Professor Reinhard Genzel, Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Evidence has been accumulating for several decades that many galaxies harbor central mass concentrations that may be in the form of black holes with masses between a few million to a few billion time…
Professor Timothy C. Beers, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, Michigan State University
Human beings are, by nature, curious about their beginnings. Often, such questions of "how we came to be" are confined to the origins of modern society, or the development of human beings as a species.…
Dr Alan Stern, Principal investigator, New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission, NASA
New Horizons is the first scientific investigation to obtain a close look at Pluto and its moon Charon. Scientists hope to find answers to basic questions about the surface properties, geology, interior…
Dr Jim Fanson, Kepler Project Manager, NASA Jet Propulsion
Dr Fanson speaks about the Kepler project, NASA's first mission capable of discovering Earth-size planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy. Scheduled for launch in early 2009, Kepler seeks to answer…
Jim Erickson, Dan Johnston and Terry Z. Martin, The MRO Team
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was launched in 2005 to search for evidence that water persisted on the surface of Mars for a long period of time. While other Mars missions have shown that…
Professor Edward PJ van den Heuvel, Professor of Astronomy, University of Amsterdam
The Earth is hit each day by the bright flash of gamma rays lasting from a fraction of a second to several minutes. These bursts originate in distant galaxies as stars collapse and form black holes.…
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Juilius Sumner Miller Fellow, University of Sydney
Dr Karl explodes our most common ‘mythconceptions’, including whether the daddy long legs is really the most venomous spider in the world and whether a frog will really sit in a pot of gently…
Professor David J Stevenson
Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago with its initial condition greatly affected by the trauma of giant impacts. In this lecture, Professor David Stevenson discusses how this trauma affects the similarities…
Professor Penny Sackett , Director, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mt Stromlo and Siding Springs Observatories, ANU College of Science
In the centuries-old quest to refine human understanding of the universe in which we live, the…
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