The Cosmos: A Beginner’s Guide
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- Episode
- Seeing The Universe
- Broadcast Info
- 2007 (29 mins)
- Description
- We report from the Atacama Desert in Chile, 4000 metres above sea level, where the VLT - the Very Large Telescope - is helping astronomers see further than ever before. We learn about the mind-blowing images that the Hubble Space Telescope has been producing for over a decade and the helping hand it receives from a team of cosmic artists! We find out how adaptive optics is helping the VLT see as clearly as Hubble, and that it may usher in a new generation of even bigger Extremely Large Telescopes! At Gemini we discover how just by analysing the light from planets, astronomers can work out what they are made of! And we travel to glamorous Cannes to the satellite built to detect the very first light in the Universe and to Pisa where the Virgo experiment is uncovering an entirely new way of seeing the Universe.
Atacama Desert Chile VLT Very Large Telescope Hubble Space Telescope images adaptive optics Gemini analysing planetary light Cannes Pisa Virgo experiment - Genre
- Science; Astronomy; Cosmology
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The Open University, "The Cosmos: A Beginner’s Guide". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/7754 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)