Prof Brian Cox's Universe for Android

11 things about Prof Brian Cox's Universe

1. Professor Brian Cox provides mind-expanding insight in over 200 interactive articles pinned to the stars, planets, galaxies and other wonders modelled in extraordinary 3D, written in his accessible style and accompanied by two and a half hours of video from the BBC TV series Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe.

2. Journey up from the smallest particles, past the moons and planets of the Solar System, out through the Oort Cloud to the Milky Way, past our Local Stars and out to distant galaxies before arriving, finally, at the edge of the known Universe.

3. He is best known to the public as a science broadcaster and presenter of the highly popular BBC2 series Wonders of the Solar System, Wonders of the Universe and Star Gazing Live.

4. Professor Brian Cox OBE is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester as well as researcher on one of the most ambitious experiments on Earth, the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.

5. On the way you will encounter the likes of seething Red Giants, beautiful Nebulae, pulsing Neutron stars and confront a daunting vision of a Black Hole sucking down a hapless star, all rendered in spectacular 3D.

6. Take a mind-blowing 3D tour of the Universe with Professor Brian Cox as your guide.

7. The app also includes hundreds of infographics and images of space objects supplied by astronomy experts, NASA and other space researchers.

8. “Cox’s romantic, lyrical approach to astrophysics all adds up to an experience that feels less like homework and more like having a story told to you.

9. No identifiable information such as personal details, device identifier, location, is taken, nor will we use it for marketing or to contact you in any way.

10. This app uses Flurry analytics to gather generic data about usage to help us improve the app.

11. The official Wonders app by arrangement with the BBC.