Free Astronomy Public Lectures
The Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing is one of the premier research Astronomy centres in Australia.
- Update frequency
- every 40 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 89
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2022
Unlocking the Universe's Secrets with James Webb Space Telescope (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
This is a special State of the Universe lecture for National Science Week in August 2022. Presented by the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (CAS) at Swinburne University of Technology. Succ…
00:58:13 |
Sat 19 Nov 2022
Australia's growing role in the global space industry (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
In astronomy, we use cutting edge instruments and techniques to learn more about our Universe. But what about turning that focus back to Earth? More and more of our daily activities depend on space a…
00:52:32 |
Fri 30 Sep 2022
A Flash of Discovery (Free Astronomy Public Lecture)
Behind the serenity of the night sky, hides an ever-changing Universe of brilliant explosions. Join us online for an interactive lecture uncovering the State of the Transient Universe with Dr Jielai …
00:58:10 |
Wed 17 Aug 2022
Friendly stars and where to find them (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
Most of our understanding of stars and how they evolve is based on the assumption that they are completely isolated in space, never interacting with one another. However, studies over the last decade…
00:58:44 |
Fri 22 Apr 2022
Exploring Einstein's Universe with Neutron Stars, Black Holes and Gravitational Waves (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
Einstein dreamt of a Universe in which space and time were curved by matter, and how black holes would represent the ultimate manifestations of his physics, and the possibility of a new type of radia…
01:14:10 |
Tue 19 Oct 2021
The Dark Universe (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
Presented by Sara Webb and Grace Lawrence on Friday 28 February 2020. When we look to the stars, what we see is a fraction of the universe – only around 5%. Astronomers observe that a mysterious ‘dar…
01:15:34 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Truth and awe in astronomy (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
Presented by Professor Sheila Kannappan on Monday 16 December 2019. Since ancient times, humans have been drawn to understand the heavens while at the same time observing them with a spiritual sense …
00:40:27 |
Wed 18 Dec 2019
The unintended humour of the Universe (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
Presented by Dr Tiantian Yuan on 29th November 2019. Scientific research is not only fun but also funny. In this end of the year talk, Tiantian Yuan explains how the universe makes us laugh and think…
00:54:43 |
Thu 28 Nov 2019
The Cosmic Perspective (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
Presented by Dr Edward (Ned) Taylor on Friday 18 October 2019.
At its most basic, astronomy is an attempt to understand the nature of the universe in which we find ourselves. As such, understandings o…
At its most basic, astronomy is an attempt to understand the nature of the universe in which we find ourselves. As such, understandings o…
00:53:42 |
Thu 17 Oct 2019
The Never-Ending Story of a Star (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
Presented by Renee Spiewak on Friday 20 September 2019. Like humans, stars often live their long lives in pairs, called binaries. At the end of their lives, they experience drastic transformations, r…
01:00:12 |
Fri 20 Sep 2019
Space law - It's not rocket science (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
Presented by Kim Ellis on Friday, 19 July 2019. This will be an informative lecture on how Australia is making a splash on the international space arena as the Australian Space Agency turns one. We w…
00:53:23 |
Fri 19 Jul 2019
The vivid lives of stars (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
Presented by Poojan Agrawal on the 21st June 2019. Beyond the twinkling dots in the night sky, there are all sorts of stars that are beautiful and fascinating their own sense. I will share the story …
00:57:04 |
Fri 21 Jun 2019
Watching a Little Gas Cloud on its Way into the Galactic Supermassive Black Hole (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
Presented by Prof. Andreas Burkert on 29th March 2019. The Galactic Center is one of the most fascinating and extreme places in the Milky Way. Harboring a supermassive black hole with a mass of order…
01:03:56 |
Fri 29 Mar 2019
Things that go bump in the night: fast radio bursts and the search for life beyond Earth (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
Presented by Dr Daniel C Price on 22nd February 2019. Thanks to new, more powerful technology, astronomers can search the skies faster and with more resolution than ever before. In this public lectur…
00:49:10 |
Thu 21 Feb 2019
Breakthrough! The detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star merger (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
Presented by Assoc. Prof. Tara Murphy on 23 November 2018. On August 17th 2017 the LIGO-Virgo interferometer detected gravitational waves from a neutron star merger in a galaxy 130 million light year…
00:54:56 |
Mon 26 Nov 2018
The rapidly growing world of Indigenous astronomy (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
Presented by Dr Duane Hamacher and Krystal De Napoli on 1st June 2018. The subject of Indigenous astronomy has skyrocketed in recent years all around the globe. A constant stream of emerging research…
01:08:54 |
Tue 20 Nov 2018
Hidden Features: Discovery space in a reluctant Universe (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
Presented on 19 October 2018 by Dr Michelle Cluver.
The more we learn about the universe, the mosre it tends to surprise us. This is one of the most exciting aspects of science - making unexpected di…
The more we learn about the universe, the mosre it tends to surprise us. This is one of the most exciting aspects of science - making unexpected di…
00:59:21 |
Thu 18 Oct 2018
Deeper, Wider, Faster: Chasing the fastest bursts in the Universe (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
Presented by Assoc. Prof. Jeff Cooke on 11 May 2018.
When you look up a the night sky, it appears static and unchanging. However, a closer look using telescopes finds it to be wildly violent. Objects…
When you look up a the night sky, it appears static and unchanging. However, a closer look using telescopes finds it to be wildly violent. Objects…
01:03:07 |
Mon 11 Jun 2018
Cosmic mirages: seeing dark matter with gravitational lenses (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
Presented by Prof. Mike Hudson on 16th March 2018. Most of the matter in the Universe is dark matter: an elusive particle that is completely invisible. But we can “see” this matter by studying how it…
00:56:44 |
Thu 15 Mar 2018
The fast radio burst mystery (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)
Presented by Dr Emily Petroff on 9 February 2018.
Most things in the universe happen over millions or even billions of years but some things change on the timescales of human life and can be seen to c…
Most things in the universe happen over millions or even billions of years but some things change on the timescales of human life and can be seen to c…
01:03:44 |
Thu 08 Feb 2018
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