# Carolin Crawford
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Carolin Susan Crawford is a British communicator of science, astrophysicist researcher, lecturer and Public Astronomer based at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge and a supernumerary fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
== Education ==
Crawford studied the Mathematical Tripos and received a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Mathematics at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1985. In 1988 she received her PhD for research undertaken at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge on cooling flows supervised by Andrew Fabian.
Mercury
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet which is closest to our Sun. We see it as an evening or a morning star, close to where the Sun has just set or is about to rise, and observations of Mercury helped Copernicus understand that Earth and the other planets orbit the Sun, so displacing Earth...
Mercury
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet which is closest to our Sun. We see it as an evening or a morning star, close to where the Sun has just set or is about to rise, and observations of Mercury helped Copernicus understand that Earth and the other planets orbit the Sun, so displacing Earth...
The Moon (Archive Episode)
After 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this first pick, we hear Melvyn Bragg and ...
Eclipses (Archive Episode)
To celebrate Melvyn Bragg’s 27 years presenting In Our Time, five well-known fans of the programme have chosen their favourite episodes. Guy Garvey, lyricist and lead singer of the band Elbow, has selected the episode on eclipses, first broadcast in December 2020. Solar eclipses are some of life’...
Clusters Of Galaxies - Professor Carolin Crawford
Clusters of galaxies are the largest organised structures in the Universe that appear gravitationally bound, containing thousands of galaxies all confined to a volume of space only tens of millions of light years across. They are laboratories for extreme galaxy evolution, as many of the processes...
Large Telescopes And Why We Need Them - Professor Carolin Crawford
Beyond the Solar System, all astronomers have to work with is the light that falls to the Earth from distant cosmic objects. Newer, larger telescopes are always needed to boost scientific progress, and the next generation of facilities - whether the 42m diameter optical-infrared Extremely Large T...
Star Dust - Professor Carolin Crawford
Interstellar space is not truly a vacuum devoid of matter. Mixed into vast diffuse clouds of atomic gas are minute grains of silicate and carbonate materials known as 'dust', alongside complex molecules deep in the cold hearts of nebulae. We shall look at how we can detect and observe this tenuou...
Saturn, its Rings and Moons - Professor Carolin Crawford
Saturn is the most beautiful planet in our Solar System. Famous for its bright yet ethereal rings, the gas giant has over sixty natural satellites in orbit around it -- and one artificial satellite: NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which provides many of the results and images that will be showcased in...
The Sounds of the Universe - Professor Carolin Crawford
In space no-one can hear you scream... but it is still a noisy Universe. We are familiar with the many stunning images of space, but these are only part of the whole human experience. This lecture takes a new approach to appreciating the Universe, through the vehicle of sound. Once we understand ...
Rotation in Space - Professor Carolin Crawford
Rotation is a fundamental physical process throughout the Universe. So much is spinning, from planets and stars revolving on their axes, to whole spiral galaxies rotating around their centre. We shall start by looking at the fundamentals of rotational motion, including the concept of angular mome...
