The Gaia space telescope has spent a decade mapping the Milky Way by making three trillion observations of two billion stars. How did it do this and what will we … Continue reading February 16 @ 8:00 pm - Dr Steve Barrett – ‘Gaia’
Annual General Meeting
This is a great event for members to get together and a chance to enjoy relatively dark skies with an opportunity to see the Milky Way. Details on how to … Continue reading September 11 @ 8:00 am - StarParty
Fictions involving catastrophic cosmic explosions such as novae or supernovae range from narratives of a heroic, constructive drive outwards into the Universe to depressing and destructive apocalyptic fictions which posit … Continue reading October 19 @ 8:00 pm - Prof Elizabeth Stanway – Cosmic Catastrophes