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This series takes us from the familiar confines of the Solar System, considering the Earth as a planet and the Sun as a star, to the distant Universe. Using the latest data from the largest telescopes in the world, these lectures explore topics ranging from the launch of ESA’s planet hunting satellite Plato to the release of new data from the Gaia cartographic mission.
They consider open questions in modern astronomy – like, what shapes a planet’s atmosphere? Did the Universe inflate rapidly early on? How was the Milky Way assembled? Why do the worlds of the inner Solar System differ so much? Is the Sun unusual?
