Beauty in the Heavens
Three of the most beautiful sights that we can observe in the sky are the Aurora Borealis and eclipses of the Sun and Moon. This lecture explains how such phenomena arise, describes what we can see and gives details of upcoming eclipses.
Ian Morison is an astronomer and astrophysicist who served as the 35th Gresham Professor of Astronomy.
(from gresham.ac.uk)
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