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How many exo-planets might be out there? What does technology in astronomical observatories enable? What is holding us back from finding what is out there?
This lecture will explore how some of the exotic and energetic phenomena in the Universe can only be explained in terms of magnetic fields that pervade space.
This lecture will cover the intellectual revolutions that paved the way to our modern understanding of the formation, existence and interactions of atoms.
This talk will consider how expectation plays a role in discovery and in scientific advance, and considers the challenges involved in assessing changes taking place on our own planet.
This lecture will present the endeavours of cosmologists and particle physicists, as they attempt to explain the fundamental nature of these mysterious dark components.
The Hubble Space Telescope is rapidly approaching its 30th birthday, and we will explore some of the amazing insights it has provided on the beauty of our universe and our place in it.