Looking up - 12 April 2019

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Galaxies don't just sit there in space. They get up to all sorts of tricks. They clump together and they collide in interesting ways. Here to tell us something about them and how we know what we know about them is Dr Nathan Deg, post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Astronomy at the University of Cape Town.
12 Apr 2019 English South Africa Places & Travel

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