'The Universe'. A brief not too technical look at some of the details of what we claim to know.
The areas discussed include:
The Big Bang | Why do we think it's true? The Steady State theory; The Hot Big Bang; Recombination/CMB/Reionisation; Clumping |
The Expanding Universe | Cepheids; Leavitt; Hubble and Andromeda; Red Shift |
Galaxies | Types; Milky Way; Local Group; Collision with Andromeda; Central black holes; Galactic Rotation |
Star Formation and Evolution | Dust and Gas; Embedded Clusters; Tarantula nebula; H-R Diagram; Protostars; Open Clusters; Sun today; TP-AGB stage; Planetary nebulae; White dwarfs |
Planets | Initial disc; Formation of gas giants; Inner planets; Moon's origin |
Clock | The Earth's history as 12 hours |