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A New Sky

The JWST is the most expensive and powerful telescope astronomers...

a man looking at the JWST

Asteroid Adventures

Asteroids were for years considered 'celestial vermin' – objects which...

a cgi asteroid shown in space with planet earth in the background

Documentary Photography in Apartheid South Africa

This lecture looks at debates and dialogues that characterise realist...

a sign from the apartheid era in South Africa

Banned Books and Freedom of Expression

The right to free expression is severely threatened in many...

a book bound in metal chains

The Biggest Cosmic Map

Mapping the stars is, perhaps, the oldest of astronomical pursuits...

Artist impression of ESA's Gaia satellite observing the Milky Way

Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times

Shakespeare lived in a period of exciting mathematical innovations –...

Statue of Shakespeare with open book, with maths symbols rising out of it

A Mirror in the Sky

The Hubble Space Telescope is the most famous astronomical instrument...

Hubble telescope above Earth

The Stories We Make Up & The Stories That Make Us

In a sense, we are all storytellers, from the conversations...

book floating in the middle of a library

First light: Revealing the Early Universe

The final lecture in the series returns to the theme...

a satellite dish in the night sky full of stars

Is it Aliens? The Most Unusual Star In The Galaxy

Boyajian's star, a faint and unprepossessing presence in the constellation...

an artists impression of KIC 8462852 or Tabby's star