pros and cons of this interesting topic.

Kathryn Boast gives a talk about dark matter: what it is, what we know about it, and what the limitations of our knowledge are.

Luke Jew talks about inflation, the process that scientists believe happened at the very start of our universe and is responsible for all the large scale structures that we see around us.

Ever wondered if another planet like our own exists in the vast expanse of space around us? Ruth Angus explains her exciting research into Extra Solar Planets (Exo-Planets) and why research in this area is important.

Exoplanets - a talk by Grant Miller.

Peter Hatfield asks if we are special in the Universe.

A talk about Black Holes by Dr Brooke Simmons.

Mel Gigg, Chipping Norton Amateur Astronomy Group, showcases some of his astrophotography.

Chris Lintott talks about the unknown in the study of cosmology.

Galaxy Zoo is a Citizen Science project, part of the Zooniverse, which asks the public to classify the morphology of galaxies using images taken by Hubble and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Since the discovery of the first extra-solar planet in the '90s, our perspective of the Universe has changed. Over the last two decades a whole host of exotic planet systems have been found, including analogues of famous science-fiction-worlds. Ruth Angus summarises some of the key discoveries in the field of extra-solar planets and discusses the likelihood of finding Earth II as the number of confirmed exoplanets approaches one-thousand.

Dr Brooke Simmons talks about Black Holes and planet hunting.

In this talk Dr Ken Amor talks about the Chelyabinsk meteor, which entered Earths atmosphere over Russia on the 15th of February 2013.

Astrophysicist Dr Suzanne Aigrain talks about the search for extra-solar planets.

From big bang to the present day, Chris Lintott summarises the history of the Universe in 12 minutes.

In this talk Dr Matt Jarvis talks about radio astronomy.

In this talk Jocelyn Bell Burnell talks about large asteroid impacts.

In this talk Jocelyn Bell Burnell talks about the reclassification of Pluto to a Dwarf planet and the history of its discovery.

Mel Gigg of the Chipping Norton Amateur Astronomy Group showcases some fantastic amateur astro-photography.

Professor Roger Davies explains how we can learn about the different shapes of galaxies using a plate of fruit and a telescope.