This tiny companion to the bright Dog Star, was dubbed the pup. And by 1922, this new type of the star had an official classification. It was called a white dwarf. But naming it was the least of scientists problems. When they compared its size to its

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-It begins to give us some insight into how the wider landscape was used at the time that Stonehenge was developing into the monument you see today.Like many of the ceremonial shrines located by the Hidden Landscapes Project, Stonehenge also began it

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This spiritual ambition and mastery of nature could be fundamental to the creation of Stonehenge. This is clearly the best view we ever have of Stonehenge from above. You can see the other parts of the monument, things like the ditch, which run aroun

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The challenge of discovering lost monuments and vacant space around the stone circle was one of the Hidden Landscapes projects. It's called Objectives. Sector after sector was scanned, but nothing was detected. Finally, less than a kilometre to the n

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-The stones had to be brought from some distance that some large stones, and so these were important ** burial places that brought community together. The monumental nature of these stones symbolized a new level of collective endeavour and cultural a

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Hollywood actor Sean Bean tells the story of Waterloo, one of history's most decisive battles. Sean's journey of discovery is inspired by his own experiences of playing Napoleonic soldier Richard Sharpe in TV films based on Bernard Cornwell's best-se

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Hollywood actor Sean Bean tells the story of Waterloo, one of history's most decisive battles. Sean's journey of discovery is inspired by his own experiences of playing Napoleonic soldier Richard Sharpe in TV films based on Bernard Cornwell's best-se

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When the positions of the pits were computer modeled against the movement of the sun, the true importance became clear. The calculation showed amid the summers day, the eastern pits alignment with sunrise and western pits alignment with sunset, inter

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Five and half thousand years ago, Causewayed counties, like Crickley Hill and Robinhoods Bowl, were abandoned. Their decline signaled the end of large-scale hostilities in ancient Britain. In the relative peace that followed, monument construction in

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This is certain increase in amount of ever people willing to put into constructing monuments. 270 kilometers away in Norfolk, evidence of prehistoric mining operation shows the extraordinary efforts the Neolithic people made to meet the demand for hi

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-Here we are at the bottom of one of the shafts. It's a lot darker than it would have been in the Neolithic, because at moment there's a modern concrete cover just to protect the archaeology. The devision that would be open to sky, so the sun would b

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This is one of the larger galleries spaces down here in the mines. A lot of them are far more restricted than this. Because the reservation is so incredible, weve still got a whole series of their antelopes peaks, the tools they were using down here

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-When they look at the skeletons that they were found down in the lower levels of the mine, one was actually covered by rubbles and all that sort of material just behind me here. The body was laying stretched out in the gallery as if going towards th

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It consists of rings of circulated ditches with gaps in them. These gaps are the causeways, terms the name of cause but enclosure. Structure like Robbinhood Ball, brought with them the Neolithic concept dividing up the land. These monuments represent

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-Crickley Hill gives us a completely new picture of the scale of violence in prehistoric Britain. It's really the first time that we see evidence for warfare between sub-communities or even groups of communities on a completely different scale to wha

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These are just the whole host of compounds we make. We found many of these compounds are very interesting because they play roles in life on earth. So, its clear we were making many the building blocks of life by these very processes that happened in

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And with his colleagues, he did the calculations to prove it. The key was the conditions created in the final stages about massive stars fighting against its gravity. These stars are so massive and hot that they can go through a whole series of nucle

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Could these be the neutron stars predicted by Z? astronomers nicknamed them pulsars and immediately set their telescopes searching for further clues about them, just a year later, they found one, in the perfect place to put Z's theory to the test.In

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The calculations focus on a strange quality of all matter. It's one that defies common sense. But it's fundamental to the work of Astrophysicists like professor Douglas Leonard. Solidity is an illusion. If I run up with my fist and punch a burg wall,

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An implosion that launches an explosion creating enough heat and energy to forge almost all the other elements.The supernova explosion is able to produce some of the very rare elements heavier than iron, the zinc, the gold, the platinum, the silver,

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