Astronomy

Episodes

• The Universe’s 100th Birthday: Galactic Fireworks and Little Red Dots - Chris Lintott 2026-04-08
  100 years ago this year, Edwin Hubble published the first conclusive evidence that there were galaxies beyond the Milky Way. This lecture, using new…
• Alien Earths: What Makes Us Special? - Professor Chris Lintott 2026-02-10
  Sometime in 2026, we will discover our 10000th exoplanet, a world around a distant star. This population of worlds has proved remarkably diverse,…
• From Mars with Love: Postcards from 50 Years of Exploring The Red Planet - Chris Lintott 2026-01-05
  During the fifty years since the launch of the Viking spacecraft to Mars, our view of the red planet has changed from hostile desert to a world…
• How It Ends: What We Know about the Fate of the Universe - Chris Lintott 2025-10-10
  How will it all end? Predicting the far future of our Universe depends on understanding its present. This lecture starts with what seems to be a…
• A New Sky - Chris Lintott 2025-06-20
  The JWST is the most expensive and powerful telescope astronomers have ever constructed. Its launch in 2021 started a new phase in our exploration…
• Asteroid Adventures - Chris Lintott 2025-04-28
  Watch the Q&A session here: https://youtu.be/H8nG29pO_y4 Asteroids were for years considered 'celestial vermin' - objects which got in…
• The Biggest Cosmic Map - Chris Lintott 2025-03-18
  Watch the Q&A session here: https://youtu.be/TRCkgDWKTdY Mapping the stars is, perhaps, the oldest of astronomical pursuits, but it has been…
• Touching the Sun - Chris Lintott 2025-01-24
  Watch the Q&A session here: https://youtu.be/pXoU-nZmhn8 Despite its familiarity, the Sun is a very different presence from the friendly yellow…
• Black Holes and Bangs - Chris Lintott 2024-12-06
  Watch the Q&A session here: https://youtu.be/dvvOi_nUCRM Space itself is wobbly. We exist on a choppy sea, its surface roiled by disturbances…
• A Mirror in the Sky - Chris Lintott 2024-09-17
  The first lecture in the series considers the most famous telescope of all, the Hubble space telescope. A project more than forty years in the…
• First light: Revealing the Early Universe - Chris Lintott 2024-07-02
  The final lecture in the series returns to the theme of how insight is derived from observations, considering the cosmic microwave background. This…