Becoming an astrophysicist
Phil Evans from the University of Leicester talks about why he became an astrophysicist and why he loves the job. This is some "extra interview footage" from a film we made about a day in the life of astrophysicists. See the original video at www.youtube.com
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- Tags: astrophysics
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Kavli Foundation: Introduction to Theoretical Astrophysics
Narrated by Alan Alda, this introduction to theoretical astrophysics gives us a brief overview of the field and illuminates some of the interesting questions being currently researched.
- KavliFoundation
- Length: 5:30
- Views: 14635
- Tags: Alan Alda Astrophysics particle accelerator string theory kavli foundation science membrane universe parallel bigbang
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Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
In this Howard Hughes Medical Institute program, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of the PBS program NOVA scienceNOW and director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, sits down with Dr. Thomas Cech, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, to discuss his own ...
- ResearchChannel
- Length: 89:10
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Astrophysics Walkthrough - Levels 1-12
This is a video of Mck beating Astrophysics. Game: www.gamesnitro.com
- tasselfoot
- Length: 3:27
- Views: 75323
- Tags: Astrophysics Walkthrough Flash Game gamesnitro Box2d Physics Aliens Fun
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Neil Tyson on the Astrophysics of Star Trek
Astrophysicists Neil deGrasse Tyson and Sallie Baliunas discuss the astrophysics of Star Trek and where the boundary between science and science fiction lies.
1. Introduction
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160) Professor Bailyn introduces the course and discusses the course material and requirements. The three major topics that the course will cover are (1) exoplanets--planets around stars other than the Sun, (2) black holes--stars whose gravitational p...
World Record! Youngest Astrophysics resercher: Jacob Barnett (1)
WESTFIELD, Ind., USA -- Jacob Barnett, 12, has an IQ of 170 - higher than Albert Einstein - and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up for a PHD research role; he is also developing his own theory on how the universe came into being - setting th...
- WorldRecordsAcademy
- Length: 7:48
- Views: 38229
- Tags: world record child prodigy Jacob Barnett
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Cosmic Train Wrecks - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
"Observatory Nights" public lecture series from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Lauranne Lanz, CfA Five billion years from now, our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy. This will be an era of both destruction and creation as the galaxies lose their separate ide...
TRIUMF Nuclear Astrophysics
- TRIUMFLab
- Length: 5:17
- Views: 650
- Tags: Nuclear Astrophysics TRIUMF Particle Physics Laboratory
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Astrophysics Walkthrough - Levels 13-21
This is a video of Mck beating Astrophysics. Game: www.gamesnitro.com
- tasselfoot
- Length: 4:21
- Views: 21168
- Tags: Astrophysics Walkthrough Flash Game gamesnitro Box2d Physics Aliens Fun
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Johns Hopkins Astrophysicist Adam Riess wins Nobel Prize
On Tuesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recognized Adam Riess, the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins and a scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, for his leadership in the High-z Team's 1998 discovery that the expansion rate of the unive...
- JohnsHopkins
- Length: 2:05
- Views: 885
- Tags: Adam Riess Ronald Daniels Johns Hopkins University
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Astrophysics, Alien Fireballs
Meteor Impact in Canada A 2009 fireball caught by seven cameras at the University of Western Ontario set scientists on a hunt for the location of its impact. A clear, Friday night in Ontario, Canada. A flaming fireball lights up the night sky as it streaks to Earth. It could carry with it secrets...
- libertylover522
- Length: 45:59
- Views: 307
- Tags: Animation Astrophysics Lab capture earth footage impact life meteor meteorite Moon natgeo Peter Brown Phil mccausland planet Planetary Scientist science space Theory UFO University of Western Ontario video
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euronews science - Astrophysicist Margherita Hack on an infinite universe
www.euronews.net Continuing our series with the eminent 90-year-old Italian astrophysicist Margherita Hack, euronews asked whether she thought the universe was finite or infinite?
The Happy Accident - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Rick Fienberg, S&T editor emeritus Dennis di Cicco, S&T senior editor Bob Naeye, S&T editor in chief Happy accidents do happen! It began in 1929 as a four-page flyer, The Amateur Astronomer. Six years later it grew into The Sky. In 1939, facing difficult financial times, it joined forces with The...
- Harvard
- Length: 66:55
- Views: 2853
- Tags: sky telescope astronomy astrophysics
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Neil deGrasse Tyson - Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
Tyson discusses Pluto, Mars, his PhD and largely his career in Science.
- CrimsonReason
- Length: 89:10
- Views: 557
- Tags: cosmos astronomy secular astro Physics Science space Sceptic skeptic survival survive nuclear cold war Richard Dawkins Neil Degrasse Tyson Lawrence Krauss Sam Harris Design Truth Proof Darwin Theory Evidence scepticism skepticism universe big bang university college intellectual intelligent rhetoric atheist logic reason physicist chemistry biology quantum mechanics relativity debate public forum hitchslap
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Astrophysicist Dr. Sean Carroll @MindshareLA | 22 June 2011 | DTLA
Astrophysicist Dr. Sean Carrol presents his work at Mindshare LA in Downtown Los Angeles. shot by Zachary Urbina.
- Talent217
- Length: 15:39
- Views: 570
- Tags: Sean Carrol Astrophysics mindsharela Zachary Urbina
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