Transcript -- What would the sun look like if we had magnetically sensitive eyes? How the most sensitive radio telescopes on earth work.

Astronomy - for iPod/iPhone

Transcript -- VLA, HEIDI & YOKOH

Astronomy

Transcript -- A short introduction to this album.

Transcript -- Astronomy

Scientists investigate sun spots, solar flares and arcs using x-ray telescopes, featuring the Big Bear Observatory in LA.

Our Invisible Sun

Transcript -- Scientists investigate sun spots, solar flares and arcs using x-ray telescopes, featuring the Big Bear Observatory in LA.

Transcript -- Our Invisible Sun

What would the sun look like if we had magnetically sensitive eyes? How the most sensitive radio telescopes on earth work.

VLA, HEIDI & YOKOH

Astronomers compare events on other stars to helps us better understand our sun.

Is Our Sun Normal?

Transcript -- Astronomers compare events on other stars to helps us better understand our sun.

Transcript -- Is Our Sun Normal?

The discovery of radio emissions from the Milky Way, and the theory of dark-matter.

Mapping the Milky Way

Transcript -- The discovery of radio emissions from the Milky Way, and the theory of dark-matter.

Transcript -- Mapping the Milky Way

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Thanks to cutting-edge radio and infra-red astronomy, our understanding of the universe is moving very fast. Ideas about black holes and cosmic jets are constantly being refined as new discoveries are made using new, more powerful telescopes. This album explores the incredible discoveries and theories developed in recent years and introduces the astronomical observatories, space missions and satellites that have made it possible. The 12 video tracks reveal that our sun, though essential for our existence, is an unremarkable member of the stellar menagerie. They describe how astronomers study the structure and dynamics of our galaxy, the Milky Way and they introduce the challenges inherent in mapping the geometry and expansion of the universe. This material forms part of the course S282 Astronomy.