Life in the Cosmos 

An extra-mural course offered on behalf of the 
Department of Adult and Continuing Education

10 meetings, from 16th January 2006

 


Life in the Cosmos



Course Topics


Course Lecturers

Dr Martin Hendry
martin@astro.gla.ac.uk
Dr Luis Teodoro
luis@astro.gla.ac.uk


Course Presentations

Forming Stars and Planets
The Search for Extra-Solar Planets
Life on Earth
Life in the Solar System
The Big Questions

Associated Movies

The above presentations include links to a number of movies; these are not embedded within the power point files, and will need to be downloaded separately.

'Zoom in' on globular cluster 47 Tuc
The Moon's wobble due to libration
Simulated collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda
The precession of the Moon's orbital plane
Large scale structure formation simulation



Please send any comments or questions on Life in the Cosmos to Martin Hendry