Regular Meeting

Paul Money returns with another of his fascinating talks involving the escapades of early space exploration missions. In 1975 NASA launched an ambitious mission to search for life on the Red Planet. Consisting of two orbiters and two landers, most of the emphasis has concentrated on the landers but in this Pt 1 we look …

Dr Susan Cartwright, Senior Lecturer in Particle Physics and Astrophysics at Sheffield University, joins us to explore the topic of Exoplanets... looking at questions such as how do you we find and observe them, and what are the probabilities of finding habitable worlds? Non-members: £3  Members: society rate Image credit: IAU/L. Calçada

Astronomy is mostly a visual and non-experimental science. We can only look at what is out there but can't brings stars and galaxies into the lab. However we can build them inside computers and attempt to simulate them. In this talk, we will see how simulations can show us how the universe evolves and what we can do with …

As is traditional, quizmaster Soupy will present his annual Astronomical Christmas Quiz... with goodies to be won!

Everyone has had life changed by astronomers studying the night sky... it’s a little known fact that some of the most important technological advancements of the past few decades owe a debt of gratitude to the humble astronomer. Professor Gibson joined Hull University in 2015 and established the E.A Milne Centre for Astrophysics, and is …

Dr. Steve Barrett is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Physics, and Principal Scientist of the Surface Science Research Centre at Liverpool University. Recordings of some of his talks are available via Liverpool University’s Live Streaming Service. This particular talk encompasses a brief history of the Hubble Space Telescope and a description of its legacy in …

Prof Brad Gibson returns once again to fill a void with another fascinating lecture... this time, the topic du jour will be Liquid Mirror Telescopes: The Wave of the Future or Just a Ripple? First described by Capocci in 1850 and published by Skey in 1872, LMTs became a serious reality with the UBC/Laval 2.7m …

Paul joins us from the University of Sheffield (where he wears the crown of HoD and Professor of Astrophysics) to give us an overview of massive stars, from the birth in rich star forming regions such as the Orion Nebula and the Tarantula Nebula, through their relatively short lifetimes, initially as luminous blue stars through …

The Moon is a shy body, it only ever shows one sides of itself to the Earth. Before the space age, we had no idea what was on the far side of the Moon. This has led to a number of conspiracy theories that it is a haven for aliens. In this talk, we'll chart …

Dr Sergei Zharkov joins us from the E.A.Milne Centre for Astrophysics to talk about the Solar Interior... beginning with a general introduction to the Sun and solar activity, highlighting the links to space weather. We’ll then delve into our understandings of how such activity is driven, through to our ability to observe and measure processes below …

Paul L Money FRAS, FBIS, is well known for his extensive talks and is the reviews editor of the BBC Sky at Night magazine. He broadcasts occasionally on BBC Radio Lincolnshire and Lincoln City Radio. and has published a night sky guide called Nightscenes since 2000 and more recently has become a novelist with a Ghost Mysteries …

President of Huddersfield Astronomical and Philosophical Society, and Director of the Huddersfield Observatory, Robert A Williams joins WADAS to deliver his talk entitled "Nucleosynthesis - crucible of the Elements", celebrating 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements. This talk covers... A ramble through the elements of the Periodic table showing …

Find out why comets and asteroids are really more like big dusty snowballs and how they act as a "mobile chemistry lab" in space with with Dr. David Benoit (Senior Lecturer in Molecular Physics and Astrochemistry at the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics, University of Hull)... Could our water come from outer-space and has life started by …

As is traditional, quizmaster Soupy will present his annual Astronomical Christmas Quiz... with goodies to be won! Swot up on your SciFi Theme Tunes, Satellites, EV Silhouettes, Constellations, and AstroTrivia!

Have we been visited before? Are they out there watching… listening… studying us? Brad Gibson (Head of Physics and Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Hull) will examine the evidence for and against the existence of extraterrestrial life, and walk you through the associated good, bad, and ugly corners …

Dr Richard Parker is an astrophysicist based at the University of Sheffield and since 2017 has held a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin research fellowship, following previous post-doctoral research positions at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and Liverpool John Moores University. His main research interests are in the fields of star and planet formation and he uses computer simulations …

Gravitational waves are disturbances in the curvature of spacetime, generated by accelerated masses, that propagate as waves outward from their source at the speed of light. Now that humanity is able to detect these disturbances, what do they tell us about black holes, neutron stars, dark energy, and the fundamental nature of the universe? Dr …

Dr. Walsh and her colleagues make use of a relatively new technology called the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, or ALMA for short, which uses the collective view of multiple powerful telescopes. "It’s a huge instrument. The way that we do this is instead of just one telescope, which has a particular field of view, we …

Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes, but the consideration of environment on how these galaxies evolved has often been ignored. Environment is a difficult concept to quantify and the methods used to describe it vary greatly, but the density of a galaxy's surrounding environment can significantly influence the properties of that galaxy. Claire Cashmore, …

Brad Gibson (Head of Physics and Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Hull) rejoins us to launch us back into full swing with his TripAdvisor Top 10 of Wonders of the Universe. Over the course of an hour, we’ll wander through the darkest (and brightest!) recesses of the cosmos, …